Who could resist Stephen in that kilt!!! Actually, my favourite scene is where Stephen is speaking to John and Liz back at the lab while they are eating breakfast... I like the split screen effect, and the idea that the telepathic contact between them passes more than just words but feelings too.

I also think the moody atmosphere is built up well but unfortunately it is all lost in a rather unmemorable ending. <sigh>

There are some serious ethical issues raised during this story which I feel have overshadowed the general anti-war message. Whether the TP's have the right to use what is effectively a form of 'brain washing' is not, as I see it, as serious as some have suggested. After all, they have the means to do it and are supposed to be the only hope for mankind's future on this planet. Wouldn't you use everything you had to secure peace?

Another reason why this story works is that it uses other locations for filming. It is good to see the TP's outside of the lab. I think that Stephen's character is explored through his interaction with the other boys at the school, especially in the 'underwear' scene.

Here is a quote from a recent interview with PVC (Cult TV Mag Feb. 1998).

"Remember that time in the 'The Doomsday Men' when I had to take off my underwear?" He says to Nick Young. "I had to sit on the bed, and Simon Gipps-Kent says to me, 'You're not wearing anything under your kilt!' I say, 'Of course I am,' and he says, 'Well you can't.' 'Then all I heard from the control room was, 'Tell him to take them off!' It had been talked about before, but I thought they were winding me up until I actually had to go through with it."

Would a children's TV show get away with such things these days? But never mind it was all in good fun, and I suspect every girl ( and a few boys) would just love to be a fly on the wall during the filming of that scene.