Season
7@50.
Remarkably
it is fifty years – half a century! -since Jon Pertwee debuted on screen as the
Doctor. A new Doctor is a tricky
proposition for which there are two ways to go. One is to make them totally eccentric
and over the top, the other is to have them largely sleeping establishing the
other characters before the Doctor wakes largely fully formed. Given that the
season 7 team had to establish a new format they
wisely plumped for the latter. It does mean that Jon Pertwee has little screen
time save for scrambling about trying to find his shoes though when he does get
the key hidden in them there’s definitely a Troughtonesque look on his face. Other
than that we don’t really get much chance to say whether we like the new Doctor
or not.
