DOCTOR WHO MARATHON 62nd MEET-UP - THE TIME MONSTER

Sunday 19th September 2016

So here we go again on our own - dun dun - going down the only road I've ever know - dun-dun!

But this time with a story I hadn't seen before.  I hoped for Shaun's sake it would have The Master in it - to appease his Master-Loving nature.  Well let us see....

(Oh and my heart REALLY didn't sound in this!  My voice was extra deep and I knew I had a sh*t load of write-ups to do!)

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MJ: "Here we are at Jason's.  Yay.... write-up, write-up, write-up....  And we're watching one I've never seen before 'The Timmy Monster'.  TIMMY!  Time."

Jason: "Timmy Mallet."

MJ: "I wonder of The Master will be in it - he's on the front cover."

*Laughter*

Shaun: *Excitedly* "Is he!??  I'm suddenly one hundred percent more into this!"

Leigh: "Is he the Time Monster?"

MJ: "Errrr who knows!?"

Mark: "I hope his plan works out this time and doesn't back-fire in any way...."

MJ: "Can't imagine that it will!"

Mark: "No..."

*Chuckles*

Shaun: "We've had a, quote-unquote, Time Monster before, haven't we?  Haven't we had things from outside of time that were coming?..."

MJ: "I don't know?"

Mark: "That sounds familiar."

MJ: "But that might be - "

Jason: "- They do it later!"

Mark: "That might be in the future though."

Shaun: "Yeah I thought it was in the thing where they accidentally transported themselves outside of space and time.  And there were horrible things there what needed to feed on our universe or something?"

MJ: "Oh I don't know."

Shaun: "It was quite a while ago..."

MJ: "I know there's 'The Mind Robber' which did kind of... well they went to a fantasy land....  Anyway Doctor Who.  The Time Monster.  Enjoy!  Oh did I say we're at Jason's?  And we're all here.  Yay."

Shaun: "We're still at Jason's."

MJ: *Reading titles* "Robert Slow...Man! (Robert Sloman)...."

EPISODE ONE GETS WATCHED

Photo 1: At Jason's house.

MJ (holding the sign), Jason,

Shaun (with the DVD case) & Leigh.

MJ: *Partway through chat* "Window cleaners not dead though - isn't he?"

Leigh: "No he's still breathing."

Shaun: "Oh was he?"

MJ: "Still breathing - that's what I said.  So the window cleaner fell off a ladder.  He went 'Oooo Mr. Grimsdale!' and fell down...   And The Master's in it.  Yayyyyyy!  Shaun was very happy about that."

Shaun: "Incredibly happy!"

MJ: "And there's a device called 'TOMTIT'."

Shaun: "Yes."

MJ: "Which is obviously an acronym for..."

Jason: "Transference Of Matter Through Inter-somethingy Something!"

MJ: "It's 'T*ts Of Magnitude In Thermometers'!  Oh no - there's another T!"

Shaun: "I do think that sometimes they would be just as well calling it a 'Wibbly-wobbly Space Thing'!"

MJ: "Wibbly-wobbly!  You lovely boys!  Okay Episode Two - not much to say about that!"

Jason: "All you got from that entire episode was: a guy fell off a ladder and went 'Ooo Mr. Grimsdale!'"

*Laughter*

MJ: "I enjoyed it!  I thought it was good!  I don't know what it's about!"

Shaun: "It's about a Time Monster!"

Jason: "There were lots of fast cars!"

MJ: "Fast cars yes!  Speeded up Bessie!"

Shaun: "Was it taking of inertia including yours to instant brakes?"

MJ: "Yes.  Lots of wiff-waff.  Two..."

EPISODE TWO GETS WATCHED

Photo 2: At Jason's house.

Mark (holding the sign), Jason,

Shaun (with the DVD case) & Leigh.

MJ: "And there we go, end of Part Two and an old man's just appeared from the past."

Shaun: "Presumably a Priest of Kronos!  I really like this concept of the crystal is both here.  There.  And communicating with something outside of space-time at the same time."

MJ: "Yeah."

Shaun: "That's just quite novel.  I enjoyed that."

MJ: "Yes I'm enjoying this one so far!"

Shaun: "The Master's in it."

MJ: "Yes The Master's in it of course."

Shaun: "Obviously that's a good thing."

MJ: *Reading credits* "Ooo that was a good name!  Michealjohn!  It's a really long name!  Paul Bernard - two first names."

*Chuckles*

Jason: "Oh!  I missed the year!"

Shaun: "1972."

MJ: "So I did want to say that I heard that this story wasn't that great a story and yet I'm really enjoying it so far."

Mark: "I'm liking it better than the last one."

Jason: "I prefer the second episode to the first.  That was all over the place."

MJ: "All seems good.  And Benton showed himself to be competent....and then he was incompetent!"

Shaun: "The first one was a standard set-up episode."

Jason: "It was going from comedy to silliness to very severe to political to... well it was all over the place every five seconds!  This one is consistently..."

MJ: "And we've got The Master doing a  slight Italian-y accent - or some kind of accent."

Shaun: "Yeah he did occasionally do a bit of an accent.  It came and went!"

Mark: "I assume he was trying to do a Greek accent."

MJ: "Greek, yes of course."

Mark: "'Cos he was using a Greek name."

Shaun: "Yeah."

Mark: "So I assume that's what that was meant to be but who can tell!?  As with all accents in Doctor Who!" *Laughs*

MJ: "And he gave it up because he didn't need to do it anymore.  He thought 'I know!  Instead of pretending to be this guy I could just hypnotise this other guy to follow me'!"

Shaun: "Yeah."

MJ: "Which he did do!  'You WILL obey ME!'"

Shaun: "I liked his weird little banter sections.  He was like 'Oh you're one of the best people I've hypnotised in ages!  This is like the old days here'!"

MJ: "Yes he was amusing.  Well that's two parts - we've got the old Greek man coming in here."

Leigh: *Reading from his phone* "TOMTIT is a name for a number of small active songbirds."

MJ: "Oh.  Well there you go!  And Leigh didn't look that up!  He just brought that outta his VAST brain he knows so much!"

Shaun: "Yeah."

Leigh: "Quite fluffy a Tomtit."

MJ: "I'll bet it is!"

*Childish sniggers lead us on to watch the next two parts*

EPISODES THREE AND FOUR GET WATCHED

Photo 3: At Jason's house.

Mark (holding the sign), Jason,

Shaun (with the DVD case) & Leigh.

MJ: *Sniggering* "End of Part Four and we've learned about a plinge - was it?"

Leigh: "Something like that."

MJ: "Which sounds rude!" *Sniggering* "And The Doctor's TARDIS landed inside The Master's TARDIS!  So that was an interesting one!  We may see that again in Tom Baker's time..."

Shaun: "They were each inside each other's TARDIS."

MJ: "They WERE!  And The Doctor got thrown out into the Time Vortex - maybe!  And Jo got - Well what did Jo get?  I don't really get it - she went a bit wobbly!"

Shaun: "The Master hasn't made it clear what his plan clear yet, I'm assuming he's foolhardily sending his TARDIS where The Doctor is."

Mark: "Yeah."
MJ: "Well there we go." *Master like voice* " 'Goodbye Miss Grant!'" *Normal voice* "He's very good in this one - The Master - I'm enjoying him a lot."
Shaun: "He's ALWAYS very good!"
MJ: "I know but..." *Laughs*
Shaun: "He's fantastic as always!  It's strange because The Master, right, is always on point with his speech - and everything like that.  And I just like the idea of: they just leave a camera in a room and Roger Delgado just does sh*t." *Laughter* "They're like 'Yeah, we'll use that.  That'll be fine!' They didn't realise that the actor himself is ACTUALLY trying to take over the world!  He believes it!  This is real!"
*Laughter*
Mark: "He's method."
Shaun: *Laughing* "Yeah.  YEAH!!  He's SUPER method!  He actually believes that weird guy in the white suit is Kronos!"
MJ: "So do we LIKE the bird" *Laughing* "The weird guy in the white, feathery suit!!?"
Jason: "It could be a lot worse."
Shaun: "It could - Yes!"
Mark: "Yes."
Shaun: "Do you know what?  When that first came out it did look very silly, and I thought to myself 'At least it's not that stupid little gargoyle thing'!"
MJ: "Bok from 'The Dæmons'.  Well that don't concentrate on it (Kronos the bird-costumed man) too much though, do they?  They sort of cut-away from it with camera angles, or they make it really bright.  Film it in bits and pieces so..."
Shaun: "Yeah, yeah.  To try and disguise it."
MJ: "Yes, so I'm quite enjoying this one so far.  Could be because I've got a bit of a hang-over." *Chuckles* "I'm quietly watching away."
Mark: "I do like this one."
Shaun: "I mean there's already been quite a bit of filler."
MJ: "Oh yeah, yeah."
Mark: "I thought the first two episodes were a bit sharper than these two."
MJ: "Yes probably."
Mark: "I'm guessing it's six parts?"
MJ: "Yeah."
Shaun: "I don't know - the fourth one was good.  I think it's just Episode Three that just slowed to a crawl."
*Mark laughs*
MJ: *Laughing* "It did for UNIT!  They just stopped, didn't they?!"
Mark: "Yes they stopped completely."
MJ: "Maybe that's what it is.  Poor old Leigh there - he's almost sleeping!  I see him closing his eyes over there!"
*Leigh chuckles*
Jason: "I'm closing my eyes over here to be fair!"
Shaun: "That idea was quite cool.  The Master, with his Dick Tracy watch, teleporting in a,  erm, bomber from World War Two that dropped a bomb in the exact spot where UNIT was."
Mark: "It was just a bomb."
Leigh: "It wasn't a bomber."
Mark: "Yeah, it wasn't a bomber."
Shaun: "Well it was a plane then?"
Leigh: "No it was a rocket."
Mark: "Yeah a rocket."
Shaun: "Ohh right okay."
MJ: "Okay."
Shaun: "But anyway it was one that would have landed in that exact spot and he used it as a weapon there.  That was cool."
Jason: "Didn't blow up though."
Shaun: "Well of course it didn't!" *Laughter* "Well, actually, I say it didn't work it SHOULD have worked - it was just UNIT!"
Mark: "They just gave Yates a concussion." 
Jason: "They'd have got the same result sending a knight on a horse!"
*Laughter*
MJ: "Yes."
Jason: "But less so 'cos they weren't stuck in the mud!  Oh no - they did get stuck in the mud, but that had a tractor bloke nearby so that was alright."
Shaun: "They blew up all the vans!!"
MJ: " 'A Tractor Bloke nearby'!"
Leigh: *Half-heartedly Singing* "Tractor Bloke!"
MJ: *Joinging in* "Tractor Bloke - doing all the bloke-ish things Tractor Men do!"

*Sniggering* "I'll pause it there.  Nothing else to say."

Shaun: "What if we HAVE other things to say?"

MJ: "Do you want to talk about Jo's dress?"
Shaun: "MEN!"

MJ: *Laughing* "Or how you're still not keen on Jo?"

Shaun: "I'm keen on Jo's legs!"

MJ: "Yeah, she's got nice legs."

Mark: "I just really don't like her hair."

Shaun: "Her hair and her acting's just terrible!"

MJ: *Disagreeing* "Awww!" 

Shaun: "That bit at the end - where it was going wibbly-wobbly - and she was going to her fate, she just looked a bit bored and slightly confused!"

MJ: *Laughing* "Are you sure you weren't just looking at Leigh!??"

*Laughter*  "That's a funny one MJ - write that in!"

Shaun: "So you congratulate yourself on the joke?!"

MJ: Yeah.  It's good.  I'm gonna pause it there..."

*But we come back partway through a chat...*

Shaun: "- that f**king recorder!"

MJ: "People at home, we're just talking about Doctor's we don't like."

Mark: "I LIKED the recorder!"

MJ: "I liked Troughton - he's one of my favourites."

Mark: "Troughton and his recorder."

Shaun: "Troughton is good.  I went into it remembering that I didn't like him from the few I'd seen and he won me over quite quickly."

Jason: "He's my favourite so far - out of these three."

MJ: "So you're not keen on Pertwee then, Shaun?"

Shaun: "No, no I like Pertwee."

MJ: "Oh alright."

Shaun: "My opinion of Tom Baker is that I'm not the biggest fan.  He's not my favourite.  I don't dislike him.  I've seen some good ones and some crap ones."

MJ: "Okay.  Well I don't know who this Tom Baker is?..."

Shaun: "Oh he's the guy from 'Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World'!  And I went with THAT reference PURELY because I want you to type out 'Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World' twice!" *Laughs*

Mark: "It's not ACTUALLY Pertwee I dislike.  It;s just all the episodes he's in..."

*MJ ejaculates a laugh!*

Shaun: "But his has The Master in!!"

Mark: "I know!" *Laughing* "I mean The Master's the only thing worth watching these for!"

Shaun: "He's the best thing so far!  And, excuse me, let's not forget Liz Shaw!  Who is just incredibly yummy!"

*Leigh chuckles*

Mark: "I wasn't as enamored by Liz Shaw like you were."

Jason: "I didn't mind those ones but - those three stories - "

MJ: "- Four!"

Jason: "Four stories?"

Shaun: "Yeah."

MJ: " 'Spearhead', 'Ambassadors-"

Shaun: "- OF DEATH'!"

MJ: "Hah!  'The Silurians' and the 'Inferno'."

Jason: "Alright I was thinking -"

MJ: "- Hah! 'THE Inferno' on 'THE Doctor Who'!  And now we're going to watch 'The The Time Monster'!"

Jason: " 'The The Time Monster'?"

MJ: "I have to add a 'The' to it - but there was already a 'The'."

Shaun: "Part The Five!"

MJ: "Thank you, The Jason."

Leigh: "So Is Kronos 'The Time Monster'?"

Shaun: "Yeah."

Mark: "Yeah."

Leigh: "Right."

MJ: "That's the bird isn't it?"

Shaun: *Laughing* "'That's the bird'!"

MJ: "Well it IS isn't it!?  Like a pigeon - trapped in a room as Jason said (Too quiet for the recorder!) - just repeating it!"

Jason: "Thanks.  That was me that said it."

MJ: " He said 'Thanks.  That was me that said it!'"

Jason: "SPA-AAACE!'"

MJ: " And he said 'SPA-AAACE!'" *Laughter* *Reading titles* "Robert Slo...Man!"

Shaun: *Laughing* "You're not gonna say it slow this time?!  You've done it on ALL other four episodes so far!!"

Mark: "You'll have to type it slow."

*EPISODE FIVE STARTS*

MJ: "Oh yes, Jo Grant's going to be killed or something.  Let's see!"

Jason: "It's a good job we have this re-cap..."

*EPISODE FIVE GETS WATCHED*

Photo 4 & 5: At Jason's house.

Just to show we ALL pull faces!

MJ (holding the sign) & Jason.

MJ: "So end of Part Five and they're on Atlantis!  And Jo's been locked in a room with something going:" *Makes weird noise* "Which could be a Minotaur - could be a MAJORtaur... I dunno!" *Laughs*

Mark: "I guess that the Minotaur costume is SO good that they won't show it!"

Leigh: *Reading titles* "Ingrid Pitt!"
MJ: "Sorry?"

Leigh: "Ingrid Pitt!  She does Hammer Horror films!"

MJ: "Ahh!  Was she the one with the big breasts and that?"

Leigh: "Yeah."

MJ: "Yeah.  Erm, I've just remembered this is our second trip to Atlantis, isn't it!?  If you remember 'The Underwater Menace'?  The old guy (Krasis played by Donald Eccles) looks familiar - I don't know if he was in (First Doctor story) 'The Aztecs'? (He wasn't!) Anyway."

Jason: "I see Leigh's thrilled!" *Leigh laughs* "What's going to happen now!!?"

MJ: "We get to see a Minotaur!"

Jason: "Didn't they have something that looked a bit like a Minotaur a few episodes ago?"

Shaun: "There's been various things that are Minotaury..."

Jason: "A white Minotaur, I seem to remember.  Or have I made that up?!"

Shaun: "I think you've made that up!  There was the beast in the caverns (in 'The Curse of Peladon') and The Doctor sang to it - a Venusian lullaby."

MJ: "Oh yeah that was that little, furry thing."

Shaun: "It was SUPPOSED to be an enormous beast!"

MJ: "I'm going to tell you something, and I THINK it's true, but I THINK the Minotaur is David Prowse (who would physically play Darth Vader in the 'Star Wars' films - and he was also the Green Cross Code Man!)."

Shaun: "Yep!  And he famously trained Christopher Reeve to have the body for 'Superman'."

Mark: *Checking the internet in his phone* "It IS David Prowse (who played the Minotaur)!"

MJ: "Did he?!"

Shaun: "Yep."

MJ: And that's all he's famous for!"

Shaun: "Oh Mark's just confirmed it!"

Mark: "Yeah it IS David Prowse."

Shaun: "Yeah - and that is ALL he's famous for, yeah...!"

MJ: "Stop.  Look.  Listen.  And Urrgghh!!" *Laughter* "Let's watch Prowse!  Oh and also the voice of the Minotaur is by James Earl Jones!!" *Laughter*

*EPISODE SIX GETS WATCHED*

Photo 6: At Jason's house.

Shaun (with the DVD case) & Leigh.

MJ: "There's the Brigadier looking furious in the background.  Yeah and that was the end of that!  Ending with a naked Benton, probably in a nappy!  I don't know!  Because Benton became a child, well a baby, and now he's an adult again, so..."

Jason: "Which is good - we don't want a Baby Benton for the next three episodes!"

Shaun: *Announcer voice* "THE ADVENTURES OF BABY BENTON!!"

*Laughter*

MJ: "Well that was quite good!  They met a God!  Which was a big woman face!  And The Master was going to stay there for eternity.  And The Doctor said:" *Puts on high voice* "Please save him - he's alright!"

Shaun: "Yep!  And he immediately dick-moved!"

*Mark chuckles*

MJ: "Yeah!"

Shaun: "Like f**king IMMEDIATELY - it was awesome!"

MJ: *Puts on voice* "Thank you Doctor!  BYE!" *Laughter* "Psych!"

Shaun: "I very, very much liked the whole intensity they were going for with the whole time ramming thing at the end.  That was great."

MJ: "Yeah."

Shaun: "The Master was like 'F**king come on then!!  Bring it!!'"

MJ: "That was good."

Shaun: "Spiraled into his own madness!  That was cool."
MJ: "Yes, I was thinking 'Well he's not going to do it, is he!?  Ram into Doctor..' and then - "
Shaun: "- And then he did!"
MJ: "And then he did - so that was good.  Good old Doctor - ramming.  So what did you think of 'The Time Monster'?"
Shaun: "Uneven."
Jason: "It might be because I was tired but I'm not as high as I would like.  It had a lot of good moments and ideas but generally speaking I wasn't entertained all the way through."
MJ: "Ahh okay."
Shaun: "I felt - well Episode Three was mostly filler and the whole ancient Atlantis thing crashed and burned.  Whether that needed more episodes of not?"
Jason: "In the old days we'd have stayed with the time-frozen UNIT crew for a whole episode!"
Shaun: "Yeah!"
Jason: "So that's quite good.  There's lots of stuff happened.  I could probably remember 'Oh THAT was a good bit and THAT was a good bit.  That was a good bit.  That was a good bit."
MJ: "Yeah, yeah, I think it started off strong - you were right about the initial ones.  But I think the Atlantis stuff was a bit odd.  But er,.."
Shaun: "They seemed to skip a lot of the most interesting stuff.  Such as the whole coup!"
Jason: "Good!  That would have been twelve episodes!"
*Laughter*
Shaun: "It would have been nice for, you know, rather than the whole man-bull stuff, to have The Doctor somehow involved in the coup!"
MJ: "Yeah.  The man- what did you call it!??"
Mark: "The Minotaur."
Shaun: "The Man-Bull."
MJ: "OH!!! I thought you said 'Man-BALL'!!  I thought  'I DON'T remember THAT!!?' " *Laughing*
Jason: "There was very little Time Monster, I felt.  For a thing CALLED 'The Time Monster'."
MJ: "Yeah."
Shaun: "The Time Monster was Kronos, surely?"
Jason: "Yeahhhh - I mean he was ABOUT - "
MJ: "- As a bird.  And then as a woman."
Jason: "- but I don't know what I'd call it?  'The SLO-Man' or something."
MJ: "Robert SLO-man who wrote it!"
Shaun: "But that was the end of that season, yeah?"
MJ: "Oh erm... I think so?"
Jason: "I guess so."
Shaun: "'Cos the next one's 'The Four Doctors' - which is the start of the next season, right?"
MJ: "Three."
Shaun: "Sorry, 'The Three Doctors'.  Well they certainly tried to build a very large and very dramatic finale to The Master and The Doctor - as they do most seasons."
MJ: "Yep!"
Shaun: "It normally pays off quite well."
Leigh: "And then it ended with them all laughing."
MJ: "Because Benton was naked in a nappy."
Shaun: *Grinning* "Yeah but at least The Master got away again!  So we shall see him again!!"
*Mark chuckles*

Photo 7: At Jason's house.

Sleepy MJ (holding the sign), Jason

& Shaun (with the DVD case).

Jason: "What did you think, Leigh?"
Leigh: "Score?"
Jason: "No, just generally."
Leigh: "Yeah, it was alright... erm..."
Jason: "That's usually my review!"
*Laughter*
Leigh: "It got better when Ingrid Pitt turned up!"
*Laughter*
Shaun: "Oh yes!  Yes, her acting was flawless!"
MJ: "Yes, yes..  She had a big bosom."
Jason: "They could have done more with the Hand-Maiden thing."
MJ: "I thought you was going to say 'They could have done more with her chest'!"
*Laughter*

Jason: "No the other one seemed to have quite a big role and do stuff for about... a scene.

And the cat!  There should be more cat!"
Shaun: "Definitely should be more cat!"
Jason: "And that's me saying this as well! (Jason's allergic to cats!)  Although they probably had filmed more with the cat and cut it out."
MJ: That's true.  It was quite well behaved I thought it would run off.  I mean she was trying to hold it back wasn't she?  Hold it down."
Jason: "Yeah it was knocking the set over."
MJ: "I would not have had a cat on there myself just 'cos..."
Shaun: "There ARE trained acting cats, you know!?  And dogs."
MJ: "I don't know if that one was."
Shaun: *Laughing* "I mean it probably wasn't, no!  It was probably the actresses's (Ingrid Pitt's) cat! 'I refuse to do this without my cat!!  This is fine, this is Ancient Greece - they all had cats!' 'You're thinking of Egypt'. 'Shutup!  We ALL had cats!  We worshiped them as Gods.' " (I did check later - it wasn't Ingrid's cat.  In fact I understand that, in many an interview, Ingrid Pitt stated that the cat scratched her bosom quite badly!)
Jason: "Do you know, that WAS enough to convince me it was Egypt!  Because I forgot and thought 'Oh that makes sense'!"
Shaun: "Yeah because they had the whole eye-liner thing going on.  I did the same thing!"
Mark: "Well it was supposed to be between those - but it was a bit of both cultures."
MJ: "But no - Atlantis in the sea.  Which obviously all collapsed."
Jason: "Because of The Master!"
MJ: "Because of The Master, yeah.  But didn't it all sink before?  When Professor Zaroff was in it in 'The Underwater Menace'?"
Mark: "Yeah but that was in the future or something?"

MJ: "So, what he raised Atlantis again?"

Mark: "No he was trying to raise it by blowing up the rest of the world!"

Jason: "Yeah it was already sunk!  So the Master sunk it and Zaroff was trying to raise it - that's it, yeah!"

MJ: "That's right.  Oh cool."

Mark: "He was trying to raise it.  That's the point..."

Shaun: "I mean maybe we should ask how Kronos sunk it - being a big, white birdy thing - that essentially flapped at people!  It managed to sink an entire continent!?"

*Leigh chuckles*

MJ: "But then Kronos was the woman at the end wasn't he?  So he could be anything he wanted to chose to."

Shaun: "WAIT!  So you're saying it turned into a giant marshmallow man!!?"

MJ: *Laughing* "If you think it - it will arrive!"

Jason: "She was the giant origami pigeon or whatever it was!"
Mark: "Yeah she was The Destructor."

Shaun: "Yeah she was The Destructor."

Mark: "She said so herself!"

MJ: "That's good."

Shaun: "So we sorted THAT out!"

Mark: "Yeah."

MJ: "Marks?"

Jason: "Marks?"

Shaun: "We only had one Mark!"

Mark: "Oh.  I need to find another one?"

Jason: "I will give it - I'm going up the more I talk I'm going higher!  So I'm going to go for five point two."

MJ: "I think I'll go six."

Mark: "I liked all the concepts in it but I did get a bit bored so.... seven point one two."

Jason: "I think it will be better in my memory."

MJ: "Yeah...."

*Jason laughs*

Mark: "Yeah I'm going to enjoy that one when thinking back on it..."
MJ: "Mr. Leigh?"
Leigh: "Well I was going to give it five and then Ingrid Pitt turned up, so I've got to give it six."
*Laughter*
MJ: "Excellent.  So you knew her already - Ingrid Pitt?"
Mark: "She's in Hammer Horror."
MJ: "Hammer Horror -  right okay, cool.  I didn't know that."
Leigh: "'The Wicker Man'!"

Mark: "Is she in that!?  Oh okay."

MJ: "And is she usually quite chesty in those things as well?"

Leigh: "Mhm."

MJ: "Yeah."

Mark: "Have you not WATCHED Hammer Horror?"

Jason: "Yeah there's a lot of chestiness in those."

MJ: "Well have seen some but I don't remember her.  What do you think Shaun?  Oh you've gone upstairs." *Leigh laughs* "Ridiculous."

Jason: "It's not as if you could stop recording for a second!"

Mark: "He'll give you his marks for urination."

MJ: "Oh yeah I'll stop now..."

*Shaun returns - recording resumes*

MJ: "Shaun.  Welcome back - marks out of ten?"

Shaun: "I'm going to give it a five point seven one nine three two."

MJ: "Ahh excellent."

Mark: "I gave it a high score..."

Shaun: "It was alright but I think three of the episodes didn't really hit for me."

MJ: "So there we go - what does 'The Book' think?!  'Cos it was quite an ambitious set-up."

Mark: "That's what I like."

Shaun: "It wasn't THAT ambitious!  Three episodes set in a lab."

Mark: "Have you WATCHED the rest of those?!  That's pretty ambitious!"

Jason: *Reading from 'The Book'* " 'The Master travels to Atlantis to unleash the power of Kronos - The Time Eater.'  Now THAT makes it sound very different!"

Shaun: "Yeah where did the Time Eater even come from?"

Mark: "Also when didn't they just call it 'Kronos The Time Eater'?  It sounds better than 'The Time Monster'."

Jason: "Anyway." *Reading from 'The Book'* " 'Swallowfield Park in Berk's was the fictitious  Newton Institute, while Stratfield Saye Park, Hant's, provided the backdrop to various scenes including The Doctor's car and The UNIT convoy - attacked by historical figures.  David Prowse went on to become The Green Cross Code Man'."
MJ: "AND??"
Jason: *Laughing and reading from 'The Book'* "AND Darth Vader in the 'Star Wars' films,'  There wasn't a Green Cross Code Man in the 'Star Wars' films!?" *Reading from 'The Book'* " 'A new TARDIS interior, designed by Tim Gleeson, made it's first and only appearance'."
Shaun: "Hah!"
MJ: "Oh okay."
*Mark chuckles*
Jason: *Reading from 'The Book'* " 'Verdict: An unafraid Doctor Who spoof in which pretty much everything fails.  Two out of ten'."

*Laughter*

MJ: "Oh WOW!!  They REALLY didn't like it!!  Wow, we've been sort of going along with 'The Book'.  But no, they don't like that.  I knew it wasn't overly popular AND I thought we had seen the bowl one (the TARDIS interior) before.  I didn't know it was a one-off thing.  I'd seen pictures of the big bowl interior TARDIS.  So..."

Jason: "I think they could have lighted it to differentiate the two different ones (The Master's and The Doctor's).  They could have had lightning!"

Mark: "Well one had a fondue thing in the middle."

Jason: "Oh that's true."

Shaun: "Yeah."

Mark: "So you knew it was different.  The Master likes fondue."

Jason: "I didn't spot that for a whole episode."

*Shaun laughs*

MJ: "He had what in the middle!!?  Fondue did you say!??"

Mark: "Yeah he had like a big thing in the middle - it should have been a chocolate fountain."

MJ: "Well there you go."

Jason: "Cheese most night, chocolate on Thursdays." *Laughter* "So next time is..."

MJ: " 'The Three Doctors'?"

Shaun: " 'The Seven Doctors'."

Jason: "I keep thinking we're near the end, but we're not!"

Mark: *Chuckling* " 'The Twenty-Eight Doctors'!"

MJ: "No, we're not near the end because - "

Jason: "- No I keep thinking we're near the end of Jo, but we're not near the end of Jo - "

Leigh: " 'The Flying Doctors'!"

*Mark laughs*

Jason: "And I quite like Jo -"

MJ: "- I do!"

Jason: "- Because I keep thinking we're near the end of her - but we're not!"

MJ: "Okay let's, let's -"

Jason: " 'The Three Doctors' is next!"

*Cheers*

MJ: "That'll be a celebration."

Shaun: "How many parts is that?"

MJ: "Four."

Mark: "Yay!"

MJ: "It's a tenth anniversary celebration."

Jason: "We can watch it now if you like!?  I've got it on record!"

*Laughter*

MJ: "No!"

Shaun: "MJ hasn't made a sign!"

MJ: "I'll stop it there.  Yay for next time."

*Mark chuckles*

Photo 8: At Jason's house.

Mark (holding the sign) & Jason.

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Well that was a long one as well.  Naturally I'm behind!  So here are the scores.

MJ - 6

Shaun - 5.71932

Leigh - 6

Mark - 7.12

Jason - 5.2

So that gives us an average of 6.007864 out of 10.  Right that's it - next time was a celebration night as it was the tenth anniversary story!  Ooo!

Until then I shall return, yes I shall return...

MJ - 12/11/2016