Yearly archives: 2016

Doctor Who, season 4 continues … The Highlanders is another one of those early Doctor Who adventures that is missing from the BBC archives. In order to watch the serial, I’ve discovered the “Loose Cannon” reconstructed version.  This version employs the audio of the story matched against telesnap (still images), […]

139 – 142. The Highlanders

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Doctor Who, season 4 continues … The Power of the Daleks really kicks in with the final four episodes, and we get an adventure of rebels vs the colonists with both sides trying to use the Daleks whilst the Daleks bide their time, ready to take over when the dust […]

135 – 138. The Power of The Daleks, episode 3 ...

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Doctor Who, season 4 continues … The Power of the Daleks is another one of those early Doctor Who adventures that is missing from the BBC archives. In order to watch the serial, I’ve discovered the “Loose Cannon” reconstructed version.  This version employs the audio of the story matched against […]

133 & 134. The Power of The Daleks, episode 1 ...

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Doctor Who, season 4 continues … The third episode of The Tenth Planet is a curious one.  Despite being at full-strength and the best of health for the first two episodes (and the preceding adventure), the third episode begins with the Doctor collapsing.  Hartnell is absent from the rest of the […]

131 & 132. The Tenth Planet, episode 3 & 4

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Doctor Who, season 4 continues … The previous story, The Smugglers, leads well into the first two episodes of The Tenth Planet.  The contrast in stories is stark, but that’s a good thing.  We again have some great set design, particularly with the snowy frozen tundra. William Hartnell is again […]

129 & 130. The Tenth Planet, episode 1 & 2

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Doctor Who, season 4 begins … The Smugglers is another one of those early Doctor Who adventures that is missing from the BBC archives. In order to watch the serial, I’ve discovered the “Loose Cannon” reconstructed version.  This version employs the audio of the story matched against telesnap (still images), […]

125 – 128. The Smugglers

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Doctor Who, season 3 concludes … The War Machines is an adventure that benefits hugely from a much stronger and more central role for the Doctor.  The story is only really let down by the realisation of the War Machines themselves – great hulking things with a floppy wheel at […]

121 – 124. The War Machines

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Doctor Who, season 3 continues … The Savages is a 4-part early Doctor Who adventure that no longer exists in the BBC archives. In order to watch the serial, I’ve discovered the “Loose Cannon” reconstructed version.  This version employs the audio of the story matched against telesnap (still images), descriptive […]

117 – 120. The Savages

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Doctor Who, season 3 continues … I enjoyed the remaining two episodes of The Gunfighters as much as the previous ones.  Without hamming it up, it’s pretty clear that Hartnell is enjoying himself, Jackie Lane is having fun, and Peter Purves mostly continues to look bewildered by the whole thing […]

115. Johnny Ringo, 116. The OK Corral

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Doctor Who, season 3 continues … The Gunfighters is often seen as a comedy/joke story and, whilst its true that the contrast between it and the previous couple of stories is quite staggering, The Gunfighters does come across well compared to the relatively poor stories that we’ve had in season […]

113. A Holiday for the Doctor, 114. Don’t Shoot the ...

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