“It seemed so small a price.” “It always does.” Before the final decline of the Classic series in the mid-to-late 80s, fans generally named The Horns of Nimon as one of the three worst episodes ever (the other two being…
Category: Dr Who from the Beginning
Dr Who: Nightmare of Eden
Warning: spoilers for the story This week’s story does a much better job than last week’s of keeping the silliness in check (with the exception of a couple of unfortunate moments). We’re still in Dr Who’s sitcom era, and so…
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Dr Who: The Creature from the Pit
I need to call the Brigadier for this one. Not Lethbridge-Stewart, the one played by Graham Chapman on Monty Python who’d show up to call a halt because things were getting too silly. This is Dr Who lost in its…
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Dr Who: City of Death
For the first time in its history, Dr Who filmed outside of the UK, crossing the channel to do the location work for this story in Paris. Having extracted funding from the BBC for the purpose, the production team was…
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Dr Who: Destiny of the Daleks
The TARDIS lands on Skaro, where the Doctor and a brand-new Romana (see below) discover the Daleks have returned to their home planet and are digging down into the ruins of the old Kaled city (destroyed in Genesis of the…
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Dr Who: The Armageddon Factor
[Caution: this post contains spoilers for the story] The quest for the Key to Time reaches its conclusion, and we finally get some attention to the overall story arc— but just barely, and the story itself is distinctly unexciting. It’s…
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Dr Who: The Androids of Tara
This is a really fun story, and may be the best of the Key to Time season so far. It’s a lighthearted adventure cheerfully ripped off from— er, a cheerful homage to— The Prisoner of Zenda, as the search for…
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Dr Who: The Stones of Blood
The search for the third segment of the Key to Time leads the Doctor, Romana and K-9 to the Doctor’s favorite planet, Earth, in a story that is a complete opposite from last week’s. While The Pirate Planet featured the…
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Dr Who: The Pirate Planet
I’m of two minds about this story. On the one hand, it’s an entirely comical episode of Dr Who, and that’s fun. On the other hand, it’s an entirely comical episode of Dr Who, and that’s kind of annoying. The…
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Dr Who: The Ribos Operation
A new season for Dr Who, and a much-improved start over the way the last season ended. The difference is glaring when going through these episodes one per week (it would probably have been less so for original viewers, who…
