He then used the rats to guard the entrance to his laboratory in the London sewers. He has come to London to retrieve his lost time cabinet, which is in the possession of Litefoot. The Talons of Weng-Chiang is a fabulous Doctor Who story, brilliantly written, dark and scary, with some of the best acting performances in the whole of Doctor Who, and a double act that was memorable enough to justify 14 box sets from Big Finish of Jago & Litefoot, the very pinnacle of their entire output.. Throughout the serial, the Doctor wears an Inverness cape and a deerstalker hat. Deep Breath Sept 16, 2020 20:04:39 GMT fitzoliverj and timegirl like this. Leela has been dining with Litefoot at his house. There are modern power points, covered with masking tape, on the walls of Litefoot's lab. With Tom Baker, Louise Jameson, John Bennett, Christopher Benjamin. The name of Litefoot's housekeeper, Mrs Hudson, is borrowed from Holmes' housekeeper at 221B Baker Street. ‘The Talons of Weng-Chiang’ routinely hovers at or around the top of lists of favourite episodes, and it’s unquestionably a highlight of the overall theme and tone of the Tom Baker years with Philip Hinchcliffe as producer. He has come to London to retrieve his lost time cabinet, which is in the possession of Litefoot. The rats fatally wounded him, though he did not die right away. She turns the corner and falls, and the rat bears down on her. Though the trope is lampshaded when Leela sardonically comments that the Doctor has only asked her a question (about some 51st Century technology that she obviously wouldn't know about) to give him an excuse to answer it. One rat pursued Leela and bit her leg.The Fourth Doctor shot and killed it with a Chinese fowling gun.. Li H'sen Chang, Greel's henchman, threw himself to the rats as a means of suicide after his master had dismissed him from service. One rat pursued Leela and bit her leg. There is a cameo appearance by the series' incidental music composer Dudley Simpson as the conductor of the orchestra at the Palace Theatre. Select Post; Deselect Post; Link to Post; Member. Arriving in London at the end of the 19th Century, the Doctor and Leela make friends with a police pathologist, Professor Litefoot, and learn that hairs taken from the clothing of a dead body found floating in the Thames seem to have originated from a very large rat. The giant rat echoes a famous untold tale: in "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire", Holmes mentions "the giant rat of Sumatra, a story for which the world is not yet prepared.". Weng-Chiang is in fact Magnus Greel, a war criminal from the 51st Century. London, between 1889 (after Jack the Ripper) and 1901 (the death of Queen Victoria). However, this fits in better with the Doctor's chronological age see - Pyramids of Mars - than with Earth history, although he's still about 100 years out. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/DoctorWhoS14E6TheTalonsOfWengChiang. Litefoot's role, as a police surgeon, is an almost-exact parallel of Dr Watson in the Conan Doyle stories, who was an Army surgeon, but had retired into a civilian medical practice: Litefoot is playing Dr Watson to the Doctor's Sherlock Holmes. The Doctor says he was in China 400 years ago [a probable reference to Marco Polo. The Palace theater, presenting hypnotist Li H'sen Chang seems to be at the center of it all. Later on, a Tong member who failed one time too many is forced to commit suicide. History Edit. The Man with the Golden Gun (conclusion involving midget and giant laser gun). The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town. Dracula ('Some slavering gangrenous vampire comes out of the sewers and stalks the city at night'). "Well when it comes to it, I don't suppose anybody is. The Doctor says at one point, "Elementary, my dear Litefoot". Sin" (a computerised homonculus with a pig's brain... well, the 51st century is a bit weird like that) to infiltrate Litefoot's house and retrieve it. Giant rats were created from common London rats by Magnus Greel in the 19th century, using 51st century science. Leela : Leela and the Doctor enter the TARDIS and it dematerialises. "That's my trouble, Litefoot. Greel's time experiments were based on zygma energy, 'the twisted lunacy of a scientific dark age' according to the Doctor. Am I being picky or has anyone else felt uncomfortable about this? Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. The Doctor repeatedly warn Greel that his Time Cabinet will kill him if he tries to use it. The Doctor buys everyone muffins to celebrate. Greel falls into his life force extraction machine and disintegrates. Doctor Who goes all Sherlock Holmes-Meets-Hammer Horror in this tale set in Victorian London. She struggles with him and pulls the mask from his face, revealing a bent and twisted visage beneath. Professor Litefoot is left unconscious in his house as Weng-Chiang, laughing maniacally, speeds away in a horse-drawn carriage with the time cabinet strapped to the back. Jago's alliterative speeches are a shout out to Leonard Sachs' turn as the compere in, Magnus Greel's lair beneath the theatre, his deformed face, the mask he uses to hide it, and the climactic scene in which the mask is torn off to reveal his true face, all derive from, Li H'Sen Chang is a villainous fictional version of the real-world (, The giant rat is reminiscent of animals grown to enormous size in the. Amongst the many aspects of Conan Doyle lore present we have the Doctor's deerstalker, a housekeeper called Mrs. Hudson, 'Elementary my dear Litefoot', opium and so on. Why does Greel need girls rather than young people in general? Trevor Baxter. He ambushes Leela and presses a chemical-soaked pad over her mouth. The Fourth Doctor shot and killed it with a Chinese fowling gun. Other Holmes links include A Study in Scarlet, The Man with the Twisted Lip and The Abbey Grange. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available from thestaff@tvtropes.org. The Peking Homunculus was made for the Commissioner of the Icelandic Alliance's children in 'the Ice Age around the year 5000'. The Doctor further states that 'the pig part took over' and that this almost caused World War Six. The Talons of Weng-Chiang is superb, but the casual racism jars a little. Henry Gordon Jago comes a fairly close second. The journey back through time has disrupted his molecular structure and he now needs to feed on the life force of others - hence his use for the young girls. Infiltrating Litefoot's home with Chang's ventriloquist doll Mr Sin - a computerised homonculus with the brain of a pig - he retrieves the cabinet and prepares to travel back to his own time. Professor Litefoot - Averted at first as Li H'sen is simply fired by Greel, and sets out to save face on his own by killing the Doctor. The Doctor and Leela land in Victorian London, and find themselves in the middle of missing girls, mutilated bodies, and vicious Chinese gangs. The Importance of Being Ernest (a hat box?). ", The Doctor : The "wretched girls" who are taken from the streets wear layers of makeup and red clothing, and it's remarked that they can't be older than 16. Li H'sen Chang, Greel's henchman, threw himself to the rats as a means of suicide after his master had dismissed him from service.

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