Thanks to my good friend Jeff (Not that Jeff, a different one!), I got to hear a Doctor Who audio adventure that I'd never even known about before. It's a fun story - Ian Chesterton, Steven Taylor, Sara Kingdom, Polly and Nyssa find themselves on a
Read more…When I watch Doctor Who on television (particularly the longer serials), I prefer to watch one episode each night, but listening to audio recordings of the missing episodes, I have adopted a “more is better” approach. It’s easier to keep track of the
Read more…Episode One:
1)"By David Whitaker" (as largely re-written by Terrance Dicks and Mac Hulke)
2)Of course, the really fantastic part of this is the idea that Britain could afford a space program!
3)Michael "Davros" Wisher plays the TV reporter.
4)The Doc
Read more…1)And the damned statues again. This is an inherent problem with having the show-runner be the main writer. Writers fall in love with their favorites, and tend to overuse them unless there's someone to restrain them, i.e., the show-runner. But when t
Read more…1)"Invasion of the very small cubes - that's new."
2)"Ten years" - Ten years since when? Ten years since fish fingers and custard? Or ten years since Amy started traveling with the Doctor? At the end of the Narnia one, Amy said it had been two yea
Read more…1)This time the logo's alll metallic. Is this going to be a trend?
2)"Is you an alien?" interesting reversal, where he lands in the Old West, and they're totally unphased by him being an alien.
3)"He shoots people's hats?"
4)I thought the gunslinger
Read more…1)I like Brian Williams, he's a fun character. Nice of NBC to give him the time off to do it.
2)"Nice to meet you." Wouldn't he have met him at the wedding, or did Brian have the same flu Wilfred Mott had?
3)This time the logo is all scaly, very am
Read more…1)Skaro? Didn't the Seventh Doctor blow it up 25 years ago? I guess it got better.
2)I'm not buying the Amy/Rory divorce scenario. Not that our heroes couldn't have marital troubles, more that the scenario as presented seems too "manufactured", too
Read more…1)The idea to do a "miniature" story had been there from the very beginning, but apparently Louis Marks had read Silent Spring, which is where the whole pesticide angle came from. And thus we get Forester, Doctor Who's first "evil industrialist".
2)T
Read more…You ARE all set for Saturday's premier, right?
Read more…1)Interesting Parallel #1: The old series ended on a London council estate, and the new series began on one.
2)Interesting Parallel #2: The old series began with the Doctor taking people away from home who didn't want to leave home and who went home
Read more…1)And so, Ben Aaronovitch moves from having the Doctor fight 20th Century technofascists to fighting 19th Century Romantics...hmm, what other movements can he fight?
2)I must say this story is a much better comeback for Lethbridge-Stewart than "Maudl
Read more…1)Another one of my favorites. I remember a fanboy at the time greeting this with "So JNT can produce decent Doctor Who when he wants to!" It is a bit continuity-heavy, though. I wonder if someone seieng it for the first time would get as much out
Read more…1)And so we come to the only Doctor Who story that was (sort-of) named for an 80's post-punk band.
2)Lots of interesting guest cast in this - Don Henderson is quite effectively menacing as Gavrok, particularly since he seems to have destoyed the enit
Read more…Parts One - Four: "The Mysterious Planet"
1)I liked the new version of the theme tune for this. Alas, it's the one version of the tune that I've never been able to find on CD.
2)Supposedly, the opening model shot of the space station was the most expe
Read more…1)The Kontron Tunnel effect is somewhat less than convincing.
2)The Borad is an OK baddie. One does get the feeling that he's way out of his depth against the Doctor, though. Porbably distracted from lusting after Peri.
3)Paul Darrow says on the comm
Read more…1)"Hoist up your skirts, Peri, off we go!"
2)Why is the Master dressed as a scarecrow? I'm starting to think he just likes dressing up.
3)"Peri, how would like to meet a genius?" "I thought I already had."
4)I gather Ainley wasn't wild about having t
Read more…1)The "big" casting in this is Jason "Son of Sean" Connery as Jondar. Haven't seen him in anything else, hopefully he improved after this. To be fair, he's not given much to do in this.
2)It's interesting how many elements of so-called "reality TV'
Read more…1)This story is credited to "Paula Moore", which is basically a pseudonym for "Eric Saward".
2)I gather the business with the chameleon circuit was JNT's means of messing with the fanboys, playing around with the idea that the show might abandon the
Read more…1)You know, people complain about Tegan, but I find Peri more irritating,
2)We finally get an explanation for the celery. Kind of a lame explanation, but an explanation, nonetheless. "I'm allergic to certain gases in the Praxis Spectrum" and "It's a
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