The Deadly Assassin | Doctor Who

[@ProjectPowerPoint]

Petition for the whole of the Classic Series to be uploaded chronologically Edit: I guess they listened lol

[@gavincox795]

Yes please

[@nilssimmert6420]

Maybe they do. I can't imagine, that they make a lot of money with (new) DVD-releases anymore

[@openshutterfilms]

Yes please

[@Lumibear.]

David Pirtle …and some of animated recreations too. It is rather fun having it all to hand at a touch of a button I must say, though I miss all the extras on the discs.

[@liekkianimaatio3652]

But then what would BritBox be good for? XD jk

[@rockisheaven]

Tom Baker has the kind of voice that can make anything sound enthralling. He could read the ingredients on a cereal box to me and I’d be like yes king go off

[@Jarock316]

We need a voice off between him and Morgan Freeman.

[@carminemurray6624]

@@Jarock316 No, they are too disimular to compete. Not the same acoustic range

[@edmund184]

despite silly monsters and meaningless storylines the series works because of the conviction by all the actors that they are performing profound drama, brass instruments help and clever sound effects. It's a bit like very good provincial theatre. Couldn't be done without the traditions in this country.

[@edmund184]

it's on video not film

[@carminemurray6624]

@@edmund184 Your point being ? For a long time we had This has been a "Filmways Production" relating to Television 📺 shows... Film may be an achronistic term but it lives on...

[@ishaandw]

Doctor: Sees vision of himself shooting the Lord President of Gallifrey Also Doctor: Goes to Gallifrey and makes it a reality

[@ivanherrera4613]

Well he did see himself do it, now he has to do it.

[@sumthingwikked4257]

Exactly! Spring the trap, find the one who set the trap

[@Jarock316]

Shows he shot the Lord President, didn't show that he KILLED him with said shot.

[@vinayseth5899]

But wait...did he actually kill the President?

[@Jarock316]

@@vinayseth5899 Nope, that was The Master.

[@ProtagonistIvy]

As someone who has a hard time (or sometimes no time at all) to sit down and watch every part of the classic who stories at a time, these shortened episodes are greatly appreciated! It makes the stories more accessible to fans of all sorts.

[@SammEater]

To be fair though, this is a 4 episode long story of 20+ minutes, which is really just a modern Who two-parter.

[@stevepashley795]

I suffer from Whomania. Been that way since1963 when I saw the very first episode, I was 8 years old. Fortunately no cure, thank goodness

[@bwtv147]

Wenger and Chibnall are trying hard to cure it.

[@MrMusicbyMartin]

You should speak to a Doctor.

[@trysiema6488]

So eccelston is back, fantastic, does that mean we're going to Barcelona finally?

[@ftumschk]

...I want to see Peri finally visit Blackpool.

[@ftumschk]

@@bookcollector538 I know it's happened in spinoff media, but I said I'd like to _see_ it.

[@SharpDesign]

Would be crazy if 9, 10 and Rose went to Barcelona and then because of the crossing timelines, 9 forgot.

[@trysiema6488]

@@SharpDesign 🙄😂

[@julianaylor4351]

...the planet.

[@matthewlo55]

*Assassin's Creed: Gallifrey*

[@Tupacem]

Yes!!!

[@benjamingraham8640]

Or just a doctor who game which explores space, and time also allowing you to assassinate axx holes yeah wouldn’t mind my dude, wanna jelly baby.

[@purefoldnz3070]

you mean Manchurian Candidate or in this case ManWhoian Candidate.

[@nedd.8479]

'The Deadly Assassin' was the first Classic Who story I ever watched, and I have to say it's one hell of an introduction.

[@wleon4068]

The time when Doctor Who was an absolute classic. I believe that the old episodes were far more 'serious' [even though the props left a lot to be desired, lol ]. I grew up watching Doctor Who, back in the '70s, and Tom Baker was my all time favourite. I well remember watching this particular episode many many times. Very nostalgic for me, watching this now.

[@IoRoberto]

yes , it was more of a adult thing, now it's too fantasy

[@SuperGiantGeckosLLC]

I started with #4 back in the 70s and ended viewing with #6s intro.

[@htershane]

This “Master” is bloody terrifying. Should have kept him like this a lot longer.

[@jaytender4949]

Unfortunate that they never decided to bring back Peter Pratt to reprise his role as the Master! While Geoffrey Beevers is also good, Pratt gave this Master more terror and intimidation in my opinion

[@htershane]

@@jaytender4949 yea I like Beevers too though his take is more toward the silky sinister. There is a theory that the Pratt and Beevers are actually separate incarnations cos if you look closely at the very end of Assassin the master appears to be regenerating so the Beevers version is that new body decaying. I watch too much KZbin!

[@r.g.o3879]

Unfortunately the great Roger Delgado had passed away he and Tom Baker would have made a great rivalry the two best

[@utterlee]

I really like these edited down versions although at 31 minutes long there is just that bit too much cut from them to make them easy to follow.

[@cindygreene3353]

You like having four thirty minute episodes cut down to a single thirty-one minute episode? Three quarters of the story is missing!

[@utterlee]

Cindy Greene I think somewhere between 45 minutes and an hour would be better. A lot of these old stories ARE filler, but perhaps cutting them down to half an hour is too much.

[@elisnyder863]

You're forgetting that they're trying to sell you the serial, not just give you it for free. Of course they're going to leave out the important details, that incentivizes you to buy a copy of the full story in order to understand it!

[@MrMusicbyMartin]

Love the crazed smile Tom Baker showed at certain moments like 5:00 - and the ensuing conversation is so English: ‘weren’t you expelled?’ Haha!!

[@iangreen4572]

A nice bit of continuity is that the actor playing Chancellor Goth is the same actor playing the Timelord who sentences the 2nd Doctor at the end of the Wargames

[@garybryant1501]

I would have liked to have seen more Decaying Master stories maybe two more before season 18

[@mr_man-to7bv]

Cats go burrrrr

[@EditedAF987]

Well Big Finish have got you more than covered there at least

[@lemsavage9473]

The most common nickname for this master is crispy!master and I think it's way funnier

[@chrisstory563]

@@lemsavage9473 or the grim reaper master LOL

[@spencerraney4979]

Robert Holmes was the Man.

[@mauricehayden8835]

Would have been a great episode for Joh Pertwee, the fighting and tactical sneaking about

[@AR-iu9jv]

Or even to appear as Wurzel Gummage

[@cerneuffington2656]

@19:55 I've visited this location, Its in the grounds of a Private School in Surrey. The ponds are at the bottom of a steep hill, surrounded by woods. Half-way down that hill, i was taken into the woods and lead to an abandoned, secret garden... It was the best day of my life!

[@eastlynburkholder3559]

Sounds like such fun

[@maureendavis8079]

I loved that they gave the Castilian a different accent so that it jives with our cultural differences on earth.

[@alansmithee419]

"The model 40 hasn't been used in years, why would one show up now!?" Well, good Sir, have you heard of this wonderful little thing called time travel? It works both ways, you know.

[@DeanStrickson]

Apparently TARDISes are stuck to Gallifrey’s present timeline and are forbidden to travel into Gallifrey’s past or future. Google Gallifreyan Noosphere Parameters.

[@iangreen4572]

Susan did this to the Master in an 8th Doctor Novel, a sequel to the dalek invasion of earth, and it leads directly into this story

[@Deader87]

I just love how sort of superhero-looking the red and gold outfits worn by those helmeted guys on Galifrey around 1:58 are. Something about the capes, the shoulders and even the helmet as well that gives it a really cool superhero-look, feel and flavor!

[@LordTalax]

It was actually a damn good ep. One of the few times the 4th Dr got to be an action hero.

[@noeljohnson5892]

Extraordinary. The color, the clarity, the resolution, of what were claimed to be the recordings of early, less capable, video recording devices. One wonders if those are the actual window we are looking through. I suspect not.

[@truecrisp]

7:20 thats so cool how they used this exact audio in the 9th and 10th doctors intros

[@proyectopandora5807]

Thanks Dr who!!! Wonderful memories from my childhood.

[@jackdriver9227]

The classics TARDIS designs was so good even for low budget

[@tellychase5424]

Are you kidding me!! I bought this episode on amazon prime yesterday and now it’s on KZbin!

[@MaguireMemes]

Literally the most unlucky thing to ever happen to someone, how much on amazon prime?

[@mattsandersss]

Should get Britbox!! All of Classic who on there!!

[@TheRobotMan1968]

This is 4 episodes compressed into 30 minutes (so missing about an hour of content over the whole story!). What you bought on Amazon is the full version and this is a terrific story :)

[@ProjectPowerPoint]

I'm sorry, but LMAO

[@EditedAF987]

This is a highlight reel though, not the full story

[@just_kos99]

One of the greatest stories of classic Doctor Who! The Doctor without a companion, the one and only time. I wonder how it would've gone if Sarah Jane had been allowed to go to Gallifrey when the Doctor was recalled. (And yet we see Leela going to Gallifrey in The Invasion of Time.... but I thought Humans weren't allowed there!)

[@brycecurtis8483]

Great Idea! No matter how down I feel, the Good Doctor always makes me well! Tom is the Doctor of all Doctors!

[@bencoleman568]

Doctor who is actually so good I can’t put it into words Right guys, I was complimenting my favourite show, not trying to start a small debate in the comments. 😂. Of course there’s good and bad episodes, in my opinion, doctor who has been amazing since the reboot. My favs 1. Capaldi 2. Smith 3. Tennent

[@someguy4405]

Depends on the time.

[@mattsandersss]

@@someguy4405 Funny Business Time...

[@Drp_br_]

Great times. Before Chibnall came along

[@mattsandersss]

@@Drp_br_ Well you could have said that until JNT. Its always gonna rise and fall in terms of quality. Bad days, good days. A show that's gone on since 63 is bound to take on that effect. I'm sure it will get better again... I hope...

[@ProjectPowerPoint]

You can. "Fantastic"

[@samanthathompson9812]

Damn for a second there I thought they'd uploaded a whole episode.

[@tracyroweauthor]

me too. I was less than happy to find out it wasn't

[@hgwells1899]

Based on The Mancunian Candidate. When Bez, of the Reality party, tripped out and woke up in the Matrix. Maracas-ously, he survived with his brain cell intact and is still there today. Or maybe just at weekends

[@cindygreene3353]

That never happened in the REAL version of The Mancunian Candidate.

[@oliviaandclara2792]

He is my favourite doctor

[@mrjekyllandhyde9941]

me too buddy

[@carminemurray6624]

Me three 😅

[@garyturner5739]

Iconic one.

[@MediaArchive2-z9f]

Mary Whitehouse hated this Doctor Who episode and especially the bit where Tom's Doctor is nearly drowned in one episode at 23:05:

[@GoddessOfWhim2003]

i had no idea the Emerald City was the capital of Gallifrey

[@mrjekyllandhyde9941]

if i only had 2 hearts

[@GoddessOfWhim2003]

@@mrjekyllandhyde9941 hehe

[@garyturner5739]

2 brains would be better.

[@erispapps9929]

2:58 it's almost like it time traveled or something.

[@yeet12937]

Yeah 🤔

[@EditedAF987]

Nah, I think it’s been mentioned somewhere that all TARDISES are locked onto Gallifrey’s present to avoid interference in it’s own history.

[@Ryman158]

Start posting full episodes. You will increase your viewership

[@Isku_Xar]

Yeah I have nowhere to watch

[@IsaacSigmar]

They don't care about viewership, they're the BBC.

[@Isku_Xar]

@@IsaacSigmar yeah they don't but people will find it easier to rewatch dr who

[@Sim69420]

its illegal even for the official doctor who channel you can only watch it on tv or a dvd

[@Sim69420]

and doctor who doesnt need views

[@DalokiMauvais]

Shortly after seeing this, I tried my hardest to make the wonderful shirt the Doctor wears through most of this story. I failed, twice. The shirts I made were good but not at all satisfactory, as I couldn't find any good pattern and wound up combining two patterns, one for the body, one for the sleeves, one for the collar. Yes, I know that's 3 patterns. I swear I only used two. It was the most difficult project I ever made. I don't know what happened to them, all these years later. Are they squirreled away somewhere? Did I donate them? Too many places to look. But I did wear them occasionally. They weren't right, but they were still something to behold. Didn't I hear that this episode was banned from rerung because of the fight between the Doctor and Goth. Doctor Who was still thought to be a children's show then, and they didn't want children imitating this fight.

[@Ezkaton]

The Master makes this episode great.

[@octaviusfooks7194]

Magnificent work from David Maloney, Philip Hinchcliffe and Robert Holmes

[@NomaddUK]

Loved the Action Man in the camera housing. Nice!

[@sailorhms]

I remember watching the first episode of this one at my friends house, we were sitting terrified (we were only 7years old) and when it finished, his mother said "what a load of bloody rubbish that was eh?" To which I said "yes, I did'nt enjoy it either" she answered, "well, you were glued to it, it did'nt bloody well look like it!"

[@davidthomas3826]

I have always thought the title "The Deadly Assassin" to be a strange one. I mean, aren't all assassins deadly? Is there any other kind of assassin? That's my only gripe about this brilliant classic Dr Who story

[@chrishine2717]

I'd always assumed it was a deliberate joke on the part of Robert Holmes (who wrote this). Holmes' humour was sometimes a little subversive or not easy to spot - see aound the 7:26 mark in this video, the chalk outline of the President's body. It doesn't actually make any sense that they'd draw the outline around his headgear - this was done as a deliberate visual joke. Years later, when Steven Moffat wrote 'The Curse of Fatal Death', the title was a nod this story and how silly its title was.

[@davidthomas3826]

@@chrishine2717 That seem the likeliest explanation. "Fatal death" is as silly as "Deadly assassin

[@johnreid9959]

incapable ones aren't and the word assasin comes from a group of dopes who weren't capable

[@normanby100]

Should have been called THE GALLIFREYAN CANDIDATE.

[@jpolowin0]

As opposed to "The Incompetent Assassin", perhaps. :-) Or "The Tender-Hearted Assassin". See also Roger Zelazny's short story "No Award".

[@finnsempire5671]

Hartnell: earth calling Tom are you there tom? Tom Baker : 0:02 going through all of my past lives here

[@Panwere36]

Tom Baker was officially my "first Doctor" when I saw the first episodes of his run as a kid.

[@Ruth-g3c9z]

Likewise. I watched the show on public television here in the States.

[@Panwere36]

@@Ruth-g3c9z, PBS 12 in New Orleans showed them every Friday and Saturday.. but they got all of the stories as one movie, so I didn't have to deal with commercials and "waiting till the next time...

[@DemetriusSorvo]

Seriously the coolest version of the Master ever.

[@gorillaau]

I remember seeing this story on tv as a child, but I can't quite recall how the Doctor got his foot out of the railway point. Perhaps that's the point that he realised that this is all an illusion.

[@NPCSingularity]

I really wish we got to see the Doctor get into more scraps like he did in this episode.

[@cindydott452]

When I was little, I used to swipe my brother's VHS tapes of Doctor Who. You know what I remember about "The Deadly Assassin"? In the third word of the title, he put a small but noticeable space after the second and forth "S"! I kid you not!

[@kkakdugiman]

At 12:56, that's the part that has been at the back of my mind. This samurai sure shows a scary look up close!

[@TechGamer-pq1gu]

Some really good stories set in Gallifrey dang it Steven Moffat worked so hard to bring the Timelords back only for the ass hat Chris Chibnall to kill them all over again he is already ruining Jodie's time as the Doctor.

[@steft7903]

Tom Baker's voice is magical

[@cindygreene3353]

And I love his smile!

[@beingheardmedia6339]

One of my absolute favorite episodes of Classic Who. Second only to my ultimate favorite, Warriors Gate. This never gets old.

[@charlesbarnett2724]

This story was the basis of so many of my childhood nightmares 😮

[@starry_lis]

Doctor Who: The Non-Sequitur Assassin

[@MoniqueFromPlymouth]

1:43 _"What a welcome home."_ Was the Second Doctor's trial location on Gallifrey? I am assuming it was. And this story was the first time (on-screen) he set foot on his home soil since "The War Games."

[@christopheralthouse6378]

It actually is not firmly established WHERE The Doctor is when he is put on trial in The War Games as it wasn't until later during the Jon Pertwee era that Gallifrey was formally named. They could've easily just been on a satellite or some-such in that story. What really strikes me is how the TimeLords have no knowledge of The Master in this story as it was, in fact, a TimeLord that informed the Third Doctor in Terror of the Autons that The Master had escaped and was running loose on Earth! How do you forget a criminal like that? 😯😣😵😅

[@jch13213]

@@christopheralthouse6378 remember we can't look at Canon and continuity with these older shows in the same way we do today. Their intentionally was never a story Bible with Doctor Who.. writers just took their general knowledge of whatever they knew and kept going with the story, And remember there was no access to DVDs or tapes or rebroadcasts generally very often, because the stories weren't consumed in the same way for the most part until very shortly after this when they started to be syndicated more frequently, it was one and done in terms of watching

[@bobo577]

First time watching this properly. There is something funny about ominous music playing with the President walking down the stairs. Out of context, it frames the President as the villain though in context, it does rack up the tension.

[@fabriziotorres4718]

Now I understand that The Master inspired George Lucas to create the Emperor Palpatine in The Empire Strikes Back film.

[@srothbardt]

Some good shots in the usual quarry.

[@buhe1]

I hear that because of the actor who played Goth also play another Timelord, some people have it where Goth was one of the two Timelords who put the 2nd Doctor on trial.

[@sleekweasel]

25:55 Resistance is futile! The Master is a Borg!

[@seymourskinner2533]

The action of a pertwee episode with the swashbuckling of the sea captain of Blackadder

[@madpom2]

Cut a lot out but still good thanks for posting

[@Fatherofheroesandheroines]

25:55 does this mean Rick Berman of Star Trek was a Doctor Who fan?

[@patrickdepew4976]

The mask for The Master looked so good. It's too bad they couldn't get the mouth to move properly when the actor spoke, which is funny since they had done so successfully with Davros a year or two earlier.

[@gregsmith7949]

I absolutely love the secondary control room.

[@thekeeperofrecords3041]

I watched this when I was high, and you won’t believe how crazy this episode was

[@shadowdragon5476]

this is the first Doctor who episode that has no companions

well... there's mission to the unknown, who didn't even have the doctor

[@fireflygaming8764]

@@FreeTheDonbas Actually one of two, the only other one was Heaven Sent.

[@philippebernard4577]

@@FreeTheDonbas "Heaven Sent"...

[@philippebernard4577]

@@FreeTheDonbas "Heaven Sent"...

[@philippebernard4577]

@@FreeTheDonbas "Heaven Sent"...

[@monkeyman767]

Just noticed theyre playing a slowed down organ rendition of the Dr.Who theme at 9:52

[@Pepperoni_Invader]

when you reached for your stash, but your wife found it earlier 08:43

[@markrosenberg4369]

The best Dr Who episodes ever (Deadly Assasin).

[@fredWaxBeans11111]

"Resistance is futile" - hmm 🤔 25:52 I would imagine a great many Star Trek writers were fans of Dr Who

[@SammEater]

Amazing how Tom Baker's voice is still powerful, I hear no difference from him back then to him asking to subscribe to the youtube channel.

[@paulhunter6742]

For the first time we get see Culture of the Time Lords which never explained more this episode. I liked fact Doctor Tardis was considered Obsolete.

[@Eltonlaleham]

I like the Master's TARDIS disguised as a tall black grandfather clock and the Master been mutilated and decayed is different to Roger Delgado and later Anthony Ainley and the others

[@iangreen4572]

This is the Delgado Master, just hideously burnt. It's Cannon.

[@dweeebles]

Do clips of the Five Doctors! (Or at least release it on a digital format please?)

[@ServantRules]

The Doctor took care of business properly: with a punch to the gut that The Master is still feeling today.

[@darwinblinks]

This is one of the great ones. I can see how it influenced John Byrne.

[@tim57243]

I would have preferred to have the whole thing, not just the highlights. The BBC should have a pointer in the description that would help me buy the full episodes.

[@robadams5799]

I just watched "The Hand of Fear" and I think it was filmed in the same quarry we see here.

[@mossy642]

This implies one of two things: either accents are randomised at regeneration, or that there are multiple galifrean accents, which mirror those on earth. In which case, couldn’t the doctor change into an accent which was completely unrecognisable to any human? And if not, why is regeneration specific to 20th and 21st century nationalities?

[@jch13213]

Um..Because it was made in the UK in the '70s

[@camsmith4433]

23 years before the Matrix film there was The Deadly assassin. 12 years before The Terminator film there was Day of the Daleks. Some of the most popular film franchises is history but Dr Who did it first.

[@Dbhfguivucuc]

The Doctor dispenses with his coat, caravat, waistcoat and scarf early in the story to put on ceremonial robes to attend the President's resignation ceremony, but, instead of putting back on his usual clothing afterwards, he stays in his undershirt til the end. There was a practical reason for this temporary change in costume. The location filming for the sequences in the Matrix took place before studio recording, in July 1976 during the longest and hottest heatwave ever recorded, and, to avoid the risk of sunstroke, Baker's usual heavy costume had to be replaced with the cooler undershirt.

[@hgwells1899]

13:57 the bit that got this banned by Amy Winehouse or something She said, "No, no, no"

[@seanjeffery7153]

hgwells 1899 The bit that triggered Mary Whitehouse was the cliffhanger to Episode 3 where the Goth holds the Doctor’s head under water and it just freeze frames. It eventually led to Phillip Hinchcliffe being sacked.

[@hgwells1899]

@@seanjeffery7153 lol

[@liamroberts1458]

@@seanjeffery7153 That's pathetic.

[@DontrplytoMycomments]

Just update one thing an that's more background music in tense scenes.

[@someguy4405]

A title up there with “the furry dog“, “the burning fire” and “the fatal death”. Wait, that last one was real.

[@LordThree]

His is definitely one of the finest episode of the entire saga

[@AckzaTV]

2:55 lol the stamps as the star trek console lol

[@stevenwilson1816]

Classic and groundbreaking story, way ahead of its time with the inclusion of the Matrix. I’ll need to rewatch the Blu-ray version now.

[@jrs4753]

The Doctor: (gets a vision of himself shooting the President of Gallifrey) The Doctor: (aiming the gun) Well my hands are tied

[@keit99]

Will you upload all episodes of this serial?

[@purefoldnz3070]

Resistance is futile The opening Star Wars style text crawl Skeletor looking Master How many franchises were started by this episode?

[@kerravon4893]

Don't forget the whole concept of The Matrix - a full 1/4 Century before the franchise

[@stevenkramer1975]

Ok, just one episode earlier the Dr. noted that no one could get/be hurt inside the TARDIS. I'm filing a complaint.

[@tracyroweauthor]

For anyone looking for the full episode, this is not it. It's been hacked up a bit and big pieces are missing.

[@blockmasterscott]

I really loved this episode. It’s my second favorite, my first is Planet of Evil.

[@MaiMyTie]

I love Cardinal Borusa’s sharp tongue, full of barbs.

[@FlauFly]

Can someone answer me if this shortened episodes cut only openings, redundant same scenes between episodes or there are some more substantial cuts?

[@ThisTrainIsLost]

"The deadly assassin?" Of course they are! By definition! If an assassin wasn't deadly they wouldn't be assassins, now would they?

[@graysonlaudat272]

This was a Tom Bakery Classic as the 4th Doctor

[@Slaytistic-not-autistic]

CRISPY MASTER SUPREMACY

[@gregoryjohnson9733]

9:45 SHO'NUFF!!!