The Abominable Snowmen: Episode 3

Nooooooo! After the cliffhanger from episode two we now have to go back to the audios and sadly I feel that any goodwill that was created from the previous episode may start to fade and despite the progress that was made in terms of plot it feels like the story is moving slowly again. The start was quite good with them trying to find out where the sphere had disappeared to. After that I lost track of what was going on and that’s the fault of the script.

There isn’t much that I can really say about this episode so there wont be much to read for todays episode. There aren’t many good things that I can say about episode three but there are some things that save it from being one of the worst episodes that I’ve watched. First is a strange one, when we get the location footage again and the wind blowing it reminds me of the great location shots from the previous episode. A time when the story seemed like it had some hope. Another positive that I can find from this episode is Deborah Watling. She points something out in the first half of the episode that you would have expected to have come from Jamie or the Doctor. She continues this impressive change in character and I think that if I had a ‘Regular of the Episode’ award then it would definitely go to Deborah Watling. It’s one of the rare instances where Jamie and the Doctor are rather ordinary. I can’t really find anything that they do which is memorable. That’s not because of Frazer Hines or Patrick Troughton but just that they are poorly served in this story.

Sadly I think that this was another episode where not a lot happens. It’s a shame really as I think that had this episode existed on DVD then there would be something to look at whilst the nothingness was happening. As it stands this remains one of those stories that has potential but is restricted due to the fact that its running time is longer than it should be.