Black Orchid

Black Orchid is probably the shortest Doctor Who story ever, before you know it, it's finished already.
This story is hardly action filled, nor has any science either. The TARDIS arrives in England 1925 at a railway station and the group (Doctor, Nyssa, Tegan and unfortunately Adric) are greeted by a man who seemed to be expecting them. Before long, Doctor is playing a cricket match with the aristocrats of a mansion. Funnily enough, this is the only time Peter Davisons Doctor didn't look out of place with his suit. Then we find Nyssa has a lookalike, a human girl called Ann Talbot, who seems to be even more stuck up than Nyssa herself. While all this happening, there is a strange native man simply walking about and a mystery man who had the tendancy to kill butlers and shove them in cupboards.

The main event of this story is that theres a fancy dress party with Nyssa and Ann dressing in the same outfits to fool people (ho ho ho) and that's all there is. Until the mystery man steals Doctors outfit (which is quite a creepy one) to try and kidnap Ann and would you guess it, everyone thought Doctor tried to kill Ann. That is pretty much it until the residents got their brain cells to together to find it's a man with a burnt face living in the attic.

I find this story far too short and far too simple. This could've been a brilliant whodunnit story but it's easy to guess from the very beginning. It's nice to see Nyssa having the main part(s) for a story but she could've got a lot better. There seems to be nothing important about the Black Orchid either, except the murderer got one from some random rainforest. And that Doctor received a thank-you present, a book called Black Orchid. Talk about an anti-climax.

6/10