Doctor Who: Watchers in the Fourth Dimension
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It’s an unusually low-key story for the Pertwee era, as we handle the classic dual menace of bureaucracy and sock puppets in Carnival of Monsters! Join us as we talk budget serials, grey worlds, Holmesian double acts, monster cameos, and the Doctor’s long-awaited return to regular space-and-time adventuring!
Over the course of the episode, Anthony finds himself alone in appreciating the bureaucrats of the serial, Julie continues to find herself please with the direction of the scores this season, Reilly enthuses over the monster design, and Don dreams of re-editing the entire serial. The entire crew find themselves disappointed at the general lack of monsters promised by the story’s title.
If you would like to watch along with us, this story is available for streaming at both Britbox US (https://www.britbox.com) and Britbox UK (https://www.britbox.co.uk). If you’re a little old fashioned (like Anthony), you can also get the Special Edition on DVD as a standalone release from Amazon US (https://amzn.to/3LfFg2i) or as part of the Revisitations 2 box set Amazon UK (https://amzn.to/3JYHOSp). It can also be found on Blu Ray as part of The Collection: Jon Pertwee Season Four from Amazon US (https://amzn.to/3i0hs5V) and The Collection: Season 10 from Amazon UK (https://amzn.to/3MGUyP8)
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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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