Doctor Who: Watchers in the Fourth Dimension
TV & Film:TV Reviews
This episode, the Watchers in the Fourth Dimension kick off Season 6 of Doctor Who with a more of a whimper than a bang, as they tackle a story that involves two hostile turtles as they seek to dominate an entire planet of hippies and turn it into a radioactive ball of lava. It’s that rather misjudged attempt at satire, known only as The Dominators…
Over the course of our discussion, Don questions the impact of this story on the reputation of the Dominators themselves, Anthony talks about the homogeny of the Dulcians, Julie focuses in on Jamie’s kilt (as usual), and Reilly finds a way to draw a parallel between this story and horror movies! The entire crew question some of the costuming choices, and wonder what was going on with the costume designer…
For those of you who want to watch this along with us, this story is available on DVD through both Amazon US (https://amzn.to/3EabMze) and Amazon UK (https://amzn.to/3vHgBNt). This is story is also available to stream through Britbox US (http://www.britbox.com) and Britbox UK (http://www.britbox.co.uk).
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Episode 47: Their Matching Skirts Nearly Kilt Me (The Enemy of the World)
Episode 46: Closed Due to Glacier (The Ice Warriors)
Episode 45: Chonkers of the Himalayas (The Abominable Snowmen)
Episode 44: The Cyberman Outreach Program (The Tomb of the Cybermen)
Bonus Episode 6: Nobody Likes This, But It‘ll Be Cheap (Missing Episodes Panel from Dragon Con Goes Virtual 2020)
Episode 43: Scr*w Your Spreadsheets! (Season 4 Retrospective)
Episode 42: Dalek in a Dumbwaiter (The Evil of the Daleks)
Episode 41: Almost Dodo‘d (The Faceless Ones)
Episode 40: Like Dirty Dancing, but With Crabs (The Macra Terror)
Episode 39: A More Localized Terrible Idea (The Moonbase)
Episode 38: Zar-off the Chain (The Underwater Menace)
Episode 37: Algie Ffinch‘s Bad Day (The Highlanders)
Episode 36: Don‘t Forget the Murder Hornets (The Power of the Daleks)
Episode 35: Brit for Hire (Hartnell-era Retrospective)
Episode 34: Yeeted by Cutlery (The Tenth Planet)
Bonus Episode 5: Dammit Susan! (Big Finish - The Library of Alexandria)
Episode 33: Pirates of the Caribboring (The Smugglers)
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