Doctor Who ‘Robot’ Retro review with Tom Baker
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
Tom Baker as the doctor, his first episode. It is brilliant to see him and sad to see Jon Pertwee go.
The story line not only includes a brilliant costume change scene, whereby the Doctor tries to define his image, a crazed Robot and the brilliant Brigadier!
The entire story is about a group of scientist on Earth who are part of an organisation called ‘Think Tank’. They are to create a new world order based upon the leadership of the elite. The scientific elite.
The Robot element in this story arch is a Robot created by their founder who is the hunter and gather of the group and generally does all of the dirty work.
They try to take control of the Earth by steeling the codes to launch all of the Nuclear missiles and the Robot goes mad with the conflict as he has a intelligence and prime directive not to hurt Humans.
And it is created out of a living metal which enables it to grow to a size that makes it dwarf the other people following the Brigadier trying to destroy it with a Ray Gun.
The Doctor, now fully aware of himself, creates a solution that will attack the metal of the deranged Robot.
The day is won, and not only does the Doctor have a new body but a new assistant alongside Sarah Jane Smith - Harry.