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…
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Dr Who: The Invasion of Time
“One grows tired of jelly babies, Castellan. Eventually one grows tired of everything… except power.” The Doctor returns to Gallifrey, and once again the main focus is on political intrigue among the Time Lords. But The Invasion of Time falls…
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Dr Who: Underworld
When I first became a Dr Who fan, back in the mid-80s right after the 20th anniversary special, The Five Doctors, broadcast on PBS, Underworld was considered by more experienced fans to be one of the two, or maybe three,…
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Dr Who: The Sunmakers
The only good thing about Robert Holmes’ departure as script editor of Dr Who is that it freed him up to write more episodes himself. Here he pens more proof that he was born to create Dr Who stories— and…
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Dr Who: Image of the Fendahl
“There are four thousand million people on this planet, and if I’m right, within a year there will be only one. Just one.” —The Doctor In a case of complete mood whiplash after last week, we’re back to an adventure…
