Doctor Who: Watchers in the Fourth Dimension
TV & Film:TV Reviews
This episode, the Watchers return to Metebelis III as they exasperatedly take on the final Pertwee serial with Planet of the Spiders. Complete with a former salesman plotting revenge through the accumulation of power while at a Buddhist retreat (wut?) and a mindlessly self-indulgent chase scene, is this the story that will finally break the Watchers (or just Reilly)?
Along the way, Anthony struggles to make sense of the Spiders’ power structure, Julie picks up on one particular element inspiring a major device for 2008’s Series 4 episode Turn Left, Don rages at the brazen attempt to add to canon for no good reason, and Reilly finds Lupton’s plan so utterly baffling. The entire crew despairs over the mindless self-indulgence that is the Part Two chase scene.
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Episode 67: Beeps, Boops, and Kazoos (Season 7 Retrospective)
Episode 66: Scr*w You Guys, I‘m Going Home (Inferno)
Episode 65: Vicious Quatermassturbation (The Ambassadors of Death)
Episode 64: Costume Change Level: Zoe (Doctor Who and the Silurians)
Bonus Episode 10: A Bit Pudgy for a Stormtrooper (Quatermass 2)
Episode 63: Liberace‘s More Flamboyant Magician Uncle (Spearhead from Space)
Bonus Episode 9: Will They, Won‘t They? (Big Finish - Daughter of the Gods)
Episode 62: A Review to a Kilt (Troughton-era Retrospective - Live from WHOlanta Virtual TARDIS 2021)
Episode 61: Hot Space Garbage (Season 6 Retrospective)
Episode 60: Hate Squabbling (The War Games - Episodes 6-10)
Episode 59: They Shot Winnie the Pooh! (The War Games - Episodes 1-5)
Bonus Episode 8: Cozy, Stress Free, and Kind of Silly (Interview with David Busch)
Episode 58: No Other Women in Space (The Space Pirates)
Episode 57: The Mix-a-Lot Principle (The Seeds of Death)
Episode 56: Gond But Not Forgotten (The Krotons)
Episode 55: All About the ‘Stache (The Invasion - Episodes 5-8)
Episode 54: Too Expensive, Too Welsh (The Invasion - Episodes 1-4)
Episode 53: One for the Dads (The Mind Robber)
Episode 52: Replacement Hot Blonde (The Dominators)
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