Season 7@50. Mid- way
through this episode (and hence mid- way through the story) there’s one of
those conferences that Seventies Doctor
Who excelled in. It serves several purposes; firstly to get across some
story points in as interesting a way as possible, secondly to state everyone’s
position and thirdly to give the actors some juicy officialdom to get their teeth
round. In the room each person represents their profession whether a soldier, a
bureaucrat, a boss or a scientist. If I were awarding points I’d say Peter
Miles comes out on top here; his slowly seething Doctor Lawrence is a study in
repressed anger. You can just tell he wants to literally lamp the Brigadier!
