Original air dates June – August 1964.
They’ve landed in a spaceship, complete with sleeping astronauts. The “evil” Sensorites of the Sense Sphere are keeping them there. But WHY?
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Story 007: The Sensorites
Friday, October 18th, 2013Story 006: The Aztecs
Wednesday, October 16th, 2013Original air date May – June 1964
Ian, Barbara, Susan, and The Doctor land in South America at the height of Aztec culture. They emerge from a one-way door – leaving the TARDIS behind it – in a temple, which only reincarnated gods can use. Barbara, particularly, is treated as the incarnation of the goddess Ytaxa. This works fine until her 1960’s sensibilites get involved and she tries to stop human sacrifice. Meanwhile, the Doctor absent-mindely gets engaged to a local wise woman (they are a lovely couple!). They all scheme to get back to the TARDIS.
Story 004: Marco Polo
Sunday, July 14th, 2013Original air date February through April 1964.
This is one of the lost episodes. For some reason, the sound was saved separately, and fans have made various reconstructions. I’ve found animated version of the first one that is better than no video at all. For the others, there are photos placed over the audio track. It is enough to follow the story.
Story 154: Silver Nemesis (MST3k)
Thursday, July 4th, 2013Original air date November 1988.
This was the 25th anniversary episode of Doctor Who. It had Ace and the 7th Doctor, Sylvest McCoy. I’d never seen either of them before. I saw it at Westercon on a panel where they covered it like Mystery Science Theatre 3000. It deserved that treatment.
Doctor Who being cancelled should be no surprise after things like this. More when I get to it.
Story 003: The Edge of Destruction
Wednesday, July 3rd, 2013Story 002: The Daleks
Wednesday, July 3rd, 2013Original air dates December 1963 through February 1964.
The second story is long, and has Doctor Who’s foe, the Daleks in it.
Story 001: An Unearthly Child
Wednesday, July 3rd, 2013Original air dates November, December 1963.
The very first episode of Doctor Who starts with little explanation of the weird title sequence and sci-fi electronic music. All that fades away to an ordinary high school.
Watching Doctor Who — All of It!
Wednesday, July 3rd, 2013I had an itch lately to watch some Doctor Who, and decided to watch as much of it as I can, in order.
This started with my realizing Ihad never seen a full story with Hartnell or Troughton as the Doctor, and reading a review of a much improved release of a Pertwee story,