Gavin WintersThe foam machine gets another outing. Not been used this much since Fury From The Deep. Lol at Wendy Padbury corpsing when Troughton falls through the door covered in the stuff. đ #DoctorWho
The Space Pirates: hmm, always feels like a chore to get through this one. After season 6 mostly existing, to have this final batch of missing episodes, with no proper telesnaps and poor quality audio⊠itâs a bit of a slog. đŹ #DoctorWho
And weâre nearly halfway through before the Doctor, Jamie & Zoe get off that bloody space station thing theyâre 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. đ
Thereâs 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
Anyway, no more missing episodes! Full glorious 625-line video from here on in. Yeah baby! đ #DoctorWho
The War Games: on paper this could have been a disaster. A ten-part epic, four hours long, with no popular antagonists like the Daleks or Cybermen? But itâs paced out perfectly and never feels overlong or like any episode is just filler. A fitting end for Troughton. #DoctorWho
Sydney Newman may have created #DoctorWho, but here Terrance Dicks and Malcolm Hulke start to solidify the mythology of the show and lay the groundwork for, well, everything that comes after. For me, The War Games is the central story around which the whole history of Who pivots.
Carstairs and Lady Jennifer are good supporting characters, who have a slight Ian and Barbara vibe to them. Appropriate as we round off the 1960s. #DoctorWho
Throughout this story Jamie is wearing the black shirt he obviously nicked off Packerâs still-smouldering corpse after the events of The Invasion. What a vulture! đ #DoctorWho
The seething, bitchy hatred between the War Chief and Security Chief that escalates throughout The War Games is always very funny to watch. Put your handbags away, gentlemen! #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
The Time Lords have never, ever, seemed more powerful and godlike than when their arrival is heralded by a howling wind in the cliffhanger to episode nine. #DoctorWho
At least the Time Lords gave the Second Doctor a choice of faces before he regenerated⊠#DoctorWho
âOh, heâs too old!â
âIs this the best you can do? Iâve never seen such an incredible bunch!â #DoctorWho
And now for the very worst thing the Time Lords have ever done⊠ERASING JAMIE AND ZOEâS MEMORIES! đ€Ź Oh, and forcibly regenerating the Doctor too of course⊠#DoctorWho
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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 showâs âinnocentâ era, with things never being quite the same again. đ
Next up: Colour! Flares! The 70s! #DoctorWho
Spearhead From Space: my eyes! Itâs in colour! đ”âđ«
The whiplash you feel going from B&W telerecordings to this - colour film, in HD on Blu-Ray⊠and thatâs 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-scepticalâŠif only theyâd kept him this way #DoctorWho
Itâs often been said, but imagine if Twitter/the internet/organised fandom had been around back then⊠the outrage over this totally revamped, almost unrecognisable version of the show would have been spectacular. âPertwee? Not My Doctor!â, etc. #DoctorWho
Pertwee in the hospital shower⊠the closest we ever come to seeing the Doctorâs arse crackâŠđ”
And the tattoo! Iâll go with the fan-canon that itâs the mark of an exiled Time Lord. đ #DoctorWho
That factory premises has only just cleaned up all the dead Cybermen and now itâs littered with deactivated Autons. #DoctorWho
The Silurians: a rare example of them making a bit of effort with cave floor sets and doing them as realistically as possible, given the budget - rocks, dirt, uneven surfaces, even the odd pool of water. Unlike the smooth studio floors youâd sometimes see in the 80s. #DoctorWho
Bit repetitive to have two stories in a row where a husband and wife living in a rustic countryside cottage are threatened by an otherworldly visitor. #DoctorWho
They sort of wrote themselves into a corner with the idea that anyone witnessing a Silurian goes mad and starts drawing palaeolithic cave art. The story couldnât progress much if that kept happening, so itâs quietly dropped once Liz and Major Baker see them. #DoctorWho
I love Pertwee being a massive pain-in-the-arse to Doctor Quinn as he pokes his nose round his cottage. đ #DoctorWho
Peter Milesâ 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⊠đ #DoctorWho
For the first time, Pertweeâs Doctor claims to be âthousands of yearsâ old. Remembering bits of the Timeless Child era? #DoctorWho
A 53-year-old scene that has no relevance to the modern world at all. Nope. No Siree⊠#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 donât know if those are extras or genuine (bemused) members of the public bustling past him.
The Ambassadors⊠(TWANG!) âŠOf Death: (thatâs itâs official name, donât 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.
Whatâs going on here? Bizarre new TARDIS interior or just a room in UNIT HQ the Doctorâs managed to get the console into? #DoctorWho
Dud (Mx)@gavinwinters It's the TARDIS! It can be whatever the bloody hell it wants to be inside! đ
@BackFromTheDud But we see the console outside of the TARDIS in Inferno, which lends weight to the idea that thatâs also whatâs happened here. đ
@gavinwinters Bloody Multi dimensional machines! You don't know if you on your feet or last wednesday!