Doctor who state of decay 3 serial#

The novelisation retains the beautiful atmosphere of the original televised version, with human sacrifices and vats of blood and vicious bats and everything else you'd hope for from a vampire story but be worried wouldn't fit with Doctor Who. The futuristic technology elements are reminiscent of The Face of Evil from season 14 of the show, but in my opinion they are put to even be This story blends Doctor Who's sci-fi with the gothic horror of old vampire movies, and it's such a fun combination. This story blends Doctor Who's sci-fi with the gothic horror of old vampire movies, and it's such a fun combination. (The conclusion is certainly one of the most imaginative and big-scale vampire stakings of all time neither Buffy nor Anita Blake ever dreamed this big!) It's a clever story, told simply and clearly. It's a very Gothic story of a society kept in a feudal state by a trio of overlords who rule with an iron fist and withhold technology from the citizenry.

Doctor who state of decay 3 serial#

It's the middle piece of the E-space trilogy, a loose arc that doesn't really affect the story, and stars the fourth regeneration of The Doctor, the second regeneration of Time Lady Romana (or Romanadvoratrelundar if we're being formal), stowaway Adric (the U.K.'s forerunner of Wesley Crusher), and the inimitable robotic This is a novelization by Terrance Dicks of his own teleplay of the fourth serial from the eighteenth season of Doctor Who, which was broadcast in November and December of 1980. This is a novelization by Terrance Dicks of his own teleplay of the fourth serial from the eighteenth season of Doctor Who, which was broadcast in November and December of 1980.