Editing Shada (Doctor Who) (section)

==Reviews==
[[Paul Cornell]], [[Martin Day (writer)|Martin Day]], and [[Keith Topping]] gave the serial (at the time in the form of the 1992 VHS reconstruction) a mixed review in ''[[The Discontinuity Guide]]'' (1995), saying; {{cquote|'I dunno, nowadays they'll publish anything.' Infamous because it was never completed, it was for a long time stated that ''Shada'' would have been the highlight of the seventeenth season. What was filmed doesn't quite encourage such optimism. It's a very cheap looking story, and there are lashings of bad puns and dull comedy, including three takes on the 'One lump or two?/Sugar?' joke. Against that, the basic plot is interesting – almost justifying its six episodes, which is rare – and the Cambridge scenes, though stilted, are well executed. It's hugely flawed, but it's a shame that this one was clobbered by a strike and ''[[The Creature from the Pit]]'' wasn't.<ref name=Discontinuity />}}

Patrick Mulkern reviewed the 2017 partially reconstructed version for ''[[Radio Times]]'', and thought that despite "pockets of magic to enjoy", it was a "sprawling but far-from-epic serial". He felt that the humour was repetitive and fell flat, and that the action was pedestrian.  Mulkern recommended the novelisation by Gareth Roberts as a superior alternative.<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Mulkern |first1=Patrick |title=Tom Baker returns in Shada but is this lost Doctor Who still a plodder? |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/news/2018-07-25/tom-baker-returns-in-shada-but-is-this-lost-doctor-who-still-a-plodder/ |magazine=[[Radio Times]] |date=24 November 2017}}</ref>