In regards to what was said above about the novelisation being better than the TV version, oh hell yes. My first Peladon experience was the book version of "The Curse of Peladon," which I thought was pretty good. (I was about 13 at the time.) Then I saw the episode a couple of years later and was appalled at how cheesey and crappy it seemed in comparison (Alpha Centauri and Arcturus especially). The sequel "The Monster of Peladon" was even worse with the miners with their bee-stripped afros.
But that was a long time ago, and I was a cynical sarcastic teenager and didn't care for a lot of the Pertwee era because of its overabundance of 70s cheese. When I got this audio, I first went back and watched the two Peladon stories for the first time in years, and they weren't that bad after all. In fact, as I listened to the audio, I realized that I did the right thing in catching up with the TV stories, as there's a lot I would have missed out on. They did a really good job with this one, and it was in keeping with the mystery of the TV stories, never being sure who was the bad guy, etc.
And I loved it when Peter Davison sang the Venusian lullaby. I wonder how silly he felt doing that in studio. :) Jon Pertwee's rendition of it was a guilty pleasure of mine back in the day (pretty much the only parts of the stories that I liked), though it would be years before I learned that it was in fact the same tune as "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen."
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Date: 2008-02-12 05:05 am (UTC)But that was a long time ago, and I was a cynical sarcastic teenager and didn't care for a lot of the Pertwee era because of its overabundance of 70s cheese. When I got this audio, I first went back and watched the two Peladon stories for the first time in years, and they weren't that bad after all. In fact, as I listened to the audio, I realized that I did the right thing in catching up with the TV stories, as there's a lot I would have missed out on. They did a really good job with this one, and it was in keeping with the mystery of the TV stories, never being sure who was the bad guy, etc.
And I loved it when Peter Davison sang the Venusian lullaby. I wonder how silly he felt doing that in studio. :) Jon Pertwee's rendition of it was a guilty pleasure of mine back in the day (pretty much the only parts of the stories that I liked), though it would be years before I learned that it was in fact the same tune as "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen."