William Hartnell

Doctor Who, season 3 continues … Four of the remaining five episodes of The Daleks’ Master Plan are missing from the BBC archive but I’m watching a modern CGI animated version of those episodes thanks to Who Recons. The adventure pretty much continues as before, but a curious thing happens […]

96. Volcano – 100. Destruction of Time

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Doctor Who, season 3 continues … This one is another CGI one recreated thanks to the clever people at Who Recons.  It’s a bit of a surreal episode and all that you’ve heard about it is correct. It’s detached from The Daleks’ Master Plan, but that’s not really an issue […]

95. The Feast of Steven

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Doctor Who, season 3 continues … The Daleks’ Master Plan is the title of an epic 12-part Doctor Who adventure featuring the first Doctor, William Hartnell.  Most of the story is no longer in the BBC archives and so I’ll be watching most episodes thanks to CGI recreations from Who […]

89. The Nightmare Begins – 94. Coronas of the Sun

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Doctor Who, season 3 continues … Finally reaching the end of The Mythmakers, I have to conclude that that it’s not one I could recommend to anyone.  The poor-to-horrible audio makes it difficult to understand, and the CGI animation struggles to convey what’s going on. The story itself didn’t keep […]

87. Death of a Spy, 88. Horse of Destruction

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Doctor Who, season 3 continues … I watched the first two episodes of the CGI’d The Myth Makers, but I have to admit to another case of disappointment.  Again, a story I’d always wanted to watch (because of the title and the setting), but it’s not doing a lot for […]

85. Temple of Secrets, 86. Small Prophet, Quick Return

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Doctor Who, season 3 continues … This final episode of is the CGI animated version created by Who Recons, with fairly poor audio. The episode ends fairly predictably, without us ever knowing enough about either the Drahvins or the Rills to get an handle on what they’re about.  The TARDIS […]

83. The Exploding Planet

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Doctor Who, season 3 continues … This episode exists in its original live-action version, and it is so much better to get an understanding of what the story is all about. As much as the audio is clearer, and seeing the characters, together with the Doctor running about, what the […]

82. Air Lock

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Doctor Who, season 3 continues … Galaxy Four continues thanks to the CGI version created by Who Recons. With the audio getting steadily worse and the CGI animation struggling to fill in the blanks, this is a very difficult episode to get through. Fortunately, it appears that precious little actually […]

81. Trap of Steel

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Doctor Who, season 3 begins … Galaxy Four is one of the many early Doctor Who adventures that no longer exist in the BBC archives.  Other than audio-only, some enterprising fans have made it possible to “watch” the adventure.  The version I’m watching uses a version of CGI created by […]

80. Four Hundred Dawns

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Doctor Who, season 2 continued … The Doctor gets the Monk to lead him to his TARDIS, where they meet up with Vicki & Steven.  Hartnell is clearly revelling in working with an actor of Peter Butterworth’s standard, and is enjoying the scenes they have together. There’s talk about not […]

79. Checkmate

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Doctor Who, season 2 continued … A continuation of the previous episode, with the Doctor reaching the village before Vicki & Steven.  The monk tends to one of the villagers (the monk’s “accidental” anachronisms – like mentioning penicillin, and then blood transfusions – doesn’t really do the character justice). The […]

78. A Battle of Wits

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Doctor Who, season 2 continued … Not the best episode, but they make up for Hartnell’s absence quite well and the cliffhanger at the end is great. The Vikings come to town (“Tell the other 10,000 to stay off-camera!”), which leads to a fairly poorly choreographed/rehearsed fight in the woods. […]

77. The Meddling Monk

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