From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   The True Melissa  wrote:   
      
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   >I then turned to Tubi's Doctor Who Classic Live channel and came in   
   >partway through "The Deadly Assassin," starring the Fourth Doctor and   
   >Second Romana. I didn't pay close attention, but it was pleasant   
   >wallpaper.   
      
   I have no idea what you really watched. "The Deadly Assassin" was the   
   third serial of season 14. Sarah Jane Smith (Elizabeth Sladen) had been   
   written out and Leela (Louise Jameson) has not yet been introduced. Tom   
   Baker had been trying to talk producers into letting him carry the   
   series without a companion but they reverted with the next serial. I   
   liked that the show's structure was shaken up a bit, but Baker really   
   needed to play off a co-star.   
      
   It's a critical serial, introducing a good number of plot elements and   
   back story aspects, like Rassilon's invention of their technology, that   
   would be inconsistently used over and over again. It's one of the show's   
   best-written episodes. Parodying the State Opening of Parliament was   
   hysterical. It is so much better than The Five Doctors which is more of   
   a ripoff than a continuation and I objected to turning Borusa mad.   
      
   I think if this had been the episode you would have paid attention.   
      
   https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/The_Deadly_Assassin_(TV_story)   
      
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