Greetings Wholigans, hope life is treating you kindly.
It’s been a wee-while, but RL pressures y’know. Still, welcome to (mercifully) under 30 minutes of our intermittent nit-picking about the historical output of the BBC.
This time we’re going back to the 17th Century and 'The Visitation' [1982] – a period tale of plague, goings-on in the country, androids, yokels with pitchforks, criminal lizard/fish aliens and, in the final few minutes, the Great Fire of London.
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Waterhouse, Sutton, and Fielding. Directed by Peter Moffatt (5 Doctors, 2 Doctors, stuff with vets), and written by Erik Saward (Resurrection, Revelation, and jury service on Trial of a Timelord). 4 episodes, totalling 100 minutes. Produced by the John Nathan Turner, and it’s that strange and unfulfilling Whovian middle ground just before everyone else tuned out. Come and join our pain.
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Keep safe, and keep watching the classics.
Welcome, Citizens of the Planet Earth, to our slightly boozy review of Frontier in Space [1973].
Not seen this one? It's online
HERE.
Ninety-six episodes and this is the first one where we had to take a piss-break. Seriously, this is a quarter of what we recorded.
A 6-episode sci-fi romp for the Third Doctor and Jo Grant, in the 10th anniversary year, getting off-planet this season and after ‘Carnival of Monsters’ and leading directly into ‘Planet of the Daleks’. This is Katie’s last season. It helps to think of this as ‘The Ogron Years’ - where even the most neanderthal of stuntmen could get lines of dialogue at Equity rates. This was the last appearance by Roger Delgado before he died only a few months later. Brand new sonic screwdriver in this one that serves the Doctor all the way until Visitation.
How do, folks?
Time for our review of a bit of classic, Face of Evil [1977].
Right in the middle of the golden years, Big Tom at (arguably) his characterful best, first trip out for Terry’s favourite (Louise Jameson as Leela), the much-acclaimed season 14.
Will contain spoilers. May contain nuts. 4 episodes, totalling 100 minutes. A fine cast of scantily clad male thespians skipping around a jungle set delivering their lines with the utmost sincerity like they were on stage at The Globe. Is Leela the only woman in this? There might be another one when they’re getting set up to attack the wall... because that raises a whole heap of unwholesome questions. Not seen this one? Check it out
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Hello folks. We’re still here. Glad you are too. Here we go again. It's even more bobbo than usual, but at least it's pleasantly short.
This episode we’re going back to the Hartnell era and reviewing the often ignored, ‘Planet of Giants’. Something of a ‘flyover state’ of an episode, this is the first serial of the second season, way back in 1964 – interestingly 4 years before Land of the Giants and nearly a decade after Incredible Shrinking Man – make of that what you will. Packed with practical effects, environmental warnings and casual misogyny.
It’s been 10-months since our resurrection and Fuchsia’s regeneration, and we’re still here home educating, home working, and home improving - making the best of our respective countries, indeed the world, mostly going to rat shit. We’re still cranking these babies out in a battle to fight the day-to-day tedium of our ongoing existence. It’s way cheaper than therapy.
Anyway, enjoy. Seventy-five minutes of a tiny TARDIS team traversing treacherous terrain. Overzealous businessmen, pint-sized poisonings, spurious science, and an environmental mystery on a truly gigantic scale - where the crew make only a small impression and it’s actually a nosey telephonist and her bobby hubby that save the day.
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It's fair to say we need to get out more, but it's fair to say so does everyone.
We're heading back almost 40 years to January 1983, and the Peter Davison serial ‘Arc of Infinity’.
This is the first one in the 20th anniversary year, and it feels like it’s been about a year in the story since Time-Flight – or it’s actually about 50 years, judging by the number of audios Big Finish has crowbarred into this gap.
4 episodes. 25 minutes each. Sarah Sutton. Janet Fielding. Yada. Yada. Yada.
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Greetings. Children of the night.
Grab yourselves a glass of wine - "Wine? I do not drink... wine."
This time we're going to be taking a look at Big Tom and Lala's vampy 'classic', 'State of Decay' [1980].
Terrance, Sputnik, The Kitty and Lord Pez seem to mostly agree on this one. Number 2 in the E-Space trilogy. 4 episodes, 25 minutes each. More camp than a cub scout jamboree, a romping emo-panto left over from the season 13/14 run of horror pastiches and classics - and something of a stand-out in this season because of it.
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'Ello campers.
Brace yourselves. This month we're reviewing the McCoy first season outing, 'Delta and the Bannermen' [1987].
Tabs, Sen, Sputters and Lightfoot get a bit shouty. May contain the f-word, the c-word, spoilers and nuts. It's a merciful 3 episodes, 25 minutes each. An hour and a half of rock and roll and rockets and redcoats. All shot on location in Wales. Something about stealing baby formula, missing satellites, screaming kids and Ken Dodd – all will hopefully become apparent.
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'Ello folks.
Grab y'self a cocoa it's time for our review of the 1964 Harnell 'classic', The Aztecs - with some slightly mixed opinions.
Sputters, Lightfoot, Tabs and Sen in a remarkably sober one. Pottering around in the TARDIS and getting into historical scrapes. Casual jewellery theft leading to some mesoamerican cloak and dagger. The Doctor gets off with someone's mum and Chesterton kicks ass. Susan goes back to school. Bugger all budget well spent.
Not seen Doctor Who and the Aztecs? It's online
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