History Recap / DoctorWhoS16E3TheStonesOfBlood

** In her final scene, she becomes Visibly ''Cold'' Old Lady, for better or worse.

* FailedASpotCheck: Everyone gets ambushed several times over by ''eight foot tall moving rocks''.
* FanDisservice: Professor Rumford is played by the 75-year-old Beatrix Lehmann who is quite clearly not wearing a bra beneath her blouse. And it gets quite cold in some of the exterior scenes, if you're into that sort of thing in old women.

* VaporWear

* SealedEvilInACan: The Megara are an interesting variant; not evil ''per se,'' but certainly fulfilling the same role in the plot.

* FootFocus: There is quite a lot of focus on Romana's bare feet in the first two episodes.

Then the inevitable campy druids show up and nearly sacrifice the Doctor, before it is revealed that the stones themselves are sentient -- a lifeform called Ogri who feed on blood. One of the Ogri kills the head druid and it is revealed that Vivien Fay is in fact the Cailleach, a being worshipped by the druids, having taken on human form after being on Earth for four thousand of years. Fay transports Romana to a spaceship hidden in hyperspace at the circle, and the Doctor follows.

* ArtShift: Fourth and final Tom Baker episode shot entirely on video. The show would ditch film for good at the start of ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS23E1TheMysteriousPlanet Trial of a Timelord]]''.

The search for the Key To Time takes the Doctor and Romana to present-day (well, 1970s) Earth, where the Tracer leads them to a group of standing stones on Boscome Moor. The third segment is nowhere to be found, and the travellers instead meet the elderly Professor Amelia Rumford and her [[HomoeroticSubtext live-in assistant]] Vivien Fay, who tell them that the site has had a varying number of stones over the years.

The search for the Key To Time takes the Doctor and Romana to present-day (well, 1970s) Earth, where the Tracer leads them to a group of standing stones on Boscome Moor. The third segment is nowhere to be found, and the travellers instead meet the elderly Professor Amelia Rumford and her assistant Vivien Fay, who tell them that the site has had a varying number of stones over the years.

Then the inevitable druids show up and inevitably nearly sacrifice the Doctor, before it is revealed that the stones themselves are sentient - a lifeform called Ogri who feed on blood. One of the Ogri kills the head druid and it is revealed that Vivien Fay is in fact the Cailleach, a being worshipped by the druids, having taken on human form after being on Earth for thousands of years. Fay transports Romana to a spaceship hidden in hyperspace at the circle, and the Doctor follows.

Accidentally releasing two justice robots, the Doctor is sentenced to death but he tricks them into instead knocking Fay unconscious. Reading her mind, the robots (called Megara) establish that Fay is in fact Cessair of Diplos, the criminal they have been sent to try. They transform her into the final stone in the circle, but not before the Doctor has snagged her necklace - the segment of the Key that he has been looking for.

* AIIsACrapshoot: The Doctor's tale of justice machines

* AndIMustScream: Cessair's fate

* EverythingsBetterWithSparkles: The Megara are pretty much just sentient sparkles

* IHaveManyNames: Cessair, aka Vivien Fay, aka Morgana Le Fay, aka The Goddess, aka The Cailleach...need we go on?
* JudgeJuryAndExecutioner: The Megara
* LesYay: Earlier drafts of the script made it much more clear how Amelia Rumford and Vivian Fay spent their time in that cabin.

* MoodWhiplash: The serial goes from a dark, gruesome horror story to....a black comedy about malfunctioning justice robots. [[JustifiedTrope Could be justified]] in that the show's had far too many tonal shifts for just one tone to be represented by the 100th story.

* Really700YearsOld: Vivien Fay

* SiliconBasedLife: The Ogri

* MilestoneCelebration: Averted. This is the 100th [[Series/DoctorWho Doctor Who]] serial '''and''' it's original broadcast was close to the series' 15th anniversary. There would have been a scene in which the Doctor would have gotten a cake and a new scarf for ''his'' birthday, but the idea was scrapped because it was considered to be too self-indulgent.

* ArtShift: Third and final Tom Baker episode shot entirely on video. The show would ditch film for good at the start of ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS23E1TheMysteriousPlanet Trial of a Timelord]]''.

* MoodWhiplash: The serial goes from a dark, gruesome horror story to....a black comedy about malfunctioning justice robots. [[JustifiedTrope Could be justified]] in that the show's had far too many tonal shifts for just one tone to be represented by the 100th episode.

* IHaveManyNames: Cessair

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->'''Professor Rumford''': But are you from outer space?
->'''The Doctor''': No, I'm more from what you'd call "inner time".

* MilestoneCelebration: Averted. This is the 100th [[Series/DoctorWho Doctor Who]] serial AND it's original broadcost was close to the series' 15th anniversary. There would have been a scene in which the Doctor would have gotten a cake and a new scarf for ''his'' birthday, but the idea was scrapped because it was considered too self-indulgent.

* Really700YearsOld: Vivian Fay

* Golem: The Ogri are a mix of this and LivingStatue, since they're part of a stone circle.

* FanDisservice: Professor Rumford is played by the 75-year-old Beatrix Lehmann who is quite clearly not wearing a bra beneath her blouse. And it gets quite cold in some of the exterior scenes...

* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:Cessair's]] fate

* Really700YearsOld: [[spoiler: Vivian Fay]]

->'''Rumford''': But are you from outer space?

The search for the Key To Time takes the Doctor and Romana to present-day (well, 1970s) Earth, where the Tracer leads them to a group of standing stones on Boscome Moor. The third segment is nowhere to be found, and the travellers instead meet the elderly Professor Emilia Rumford and her assistant Vivien Fay, who tell them that the site has had a varying number of stones over the years.

* CoolOldLady: Professor Emelia Rumford. When going out to find the Doctor, she takes a policeman's truncheon with her.

* Vaporwear

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-->'''Rumford''': ''But are you from outer space?''
-->'''The Doctor''': ''No, I'm more from what you'd call "inner time".''

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: The death of the campers
* LesYay: There is a definite, if subtle, romantic undertone to Rumford and Fay's relationship.
** Mary Tamm herself said "We were all so innocent back then" when the LesYay was pointed out to her.

* {{Squick}}: [[http://i671.photobucket.com/albums/vv80/doctorwhoforum/stoneofblood/rumford.gif There's a brief shot of Emilia's nipples.]]

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