Evil Of The Daleks: some very good Sherlockian deduction by the Doctor at the start, following the flimsiest of clues to find Kennedy.
And of course, this day was a huge temporal nexus in #DoctorWho , with War Machines, Chameleons and Daleks all active at the same time!
Klieg is the first in a long line of egotistical dumbasses who think “Oh, but the Cybermen will respect MY intelligence, and share their power with ME! Of course they will!”
Aaaand he ends up dead. Well done genius! Weren’t clever enough to see that coming, were you? #DoctorWho
The possessed Padmasambhava makes a very sinister and creepy villain, conveyed for the most part through just his raspy disembodied voice.
And it ends with the now familiar trope of ‘Aha! You thought the creatures were all dead? But wait! There’s some signs of life…’ #DoctorWho
The Ice Warriors:
Futuristic base ☑️
Stressed-out Commander (older man) ☑️
More reasonable second-in-command (younger woman) ☑️
Lumbering monsters outside ☑️
Computer with weird modulated voice ☑️
Just needed someone traitorous/possessed to complete the set!
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Victoria spends most of this story in a state of constant panic and hysteria. You’d wonder why she actually wants to travel with the Doctor and Jamie when everything terrifies her.
(And lol at Jamie teasing her about wearing hotpants like the girls in the base 😄) #DoctorWho
“We must use the Ioniser to blow up the Ice Warriors’ ship!”
“We can’t! We might get killed too!”
“We must!”
“We can’t!”
“We must!”
“We can’t!”
“We must!”
“We can’t!”
(…etc, for six episodes)
*eventually uses Ioniser*
“Phew! We didn’t get killed after all! Hooray!”
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It’s a bit mad that those guys immediately believe he’s Salamander, when only seen through binoculars.
I mean, if you thought you saw Vladimir Putin at your local beach, having a paddle while wearing a pair of longjohns, you’d doubt what you were seeing, surely?! 😳 #DoctorWho
The Enemy Of The World really stands out as being a drastically different type of story to all the surrounding monster romps.
Troughton is completely believable in the dual role. You never see him as the Doctor when he’s Salamander and vice-versa.
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Look it’s your own fault for believing his story, you gullible prats. I mean, honestly!
(Also… er, *how* exactly are they causing worldwide natural disasters using a few machines in their underground base? The script glosses over that!)
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The sonic! Or rather, the random bit of plastic Troughton used to represent the sonic…
The TARDIS team again comment that they keep landing on Earth. If this was today there’d be furious internet speculation that it’s a deliberate plot point leading up to something. #DoctorWho
The scene of Oak and Quill breathing gas onto Mrs Harris really is one of the strangest and creepiest horror moments in all of #DoctorWho, mainly due to the editing.
Thank you, over-sensitive Australian censors, that we still have it to look at! 😀
The Wheel In Space: funny how David Whitaker returns and we get a story in which the TARDIS fluid link runs out of mercury and there’s a food machine dispensing square pieces of flavoured food.
The Doctor falling ill and missing an episode is very Hartnell-like too! #DoctorWho
The Dominators: (phew, it was exhausting mentally-projecting a “repeat” of my previous comments about Evil Of The Daleks. Hope you all received them, but anyway…)
Ah, Dulkis. Having “dull” in its name makes it the most accurately named planet since Aridius in season 2. 😐 #DoctorWho
When the fiery young rebel of this planet is actually a balding middle-aged man you know things aren’t great.
Very funny though when lead Dominator Rago angrily bursts into their council chamber to take over and someone suggests “If you could make an appointment…” 😄 #DoctorWho
This should have been a playable game on the BBC #DoctorWho website. 😁
Although I’m not sure Frazer Hines’ face is actually in there…
I’ve always thought this looks like Graham Chapman.
Imagine him playing Jamie for an episode and a half…
Zoe’s comical judo fight with the Karkus always cracks me up.
She claims he’s from a comic strip she read in the year 2000… but in The War Games she says she was “born in the 21st century”… 🤔
Which means she must have been a very advanced baby… #DoctorWho
“Have you heard of the adventures of Captain Jack Harkaway?”
“No, but I know someone of a similar name…”
I could have watched a whole episode of the escalating ‘Top Trumps’ battle between the Doctor and the Master (no, not that one) and various fictional characters.
I wish we’d found out more about the Land of Fiction and the entity behind it. Overdue for a TV return! #DoctorWho
The Invasion: a preview of what’s to come in the following season, with much of the action taking place in factories and offices and contemporary streets.
Plus UNIT and the Brig of course, properly promoted to Brig at last! And Benton’s quietly introduced too. #DoctorWho
The Doctor’s off on one again about computers and answering machines and how terrible they are.
Get with it, Grandad!
“It’s exactly the same as your office in London!”
Okay, clever idea to make your budgetary limitations part of the plot, but perhaps it could be done a little less obviously! #DoctorWho
@gavinwinters It isn't. (RIGGED!) But director David Maloney's is.
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The Hand of Fear