`Brain
of Morbius` should not work. Studio bound yet including such locations as a
cliff edge and the exterior of a stormy planet and populated by characters
whose larger-than-life personas fill up the screen it would surely be a mess?
Yet it’s like a glorious, bonkers stage play that should really have
transferred to the West End and run for years. It has that melodramatic edge to
it which is what happens when you get a cast that is willing to hurl themselves
into something as mad as this. In any other season this would be the pinnacle,
here it has to make do with sharing the acclaim with others. Whatever the
disagreements about the script that led to the credited `Bland` pseudonym this
is a story that proves that classic Doctor Who is always more about the
story than it is about the effects.
