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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Demetrios1453" data-source="post: 9446314" data-attributes="member: 6801060">Given the time frame the previous poster was talking about (around 60 years ago), the 1965 Doctor Who serial Galaxy Four quite definitely takes the "monsters aren't evil" trope and runs with it. The Doctor and his companions land on a planet about to blow itself up, where two spacecraft have crash landed (after a fight above the planet). One is crewed by beautiful women, the other by horrible boar-like creatures that breathe poison gas (that, in order afford them on the show's shoestring budget, are never seen in full and obscured by the gas). In the end, though, beauty is only skin deep, and the women turn out to be members of a harsh, militaristic society (who picked the fight that caused the ships to crash) and the boar creatures are revealed to be gentle and peaceful creatures. The Doctor obviously decides to help the latter escape once all is revealed, leaving the former to their fiery fate.(Sadly, only one full episode and substantial clip of another are all that exist of the four-episode serial).</blockquote>