Episode 5 - City of Death

Doctor Who: New To Who

English - August 20, 2017 03:00 - 1 hour - 86.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
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"Who ordered the soup?"

Bridget joins Daniel, Colin, and Steven as they run through the streets and
galleries of Paris in 1979, actually (more of a table wine, shall we
say?) for CITY OF DEATH! Doctor Who's largest ever watching audience of 16
million people tuned in to watch this at the time, and none of them were
wrong to do so.

Written by DOUGLAS ADAMS, at a time just before he became famous for his
HITCHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY series, this story is widely seen as one
the greatest Classic Who stories of all time, consistently rating in the
Top 10. Filled with moments of comedic genius, a frisson of fun, and a lot
of love in a blend of crime caper and sci-fi genres, this is also the story
that saw TOM BAKER and LALLA WARD fall in love and eventually get married
(but, sadly, not for long). Cité de l'amour/la mort, indeed!

Special thanks to ANDY WALKER for his kind permission for the use of his
painting for CITY OF DEATH, the Doctor Who Target novelisation that never
was, and that was eventually novelised by JEREMY GOSS.