Doctor Who: The Sixth Doctor Era (1984-1986)

Today on Sci-Fi Adventures, I've reached the Sixth Doctor era of Doctor Who. Yay!

I can't believe that this logo's lasted for three Doctors now. Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker all had two logos and two opening credit sequences each, but this terrible looking neon tube logo just won't die! They did give it a bit of a glow though, plus they swapped in Colin Baker's face and threw in some colourful weirdness for the camera to fly through, seeing as he was the gaudy Doctor.

Underneath this SPOILER warning you'll find reviews for all 11 Sixth Doctor stories and inside those reviews you'll find spoilers. But only for what you've been reading so far, I won't say a word about future stories. Except for in the next paragraph where I'll mention something entirely innocuous about Army of Ghosts.

Doctor Who: The Fifth Doctor Era (1982-1984)

Today on Sci-Fi Adventures, I'm reviewing things again! I watched (almost) all of classic Doctor Who a few weeks back and I watched it wrong, racing through the whole thing in two months instead of spacing the episodes out, thanks to the marathon that Twitch showed a few months ago. I've already written about the first four Doctors and now I'm up to Doctor #5.

New Doctor, same logo, same music, and same opening titles pretty much as well. I'm guessing that they recreated the title sequence from scratch as all the stars and lens flares are different, but giant Peter Davison face aside you'd have to watch them side by side to really notice. I guess they wanted to reassure viewers that they were still watching the same show.

Contained within this very article you have on your screen right are 20 individual reviews covering all three of the Fifth Doctor's seasons and the Five Doctors anniversary special! But not The Twin Dilemma, I'm saving that for next time. There's also a lot of SPOILERS beyond this point, but only for stories that had already aired at the time of the review you're reading. So I may mention something about how a companion came on board, for instance, but I'll not even hint at how they're ultimately going to leave until they're gone.

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

Writer:

Harve Bennett

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Director:

Leonard Nimoy

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Release Date:

1984

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I've found Spock! He's right there in that coffin!

Today on Sci-Fi Adventures I'm giving an action recap of Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, directed by Spock. With Star Trek Beyond coming up this seemed like the right time to revisit the original third Trek movie.

First thing I've noticed is that the film's dropped the slightly rubbish looking hollow Star Trek II font and gone back to the iconic The Motion Picture typeface. In fact this logo would stick around until the end of Star Trek: Voyager in 2001, for everything but Star Trek: The Next Generation and its movies. Because they just had to be different.

Actually the first thing I noticed was that Search for Spock is an odd-numbered Trek movie, meaning that it has to be terrible. This curse actually does hold true with both critic and viewer ratings all the way up to the even-numbered Star Trek: Nemesis, which was so bad that it basically ended the film series (with Star Trek: Enterprise's ratings hammering the final nails into Trek's temporary coffin). But hopefully for the new movies the rule's been reversed, as Beyond's technically Star Trek 13 and it'll be nice if it doesn't entirely suck.

Alright, quick warning before I start: there'll be massive SPOILERS for Search for Spock and perhaps other Star Trek stories that came before it, but everything afterwards should be safe.