Hive of Horrors, explains why the Doctor chose Mike Yates, of all previous companions, to join him on this adventure as they join forces with the sinister Mrs Wibbsey to deal with the hornets. There was lots of potentially good stuff here and maybe it will have worked for some people, but I was not one of them. Somehow Baker's performance and Paul Magrs' script ended up as less than the sum of their parts; Richard Franklin doesn't bring much to it as Yates (but I am not his biggest fan anyway). I think Baker needs a full cast to perform with and two; The Hornets' Nest too often reminded me of Doctor Who and the Pescatons, which similarly had him doing both Doctor and narrator and other voices when necessary, and was the weaker for it. ( )