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{{quote|''Why do I always let my curiosity get the better of me?''|'''The Doctor''' either lacks [[Genre Savvy]] or is going [[Meta Fiction
The second serial by writer Terence Dudley, ''Black Orchid'' is nine-tenths [[Scenery Porn]] and [[Fan Service]] and one-tenth the plot for said [[Scenery Porn]] and [[Fan Service]]. Also, it's the first two-part story in [[Doctor Who]] since 1975: producer John Nathan-Turner didn't like the six-part stories that had been common up until this point, and was experimenting with different story lengths.
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Tegan dances the Charleston! Nyssa and Adric are baffled by this weird Earth game "cricket"! Nyssa wears a beautiful dress! Adric eats food! The Doctor sings in the shower! Adric eats more food! A 'good person' kills a lot of people! Most importantly, [[Peter Davison]] spends quite a bit of the first episode in a bathrobe! It's like an entire episode of ''[[omake]]'' (Who-''make''?).
* [[Acting for Two]]: Sarah Sutton as Nyssa and Ann
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* [[Breather Episode]]: Somewhat justified in that the previous four adventures often had high death counts, or at least came near grievous personal harm to our TARDIS crew. [[Doctor Who/Recap/S19/E06 Earthshock|And then there is the next one...]]
* [[Burning Building Rescue]]
* [[The Cast Showoff]]: That's really [[Peter Davison]], a keen cricketer himself, playing cricket in the Doctor's cricket scenes, and doing pretty
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Never fired. The mole Ann Talbot has on her shoulder (Nyssa doesn't have one) is set up to be a plot point and then is never mentioned again.
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