This week finds the Doctor (Baker) and Leela (Louise Jameson) in an interesting looking four part adventure, that just isn’t as exciting as one would like, but has lots of redeeming things I did like about it. The Robots of Death was penned by Chris Boucher and ran from 29 January to 19 February, 1977….
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Doctor Who (Tom Baker) – The Face of Evil
Part of the Doctor’s (Baker) past comes back to haunt him this week. Though it would have had a bit more of a punch if this were a sequel to a previously televised story. This four-part tale was written by Chris Boucher and had originally ran from 1 January to 22 January, 1977. The Doctor and…
Doctor Who (Tom Baker) – The Seeds of Doom
And just like that we come to the end of Season 13 of Doctor Who, and we close it out with a 6 part story by Robert Banks Stewart that plays, initially like a riff on the classic, The Thing From Another World. This serial ran from 31 January to 6 March, 1976. It…
Doctor Who (Jon Pertwee) – The Time Warrior
Jon Pertwee’s final season as The Doctor begins with this four-part story written by Robert Holmes which ran from 15 December 1973 to 5 January, 1974. There are a couple of noticeable changes right off the bat… there’s a new title sequence, there’s the introduction of perhaps The Doctor’s most famous companion, Sara-Jane Smith…
Doctor Who (Jon Pertwee) – Terror of the Autons
The Autons and the Nestene are back in the season 8 opening story for Pertwee’s Doctor, which sees a new companion at his side in the form of Jo Grant (Katy Manning). The four episode story was written by Robert Holmes and ran from 2 January to 23 January, 1973. And minutes into the story…
Doctor Who (Jon Pertwee) – Spearhead from Space
The Doctor (Pertwee) is exiled to Earth, with a new face, and for the first time, on-screen, in colour! It’s a four episode story that ran from 3 January to 24 January, 1970 and was written by Robert Holmes. This story is a lot of fun, and sees the Doctor’s first encounter with the…
Doctor Who (Patrick Troughton) – The Wheel in Space
Season 5 of Doctor Who came to an end with this six part story that was written by David Whitaker, and aired from 27 April to June 1, 1968. It saw the introduction of a new companion, joining the Doctor (Troughton) and Jamie (Frazer Hines) in the TARDIS, and the return of an old…
Doctor Who (Patrick Troughton) – The Power of the Daleks
Patrick Troughton’s first adventure brings back the Doctor’s most notorious villains, the Daleks in this six part story that was written by David Whitaker and originally aired from 5 November to 10 December, 1966. Ben (Michael Craze) and Polly (Anneke Wills) are a little dubious if this new person is actually the Doctor. He looks and…
Doctor Who (William Hartnell) – The Massacre of St. Bartholomew’s Eve
This week’s journey in the TARDIS, was written by Donald Tosh and John Lucarotti. This story aired in four parts, War of God, The Sea Beggar, Priest of Death and Bell of Doom, from 5 to the 26 of February, 1966. This one, once again watched as a reconstruction, is one of the historical…
Doctor Who (William Hartnell) – The Daleks’ Master Plan
The Daleks return in this epic 12 part story written by Terry Nation and Dennis Spooner. The story ran from 13 November 1965 through to 29 January 1966. It featured a couple of stand out moments, including the first death of a companion, the Doctor breaking the fourth wall to wish viewers a happy Christmas,…
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