The Five Doctors

The one where (most) of the first five Doctors join forces against a traitor to their own people...

It's difficult to express just how exciting The Five Doctors was to the seven-year-old me back in '83. Doctor Who's 20th anniversary year was something of a landmark in the history of the series, and of fandom, turning a very popular family series into something of an institution. For a programme to be still going after two decades was a rare achievement, something to be rightly celebrated, and The Five Doctors, with its crazy ambition and all-star cast, was just about the best way to do this.

The excitement is still palpable almost 40 years later. It's got "all the Doctors" in it, loads of old companions, and loads of old monsters (well, I say "loads"...!). Robert Holmes was initially given the role of writing this anniversary tale, but he struggled to make work his "Cyber-Lord" idea about Cybermen fusing Time Lord DNA with their own (not so much a problem for Chris Chibnall...). The best man for the job was obviously old hand Terrance Dicks. If there was anyone who could make this mad hotch-potch of Doctor Who eras work as one, it was him.

I remember watching The Five Doctors the first time and being stunned by how exciting it was. The old Doctors! K-9! Cybermen (lots of Cybermen)! The Master! A Dalek! Susan bloody Foreman! It was like Avengers Endgame for Who fans. But my family didn't have a video recorder in 1983, so the memory of those glorious 90 minutes could never be revisited. Then my Dad told me one day that my godfather had recorded the 1984 repeat onto VHS, and so I pleaded with my Dad to ask to see it. One of the most tragic memories of my boyhood is learning that my godfather had already taped over it with some old John Wayne Western.

So I didn't get to see The Five Doctors a second time until 1990, when it was released on VHS, and then I could pore over it endlessly, soaking up its nostalgic flavourings to my heart's desire. 'Twas like nectar! But now I must place my nostalgic feelings to one side and review The Five Doctors - still the longest single episode of Doctor Who to date - dispassionately. In order to try and focus my ramblings, I've decided to categorise them, rather than zig-zag through the 90 minutes scene to scene. So, here goes...

The First Doctor and Susan

It's just beautiful to have William Hartnell in the pre-credits sequence. They didn't have to do it, but the fact the Guv'nor is represented by a clip from Flashpoint is just perfect, and quite moving. Whoever chose that particular clip, that particular speech, was spot on, because not only does it tell the viewer that the Doctor's coming back (and not just one of them!), but it's also the last words Susan would have heard her grandfather say, so it's almost like the First Doctor and Susan are picking up where they left off. "One day, I shall come back..."

Richard Hurndall's take on the part sees him attempt to recreate Hartnell's original, but in fact it's quite a different interpretation. It is, in fact, Terrance Dicks's interpretation of how he remembers the First Doctor being, which isn't all that like the truth. Hurndall's Doctor is far grumpier and far more unpleasant than Hartnell ever was. Just look at the way he delivers certain lines, with a level of spite, making the First Doctor out to be a thoroughly unpleasant old git, rather than the twinkly eccentric of Hartnell's days. "Well well well, so two of them made it. I wonder what happened to the other?" Hurndall snarls at Turlough at one point. Later, when he decides to go to the Dark Tower, and Tegan volunteers to go with him, he snaps: "Very well. If you must."

I have a real problem with the way the First Doctor is portrayed in this way. It's misleading, and disrespectful to the original, and it's because of Dicks's rather simplistic misinterpretation of this Doctor in 1983 that so many people now think the First Doctor was a grumpy, crotchety, antagonistic old man. That's wrong. He wasn't. He certainly could be, but so could most of the Doctors. Hartnell's Doctor was never that all the time, as became too often the case since. The bit where he tells Tegan to fetch some refreshments shows him as a misogynist, but you'd be hard pressed to find an example of this happening in the Hartnell era. Steven Moffat lazily uses this perceived bigotry in his interpretation of the First Doctor in Twice Upon a Time too. I've only ever watched that episode once, so incensed was I by the way Hartnell's legacy is defaced.

Hurndall is reminiscent of Hartnell in the way he appears (that frock coat is all wrong though), but his is a spikier, more spiteful version. He's also too upright in his body language, and just a tad too snarly in the face. I'm struggling to think of a moment where Hartnell's magical, grandfatherly eccentricity shines through. This First Doctor is all grump and no warmth.

The scene where the Doctor is reunited with his granddaughter is disappointing in that there's barely any recognition of what went before. This is the first time they've seen each other since he rather abruptly abandoned her in a ravaged 22nd century London. Susan has aged (rather gracefully, I might add), but the Doctor doesn't refer to this. It's quite sweet that Susan began to look for her grandfather as soon as she found herself "in this horrible place", but the lack of connection between the two is massively disappointing. I know this is just a celebratory romp through 20 years of the show, not an emotionally intelligent examination of love and loss, but it's such a shame no more is made of this monumental moment.

It's indicative of how these little reunions are treated throughout the piece. Dicks hasn't the time to go into the emotional baggage that comes with the Brigadier reuniting with Sarah Jane Smith, or Susan seeing no fewer than three future versions of her grandfather. The nature of the story means we cannot linger on these frankly essential story beats, and it leaves fans feeling cheated (meanwhile, lay viewers are lapping it up).

The encounter with the lone Dalek in the hall of mirrors is nicely directed by the usually rather pedestrian Peter Moffatt, using the reflections and shadows to heighten the menace and mystery. I've noticed that throughout the drama, Moffatt often introduces enemies at a distance, often seen between two foregrounded characters: the Dalek emerges behind the First Doctor and Susan, the Cybermen appear behind the Third Doctor and Sarah as they traipse through the forest, the Master appears behind the same two characters when he encounters them in the Death Zone. It can be very effective here, but also reminds me of the appalling way Moffatt botches the introduction of the Sontarans in The Two Doctors, seen for the first time from such a distance that all impact is lost. He strikes the right balance here though.

The raging Dalek blows itself up by shooting its energy weapon in a confined space, revealing a break in the wall, and the mysterious Dark Tower of Rassilon beyond. I must admit, it's weird hearing the First Doctor and Susan referring to Gallifrey and Time Lords. It's also plain wrong to hear the First Doctor refer to "the TARDIS". Surely, as much as Carole Ann Ford insisted she called the Doctor "grandfather", the First Doctor should have referred to his trusty old Ship?

Overall, the depiction of the First Doctor here is way out. As well as the character traits Dicks gives him, he's also written throughout as if he's the wisest of the Doctors, simply because he looks the oldest. Of course, the truth is that he is actually the youngest incarnation, and so by rights, should be the least wise, the least knowledgeable of them all. At the end of the story it is the First Doctor who susses out the truth of Rassilon's riddle ('To lose is to win, and he who wins shall lose'), when really it should be the Fifth Doctor. It gives the youngest version of the Doctor far too much intellectual prominence, and the incumbent Doctor is sadly deprived of what should be his hero moment. Peter Davison becomes just another player in his own show.

It's also a real pity the First Doctor doesn't encounter a couple of his own illusions as he enters the Tower. A couple of cameos from Ian and Barbara would have been wonderful, even fleetingly.

The Second Doctor and Brigadier

The Second Doctor's introduction is gorgeous, with much more time taken in his kidnapping by the time scoop than anyone else. It's a nice touch that the same location is used from The Three Doctors for UNIT HQ, and we see the Brigadier looking forward to a reunion event in his honour, at which he's to make a grand speech. The impact of the Brigadier's return would be far greater had we not had him in Mawdryn Undead just a few months ago, but we can't complain too much. But who else is coming to this reunion? If this is a big celebration of the Brig's career, then surely the likes of Liz Shaw, Jo Grant, Sergeant Benton and Captain Yates will be there too? And, come to think of it, wouldn't Sarah Jane Smith be there? Maybe that's where Sarah's catching the bus to when she's time-scooped: the UNIT reunion!

Patrick Troughton steps back into his Doctor's shoes effortlessly. Dressed in the iconic fur coat from Season 5, he tumbles into UNIT HQ defiantly, because he's allowed everywhere! The bit of business as he rolls out of his coat at the door is lovely, as is the way he puts Crichton on the back foot by saying he read today's events in tomorrow's Times! It's also the origin of the now legendary line: "You've had this place redecorated, haven't you? I don't like it!"

Again, there's a tiny misinterpretation of the Second Doctor from Dicks in that he makes him a little spiky (referring to Crichton as an unpromising replacement, for example). I think Troughton's portrayal of the Doctor was always 99% performance anyway, so thankfully anything Dicks writes that doesn't quite feel right is smoothed out by the fact it's Troughton playing it, but there are tiny moments where I think Dicks is getting the characterisation a tiny bit wrong. It's as if he's writing the Doctor he knows the best (the Third) all the time, but hardening it or softening it for Hurndall and Troughton. Thankfully, Patrick Troughton's acting talents largely obscure Dicks's failings.

The Doctor doesn't wish to stay very long with the Brigadier, deciding to leave within seconds of arriving. There's some lovely nods to the history between these two, with mentions of the Cybermen and Yeti, as well as Omega, and the Terrible Zodin. Who? The Doctor recalls that the Brigadier wasn't concerned with her, adding that she was covered in hair and hopped about like a kangaroo! Intriguing, so who was she? Spin-off fiction tells us she was a sword-swallower, and the third most wanted criminal in the galaxy after the Master and the Rani! The Doctor's encounters with Zodin are confusing, as he had his memory of the event erased (in the novel Cold Fusion), but she does get mentioned occasionally in books and audios by the Third, Sixth and Seventh Doctors, and seems to have also encountered the Brigadier (after the events of The Five Doctors), Iris Wildthyme, Jamie McCrimmon, Melanie Bush and Martha Jones!

I must say, I love the simplicity of the time scoop effect, a tumbling black triangle that plucks people out of time. A black triangle might seem too simple to some, but to me it's a dangerous shard of nothingness, coming to get you, and so much better than being chased down the street by a giant ice cream...

The Second Doctor gets saddled with rather a lot of info-dumping (as does the Third), filling us in on who Rassilon was, what the Death Zone is and how the Time Lords used to misuse their powers in the Dark Times (Mr Chibnall took this and ran with it, didn't he?). But Troughton is never less than a delight to watch, although he's never given as much room to play as he was in The Three Doctors. Sadly, Nicholas Courtney is given next to nothing to do of any narrative use, until the slightly incongruous moment where he thumps the Master at the end. His presence in the story is largely wasted.

The encounter with the pretend Jamie and Zoe is a lovely way to crowbar extra helpings of nostalgia into the piece. What on earth poor Wendy Padbury is wearing as Zoe is a true mystery (although bubble wrap party dresses are actually a thing now!), but Frazer Hines looks stunning in his Highlander finery, and it's lovely to have them back, albeit briefly. The fact Jamie knows who the Brigadier is tells the Doctor that his old friends are just illusions, adding that the Time Lords erased their memories of the time they spent with him in The War Games. This is not strictly true, as Jamie and Zoe were still able to recall their first adventures with him (ie, The Highlanders and The Wheel in Space), but this does not explain why Jamie knows who the Brig is. It's a clever little twist, slightly marred by Dicks misremembering the detail! I do love the way Troughton mumbles how "sad" it is Jamie and Zoe have gone though, clearly saddened by the fact his old friends weren't real, but also perhaps remembering how sad it is they'll never properly remember him.

The Third Doctor and Sarah

The Third Doctor's introduction is just perfect, charging along country lanes in his trusty roadster Bessie, the wind in his hair and absolutely no care for national speed limits. It's lovely to see Bessie back in business, and the proper Doctor back behind the wheel (it never felt right seeing Tom or Sylvester drive her!). In fact, predictably, it's this third incarnation which is best served by Terrance Dicks, as he is given plenty of things which evoke the Pertwee era. There's a fast(ish) car, a daring cliffside rescue, and even the chance for Pertwee to zipline across a vast mountainside. It's as action-packed as a 64-year-old leading man with a back complaint could be, plus he even gets to say "reverse the polarity"!

We see the Doctor and Bessie time-scooped quite quickly, but we're also lucky enough to witness Sarah Jane Smith get plucked out of time too. After a rewarding moment with dear old K-9 (who erroneously refers to his master as "Doctor"), Sarah - whose fashion sense remains lamentable - gets abducted at the bus stop! It's poorly directed, because Peter Moffatt has Elisabeth Sladen run pointlessly towards a fenced-in dead end before she's scooped. Where on earth did she think she was going?

The Doctor's reunion with Sarah Jane Smith is sadly fudged too. It's easy to laugh at the way Sarah tumbles pathetically down a slight slope, because it is that laughable. Sladen seems uncharacteristically feeble in The Five Doctors (again, probably Dicks writing a 'generic female assistant' role, far more suited to Jo Grant than Sarah), and the bit where the Doctor has to haul her up the slope with a rope is embarrassingly poor. Sladen always manages to inject her natural personality into the blandest of dramas though, and her obvious confusion as to why she's seeing the Third Doctor, and not the one she saw him become, is nicely done. It's interesting that Sarah gives the Third Doctor a bit of foreknowledge, because now he knows he's going to regenerate while Sarah is his companion.

The two then speed through the Death Zone in Bessie before encountering a familiar silhouette, but this is the "wrong" Master. Pairing Pertwee with Anthony Ainley is a nice touch by Dicks, as the Master was such an important part of the Third Doctor's era, and it's nice that the Third Doctor gets to see a future version of his "best" enemy. I wonder how it felt for Pertwee to be playing against a completely different man in the part his good friend Roger Delgado created? Imagine too, if Delgado hadn't been killed in 1973 - would he have made a return to the role here, at the grand old age of 65?

There's a nice bit of continuity that spans the decades which starts here, with the Doctor confiscating the Master's Seal of the High Council. "I'll return it at the first opportunity," vows the Doctor. He doesn't, but the very same Seal turns up again in The Time of the Doctor, and is the key to a very important moment, providing the algorithm to enable Handles to decipher the Time Lords' message from the other universe. The message is a question, the oldest in the universe, hidden in plain sight: Doctor who?

After abandoning both the Master and Bessie, the Third Doctor and Sarah then glimpse an army of Cybermen marching their way through the leafy woodland (lovely image), and then encounter a Raston Warrior Robot in the mountains. This leads to one of the very best and most memorable scenes in The Five Doctors, where the Third Doctor finally gets to share a story with the Cybermen (although he sadly doesn't interact with them). The Raston robot may look like Rudolf Nureyev dressed as a Sensorite, but it's actually a lethal killing machine which has armaments secreted up its sleeve, and can jump about at the speed of lightning. It's an ingenious new creation on Dicks's part, and proceeds to make mincemeat of the Cyber-army. Cybermen are decapitated and amputated left, right and centre, and one even pukes up milky white liquid as it meets its demise. The massacre of the Cybermen is well directed, and particularly well cut by M A C Adams, and the final shot of the Raston robot standing triumphantly over the headless Cyberman, surrounded by corpses, is magnificent.

After ziplining their way to the top of the Dark Tower (a daring feat that would have been a complete failure if the wire was as saggy as it looks), the Doctor and Sarah venture inside, where he encounters his own "illusions of the mind" in the form of a pretend Captain Mike Yates and Dr Elizabeth Shaw. It's not made clear why the Doctor suspects they're not real - he just does - but the bit where he's told there's someone else he'll recognise is a missed opportunity for him to hope it's Jo Grant. He oddly assumes it'll be his second incarnation, for no good reason at all. Still, it's nice to see Mike and Liz again, and Caroline John steals the scene with her magnificent rendition of: "Stoooooooop hiiiiiiiiiiim!" Who is she telling to stop him though...?

The Fourth Doctor and Romana

When Tom Baker declined to appear in The Five Doctors (he regrets it now), producer John Nathan-Turner leapt at the opportunity to use some of the unused footage from the aborted Season 17 story Shada to represent the Fourth Doctor. It was a very clever, and lucky, idea, and enabled the show to be called The Five Doctors with some level of dignity, even if everybody watching at home was expecting rather more.

The scene of the Doctor and Romana punting along the River Cam was the perfect choice, with Baker name-dropping all manner of historic figures who studied at Cambridge: poets William Wordsworth, Andrew Marvell and Christopher Smart, physicists Ernest Rutherford and Isaac Newton, lawman Judge Jeffreys and historian Owen Chadwick (surprisingly, still alive at the time of Shada and The Five Doctors - in fact, still alive by the time Peter Capaldi became the Doctor!). Sadly, the Doctor and Romana are caught in some sort of time eddy, explaining their lack of involvement in the story, and when we see them returned to their timestreams at the end, they're rather curiously hanging out in a back alley, the Doctor flat on his back under a gate. This was wisely altered for the special edition, returning them to the Cam, but the little flourish with the Doctor's scarf getting caught in the TARDIS doors seems somehow more fitting.

Tom Baker saying no to The Five Doctors still smarts all these decades later, because imagine how different - and better - the story would have been with them all in it. Still, it's not as debilitating as Christopher Eccleston saying no to The Day of the Doctor, a story written specially to place his Doctor centre stage.

The Fifth Doctor, Tegan and Turlough

For saying this is the Fifth Doctor's era, Peter Davison seems a little lost amid everything else that's going on around him. The story tries its best to keep the incumbent Doctor central, but most often fails. Pairing him with the First Doctor merely shifts attention away from him and onto the guest, but Davison never seems to be able to assert himself amid these bigger personalities. It's lovely right at the start where we see the Doctor, Tegan and Turlough just relaxing in the Eye of Orion, but as soon as the story proper kicks in, the Fifth Doctor gets a little swamped. As soon as he transmats to the Panopticon, his story strand takes on a distinctly dull flavour, which is a real shame for the sitting Doctor. Time Lord politics have never been very engaging, but it's particularly boring here, as Philip Latham and Dinah Sheridan act their way through scenes like snails through treacle.

Let's face it, Gallifrey is boring. It's all beige walls, trickling water features and pot plants, not the seat of awesome power and knowledge we're always told it is. The only interesting Time Lords are those who don't live on Gallifrey, the ones who run away. The scenes where the Castellan is framed as the traitor baffle me, because why should we care? What relevance do the Black Scrolls found in his quarters have? Why do they burst into flames without warning? Why does having them under his bed make the Castellan guilty? Mind you, it's wise of Borusa to warn the Doctor not to touch the inflammatory scrolls, as the "forbidden knowledge from the Dark Times" would probably blow the lid off the whole Timeless Child thing...

The Fifth Doctor manages to discover who the real traitor is by playing the Tune of Rassilon on the Harp of Rassilon, and finding President Borusa, dressed in floor-length Evil Black, wearing the Coronet of Rassilon in his secret time scoop room. Don't you just love the little dollies Borusa's had made of his game players? I want them all! The Fifth Doctor looks like he's stopping traffic, Turlough looks like he's about to start spinning round like Wonder Woman, and the Master is a dead ringer for Bela Lugosi. I want them!

It's a natural character progression that Borusa should be the baddie after all these years. This is the character's fourth appearance in Doctor Who, and his fourth regeneration, and it's fitting that he should be the traitor all along, hiding in plain sight for the last seven years in a way. Borusa is corrupt, hellbent on remaining in power as President Eternal. He craves the secret of immortality that Rassilon discovered all that time ago, and wants to rule Gallifrey forever: "timeless, perpetual bodily regeneration"! Be careful what you wish for, Borusa. Just ask Mawdryn...

The ending

It's great to get all of the Doctors together at the end, with Troughton and Pertwee reprising their little spats from The Three Doctors. Troughton outshines both Hurndall and Pertwee (who seems a little muted throughout The Five Doctors), delivering one of my favourite lines in all of Who: "I know what it says but what does it mean?!"

Unfortunately, everybody coming together at the end poses Dicks several narrative problems which he struggles to juggle. Having the Brigadier reunited with "his" Doctor (Pertwee) is glossed over too quickly, and although it's a nice touch to have the Brig remember both Miss Jovanka and Miss Smith, at no point do he and Turlough (his old school pupil) even acknowledge one another. Susan's presence is utterly wasted too, now that she's confronted not just with her own grandfather, but three of his future selves. The potential in these situations is boggling, but has to be thrown away because Dicks has written himself into a corner, to the point where he has Borusa put all the companions on "pause" so he can get the story finished.

There are so many questions of logic that go unanswered, such as why the Doctors all think there's only five of them. They're behaving as if they are in a series called Doctor Who which is celebrating its 20th anniversary, at which point there's only five Doctors, but in reality they would know there are 13 of them (unless the Doctor dies during his fifth incarnation). Why does the Second Doctor refer to the Fifth as "the latest model"? From who's perspective, the viewer's? Dicks has not gone down the route of considering that there would be a sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth Doctor too. Just because they're in the programme's future doesn't mean they don't exist in-universe. That's why it's clever that Steven Moffat had all past Doctors appear in The Day of the Doctor in some way, plus the next Doctor too (but where's the thirteenth?).

I admit, it's tricky. You can't set out the future of a series which hasn't been written yet, but there are ways to allude to it, or explain things away. Dicks just doesn't try. The very idea of having "all" the Doctors together poses problems, like why the Brigadier, Sarah and Tegan don't ask where the bloke with the long scarf is? Or why the Third Doctor refers to his dress sense having not improved, when he can't possibly know what his fourth self dressed like to make the judgement? Or why the Second Doctor seems to understand who the Master is? Or why everybody leaves in the TARDIS, when they never arrived in that way?

How does Chancellor Flavia know to transmat to the Dark Tower with a bunch of guards? The Doctor expects her to arrive, but I don't see any way in which she could know what's going on, and react accordingly?

The Five Doctors is full of whys, but I have to try and set them to one side otherwise I'll disappear in a puff of confusion. There's so much to love about it, like the truly eerie "immortal" Time Lords trapped beneath Rassilon's tomb, their reddened eyes darting shiftily from side to side. Or Anthony Ainley's scenes with the Time Lords where he reacts to everything they say and do with a smug, bemused smirk, and delivers every line in an innately iconic way ("I may be seated?", "Why meee?" and "Did it ever occur to you to go and look?"). Or Peter Howell's powerful score, especially whenever the Cybermen are on screen (the horn of Rassilon gives me chills, and the way he constantly plays with the Doctor Who theme provides lashings of nostalgia). Or the stunning choice of Snowdonia as a location for the Death Zone, with its misty slate quarry landscapes and sinewy tree-lines.

There's loads wrong with it too, particularly the mistreatment of almost every single companion, none of which get much to do. Susan's presence is completely wasted, and the one memorable thing she does is trip over a small pebble and sprain her ankle. The Brigadier's role is greatly diminished through inaction, and Sarah doesn't seem her usual feisty self either. Tegan gets a bit more to do by tagging onto the First Doctor, but poor old Turlough - as ever - gets absolutely zilch to do from the very start. He might as well not be in it. At least he's changed his socks.

I could write a thesis on The Five Doctors (in fact, I very nearly have). There's so much I could say, and lots I should but haven't, because you have to draw a line somewhere. I haven't mentioned the pantomime depiction of the "awesome" Rassilon, or the underwhelming use of the Yeti (incidentally, played by my late friend Lee Woods), or the crazy lethal chessboard, or why that Cyberman's lying on the ground behind a wall, or the ridiculous collation of cocktails and sorbets devoured by the companions on the TARDIS's wicker furniture, or the gorgeous melding of the original and 1983 theme tunes at the end, or the stunning new TARDIS console which is a nostalgia trip for me in itself.

But when it comes down to it, The Five Doctors is a triumph of style over substance. The story is a good, solid plot, but there's simply too many elements, too many plates for Terrance Dicks to spin, resulting in a celebratory special which satisfies those looking for nostalgia, but not those looking for things to make logical sense. Maybe that doesn't matter though, because for the only time in the programme's entire history, three of the original actors to play the Doctor appeared in the same story, at the same time, in the same scenes. That's never been managed since (I don't count the War Doctor), despite there being so many more actors to draw upon these days.

I still get a frisson of excitement when that clip of William Hartnell fades up and then the Peter Howell theme crashes in. I revert to a seven-year-old boy all over again, marvelling at the fact Jon Pertwee, Patrick Troughton and Peter Davison were all together, with the First Doctor and Tegan and Turlough and the Brigadier and Sarah Jane and Susan and Zoe and Jamie and Liz and Mike, fighting Daleks and Cybermen and Yeti and the Master! It's just too exciting to criticise too heavily.

We'll never get another story like The Five Doctors, unless the 60th anniversary can pull off something very special indeed. We can live in hope, but whatever happens, we'll never have Troughton and Pertwee back. The originals, you might say...

First broadcast: November 25th, 1983 (in the UK)

Steve's Scoreboard
The Good: Peter Howell's score drips with nostalgia, and his themes for the Cybermen and Rassilon's tower equally chill the blood. Despite the stellar cast, I reckon Howell's score is the true star of this show.
The Bad: The missed opportunities for character.
Overall score for episode: ★★★★★★★★☆☆

NEXT TIME: Warriors of the Deep...

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