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We’ve come to the end of ‘The Key to Time’ season…
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Oh yeah, it’s Bank Holiday Monday in May in the UK today. Fitting it should be on the 1st of May too. 🙂 Continue reading
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It’s time for the fourth story in ‘The Key to Time’ season (Season 16) in the classic ‘Doctor Who’ TV series and another one of my favourites from the season. This is ‘The Androids of Tara’, another four-part adventure by David Fisher, who previously wrote ‘The Stones of Blood’. The story stars Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor, Mary Tamm as Romana, and K-9, voiced by John Leeson. The story also features Peter Jeffrey as Count Grendel. This swashbuckling ‘Doctor Who’ story is inspired by ‘The Prisoner of Zenda’ by Anthony Hope. ‘The Androids of Tara’ can be checked out on DVD and Britbox. Continue reading
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And here we are on the season finale of Season 15 of the classic ‘Doctor Who’ TV series, starring Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor, Louise Jameson as Leela and K-9, voiced by John Leeson. This ‘Doctor Who’ adventure is a six-part story by ‘David Agnew’ (a.k.a. Anthony Read and Graham Williams). It sees the Doctor returning to Gallifrey to become the new Time Lord president. It introduces the Vardans as aliens and it features the return of the potato-headed Sontarans. It also features the departure of regular cast member Louise Jameson as Leela as well as K-9 Mark I. ‘The Invasion of Time’ can be checked out on DVD and Britbox. Continue reading
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The fourth story of Season 15 of classic ‘Doctor Who’, and it’s ‘The Sun Makers’, a four-part adventure by Robert Holmes, starring Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor, Louise Jameson as Leela and K-9, voiced by John Leeson. In this story, our TARDIS heroes visit the planet Pluto in the far future, where the human population is being taxed to death. This story also features Michael Keating, well-known for playing Vila Restal in ‘Blake’s 7’. ‘The Sun Makers’ can be checked out on DVD and Britbox. Continue reading
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In this story of Season 14 in the classic ‘Doctor Who’ TV series, we’re introduced to a new companion – Louise Jameson as Leela. It’s time for ‘The Face of Evil’, a four-part adventure by Chris Boucher. The story has Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor meeting Leela on a jungle planet and they solve the mystery of the Evil One called Xoanon (who looks like Tom Baker) and the threat to the tribes of the Sevateem and the Tesh. ‘The Face of Evil’ can be checked out on DVD, Blu-ray and Britbox. Continue reading
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Here we are on the second story of Season 14 in the classic ‘Doctor Who’ TV series, and it’s here we say goodbye to Elisabeth Sladen as Sarah Jane Smith. It’s time for ‘The Hand of Fear’, a four-part adventure by Bob Baker and Dave Martin. As well as Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor and Lis Sladen as Sarah Jane, the story also introduces us to Eldrad, played by Judith Paris and Stephen Thorne. ‘The Hand of Fear’ can be checked out on DVD, Blu-ray and Britbox. Continue reading
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We come to the second story of Season 8 of classic ‘Doctor Who’. This is ‘The Mind of Evil’, a six-part story starring Jon Pertwee as the Third Doctor, Katy Manning as Jo Grant, Nicholas Courtney as the Brigadier, Richard Franklin as Mike Yates and John Levene as Sergeant Benton. Roger Delgado also makes a comeback as the Master in this ‘Doctor Who’ adventure. ‘The Mind of Evil’ can be checked out on DVD, Blu-ray and Britbox. Continue reading
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It’s time for the second story of Season 7 of the classic ‘Doctor Who’ TV series! 🙂 Today, we’re looking at ‘Doctor Who and the Silurians’, a seven-part adventure, starring Jon Pertwee as the Third Doctor, Caroline John as Liz Shaw and Nicholas Courtney as the Brigadier. In this story, we begin the ‘Beneath the Surface’ saga where the Third Doctor encounters the Silurians in some caves in England. ‘Doctor Who and the Silurians’ can be checked out on DVD as well as on Britbox. Continue reading
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Today, it’s time for us to check out the second ‘Doctor Who’ story in the classic TV series to be written by Robert Holmes, except it’s mostly missing from the BBC Archive, with one episode still intact – ‘Episode Two’. It’s also considered one of the worst ‘Doctor Who’ stories ever made, starring Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor, Frazer Hines as Jamie and Wendy Padbury as Zoe. ‘The Space Pirates’ can be checked out on audio CD or as a download via Audible. ‘Episode Two’ of the story can be seen in the ‘Lost In Time’ DVD collection as well as on Britbox. Continue reading
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Here’s another classic six-part ‘Doctor Who’ TV adventure from the Patrick Troughton era! 🙂 It’s time for ‘The Seeds of Death’, starring Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor, Frazer Hines as Jamie and Wendy Padbury as Zoe. In this adventure, the TARDIS trio confront the Ice Warriors, who attempt to invade the Earth using seed pods via the T-Mat system from Earth’s moon. ‘The Seeds of Death’ is currently available to check out on DVD and on Britbox. Continue reading
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