"Err, there's a big hole over there..." - Penny Wise, Pound Foolish Review

Performed by David Troughton

Written by Foster Marks

Directed by Nicholas Briggs & Ken Bentley

Showing too much interest in a mining operation on an almost deserted planet leads the Doctor and his companions into danger.

My god, what an awful title! I don't think that there's many titles in the Doctor Who cannon that I would say that about. And the story isn't particularly interesting either, never really grabbing the audience in the way it should. It certainly seems as if The second Doctor got the sharp end of the Short Trips stick, as non of the his stories manage to be interesting or memorable. And this story is no exception: there's nothing here that's original, new or even remotely involving. In fact, it just pases by so without a care that one never really can invest in the material. It's pretty much Vengeance On Varos without the heart or the charm. Even David Troughton's performance seems less interested than usual. To be honest: there's little more I can say about this story: it was so suprisingly uninvolving that by the time I realised it had started, it was pretty much over.

TARDIS Rating - 1/10

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