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* SignatureScene: Susan threatening Ian and Barbara with a pair of scissors before using them to stab a matress.
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* HilariousInHindsight: The "Fast Return Switch" label on the console foreshadows [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture Doc Brown's]] Dymo-tape labels all over the inside of his time machine.
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* BrokenBase: One of the most divisive serials of the show's early years- is it a masterpiece of tense psychological horror and in-depth character development, or is it a load of nonsensical twaddle with a truly ridiculous and anticlimactic reason for everything (a stuck spring)?
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* SpecialEffectsFailure: Merely putting the camera out of focus to suggest a melting clock doesn't ''quite'' carry the idea across. Richard Martin, the director, later said that he'd have steam pouring out of the clock if he'd had the budget.
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* UnbuiltTrope: This story is an absurdly dark look at how miserable and paranoid it would be to be unworldly humans living aboard a SapientShip that travels semi-autonomously across time and space with a mysterious alien at the helm – by this point, Ian and Barbara's hatred of the Doctor is enough that both think the other may have tried to murder him (and they did not choose to be his companions either, instead being kidnapped by him), the Doctor hates Ian and Barbara for being human interlopers who may be trying to steal or hurt his ship, and Susan, while appearing to be TheIngenue, is just as [[BlueAndOrangeMorality inscrutable and alien]] as her grandfather and [[TheOphelia has a violent mental breakdown, babbling about creatures living inside her, and attacking Ian with a pair of surgical scissors]]. During all of this, they are dealing with a NegativeSpaceWedgie, the effects of which are so unlike anything that they have seen before that they constantly wonder if this is actually a malevolent force or something the TARDIS, which [[StarfishAliens has a mind of its own impossible to understand outside of its species]], is doing for their sake. Another aspect is that the TARDIS being unreliable and the Doctor being unable to control it is usually portrayed comically. However this serial shows how dangerous it could really be when the TARDIS goes wrong, here a spring coming loose on the console nearly destroys the ship by throwing it back in time to the creation of a galaxy.
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* UnbuiltTrope: This story is an absurdly dark look at how miserable and paranoid it would be to be unworldly humans living aboard a SapientShip that travels semi-autonomously across time and space with a mysterious alien at the helm – by this point, Ian and Barbara's hatred of the Doctor is enough that both think the other may have tried to murder him (and they did not choose to be his companions either, instead being kidnapped by him), the Doctor hates Ian and Barbara for being human interlopers who may be trying to steal or hurt his ship, and Susan, while appearing to be TheIngenue, is just as [[BlueAndOrangeMorality inscrutable and alien]] as her grandfather and [[TheOphelia has a violent mental breakdown, babbling about creatures living inside her, and attacking Ian with a pair of surgical scissors]]. During all of this, they are dealing with a NegativeSpaceWedgie, the effects of which are so unlike anything that they have seen before that they constantly wonder if this is actually a malevolent force or something the TARDIS, which [[StarfishAliens has a mind of its own impossible to understand outside of its species]], is doing for their sake. Another aspect is that the TARDIS being unreliable and the Doctor being unable to control it is usually portrayed comically. However this serial shows how dangerous it could really be when the TARDIS goes wrong, here a spring coming loose on the console nearly destroys the ship by throwing it back in time to the creation of a galaxy.
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* UnbuiltTrope: This story is an absurdly dark look at how miserable and paranoid it would be to be unworldly humans living aboard a SapientShip that travels semi-autonomously across time and space with a mysterious alien at the helm – by this point, Ian and Barbara's hatred of the Doctor is enough that both think the other may have tried to murder him (and they did not choose to be his companions either, instead being kidnapped by him), the Doctor hates Ian and Barbara for being human interlopers who may be trying to steal or hurt his ship, and Susan, while appearing to be TheIngenue, is just as [[BlueAndOrangeMorality inscrutable and alien]] as her grandfather and [[TheOphelia has a violent mental breakdown, babbling about creatures living inside her, and attacking Ian with a pair of surgical scissors]]. During all of this, they are dealing with a NegativeSpaceWedgie, the effects of which are so unlike anything that they have seen before that they constantly wonder if this is actually a malevolent force or something the TARDIS, which [[StarfishAliens has a mind of its own impossible to understand outside of its species]], is doing for their sake. Another aspect is that the TARDIS being unreliable and the Doctor being unable to control it is usually portrayed comically. However this serial shows how dangerous it could really be when the TARDIS goes wrong, here a spring coming loose on the console nearly destroys the ship by throwing it back in time to the creation of a galaxy.galaxy.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: Between the haunted house tropes, generally creepy atmosphere and Susan wildly stabbing a bed with scissors. Not to mention attacking Ian and Barbara with them.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: Between the haunted house tropes, generally creepy atmosphere and Susan wildly stabbing a bed with scissors. Not to mention attacking Ian and Barbara with them.
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HilariousInHindsight: The "Fast Return Switch" label on the console foreshadows [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture Doc Brown's]] Dymo-tape labels all over the inside of his time machine.
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* HilariousInHindsight: The "Fast Return Switch" label on the console foreshadows [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture Doc Brown's]] Dymo-tape labels all over the inside of his time machine.machine.
* UnbuiltTrope: This story is an absurdly dark look at how miserable and paranoid it would be to be unworldly humans living aboard a SapientShip that travels semi-autonomously across time and space with a mysterious alien at the helm – by this point, Ian and Barbara's hatred of the Doctor is enough that both think the other may have tried to murder him (and they did not choose to be his companions either, instead being kidnapped by him), the Doctor hates Ian and Barbara for being human interlopers who may be trying to steal or hurt his ship, and Susan, while appearing to be TheIngenue, is just as [[BlueAndOrangeMorality inscrutable and alien]] as her grandfather and [[TheOphelia has a violent mental breakdown, babbling about creatures living inside her, and attacking Ian with a pair of surgical scissors]]. During all of this, they are dealing with a NegativeSpaceWedgie, the effects of which are so unlike anything that they have seen before that they constantly wonder if this is actually a malevolent force or something the TARDIS, which [[StarfishAliens has a mind of its own impossible to understand outside of its species]], is doing for their sake. Another aspect is that the TARDIS being unreliable and the Doctor being unable to control it is usually portrayed comically. However this serial shows how dangerous it could really be when the TARDIS goes wrong, here a spring coming loose on the console nearly destroys the ship by throwing it back in time to the creation of a galaxy.
* UnbuiltTrope: This story is an absurdly dark look at how miserable and paranoid it would be to be unworldly humans living aboard a SapientShip that travels semi-autonomously across time and space with a mysterious alien at the helm – by this point, Ian and Barbara's hatred of the Doctor is enough that both think the other may have tried to murder him (and they did not choose to be his companions either, instead being kidnapped by him), the Doctor hates Ian and Barbara for being human interlopers who may be trying to steal or hurt his ship, and Susan, while appearing to be TheIngenue, is just as [[BlueAndOrangeMorality inscrutable and alien]] as her grandfather and [[TheOphelia has a violent mental breakdown, babbling about creatures living inside her, and attacking Ian with a pair of surgical scissors]]. During all of this, they are dealing with a NegativeSpaceWedgie, the effects of which are so unlike anything that they have seen before that they constantly wonder if this is actually a malevolent force or something the TARDIS, which [[StarfishAliens has a mind of its own impossible to understand outside of its species]], is doing for their sake. Another aspect is that the TARDIS being unreliable and the Doctor being unable to control it is usually portrayed comically. However this serial shows how dangerous it could really be when the TARDIS goes wrong, here a spring coming loose on the console nearly destroys the ship by throwing it back in time to the creation of a galaxy.
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