(After "collecting" all of the existing Doctor Who threads, I thought it might be fun to go back and re-watch some of the old shows whose threads were "lost" and see what I thought of them now. Weeknights, I will watch an episode or two of the new s
Read more…I looked over the entire list of WHO threads... and none of them seemed appropriate for this post. So I decided, however reluctantly, to start yet another one. Ah well. ENJOY!
Strangers in Space:
1)"Yes, it all started out as a mild curiosity in a junkyard - and now it's turned out to be quite a - quite a great spirit of adventure, don't you think?"
2)"He threw a parson's nose at me."
3)"We come from the 28th Century." Int
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1)What is/are "ginger pop"/"ginger beer", anyhow? Is it like ginger ale?
2)The twitchy guy is quite creepy.
3)"Trespassers are prosecuted in England, not killed." It's Scotland where they're shot on sight.
4)Very Invasion of the Body-Snatch
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1)Interesting that Part One is simply titled "Invasion", to keep the "dinosaurs" part secret.
2)Part One also survives only in black-and-white, although there is a "colorized" version available on the DVD.
3)"The Vandals were quite decent ch
Read more…If you’ve read the reactions I’ve posted recently, you know I’ve been enjoying audio only versions of the lost episodes on CD. You also know that it won’t be just too long before the fourth set becomes available. You should know, too, that I couldn’t
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1)"The Doctor's gone. He's dead."
2)Cool! Vulture men!
3)"I don't think he's dead"
4)Poor old Brigadier - constantly being shipped off to Peru! And Liz Shaw is on the Moon?
5)And.. it's Jo Grant!
6)I like Jo's reaction to the news that Sarah
Read more…(The tape I got with the 2011 Doctor Who Christmas special contained a few sample episodes of this show, which I'd never seen.)
Part One:
1)This starts out as quite reminiscent of 60's "fantasy" sitcoms like Bewitched, what with them having comic misa
Read more…1)"I got dressed in a hurry."
2)"Usually called 'the Doctor' or 'the Caretaker' or "Get off this planet', though strictly speaking that probably isn't a name."
3)"This Christmas is going to be the best Christmas ever."
4)"Fairyland looks completely d
Read more…Back in “the old days” (many years ago it seems, but not all that long ago, really) when I first started watching Doctor Who, I confused “The Moonbase” with “The Tenth Planet” as the first Cybermen story. I think that’s because “The Moonbase” has all
Read more…“The Underwater Menace” is 50% missing; only the second and third episodes of a four-parter exists in the BBC archives. (See link in fourth response below for more details.) Episode three is available on the “Lost in Time” DVD set, but I’ve watched i
Read more…A few reactions back I opined that the days of the Doctor Who historicals were largely over, and that recent stories such as “The Gunfighters” and “The Smugglers” were set in the past more for adventurous than historical purposes, then the “The Highl
Read more…Doctor Who and the Tenth Planet was the first Doctor Who paperback I read, not only because the final episode is missing from the BBC archives, but more importantly because it deals with the Doctor’s first regeneration. Unfortunately, the regeneratio
Read more…“The Tenth Planet” is one of the well-known “missing” stories, but it is not so very missing in comparison to some others. Unfortunately, the missing episode is the fourth, which features the first regeneration (or “renewal” as it is called in this s
Read more…Episode 3 of the William Hartnell adventure "Galaxy 4" and Episode 2 of Patrick Troughton's "The Underwater Menace" are back in the hands of the BBC.
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I had a similar thread on the last board, where I signposted Doctor Who audio adventures coming up on Digital radio, but I'm not sure if it was useful to many people.
The first one here is something of an event, though.
Radio4 Extra (the new name for
Read more…When last we left the Doctor he was awaiting the arrival of his soon-to-be erstwhile companion, Dodo Chaplet, outside the TARDIS on a street in London in the year 1966. Unexpectedly, Ben and Polly (two young people who helped the Doctor defeat the su
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Starts with a promo for sci-fi shows on BBC America. What's Galactica doing on here? Is that somehow a British show now?
Only one episode on the disc, "A Christmas Carol", along with "A Christmas Carol Confidential".
Two Comic Relief sketch
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They are currently looking for writers and state that it will not be directly connected to the TV series ... much like the 60s Dalek movies.
Hope and dread in equal measures here...
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