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Planet of Giants
Episode 4 of Planet of Giants, titled The Urge to Live, was the first Doctor Who episode deemed too boring to air. Seriously! Taped towards the end of the first production block, but held over to be the premiere episode … Continue reading →
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The Reign of Terror
Will The Reign of Terror ever catch a break? As the only partially-complete story of Season 1, it’s probably the least known of the bunch. Marco Polo is utterly missing, but is nearly universally beloved probably because of that – we don’t have … Continue reading →
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The Sensorites
Think about this for a moment. The only stories from Doctor Who‘s first TV season to introduce alien races were The Daleks and The Sensorites. Both of these races live on in the revived series, with the Daleks being imported pretty much wholesale (with some … Continue reading →
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The Aztecs
As has been said elsewhere, the plot of The Aztecs is so good, that it’s not fair to do it the injustice of a three-sentence plot summary. It is the kind of story that a time travel-based-TV show like Doctor Who … Continue reading →
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The Keys of Marinus
Well, this was bound to happen sooner or later. Here we are at The Keys of Marinus, the first “bad” Doctor Who story. One of the weaker scripts and some of the more shoddy production values (speaking 1964-wise) of the … Continue reading →
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Marco Polo
Like most fans born after this story’s last known airing, I know Marco Polo primarily through John Lucarotti’s 1985 novelization of his then 21-year-old scripts. I was just about 12 at the time and this was one of the first Doctor … Continue reading →
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The Edge of Destruction
So, this is interesting. The first season of Doctor Who aired pretty much concurrently with the final season of Twilight Zone. The Zone was at that point airing in a Friday night time-slot death spiral; The Edge of Destruction, Saturday at … Continue reading →
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The Daleks
True story: When I bought the Target edition of Doctor Who In An Exciting Adventure With The Daleks in 1985, I read the first chapter… and then returned it to the bookstore. At age 12, I was so confused by … Continue reading →
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An Unearthly Child
Last April, Waris Hussein came to Manhattan to discuss Doctor Who‘s very first episode, which this year hits its 50th anniversary. At the time, Hussein was only 72. Think about that. He was barely 24 when he directed the pilot … Continue reading →
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