That was great fun, love these rewatches (tho a bit behind).  And thanks everyone for the background infos and comments.  It’s been one of my favourites since I watched it 1st time round, so great to hear everyone’s very positive reactions (esp @Bluesqueakpip ).

And a nice chuckle re @Phaseshift and @ConfusedPolarity‘s suggestion about the r…[Read more]

@wolfweed Many thanks, I was just thinking about doing something myself. It’s great and now proudly graces the Home page.

And yes, Moffat’s minisodes seem to have been completely defined by the first scene with The Doctor in this episode.

I’ll post the interview with Moffat where he discusses this story and the influence it had on him once we…[Read more]

@Wolfweed – oh, this  sounds more and more as if someone’s been peeking at my personal Doctor Who wish list 🙂 Less matey, more mysterious and with something of a clean slate – hopefully that means the whole Time War gubbins is put to bed!

It was an interesting diversion, and certainly cleared the decks for the AG show, but personally I’ll be…[Read more]

@Wolfweed – hmmm… sounds like my memory loss theory is still a goer. 😈

@wolfweed. I didn’t need reminding of the last item in your list of links. We lost a key speaker from an event we are running this weekend to this one. Not that we minded. Presenting on “The Science of Dr Who” was deemed to be a very good excuse. I just hope this one comes down our way some time.

Cheers

Janette

By the way, @wolfweed, I somehow missed congratulating you on the great vid. Really nicely done. A great way of pulling all the Doctors together into one magnificent entity!

I really enjoyed watching this one, after New Earth left me a bit bemused.

The titles from Tennyson – “Nature red, in tooth and claw”, and there are a fair few other literary references dotted here and there. It’s a nice “Base under siege” story with some marvellous performances in the guest cast. I particularly love Pauline as Queen Victoria. Y…[Read more]

@TheKrynoidMan @FatManinabox

Done and done. All other nominations gratefully received.

I think I made an error in my last post, because I think I should have put @bluesqueakpip as a tentative for Day of the Daleks. I don’t think the choice was that clear in the posts, so I’ll leave it until I receive instructions.

Inferno
@TheKrynoidMan

The…[Read more]

Evening all. Woo-who, final part of Mind Robber tonight. Which makes me consider where we are with our next choice, which would be for Pertwee.

After flirting with Inferno (which I suggested may take the latest retrospective into new series with Peter Capaldi territory), my count of votes is something like this:

The Daemons
@Jimthefish @wolfwe…[Read more]

I was determined to catch up before we launch into the last episode. I can’t really do much but echo others here though.

The Karkus is really camp as@wolfweed suggests, but I’m also sure that wolfweed would agree that does reflect a certain campness in US comics in the 60s that was in vogue (the superheroes were “swinging” along with bits of…[Read more]

@Wolfweed – that 50th Anniversary tribute from Chang Dai is a very good one.

Thanks for the link @wolfweed. Glad  I didn’t make the mistake of reading the comments. I was having so much fun watching the fan vid’ which I hadn’t seen before. Let’s hope we can forever keep this wonderful site free of “illiterate, angry bunnies”  though I am not in a position to comment on the spelling bit. 🙂

Cheers

Janette

@wolfweed – Thanks, and yes I do need to find a pocket watch… but possibly will have to replace its actual face with an old 80s digital Casio. Though I did find a wristwatch today which is similar to the Seventh Doctor’s that I can use as well.

And lets not forget the umbrella… I must have the umbrella!

@Whisht  Can Halleluwah, way to subvert the topic!  🙂

@wolfweed   I howled at the angsty Arthur Darvill tune. (Fortunately no tea in hand or mouth at the time!)

I think @TheKrynoidMan has to win the Monty Python award (and now for something completely different) for his moving personal tale about teen challenges, followed by “Anyway here’…[Read more]

@wolfweed

Brilliant Pathe clip of Jon Pertwee at the Radiolympia exhibition. (How do you find all these things?)

One is tempted to wonder whether it had any influence 23 years later when they put him in Bessie in a cloak.

Urgh. I watched the Tim Riley interview and good fun it was but then Paul McGann came on screen and who can resist a little Paul. I love the way his eyes twinkle at the interviewer. When that finished however I noticed that I was on playlist at 2/21 with a Colin Baker interview up next. I think it is time to do the school run….

Thanks for yet…[Read more]

@wolfweed – I’m never sure what I find funnier about the fight – its overall camp silly quality or the Doctor’s hand-wringing interjections – suggesting to Ze Karkus that they talk things over and urging him not to do anything rash…. I do love the Second Doctor!

His casual dismissal of the technobabble weapon caused most of the trouble in the…[Read more]

And I wholeheartedly agree with @Blenkinsopthebrave and @Whisht on the quality of @Wolfweed‘s Crazy Captions. (The only reason I don’t comment on them more is that others are so sharp! But I still love them and the comments – all invariably laugh out loud funny)

I know @blenkinsopthebrave ,you and me both.

soufflés, eggs, stirring-for-8-mins… not sure what other territories are open for this one.

“Mary photobombs the Dalek invasion” is hardly funny.

Just shows how good @wolfweed‘s crazy captions are.

@Whisht

It is hard coming up with a caption when the personality is completely unknown (to me) and the picture does not have any of the laugh-out-loud appeal of @wolfweed ‘s crazy caption images.

But since I discovered she is a food writer, the best I could manage was “Eggs-terminate”

I know…feeble.