Ah yes. The Doctor Who story mentioned in Rushdie's The Satanic Verses. And one story that I have no memory of ever seeing before (a rarity for Jon Pertwee's Doctor).
First the good bits: the realization of the story's monsters, the Mutts, is pretty good along with most of the visual effects (Ky's transformation into a mutant is good by 70's standards. Though I hope when Stubbs dies in episode 5 by being shot in the arse was more a miss-timed video effect and not deliberate). Katy Manning's as good as ever (Pertwee seems to be in neutral) and Garrick Hagon's Ky is the most impressive out of the guest cast (Paul Whitsun-Jones' Marshall has to be seen to be believed). Otherwise it's a pretty bland story. Probably could have been improved by cutting it to four episodes instead of six.
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