For the first time since Marco
Polo, I am forced to enjoy an episode on audio. Now unlike Marco Polo, this
story features on the Lost in Time DVD boxset released a few year back. The episode
exists with narration but I decided to listen to it without the narration
wanting a different experience. The story continues with the search to try and
get Barbara back.
In headlines from this episode. Ian
is knighted and becomes Sir Ian Chesterton. That’s it basically, I don’t think
much else happened here but Ian is the first companion to be given such an
honour. It would be 45 years before a companion of the Doctor’s would get
another honour. Sir Ian does have a nice ring to it. The episode marks the
first appearance of Jean Marsh who would have an important part in the history
of Doctor Who. Here she plays Princess Joanna, she has some nice interaction
with King Richard and its nice to hear Jean Marsh in action. Julian Glover
continues to impress me as he still comes across as likeable even if he is
slightly childish. He would rather be back at home but situations dictate that
this can’t happen. I must admit that from what I heard of this episode I don’t really
think that Maureen O’Brien and William Hartnell had that much to do.
I don’t know if it was the fact
that I didn’t have the narrated version of this episode or not but I just didn’t
get this episode as much as ‘The Lion’. There didn’t seem to be as much happening
in this episode and it was one of those were there was a lot of talking and not
much else. That said its one of the best episodes that feature tons of talking that
Doctor Who has done so its still a lot better than the Web Planet. I’m still
enjoying this story though I will be listening to the narrated version when I get
to ‘The Warlords’. 
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