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Thanks to a fellow Doctor Who fan I have been watching Dark Season a children science fiction TV series written by outgoing Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies.
Consisting of six episodes, Dark Season was originally transmitted between November 14 and December 19 1991.
Dark Season featured a young Kate Winslet. It also features Blake's 7 star and Doctor Who guest star Jacqueline Pearce.
Dark Season has been said to be Doctor Who by another name. The DVD sleeve said that the lead character Marcie is a Doctor-type figure and that Davies admits to borrowing her yo-yo gravity test from a 1975 episode of Doctor Who [Ark In Space]*.
Although it consists of six episodes it was divided into two stories with three episodes each.
So far I have seen the first four episodes meaning the first story and the first episode of the second.
The first story consists of children at school and computers. Elements of this story would seem to have been reused for the Doctor Who season 32 episode School Reunion under Davies' watch as that also involved school children and computers even though Davies did not write School Reunion. Davies did however change the setting of School Reunion from an army base to a school evocative of Dark Season.
The first story is pretty enjoyable with a surprising revelation of a certain professor.
*Interestingly this is what the Dark Season Wikipedia article says:
"Dark Season contained some similarity to Doctor Who, which Russell T Davies revived in 2005. Most notably, Marcie occupies a similar narrative space to the Doctor, with Reet and Thomas as her companions. Nevertheless, this broad structural similarity to Doctor Who has been categorically denied by Russell T Davies as intentional. Davies has claimed that the only direct reference to so-called "classic" Doctor Who is a scene in which Reet uses a yo-yo to test gravity."
The second story so far sees the appearance of Jacqueline Pearce as Miss Pendragon which comes with an intrigue of what she and her people are doing at the school.
Consisting of six episodes, Dark Season was originally transmitted between November 14 and December 19 1991.
Dark Season featured a young Kate Winslet. It also features Blake's 7 star and Doctor Who guest star Jacqueline Pearce.
Dark Season has been said to be Doctor Who by another name. The DVD sleeve said that the lead character Marcie is a Doctor-type figure and that Davies admits to borrowing her yo-yo gravity test from a 1975 episode of Doctor Who [Ark In Space]*.
Although it consists of six episodes it was divided into two stories with three episodes each.
So far I have seen the first four episodes meaning the first story and the first episode of the second.
The first story consists of children at school and computers. Elements of this story would seem to have been reused for the Doctor Who season 32 episode School Reunion under Davies' watch as that also involved school children and computers even though Davies did not write School Reunion. Davies did however change the setting of School Reunion from an army base to a school evocative of Dark Season.
The first story is pretty enjoyable with a surprising revelation of a certain professor.
*Interestingly this is what the Dark Season Wikipedia article says:
"Dark Season contained some similarity to Doctor Who, which Russell T Davies revived in 2005. Most notably, Marcie occupies a similar narrative space to the Doctor, with Reet and Thomas as her companions. Nevertheless, this broad structural similarity to Doctor Who has been categorically denied by Russell T Davies as intentional. Davies has claimed that the only direct reference to so-called "classic" Doctor Who is a scene in which Reet uses a yo-yo to test gravity."
The second story so far sees the appearance of Jacqueline Pearce as Miss Pendragon which comes with an intrigue of what she and her people are doing at the school.