Love this! I agree with the novelization---sometime between the Doctor putting on that scarf and the disintegration of the Robot. Watched the episodes and read the book in my college dorm room over 40 years ago---talk about gaps in time!

Very good commentary! And to just jump in, I think Underworld needed the CGI treatment worse than any story and I didn’t realize they didn’t have the original “green screen” footage to re-do the cave scenes. I wonder if the story would be better if the effects weren’t so awful and distracting? I also have always half-hoped (well, really hope but don’t think there’s much of a chance) is that they’ll map over the interior of the TARDIS in Invasion of Time and mask as much if the old hospital interior that doubled as the TARDIS interior. I know the TARDIS can change its internal,appearance as well as external, but it’s so obvious it’s just some old building with crumbling bricks. The art gallery and pool sections are okay, but the other sections need a Castrovalva roundel make over. I always hope that some episode where they are deep in the TARDIS they’ll have a section of brickwork and have the Doctor say something like “oh yes, I forgot, I was very fond of Victorian brickwork for some reason. I re-did the whole interior of the TARDIS with it for a time, this must be a Section that got missed in the makeover. And then Explain about the TARDIS ability to change its architectural configuration, etc. LOL, it’s almost funny how so,e,dans like myself want so badly for a line of dialogue to make an in-universe explanation for the low-budget real world filming locations, lol.

The animation is great and really suits the ambitions of the story.

Some should stay forgotten

I go with the Target Novelization. I also liked and subscribed because this was a very interesting video!

Never read the discontinuity guide and assumed that Mordee was the name of the explorer who led the expedition not the name of the planet. I saw the episode on its original broadcast and actually back then was not concerned with details like that. The Doctor went where he went and did what he did and you just went along for the ride (like the companion). i am not a fan of 'canon' or continuity dis or otherwise because it restricts the viewers imagination.

Butchered Who - just what you’d expect from Turdy Davies.

It was made to pander to the yank influenced youth. This is why it was dumbed down.

I don’t think this art style works for other stories. It’s the Toymaker and the characters look like wooden dolls? Cool, but no other classic story has the Toymaker so thematically it would be weird outside of it

He clearly arrived there just after the 3rd Doctor visited Karfel

This was actually my first Dalek story. Was watching Dr Who since I was 3 or 4, between 1982 and 1983, on WGPR channel 62 (which was also the first black owned TV station here in the US) and they'd show Dr Who, they were showing Tom's final season and Peter's first. And after we left Detroit and moved to a more rural setting, PBS channel 56 (Detroit's public television station) was airing Dr. Who, on and off during 1985. They started airing regularly in September 1987. And did so till late 1992. Anyhow, 56 NEVER aired Dalek stories, not until about late 1988 or early 1989. First time seeing Daleks was on CBC channel 9, a Canadian channel we were able to get, and one late night in the summer of 1989, Dr. Who and the Daleks was shown. Shortly after that, 56 starting showing Dalek stories. Always liked these Daleks most, (which I refer to as AARU Daleks) with the 1960's Daleks coming after. I like both films, and feel this is one of those times a remake does better than the original in terms of Dalek Invasion of Earth. Though I think it SHOULD have been called "Daleks: Invasion of Earth 2000", because the world we see in this film would make A LOT more sense if these was 2000 or so, since all the buildings and cars and fashions all look mid 20th century. Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future (which is another good series, think Terminator meets Super Sentai) did a better job showing a post atomic horror earth in the 22nd century. Anyhow, this film was my first exposure to Daleks.

The new series has suffered IMO by always having a modern day female companion and often her boyfriend. I also feel we should have had at least a few episodes of The Doctor and River traveling together as a proper companion and not just a guest star, but of course I love Alex Kingston and feel she should have met 13, as well as 13/Missy having a cat fight and River assisting. Anyway, I think they really need to branch out and try something new. Would LOVE an Emma Peel type companion complete with martial arts skills, perhaps starting out as a badas$ who has little patience for the Doctor’s antics and comes from a harsh time/place where people do not trust one another. After awhile the Doctor risks his life to save her and she returns the favor, and begins to see the Universe thru his eyes of compassion and helping others rather than being out for yourself. I think she’d be extremely popular and would have a fantastic arc, and we get to see the contrast of the Doctor and his insistence on helping the underdog and whenever she finally leaves, she ‘s a truly good person and committed to helping others, perhaps defending some off world village/society and even falling in love, not because of usual the cheesy formula, but because she is actually able to love someone now and trust that they care for her in return. Plus love seeing tough companions like Leela and Ace. :-)

7:02 that Giant Robot /Bond Artwork is fantastic!

Would you really call Adam a companion only being 2 eps

Nyssa...Teagan?

The doctor since 2005 has been very picky who he travels with someone with a spark. I hope in the future he picks someone who isn’t a good choice to start but the doctor could make them better. Like that soldier from “into the dalek”. I think it would be good to show people that they can change and are worth a chance.

Good god tales from the tardis was bloody awful ...i long for the day that rtd and chibnell are memories

It would have become good if there was a prequel minisode which we saw The 4th Doctor repair Xoanon thus setting the events of Face of Evil.

Spreading incorrect and prejudicial Colin Baker hate loses you a viewer. If you are going to create an argument don't start with a statement of prejudice. Thats is how arguments literally work. Spoil the end of Earthshock why don't you! Like who is this video even for??

I go Target because there is another story that has to be set during Robot - the comic book Death Flower. So you have to assume the Doctor and Sarah have a few days on Earth whilst she's mourning the Robot and Kettlewell, and a couple of adventures fit in. The 4th and Sarah do Death Flower, then the 4th just sneaks off one night, like Dicks says, comes back, realising Sarah still needs him, 'collects' her and Harry inadvertently, and there you are.

It's interesting that I've seen this serial many times. I know the Doctor had been there before and I never once asked "when was the Doctor here?"

Before I knew the 4th doctor when I was a kid I've watched the series 13 on dvd no blu ray release and watched s14 blu ray. The story could've been done a number of ways

This story is awesome in billions of ways.

Honourable mention to Adric. An 80’s companion a lot of people *wish* they could forget 🤪

Peter Cushing did a great job as the Doctor. He did what all the later tv actors did. He took the core of the character and added his own twist, he wasn’t doing a William Hartnell impression and that’s vital.

I swear I saw an episode where a companion lay dying or severely injured in a castle or mansion. There are soldiers or UNIT minions in another room celebrating. The Doctor - I forget which incarnation but one of the first six - decides to leave her behind there and walks outside and out of her life, heading offscreen to the Tardis.

I have a few of the Target books, But truth is I've never read any of them

I'm pretty sure that the eu had a sixth doctor story where him and peri find some type of love child between the tardis and chameleon So if you were wondering what he was doing between his first appearance and his death Uhhhh

Awesome

I go with what Terrance Dicks said. Thank you for the video.

Chameleon: What was wrong with the show runner? all they needed was a skinny person in a suit who could do a bit of vaguely robotic style mime, C-3PO worked just fine, got fixated on having an actual robot for no good reason by the sound of it.

3:35 "ten million years in the future and humanity still hasn't found a cure for the common cold" .. Umm, I think you need to pause there and engage your brain for a nanosecond, they had eradicated it so long ago that they no longer had any natural immunity or resistance to it, very clearly they had found a cure for it, if they hadn't it wouldn't have been eradicated would it.

Adam can't be forgotten, he was just on the series..... 19 years ago oh god

Khameleon Nobody knows who made him(the BBC just found the prop in an abandoned building) And it was known as cursed(a lot of trouble, especially with Mike[the only one who got it to work] dying in the accident) Also Harry was created to be the "leading man", Tom's casting ruined that

Harry Sullivan had a mention in "The Zygon inversion." I know this was made years after the actor died. But Harry was credited with making a gas that could kill Zygons.

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Kamelion is in loads of expanded media. Great creation and prop. interesting character too, well voiced, albeit too impractical. You've made a great case for kamelion bring a great concept so you can't turn around and him the worst companion.

They did find a cure for the common cold, that's why the inhabitants of the Ark had no immunity.

I'm with you on The King's Demons. Fantastic story and yes, I'm VERY familiar with Kamelion.

I love Harry Sullivan! I was also lucky enough to meet Ian Marter at a convention in the 80's. He was lovely. ❤️

I'm note if Captain Mike Yates of UNIT during the 3rd Doctor's years counts as a forgotten companion, but I think he could qualify as under appreciated.

I wonder if Tomb of the Cybermen will be colourised like the Daleks, or whether it will be left in black and white I have this on dvd and it is for me a so so thing the colour is awesome but having some stuff chopped out is not so great.

How I wish I could have been born in 1963, or even born earlier say in the 1950s or even earlier than the 50s.

Your stuff is always excellent.

Adam's emotional maltreatment by the Ninth Doctor, with the mocking line about seeing him in a fight and "throw your A-levels at them", was the ethical end of DW, long before Timeless Child ever happened. It was a real life crime against the safety of children, as it encouraged and participated in bullying the vulnerable. RTD was deliberately fishing to make the revived show cool by doing that to exactly the character type associated with being old DW's audience. As too he was by making the Ninth Doctor all leathery and street-poser macho unlike any Classic Doctor. Eccleston's willingness to do it makes him by far the worst Doctor, ethically as well as in character, and deserving to get retconned out of being the Doctor at all and instead made into a villain Time Lord stealing one of the Doctor's lives. The real Ninth Doctor he shoved out of the way could be made Jo Martin.

Presumably the David Tennant Easter egg commentary is included on the relevant version of The Five Doctors l?

Your player and TV should be set up properly so that all properly mastered DVDs and blu-rays should play smoothly. Can't stand people who spend hundreds of £s on their set up and then leave it's two most important elements at factory settings. It takes about 15 minutes to read how to get the best out of your TV and blu-ray player and perhaps 10 more to adjust them. As such no of course there won't be a replacement scheme as the fault is with the consumer not the manufacturer.

I always bin the j card and promotional booklet as they're a waste of paper and not part of the packaging.

As I recall Mike Power who designed Kamelion died before he could write a detailed instruction manual. As such no one knew how to properly operate the prop. Also I think Mel and Donna should be added to this list. Oh wait dies count if you want to forget but can't?

The year this Dr Who season was aired, I was 8 and IMO Dr Who was at its best and in some ways there are fans who think that Tom Baker should have ended his tenure at the end of season 15 in Invasion of Time.