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Doctor Who: 'The Greatest Show in the Galaxy'

Well, that's 2 of my all-time favorite WHO stories in 2 days-- and a 3rd one set for tonight. What a turn-around!

DRAGONFIRE has these moments of absolute brilliance, but they're side-by-side with the most mind-wrenchingly stupid things which

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Doctor Who Reactions: "Pyramids of Mars" (SPOILERS)

1)Now we come to one of my all-time favorite Doctor Who stories. This is probably the single story of the old series that I've watched the most often. (The new series stories, being shorter, are easier to re-watch). It's credited to Stephen Harris

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Doctor Who Reactions: "Planet of Evil" (SPOILERS)

1)Here we have the show's take on Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde by way of Forbidden Planet. Elisabeth Sladen has said that this is her favorite story, that by this point she was so relaxed in the character that she hardly felt in character. It does

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Doctor Who Reactions: "Genesis of the Daleks" (SPOILERS)

1)Like "Revenge of the Cybermen", this was one of the stories that Philip Hinchcliffe felt stuck with by his predecessor, Barry Letts. In the end, he ended up making the story quite a bit more graphic and intense than Letts would've done. Nation did

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Doctor Who Reactions: "The Sontaran Experiment" (SPOILERS)

1)Another Doctor Who story where the reveal of Episode One is wrecked by the story title.

2)Sarah spent most of this wearing a dire yellow rain outift - although she somehow managed to change her pants at the end of Part Two!

3)The robot is pretty di

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Doctor Who Reactions: "Robot" (SPOILERS)

1)And so, the enter the era of the Fourth Doctor, accompanied by Terrance Dicks' take on King Kong. It was interesting seeing again how quickly Baker settled into the role. I liked the little touches of him using the scarf as a prop, or the bit wher

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Doctor Who Reactions: "The Monster of Peladon" (SPOILERS)

1)Next up we have a sequel to "The Curse of Peladon", one of those rare occasions where we see the Doctor deliberately re-visiting a planet. Maybe they still had the sets and wanted to amortize them?

2)As it turns out, Hepesh was pretty much right a

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Doctor Who Reactions: "The Time Warrior" (SPOILERS)

1)Alot of firsts in this - first appearance of the Sontarans, first appearance of Sarah Jane Smith, first appearance of the "time tunnel" opening credits that would be associated with the early Fourth Doctor years, and the first time that the stories

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Doctor Who Reactions: "The Green Death" (SPOILERS)

1)Per Barry Letts and Terrance Dicks, this is the one story of their era which was deliberately designed to convey a "message" in this case concerning pollution. It also features the final Doctor Who appearance (to date, anyhow) of Katy Manning as Jo

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Doctor Who Reactions: "Planet of the Daleks" (SPOILERS)

1)Terry Nation returns to write what is essentially a re-hash of the first Dalek story. Terrance Dicks has said that Nation was the only writer to ever get rich off of Doctor Who, and he managed to do it by selling Barry Letts the same story over and

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Doctor Who Reactions: "Frontier in Space" (SPOILERS)

1)And so we come to what unintentionally became Roger Delgado's last appearance as the Master. The DVD extras for this story have interviews with Barry Letts and Terrance Dicks which describe how the character was supposed to exit. After they intro

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Doctor Who Reactions: "The Three Doctors" (SPOILERS)

1)Looking for a way to celebrate the show's tenth anniversary, Barry Letts and Terrance Dicks decided to act on the fan suggestion of having the three Doctors meet, an idea which was unfortunately hampered by the fact that William Hartnell was suffei

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Doctor Who: 'Revelation of the Daleks'

From the blog...

Gaius:
"It's as if the plundering of the series' own past is finally catching up with the present until there's nothing left to eat anymore."

Oh, that's good. "SOYLENT GREEN IS MADE OUT OF PEOPLE!!!!"

I loved Orcini in this. Ha

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Doctor Who: 'Enlightenment'

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I was gonna skip all of Season 20, but a friend kept reccomending this as one of the "best" Davison stories, so I figured I'd make an exception.

It does have a clever concept, the designs are nice, several of the characters ar

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Doctor Who Reactions: "The Time Monster" (SPOILERS)

1)The surprise return of the Master (Sarcasm!) as he once again tries to control an alien menace that he has no real chance of dealing with. It occurs to me that you can't really call him a "Master of Disguise" since he doesn't really try to disguise

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Doctor Who: K-9 And Company

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Let's see... they named it after the dog instead of after the most popular girl they ever had on the show, so the name of the show is stupid. The opening credits are awful, the theme song (if you can even call it that) is even wo

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Doctor Who Reactions: "The Sea Devils" (SPOILERS)

1)Always liked the Sea Devils - I think they're a better design than the Silurians. Also, I like their whispery voices - it makes them sound more sinister - although when they're injured they have a tendency to sound like distressed parrots. A shame

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Doctor Who Reactions: "The Curse of Peladon" (SPOIERS)

1)This is another of my favorite early ones. Letts and Dicks deny that this was consciously about Britain's entry into the EEC, but Dicks allows as how it may have been "in the writer's mind" at the time.

On the commentary track, Katy Manning allows

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Doctor Who: 'The Visitation'

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Philip Sandifer:
"Doctor Who is spending more time figuring out how to get more captures and escapes into its format than it is on character-based storytelling. This while simultaneously trying to act more like a soap and have ch

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Doctor Who: 'The Two Doctors'

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Philip Sandifer:
"He fixed it by creating the Androgums - essentially the same concept only now they’re food-obsessed instead of war-obsessed - and having them be humanoid enough that nobody was ever going try to reuse them as ge

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Doctor Who: 'The Greatest Show in the Galaxy'

Doctor Who Reactions: "Pyramids of Mars" (SPOILERS)

Doctor Who Reactions: "Planet of Evil" (SPOILERS)

Doctor Who Reactions: "Genesis of the Daleks" (SPOILERS)

Doctor Who Reactions: "The Sontaran Experiment" (SPOILERS)

Doctor Who Reactions: "Robot" (SPOILERS)

Doctor Who Reactions: "The Monster of Peladon" (SPOILERS)

Doctor Who Reactions: "The Time Warrior" (SPOILERS)

Doctor Who Reactions: "The Green Death" (SPOILERS)

Doctor Who Reactions: "Planet of the Daleks" (SPOILERS)

Doctor Who Reactions: "Frontier in Space" (SPOILERS)

Doctor Who Reactions: "The Three Doctors" (SPOILERS)

Doctor Who: 'Revelation of the Daleks'

Doctor Who: 'Enlightenment'

Doctor Who Reactions: "The Time Monster" (SPOILERS)

Doctor Who: K-9 And Company

Doctor Who Reactions: "The Sea Devils" (SPOILERS)

Doctor Who Reactions: "The Curse of Peladon" (SPOIERS)

Doctor Who: 'The Visitation'

Doctor Who: 'The Two Doctors'

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