Delta and the Bannermen: Part One

Episode aired Nov 2, 1987
TV-PG
25m

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5.9/10

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Don Henderson, Belinda Mayne, and Sylvester McCoy in Doctor Who (1963)

Adventure Drama Family Sci-Fi

The Bannermen have successfully wiped out all but the last of the Chimeron - Delta, the queen, no less. She escapes with an egg and boards an intergalactic bus of Navarino vacationers headin... Read allThe Bannermen have successfully wiped out all but the last of the Chimeron - Delta, the queen, no less. She escapes with an egg and boards an intergalactic bus of Navarino vacationers heading for 1959 Earth to visit Disneyland. On that bus is Mel, followed closely by the Doctor i... Read allThe Bannermen have successfully wiped out all but the last of the Chimeron - Delta, the queen, no less. She escapes with an egg and boards an intergalactic bus of Navarino vacationers heading for 1959 Earth to visit Disneyland. On that bus is Mel, followed closely by the Doctor in his TARDIS.

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IMDb RATING

5.9/10

545

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

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Trivia
The soundtrack of this serial contained a higher-than-usual number of recognisable pop songs, although due to licensing costs all were re-recorded by "The Lovells", a fictional group created by the show's incidental music composer Keff McCulloch. The songs featured in the serial were: "Rock Around the Clock", "Singing the Blues", "Why Do Fools Fall in Love", "Mr. Sandman", "Goodnite, Sweetheart, Goodnite", "That'll Be the Day", "Only You", "Lollipop", "Who's Sorry Now?" and "Happy Days Are Here Again".

Quotes
Murray: Please keep your seats during the flight and no dancing in the aisles. Now, we all feeling fine?
Melanie: [along with the other passengers] Yes!
Murray: All right! 1959, here we come!

Alternate versions
The 2009 DVD release includes as a bonus feature an alternate version of Episode 1 (described as a "first edit") which includes several scenes not in the broadcast version of the episode.

Connections
Featured in The Chronic Rift: Doctor Who (1990)

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5/10

Delta and the Bannermen: Part One

Delta and the Bannermen arrived wearing its sci fi influences very heavily. Back to the Future and V.

The Doctor and Mel win a trip to Disneyland in 1959 with the intergalactic Nostalgia Tours.

Only the bus hits a satellite and land in a holiday camp in South Wales.

There is further danger as one of the passengers is Delta the ChimeronQueen who is escaping the evil Gavrok (Don Henderson) who is pursuing her with his army, the Bannermen.

The story gained notoriety because of the role of Ken Dodd as the Tollmaster and some shoddy special effects.

It also includes singer and actor Stubby Kaye who was in the UK to make Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

For McCoy's first season this is an improvement. There is a scene where a stuntman falls from a cliff in a quarry. The newborn alien hatching was well done. However producer John Nathan Turner struggles with the execution of the other parts of the stories mainly due to the budget.

Director Chris Clough does well with the atmosphere. The use of the 1950s pop music works well in the camp scenes. There are some decent action scenes at the beginning. Don Henderson takes the who thing deadly serious.