Tame Layman vetoed The Faceless Ones when we did the Randomiser for reasons that remain obscure to me. I had vaguely planned to revisit the question once we got to the end but by that point the animation had been announced so it seemed better to wait.

I had mentally class The Faceless Ones as a "weird early Troughton" which placed it in the same ( Read more... )

Or possibly it should be "random visit to my brief fanzine making days". Reviews of Attack of the Cybermen by myself and my sister from The Web Planet.


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I was a little disappointed that Mawdryn Undead was the final randomiser instalment. It's hardly one of the classics of Doctor Who - on the other hand it isn't Time and the Rani either ( Read more... )

I don't think we've ever had two randomiser stories in a row which followed each other consecutively on TV. Here were are at the penultimate randomiser and it finally happens!!

Invasion of the Dinosaurs is a good second story for Sarah and definitely benefitted from being viewed directly after her debut in the The Time Warrior. People have ( Read more... )

I watched The Time Warrior not so long ago when
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I was certain I had seen The Android Invasion before and even thought I had seen it with Tame Layman, but he denied all knowledge and it was distinctly unfamiliar once I was viewing it. Of course, there is a certain similarity between many early fourth Doctor stories and this one, in particular, is working with very similar tropes to its immediate ( Read more... )

The Day of the Daleks is one of the few classic who stories to actually attempt to do something with time travel, beyond using it as a device to get the Tardis crew to the start of the adventure.

( I'm going to allude to spoilers, so be warned. )

My impression, going into The Space Museum was that it was a story with an interesting premise in its first episode which it then failed to really use, reverting to a fairly standard rebels-fighting-an-evil-empire story in the last three episodes. That doesn't really do the story justice. While the plot in the last three episodes is, indeed, ( Read more... )

I had been vaguely scorning the new shiny all-singing all-dancing Blu-Ray box sets of classic Doctor Who seasons as an unnecessary expense until a chance remark on Radio Free Skaro drew to my attention the all import less shelf space required aspect of the whole endeavour. By this point I had missed the opportunity to get Season 12, but I now have ( Read more... )

I had made a "note to self" in the randomiser input list that a Galaxy Four reconstruction including the one extant episode could be found on the DVD for The Aztecs. This was mostly true though it was obvious from the moment we found it in the extras that some judicious trimming had taken place. Episodes 1 & 2 take up approximately 25 minutes, ( Read more... )