'The Moonbase' (which survives only in two episodes, the second one and the fourth one), is a Patrick Troughton era adventure set on a moon base. Jamie (Fraser Hines) has a strange disease and the Doctor has twenty four hours to solve the mystery - but could it be something to do with The Cybermen?
Sweetly naive about space (gravitons controlling the weather on Earth?) and defiantly low budget, this tale is nevertheless a good one, and if the Cybermen just look like men in shiny suits and not the robotic menaces of later years, well, what does it matter? Troughton was also an excellent Doctor, tiny and eccentric, a genius weirdo, and maybe that's the best way to read this character.
I also liked crusty Patrick Barr as the moonbase commander, irritated by both his unexpected visitors and the metal men stealing his patients.
Sweetly naive about space (gravitons controlling the weather on Earth?) and defiantly low budget, this tale is nevertheless a good one, and if the Cybermen just look like men in shiny suits and not the robotic menaces of later years, well, what does it matter? Troughton was also an excellent Doctor, tiny and eccentric, a genius weirdo, and maybe that's the best way to read this character.
I also liked crusty Patrick Barr as the moonbase commander, irritated by both his unexpected visitors and the metal men stealing his patients.