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
Read more…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:
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,
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…The Watcher
1)This is very much a transitional episode - the arrival of Steven Taylor as a member of Team TARDIS, the first indication that the TARDIS is not unique and the last story produced by original producer Verity Lambert.
2)Lots of fun dialogu
Read more…The Executioners
1)The first episode is pretty much set-up, with the business of the Visualizer being used to inform the regulars that the Daleks were after them. Good thing the Doctor nabbed it from the Space Museum, or presumably the Daleks would've
Read more…The Space Museum
1) I watched this one twice, just for fun - once just as itself, and once with the commentary track on. Those commentating were William Russell, Maureen O'Brien, writer Glyn Jones and "moderator" Peter Purves. Dunno what Purves was d
Read more…From the other site...
"He is cut off from Ribosian society because of his belief in a world beyond what Ribos sees - a clear parallel to the Doctor's own exile. And, on a basic level, surely all heretics are friends of the Doctor's."
This makes m
1)An interesting idea, here, in which an attempts is made to depict a truly alien society. The first episode is quite eerie despite featuring only the regulars and a few Zarbi. The music is very distinctive in this. While I enjoy the work of Murra
Read more…The Slave Traders
1)Ever since the first time I saw this, I've always the business of them commandeering the villa. Why would it have been left empty like that? Even if the owner had left to go off to the wars, he would've left a caretaker or somethi
Read more…A slow boil for me. Scary like several earlier ones, but somehow, much harder to understand. I had to see this at least twice, maybe three times, before I had a real grasp on what the HELL was really going on. Watching it again tonight, I noted a lot
Read more…World's End
1)Apparently, they started planning the return of the Daleks almost immediately - just as soon as they realized how big a thing they were. I suppose the Daleks were Doctor Who's "Barnabas Collins" - the concept that saved the show but even
Read more…At the http://tardiseruditorum.blogspot, the writer lays out in detail WHY this story plunged so far in quality from the one before it.
Here's my own comments in response to various ones there...
Nice rundown on the problems.
Carey: "And an 8-year-ol
Read more…In "THE DEADLY ASSASSIN", there's a prolonged sequence (which actually got the producer KICKED OFF the show) where the hero is laying on a table while his mind enters a dream-scape and does battle with someone who's laying on another table, somewhere
Read more…The Temple of Evil
1)Huh. In the "Talons of Weng-Chiang" thread, we were just talking about the issue of having white actors play non-white characters and here we have a story in which all of the Aztecs are played by white actors. I suppose one could
Read more…