Ghost Light: Part Three

John Hallam finally appears as Light, a powerful being that arrived on Earth to carry out a survey of all life forms, together with Control, only Control has started to evolve, as has everything on Earth.

It still has the atmosphere which was has been successfully built up, but it's taken on a very different sci fi angle, it has lost some of its Victorian gothic horror, but it's still there, Light has changed the course. It may not be easy to follow the plot, but it is there, a Google search may help.

John Hallam is very good as the strange cataloguer, Sharon Duce is fun as Control, but Sylvia Syms perhaps steals it, she's such a menacing figure.

It's all very wild, with half of the cast running around the house and the other half behaving in a sinister manner. Best scene is the dinner party, pretty grim, best line, 'the cream of Scotland yard.'

We could perhaps have done with another episode to spread the story out a bit, it does feel a little confused at times.

I'm not sure audiences were prepared for something so deep and baffling, turned out to be the last story ever made, and I'd argue one of the best, Cartmel was on the right track.

8/10.

Somewhere in here is the plot of Ghost Light. Light (John Hallam) has taken human form and came to Earth in his spaceship to catalogue everything. Only to learn that everything keeps changing.

The catalogue for the planet is never ending and a frustrated Light wants to destroy the planet.

Meanwhile Josiah plans to assassinate Queen Victoria and take over the British Empire. While Control wants to be her own woman.

There certainly is a lot of story here but it had to be cut down. Control with her Eliza Doolittle story. Ace and her backstory regarding the house and its evil presence.

Josiah's plan is just absurd and Light's confusion is based on the concept that other planets do not evolve.

Some of the acting was all over the place. Like the director could not have a consistent tone. McCoy lets himself down in one scene where he just cannot do dramatic.

It is a grisly story with one set of characters turned to stone and Inspector Mackenzie into primordial soup.

Ghost Light had some cracking lines that hark back to Douglas Adams. It was all a sign of what Doctor Who could had been if it continued.