Favorite Johnny Byrne Script

I'll settle on Traken. Quite underrated in my opinion.

All Creatures Great and Small - Promises to Keep.

The Keeper Of Traken. It IS a classic and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

The Keeper of Traken (and I suspect the hand of Bidmead in it being a cut above.)

The other two are grot of the highest order, though I will say Arc comes close to redeeming itself in its final ten minutes.

The Keeper of Traken.

Excellent little story which worked well as a reintroduction of the Master and intro of Nyssa. Very well acted in the main especially on the part of Sheila Ruskin, Anthony Ainley, Geoffrey Beavers and Sutton. Baker was also excellent.The only thing that dragged it down a bit for me was Waterhouse.

Traken

Keeper of Traken

I like Arc of Infinity overall, but I think the scenes on Earth tend to drag on a bit. I wonder if it would have worked better as a 2-parter?

Fendelman wrote:Keeper of Traken

I like Arc of Infinity overall, but I think the scenes on Earth tend to drag on a bit. I wonder if it would have worked better as a 2-parter?

I think generally Byrne's Davison stories feel like Space 1999 episodes that have been padded and dragged out twice their natural 45 minute length. At that short length they'd probably be snappy and punchy enough. Twice that length, they become unsustainable, and exposed as a bit hollow, pretentious and shallow.