Seventy-Third Entry in the Charles Daniels Unauthorized Programme Guide O' Duckbills Serial WWW - Evasion Of the Dinosaurs - Giant paper mache dinosaurs attack London - Millions Flee! The Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith return to find London deserted and at the mercy of hand painted dinosaur shaped cut outs of paper. When the Doctor first comes face to face with these prehistoric cardboard menaces he runs away. Later on, after the Doctor and Sarah are reunited with the Brigadier, they meet a nearly identical paper mache dinosaur which they then run away from. Eventually Sarah Jane Smith uses her contacts within the elite fascist parties of Marxist-Maoists, Maoists-Marxist, Trotski-Marxist, Leninist-Stalinist, and The Just Plain Evil Party, to discover a radical attempt to alter all of history. A group of misguided Neo-Enlightment-Stalinist-Maoist-Earth First extremists, led by Paddy Ashdown MP, wants to reverse time, wiping out all previous history and returning the earth to a golden age before technological pollution, fast food, and disco. At the stunning end of the investigation, there is a jump cut to the Doctor, who, just having encountered a large dinosaur, is now running away. Captain Yates has been subverted to the project golden age and works against UNIT. All seems hopeless for humanity, until the Doctor, still in his Super Disco Doctor persona from the end of The Slime Warrior, pools all of his super temporal powers. Whilst running away from a dinosaur, the Doctor stumbles into the golden age time clock, which will undo history by running counterclock wise. Realizing that the clock will soon start to untick time, he raises his hand and shoots out a magical glowing oil colour stream of pure disco energy from his hands. The tainted entropy of the super powered disco shooting from the Doctor's hands totally destroys the timeless purity of the Golden Age Clock. The world is saved, and the Doctor resumes running away from paper mache T-Rexes. Book(s)/Other Related - Doctor Who & The Disco Dinosaur Disaster Doctor Mysterio Los Discos Dementia Dinosaurus Dinosaurs - Could They Dance? The Doctor Who Paper Doll Book Fluffs - Pertwee seemed prehysterical for most this story "A wino sore!" Fashion Victims - The revolutionaries plan to rule over a utopian earth wearing flares and gold glitter platform shoes Fashion Triumphs - The Doctor sports some bitchin' shades Goofs - The Tyrannosaurus Rex has a gold band on his ring finger One of the dinosaurs is hastily coloured in crayon with the word "Godzilla" written in blue pen on it's side. The T-Rex doesnt roar but actually SAYS "roar". The first example of their simplistic and very distracting dialogue. In this story the use of CSO seems to be LESS a case of it standing for Colour Seperation Overlay, and more a case of Crappy Shitty Opticals. Technobabble - The Doctor states that heavy amounts of Discotronic energy now flow through him in "a very groovy and otherworldly way". Links & References - The Brigadier mentions he hasnt seen such cheap looking monsters since the Silly Lurians (BBB) Untelevised Misadventures - The Doctor claims that he once ran away from a dinosaur which was flesh and blood, and not just badly constructed color paper mache Dialogue Disasters - DOCTOR: You're the nark, aren't you? It was you wot grassed on us! BRIGADIER: Umm...Jon, are you okay? DOCTOR: I'm tryin' insert sum' attitude! Dialogue Triumphs - The classic interview scene with the various political parties - EVIL MP: The Just Plain Evil Party has a fairly simple political platform, we're for the bad things, and against the good things. BRIGADIER: We've got company. DOCTOR: Good grief, it's a triceratops! Quick, RUN AWAY! DOCTOR: It's not the oil and the flith and the poisonous chemicals that are the real causes of pollution. BRIGADIER: Yes it is! DOCTOR: Ohh quite! For some reason I thought it was all this water! Your planet is just soaking in this stuff! DOCTOR: Look, I understand you're ideals. In many ways I symphatise with them. But this is not the way to go about it, you know. You've got no right to take away the existence of generations of people. YATES: There's no alternative. DOCTOR: Yes there is. Take the world you've got and try to make something of it. Its not to late. YATES: No Doctor. I must go forth with my plans. DOCTOR: Then I must go super disco on your ass! SUBMIT TO MY POWER! (Streams of fluid colour shoot from the Doctor's palms) Viewers' Quotes - "The most realistic dinosaurs to be seen on television!" - The Lying Radio Times (1974) "Exactly what we at the BBC like, a story which exists SOLELY to fill up six episodes!" - BBC Department of Tedium (1974) "This serial ripped off my blockbuster film "Battle of the Bendy Toys". I worked non-stop for two days to complete that film in 1967, and I am MOST upset by this obvious rip off!" - Roger Wood (1974) "I feel very deeply disturbed that I was never credited for my appearance in the programme." - Basil Brush (1980) "I like dinosaurs. I want to be a dinosaur when I grow up. But I don't want to be paper mache like on Doctor Who." - Charles Daniels, to himself (2000) Rumors & Facts - Episode 1 of this story was simply called Evasion, in order to make the appearance of the dinosaurs a complete surprise. Unfortunately, at a meeting of the BBC Pyromaniacs Club, in mid-1974, the first episode was mistaken for The Evasion episode 1, and was burnt as film has that lovely nitrate firey glow. Popular children's character Basil Brush was cruelly abused during the making of the story. Not only was credit denied but the hands of the staff which handled him were so grimy The National Glove Puppet Union set out a law suit against the BBC. This story marks the first appearance of the Doctor's futuristic car, named by it's creators The Discotron, but usually referred to by the Doctor Who staff as The Whomobile or The Pertwit (depending on if Pertwee was on the set). Robert Holmes, who makes his debut as script editor for this story, accepted the post only after Malcolm Hulke and Paddy Russell threathened to release several photos of him having sex with a Dustbin. (Back in the 70s anybody who was anybody did spread shots with Dustbins) Even though the Evasion of the Dinosaurs was simply a showcase of the Doctor running away from awful paper mache dinosaurs, it will always be remembered "as that one Doctor Who story where the Doctor keeps running away from awful glove puppet dinosaurs."