282. The Wheel in Space (1968)
Classic season 5, starring Patrick Troughton (the Doctor), Frazer Hines (Jamie) and Wendy Padbury (Zoe).
The TARDIS lands inside a rocket, and is promptly disabled to the state of a mere empty police box. The rocket docks with a space station called the Wheel. The Wheel soon comes under threat from an army of - well, a group of - OK, two Cybermen.
Time to own up a bit here: this particular post has taken me weeks to write. I've made several starts and never quite been able to write anything particularly substantial. Why is this? The acting is... okay, and there's nothing especially objectionable about it.
Well, I can only think that it's because this is possibly the most boring Doctor Who story of all time. It takes six episodes to say and do almost nothing at all. The long sloping arc of the plot to the climax is so very slight as to be virtually indiscernable. The guest characters are utterly forgettable, with YET ANOTHER base under siege led by an irascible male commander.
If you can watch this story and not roll your eyes at the MacGuffin removed from the Tardis at the start of the story being used to resolve the plot at the end, well... you're more patient than I am.
It's hard to imagine how this can be from the same writer of Power of the Daleks and who script edited the show's first season.
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