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Time-Flight is the four-episode serial that concluded Peter Davison's first season as the fifth Doctor. Arriving at Heathrow Airport with companions Nyssa (Sarah Sutton) and Tegan (Janet Fielding), still grieving after the death of Adric in "Earthshock" (1982), the Doctor is soon involved in solving the mystery of a Concorde that has literally vanished into thin air. Tracing the lost plane's flight path in a second Concorde, the travelers find themselves flying through a hole in time into the prehistoric past. Here the Master (Anthony Ainley), under the rather camp persona of Kalid (which strangely he maintains even when alone), is planning to harness the power of the currently disembodied alien Xeraphin, who are stranded on Earth. Echoing both the classic 1960 Twilight Zone episode "The Odyssey of Flight 33" and prefiguring Stephen King's chilling The Langoliers (1990), at heart Time-Flight is a reworking of the superior Tom Baker Doctor Who story "City of Death" (1979). Ending on a minor cliffhanger, what makes the story really distinctive is that it was the first drama of any sort to be given permission to film in and around a genuine Concorde. --Gary S. Dalkin
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Ron Jones |
| MANUFACTURER: | BBC Warner |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Horror / Sci-Fi / Fantasy, Movie, TV Shows, Television, Television: British Adventure/Sci-Fi |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 794051419125 |
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Customer Reviews of Doctor Who: Time-Flight - Episode 123
Much needed story I wanted to be the first to review this story, to give it a good start before all the negative reviews start filtering in. I fully well realize that this story is not appreciated by "fandom". Take it for what it is. A light-hearted, fun way to end the season, after the death of a companion in the emotionally heart-wrenching, watershed story that preceded it, Earthshock. Not to knock Earthshock, as it is also a five-star story. <
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>Keeping the basic premise of Doctor Who, Time-Flight involves ... well ... time travel. A concorde is hijacked and teleported roughly about 140 million years into the past by Kalid, who is later revealed to be the Master. Incidentally, in order to keep the Master a secret from the audience in episode one, the credits list the actor playing Kalid as Leon Ny Taiy, an acronym of Tony Ainley. Clever. I don't think I'm spoiling it for anyone, as most of you reading the review already know the Master is the main villain in the story. <
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>It's interesting to note, too, that Kalid sounds like an Arabic name. I wonder if this is the production team's shot at all the airline hijackings pulled off by Islamic terrorists in the 70s and early 80s. The concorde, for all intents and purposes, is hijacked, to a place full of sand, caves, and more sand and caves. Almost like... the middle east? Too political you say. Consider that the companion Leela, a knife-wielding savage (appropriate!) was named after Palestinian terrorist Leila Khaled, and you'll see that this wouldn't be the first time Doctor Who has gone in that direction. Wait a minute!!! This is too intriguing too pass up. Kalid...Khaled!!! I don't think we can dismiss the similarity of the names as merely a coincidence. <
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>Ok, so maybe I went somewhere I shouldn't have, but you gotta admit it is suspicious. Back to the story, it is a welcome relief after being dragged through the emotional wringer by Earthshock. After all, isn't that the original intention of Doctor Who? Light-hearted entertainment.