One Hundred and Eightht Entry in the Charles Daniels Unauthorized Programme Guide O' Pez Serial 5G - The Creature From Pittsburgh - Darkness, a sterile wasteland devoid of all human intelligence -- the Doctor lands in Pittsburgh. There a disreptuable being, named Erato, has convinced everyone that he can only be communicated with via brazen acts of felliato. The Doctor exposes Erato and proves his fraud, but far, far too late. Book(s)/Other Related - Doctor Who And The Blow Job of Death Doctor Mysterio El Erato Erotic Doktor Who Und Der UberGeschlechtsverkehrMonstrum Fluffs - Tom Baker seemed aroused for most of this story Fashion Victims - The actor that played Erato had to wear a giant green tent over his body, but in the circumstances, I guess he didn't mind too much. Goofs - This plot is not totally ludricrous as the Doctor claims. There really are beings from Thythonus who require felliato to survive in our atmosphere...or so they told me. Technobabble - Erato claims to be a suctionoid, a very rare lifeform which requires advanced beta-proton energy. Links and References - Oddly no Jand appear in this story nor are they ever referenced. This shows the lack of consideration Doctor Who shows toward friendly goat-like aliens. Untelevised Misadventures - The Doctor explains that he figures out Erato's ploy so quickly because he'd been pulled in by the same scheme by a similiar creature on the planet Disco. The Doctor refuses to discuss the alien, the rave where it happened, and just how long it took him to figure out what was going on the first time. Groovy DVD Extras - Commentary track where Tom Baker reunites with the Erato operators Original Disco Soundtrack Dialogue Disasters - Doctor: My god! What do you call his horrible wasteland??? Local: We call it -- Pittsburgh. Romana meets a local holding a long shimmering silver spear with wires and lights sticking out at the ends - Romana: What's that? Local: We call it...a prop! Dialogue Triumphs - Doctor: Mpphmm, *SLURP*....YES!! YES!! I think we're getting somewhere! Dialogue Oddities - (ORIGINAL SCRIPT) The Doctor: Decieved. Again, I face treachery most cruel. (ON SCREEN) Tom Baker: Argh! And to think I LOVED YOU! Viewers' Quotes - "One word sums up this adventure, Disgusting. And it's a shame, because it boasted some fine sets, good actors, great disco music, and a rather interesting plot with some twists." - Richard Waters, 1980 "The scripting of this story is actually below-par in almost every respect. The characters are all cliched and one dimensional, the dialogue is generally atrocious...I guess for Doctor Who porno that's not so bad." - Doug Felder, Psi-Fi Laytex Magazine, 1992 "The Doctor versus the giant space bogey!" - Donald Fumes (2002) "I condemn this foul display, as much as I rejoice in it!" - Father James O'Maley (1979) Psychotic Nostalgia - "Like those before me I relish the opportunity the engulf the world in strange Cthulhoid napalm flame. Oh and by the way, I missed this episode of Doctor Who. Whenever it was showing on PBS I was busy carving dolls out of my own teeth." Tom Baker Speaks! "Yes, well, I think one must realise, that I BELIEVED I was communicating with an alien, and if the operator was having a very good time..well I'm glad I could help, but it's not what I would usually do on a Saturday night. When you get as old as I have, and when you've been a miserably poor child living on the brink of starvation, and then become a famous and beloved hero to children, and then felt your whole career and life slump into a terrible decay -- then you'll understand. My time with Erato was the happiest of my life." Rumors & Facts - It is a standard approach in science-fiction storytelling for the writer to posit a world possessing one or two distinctive features and then, by logical extrapolation from those features, develop a culture similar to and yet fascinatingly different from our own. Sadly that didn't happen here, and instead we got some weird green blob trying to con innocent Pittsburghians into cheap and passing oral sex. Usually in Doctor Who we see a small group of underpaid actors that somehow manage to give the impression and flavor of a whole civilization of people. In this story it feels as if Pittsburgh's entire population consists of about ten individuals. Predictably, Mary Whitehouse was enranged stating that the blow job was not realistic, and that she should know because "her husband was Italian". There is, all things, well some things, well ANYTHING considered, very little to recommend about The Creature from Pittsburgh, or Pittsburgh, or in fact the state of Pennslyvannia.