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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
Read more…1)I gather the production team caught alot of heat for having guys in police uniforms gunning people down with machine pistols. They're fairly sensitive about that sort of stuff over int he UK, apparently.
2)Lots of goofy headgear. Particularly, the
Read more…1)There's an interesting momment on the commentary track for this where Eric Saward suddenly notices how similar this story is to "Earthshock": An old enemy that hasn't been seen in awhile attacks an isolated group of humans, there's a lengthy "break
Read more…1)The most recent release of this story contains two versions - the story as originally broadcast, and a "special edition" with upgraded effects and some small additional scenes. I don't find too much noteworthy difference between the two, but it's a
Read more…1)Apparently the Doctor can focus the scanner on Nyssa's bedroom!
2)Those are some huge helmets on the space pirates. Must be so they can contain that big 80's hair of theirs.
3)Tegan and Turlough pretty much spend all of this story stuck one place
Read more…1)The commenters on this one were Davison, Strickson, Courtney and Saward, who confirms what I've always heard, that this story was originally written with Ian Chesterton in mind, but was re-written for the Brigadier when William Russell proved unav
Read more…1)Another one with an interesting commentary track - Davison, Sutton, Fielding and Colin Baker, the closest we've had to a commentary with two "Doctors" on it.
2)This story falls victim to the "we're filming in a foreign locale, so by Rassilon, we're
Read more…1)Another interesting commentary track on this, with Davison, Fielding and Sutton, joined by Eric Saward, who manages to restrain himself and only blames JNT for stuff five or six times. (One does wonder how different these commentaries would be if
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