"Doctor Who"
Kinda: Part 1 (1982)

Director:

Peter Grimwade

Writer:

Christopher Bailey (writer)

TV Series:

"Doctor Who" (1963)

Original Air Date:

1 February 1982 (Season 19, Episode 9)

Genre:

Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Australian | Space Hero | Scientist Hero | Extraterrestrial | Extraterrestrial Hero

Cast

Peter Davison	...	The Doctor
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Janet Fielding	...	Tegan Jovanka
Nerys Hughes	...	Todd
Adrian Mills	...	Aris
Roger Milner	...	Annica
Simon Rouse	...	Hindle
Jeff Stewart	...	Dukkha
Sarah Sutton	...	Nyssa
Richard Todd	...	Sanders
Matthew Waterhouse	...	Adric
Anna Wing	...	Anatta

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Trivia:

The first appearance of the Mara.

Quotes:

The Doctor: There's always something to look at if you open your eyes!

"I never think twice, it's takes too much time." Average Who.

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

Doctor Who: Kinda: Part 1 starts as the Doctor (Peter Davison), Tegan (Janet Fielding) & Adric (Matthew Waterhouse) decide to explore a new planet called Deva Loka while Nyssa (Sarah Sutton) has a sleep in the TARDIS, they become separated when the Doctor & Adric come across a robot which then takes them to a camp where a small team of people are there assessing the planet for possible future colonisation. Tegan falls into some hypnotic trance where she suffers a bizarre hallucination type dream, the Doctor becomes interested in the events of Deva Loka when the leader of the team Sanders (Richard Todd) admits three other members of the team have mysteriously disappeared without trace...

This Doctor Who adventure was episode 9 from season 19 that aired here in the UK during early 1982, directed by Peter Grimwade I didn't particularly like the start to Kinda. The script by Christopher Bailey hasn't done much to impress so far, there's a distinct lack of fun here & a lack of any sort of enemy so far as well. Apparently Nyssa was written out of this story because actress Sarah Sutton was only contracted for 24 episodes during this season! There's been no real action, there's no real excitement & it's an episode that I'll probably have completely forgotten about although hopefully the actual story will improve over it's remaining three episodes.

The tight BBC budget shows here, this is a completely studio bound story & the surface of Deva Loka looks incredibly fake. The interior of the camp is also rather poor looking & there's a wobbly robot that's not to far from looking like a wheelie bin.

Kinda hasn't started that well, however not much has happened & I don't really quite know where it's going so hopefully it'll pick up & begin to impress me.