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
Read more…1)Another fun commentary track, this time with just the regulars with no one to reign them in. Again, often more fun than the story itself. Boy, Davison sure has it in for Terence Dudley, taking time to point out again that he doesn't like Dudley's
Read more…1)It's funny that I never thought about this before, but it's true that Tegan seems to be much more concerned about getting back to do her job than about her murdered aunt. I suppose you could rationalize it as a sort of deep denial - her obsessing o
Read more…1)I remember not having the least clue what was supposed to be going on in this when I first saw it. I think I pretty much get it now, but I still think it could use a good bit of editing to clear it up.
2)Of course, the fun characters in this are Ro
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1)Another Dalek story by Terry Nation, one of the ones I haven't seen in a long time. For some reason, when I first saw the show on channel 2 back in the 70's, I didn't see Sladen's first season, do for a long time I thought "Genesis" was he
Read more…Back to the Troughton era for a moment, as this story was just released on DVD. This is noteworthy as the first story written for the program by the great Robert Holmes, and it also marks the first appearance by the late, great Philip Madoc in the T
Read more…This year's installment of the widely praised San Francisco Silent Film Festival (www.silentfilm.org/), held in a genuine still-standing and in operation silent-era movie theayter with a Mightu Wurlitzer organ and sufficient pit space for a full-er m
Read more…This is the famous "unfinished story" by Douglas Adams, that was never completed owing to industrial action. Scenes from this were used in "The Five Doctors" to create a presence for Tom Baker's Doctor when he refused to appear in it.
I own two vers
Read more…1)Gotta love Romana's hunting outfit.
2)Graham Crowden is indescribable (in both negative and positive ways) as Soldeed. He makes Bruce Purchase's pirate captain look subtle and nuanced. I did like his trick of repeating the last two words people s
Read more…1)This story is credited to "David Agnew". This time out, "David Agnew" stands for "David Fisher, almost completely re-written by Douglas Adams and Graham Williams". One can certainly sense Adams' input to this, particularly in the dialogue. Suppos
Read more…Re-watched this last night, a few random thoughts:
1)"Romana, the dog's got laryngitis." Setting up the fact that David Brierley would be taking over for John Leeson. No offense to Brierley, but Leeson was too identified with the part for anyone else
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