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The Racnoss also appear in the Doctor Who: Classic Doctors, New Monsters audio Empire of the Racnoss, which sees the Fifth Doctor being drawn into the war against the Racnoss in the distant past when a call for help during the war is picked up by a long-dormant program in the TARDIS, resulting in the Doctor being caught up in a political ...
The book Doctor Who and Philosophy: Bigger on the Inside, analyzed the role of the Weeping Angels in the show. The book stated that unlike other popular antagonists in the series, like the Daleks and the Cybermen , the Angels gave off an air of serenity, with the Weeping Angels' inherent beauty also making viewers have a more visceral reaction ...
Doctor Who: Greatest Monsters & Villains is a BBC countdown of Doctor Who 's ten most popular monsters and villains as voted for by viewers, presented by Joel Dommett to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the long running sci-fi drama.
Children were both frightened and fascinated by the alien look of the monsters, and the idea of "hiding behind the sofa" became a popular, if inaccurate or exaggerated, meme. The Doctor Who production office was inundated with letters and calls asking about the creatures. Newspaper articles focused attention on the series and the Daleks ...
[11] [17] In Doctor Who: The Television Companion (1998), David J. Howe, Mark Stammers, and Stephen James Walker wrote that the serial "must still be considered the weakest story of the fifth season, and one so markedly different in style from the others - most obviously in its lack of alien monsters - that it really sticks out like a sore thumb."
Carnival of Monsters is the second serial of the tenth season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts on BBC1 from 27 January to 17 February 1973.
The Doctor is usually accompanied in his travels by one to three companions (sometimes called assistants). These characters provide a surrogate with whom the audience can identify, and further the story by asking questions and getting into trouble, (similar to Dr. Watson in the Sherlock Holmes mysteries.)
The Doctor explains that Kronos is a "chronovore", a creature from outside time that feeds on it, attracted from the vortex to ancient Atlantis using a crystal trident larger than one seen to have been used by the Master. The Doctor suspects capturing the chronovore is the Master’s purpose, and that this represents a danger to the entire ...