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 If there was ever an award for a design department operating on a shoestring budget and coming up with something really special, it would go to the team that created the Axon ship in “The Claws Of Axos”. Great use of texture and color makes the scenes in the ship a visual treat, particularly when Axox is “electro-convulsing” with the Doctor and Jo trapped inside.
All that glitters isn’t gold in this story and the Axons are especially impressive in their “de-personalized” form and when appearing out of a wall in the ship before a panic-stricken Jo grant, while real “freak weather conditions” in Dungeness provide a sense of isolation as the Doctor and UNIT find themselves encumbered by the intentions of the Axon visitors and the deceit of the British government...
Writers Bob Baker and Dave Martin spin a good yarn here and display why the Jon Pertwee era produced the best Earth based adventures. Greed and lust for power, at whatever the cost, are the claws of the top civil servants in this story and the simile runs deep.
The incidental music is fine and helps to make “The Claws of Axos” an exiting and thought provoking adventure.
» Review by Andrew Swan, Copyright 2006.
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