Ornery In Space

Sixtieth Entry in the Charles Daniels Unauthorized Programme Guide O' Jelly
Developed From A Storyline Proposed by David McIntee

 Serial HHH - Ornery In Space -

The Time Lords decide it's time to use the Doctor for some fun and games.
Allowing him to travel in time and space for the first time since the last
time it served the plot the Doctor drags along Jo because...well..he does.
The Doctor and Jo have been dispatched 500 years in the future on a planet
exactly like a quarry located on the planet earth.  The Time Lords have sent
them to hit the owners of a Theme Park for copyright violations.
In order to assist them in their deadly mission they have equipped the
Doctor
with a demat gun and Jo with dayglo pink go-go boots.
On the planet Inaquarry, the Doctor finds that a very nasty and naughty man
named Captain Bent has built a really scary ghost train to scare a small
colony of hicks that were already there.  The Doctor speculates that Captain
Bent has studied earth history, and in particular used the popular series
"Scooby Doo" as the inspiration for his plans.  The Doctor tries to work
out the complex mechanical clockwork of the ghost train as he sends Jo off
to investigate the elderly Mister Witherspoon who dismisses the ghost train
as tricks of light and shadow.
During the conflict between the Deliverance cast rejects and the money
hungry
carnival promoters, the Bastard arrives, determined to get the all-powerful
fast-food concession, which he hopes to build upon the site of the
universe's
first burger joint. In the way of his masterplan are the primitives, who
once
created the perfect burger, but then fell foul of Mad Cow Disease.
The plot is foiled when the fast-food concession machinery turns against
the Bastard's evil and Jo Grant whips off Witherspoon's mask to reveal he
was behind the ghost train all along.
Again, 10 minutes of Jo Grant running in place and doing gratuitous
high jump kicks.

 Book(s)/Other Related - Doctor Who Gets Ornery In Space
                         Doctor Mysterio Stubberdo Shooty Shooty Bastarderro
                         YIKES!! I Was A Doctor Who Ghost Train!

 Fluffs - Pertwee seemed shaggy for most this story

 Fashion Victims - Jo's ridiculous huge green belt with "Remove To Party"
                   written in gold lettering
                   The colonists all wear banjos around their necks

 Goofs - 500 years in the future carnival games are fair and really as easy
         as they seem - vision of utopia or crap?  You decide.
         Jo's skepticism that the TARDIS is mobile is odd as she has
obviously
         stolen it for joy rides through history as the Time Lords watched
on
         voyeuristically...well that's what this story on SADWANK suggests.
         If the Bastard was so ready to kill the Doctor, why does he offer
         him cotton candy and coke?


 Technobabble - The Doctor suggests that "carnivalic circusian energy" is
                what makes the carnival games so easy to win in the 25th
                century

 Untelevised Misadventures -
 "I met the Pope once..which one?  All of them.  Splendid chaps, all of
them.
  I rather like their hats, I designed them myself you know.  Of course that
  was a rather slow day for me.  So, are you a minor deity or just a weird
  giant fish of some sort?"
  - The Doctor tries to chat up a giant Cthulhoid Monster gratuitously
placed
    in the backround

 Dialogue Disasters -

 "There's no animal life, just some birds and insects."
  - The Doctor seconds before being mauled by a grizzly bear


 Dialogue Triumphs -

 Doctor: I am every kind of scientist, I'm not good at any one science,
         but I know how to cover my ass.  Now step aside!

 Capt. Bent: All colonists are inbred banjo-lovin' hicks...how do you think
             you become a colonists in the first place?

 Witherspoon: And I would have gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for you
              meddling time lords!

 The BASTARD: It's always innocent bastards who suffer.

 BASTARD: One must rule or serve.  That is the basic law of life.  Why do
          you hesitate?  Surely it's not loyalty to the Time Lords, who
          truly and completely screwed you over.
 DOCTOR: I guess I never thought of it like that.  I want to see the
         universe, not rule it.
 BASTARD: Why not?
 DOCTOR: Well, because, it's..well...I guess I never thought of that EITHER.
 BASTARD: Admit it Doctor!  You wish to rule the universe as MUCH as I!
 DOCTOR: Isn't that as much as ME?
 BASTARD: AS I!
 DOCTOR: Drat!

 Viewers' Quotes -

 "This classic Doctor Who story is well remembered because for being the
  3rd Doctor's first spacefaring gun wielding mission for the Time Lords.
  And fortunately those are redeeming factors in the eyes of many people!"
  - Gordonia Roxburghlebag, The Gaytrix Issue 8

 "The story was no where near as dull as the landscape."
  - A Chartered Accountant praising the story (1971)

 "Yowzers!!!" - Anonymous Doctor Who Fan (1972)

 "In a existential way, the flaw with this story is the story itself."
  - Charles Daniels with a headache (1999)

 Rumors & Facts -

It was long believed that this story takes place on the planet Exarius
however in 1997 the original script was discovered at a Fish 'n Chip
takeaway.  Apparently the fish had been wrapped in the script for
several months before a Doctor Who fan noticed and got the remaining pages
of the script from the proprietor.  After a careful investigation the
planet is now known to be called Inaquarry, a strange and alien name
of unknown meaning.
Many of the actors in this story went on to smaller and lesser things,
most living in complete obscurity or in a gutter.  The exception to the
rule was Mary Ashe played by Bambi Knickers, who went on to a long standing
role in the infamous Bambi line of adult films such as 'Bambi Goes To
College', 'Bambi's Big Break" and the most recent release 'Everyone Loves
Bambi'.
The most interesting rumour going around is that this story shares the same
plot of an episode of Scooby Doo, Where Are You?  In actuality this story
shares the same plot of about a dozen episodes of Scooby Doo.
I myself prefer the one where the gang meets Laurel and Hardy in the Mystery
Machine, but I digress.