DVD Review: The Reign Of Terror

The Reign Of Terror (8th August - 12th September 1964)

William Hartnell

A long overdue review, but now the latest series is over I have more time to catch up again and including this one I have a total of eight to write!

I came to this adventure with three concerns:
  1. It is a six parter
  2. It is a History based story
  3. It has two episodes missing from the archive
I may have had good reason for each of these concerns but I needn't have worried... The serial starts strongly behind the scenes. It was the first to feature location filming (though William Hartnell was too busy on another story so Brian Proudfoot took his place, not that you'll notice!) It was also the first time the full size TARDIS Police Box was used for a materialisation and the crew were finally out of the restrictive confines of Lime Grove Studios (though it wasn't a permanent move just yet) To top it all, it's the end of the first series and it looks like the Doctor has finally managed to get Ian and Barbara back to Earth in the right time...

First blogger post

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So this is the obligatory first post. Just to see how things look and how easy formatting and interacting is. I have my doubts in various areas but we'll see how it goes. Hopefully it will be flexible and yet powerful enough for my needs. Of course, it can be created and edited as HTML and CSS can be used in the master template so it should do the job... the question remains how easy it will be...

Prime example and the main thing I want to test is how images are inserted. By default, I see they are positioned centrally and at a 'medium' size. By setting it to align to the left allows text to flow on the right and reducing the size to 'small' may do the job I need nicely. But then what happens when a viewer clicks on it? Do they get to see the original image? Does it open directly or in a 'lightbox' type overlay - I've read about problems earlier in the year...