Well it had been quite a while since our last meet up! May was a no-go for Who! So it took us to lovely Juuuuuuuunnnne to watch the last story of Jon Pertwee's second season. It seemed apt to watch an occult-Hammer-horror-esque story around Leigh's - and that's where we found ourselves. All the boys ready to watch this five parter! Here's what happened....
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Mark: "Leigh, have you been buying more props? Or have they just been moved from the other room? 'Cos I think there's more than there was last time."
Shaun: "Yeah I don't think I've seen the Hulk or the Deadpool ones before?"
Leigh: "The Deadpool one's been there for ages, the Hulk one just came in this month's Loote Crate."
Mark: "Ahh right."
MJ: *Half-heartedly* "That's a good start to the show. Hello." *Chuckles* "We're round Leigh's watching 'The Dæmons' and we're all like 'Meh'."
Shaun: "Oh we're doing 'The Dæmons' are we?"
MJ: "Yes."
Shaun: "I thought we had one before that."
MJ: "Nope this is the last one of Season Two of Mister Pert-Wee. So that should be a lot of fun."
Leigh: " 'Pert-Wee'?"
MJ: "And it's a story that I thought was quite apt for around Leigh's as it's got a bit of Hammer Horror from the 1970's feel which I thought you might like. You know, think oh what do you call it? The village where they are all devil-worshippers and stuff?"
Jason: " 'The Wicker Man'?"
MJ: " 'The Wicker Man'! That sort of thing."
Leigh: "Right."
Shaun: "Not the M. Night Shyamalan version?"
Leigh: "Don't talk about the re-make!!"
*Mark chuckles*
MJ: "Covered in bees!"
Shaun: " 'NOT THE BEES!!!!' "
*Mark chuckles*
Shaun: "That's amazing."
Leigh: "I'll start talking about how much I preferred the Judge Dredd film! And it was better and closer to the comics as he took his helmet off almost immediately."
*Chuckles*
MJ: "Hah! 'Helmet'."
Mark: "I just happened to mention it - there's no need to bring out THAT!"
MJ: "Don't mention the war."
Shaun: "From watching a review of it, there's actually something better than 'Not the bees' in 'The Wicker Man' though. Which is where, for no explanation, he's in a bear costume and punches a woman in the face! Which is hilarious!"
MJ: "That's just Nick Cage larking around and they thought 'Ooo, keep that in!' " *Looking at DD menu* "Yay, U.N.I.T.!" *Laughter* "Okay so, five-parter. Here we are around Leigh's - shall we crack on? Crack off?"
Jason: "Let's crack on -" *Looking at DVD menu* "Oh look The Master!"
Shaun: "Oh what a surprise The Master's in it!" *Laughter* "I wonder if he'll be betrayed by those Weeping Angel looking things!?"
MJ: "Hah! Weeping Angel?"
Shaun: "Yes, I was going to say - they are weeping angels aren't they?"
MJ: "I don't know what you're on about! Is this something in the future?"
Shaun: "Oh sorry! Jon Pertwee appeared a little while ago and took me into the future to watch BETTER Doctor Who!"
Shaun: "Oh sorry! Jon Pertwee appeared a little while ago and took me into the future to watch BETTER Doctor Who!"
*Laughter*
MJ: "There's not many better than this! I first saw this back in the 90's when they re-coloured it for the first time and err."
Shaun: "That happens in the future!"
MJ: "Damn!"
Shaun: "The Master has woman's hands!!"
*Laughter*
MJ: "Anyway Episode....One - I was going to say 'Two'!" *Looking on screen* "Thunder, rain, house, church."
Jason: "I'm going for terrace."
Leigh: "Looks like Melford."
MJ: "I was thinking it looked like, erm -"
Jason: "- Every church you know!"
*Laughter*
Jason: "Cornard!"
MJ: "Cornard, yeah!"
Jason: *Reacting to onscreen* "Cat! Two-faced Cat!"
MJ: "I'll stop it there, now we've seen a cat. Shaun likes a cat."
Shaun: "I do like a cat."
Photo 1: At Leigh's house - Leigh, Mark (holding the sign),
Shaun & MJ (with the DVD case).
MJ: "End of Part One - The Doctor's dead."
Shaun: "Yay! The Master got second billing in this one!"
*Leigh chuckles*
MJ: "Who'd have The Master would be in it as the local vicar!!?"
*Laughter*
MJ: "Very good. We've got a bonkers, erm, White Witch (Miss Hawthorne), which is nice."
Jason: "She's not bonkers. She's the only one that makes sense!"
Shaun: "Yeah! She the one that's right!"
MJ: *Doing some kind of impression of the White Witch* " 'Oh won't you LISTEN to me??' "
Shaun: "I LIKED her!"
MJ: "Yeah I liked her - I thought she was fun. I also liked the locals in the pub. There are some characters there." *Puts on West country accent* "Arrr - you don't wanna be going round messing with 'The Hump'!" *Laughter* "And there you go. The Master's released a dæmon and the little statue, in the Church, turned his head - with glowing red eyes. Ooo - scary."
Jason: "It's alright - so far."
*Leigh laughs*
MJ: "Well let's see what Part Two offers us!"
Jason: "I won't mark it down yet."
MJ: "We got The Master in a glorious outfit - to worship ancient spirits, and, err, a church and witchcraft."
Jason: "We don't know WHY The Master bothered with the whole, err, 'Ronnie Corbett glasses' as part of his disguise at the start!"
MJ: "No."
Jason: "'Cos he didn't have them on for the second half and he took them off to do the hypnotising bit - which didn't work!"
*Mark chuckles*
MJ: "Ohh, okay."
Shaun: "Yeah, the thing is he doesn't need to disguise himself around people who don't know what he looks like!"
Jason: "The glasses are not going to help."
Shaun: "Yeah!" MJ: *Referencing the start of the episode now playing* "Anyway he's laughing. Part Two."
Shaun: "Is that a cigar (coming from the statue's mouth)?"
MJ: "I think it might be his tongue - for the Viewers at home - that will be listening... And by 'Listen' I mean 'Reading'... And by 'Reading' I mean 'Ignoring it completely'!"
*Laughter*
Photo 2: At Leigh's house - Leigh (doing the sign of the Devil!),Mark (holding the sign), Shaun (with the DVD case) & Jason.
*EPISODE TWO GETS WATCHED*
Shaun: *Part-way through a chat* "- I'm slightly intimidated by the guy in the crappy grey costume! Capering about!"
MJ: "The little Devil-Guy menaced Jo and The Doctor -"
Shaun: "- He menaced NOTHING!"
MJ: "Well he hopped around going:" *does creepy hoppy mime*
Jason: "Well he looked shit outside but they were in a dark place - he could have looked really threatening in a dark place - if they'd lit it in just the right way."
Shaun: "I think their reaction was perfect. They kind of stood back for a second and went 'You look like an idiot!' " *Laughter* "That's going to be the resolution of this cliff-hanger! 'What are you wearing?! Come on, you're not The Master under that are you!?? Can we just get this over with!?' "
MJ: *Reading the end credits* "Bok! I think that's the name of the little devil name."
Shaun: "Ahhh, Bok."
Mark: "It wasn't the name of the thirty foot goat?"
Leigh: "Goat-zilla!"
*Laughter*
MJ: "Well we never saw that - we only saw the hooves."
Shaun: "And something tells me we WON'T see him!"
Leigh: *Laughing* "What, you don't think they've got the budget to make a thirty foot high goat!??"
Mark: "I think they've got the budget for a normal sized goat and a model village."
*Laughter*
MJ: "I like when the Brigadier came into it and was like 'They've done WHAT??! Taken my car?? Ohhhh!'."
Shaun: "So you liked seeing the Brigadier in bed then?"
*Leigh Laughs*
MJ: "Oh dear - hoisted by my own retard..."
Shaun: "The Brigadier is always excellent in this! I like the Brigadier."
Jason: "He's barely in it!"
Shaun: "So far! He's only outside the village."
Jason: "He's now got a powerful wand."
Mark: "He's got a flaming stick."
MJ: "He's got a powerful 'Wad'??!"
Jason: 'WAND!"
MJ: "WAND! Oh yes that's right! There's a heat barrier around the village which burns - well it burnt a - was it a baker's van or grocer's van or something?"
Shaun: "It was a van for the stores."
MJ: "Ahh a van for the (Village) stores."
Jason: "Maybe he was a grocer - he looked like a grocer."
MJ: "Yeah."
Shaun: "I thought he looked like a milk man!"
Jason: "Well, producer of goods."
MJ: "It said on the side 'Pigbin Josh's Grocers!"
Shaun: "It DID not!"
MJ: "No, it did not. 'Cos there's no such person as Pigbin Josh - it's a ridiculous name!"
Leigh: "It is, it's a joke name!"
Shaun: "It's also a very unnecessary name, when 'Tramp' will do!"
*Laughter*
MJ: "Well his contribution to that is, is...well....what?" *Laughs*
Shaun: "It gave us a running joke for a while."
MJ: "He did and now he's gone forever. So is this one you're warming to, Mr. Leigh?"
Leigh: "Errr. It's, it's alright?"
Shaun: "I was going to say, you're talking to Leigh and it's Hammer Horroresque!"
MJ: "I know that's why I thought it might be right up his - giggerty - alley!"
*Sniggering and laughter* " 'Cos I've always liked this one - I first saw the RE-colourised version in 1993 on BBC2. A repeat - obviously... Hah! I think that was the first Pertwee I ever saw. I was like 'Ooo - this is good! If they're all like this then I'm going to love it!' and then they weren't!"
Leigh: "Well, arguably they all ARE like that."
Jason: "Yeah."
Leigh: "In so much as they've always got The Master as the bad guy!"
MJ: "Well all THIS season."
Shaun: "I found the effect (when the devil, err, Daemon, 30 foot goat - Goatzilla - erm, killed Henchmen Number One) very confusing. there was like a yellow orb with like an orange orb around it filtered onto the screen."
MJ: "Yeah."
Shaun: "And they kind of closed in on that. But then there was the same filter on everything else they've shown."
MJ: "Ahhhh."
Shaun: "Which was really delineating. So I just got a bit confused as to what was going on there."
MJ: "I didn't realise it was on too much of it - 'cos I assumed that was just a heat kind of ray thing - or something."
Shaun: "Yeah but it was also on other things - it was on the two (people) running away and then it panned on The Doctor, who was in that other room. Then the whole room went yellow and shook."
MJ: "Ahhh."
Mark: "I assumed he just had a lazy eye."
Shaun: *Laughing* "A lazy laser eye!"
MJ: "I think it was like erm..."
Leigh: "Rain on your wedding day?"
MJ: "Ugh!"
Mark: "That's ironic."
Leigh: "No!"
*Mark chuckles*
Shaun: "No, if I'd been dead with a sign saying 'DANGER' in the rubble that had killed me, then that would have been ironic."
MJ: "Isn't it like sometimes the Daleks, when they exterminate, they actually do. Then sometimes they do it and they slightly graze someone - it's not full extermination. They have to wait a few more 'Rels' to do that!"Leigh: "How many Rels?!"
MJ: "Ten thousand." *Dalek voice* "TEN THOU-SAND!!"
*Laughter*
Shaun: "With the Daleks it needs to - although it's not necessarily expressed very well, 'cos they just turn the screen white - I think the point is that there is a focused part of the beam and everything outside of that just gives a horrible dose of radiation that can wound."
MJ: "Yah!"
Jason: "Maybe that's what the red thing is."
Shaun: "Yeah."
Jason: "The circle is focus - which is just the red room shaking. That's just 'I'm thinking about doing something'."
Shaun: "I'm looking forward to that plate being The Master having fabricated this whole thing with ridiculous alien technology."
MJ: "What, the little Ouija Board Devil-thing?"
Shaun: "Yeah the thing that weighs a bajillion tons!"
Mark: "The twister board."
Shaun: "That Jo couldn't pick up."
MJ: "Ohhh! The thing made of metal or something."
Shaun: "Yeah."
Mark: "Ten thousand years ago - or something."
Shaun: "'Cos the Ouija Board thing looks ridiculous but it's fair enough!"
Jason: "It doesn't look ridiculous!"
Shaun: "It DOES look ridiculous!"
*Leigh takes our drink orders*
MJ: "This one could possibly be my favourite Pertwee story I've seen so far, because it was the first one I'd ever seen and I remember enjoying it."
Jason: "Yeah I've enjoyed it so far."
Mark: "Yeah."
Shaun: "It's alright so far."
MJ: "And every time I've seen it since - twice - so this is the third -"
Jason: "- The only thing I don't like is the dodgy costume for the devil thing (Bok)."
MJ: "Yeah the grey leotard."
Jason: "That's the only thing I know of this episode as it's the only thing I've seen it in pictures for years. So I've always thought 'That looks shit!' "
MJ: "Bok!"
Shaun: "And it does!"
Jason: "And it does - I thought maybe they'll light it in a way that would be alright. Maybe in black and white it was fine."
*A low flying plane goes over - oh yeah we all moved outside!*
Shaun: "Leigh! Come out here they're playing that stock footage of a plane again!"
*Laughter*
MJ: "That's a low flying plane. Low Low." *In style of the Kinks song Lola* " 'L-O-W, L-O-W, Low-Low!' Hah!" *Shaun Laughs* "And with THAT Kinks pun I'm going to pause it there - this is nice out here!"
Photo 3: At Leigh's house - Leigh,
Mark (holding the sign), Shaun & MJ (with the DVD case).
Mark (holding the sign), Shaun & MJ (with the DVD case).
*EPISODE THREE GETS WATCHED*
MJ: "Episode Three and The Master's been menaced by a giant camera - up on high! Hah! It should be a Dæmon maybe? We don't know yet - we haven't seen him!"
Mark: "He's been inevitably betrayed, is what's happened."
Jason: "Yes."
MJ: "Yes. UNIT have lost their helicopter 'cos one of the possessed villagers flew it into the heat barrier like an idiot. And Bok is played by Stanley Mason!"
Mark: "Yes he is."
Leigh: "Who's Stanley Mason?"
MJ: "He played Bok!"
*Laughter*
Leigh: *Laughing* "Right okay! I didn't know if he was someone I should have heard of!"
MJ: "I wonder if it was a child? 'Cos I was going to say when he runs along he runs like a kid!"
Shaun: "The whole pacing of this is incredibly strange - and I quite like it for that. So 80% of the first episode was exposition, then they rushed into releasing the Dæmon - a Hell of a lot has happened in two episodes! And we've STILL got two to go!"
MJ: "Three."
Shaun: "No, it's five isn't it?"
Leigh: "Yeah."
MJ: "Yeah but we've had three."
Mark: "Yeah."
Shaun: "So there's two to go."
MJ: "Yeah."
*Mark laughs*
Shaun: " 'Cos five take three equals two!." *Laughs*
MJ: "No but you said 'a Hell of a lot has happened in two episodes', so...."
Leigh: "We ignored the first episode!"
MJ: "Oh I see!"
Shaun: "Yeah the first one was exposition and then LOADS has happened."
MJ: "I don't want to know about my ex's position!" *Chuckles*
Leigh: "Badum-tssssh!"
Shaun: So yeah...and apparently, despite all the sciency stuff of 'Oh they're all an ancient race' and all that as well, they are all demons as well! Which was kind of unexpected!"
MJ: "Episode Fourrrrrrrrrrr!"
Photo 4: At Leigh's house - Leigh,
Mark (hiding behind the sign),
Shaun (with the DVD case) & Jason.
Mark (hiding behind the sign),
Shaun (with the DVD case) & Jason.
MJ: *Watching The Master summoning the Dæmon - he chants something that sounds like "A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh" from 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight' which makes us laugh. He then shouts for the Dæmon to show himself* "Yes we need to see you show yourself 'cos we haven't seen you exposed. Not The Master..."
Mark: "Are you saying The Master's about to expose himself?"
Shaun: "I hope this isn't the last we see of The Master doing his Doctor Strange impression! I've been enjoying that."
MJ: "Ooo the church bells are ringing! The whole village is shaking!"
Jason: "That's a cool effect - I like that."
MJ: "Yeah it is."
MJ: "Yeah it is."
Mark: "What Yates falling over?"
*Leigh laughs*
*Leigh laughs*
Jason: "The wibble (effect)!"
MJ: "I think they do that by shooting into a mirror and then shaking the mirror."
Jason: "Don't spoil the magic!"
MJ: "Sorry."Shaun: "Oh! UNIT just HAPPENS to have all of that stuff - that they didn't know what it was - that The Doctor asked for!"
*Mark chuckles*
Jason: "Bad Daemon!"
*Jo Grant says "We must get to the cavern!"*
Mark: "I thought she was knocked out for hours?!"MJ: "Now she's alright."
Leigh: "And suddenly wants to see The Beatles play!"
*MJ and Jason laugh*
MJ: "The Cavern! Leigh made 'A Funny'! Leigh and his Beatle jokes! He's ALWAYS making references."
Leigh: "With my encyclopedic knowledge of The Beatles!"
*Laughter - the joke being MJ is the BIG Beatles fan - Leigh can't stand them!*
MJ: "Anyway I'll leave it there - Jo is going to climb down a ladder (from the upper floor of a pub which she has been locked up in) which is handily at the side of the pub!"
Shaun: "That's bloody lucky!"
Jason: "It's in case of fire!"
Mark: "Or Robbers."
Jason: "Burglars - yeah."
Leigh: "I've got an extension, with a flat roof and a window that overlooks it - I don't have a conveniently placed ladder though. Perhaps I should look into getting one."
Shaun: "I think you should."
MJ: "Well done, Jo, for climbing down one with those heels as well!"
Shaun: "Where's Betsy?"
MJ: "No, 'Bessie'! Hah - 'Betsy'! Okay I'll pause it."
Photo 5: At Leigh's house - Leigh,
Mark, Shaun (with the DVD case)
& Jason (holding the sign).
Mark, Shaun (with the DVD case)
& Jason (holding the sign).
*Everybody is laughing when the recording is started*
MJ: "Mark thinks that THAT effect was probably shit in the seventies - it was the Dæmon - he was finally revealed and he grew BIG! And he laughed - Ha-Ha-Haaa! Azal." *Reading end credits* " 'The Quarrymen'?!"
Jason: "It WAS The Beatles!"
MJ: "The EARLY Beatles! Yes we just had Morris Dancers -"
Shaun: "- EVIL Morris Dancers!"
MJ: "Yes Evil Morris Dancers."
Leigh: "Evil kick-ARSE Morris Dancers!"
Jason: "You don't HAVE to say 'Evil Morris Dancers' as ALL Morris Dancers are evil!"
*Shaun laughs*
Leigh: "I disagree!"
MJ: "Well you WOULD say that - (Leigh) Morris!"
MJ: "Well you WOULD say that - (Leigh) Morris!"
*Laughter*
Leigh: *Upon seeing the name Terrance Dicks* "Dicks."
MJ: "Yayyyy! I'll bet he 'Dicks' around. Okay so we've only got one more after this - that will be nice!"
Mark: "Yeah. This one's alright."
MJ: "Yes, yes."
Mark: "I'm enjoying this one."
Mark: "I'm enjoying this one."
MJ: "I certainly am - I don't call it one of my favourites for no reason! This and 'The Web Planet' - "
*Leigh's laughter can be heard from another room!*
MJ: *Puts on Announcer type voice* "For the listeners at home: Leigh laughed! Hah!"
Mark: "Nobody's listening!!"
MJ: "Haha! Nobody's listening 'cos I don't put the audio up! If I did it would be like the 'Bad Audio Show'! I was going to tell you that the guy who does the voice of the big Dæmon also does the voice of - oh, no I can't tell you THAT fact as we haven't SEEN that episode yet! Hah! Yes but he also does the voice of another villain."
Shaun: "Is it Roy Skelton?"
Shaun: "Is it Roy Skelton?"
MJ: "It's not Roy Skelton."
Jason: "Is it the guy who does -"
Jason: "Is it the guy who does -"
Leigh: "Is it Roy Walker!?"
Jason: "- Baron Greenback."
MJ: *To Leigh's comment - and in a Roy Walker style* "Riiiiigghhht!" *Baron Greenback voice* "Herrrrrr Stiletto! Oooo Betty! Jessica's done a sh*t!"
*MJ and Jason laugh*
Jason: "That's not even connected!"
MJ: *Baron Greenback voice* "Ooo wait until they get a load of me!" *Normal voice* "Said Joker."
Shaun: "He did. But not like that."
Jason: "I thought he said 'Joe Cocker'."
Shaun: "Joe Cocker also said it."
Jason: "I thought he said 'Joe Cocker'."
Shaun: "Joe Cocker also said it."
MJ: "He also sang 'Byyyy with a little help, from my friends. And little Joe Cocker was actually Kevin Arnold - that's why he sang the theme tune of 'The Wonder Years'."
Leigh: "What?!"
Shaun: "What is going on?"
Leigh: "I don't understand ANY of this!?"
Leigh: "I don't understand ANY of this!?"
Jason: "I was listening to a podcast the other day with Fred Savage - it was very good!"
MJ: "Were you?"
Leigh: "Who's Fred Savage!?"
Leigh: "Who's Fred Savage!?"
MJ: "He played the main kid in 'The Wonder Years'! Did you never watch 'The Wonder Years'?"
Leigh: "No!"
MJ: "I shouldn't be recording all this!" *Laughter* "It's pointless!!"
Mark: "This is all relevent!"
MJ: "I shouldn't be recording all this!" *Laughter* "It's pointless!!"
Mark: "This is all relevent!"
Jason: "He was also in Austin Powers - Moley-moley-moley...."
Photo 6: At Leigh's house - Shaun
& MJ (doing his Rik Mayall face with the DVD case).
*EPISODE FIVE GETS STARTED*
MJ: "Last episode of the DA-emons! Da-emons - uh-uh - Da-emons!" *Singing* "Doctor Whoooooo" *Normal voice* "Sorry I missed it!"
*Laughter*
Jason: "I didn't!"
MJ: *Singing* "Doctor Looooooo!" *Normal voice* "I said 'Doctor Loo' then!"
Mark: " 'Doctor Loo'?"
Shaun: "That's another one you could sing" *Singing to Doctor Who theme* "The Dæ-mons - The Dæ-mons!"
MJ: *Reading opening titles* "I'm pretty sure 'Guy Leopold' is a pseudonym (I was right - it was a pseudonym for Barry Letts and Robert Sloman writing together for this story). Is a - is pseudonym the right word? A pen name - pretend?"
Leigh: "Nom de plume!"
MJ: "Anyway."
Shaun: "Let's see what happened last time."
Jason: "Didn't they have to kill a dog or something?"
Mark: "No he was going to kill a virgin chicken."
Jason: "A virgin chicken?"
Shaun: "No 'cos last time he just raised the knife. So he's probably just doing the same thing."
Jason: "I'm sure Jo only came out to stop The Master killing something!"
Mark: "Yeah he was holding a chicken."
Jason: "Where's the chicken?!"
Leigh: "There's NO chicken!"
Mark: "There WAS a chicken!"
Jason: "There was SOME animal!"
MJ: "Was there?"
Jason: "That's why she came out!"
MJ: "Why does she care about chicken - she eats chickens doesn't she? Or is she a veggie?"
Shaun: "Maybe she's a cat."
MJ: "Henry's Cat?"
Shaun: "No." MJ: "And there's the big Dæmon!"
Shaun: "Right we're going to hear him now - presumably. I thought we already heard him speak?"
Mark: "We did already hear him speak."
Jason: "Is it the voice of The Claw?"
MJ: "Hah! The Hooded Claw?"
Jason: "I'm half thinking of the one from 'Penelope Pitstop' and half thinking of the one from 'Inspector Gadget'!"
Leigh: "No, he's the voice of Simba's Dad and he was Darth Vader..." *Laughs*
MJ: "James Earl" *Puts on Rigsby from 'Rising Damp' voice* "Miss Jones!!" *Laughs*
Shaun: "Let's see what happened last time."
Jason: "Didn't they have to kill a dog or something?"
Mark: "No he was going to kill a virgin chicken."
Jason: "A virgin chicken?"
Shaun: "No 'cos last time he just raised the knife. So he's probably just doing the same thing."
Jason: "I'm sure Jo only came out to stop The Master killing something!"
Mark: "Yeah he was holding a chicken."
Jason: "Where's the chicken?!"
Leigh: "There's NO chicken!"
Mark: "There WAS a chicken!"
Jason: "There was SOME animal!"
MJ: "Was there?"
Jason: "That's why she came out!"
MJ: "Why does she care about chicken - she eats chickens doesn't she? Or is she a veggie?"
Shaun: "Maybe she's a cat."
MJ: "Henry's Cat?"
Shaun: "No." MJ: "And there's the big Dæmon!"
Shaun: "Right we're going to hear him now - presumably. I thought we already heard him speak?"
Mark: "We did already hear him speak."
Jason: "Is it the voice of The Claw?"
MJ: "Hah! The Hooded Claw?"
Jason: "I'm half thinking of the one from 'Penelope Pitstop' and half thinking of the one from 'Inspector Gadget'!"
Leigh: "No, he's the voice of Simba's Dad and he was Darth Vader..." *Laughs*
MJ: "James Earl" *Puts on Rigsby from 'Rising Damp' voice* "Miss Jones!!" *Laughs*
"And with that 'Rising Damp' reference..."
*EPISODE FIVE GETS WATCHED*
MJ: "Yayyyyy! That was 'The Dæmons'! Yayyyy! 'Fancy a dance Brigadier?' 'No I'd rather have a pint!' Yay! That was The Brigadier and Yates." *Leigh laughs* "Classic line there. Fantastic. So err.... that was alright."*EPISODE FIVE GETS WATCHED*
Mark: "I liked that one!"
MJ: "Hah! I did - I really like it...a lot."
Jason: "I thought it wrapped itself up a bit too quickly - but it was alright."
MJ: "Yeah!"
Jason: "I mean I liked the whole thing but it was one of those 'Ooo! I'd better finish it now!' "
Shaun: "Yep."
MJ: "Yeah the idea that Jo's saying - the big dæmon 'Azrael' or whatever his name was -"
Shaun: "- Azal."
MJ: "Azal - said he was going to destroy the Earth and then kill The Doctor or something - but Jo said 'No, kill me instead!' and he went 'Huh?? What!?! Giving up your life?! I don't believe it! I'd gonna die now!' "
Shaun: "Yeah that kind of came out of nowhere!"
*Leigh laughs*
Mark: "It sort of made sense in the fact that you need bad emotions to, you know, call him forth. So GOOD ones might be a bit..."
MJ: "It wasn't that it was GOOD - it was the fact that it didn't make SENSE to him (Azal)."
Shaun: "Yeah."
Mark: "Yeah I didn't explain it that way."
Shaun: "It was that Azal HAD to give his power away or destroy the Earth. So, you know, somehow stop him giving away all of his power... and obviously destoying the Earth!"
Mark: "Look he fought against his own hand at the end!"
Shaun: "He did yes - and we started this off by making an 'Evil Dead' reference and we've ended there as well - so it's nicely full circle."
MJ: "Did you like the err, big, villain, Dæmon guy?"
Shaun: "He was certainly better than the crappy idiot in the grey leotard!"
*Laughter*
MJ: "Bok."
Mark: "I found it disappointing it wasn't Brian Blessed - that happens a lot."
Jason: "I assumed Bok disappeared at the end?"
MJ: "No, he turned back to stone."
Shaun: "Yeah."
MJ: "Turned back to a gargoyle."
Leigh: "Were you not paying attention?!"
Jason: "Well, no I saw him get blown-up and put back together again."
MJ: "And then he just froze into a statue again."
Shaun: "Yeah when Azal died. The Brigadier poked him with a riding crop."
Jason: "I clearly missed all that."
MJ: "And then Azal went on to release an album called '21'!"
*Laughter*
MJ: *Singing* " 'Never mind, I will find another Earth - to destroy!' "
*Laughter*
Jason: "That's awesome..."
MJ: *Moves glasses in a Ronnie Corbett style* "The Producer said to me!"
Jason: "I was trying to work out why you keep removing your glasses - are you trying to hypnotise me!?"
MJ: "That's right! The Master - he can't hypnotise people wearing glasses we've found."
Mark: "No."
MJ: "He has to take them off and THEN he can hypnotise!"
Mark: "Can he hypnotise people with glasses on? Have we seen him do that?"
MJ: "Ahhhh!"
Shaun: "Yes! I think we have."
Jason: "He couldn't hypnotise the Witch though."
MJ: "And you thought The Master was going to get away at the end like he has done before - but no he's actually captured this time."
Shaun: "Well it makes sense, 'cos I'd forgotten, at that point, that this was the season's end. So they get their big win over The Master who's basically making them look like cretins for the entire season!"
Mark: "I presume next time he turns up he's in prison, but controls the whole prison - 'cos he can hypnotise people!"
Shaun: "Yep."
MJ: "Oh..... Haha!"
Jason: "I was just looking what the next one was. It is - do you want to know who the baddies are? Or shall I just tell you the title?"
MJ: "Oh, is it?..."
Jason: " 'Day of The Daleks'."
*Laughter*
MJ: "Oh, is it? The first time they've returned for ages."
Leigh: "Ahh! I reckon The Master might make some sort of alliance with the Daleks?...."
*Laughter*
Mark: "I don't think that will go wrong though - they won't betray him...."
MJ: "So did you like that one Mr. Leigh?"
Leigh: "I did, yes. I thought, erm, it was strangely light-hearted a lot of it." *Laughs*
Shaun: "Yes."
Mark: "Yeah."
MJ: "Yes. There was certainly comedy elements. And some nice bits for the main characters - they all had their own little moments in the sun, didn't they?"
Leigh: "I liked the middle-class witch."
Shaun: "Yeah, she was great."
Leigh: "And I liked the evil Morris Men - that was awesome!"
*Laughter*
MJ: "They tied The Doctor up whilst he was trying to - I mean why would you through the Morris dancing?! Why couldn't you just go around the green?"
*Laughter*
Mark: "'Cos he's busy! He's got places to be! He doesn't have time for this nonsense."
Shaun: "I mean he WAS trying to save the world!"
Mark: "Yeah."
Jason: "You would go round the Morris Dancers!"
MJ: "You would."
Jason: "Not straight through them."
Shaun: "I'd go straight through them!"
*Mark laughs*
MJ: "But it was SO awkward and he couldn't do it and then they tied him up! And he was like 'Oh'."
Jason: "It wasn't awkward - we had a bit overview shot at the end! They could have just gone around the green!"
Shaun: "Yeah."
MJ: "That's what I meant!! It was awkward going THROUGH it!"
Jason: "Oh I see, yes, sorry."
MJ: "It's ridiculous. But then he had to be tied up and then - magic with Bessie! Remote control Bessie! See that came in - they planted the seed in the earlier episode. Like Moff-FAT does now!"
*Laughter*
Jason: "Yes I was surprised - they did it and used it at least twice! If not more."
MJ: "You happy with that one Mr. Shaun?"
Shaun: "Yes it was very good! Very enjoyable."
MJ: "Mark?"
Mark: "Yeah."
MJ: "Yeah?"
Mark: "Yeah."
MJ: "Good - so what are we going marks-wise - Mark?"
Jason: "Errrm nine?"
MJ: "Ooo!"
Shaun: "Wow!"
Jason: "I can't really fault it - other than the ending to it - oh and the costumes!"
Shaun: "What costumes?"
Jason: "The leotard."
Shaun: "Oh yeah Bok"
Leigh: "Bok."
MJ: "It was alright."
Jason: "I don't think it was supposed to be threatening - I think he was just a little impy-guy."
MJ: "Yeah - I think I'll go for nine as well."
Jason: "The bad guys weren't bad - only The Master."
Shaun: "Yep."
MJ: "They were kind of hypnotised - weren't they? Idiots."
Jason: "Then you get to the Dæmon and he's like 'I'm not THAT bad. You failed experiment, you!' "
MJ: "Yeah. Failed experiment - so as you say even the bad guy wasn't bad..."
Jason: "Ancient aliens created Earthlings."
Mark: "And like any good Doctor Who, err, there was no explanation as to why they bothered with all of that." *Laughter* "Nothing whatsoever. 'This is what we had to do - eh...' "
MJ: "They didn't even give us an 'I'll explain it later'! So where are we at?"
Jason: "I said Nine."
MJ: "I said Nine."
Jason: "Although I'm not."
Mark: "I'm going to say eight point six seven two."
Shaun: "With a startling coincidence I'm going to say the EXACTLY the same as Mark!"
*Laughter*
Leigh: "Oh, well I'm going to give it the lowest mark at eight!"
MJ: "So there we go!"
Jason: "Did you give it a mark, MJ?"
MJ: "Yeah nine. I agreed - as I said it's the first Pertwee I ever saw."
Shaun: "I wouldn't say it's the BEST one I've seen, but it was thoroughly enjoyable from start to finish."
MJ: "I think that's what it is - it may not be the greatest story ever but it goes along -"
Shaun: "- Never drags. -"
MJ: "- There's not an episode of padding where they are stuck in a-"
Shaun: "- Chasm!"
Jason: "To be honest if I were to regrade the season I'd probably up all my other ones. As this is WAY too high compared to my other marks which were four and three etc."
*Laughter* "It's not MASSIVELY better but it's..."
Mark: "It's the first one I've enjoyed all the way through I think." *Laughter* "So high marks."
MJ: "Five parters all the way - that's what it should be!"
*Laughter*
Leigh: "So what does 'The Book' tell us we should ACTUALLY think?"
MJ: "Book!"
Jason: "Oh that's a good point!"
Leigh: "One Bok costume was made!"
Jason: "I can tell you for one it was filmed in Wiltshire!"
Leigh: "Wiltshire!"
Jason: "Errr" *Reading* " 'Devils end is cut off from civilisation when an archaeological dig uncovers a seemingly OCC-ult forces!' "
MJ: " 'OCC-ult' - why do they say 'OCC-ult' - that won't read well in this transcript!"
*Mark laughs*
Mark: "Good luck explaining that!"
Jason: *Reading* " 'When filming took place in the Wiltshire place of Aldbourne a late snowfall hampered shooting of the heat-barrier sequences!' "
Shaun: "Yeah you definitely couldn't write around THAT!"
*Laughs*
Jason: *Reading* " 'The shot of the exploding model church in Episode Five provoked complaints from naive viewers- ' "
*Laughter*
MJ: "- Yeah I said that! Idiots! -"
Jason: *Reading* " '- who thought the BBC had destroyed a real building!' "
*Laughter*
MJ: *Complaining voice "The BBC has gone TOO far this time!! I didn't pay my Licence Fee etc.."
Jason: *Reading* " 'This wannabe occult chiller gradually dissipates into a techno-babble filled damp squib'."
MJ: "Oh!"
Shaun: "Oh!"
Jason: *Reading* " 'The UNIT family do their stuff in civvies and the quintessentially English village is a pleasant back-drop. But much of the action now seems dated - six out of ten.'"
*Mmmm's, murmurs and moans from the group*
Jason: "Didn't seem THAT dated to me!"
MJ: "I didn't think so!"
Shaun: "It looked alright - yeah."
MJ: "It looks like it's from the 70's so yeah!"
Jason: "You could go NOW and it would look like that! I saw some Morris Dancers the other week!"
*Laughter*
MJ: "You can go to (local village) Cavendish which is a similar thing and look at the green and it would be pretty much THAT!"
Shaun: "Yeah they would be tying up and burning people as a witch!"
*Laughter*
Mark: "Erm they do do that in Cavendish actually! They don't call them 'Witches' any more - they don't like that, it's not PC. They call them 'Immigrant' these days!"
*Laughter*
MJ: "And we had a new UNIT guy didn't we? Was that Osgood - with the specs!?"
Shaun: "Has Osgood not been in it before then?"
Mark: "No."
Jason: "They have had a speccy guy in it before."
Shaun: "At the time most of us didn't get that his daughter is the girl who is in current Doctor Who!"
MJ: "Well we don't KNOW that! She may have been named in honour of this Osgood."
Jason: "He was in it for three episodes and didn't say a word, so i just thought he was a silent extra!"
MJ: "Ahh."
Jason: "Then they started talking to him a lot! So he'd been hanging around for a reason!"
*Leigh chuckles*
Mark: "They suddenly need a Tech-Guy - that's who he was."
Jason: " 'You wear glasses! You must know stuff!!' He instantly went 'No I don't know what you're talking about!' "
*Leigh laughs*
Mark: "That's how they assign roles in UNIT!"
Jason: "So you mentioned the voice of the bad guy?"
MJ: "Yes, he will play the voice of - "
Jason: "He WILL play? Oh I was trying to recognise him!"
MJ: "No, no, no!"
Shaun: "For the love of God MJ!"
*Mark laughs*
Jason: "Oh I thought he might be someone else we'd have heard of!"
MJ: "No no he does the voice of somebody in a future story."
Jason: "I doubt I'll pick it up!"
MJ: "I'll....forget to mention!"
Jason: "Yeah."
*Mark laughs*
MJ: "Look I even put the little 'A' and 'E' together on the sign." *Shaun Laughs* "I forget what you call that - Leigh do you remember what you call that 'a' and 'e' together?"
Leigh: "I can't remember what you call that - no."
Mark: "Are you looking up what that's called?"
Leigh: "No I'm not!"
*Laughter*
MJ: "It's called an 'Ooojamaflip'."
(If you really want to know Wikipedia says: 'Æ (minuscule: æ) is a grapheme named æsc or ash, formed from the letters a and e, originally aligature representing a Latin diphthong.' So now you know!)
Shaun: "What did you say the next one is? Is it the 'Power Of The Daleks' did you say?"
Leigh: " 'The Day of The Daleks'."
MJ: "Yes 'DAY Of The Daleks' - now I'm in two minds about that one - oh I suppose I'll stop now! Goodbye and see you next time!"
*Leigh chuckles*
Jason: "I'm just impressed that in the next episode there's a guy in it called 'Styles'."
MJ: "Harry?"
Shaun: "AJ?"
Shaun: "AJ?"
Jason: "No the one from 'Teen Wolf' though."
MJ: "Hehe! Bye!"
Photo 7: At Leigh's house - MJ (with the DVD case).
Big smiles for this one!
Big smiles for this one!
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And that, my Sweets, was what happened when we met for the end of Pertwee's second season. As I said I'm WELL behind now - and as I write this we are three serials ahead! I need to get a scoot on - life just keeps getting in the old way!
Anyhow this time the meaningless scores went like this:
Leigh: 8
Shaun: 8.672
Mark: 8.672
MJ: 9
Jason: 9
Which means average scores for this one were 8.6688 out of 10! So a high scoring story this! As I said before it's one of my favourites so I'm pleased the gang agreed!
Anyhow that's it - better scoot! So until next time I shall return, yes i shall return...
MJ - 23/08/2016
