For Day 4 of our year with the Doctor we decided to check
out the 6 part serial from the twelfth season of Doctor who featuring Tom Baker
as the Doctor alongside Sarah Jane Smith and Harry Sullivan.
Tom Baker is a real fan favourite and he is also one of the
longest running Doctors with his time on the show spanning 7 years from 1974 to
1981 and amassing 7 seasons in total. Tom Baker, with his crazy hair, wide eyes
and ridiculously long scarf played the Doctor as a heroic, kooky alien with a
love of jelly babies and a true compassion for other creatures. From the start
of this episode it is easy to see why this often tops polls for the favourite
episodes of the era and was a true representation of Tom Baker in the peak of
his time in the Tardis.
After years of dominating our TV screens as one of the most
terrifying and intelligent of the Doctor’s adversaries, it was finally time to
learn the origin of the Daleks and the writers did not disappoint. This is also
the first episode to feature Davros, a truly marvellous villain who would
inspire many more stories and give children nightmares for years to come.
City of Death was the first episode of the Doctor Who to
ever be partially filmed on location outside of the UK and the BBC wasted no
time in showing us the sights of Paris as the Doctor saw them on his trip with
Romana. Much of the episode consists of scenes of them running through the
streets of France, the Doctor’s scarf flapping in the wind and Romana nearly
losing her hat.
The Doctor and his companion visit the Louvre where they
discover that someone is out to steal the Mona Lisa and begin a hunt for an
alien who is disguised as a rich baron named Scarlioni who wants to use the
money he can get from the painting to fund his experiments in Time Travel. Scarlioni
is actually Scaroth the last of the Jagaroth who was stranded on Earth and
fragmented through its time line when his space ship explodes. 
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