The Greatest Show in the Galaxy

I have fond memories of most of the McCoy era of Doctor Who, but I've tended to approach rewatching it with caution suspecting that it is not as clever as it thinks it is, and that the production values let it down.

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I was horribly afraid that rewatching a McCoy era story, even one of the better regarded ones, would reveal an era with a bad case of earnest appreciation of its own cleverness while surrounded by Who's frequent bug bears of sub-standard acting and clumsy production. I was relieved to discover that, while not on par in production terms with (for instance) the Hinchcliffe era, the story nevertheless has stood the test of time remarkably well and remains interesting, fun and most-importantly watchable.