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Classic Who "Attack of the Cybermen" Part 1 EARLY Early Access! (Patreon)

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Josef Schiltz

Brian Glover - here playing Charles Griffiths, the short and bald one - (2 April 1934 – 24 July 1997) was an English actor and writer. He worked as a teacher and professional wrestler before commencing an acting career which included films, many roles on British television and work on the stage. His film appearances include Kes (1969), An American Werewolf in London (1981) and Alien 3 (1992). Described by The New York Times as a "robust character actor" who played "gruff but likable roles", he had a "string of roles playing tough guys and criminals". He once said, "You play to your strengths in this game, and my strength is as a bald-headed, rough-looking Yorkshireman". Glover was also known as the voice of Gaffer in the Tetley tea commercials. Brian was co-star to Peter Davison in the slightly surreal detective series Campion, based on the novels of Margery Allingham playing Albert Campion's valet, the ex-con, Magersfontein Lugg, throughout it's whole run of 16 episodes. That would be a brilliant series to react to and I'm not even sure anyone has reacted to this series yet. Enjoyably, one of the serials, Look To The Lady, was shot on location just a crow's flight from me, at the village of Kersey in Suffolk.

Ryan

Okay, the introduction to Six was a giant bust, but you've had a whole hiatus to think over how to make this work and maybe win the fans back. So let's go ahead with...Attack of the Cybermen. Oh dear. Yeah, The Twin Dilemma tends to get all the blame for permanently turning the fans off the show, but this one definitely finished the job for any who were left. And ironically enough, the portrayal of Six himself is pretty good here, and it's just that everything around him is a total mess. Most of all, there's the insane amount of lore that we're expected to remember, in an era before any of the show had been released for private collections. And that includes bringing back Michael Kilgariff as the Cyber Controller after nearly two decades, even though he only physically played the role before with someone else dubbing the voice. The huge amount of weight he'd put on is even harder to ignore than Boba Fett's, not helped at all by one of the other Cyberman actors blowing his line and calling him a "fat controller." All culminating in a fight scene perhaps even more embarrassing than Solow vs. the Myrka. And that's far from the only weird bit of direction here, as we also have to put up with that one prisoner who's inexplicably furious every single second he's onscreen, and the Cryons are way too enamored with their giant acrylics (knew that part would get to you), plus their obviously forced "ethereal" voices. About the only part that really works is the Doctor laughing off twenty years in prison as "a handful of heartbeats to a Time Lord." That's what I'd call one hell of a bird.

Azmat Mahmood

You would hope after Twin Dilemma they would bounce back, but unfortunately it's from one bad story to another one....

James Fish
>>162321591

He also played the Next Door neighbour in an episode of Bottom as well as providing the voice over for a once well known Bread advert where he'd finish by saying 'wih nowt taken out'. Was a great all round personality, so I'm glad he popped up in this story.

Thomas Corp
>>162341988

So I keep hearing, and comments made here today seems to indicate a consensus view of this story not being terribly beloved. It feels all right, though sure, not the best thing ever. I’m just liking how Jess is enjoying it well enough so far.

Thomas Corp
>>162325547

Again, Colin himself is great. The main reason I think that Six and Thirteen are last on my rankings is how they got let down by subpar writing. Here, I don’t think it’s terrible, yet I concede that it could have been done better. I seem to be one of, if not the only person on the planet who had zero issue with Boba in the armor in The Mandalorian. One, I was just SO happy to see Temuera finally in the armor playing Boba. Two, it is good shorthand for how long he’s been out of the game. Three, the very next episode, when he got the new paintjob, he had the armor readjusted, thus it had a nicer fit, hence, it’s no longer an issue, not that it was one to begin with. Six laughing off the lengthy prison sentence is humorous in retrospect. Reminds me of a meme I made when fans of Thirteen decried how terrible it was for Thirteen being imprisoned as she was for decades, which feels tame compared to the thousand years that Eleven was on Trenzalore, and most CERTAINLY small potatoes compared to the four and a half billion years that Twelve spent being one HELL of a bird.

Josef Schiltz
>>162321591

That's right! I remember that - and it was taken off in The Two Ronnies with Ronnie Barker climbing a perpetual hill patting a loaf. The original commercial was directed by Ridley Scott

Geordie Joe

You could do your favourite Cyberman and Dalek story rankings after you finish your Classic Who journey. Something to help keep the Doctor Who content coming on a Friday even if there are no more reactions left.

Faction Paradox

Attack is by no means perfect but it's enjoyable enough, think it gets a bad rap. Lytton is great again & there's some enjoyable acidic barbs in the dialogue. Most of the story's problems start in part two.

Josef Schiltz
>>162321591

Self-doubt made me go back and double-check that one. usually information like that tends to stay put. I thought the location was a steep hill that is in Clovelly, which my mother visited in the 50s, though I was wrong about that one. She had thought that it was to. Brian also played Bottom the Weaver in BBC's A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1981 with Helen Mirren as Titania. A really good production.

Josef Schiltz
>>162325547

That was one hell of a Capaldi. One of the Cryons, btw, was former BBC children's presenter Sarah Greene who had been a presenter on both Blue Peter and Saturday Superstore. Around that time, the latter had live phone-ins and they had Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant as guests for the phone-in segment and one of the callers was Anthony Ainley in full Master mode. Both Colin and Ant played their roles up to the max.