William Hartnell

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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Doctor Who, season 3 continues … Of the final two episodes of The Celestial Toymaker, only the final episode exists in the BBC archive.  For the other, I’m relying on the CGI recreation by Who Recons. The the live-action episode does help to lift the adventure up a peg or […]

111. The Dancing Floor, 112. The Final Test

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Doctor Who, season 3 continues … The Celestial Toymaker, is another Doctor Who story that I’ve wanted to watch for years but, with three episodes missing from the BBC archive, it’s taken until I discovered the CGI recreations by Who Recons before I’ve made the effort to watch. Based on […]

109. The Celestial Toyroom, 110. The Hall of Dolls

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Doctor Who, season 3 continues … The Ark, which is fully available as a live-action story, is fairly familiar to Doctor Who viewers by now, I’d imagine. The most intriguing thing is that now, having had Dodo’s proper introduction, we move straight to her first story – with her brash […]

105. The Steel Sky – 108. The Bomb

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Doctor Who, season 3 continues … The Massacre is another early Doctor Who adventure that doesn’t exist in the BBC archives anymore, and so I’m “watching the audio” thanks to the CGI created by the clever people at Who Recons. The CGI of this story benefits from having more sets […]

101. War of God – 103. Priest of Death

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