@ScaryB and others

Re: The Hurt Doctor

Could he be a younger version of the Hartnell Doctor?

@Craig

Does the clock take into account the change to GMT on 27 October?

I reckon that if this had been an AG episode, the surprise entry of the Cyberman would have been splashed over all the BBC channels in a trailer for about two weeks before.

BTW Apologies to @bluesqueakpip for absent-mindedly repeating info about Jamie.

I eventually caught up with watching this episode last night (recorded from Watch channel).

I didn’t notice the graininess after the shot of a model Tardis in a heap of sand, and a lot of the graininess would have been hidden by the poor resolution of the 405 line TV sets of the time.

A major theme of this episode seems to be the act of pushing…[Read more]

@JimTheFish

Re: The Master

But right from the off he’s not really been thinking things through which leads  me to think that the Doc’s description of him as an ‘incompetent bungler’ in episode one is actually quite accurate, rather than just simple jealousy

The Master definitely has a higher opinion of himself than his capabilities seem to justi…[Read more]

As I have Watch Channel and can record it on TiVo (which I will have to do as I will be out walking on that day), I would like to go for “The Tomb of the Cybermen.

It is to be shown in a 2 hr block (at 14.30 on Sunday, 13th of October), but, I assume, that there will be breaks between the episode for the ads.

Should we watch it one episode at a time?

Lovely twist on the “escape from the cliff-hanger” by the simple action of  “calling for help”!

Jo showed that she is not a helpless bimbo. It is a long time since I watched the Jon Pertwee episodes, so I hope that the script writers didn’t turn her into a numpty.

At least The Master wasn’t completely too wrapped up in himself his own plans,…[Read more]

Nicely paced with the comic relief stirred in with the cliff-hangers.

I don’t understand why the master had to supply a new telephone cable when I thought that all plastic-covered cables had a life of their own.

🙂

BTW Although it may be frowned on now, making hot drinks with lab equipment happened in the 1980s.

About a week before I watched this episode, I watched “Spearhead From Space”, the first of the Jon Pertwee episodes and the debut of the Autons. Unfortunately, the picture quality of this DVD is not as good as SFS.

The humour of the series is still going strong and I can see that there are good bits to come, although I thought that the acting…[Read more]

We have our own Dalek (otherwise known as Bridgewater Place) in Leeds.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgewater_Place

It was built with an aerofoil shape in one of the windiest parts of Leeds and it […]

BTW

Sorry for the duplication in the first paragraph in my last post.

and

“monster”  should be  “magma monster”

The black, satyrical humour is more to the fore in this episode, with its pantomimic villains and monster, is more to the fore in this episode and, no doubt, the little kiddies will really enjoy the President […]

@Shazzbot, @FatManInABox

Here is the correct spelling and definition from the New SOED that I have stored on my computer.

synchrotron

n.M20. [f. SYNCHRO- + -TRON.]

Physics.

An accelerator in which […]

I enjoyed watching a slower-paced story after Ghostlight, which I found easier to follow on a second viewing with commentary text switched on.

I agree with most of the things that @PhaseShift has to say, and it […]

@TardisBlue

You have reminded me of a person who recently wrote a letter to the Dalesman Magazine saying that his/her descendants had worked in the Swaledale lead mines in the 19th century.

@Shazzbot,

@FatManInABox

I have heard that the tennis score “love” (= zero) derives from the French “l’oeuf” (= egg).

Have we collected enough yet to make an omelette?

🙂

Dear Doctor

I have just spent over an hour of my life looking at the interior of a “hi-tech” police telephone box on Earl’s Court Road.

Do I need psychiatric help?

stevethewhistle

Re: Ducks

I’d just like to point out, for the benefit of readers who aren’t into cricket, cryptic crosswords or bad puns, that:

duck = zero.

(ducks quickly before a virtual cricket ball comes through the […]

Welcome back @Shazzbot

I just want to point out that the Doctor’s theory of when Amy was abducted and replaced with the ganger wasn’ t necessarily correct. He does make mistakes.