The Dalek Invasion of Earth (currently being discussed in the TV Club - open to all) is the first example in Doctor Who of a sequel. (Allowing for the whole 'this must be from earlier in their timeline guff from the Doctor).
Doctor Who has never been shy of revisiting a successful story, setting or monster but what are you favourite sequels?
The Monster of Peladon?
Boom Town?
The Web of Fear?
Time and the Rani?
Terror of the Autons?
Snakedance?
The Legend of Ruby Sunday/Empire of Death?
Boom Town is absolutely where my mind goes for this, you just canāt hate it
100% The Web of Fear it does everything better and is one of my all time favourite stories!
Is The Moonbase a sequel or a retelling of The Tenth Planet? Or is it just a second story with the same monster?
Iād say the second story with the same monster, it doesnāt really continue any plot line from the Tenth Planet
When I was thinking of examples I pondered this - same goes for The Seeds of Death. Even The Dalek Invasion of Earth isnāt technically a sequel but itās still the first story to revisit a monster.
Thatās actually very true, hm itās harder than I thought to establish what a sequel is it would seem
Face of Evil? Itās clearly a sequel to the last time the Doctor was thereā¦
Snakedance is pretty good, and we really could have used more of the Mara.
Okay, another hard one. Is Twice upon a time a sequel?
I suppose itās sort of a sequel to āTenth Planetā and āThe Doctor Fallsāā¦
I was avoiding sequels to untelevised adventures - thereās a few of those - Timelash for example.
Iād say no - itās just a āfollow-onā really. There is very little in Twice which relates back to The Tenth Planet beyond the First Doctor himself.
Snakedance is the most successful in my mind, itās a big departure from Kinda but itās just as strong if not stronger, only misgiving is how much Janet Fielding ends up sidelined in the second half of this story because frankly sheās the best performer in it? Itās the story you watch that leaves you so annoyed she wasnāt picked up for more roles after Doctor Who, because she absolutely deserved them! This is meant to be her spotlight, sorry Clunes.
Yeah, she definitely did.
āI was at an interview for an acting job and the woman sitting next to me said: āIt was as though somebody turned a tap off on my 32nd birthday,ā she was bemoaning the lack of female parts. There were zillions of us up for this one role, which went to Deborah Findlay, and I remember thinking: āYeah, for me it was my 34th birthday.ā
āI was looking at casting briefs and there was just nothing I could play; it was really interesting you know. I was one of the people who started [membership organisation] Women in Film and Television and I ran it for the first four years. Then I became an agent and took over a well-established agency called Marina Martin Associates, and even when I was an agent 10 years later, I could look at casting briefs and 75% of the roles were for men.ā
https://www.bestofbritishmag.co.uk/janet-fielding-talks-doctor-who-what-came-next/
Not that itās a favorite, but Attack of the Cybermen is technically a sequel to Tomb of the Cybermen. And itās a poor sequel, but a sequel nonetheless.
I wish they got more out of the Tenth Planet connection too. Itās an okay story, but it really doesnāt do anything with its links to past stories.
I wonder why that wasā¦
Could it have been poor advice from their ācontinuity advisorāā¦?
The Moonbase is a worse version of Tenth Planet, which isnāt saying much.
Ooh, I love them both!
I just find Moonbase tedious. And it has the worst Cybermen voices. They really grate after a few minutes.