“It’s stopped being fun, Doctor.” The TARDIS gets caught in a time corridor connecting a spaceship far in the future and an empty warehouse in London in the present day. It turns out the Daleks are responsible: they’ve lost their…
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Dr Who: Frontios
“The earth is… hungry!” The TARDIS is forced down on the planet Frontios, home to the last surviving colony of humans after a catastrophe destroyed the Earth, and far enough into the future that it’s even beyond the Time Lords’…
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Dr Who: The Awakening
PROGRAM NOTE: I apologize to my faithful reader(s) for the week’s delay in this post: last weekend, I got diverted by various other things. “The Malus is pure evil. If not stopped, it will destroy not only the village but…
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Dr Who: Warriors of the Deep
“There should have been another way.” The TARDIS lands in an undersea military base in the year 2084. In the future as seen by Dr Who in the 1980s, the Cold War is still going on (though see below) and…
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Dr Who: The Five Doctors
“A man is the sum of his memories, you know— a Time Lord even more so.” In the barbaric ancient history of the Time Lords, in the early days of their control over time, they used the “Time Scoop” to…
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Dr Who: The King’s Demons
The TARDIS materializes in England in 1215, right before the eyes of an astonished crowd who were watching a joust (an unusual move for the TARDIS, which normally manages to arrive out of sight, though friendly guest characters are often…
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Dr Who: Enlightenment
“You are a Time Lord, a lord of time. Are there lords in such a small domain?” The Black Guardian trilogy concludes with a far stronger outing than last week’s Terminus. The Doctor learns of the Black Guardian’s influence over…
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Dr Who: Terminus
“There is no return. This is Terminus.” Terminus is definitely the weak link in season 20’s Black Guardian trilogy, and a below par episode for Dr Who in general. It’s often the case that the weaker episodes of Classic Dr…
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Dr Who: Mawdryn Undead
“Sometimes you have to live with the consequences of your actions.” –The Doctor Both an old villain and an old friend return in Mawdryn Undead, a distinctly “timey-wimey” story of the sort the new series loves but Classic did only…
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Dr Who: Snakedance
When Tegan unconsciously sets the TARDIS coordinates for Manussa, a planet once ruled by the Mara (the snake creature from last season’s Kinda), the Doctor realizes the creature still has possession of her mind. His early attempts to prevent it…
