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Season 8 of ‘Doctor Who’ with Jon Pertwee on Blu-ray #4

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It’s time for the fourth story of Season 8 of ‘Doctor Who’ on Blu-ray with Jon Pertwee and it’s called ‘Colony In Space’. This six-part adventure by Malcolm Hulke has the Third Doctor going off Earth with Jo in the TARDIS to the planet Uxarieus where they meet colonists, face IMC miners and confront the Master once more. Continue reading

Season 8 of ‘Doctor Who’ with Jon Pertwee on Blu-ray #3

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We’re back with another story in the Season 8 Blu-ray box set of ‘Doctor Who’ with Jon Pertwee! It’s time for ‘The Claws of Axos’, the third story in Season 8 and the first story by writers Bob Baker and Dave Martin for the TV series. The Third Doctor, Jo, the Brigadier, Mike Yates and Sgt. Benton tackle the menaces of the Axons and the Master in this one. Continue reading

Season 8 of ‘Doctor Who’ with Jon Pertwee on Blu-ray #2

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It’s the 1st of June today! We begin this month by continuing to look into Season 8 of ‘Doctor Who’ on Blu-ray with Jon Pertwee! Today, we’re taking a look at the second story of Season 8 called ‘The Mind of Evil’, featuring Jon Pertwee’s Doctor with Katy Manning as Jo Grant, Nicholas Courtney as the Brigadier, Richard Franklin as Mike Yates, and John Levene as Sgt. Benton where they confront Roger Delgado as the Master. Continue reading

Season 8 of ‘Doctor Who’ with Jon Pertwee on Blu-ray #1

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It’s Spring Bank Holiday Monday in May in the UK today! 🙂

I’ve recently updated my reviews on the five stories featured in the Season 8 Blu-ray box set of ‘Doctor Who’ with Jon Pertwee. I’m currently looking forward to Season 24 of ‘Doctor Who’ on Blu-ray with Sylvester McCoy when it comes out soon. For now, let’s talk about the five stories of Season 8 each in turn for each day of this week. Season 8 of ‘Doctor Who’ stars Jon Pertwee as the Third Doctor and Katy Manning as Jo Grant with Nicholas Courtney as the Brigadier, Roger Delgado as the Master, Richard Franklin as Captain Mike Yates and John Levene as Sergeant Benton. Continue reading

CD Reviews – ‘Masterful’

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‘Time Lord Victorious – Road to the Dark Times’ (Doctor Who) on Blu-ray

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Over Christmas 2020 and early 2021, I’ve been checking out the ‘Time Lord Victorious – Road to the Dark Times’ collection of ‘Doctor Who’ stories on Blu-ray. This is in preparation for me to check out the ‘Time Lord Victorious’ event that’s happening from 2020-21 with books, audios and comic tales. Continue reading

Quick DVD Review – ‘The Doctors: The Jon Pertwee Years’

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In May 2020, I received four ‘Myth Makers’ DVD compilations for my birthday, including ‘The William Hartnell Years’, ‘The Pat Troughton Years’, ‘The Tom Baker Years’ and ‘The Sylvester McCoy Years’! Over Christmas 2020, I had four more ‘Myth Makers’ DVD compilations – ‘The Jon Pertwee Years’, ‘The Peter Davison Years’, ‘The Colin Baker Years’ and ‘The Paul McGann Years’!!! 😀 Continue reading

Webcast Review – ‘Farewell, Sarah Jane’ (The Sarah Jane Adventures)

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It’s New Year’s Day today for 2021. Let’s hope this New Year will be better than the previous year. 😐 For our final instalment of ‘The Nyssa Challenge’ 2020-21 mini-review season, let’s take a look at the ‘final’ ‘Sarah Jane Adventure’ featured as part of the ‘Doctor Who Lockdown!’ season in April 2020 called ‘Farewell, Sarah Jane’. Continue reading

CD Reviews – ‘The Third Doctor Adventures’ (Doctor Who)

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I’ve done my reviews on the first volume of ‘The Third Doctor Adventures’ by Big Finish in ‘Doctor Who’! Today, I’ve added my reviews on the two stories featured in the CD box set. I’ve enjoyed these stories as they do echo the essence of what the Jon Pertwee era of ‘Doctor Who’ was about. 🙂 Continue reading

Season 26 of ‘Doctor Who’ with Sylvester McCoy on Blu-ray #4

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And now we’ve come to the fourth and final story of Season 26 of ‘Doctor Who’ on Blu-ray! This is one of my favourite stories with Sylvester McCoy’s Doctor and Sophie Aldred’s Ace. It’s time for ‘Survival’, the first ‘Doctor Who’ story by Rona Munro before she wrote ‘The Eaters of Light’ with Peter Capaldi. It was also sadly the last TV story to be featured in the classic series of ‘Doctor Who’. Continue reading