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Doctor Who Reactions: "Doctor Who and the Silurians" (SPOILERS)

1)This was one of the first Doctor Who stories I ever saw, way back in the dim and distant era known as the 1970's - and I still find it quite watchable today, nearly forty years later.  Apparently it stemmed from Malcolm Hulke saying that the new "E

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Doctor Who Reactions: "The Happiness Patrol" (SPOILERS)

This is one that I had on VHS, so I have seen it lately. Still it was nice to be able to watch it on disk finally.  I've always liked the idea of this story - I've always especially loathed any attempt to enforce happiness. True happiness only comes

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Doctor Who Reactions: "Dragonfire" (SPOILERS)

Another long-awaited transitional story, with the departure of Mel and the arrival of Ace. McCoy and Aldred were to become one of my favorite Doctor/companion combos, so it's interesting to see the beginning of it again. It' s been said that in the o

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Doctor Who Reactions: "Nightmare of Eden" (SPOILERS)

Taking a break from the Pertwee era, as the latest DVD releases arrived yesterday, and I had the day off, so I had me a little Doctor Who mini-marathon.  We start with a Fourth Doctor story, one that was fairly troubled behind the scenes, as the dire

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Doctor Who Reactions: "Spearhead from Space" (SPOILERS)

1)We open a new era for Doctor Who with a new title sequence and this new-fangled thing called color filming.  Those of you who are old enough may well remember back in the day how much noise was made about TV shows being shown "in living color", whe

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Doctor Who Reactions: "The War Games" (SPOILERS)

1)And so, we come to the end of the Troughton era, with a ten part story that was never supposed to be a ten-parter, but only became so after the plannned four- and six-parters fell through. Written in tandem by Terrance Dicks and Malcolm Hulke, it g

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Doctor Who: 'State of Decay'

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Doctor Who Reactions: "The Seeds of Death" (SPOILERS)

1)Here we have the second appearance of the Ice Warriors as they try to again conquer the Earth. It's an OK story with some major plot holes. The main one is that I find it extremely difficult to believe that the human race would give up all other fo

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Doctor Who: 'Full Circle'

I thought I'd re-post my comments from the TARDIS Eruditorium about "FULL CIRCLE" here, because, well... just because.


After watching this story again last night, reading all the reviews at Page Fillers, and all the comments here, I couldn't seem

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Doctor Who Reactions: "The Invasion" (SPOILERS)

1)Episodes One and Four of this story were "lost". However, back in the 60's some fanboys taped the soundtrack off of the TV and kept the tape. Lo, these many years later, for the DVD release, the BBC hired an animation house to animate the lost epis

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Doctor Who: 'The Leisure Hive'

Just watched this again last night. I've seen every story from this period so many times I've lost count, so I think it's safe to say I've given it every chance. It was very impressive at first... but I always felt like I was missing something regard

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Doctor Who Reactions: "The Mind Robber" (SPOILERS)

1)This story was originally meant to be a four-parter, but when the preceding story, "The Dominators" was cut down to five episodes, an extra episode had to be added to this story. Thus, while episodes 2-5 were written by Peter Ling, Episode 1 was ac

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Doctor Who Reactions: "The Tomb of the Cybermen" (SPOILERS)

1)Troughton does an excellent job in this - genial,  sly and quietly sarcastic. One could do a "fun quotes" section just on him dumping on Klieg:

• "Keeping my eyes open and my mouth shut."
• "I love to see the experts at work, don't you?"
• "I think perhaps

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Doctor Who Reactions: "The Space Pirates" (SPOILERS)

1)This is the last of the "orphaned" episodes from the  "Lost in Time" collections.  Only Episode Two remains of this early effort from Robert Holmes.

 

2)Probably the only thing of interest here is the character of eccentric space miner Milo Clancey,

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Doctor Who Reactions: "The Wheel in Space" (SPOILERS)

1)For this story, only episodes three and six are currently available. It brings us the return of the Cybermen - wow, they were used alot during the Troughton era - and the introduction of new companion Zoe Herriot, one of my favorite characters.

 

2)I

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Doctor Who Reactions: "The Web of Fear" (SPOILERS)

1)Another story where only one episode is available - in this case, the first episode.  It's quite eerie and atmospheric, what there is of it. Supposedly, the Yeti were altered to make them less cuddly than they were in "The Abominable Snowmen", but

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Doctor Who Reactions: "The Enemy of the World" (SPOILERS)

This is another one of the largely lost stories.  Episode Three  still exists, and was included in the "Lost in Time" collection.  The story is set in the not-too-distant future, and the Second Doctor, Jamie and Victoria get caught up in the politica

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Doctor Who: 'The Armageddon Factor'

I remember having the thought, that in both "TALONS" and "ARMAGEDDON" it felt like it should have been The Master, but wasn't. And frankly, when The Master did turn up in "TRAKEN", I found it very disappointing. The best part, at the time, seemed the

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Doctor Who Reactions: "The Crusade" (SPOILERS)

Last night I broke out my copy of the first "Lost in Time" disk, which contains surviving episodes and other bits and pieces of various lost stories.  Among the things on the disk are the first and third episodes of this story, as well as copies of t

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Doctor Who Reactions: "The War Machines" (SPOILERS)

1)This is the last of the "intact" First Doctor stories, and watching it, you can feel the winds of change blowing for the show.  The "Swinging 60's" make their presence felt for the first time in the show - it's a bit of a contrast with the show's h

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