The Third Doctor Adventures.

7.1 The Unzal Incursion

Liz Shaw launches Hotspur, a new system to detect alien threats. The Fulcrum facility is training new recruits. An alien race call the Unzal is in contact with people on Earth and when Unit personal start turning against their superiors, The Brigadier, Doctor and Liz find themselves alone and on the run…

With the main cast all being played by different actors, you might think Is it time to stop? but it still works. The accents are all played a little upper class and maybe they were but its just more noticeable when you’re anyalizing them.

Liz Shaw does get a better chance to shine in this one. She starts off as the main scientist, with the Doctor looking on. What’s more at one point in the script she says, When did I stop being call Doctor Shaw, so righting some wrong there.

This has all, the right ingreidents for a third Doctor story, the music, action, chases aeroplanes etc. It is a bit like the Torchwood plot where the heroes and now on the wrong side and are hunted by the people they once worked for. So a spin on the usual unit outing.

The trouble is though that its not that interesting, and it should be. The new characters we meet are just too one dimensional, I wasn’t invested in them as much as I should be. The Unzal weren’t involved enough.I was never in a position where I was desperate to come back to find out what happened next. 

When all is said and done this does what it says on the tin: a new third Doctor Who adventure. It isn’t bad, its isn’t great. But gives you more of what you want.