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From: nlt@duke.UUCP (N. L. Tinkham)
Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho
Subject: Re: Greatest Fight by the Doctor
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Date: Mon, 2-Sep-85 17:42:11 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep  2 17:42:11 1985
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[Ewan Tempero:]
> "What is your favourite Doctor fight". This should be easy to answer
> as there aren't that many. In fact I can only think of one recent
> hand-to-hand combat featuring the Doctor. Valid entries must be physical
> combat, no guns, sonic screwdrivers or anything else of that nature.

[Jonathan E. Quist recalls the fight in "The Sontaran Experiment" and then
 says, referring to "The Deadly Assassin":]
> Didn't #4 also have a prolonged stay in the Matrix,
> resulting in hand to hand?

   Yes, indeed, and this is not only my favorite "Doctor fight" but my
favorite sequence in all of the Doctor Who episodes I have seen.  The Doctor
and Chancellor Goth fight in a world created by the Master inside the Matrix.
Goth has a few simple weapons; the Doctor has only what he can steal from
Goth or create from his environment.  It is mostly a battle of imagination
(who will out-think and out-anticipate the other?) rather than of pure
strength.  The sequence is all the more intriguing to me because it is
not really a physical battle at all; the apparent physical world in which
they fight exists only in the minds of the Doctor, Goth, and the Master.

                                       N. L. Tinkham
                                       duke!nlt