Doctor Who 1.41 The Reign of Terror Episode 5 – A Bargain of Necessity: Penultimate episode of the story. Second of the two missing episodes of this story and thus this episode has been animated for the DVD release. Pretty good episode in which Leon’s treachery is fully talked about here. Well played that despite Leon being the traitor how upset Barbara was on learning of his death. Both the animated episodes of this story does not have the DVD information text and the info text had revealed in the preceding episodes that The Reign of Terror writer Dennis Spooner was influenced by James Bond when he wrote this story. It is therefore curious to note that in A Bargain of Necessity the Doctor has Susan pretend that she had escaped by hiding in the trick. This same trick was also employed by Bond in Goldfinger. However A Bargain of Necessity was originally broadcast on September 5 1964 and Goldfinger was released later in the same month. Perhaps Spooner got the idea from the already Goldfinger novel. Quite intriguing cliffhanger of Ian, Barbara and Jules seeing entering the house the Doctor and Lemaitre.
Posted on: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 06:27:00 +0000