I pity the poor Ice Warrior actors in their bulky costumes, since the set designer decided to include steps and ramps and narrow doorways.

There’s also that mad hall-of-mirrors Troughton runs through at one point. I guess the moonbase crew needed something for fun. #DoctorWho

And we’re nearly halfway through before the Doctor, Jamie & Zoe get off that bloody space station thing they’re stuck on!

Still, Frazer Hines always cites this as a favourite and recalls it being very good. Who knows? Maybe it was found we might reevaluate it. #DoctorWho

I love how the super advanced Space Corps ship uses a 1960s telly on a wooden table as a monitor screen. 😆

There’s a lot of that in space stories of this era. Just any old bits and scraps they have to hand get used as set decoration. #DoctorWho

At least Milo Clancy injects a bit of fun into proceedings. And things perk up a bit in the later episodes.

At one point the Doctor rigs up a booby-trap that electrocutes and kills a random guard. Ruthless! And to think of the crap Colin got over that acid bath… #DoctorWho

The first mention of the Time Lords, and in such a casual throwaway manner.

The SIDRATs are also briefly named, without ever expounding on the acronym (Space and Inter-time Directional Robot All-purpose Transporter, nerdy fact-fans!) #DoctorWho

At least the Time Lords gave the Second Doctor a choice of faces before he regenerated… #DoctorWho

“Oh, he’s too old!”

And now for the very worst thing the Time Lords have ever done… ERASING JAMIE AND ZOE’S MEMORIES! 🤬 Oh, and forcibly regenerating the Doctor too of course… #DoctorWho

BASTARDS

The end of Troughton, Jamie and Zoe… and with them the end of the 1960s and the black-and-white era… always feels a bit like the end of the show’s “innocent” era, with things never being quite the same again. 😕

Next up: Colour! Flares! The 70s! #DoctorWho

Spearhead From Space: my eyes! It’s in colour! 😵‍💫

The whiplash you feel going from B&W telerecordings to this - colour film, in HD on Blu-Ray… and that’s without even mentioning the huge format changes within the show itself. #DoctorWho

Using a trick that would still be done by showrunners decades later, a familiar face (the Brig!) is brought back to ease the transition into the new era.

And what a version of the character this is: intelligent, capable, non-sceptical…if only they’d kept him this way #DoctorWho

Pertwee in the hospital shower… the closest we ever come to seeing the Doctor’s arse crack…😵

And the tattoo! I’ll go with the fan-canon that it’s the mark of an exiled Time Lord. 😜 #DoctorWho

Peter Miles’ combover in this story is phenomenal in its audacity.

Amazing how it had all miraculously grown back by the time of Genesis Of The Daleks… 👀 #DoctorWho

The scenes of the virus outbreak across London would be impressive in their realism if done in #DoctorWho today, never mind 1970.

When the ticket inspector in the station faints, I still don’t know if those are extras or genuine (bemused) members of the public bustling past him.

The Ambassadors… (TWANG!) …Of Death: (that’s it’s official name, don’t argue.)

This is the epitome of the idea season 7 is a grittier, more adult take on #DoctorWho. So many layers of conspiracy and double-crossing and mystery. Not one to watch and only pay half-attention to.