The Celestial Toymaker - The Dancing Floor

The episode starts off yet again with the Toymaker talking to a silent and invisible Doctor and this means that this is another episode where Peter Purves and Jackie Lane are left in charge of moving the story forward. There is another game that Steven and Dodo have to find a key to a door. Luckily they manage to get through the game with no problem and its not until the end before Cyril is teasingly introduced to us.

This was the first time in the story where I began to lose and bit of interest in the story. The early part of this story was more comedic than it had been and despite the setting being as it is, I thought it just didn't serve any good to the story. It just seems like padding of the worst kind. Like the previous episode I would have liked more of the Toymaker and again we get very little. We also get nothing of William Hartnell. It's the first time since the third episode of The Dalek Invasion of Earth where we haven't had a single shot of Hartnell. 

There seems to be a moment where Dodo and Steven are dancing in a manner that won't win them an fans on Strictly Come Dancing. It would have been nice to see this but sadly we can't. The problem with the whole episode is that it does feel like they were just hovering in terms of plot progression. Unfortunatley as best as they try Peter Purves does struggle in this though he is the best thing in it.

To be honest I'm struggling for things to say so I'm just going to cut it short this time and look towards the final episode which thankfully exists on video and it will hopefully have more movement than this one and also will have William Hartnell will finally make an appearance.