Pull To Open Podcast: Frontier in Space - Doctor Who
Rage of Empires (Beguiling Doctor Who's “Frontier in Space”): If you have two enormous, powerful entities, sure as hell someone will think it’s a great idea to have them fight. If they’re galactic space empires, so much the better for raising the stakes — at least on paper. But what Frontier in Space is really about is fear: fear of the unknown, the unfamiliar, the notion you might be wrong, and how that fear can lead people (and Draconians) to do terrible things. Oh, it’s also about getting captured repeatedly, and the varying ways one can escape from prison cells, particularly if you happen to have the combined skills of a Time Lord and a special agent from a global peacekeeping force. Yep, you can learn a lot from this very Star Trek-inspired story, although what Ogrons do for fun will forever remain a mystery.
Commentary for Frontier in Space begins at 15:44.
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Story Essentials
Season 10, Serial 3
Story number: 66, per the The Pull To Open Codex https://bit.ly/3FHKJNK
Writer: Malcolm Hulke
Director: Paul Bernard
Producer: Barry Letts
Aired 24 February – 31 March 1973
Pull To Open: Frontier in Space
Season 4
Episode 25
Hosts: Pete Pachal and Chris Taylor
Music: Martin West/Thinking Fish https://bit.ly/3WagZRq