The Sontaran Experiment

[kiebo03]

the sontaran experiment was the most popular sontaran story.what do you think of it.

[Matt]

I didn't really like it, due to the fact that Styre was only limited to 1 episode of the story, and that a lot of the quality wasn't there when filming in Dartmoor. It just seemed almost like 10 people having a playground game or something.

[kiebo03]

your right

[a64]

Yeah, but I don't think it was a waste.. rather good for what it is, and probably better than another two parts tacked onto a story.. although I wouldn't be complaining in a season like that!

[Dalek caan]

It was okay I heard that Tom Baker broke his collar Bone in this.

[Matt]

Yeah he did, for the fight scene both the sontaran and the doctor were stunt doubles as Kevin Lindsay had fallen into ill health.

[bcm77]

On the commentary Elisabeth Sladen tells a funny story about Kevin Lindsay. Due to his ill health (some sort of heart condition I believe) he wasn't able to go down the hillside with the rest of the crew for lunch as with the heavy costume on it wouldn't have done him any good. So he got his food brought up to him on a tray. When everyone else returned from lunch they asked him if he was OK and he replied "Yes but a woman walking her dog just got the fright of her life"!

[Yoda]

I got this for Christmas!
It's quite good but theres something about it thats not right! can't quite put my finger on it but theres something about it.
Styre was quite good.
The bit with the Gravity bar wasn't brilliant on the acting part!

[Sontar Ha]

It was a good story, although the Sontaran only was in half of it, and the cliffhanger was completley pointless due to the name. It was basically a lot of falling of rocks though. This could have been one episode and probably all the better for it.