Doctor Who: Watchers in the Fourth Dimension
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It’s Terry Nation’s Greatest Hits as we discuss Planet of the Daleks – a story where he appears to have put all of his favourite past plot points in a hat, drawn them out at random, and attempted to make a coherent story out of the results! Join us as we keep track of the TerryTropes and discuss, among other things, whether or not this makes for a good story.
Over the course of the episode, Reilly expresses the opinion that this is one of the most disgusting Doctor Who serials we’ve covered to date, Julie gets excited about woodwind, Anthony tries to argue that there is a reasonable (albeit poorly represented) connection with Frontier in Space, and Don digs out Terry Nation’s original titles for each individual episode. The entire cast discuss how frustrating Vaber’s general anger issues are.
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 part of the Dalek War boxset from Amazon US (https://amzn.to/3iVzJBS) or from Amazon UK (https://amzn.to/3JYvUaW). 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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Episode 96: Sausage Fest of the Daleks (Genesis of the Daleks)
Bonus Episode 22: Panda Salad Bar (The Abominable Snowmen Animation)
Episode 95: Big Giant Shiny Metal Balls (The Sontaran Experiment)
Episode 94: Bad Buggies Go Boom Boom (The Ark in Space)
Episode 93: The Doctor Does a Drive-By (Robot)
Episode 92: The Shatner of Doctor Who (Third Doctor Retrospective)
Bonus Episode 21: This Shouty Scottish Man (Big Finish - Sympathy for the Devil)
Episode 91: Self-Indulgent and Unnecessary (Season 11 Retrospective)
Episode 90: Cloudy with a Chance of Metebelis (Planet of the Spiders)
Episode 89: Peladon? More Like Peladon’t! (The Monster of Peladon)
Episode 88: The C-Team Daleks (Death to the Daleks)
Episode 87: Hot Dino on Dino Action (Invasion of the Dinosaurs)
Episode 86: Absolute Rubeish (The Time Warrior)
Episode 85: Terry Nation Bingo Card (Season 10 Retrospective)
Bonus Episode 20: Kinderhorror (Big Finish - The Scorchies)
Episode 84: At Last, Welsh Teeth! (The Green Death)
Episode 82: Too Dumb to Live (Frontier in Space)
Episode 81: Googly Eyes on Socks (Carnival of Monsters)
Episode 80: Doctor Who and the Other Two (The Three Doctors)
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