I didn’t know what to expect going into “Wild Blue Yonder” because so few details on it were available beforehand, but what I got was actually a good old fashioned claustrophobic sci-fi story with a really fun “conceptual” enemy and some weird visuals… so I was very happy indeed! It feels like ages since I watched a new Doctor Who story that was just a stand-alone good sci-fi story, so let’s take a deeper look.
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It’s time to finally look forward after a marathon of older stories as the 60th Anniversary trio of specials began airing last night with “The Star Beast”, an adaptation of the comic of the same name (which I reviewed HERE, and I also reviewed its audio adaptation HERE!) making this the third time this story has been covered on this blog. That being said, the story is more about the debut of the Fourteenth Doctor and his coming in contact with Donna Noble again, believing there must be a reason why he has his old 10th Doctor face again. Oh and yes, it also has some unsubtle messages for those who worry about that sort of thing. Either way, let’s take a look!
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It’s time to end the Multi-Doctor Catch Up Marathon with the very first multi-Doctor story! The Three Doctors aired to kick off Season 10 (and so fans have taken to call it the 10th Anniversary story, though technically that’s not true…) and saw the return of Patrick Troughton’s Second Doctor to assist his successor. Sadly William Hartnell was too ill to actually participate on set so he advises from a “Time Eddy”, or a small plastic triangle in someone’s shed, but hey-ho. At least had an excuse, unlike Tom Baker in the Five Doctors! Add in some early fun Time Lord lore and a cheesy villain it’s a good time in front of the telly. Let’s take a look!
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The Five Doctors has to be one of my favourite “comfort food” things to put on, if I’m not really sure what to watch or for whatever reason feeling unhappy it’s something that will cheer me up for 90 minutes or so. That being said this is a review and to be completely fair to it the story really isn’t up to much, it’s a big anniversary special with loads of companions and, well, four Doctors to be more accurate, plus a few old villains and the like so it doesn’t really have time to be anything with more substance. Am I just making excuses? Well, let’s take a closer look…
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As we near the end of our Multi-Doctor catch-up marathon we’re left with the original three TV serials, with “The Two Doctors” being a bit of the odd one out as it wasn’t to celebrate any kind of anniversary but instead the producers at the time saw how successful “The Five Doctors” had been and decided to do it again! So we have the Second Doctor and Jamie join the Sixth Doctor and Peri in the middle of Season 22 for no real reason, in a story partially filmed on location in Spain, also for no real reason! Plus it’s a three-parter but at a time when each episode was the length of two regular episodes, making this effectively a six-part story which in the 80s was practically unheard of. In other words “The Two Doctors” is a very odd story, but is it a fun story to watch?
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Now, “Dimensions in Time” is a tricky one because technically it doesn’t feature two Doctors interacting but given it has multiple Doctors and companions and its an anniversary story I felt I couldn’t skip over it… plus if I don’t do it now I never will! So for those not aware “Dimensions in Time” was a 1993 Children in Need 3-D charity sketch (spread over two nights) to celebrate the series 30th anniversary, but due to it being off the air for three years all we got was this, which given it also crosses over with forever-popular soap Eastenders and had a phone-in vote to decide what some of the soap’s cast did shows how the show was viewed by the BBC at the time… Let’s take a look anyway, and not worry about if its canon or not!
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Well, this is going to be a short review! “Time Crash” is barely a five minute sketch from Children in Need where the Fifth Doctor ends up on board the Tenth Doctor’s TARDIS. The thing is doing the multi-Doctor Marathon means I can’t ignore it but I can’t slot it in another review either, so… Get ready for a very brief read! (but a very fun sketch, to be fair!)
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Reviewing “The Name of the Doctor” feels like it’s overdue as during my “Doctor Debut Marathon” several years back I said this story should’ve been the story covered for John Hurt’s War Doctor but as he only appeared in the very end I went with his first audio story instead. Now all these years later and I realise that under my rules for this Multi-Doctor Marathon the couple of sentences The Eleventh Doctor and the War Doctor share actually make it count! So here we finally are. Honestly this story also has lots of the other Doctors appearing either via archive footage or people walking past the camera in-costume, so it fits the anniversary-feel of multi-Doctor stories if nothing else. Let’s take a look!
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Doctor Who Season 20 was released on Blu-ray a short while ago so it’s time to look at the story I haven’t seen in the longest time off the set, in this case I couldn’t remember which out of this and the following story, Terminus, I hadn’t seen so I went with the earliest of the two *shrugs* I mean, I’ll review them all eventually… Mawdryn is an odd one, mainly because the role of returning character changed from Ian Chesterton to the Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart but the role in the story of “older teacher” wasn’t changed, making for an odd out-of-character rewrite for the Brig that infamously cemented the “UNIT Dating controversy”. It’s also the story that debuts companion Turlough and boy, he is not very likeable to start with… Let’s take a look!
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Another Blu-Ray Season set release, another review! Season 9 is one I’ve frequently revisited over the years due to my love of the Pertwee era but The Time Monster (and its preceding story The Mutants) are ones I’ve watched less due to them being… quite dull. Well, the Mutants anyway, this at least has plenty of UNIT and Delgado Master in it, that always livens things up which is why it’s funny it’s the one it’s been longest since I last watched. Have I forgotten something I disliked about it? Is the weird silver birdman Kronos just too weird? Let’s find out!
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