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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Bonus Episode 5: Dammit Susan! (Big Finish - The Library of Alexandria)
Episode 33: Pirates of the Caribboring (The Smugglers)
Episode 32: No (Terrance) Dicks, No Lava Lamps (Daleks‘ Invasion Earth - 2150 A.D.)
Episode 31: Fun, But Completely Unnecessary (Season 3 Retrospective)
Episode 30: The WOTAN Clan (The War Machines)
Bonus Episode 4: Bit of a Swashbuckling Hero (Interview with Peter Purves)
Episode 29: Tor Loser (The Savages)
Episode 28: Flirting with Competence (The Gunfighters)
Episode 27: I Want to Talk About Chairs (The Celestial Toymaker)
Episode 26: George Maharis, Risk Taker (The Ark)
Episode 25: I‘m Not a Proctologist, But... (The Massacre)
Episode 24: Bring Back the Corpse of Dennis Spooner (The Daleks‘ Master Plan - Episodes 7-12)
Episode 23: Poppycock and Nonsense (The Daleks‘ Master Plan - Episodes 1-6)
Episode 22: Invasion of the Dons (The Myth Makers)
Episode 21: Kembel Needs Women (Mission to the Unknown)
Episode 20: A Fascist Version of Dusty Springfield (Galaxy Four)
Episode 19: Never Speak to an Englishman About Mary Poppins (Dr. Who and the Daleks)
Episode 18: Random, Unnecessary Jazz Interludes (Season 2 Retrospective)
Episode 17: Needs More Saxon Violence (The Time Meddler)
Episode 16: With Apologies to Alabama (The Chase)
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