Writer: Paul Erickson and Lesley Scott
Original Broadcast Date: 5 March 1966 - 26 March 1966
Taking a big jump thanks to the sheer amount of missing Season 3 episodes, The Ark, the first avaliable story after The Time Meddler is an interesting one, with great concepts but poor execution.
The worst part of this story is the Monoids, which honestly looks like a lump of rubber with a mop thrown on top for the hair. They're actually quite scary looking until they start waddling about. The aforementioned ideas are rather intriguing, with a cold almost wiping out future humans due to their lack of resistance against it, but it just seems like a sidetrack for the main story to take place, over 700 years after the disease outbreak, involving the Monoids having taken over human life on the Ark.
There is a lovely idea involving a statue, but the prop just looks rather silly so the effect is ruined. There are also a few fight scenes which, with the Monoid waddling, look even worse. Dodo, in her first full story, is an interesting addition, being relatively similar to Susan and changing her accent half way through the story.
Overall, this story could have been brilliant, but with poor execution on the writing and visual front there isn't a lot to like about The Ark.
6.5/10
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