DOCTOR WHO MARATHON 67th MEET-UP - THE GREEN DEATH

Sunday 18th December 2016

It was time for the last meeting of 2016! Jason was better - but Mark was not!  He was ill at home!  We also had to meet a little later as Jason had been working earlier.  So, gathering around Jason's, the rest of us settled down to watch the last serial of Jon Pertwee's third season ....

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MJ: "Right we're around Jason's we're going to watch 'The Green Death'.   We've got no Mark 'cos it's the time of year - " *Starts singing to the tune of the 'Spitting Image' 'Chicken Song'* "Now that spring is in the air! With those two - "

Leigh: "- He's also got Green Death."

MJ: "He's got Green Death!"

Shaun: "Yeah."

MJ: "And that's what we're going to watch - 'The Green Death'!"

Shaun: "Ooo foam!  Maybe there's foam!  We like a bit of foam!"

Leigh: "Yeah!  Can we call this one 'Doctor Who Nights'!?"

*Laughter*

MJ: "Yes!"

Shaun: "We can but I think we'd all need to be more naked for that and I'm NOT interested in that happening!"

MJ: "That's a bit err... it worked for 'Baywatch'. And when I say 'worked'.... Yes 'Baywatch' did it - wasn't it 'Baywatch' crossed with 'Buffy' sort of?"

Leigh: "So I'm told, yeah."

MJ: "I've never actually, erm, seen it - and I don't know if anyone has!"

*MJ and Leigh laugh*
Jason: "Not enough people to keep it going" *Laughs*

Shaun: "It was David Hasselhoff in it, so the Germans have probably seen it - they like a bit of Hasselhoff."

Jason: "Can you see the TV?"

Leigh: "I'm not sure your TV's level!"

MJ: "Can you close your curtains?! The irony is - readers at home - that it's night time when we're meeting, on a Sunday, and it's dark.  So that's the joke....so enjoy that..." *Leigh laughs* "All you readers - Shaun..."

Leigh: "All of them!"

Shaun: *Laughing* "Due to Jason's insistence on working - rather than taking the afternoon off so we can do this at a f**king sensible time - we're now here wasting our Sunday evening!"

Jason: "I suggested we do it LAST week!  But Leigh, not Leigh, MARK cancelled!"

Shaun: "Yeah!  We should have done it last week!"

MJ: "Oh well thank God he's here this week!"

*Leigh laughs*

Jason: *Referring to DVD menu* "Play All, yeah?"

MJ: "Play, yes, play!"

Shaun: "PLAY!"

MJ: "Okay this is Episode One of 'THE GREEN DEATH...IN SPACE!!!'."

Jason: "It's not in Space."

MJ: "Oh."

Shaun: "It's in 'SPA-ACE'!!"

MJ: *Sings along with the theme tune* "Doctor Whoooooo - in space!"

Shaun: "What have we got left?   Like three serials after this?"

MJ: "Oh no! A whole - well this is the last one of this series and then there's another series."

Shaun: "Ahhhh - that's right.  This is the end of Jo or something?  Or coming to the end of Jo?"

Jason: "Or not."

MJ: "Maybe... we'll watch!"

Jason: "Wales!"

MJ: "Ooo yes a mining village - Welsh.  Err, minors underground.  Could it be the return of the Sea Devils or foam?   Or Range Rovers?   Let's see..."

*EPISODE ONE GETS WATCHED*

Photo 1: At Jason's house.
MJ (with the DVD case), Shaun (with the sign) and Leigh.

MJ: "There we go - end of Episode One and they're in Wales."

*Laughter*

Jason: "They were there at the beginning."

MJ: "Yeah and Jo's trapped in a mine and there's some bloke with green stuff on his hands."

Jason: "She's not trapped down the mine yet - she's plummeting!"

MJ: "She's plummeting down a shaft."

Leigh: *Dead-pan* "F-narr, f-narr."

MJ: "F-narr, f-narr. There's some Welsh people in it and..."

Jason: "Called 'Jones' and 'Evans'."

MJ: "Yeah."

Leigh: "Dai."

Shaun: "Hugh!"

MJ: "And the main guy who's got a 'tache - I don't remember his name - it looks like he had telepathy telling him what to do."

Jason: "He looked like he was having a stroke!"

*Leigh laughs*

Jason: "He thought 'Oh this episode is running a bit short - I'd better do something to make it last a bit longer'!"

*Leigh chuckles*

Shaun: "Yeah. He put on some enormous headphones which implies - "

MJ: "- He DID!   'Beats by Dr. Dre' as you said!" *Laughs*

Shaun: "- There's something more going on than it appears!" *MJ laughs* "Also he specifically told a bloke not to let anyone in the mine - and three people are already going down the mine since he told him that!"

Jason: "He only told the chauffeur assassin bloke."

Shaun: "Yeah?"

Jason: "Well it takes TIME to get messages to people!"

MJ: "Yeah."

Shaun: "Look, The Doctor is already f**king in that room - before he's even got there!!"

Jason "The chauffeur has taken as long to deliver the message, as he has took to receive it!"

*Shaun laughs*

MJ: "Part Two!"

*EPISODE TWO GETS WATCHED*

Photo 2: At Jason's house.
Jason (with the DVD case), Shaun (with the sign) and Leigh.

MJ: "So that's finished with Jo, being trapped with the Doctor, down the mine-shaft.  That's collapsing and they're being menaced by giant mutating maggots!   And Leigh asked 'Do they have mouths like that?   With sharp teeth?'  Erm, not normal ones but mutated-nuclear-ones do!"

Leigh: *Chuckling* "Oh alright! Okay."

MJ: "That's fine."

Shaun: "The next episode better start with the Welsh guys just trying to touch the maggots!"

*Leigh laughs*

MJ: "That was a game I once played in a nightclub!" *Laughs* "So we just established that the Welsh people are idiots because, immediately when they see this green, toxic goo, they go:" *Puts on Welsh accent* "Ooo what's this!?  Put my hand in it, shall I?!"

Shaun: "Yeah, especially Bert who knows of TWO people who have DIED from the f**king green, glowing goo so far!  He's immediately like" *Puts on Welsh accent* "Well I'd better go and touch it then, hadn't I, Boyo!" *Normal voice* "It's like, c'mon dude!"

Jason: "Are we breaking?"

MJ: "Yeah!"

Shaun: "Yeahhh."

Leigh: "We need tea!"

MJ: "You know the rule!"

Jason: "I know, but this is 'Baywatch Nights' now!"

*Leigh laughs*

Shaun: "Didn't we already dub our 'nights' thing - when we did it before and we had beer?"

MJ: "So are you enjoying this so far, Mr. Leigh?"

Leigh: "Erm, it's alright!" *Laughs* "I'm not sure giant maggots are going to be a great bad guy but...!"

Shaun: "But there is the weird, creepy voice on the TV monitor - who sounds a bit like 'The Master' but won't be."

Leigh: "Yeah."

Shaun: "THAT I'm into."

Jason: "Yeah it could go either way."

Shaun: "I'm hoping there's a talking maggot puppet at the end!" *Laughs and puts on voice* "SIMON! Simon, you must not let anyone in the mine!" *Leigh laughs* "That's what I'm really hoping!"

Leigh: "Who's Simon!?"

Shaun: "That's the head of 'Global Whateveritwas'!  They called him Simon."

Leigh: "Oh okay."

Shaun: "Yeah."

Jason: "Was that 'Stevens'?"

Shaun: "Oh 'Stevens' was it!!?" *Leigh laughs* "I knew it was a first name!!"

MJ: "Okay I don't think there's much to say - I'm enjoying it so far.   I'll pause it. Bye!"

Leigh: "The key doesn't work!  Your door's broken Jason!"

*EPISODE THREE STARTS*

MJ: "Part Three, by the way, and the cave is falling down where Jo and The Doctor are - and they could get crushed to bits.  But they probably won't and maggots erupt forth - through -"

Jason: "You could record that all the way through!"

MJ: "I should do.  That would be NOT annoying for all you lot!"

Shaun: "That would be great 'cos then you'd have to type it all up!"

Jason: *Laughing* "Three hours!"

*Leigh laughs*

MJ: "Jeez..."

Jason: "Maggots!"

MJ: "Convincing maggots?"

Jason: "Yeah I'd say!"

MJ: "I mean convincing maggots that have been affected by nuclear waste!"

Leigh: "Wait until they get close-up! It's going to be a man in a sleeping bag!"

*Laughter*
MJ: "Let's watch and find out!"

Jason: "Has there been ANY real-life incidents of nuclear waste causing things to grow?"

Shaun: "No."

Leigh: "Erm, Godzilla!"

Jason: *Laughing* "No, no, no. There's two KEY words there!"

*Leigh laughs*

MJ: "I took some nuclear Viagra once."

Jason: "And did it make a joke?"

MJ: "It made it green and glow!" *Laughs*

Jason: "Don't go near any Welshmen!"

Leigh: *Laughing* "They'll touch it!"

*EPISODE THREE GETS WATCHED*

Photo 3: At Jason's house.
MJ (with the DVD case), Shaun (with the sign) and Leigh.

MJ: "So there we go! End of Part Three and Jo is being menaced, from behind, by a maggot - that's not a euphemism!  That's actually what has happened!"

Shaun: "The Doctor was getting in the way of her sweet-sweet sex!"

MJ: "Yes, she - what was his name?  Is it David?  The Doctor?  Not The Doctor-Doctor, but -"

Shaun: "The Professor. Professor Jones."

MJ: "Yeah. Him and Jo had a little kiss - there was a moment there between them."

Shaun: "Not quite."

MJ: "Oh nearly - and The Doctor came in and said 'Shouldn't you be going to bed'!"

Jason: "And Shaun said he was c**t-blocking!"

Shaun: *Laughing* "I DID say that, yes!"

MJ: "Anything else? Oh yeah some guy's been killed - he'd run out of his usefulness -"

Shaun: "- Fell!"

Jason: "Yes!"

MJ: "Fell, yes. And he did - he fell!" *Laughs*

Shaun: "He was one of the administrators - and then he jumped off the building!"

Jason: "Maybe all the names mean something?"

MJ: "His mind was starting to come unravelled!"

Jason: "Fell fell."

MJ: "Yeah?"

Shaun: "I'm pretty sure his name was Guy."

Jason: "No!"

MJ: "He couldn't be hypnotised any more - his mind was getting scrabbled.  So they said 'Oh just get rid of him!'  So he was..."

Shaun: "But then the disembodied voice was enough to come back on the screen and be a dick to Stevens - who had just done it!" *Puts on voice of computer* "Oh you ARE sentimental!" *Normal voice* "Yes because he just killed a guy he'd worked with for forty years!!"

MJ: "Yeah the voice on the screen - is like on a computer monitor with a - what do you call that heart monitor thing?"

Jason: "Sound waves?"

MJ: "Yeah sound waves sort of thing!" *Does noise of a Transformer transforming*

Jason: "Yes, that's Soundwave."

MJ: *Laughing* "Anyway here's Jo getting menaced by a maggot!  Giggerty!"

*EPISODE FOUR GETS WATCHED*

Photo 4: At Jason's house. MJ (with the DVD case),
Shaun (going 'Ooo' with the sign) and a bored Leigh.

Leigh: *Reading credits* "Bruce Springstein!"

MJ: *Laughs* "Bruce Springstein was the BOSS!  Yeah well that was it - we just saw the end of it - "

Leigh: "Ted Danson??"

Jason: "Tony Danza!"

Shaun: "That's only the end of Episode Four?"

MJ: "End of Episode Four."

Shaun: *Laughing* "That would be a really crap ending if that's the end of it!"

MJ: "Yes, and the guy in charge of it all isn't a guy - it's a computer called 'BOSS'."

Shaun: "And Shaun is maintaining that this was clearly written for The Master and then he died and they had to re-work it!"

Jason: "Obviously!   He even stumbled and said 'I am the Mast - BOSS'!"

*Laughter*

MJ: "'I'm Marrrr-oss'!  'You're Moss'?  But Jo spilt some fungus on the, erm - "

Shaun: "- Green Death."

MJ: "- Green Death thing, by accident, and THAT has cured it!"

Shaun: "And we were all f**king shocked!"

MJ: "And The Doctor got into a place disguised as a Milkman and then a cleaning lady!" *Laughs*

Shaun: *Smiling* "Which is my favourite part of the entire affair so far! That was legitimately very funny!"

MJ: "Yes. It's been a while since we've seen him dressed up like that. I was probably thinking there would be more of it but there wasn't. So there we go. That's the end of Part Four." *Laughs*

Jason: "Yay..."

MJ: We'll talk about more later - go and have a fag and a tea... and I'm going to wee."

*Leigh laughs*

MJ: "Leigh just said, about the Professor Jones, Jo likes him because he's a Fun-Guy.... that's the joke - so there we go."

Jason: "Just to establish, Reader, he grows toadstools and stuff."

MJ: "He does."

Jason: "He collects spores."

MJ: "I don't know if I've already said, but they've kissed - or nearly kissed."

Jason: "They didn't kiss! They NEARLY kissed!"

MJ: "But Jo's clearly romantically interested in him.  And now I'm going to wee!  Next part!"

*BUT RECORDING RESUMES ON A CHAT*

Shaun: "This one doesn't feel like it's got a lot of filler."

MJ: "No, not so far.   As I was saying I've not watched it since I bought the DVD, many years ago, and I'm really enjoying it.   I obviously can't remember what happens in it.  So it's quite fun."

Shaun: "I think partly it's the fact that you've got the one main bad guy and like the other guys who are working with him aren't quite in on it.  So they're trying to uncover it in their own way."

MJ: "Yeah."

Shaun: "You've got UNIT working on their own, The Doctor working on his own - so it kind of keeps it interesting as you know people are figuring out different bits at different times.  Oh yeah, and you've got the scientist working on his own.   So it's got a lot of characters to bounce around, so it feels more fleshed-out."

MJ: "That's right."

Shaun: "Rather than them spending half of every episode being captured, getting out and being captured again!"

MJ: *Laughs* "Yes they've not been REALLY captured properly."

Shaun: "They were trapped in the mine, but they had a specific reason for that: the mine-cart was sabotaged.  That was fine.  Erm, got out of that and have been essentially free since."

MJ: "Yeah."

Shaun: "The Doctor was momentarily captured and then allowed out to see there was no cutting-equipment in the shed.... because they'd moved it to another shed!"

MJ: *Laughs* " 'See Doctor - we've got nothing to hide here' 'What about in THAT shed?' 'No, no, you can't go in that shed....'!"

Shaun: "Can't go in that shed! It's where I keep my porn."

MJ: "Good gracious!" *Laughs* "He breaks in and finds it's just pictures of The Master al over!"

*Laughter*

Shaun: "That would be the best!"

MJ: "Okay I will pause it now."

*EPISODE FIVE GETS WATCHED*

MJ: "End of Part Five and Zippy's been in it - I mean Roy Skelton!   Voice of The Daleks.  I thought I recognised his face!   He's got a lucky face!   And there he was in it going:" *Puts on Zippy voice* "Ohhhh, Geoffrey!!" *Normal voice* "So that's good for the readable text..."

*Leigh laughs*

Leigh: "Yeah your impressions are better when they're in text!"

*Laughter*

Jason: "It just says 'Zippy's voice'!"

MJ: *Normal voice* "'Arrr, arrr, arrr - I'm Roy Skelton' - I can do more of them!"

*Leigh laughs*

MJ: *Normal voice* "'Hello I'm Mike Yates'!"

Jason: "That's the ultimate episode of this thing."

Shaun: *Laughing* "The ULTIMATE episode??!"

Jason: "Yeah."

Leigh: "Yeah. Well the previous one was the PENultimate - so this MUST be the ultimate!"

MJ: "Ultimate!"

Shaun: *Laughing* "Mean's it's the best one!"

Leigh: "No, just the last!" *Laughs*

MJ: "Is that what 'Ultimate' means?"

Shaun: "Yeah."

MJ: "Because they, erm, they had 'Doctor Who - The Ultimate Adventure' which was a stage play and yet that wasn't the last one!"

Jason: "I remember that. It was Colin Baker - somebody told me he was the ultimate Doctor, at the time.  I found out what it meant when I looked it up."

*Shaun laughs*

MJ: "Anyway Part Six and Zippy's being hypnotised..."

*EPISODE SIX GETS WATCHED*

Photo 5: At Jason's house.
Ready for our close-up!

MJ (with the DVD case), Shaun (with the sign) and Leigh.

MJ: "And there we go. That was end and Jo's going to get married to the guy she met a few episodes ago and..." *Leigh chuckles*

Jason: "Yes. He spent most of it sick in bed."

*Leigh laughs*

MJ: "And the end of it ended with The Doctor driving off slowly in the sunset, quite sad."

Shaun: "One of the nice things about that is, it's certainly something they've played along with in later Doctor Who's, is just that he can see time in the future - with his insistence they go and get that gem and then him presenting it as the wedding gift at the end.  It suggests he already knew it was coming."

Jason: "Ahh I can see that."

MJ: "Mmm."

Shaun: "He knew their time was at an end. Which is pretty good."

Jason: "Maybe he thought 'This would be good for hypnotising people'."

Shaun: *Smiles* "Well yeah!   Obviously it also came in handy for that!"

Jason: "On her future husband for example!"

Shaun: "Yeah!" *Puts on hypnotising voice* "You will LEAVE the toilet seat DOWN!"

MJ: "The end of that had the guy who had - what was his name?"

Jason: "Which one are you talking about?"

MJ: "Who's in charge of 'WOTAN'!" *A joke - I know 'WOTAN' was the computer in Hartnell's 'The War Machines'!*

Shaun: "Stevens?"

MJ: *Laughs* "Stevens, yeah!  The computer went MAD at the end! It was brilliant!"

Shaun: "Yeah it was the feedback as they both had the same connection."

MJ: "Yeah he was singing 'La-la-la-la-laa!' and all that!   That was brilliant!"

*Leigh chuckles*

Jason: "I like a mad evil genius."

MJ: "And then he ended up fighting the machine making the whole - "

Jason: "Sacrificing himself."

MJ: "Sacrificing himself to blow up the whole thing."

Shaun: *Smiling* "AND everyone else in the building!   'Cos, although he told The Doctor to get them out, The Doctor got NO-ONE out!"

Jason: "I'm SURE the cleaning lady has left by now!"

MJ: "No, The Doctor WAS the cleaning lady!"

Shaun: "There were loads of other guys in suits in there that we kept seeing!!"

Leigh: "And the security people."

Shaun: "There were loads of people in there!!"

Leigh: "They all died."

Jason: "They all got eaten by maggots."

MJ: *Sagely* "Well, you know, perhaps it was their time." *Laughs*

Jason: "Probably."

MJ: "Ohh dear. So, erm, did you enjoy 'The Green Death'?"

Jason: "I enjoyed 'The Green Death' much more than I thought I was going to and I didn't think it was that bad to start with - apart from the dragonfly thing."

*Laughter*

Shaun: "To be fair we needed something really s**t in it!  Because other than that it all looked pretty okay."

*Leigh laughs*

Jason: "We had wobbly-lifts-action!"

MJ: "Yeah there was some dodgy green-screen but it's not..."

Shaun: "Yeah, we needed a crap prop!  It's not the same without a crap prop!"

Jason: "Yeah."

*Leigh laughs*

Shaun: "We got an incredibly crap prop!"

Jason: "We got a crap prop, which was dealt with in an incredibly crap fashion!"

*Laughter*

Shaun: "Yes!  Defeated by a coat!"

MJ: "Oh yes they threw a cloak over this fly and that stopped it.  It killed it!"

Shaun: "It killed it, yeah!"

Jason: "After a good five minutes of threatening!  Oh, coat!"

Shaun: "The thing is they seeded it for a couple of episodes before 'Ooo it's going to turn into a thing!'  'Oh I don't want to see what it turns into'!"

Leigh: "Yeah it could have been something awesome!"

Shaun: "But it turns into something unbelievably - like the f**king maggots could deflect bullets!!?" *Laughter* "This thing couldn't even deflect a coat!!"

*Laughter*

MJ: "Yeah! Ahhh."

Jason: "But, no, I thought it was well shot, for the time, good effects - apart from the maggot thing - no, not the maggot thing.  The FLY thing!  The characters were good - there's development. I thought the marriage thing came FAR too quickly."

Leigh: "Yeah."

Shaun: "Yeah but it always does."

MJ: "They didn't get married!"

Jason: "Well, he proposed!"

Shaun: "That was built a lot better than MOST of them."

MJ: "I think it was seeded through quite early on."

Jason: "Well, the love story was but not the marriage!"

Leigh: "They'd known each other for a week, perhaps!"

MJ: "That's right, yeah."

Jason: "They almost had a kiss and then he almost died!  Which may speed things up, I don't know, I've never done that..."

*Leigh chuckles*

Shaun: "Ahem!"

Jason: "Ahem?"

Shaun: "You say after a week of knowing each other the proposal is too soon - once again Steven was there for three hours and governing a f**king planet!!"

*Laughter*

Jason: "I'm not saying Steven's position was any better!" *Leigh laughs* "One crap idea does NOT mean the other one is NOT crap!"

Shaun: "It's more believable.  Look it got rid of Jo, who I was not keen on, okay - "

MJ: "- I was going to say about that!  We've - "

Shaun: "- That is the bottom line here!"

MJ: "We have lost Jo."

Jason: "I don't mind Jo!"

MJ: "Are you happy? Did you not warm to her more as it went on?"

Shaun: *Begrudgingly* "I warmed to her MORE as it went on, but I can't say I ever saw her as anything more than the thing that sometimes screams and gets captured."

Jason: "Oh you've never got over Liz Shaw, have you!?"

Shaun: "I HAVEN'T gotten over Liz Shaw - NOR have I forgiven Jo for replacing her - but that is BESIDES the point!  I don't like the young, dumb, girl side-kick thing.  I don't find them interesting!"

MJ: "I liked her and The Doctor's relationship.  How they were with each other.  It seemed quite natural - "

Jason: "- They had nice chats!"

MJ: "Nice chats and silliness and like -"

Shaun: "- Yeah! All that was fine! It's just the character archetype of 'damsel-in-distress who is infinitely dumber than The Doctor' I don't find interesting."

Jason: "Liz Shaw would NEVER have spilt the crap everywhere and saved the day!"

Shaun: "No!   She probably would have figured it out!! 'Get out the way, Professor! I'M the scientist here!'  Same with Barbara!"

MJ: "And Liz had a short skirt to do it with!  How about you Leigh?" *Laughs* "Did you like that one?"

Leigh: *Laughs* "Errr I don't feel as vehement about her as Shaun does, but I did think she was a bit poo."

MJ: "Ahh okay."

Shaun: "I like whatshername.  There was another girl we had after Dodo left, who was with the Sailor guy?"

MJ: "Oh, Polly!"

Shaun: "Polly."

Jason: "Oh yes.  She was good.  She took on the Highlanders!"

Shaun: "She did. Now she had a bit more, kind of, get-up-and-go and feist to her!  So she wasn't just -"

MJ: "- Spunk."

*Laughter*

Shaun: "Fine, she had spunk! But she wasn't just that small, very contained, little character that was there for nothing more than to just push the story on.  And yet she did have some nice moments."

Jason: "She did put the kettle on."

Shaun: "She DID put the kettle on."

Jason: "Several times."

Shaun: "And she had a cup of tea."

MJ: *Laughs* "And I think Susie (I meant Suky!) came along and took it off again!"

*Laughter*

Leigh: "This has degenerated into nonsense now!"

Shaun: "Yeah we're not even drinking in this one!"

MJ: "Yes, so that's the end of this series!  End of Jo Grant and so next time will be 'The Time Warrior'."

Jason: "Seen that."

Shaun: "How do you fight time?!  I mean a sword wouldn't be any good!  Unless it's a TIME sword!"

Jason: "Yes, like a Time Bandit, he's not STEALING time!"

Shaun: "I know... I was being silly!"

*Laughter*

Jason: "I'm think I'm deadly serious about this!"

MJ: *Laughing* "Yeah I don't think you're taking our Doctor Who meet-up as serious as you should!  Yeah Mark, where are you?!  Ill...."

Jason: "I don't see Mark doing a satellite link-up!  There's no Eurovision-style link-up this week!"

MJ: "There isn't!  I did enjoy that one."

Shaun: "That was quite good actually."

MJ: "So, okay, marks out of ten I guess?"

Jason: "I'm going to give it a nine."

Shaun: "Wow!"

Jason: "'Cos I'm feeling generous."

MJ: "Wow that IS generous!"

Jason: "Well, there's nothing really wrong with it - apart from jacket monster!"

MJ: "Leigh?"

Leigh: *Chuckling* "Erm, yeah I'm sort of with Jason, but not nine. Eight."

Jason: "Yeah but I've given a few eights this season."

MJ: "Shaun?"

Shaun: "Now that Roger Delgado is dead my taking a point off for The Master not being in it is no longer in effect." *Leigh laughs*

MJ: "That's good!"

Shaun: "And I'm going to give it a seven point six five eight three nine."

MJ: "Okay!"

Jason: "I think we had a good Master replacement, I'm sorry to say that."

Leigh: "Yes."

MJ: "Oh yeah!"

Jason: "Possibly two almost."

MJ: "And we had a guy that was Adam Chance from 'Crossroads'. That's always good!" *Laughs*

Jason: "He will BE Adam Chance!"

MJ: "He will be Adam Chance!  And I will give it - "

Shaun: "- A very enjoyable one!"

MJ: "- I think eight.  Yep.  I've seen a lot worse but I don't think it's a -"

Jason: "- I'll be very honest with you.  I was not looking forward to a six parter after coming back from work."

*Shaun laughs*

MJ: "Yes."

Jason: "That was fine."

MJ: "But let's see what 'The Book' says! Do you want me to read it?"

Jason: "Yeah."

Shaun: "NO!!!!"

*MJ laughs*

Leigh: "What's this!!?"

Shaun: "NO!!  I'm not okay with this!!" *Laughter* "Do not break protocol!!"

MJ: "Oh!! I was hoping to - "

Shaun: *Smiling* "We were on the phone the other week with him!  It MUST be Jason!!"

Jason: "I will allow you to take a photo of the pages though, instead of calling me up later and saying 'What was that you said, again?'" (I never did take the photos though!)

*Leigh laughs*

MJ: "That might be useful actually." *Long pause as Jason flicks through 'The Book'* "I mean if I HAD of been allowed to read it, I'd have done this quicker...."

Shaun: "What are we taking for guesses for maggot costumes?  I'm going with four!"

*Leigh laughs*

Jason: *Laughing* "Oh right! 'Maggot costumes'??!"

Shaun: "Oh, you know, the moveable maggots!"

Leigh: "I think there were only three toy maggots made!"

Jason: "No I'd go much higher - I think there was six!"

MJ: "I think there were quite a few."

Jason: "They always make six of everything!" *Shaun laughs* "I'll go at LEAST eleven! Eleven maggot costumes!"

MJ: "Made by Shawcroft, I should think!"

Jason: "BUT only four were able to move.  We'll go that."

MJ: "It'll say that people call it 'The One With The Giant Maggots' - that's what people always call it."

Jason: "Fifteen MILLION real-life maggots were used!"

MJ: "'The One With The Giant Maggots' - they don't ever say 'Green Death - The One Where Jo Leaves At The End' they go 'Oh -'"

Jason: *Cuts in and read from 'The Book'* " 'The Green Death. In Llanfairfach' -"

MJ: "- Same to you!"

Jason: *Reading from 'The Book'* "- 'pollution from 'Global Chemicals' is creating giant maggots and deadly slime. Dot dot dot. Og-lee-vee Colliery - "

Shaun: "- Ogilvie."

Jason: "Ogilvie. I don't know! I've never been there." *Reading from 'The Book'* "- 'Collery -"

Shaun: "- Colliery."

Jason: "Colliery." *Reads really slow* "Near... Gla...mor...gan.."

*Laughter*

Shaun: "Guys, I'm thinking I'm going to need to read this!" *Laughter* "Near Glamorgan!"

Jason: *Reading from 'The Book'* "- 'Stood in for the fictitious Llanfairfach Colliery.  The RCS International Factory in Brywnmawr, Powys -" *Jason and Leigh laugh* "- was used for 'Global Chemicals' - originally 'Universal Chemicals' ' - ooo!  They changed it!"

MJ: "Mm."

Jason: "It got smaller!"

*Leigh & Shaun laugh*

Jason: *Reading from 'The Book'* "'The maggots were a mixture of water-filled condoms, glove and' " *Shaun laughs loudly!*

MJ: "REALLY??!"

Jason: *Reading from 'The Book'* "- ' glove and rod puppets, static props pulled along on wires and live maggots on model sets.' You'd never know, would you?" *Leigh chuckles* " 'UNIT aerial bombs were lavatory ballcocks'." *Laughter* "'The unseen PM was named after liberal party leader Jeremy Thorpe."

MJ: "Ah."

Jason: *Reading from 'The Book'* "'Verdict: One of the very best UNIT stories, offering terrifying maggots, horrible green slime and very scary cliff-hangers.  There was also real character development and an attempt to address adult themes in an adult way.  Jo's departure is one of the series' saddest moments.  Ten out of ten'."

*"Ooo's" from the group*

Shaun: "Bloody Hell!"

MJ: "Blimey! 'The Book'!  Wow!"

Shaun: "So there's nothing about the sh*tness of the fly!?"

Jason: "No."

Leigh: "One sh*t fly was made for this!"

Shaun: "Yeah!"

Jason: "Twenty-five sh*t flies were made for this!"

Shaun: "I would immediately knock-off a point for the sh*t fly!" *Leigh laughs* "Ten out of ten means that it was literally perfect!"

Jason: "Can't do better than that!  Our last ten out of ten was, what?"

MJ: "Dunno."

Jason: "'Daleks' Master Plan' or something like that."

MJ: "Well that's....'The Book', you've stunned us there!"

Shaun: "Yes!"

MJ: "I mean I think it was very good -"

Shaun: "- An enjoyable one, yeah."

Jason: "Next week: Jo poses in 'Playboy'!"

Shaun: *Shaun chuckles* "Put THAT picture in the write-up!"

MJ: "I suppose it's nice for Mike Yates - who had his part bigged-up a bit this time, didn't he?  Playing a sort of spy and that."

Shaun: "Yes, quite a big role."

Jason: "That was good."

MJ: "Quite interesting to have him do that.  Err, UNIT didn't completely mess it up.  That's..."

Shaun: "I don't think a single UNIT person died this time."

Leigh: "I don't think they did!  No."

Shaun: "Which has GOT to be a first time ever."

Jason: "A lot just stood around, outside barriers, saying 'You can't go in'."

Shaun: "Well yeah."

Leigh: " 'We haven't got the same authority as a Milkman'!"

MJ: "Ah yes, Jon Pertwee had a couple disguises - that was nice."

Jason: "Oh yes! Of course!"

MJ: "The Milkman -"

Shaun: "- That was very funny -"

MJ: "- and the Cleaner Lady.  I'm sure he was a Cleaning Lady in something else, wasn't he?  A Charlady in something I'm sure?..."

Jason: "What, in 'Doctor Who'?"

MJ: "Yeah yeah!"

Jason: "Okay."

MJ: "Yeah - I don't just mean generally."

Shaun: "I think, erm, Trout-Man did that."

Jason: "Oh probably!"

Shaun: "He dressed as a woman."

MJ: "He did, in 'The Highlanders' I think he was err.... and he dressed as, like a, weird gypsy thing in 'The Underwater Menace'...  Anyway that's just babbling on about stuff like that!  But that's that!  So yay! 'Doctor Who' - and that was the end of the third season!  So we start a new season next time with 'The Time Warrior'. "

Jason: "The third season?"

MJ: "That was the end of the third season of Pertwee!  Sorry!"

Jason: "Okay."

MJ: "So that's me signing off!" *Starts singing the old fashioned 'Pick of The Pops' theme tune from BBC Radio* "And that's how the radio goes. Bye!"

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Lovely!  So that was another long one!  As I write this I have one more to write up...until tomorrow when we watch our next one!! Now rest for the nerdy!  Never mind here are the scores again!

Shaun: 7.65839

MJ: 8

Jason: 9

Leigh: 8

Which gives us an average of 8.1645975 out of 10!  High scores from us AND 'The Book'!  Well there we go, stay away from giant maggots and if you see toxic green slime on the ground....don't bloody go and touch it!!

Unless of course you want super powers.

Until next time, I shall return, yes I shall return....

MJ - 21/01/17

DOCTOR WHO MARATHON 66th MEET-UP - PLANET OF THE DALEKS

Sunday 27th November 2016

Well we met for our last November date around Shaun's to see "Planet of The Daleks" - a story that carried straight on from the last one.   Jason looked very different at this meeting... Oh hang on!   That's not Jason!  That's a GIRL!!?  Yes, Jason was ill this day but Leigh's girlfriend, Jemma, had decided to join us and see what this meet-up thing was all about.

She wouldn't make that mistake again!!

Anyhow, although ill, Jason STILL joined us by watching along at the same time at us - but from the comfort of his house - under a big blanket!  Anyhow this is what went down in groove town....

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MJ: "By the way, here we are Shaun's.  Hooray!  I'm recording on the device.  We've got no Jason 'cos he's a big, errr, ill idiot!  I like the dragon." *Leigh laughs* "That's going to be great for the audio!"

Leigh: "That's a hat."

MJ: "Yes."

Jemma: "WHAT??!"

MJ: "No, it's not a hat!"

Jemma: "That's definitely not a hat."

Leigh: "That's not a hat, no.  He (Shaun) DID have a hat that was a dragon..."

MJ: "Well I mean you can put it on your head!  And we've also got a Jemma here, that is courting Leigh!" *Laughs* "For the youngsters out there!  And we're here to watch 'Planet Of The Daleks' which has a villain in...well, can you guess what villain!?" *Laughs* "Yes, it's the planet!  But this continues on from the last times one which was...errr, I've forgot now!"

Leigh: "'Frontier In Space'."

MJ: "'Frontier'!  I was going to say 'Colony' but it's 'Frontier In Space', yes.  So there you go. And, as I say, Shaun's house everyone's here but Jason and I'm going to pause it there and watch episode one!"

*RECORDING GETS PAUSED BUT THEN STARTED AGAIN*

MJ: "Just talking about Wotzit fingers and Twiglet fingers - I just thought I'd write that in. That's good." *Laughter* "'That is important' Mark just said.  I had to repeat that as he's quite quiet and he's right over there!  So I'm going to be doing a lot of 'MJ just stretched out the phone to arms length then'."

*Leigh laughs*
 
Mark: "I refuse to talk when you stretch it out!"

MJ: *Laughing* "That's what SHE said!" *Laughter* "Part One 'Planet - " *Puts on Dalek voice* "'PLAN-ET OF THE DA-LEKS'!" *Laughter* "That'll read well!" *Laughter*

Leigh: *To Jemma* "Wait until he starts singing!"

MJ: *Singing in a Dalek voice to the Doctor Who theme* "PLAN-ET OF THE DA-LEKS!" *Normal voice* "Well, I sound like I'm underwater now!" *Laughter* "That's great for reading." *Laughter* "Episode One!"

*EPISODE ONE GETS WATCHED* 

Photo 1: At Shaun's house.  Jemma (holding the sign),

Leigh, Mark & MJ (with the DVD case).

MJ: "So yeah, the big reveal at the end was that there were Daleks there!" *Laughter* "So, for a story called 'Planet Of The Daleks' we were GOBSMACKED!"

*Leigh laughs*

Shaun: "Add to the fact that that The Doctor KNEW that the Daleks were involved at the end of the last serial!  Which is why he's gone to the place that he now is!"

MJ: "Yeah.  So there you go, but we had an invisible Dalek that got revealed by spray.  Jo got infected by some weird fungus thing."

Jemma: "She has fungus fingers now."

MJ: "Fungus fingers - yeah.  The Doctor froze, then got better.   And.... they're in a jungle where lots of planets are spraying stuff at them.  And they've found some - what are they called?  Oh, Thals."

Shaun: "Thals, yes."

MJ: "On a planet called Spiridon.  Spir (Spear) Of Destiny." *Mark chuckles* "There you go.  Oh and Leigh's gone to the loo.  Put THAT in MJ!"

Shaun: "Yes!  Did I read right, is this a Terry Nation?"

MJ: "Terry Nation.  Yep!  He wrote this."

Shaun: "He's ACTUALLY come back in the first time in years."

Jemma: "Who is this Terry Nation?"

MJ: "He wrote the first Dalek story - he came up with the idea of the Daleks."

Shaun: "He was a long time Doctor Who writer."

Jemma: "Ooo! I'd never heard of him!"

MJ: "Now he hadn't written one for a long time and when they came back with the last Dalek story, which was 'Day Of The Daleks', he got in touch with them saying 'Hey you're writing a Dalek story. You do know I own the rights to that and you can't do that without me!' and they were like 'Oh sorry I didn't know' and he was like 'Oh no it's fine but I'd like to write one myself' and so he wrote this one - which is the next Dalek story." (I paraphrased that story to heck-fire!)

Shaun: "He'd finally stopped trying to make a comedy spin-off!"

MJ: "Yeah, yeah."

Jemma: "A Dalek-based comedy spin-off?"

Mark: "Yes."

Leigh: "Called 'Look Who's Daleking Now'!"

MJ: "He did do other things in the meantime.  He came up with 'Blake's 7', that was a Terry Nation, and a thing called 'Survivors' as well (well, future MJ is going to be a pedant now - 'Blake's 7' ran after this story - from 1978-1981!  So did 'Survivors'!  That ran from 1975-1977!).

Mark: "Yeah that was Terry Nation."

MJ: "Okay Episode Two - Leigh's back from the loo!  That rhymes." *To recording device* "Put that in!" *Laughter* *To Shaun* "Carry on."

Shaun: "Sorry I was waiting to be expressly told!  It was demanded I stop it for you, Leigh!  So I like to politely wait to get instruction!"

*Laughter*

*EPISODE TWO STARTS* 

MJ: "There's the Dalek!"

Leigh: "He's spray painted!"

MJ: "Spray painted."

Shaun: "Yeah."

MJ: "Fully revealed but he's deactivated or dead or...."

Leigh: *Checking phone* "Oh Jason is watching along."

*Awws & Cheers*

Shaun: "Could he send us 'The Book' by text?!"

MJ: *Laughs* "Yeah!"

Leigh: "Or we could phone him and he could read it out on speaker phone."

MJ: "Yeah that would be good!"

Shaun: "YES!!! We'll do that!"

MJ: "Okay I'll stop..."

*EPISODE TWO GETS WATCHED*

Photo 2: At Shaun's house. Jemma (holding the sign),

Leigh, Mark (holding his mobile with Jason's selfie on!)

& Shaun (with the DVD case).

MJ: "Ten thousand Daleks at the end of Episode Two and we're going to see all of them!" *Laughter* "A MASSIVE fleet!  So there's a lady who's just gone there - on a space ship.  She told us so." *Reading titles* "Roy Skelton, Westor!"

Leigh: "Roy Skelton it was!" (I had recognised the voice off-tape!)

MJ: "He was the voice of an invisible alien. Me and Leigh recognised him - well, Leigh said 'Is that Roy Skelton'?"

Leigh: "I'm getting better at this!"

*Laughter*
MJ: "And I said 'The voice of Zippy and George!??'" *Laughs* "Why yes!  There we go.  So that's the end of two episodes there and -"

Jemma: "It's been so fun!"

*Laughter*

MJ: "And apparently there's LOTS of Daleks come along!"

Leigh: "Ten thousand!"

MJ: *Dalek voice* "TEN THOU-SAND!" *Normal voice* "How are you finding it so far Jemma!?  Have you ever seen any of these old Doctor Who's?"

Jemma: "I have not - and I know there's a reason for that now!"

*Laughter*

MJ: "Not really your cup of tea!"

Jemma: "However I don't think this is the best episode to start with."

MJ: "Probably not... although it's not that bad!"

Mark: "It's not that bad actually."

Jemma: "It's a bit....slow."

MJ: "We're quite enjoying it."

Jemma: "And you can't see that alien."

MJ: "Well, they ARE invisible..."

Jemma: "Why?"

Leigh: "'Cos that's cheaper!"

Jemma: "Why did you start me on a stupid invisible aliens!?"

MJ: *Laughing* "I didn't ask you to come around today!!"

*Laughter*
Jemma: "But you invited me around!!?"

MJ: "You said 'Can I'? and I said 'Yes, okay'!"

Jemma: "Well I learnt my lesson there didn't I!!?"

*Laughter*
 
MJ: "It could have been a lot worse - there's a lot worse ones!  You actually picked one that isn't that bad!"

Jemma: "I like George."

MJ: *Laughing*"George! Yes!"

Jemma: "Invisible George." (The character was Westor - but voiced by Roy Skelton - the voice of George (and Zippy) in retro kids TV show 'Rainbow'.)
MJ: "Enjoying this one so far, Mr. Shaun?"

Shaun: "Nope!"

*Laughter*
 
MJ: "Do you want to qualify the 'Nope' with something a little more...?"

*Leigh laughs*
 
Shaun: "I think I've covered it!"

Jemma: "It's not just me.  The ungrateful woman in the corner."

MJ: "Wait until Episode Three he'll LOVE that!"

Jemma: "What happens in that one?  Have you seen all these before?"

MJ: "Erm, these ones, yes.  No I'm joking, I don't know WHAT happens in it!" *Leigh laughs* "It's a long time ago since I've watched it.  I watched it once a few years back.  So..."

Jemma: "You have such a great life." *Leigh laughs* "It's like my goals."

Leigh: "That's sarcasm!"

Jemma: "It really is!"

Leigh: "That's mean."

Jemma: *Contrite* "Yeah I know.  You don't really, you're very nice."

MJ: "It's not like I sit at home and watch them!"

Jemma: "It totally is."

MJ: "I have to make all my friends come round to someone's house and THEN I watch them!"

*Leigh laughs*
 
Jemma: "Misery loves company!"

MJ: "Sometimes we have them around my house and my wife.... just goes into the bedroom!"

*Laughter*
 
Jemma: "And sobs quietly in a pillow!"

*Leigh laughs*
 
MJ: "The dog seems to enjoy the company."

Leigh: "Yeah. The dog enjoys them."

MJ: "Well not them, but..."

Jemma: "Who does the best snacks?  'Cos I'll go to those ones."

Leigh: "I think Mark has definitely won for best snacks.  There was one after Christmas and he presented us with a cheeseboard."

MJ: "Awwwww that was really nice!"

Shaun: "That was the best! Yep!"

*Leigh laughs*
 
MJ: "I mean clearly the rest of us aren't going to bother with all that!  Okay I'll pause it there - Episode Three!"

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Online snippets with Jason:

Jason: "Sorry I can't be there.  I've found it online, so I'm watching along anyway."

MJ: "We've just got to end of ep 2."

Shaun: "We will be calling you for the book description and score when done.  I will send a thermos of 3 cups of tea and a few handfuls of crisps for Mark to drop off so you don't feel left out."

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*EPISODE THREE GETS WATCHED*

Photo 3: At Shaun's house.

Shaun (with the DVD case).

MJ: *Half-hearted Dalek impression* "End-of-Epi-sode-Three." *Sniggers*

Shaun: "Your heart was NOT in that!  Do it properly!"

MJ: *Full on Dalek voice* "END-OF EP-I-SODE THREE!!!" *Cheers and laughter* "And yes, they're hoping to escape from the Daleks by having a big piece of polythene plastic and rising up through a heat-driven-tunnel.  So it would be like a hot air balloon - thing.  But can it take all their weight!!?  Awww at the moment we're... they could die!  And Jemma really likes the character - what was his name?"

Leigh: "Curdle."

Jemma: "It's Codal but we like Curdle.  I'm not going to like it if Codal dies!  I've invested a lot into Codal."

MJ: "Oh and Mark identified one of the characters as being a German General in (sitcom) 'Allo 'Allo'!  So there we go!" *Leigh and MJ Laugh* "As soon as he said I was like 'Oh yeah!!'.  So there we go: FACTS!"

*Leigh chuckles*
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Online snippets with Jason: 

*AFTER EPISODE THREE*

Jason: "Just started ep 3."

MJ: "We have just started episode four!  You may catch up during our next fag break!!!" (Not that MJ smokes!)

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*EPISODE FOUR STARTS*

MJ: "Oh we've started the episode and they are rising up!  So that's nice.  Just as the Daleks break through!   IT'S EXCITING!!!"

Jemma: "It's not!"

MJ: "Oh."

*Laughter*

*EPISODE FOUR GETS WATCHED*

Photo 4: At Shaun's house. Jemma (holding the sign),

Leigh, Mark (holding his mobile with Jason's selfie on!)

& Shaun (with the DVD case).

Shaun: "Leigh was just saying 'The good one is actually bad - even though they've all got the same voice.'"

MJ: "Yes, we were just on about the big, purple, furry things - which are invisible."

Shaun: "Spiridons."

MJ: "Spiridons yeah - "

Leigh: *Laughing* "'The purple invisible things'!??"

*Laughter*

MJ: "But they're WEARING purple, furry cloaks so we can see them!"

Mark: "Yeah."

Leigh: *Laughing* "What's the point in being invisible if you wear a cloak so people can see you??!"

Shaun: "They did say that it was to ward off the night."

Leigh: "Yes to keep them warm."

MJ: "Mmm."

Jemma: "Can't they make the cloak invisible?"

Leigh: "Well they can't make sticks invisible so..."

Jemma: "Well they won't be useful to the Daleks if they can't make them invisible."

Shaun: "The Daleks just want to be invisible themselves."

Jemma: "Well I have no idea what the hell is happening!"

*Leigh laughs*

Shaun: "Look you can tell it's a Dalek plan, right, 'cos what they're doing is: they've got a race that is naturally invisible due to their biology."

Jemma: "We think."

Shaun: "And they want to install that into their armour somehow."

Mark: "Yeah."

Shaun: "Which doesn't make a lot of sense!" *Laughs*

Leigh: "What if they skinned an invisible monster and wore it's skin?  Like the invisible monsters wear visible monsters skin."

Shaun: "Yeah!"

Leigh: "Well the Dalek's could wear invisible monster's skin!"

MJ: "Yeah!"

Shaun: "That's presumably what the Cloak of Invisibility from 'Harry Potter' was!"

*Laughter*
 
MJ: "It's probably a little sinister for a kids show - wearing the skin of - "

Jemma: "- Why are you bringing 'Harry Potter' into this sh*t??!  Why would you take all that is good from me!?"

*Laughter*
 
MJ: "I don't get it?  You're not finding this amazingly awesome?"

*Leigh laughs*
 
Jemma: "I've no idea what is happening!!?"

*Laughter*
 
Leigh: "But apart from THAT...."

MJ: "It's not really SO complex, these ones.... but I do get confused with who's who with the characters!"

Shaun: "That's because they all look almost EXACTLY alike!"

Leigh: "My God - you're like a Thal racist!!"

*Laughter*

Shaun: "And they all have weird, not-real, names."

Jemma: "Like 'Thals' - oh no, they're called 'Thals' aren't they?"

Mark: "Yeah."

Shaun: "Yeah. Like Curdle (Codel!) and Darren! (Taron!)" *Laughs*

*Mark laughs*
 
MJ: "Darren!" *Laughs and puts on boring voice* "Hello, I'm Darren!"

Shaun: "I will say the last two parts were a lot more enjoyable than the first two!"

Jemma: "Well I've been putting a lot of effort in making sure that Codal doesn't die!"

Shaun: "My only problem with the first two, is the fact that they are written by Terry Nation - it's a Dalek one - oh, it's exactly the thing we've seen fifty billion times before!" *Laughs*

MJ: "He does that, yes."

Mark: "I'm not saying he's an original writer..." *Laughs*

MJ: "But..." *Laughs* "Well that was his thing when we get to 'Genesis Of The Daleks'.  The writer asked him for another Dalek story and he sent one in and Terry (Nation) said to him (Terrance Dicks - script editor) 'Did you get the script?' and he said 'Yes'.  Terry replied 'What do you think?' and Terrence said 'It's very good but you've given this story to us five times before!' "

*Laughter*

Shaun: "Yeah!"

MJ: "And then Terrence went through the points of what was similar and Terry was like 'Oh yes, by God you're right!'  So Terrence said 'Why don't you write about where they (The Daleks) came from?'  And that's where - "

Shaun: "- I like the idea because that IS 'Genesis Of The Daleks' - I like the idea that Terry Nation literally just gave him the same script! 'We'll make that thirty years - that will be fine. Now sit back and enjoy the royalty cheques'!"

*Laughter*

MJ: "I believe, in the first draft, the Daleks were invented by a Cockney guy called Dave Ross!" *Laughter* *Put on Cockney accent* "'Allo I'm Dave Ross!  Look wot I've made 'ere!  I call 'em 'The Daleks'!..... You slags!' "

*Laughter*

Leigh: *Cockney accent* "They 'ave a bit of a problem with the old apple 'n' pears'!"

Mark: "Chairs?"

Leigh: *Cockney accent* "No apple 'n' pears - stairs.  Not apple 'n' pears - chairs!  Not apple 'n' pears - hairs!" *Laughs*

MJ: "But they can ship 'n' boat - float.  They have their own made up ones..." *Laughs*

Mark: "Yeah."

Shaun: "Yeah, 'cos the Dalek Cockney's not EARTH Cockney!  It's Skaro!"

MJ: "So are you enjoying that, Mark?"

Mark: "Errr, it's alright."

MJ: " 'It's alright'..." *Laughs* "Yes I don't really have much to say about that.  I don't think there are any profound things - there's no Master, so Shaun's -"

Leigh: "- Literally got nothing to say!"

*Shaun laughs*

Shaun: "I'll TRY to go on with my life!"

*Leigh chuckles*

MJ: "But there was no reason for them NOT to have The Master in it.   He could have stayed around and - "

Shaun: "Well that's 'cos he was dead."

MJ: "He's not dead!?  No, no he didn't die in this - I mean he did die but.."

Shaun: "Oh I thought he was meant to be in this serial?"

MJ: "No-n-no-no."

Shaun: "Oh then that makes, the way he f**ked off at the end of the last one, far more confusing!"

MJ: "Yeah.  So how are you finding it Jason?" *Puts on a Jason voice* "Ahh it's alright!"

Leigh: "Yes it's also very similar to your Jools Holland impression!"

*Laughter followed by MJ doing Jools Holland bits and pieces!*

Shaun: "If I can speak for Jason, erm, what was that thing you found out earlier?  Jason normal knows things about these..."

Mark: "What the ' 'Allo 'Allo' guy?"

Shaun: "Yeah, there you go!" *Still his normal voice* "Err I'm Jason and I'm reiterating the ' 'Allo 'Allo' thing, but I'm pretending I just came up with it.  Because Jason would actually probably have known that!" *Laughs*

Mark: "Yeah he would have known that."

Shaun: "'Cos he's quite knowledgeable."

Jemma: "I'm really sh*t at being Jason."

Shaun: "You're not the BEST Jason."

Jemma: "I don't even know what Jason's name is half the time!  So I'm sh*t at that!"

*Laughter*

MJ: "That's lovely!"

Mark: "That will be nice to read in the write-up!"

MJ: "I'll put that in."

*Laughter*
 
Shaun: "I was trying to do Jason some justice!  Now we've just sh*t on the poor guy's name!"

MJ: "Awww.  And on sh*tting on Jason's name I'll - "

Shaun: "No, no. Let's just all say we miss Jacob!" *Laughter* "We miss you, Jacob!"

*Laughter*

Mark: "I personally DO miss Justin a lot."

*Laughter*
 
Shaun: "Poor Jeremy!  We shouldn't take the p*ss out of him!"

Jemma: *Laughing* "I actually thought his name WAS Justin for Ages!"

MJ: "We KNOW why he's called 'Just in'....!"

Shaun: "WHAT!!?"

*Laughter*

MJ: "Hah!  Penis..." *Uproarious laughter* "Funny.  Okay, next part..."

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Online snippets with Jason:

*AFTER EPISODE FOUR*

MJ: "We have just finished four."

Jason: "I have three minutes till the end."

MJ: "Ooo we will let you know when we start five!"

Jason: "And ep four finished.  I want a furry purple blanket coat.  They look cosy and warm."

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*EPISODE FIVE STARTS*

*MJ, sings 'Doctor Whooooo' along with the theme tune in a tuneless high voice - as per usual!*

MJ: "And there we go - I've just made Jemma choke!"

Shaun: "Jemma finds this funny 'cos" *Laughing* "She hasn't had it for EVERY episode for the past three years!"

MJ: "And the episode is starting and there is Grimace! I'll stop it..."

*EPISODE FIVE GETS WATCHED*

Photo 5: At Shaun's house. 

Mark (holding his mobile with Jason's selfie on!).

MJ: "End of Part Five and Westor betrayed them - but he didn't really betray them!!  It was all a trick to..."

Leigh: "Release the cheese-bacteria!"

Shaun: "Yes."

MJ: "And it's trapped in the one room and the Daleks can never open the door because it will infect all the other Daleks. And they sounded REALLY upset about that!"

Jemma: "Because Derek The Dalek is an arsehole!"

MJ: "Derek The Dalek is an arsehole."

*Leigh laughs*

Mark: "They've already immunised quite a few Daleks..."

Shaun: "But they haven't immunised the thousands they've got in cold-storage."

Jemma: "Oh yeah I forgot about them!"

MJ: "Daleks on ice!" *Laughter* *MJ reads out Jason's above comments to the group* "That's important for the write-up, makes him appear like here's here!  Oh yes, so they're dressed as Spridon's - "

Leigh: "- Grimace."

MJ: "Grimace.  And suddenly the Daleks notice that one of them's wearing shoes!"

Jemma: "Yeah I want that sandwich."

MJ: "Oh yeah and Jemma's Googling sandwiches!"

*Leigh laughs*

Jemma: "I really like sandwiches."

Shaun: "To be fair she's look up Dalek sandwiches!"

Jemma: "Yes, yes Dalek-themed sandwiches!"

MJ: "SAMMIDGE!  And watch the next part..."

*EPISODE SIX GETS WATCHED*

Photo 6: At Shaun's house. 

Part of Jemma with

the sign, Leigh and Mark.

MJ: "So that was the end of, erm, 'The Dalek's Master Plan In Planets' errrr 'Mind Of Evil'!" *Leigh laughs* "Errrr, 'Spearhead From The Autons'.... etc!  So how did we find that one? Tough going?"

Shaun: "No it was alright.  Picked up after - well the first three episodes were just the same thing we've seen a bajillion times before, whilst the rest was nothing particularly new.  It certainly got a bit more exciting after those first two!"

Jemma: "I like the jiz-flowers."

*Leigh laughs*

MJ: "She likes the jiz-flowers.  They were good.  Err Jo had a chance to leave at the end there.  The guy was romantic and said 'Hey, come back to Skaro with me!'  And she was like 'Nah'!"

Shaun: "Yep! An absolute out of NOWHERE romance - we thought that was the end of Jo for a while!"

*Leigh chuckles*

Mark: "Out of nowhere?  He felt her knee without permission!  He was holding her hand a lot!"

Jemma: "Yeah!"

MJ: "Yeah I saw her!  The subtle, little things there.  Not so subtle..."

Mark: "Not like all the others."

MJ: "Yes, I don't think she will meet someone and fall in love and leave The Doctor at ALL!"

Shaun: "Suddenly AND immediately in the next one we watch!"

MJ: "Dot. Dot. Dot!" *Laughter* "Yes, who knows.  So yes Mark?  Was that alright for you?"

Mark: "Yeah it was alright! One of the better ones for Jon Pertwee."

MJ: "I liked the ice and the little toy Daleks getting covered in ice."

Mark: "Yeah, Daleks..."

Shaun: "Yeah."

Mark: "I mean, like all of them, they could have done that in two episodes."

*Shaun laughs*

MJ: "The, err, the Supreme Dalek - Dalek Supreme - mmmmm!  Yum-yum-yum!" *Leigh & Mark laugh* "Was very wobbly with his head, I found.  His gold, little head."

Shaun: "Calling something a 'Supreme Dalek' - SURELY it should be more impressive than, perhaps, two inches taller and a BIT gold!"

Jemma: "Like a crown."

MJ: "It had a torch for an eye-stalk!  And really BIG glowing lights!"

Mark: "Bigger lights in its head."

Shaun: "Yeah."

MJ: "Booming!  So did you say you was going to give Jason a call - so we can find out what 'The Book' says?!"

Shaun: "I think we should, yeah!"

MJ: "We should do our scores as well.  Can you put him on speaker thing?"

Shaun: "Bear with me a second."

MJ: "Ooo."

Jemma: "This is so exciting!"

Leigh: *Chuckles* "Live link-up to a DIFFERENT part of Sudbury!"

*Laughter*

Shaun: "This is our FIRST ever live link-up!!"

Jemma: "It's like Eurovision."

MJ: "Can you hear us....?"

Leigh: "...Springlands!"

*Laughter*

Shaun: "I'll pop this on speaker and we'll see if he answers."

*Phone starts ringing*

Mark: "I bet he gives it nil poi!"

*Phone gets answered*

Jason: "Hello?"

MJ: *Shouting* "HELLO JASON YOU ARE LIVE ON TELEVISION, DO NOT SWEAR!!"

*Laughter*

Jemma: "Hey!"

MJ: "How ya doing?"

Jason: "Hello."

MJ: "Yeah we just got to the end and we are just about to give scores and stuff." *Laughs* "So we thought we'd ring you along as well!"

Jason: "Yayyyyyyy..."

*Jemma laughs*

MJ: "Yayyyy! Have you any thoughts of what you thought of that?" (Good English!)

Jason: "Yes!"

*Laughter*

MJ: "Tell us what you thought of that." *Laughs*

Jason: "I think it was alright!  It's what I think of when people say 'Classic Who'.  It went -" *Coughs* "It went along alright."

MJ: "Yeah."

Jason: "I like the characters.  Daleks are crap."

*Laughter*

MJ: "What about the Dalek Supreme?  Chicken Supreme."

Jason: *Laughs* "He had some bling going on - I liked him!"

*Laughter*

Jemma: "Not bling enough."

MJ: "He did!  And there was a Cryo-volcano - that was fun."

Jason: "Lots of flying fluids in this one I thought!"

*Laughter*

MJ: "Yeah I thought it did look a little like other fluid, but I wasn't going to go too much into detail.  Erm, how about all the Grimaces?"

Jason: "I loved the Grimaces, I want one."

*Laughter*
 
MJ: "And Jemma's favourite character - who was he?"

Jemma: "Codal."

MJ: "Curdle!"

Jason: "Oh he was the one that had the crap idea about the fridge, wasn't he?"

*Laughter*
 
MJ: "I think so, yes."

Jemma: "That's our Curdle!"

MJ: "Yeah, that's our Curdle.  And Jo NEARLY went away, didn't she?  To Skaro."

Leigh & Mark: "With Latte!" (Latep)

MJ: "With Latte!" *Laughing*

Jason: "I call him 'Latte' as well!"

MJ: "Yay!!"

*Laughter*
 
Jason: "When he went away he said 'Come back to my planet' and she said 'No'."

MJ: "Exactly, yeah!  But I can't see her going off, romantically, with anyone she's just met...!"

*Laughs*

Jason: "No that would never, ever, ever happen!"

MJ: "No." *Jason laughs* "Dot, dot, dot!"

Shaun: "It ALWAYS happens!" *Laughing* "It's probably going to happen again!"

MJ: "Jason, do you have 'The Book' with you?"

Jason: "I do!"

MJ: "Yayyy!"

Shaun: "We need to do scores first!"

MJ: "Oh yeah we need to do scores don't we?  So, err, seen as you're there Jason, what would you give it out of ten?"

Jason: "Errr, I was going to give it a seven, but I'm going to give it an eight."

MJ: "Oh, okay!"

Jason: "Just 'cos there's nothing really wrong with it."

MJ: "Fair enough then.  Shaun?"

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

MJ: "Oh.  Not very keen."

Shaun: "No it's just mediocre.  It's fine.  Straight in the middle."

MJ: "Mark?"

Mark: "Err, I'll give it an eight point two three."

Shaun: "Wow."

MJ: "Oh you quite liked it then?"

Leigh: "Seven!"

MJ: "Seven!  Jemma," *Laughs* "what would you give that?  Seen as you've never seen classic Doctor Who before?"

Jemma: "I don't really have anything else to base it on.  I thought it was a crock of s**t, so two!"

*Leigh laughs*
 
Shaun: "AWWW BRUTAL!!"

Jemma: "I don't know - that might be a really good story!"

MJ: "I don't know - I think it was sort of average.  Seven I think from me.  Okay but what does 'The Book' think, Jason?!"

Jason: "I'd already taken a picture and was going to send you what it says, but hang on."

Jemma: "Read it for us!"

Shaun: "This is how it works, Jason!  It MUST be your voice!"

MJ: "COULD YOU GIVE ME THE SCORES OF THE SLOVAKIAN PEOPLE!?" *Laughs*

Jason: "I've gotta find the page - hang on!  I'm just gonna read - oh it's quite short actually."

MJ: "Oh that's good.  That's what SHE said!"

*Laughter*

Jason: "Okay - the first line I don't agree with!"

MJ: "Okay, what does it say?"

Jason: *Reading from The Book* " 'A believable jungle setting -' "

*Laughter*
 
MJ: "It wasn't THAT bad!  But, yeah, not really believable."

Jason: *Reading from The Book* " '- and ambitious, if unoriginal ideas, make this live-action comic strip romp a breeze, in fine style.  Eight out of ten'."

Shaun: "Wow."

MJ: "Oh so that sort of agreed with a few in the group."
 
Shaun: "How many Dalek costumes were made!!?"

Jason: "Well, one was nicked from the film."

MJ: "Oh, was it?"

Shaun: *Laughing* "Yeah that would be the Supreme, yeah?"

Jason: "Well they were loaned it by Terry Nation from the 1966 film 'Daleks' Invasion Earth. 2150 A.D.' - with a torch stuck on to it's eye-stalk."

MJ: "Yeah I did think it looked quite like a torch.  Does it talk about the furry costumes?  The purple things?"

Jason: "It doesn't, but it does say the army of Daleks - which I like the term - were made up of toys."

*Cheers*

MJ: "Toys!  I thought it was, yeah.  There was quite a lot of them!  They probably spent quite a bit on that."

Shaun: "I imagine they got them free."

MJ: "No I should think they had to go to Woolworths and pay for them or something.  That's the thing.  Well a shame you can't be here for the group photo but you've sent one of yourself with a furry."

Shaun: "We'll Photoshop that in!"

*Laughter*

MJ: "We can. Okay so I suppose we'll let you go now 'cos we've pretty much said everything there!"

Jason: "Cool."

MJ: "Well thanks for joining us Jason and thank you for the vote of the Smith People!  Say 'Bye'!"

All: "Bye!!!"

Jason: "Bye."

*Jason hangs up*

MJ: "Brilliant."

Shaun: "Worth it."

MJ: "That was WOW! Live link-up!  That's quite exciting for our group!"

*Leigh laughs*

Jemma: "Can you link up with me every week?  So I don't have to do all that - but I can do the fun bits at the end!"

MJ: *Laughing* "You've got to watch it!"

Shaun: "You've got to watch it on your own, which I assure you is LESS fun than doing it with the rest of us!"

Jemma: "Can't I just pretend?  'I totally just watched it!  It's great - yay'!"

*Leigh chuckles*

MJ: "That's brilliant. Okay we'll stop there and -"

Shaun: "Have we got to half an hour yet?"

MJ: "About thirty seconds away."

Mark: "Keep it going."

Shaun: "Let's just keep this rolling.  For thirty seconds!  I have an important Dalek thing to say!!"

MJ: "Go on then."

Shaun: "DALEK!"

MJ: *Laughs* "Rhymes with 'Garlek'!"

Shaun: "A very important Dalek thing!"

MJ: "Erm, Jemma wants sandwiches.  Do you know what kind of sandwich you want?"

Jemma: "Fish finger."

MJ: "Fish finger.  Yes."

Shaun: "Fish finger sandwich?"

MJ: "Sammich!  With sauce?  Ketchup or anything?"

Jemma: "I think ketchup.  I don't have ketchup so I'll have mayonnaise."

MJ: "And that leads us to half an hour!"

*Laughter and cheers*

Photo 7: At his own house, ill, 

Jason poses with his TARDIS mug.

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Phew so that was a long one!  And written-up a fair while after the event!  So here are those pesky Dalek scores:

Jason 8

Shaun 5.138

Mark 8.23

Leigh: 7

Jemma: 2

MJ: 7

That gave us an average of 6.228 out of 10.  It may be sad but the live link up was one of the most exciting things we've done in the meet-ups!

We have been doing it for a while now...

Oh well that was that and we have one more in this season to watch!

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

MJ - 15/01/17