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Doctor Who: The Green Death
Outside of "The Daemons," "The Green Death" is one of the most iconic and best remembered stories from Jon Pertwee's era as the Doctor.
It's got just about all the elements of a typical third Doctor adventure--set on Earth, the UNIT cast and a story that deals with a threat of humanity's own creation rather than just an alien invasion. One of ( Read more... ) -
Planet of the Daleks
Somewhere on this planet, there are ten thousand, Daleks
The problem with making a statement like that (as a cliffhanger no less) is that eventually, you've got to make good on the promise and give the audience 10,000 Daleks on-screen. Or at least a room full of enough Daleks to feel like 10,000 could be lurking out there somewhere.
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Doctor Who: Frontier in Space
One of the big criticisms of the Pertwee era is that a lot of the stories are just too long. There are a lot of six and seven part stories during the third Doctor's era and while some of them take advantage of the longer running time when it comes to the storytelling ("Mind of Evil") or find creative ways to hide the padding ("Inferno"), ( Read more... ) -
Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters
It's always interesting to note how for a number of years, the BBC didn't really show many repeats of older Doctor Who stories. It's also interesting that when the time came to show a story to represent its era for the 20th anniversary of the show, the BBC and John Nathan-Turner decided that "Carnival of Monsters" would be the representative ( Read more... ) -
Doctor Who: The Three Doctors
Like it or not, "The Three Doctors" is the template for all other multi-Doctor stories during the classic series run. The basic plot is we've got some colossal threat to the universe that requires the First Law of Time to be set aside and the Doctor to encounter his various other selves in an attempt to join forces and thwart the foe ( Read more... ) -
Dr Who The Androids of Tara
And here the Key to Time story starts to go off the rails just a bit ( Read more... ) -
Dr Who: The Ribos Operation
The quest to find the Key to Time kicks off with a bang, offering up one of the more under-rated classics of Tom Baker's run as the Doctor and the entire classic series run, "The Ribos Operation."
"Ribos" is a template for what the rest of the Key stories should have been, but many were found lacking, in that the quest for the first segment actually ( Read more... ) -
Doctor Who: The Stones of Blood
In a lot of ways the Stones of Blood is a crossroads.
It's a crossroads for the Key to Time season because it's the third story in the saga -- one that must continue to find new ways to spin the same story, namely that the main source of drama is the Doctor and Romana's quest to find the hidden segment of the Key to Time. It's also a crossroads for ( Read more... ) -
Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet
There are some Doctor Who stories that have been elevated to legend status. It's usually those stories that the fans have less access to than others, whether it be due to the fact the story is missing from the BBC Archives or that the story has not yet been written down in a novelized form.
The Pirate Planet is one of those stories.
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Doctor Who Meme
1. When did you start watching?
It's been over 20 years since I started watching Doctor Who. In fact, it may be pretty close to the anniversary of my discovery of the show on a local (at the time) PBS station, KTEH in San Jose, California
1a. Why?
My dad asked if I'd seen this show called Doctor Who before and changed over to it.
2. What was your ( Read more... )