Monthly archives: May 2016

Doctor Who, season 2 continued … After Ian rescues the Doctor, what follows is an episode of everyone sitting around waiting for the plot to unfurl around them.  A rather muted end to a rather muted story. The Doctor comes up with some gadget doohicky reason for the “time track” […]

69. The Final Phase

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Doctor Who, season 2 continued … The adventure continues but the plot doesn’t progress (which, given how little plot there is, is quite a disappointment).  Hartnell is absent, even from the cliffhanger in which Ian supposedly finds him. Hartnell’s absence is both a blessing and a curse.  We miss his […]

68. The Search

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Doctor Who, season 2 continued … The adventure starts now as the regular runabout, with the authorities and the rebels each wanting to get their hands on the intruders.  With the exception of the Doctor’s interrogation, there’s precious little of merit here. Some of the characters (largely the white suited […]

67. The Dimensions of Time

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Doctor Who, season 2 continued … This opening episode is intriguing but, having seen it before, it doesn’t really have much rewatch value.  The strange things that happen aren’t given any even vaguely logical explanation – just slipping a groove in time, and the Doctor not being sure about the […]

66. The Space Museum

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Doctor Who, season 2 continued … Due to the “missing” nature of some early Doctor Who adventures, I only have the audio version of The Warlords.Once again the “older” Ian Chesterton’s scene (from the original BBC VHS release, included in the DVD set) details as much as is necessary of […]

65. The Warlords

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Doctor Who, season 2 continued … The third episode of The Crusades returns to visual as well as audio, giving us a much clearer understanding of what the cliffhanger was all about. Barbara is kept hidden by a hated enemy of El Akir, who himself is shortly captured.  In trying to […]

64. The Wheel of Fortune

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Doctor Who, season 2 continued … Due to the “missing” nature of some early Doctor Who adventures, The Knight of Jaffa is reviewed here as the audio version. It’s difficult to get a true understanding of the episode without the visuals and, indeed, the last few minutes prior to and […]

63. The Knight of Jaffa

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Doctor Who, season 2 continued … What a exceptional first episode of The Crusade! Preceded by a lovely introduction by Ian Chesterton (looking like an older William Russell), reminiscing about his time with the Doctor, the episode begins in a forest in Jaffa with King Richard and his hawk leading […]

62. The Lion

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