Doctor Who Animated – The Infinite Quest

Coinciding with Saturday’s airing of the series 3 premiere of Doctor Who the first episode of a new animated Doctor Who series “The Infinite Quest” aired yesterday as part of Totally Doctor Who. Coming in at a mere 3 minutes and 30 seconds there’s not much to say but I’ll give you a spoiler driven synopsis anyway.

The villain Baltazar is cruising through space on his ship that he built himself, talking to a robot bird named Caw, as he arrives to Earth. The Doctor and Martha show up in the Tardis. Baltazar explains that he’s going to turn everyone on Earth into diamonds. The Doctor takes out a rusty spoon which rusts the ship away, he frees Caw from his cage with his sonic screwdriver and then he and Martha escape in the TARDIS apparently going to Copacabana beach. Baltazar is left flying around through space on Caw.

Not really much to say about this show. The animation looks great and the story seems to be good but at 3 and a half minutes it goes without saying that I’m left wanting more and even after it’s entire 13 episode run it will still only total up to the length of about a single episode of the Doctor Who show. If I wanted to experienced a rushed story that crammed things in too quick and was over before I even knew it started I’d read more comics. It might be worth just waiting until the entire series is done to watch this one. Regardless I’ll keep watching but I don’t imagine I’ll feel the need to post about every episode.

A note on the actors. The Doctor and Martha are voiced by David Tenant and Freema Agyeman who portray them in the live action series. Anthony Stewart Head’s character, Baltazar, is not the character Mr. Finch who appeared in an episode of Doctor Who’s second series “School Reunion”.

Totally Doctor Who is a children’s television program which started airing in conjunction with Doctor Who’s second season last year.