Day 470: Underworld Part 1

As first episodes go, this isn't that bad. Bob Baker and Dave Martin, writers of this serial, are always keen to bring ideas to the series and here they provide them in spades. Take, for instance, the cliffhanger. We have a spaceship's mass, as it is too large, attracting small pieces of debris, causing the ship to quickly become buried alive as various rocks and asteroids form a surface around it. It's a fantastically cool idea, and one that is particularly well realised by the visual effects crew for the series. 

Indeed, it's not often that we praise the work of the visual effects department on this blog, but it's something that should really happen more often, because they consistently provide fantastic models or special effects that are instantly believable. There's often talks about the wobbly models made of egg cartons that feature in Doctor Who, but these are rarities, as we have had consistently good models for the past 450-odd episodes and I am sure that we will have even more as the series continues.