It was time for the first meeting of 2017! A new year and a new season! This time we would see a new title sequence, a new alien foe (which would return again and again), a new assistant AND even more Pertwee hair! So let us travel to Leigh's and see what happened to us lot....
MJ: "Here we are at Leigh's, errrr, it's New Year so the first one of the new year - I believe? Is it? Or have we had one already!?"
Shaun: "No."
Leigh: "No it's the first one. It's only the seventh... sixth? Eight? Ninth? Ninth!!"
*Everybody proceeds to sing the tune of 'The Lambada'!*
MJ: "We're doing 'The Lambada' because -" *Laughter*
Jason: "Don't explain it!"
Mark: "Leigh's car failed it."
MJ: "Because Leigh's car failed to do 'The Lambada'!" *Laughing* "So he's getting penalised - giggerty!"
Leigh: "No you misread it - it's 'Lambda'! It's a 'Lambda' class shuttle from 'Return Of The Jedi' so..."
*Laughter*
MJ: "I don't even know what that is - is the the Empire's shuttle that they (The Rebels) take?"
Leigh: "Yeah."
MJ: "Well there you go there, anyway Doctor Who - " *Laughter* "New year - new season as well last time we finished with Jon Pertwee as you all know, if you read.... which you didn't!"
Shaun: "I did!!"
MJ: "Yeah!!"
Shaun: "Oh no I didn't 'cos you haven't put it online yet!"
MJ: "I haven't written it yet."
Shaun: "I'M LYING!!!"
*Leigh laughs*
MJ: "I'm still behind. But this one is 'The Time Warrior'. It's a four parter with Jon Pertwee and his last season! So..."
Shaun: "And Jo is gone!"
MJ: "Jo is gone."
Shaun: "And now we have Sarah-Jane-Jessica Parker...."
Jason: "We don't KNOW that yet!"
Leigh: *Laughing* "Sarah-Jane-Jessica Parker?!"
Shaun: *Laughing* "Yeah! She talks about shoes and shagging The Doctor - it's a real departure to the previously child-friendly thing!"
*Mark chuckles*
*EPISODE ONE STARTS*
MJ: "Anyway Episode One - and we've started! Will it have the same - Oooo! Different title sequence!" *Oooo's from the group* "It's pretty cool - and there he is (The Doctor) but not just him! His whole body!!"
*Leigh chuckles*
Shaun: "He's falling into space!!"
Jason" And time."
Leigh: "But he doesn't look particularly bothered!"
Shaun: "No."
MJ: "And that's the first use of that logo (The famous diamond-shaped Doctor Who logo) I think?"
Jason: "Yes I believe so."
MJ: "So that's the new Doctor Who logo."
Jason: "For all you Graphic Designers out there - New logo!"
*Leigh & Mark laugh*
MJ: *Reading titles* "Robert Holmes - who wrote a lot of the good ones."
Shaun: *Looking at TV* "Space."
Jason: "New space. Superman being born! Well, not being born..."
Shaun: "Being transported from Krypton to Earth."
Jason: "Did he just axe a banana?"
Shaun: "Sean Bean!!"
MJ: "No! It's medieval knights!"
Jason: "It's the craze."
MJ: "Part One."
*EPISODE ONE GETS WATCHED*
Photo 1: At Leigh's house.
Mark, Shaun (with the DVD case),
Jason (with the sign) and Leigh.
MJ: "So there we go! We just had an episode there where the reveal at the end is that it's a Sontaran - he had his helmet on all the way through - giggerty! And we had Dot Cotton in it! (a character from the British soap opera 'Eastenders' - played by June Brown) Which was nice! And we had the guy who played Boba Fett!" *Mark & Leigh chuckle* "And Sarah Jane Smith is in it, so there we go. That's all you need to know about that. They're back in time." *Sings* "Gotta get back in time!"
Leigh: *Reading titles* "Hah, 'Dicks'..."
Shaun: "This Sontaran is called 'Linx'!"
Jason: "Yes."
MJ: "Yes."
Mark: "Yeah."
Shaun: "I don't know if that is particularly relevant to the Sontarans as a whole? I don't remember them having names?"
MJ: "You can spray them on your armpit but I don;t know if it would smell that good..." *Laughs*
Shaun: "Also venture in quests for 'Princess Zelda'! I doubt he's going to do that."
Leigh: "German for 'left' - Linx."
Shaun: "Yes!"
MJ: "Is it!? Well there you go! What's 'Right'?"
Leigh: "I can't remember!"
Jason: "Everything."
*Leigh laughs*
*EPISODE TWO STARTS*
MJ: "Anyway there we go. Sarah Jane is getting manhandled by a guy - she's gone back in time (She stowed away on board the Doctor's TARDIS!). Part Two!
*EPISODE TWO GETS WATCHED*
Photo 2: At Leigh's house.
MJ, Shaun (with the DVD case),
Jason (with the sign) and Leigh.
*Partway through a chat*Shaun: "..Prophetic - "
Jason: "- Pathetic!"
Shaun: "- He knows this is the last season so he know he'll die in about four stories time."
Leigh: "I reckon that cliff-hanger (of The Doctor falling over whilst Irongron - the story's human villain - raises his axe over him) will be resolved by him going 'I wonder what I was going to do!? Oh, I'd better go back'!"
*Shaun laughs*
MJ: "Yes The Doctor is about to get hit by a MASSIVE weapon..."
Leigh: *Deadpan* "F-narr, f-narr."
Jason: "I liked Professor Rubeish!"
MJ: "Rubeish is brilliant!"
Leigh: "Rubbish!"
MJ: "He's not 'Rube-ish'! (Rubbish)"
Jason: "He isn't! He's funny!"
MJ: "With his 'Can't see' and general chit-chat!"
Jason: "He's like the First Doctor when he got better and not murdering!"
MJ: "Yes." *Mark starts laughing* "What?"
Mark: "We're surrounded by 'Dicks'!"
*Jason chuckles*
MJ: Who is?"
Mark: "There's a Dick Mills - "
MJ: "- Oh I see!"
Mark: "- There's a Terrence Dicks."
MJ: "Yep! Does he?!"
Mark: "And there's another one...something...somewhere...I don't know..."
MJ: "That's right."
Jason: "So what's happened so far MJ?! Re-cap for them!"
MJ: "Can't really say what happened! Did you enjoy it?"
Jason: "Well I'll explain. The Sontarans - or one of them - has landed - and instantly declared he was claiming planet Earth with two flags."
Shaun: "Yes."
MJ: "From one flagpole."
Jason: "He didn't do that. Then he was surrounded by people with swords, who then took him to the castle and they're now sort of... helping each other? I dunno."
Mark: "He's giving them weapons so..."
Jason: "And they're stealing scientists from the farthest future he can reach which is -"
MJ: "Twentieth century."
Jason: "- Twentieth century -"
Mark: *Quietly* "Nineteen-seventies..."
Jason: "Including Rubeish -"
MJ: *Quietly* "Or eighties..."
*Mark chuckles*
Jason: "- And he's given them primitive weapons - well, not primitive weapons. He's given the primitives weapons!"
Shaun: "UNIT fired at an image of the Sontaran and missed even THAT!"
Jason: "Don't jump straight to the next bit!"
MJ: "It was a ghost, yeah."
Jason: "It wasn't a ghost."
Shaun: "It wasn't a ghost! It was a projection."
Jason: "I don't know why - oh! That was him (Linx) coming to the future was it?"
MJ: "Yes."
Jason: "To grab people."
MJ: "But only a ghostly image came through, for some reason."
Jason: "Sarah Jane's acting like a normal person would! I think."
MJ: *Laughing* "Yeah!! She thought it was some kind of...what do you call it? A re-enactment thing and stuff like that. And she's been very feisty and looking very pretty!"
Jason: "She's a fiery wench - I'll give her that!"
Mark: *Laughs* "If only the king had more of her then he could defend his own castle!"
MJ: "Yes he's a bit wet isn't he!? That's the problem with that."
Jason: "They're both a bit sh*t! Irongrum and the other - Alfred? (Actually Lord Edward of Wessex)"
MJ: "Well Irongrum's got a bit more passion about him - he's probably just a bit thick."
Mark: "Yep."
MJ: "He's like 'Urrrgggh I wanna do stuff!!! But I don't really know how because I'm just ANGRY all the time!! Urrrrghhhh, where's me porridge!!?' ' We don't really have porridge down in England' 'Urrrrghhhh!!' " *Laughs*
Jason: "That summed it up!"
MJ: "So that's it. But are you enjoying it so far, Shaun?"
Shaun: "I enjoyed Part One. I thought Part Two was interminably slow. Boring."
Jason: "I thought the opposite!"
Shaun: "Yeah?"
Jason: "I thought Part Two did a lot more stuff. I thought Part One was - "
Shaun: "- I very much enjoyed the sh*tness of the robot!"
MJ: "Oh yeah!! Of course!!"
Shaun: *Laughing* "And how it was more instantly defeatable than a human soldier!"
MJ: "The Sontaran made a robot for Irongrun and it was REALLY slow and rubbish!"
Jason: "I like the idea that he keeps making them and they can't be destroyed. So there's lots of really bad - "
Shaun: *Laughing* "- Just laying on their side!!"
MJ: "Just laying on the floor wafting the sword!"
Jason: "- Lots of slightly different prototypes."
MJ: "Yeah."
Mark: It's the same plan as The War Machines though."
MJ: "Yeah that's right, yeah. I mean I don't think you can kill it, but you actually just walk quite fast away from it! So..."
Shaun: "You can very easily knock it over and it can't get back up!"
*Mark chuckles*
Mark: "Yes that's true."
MJ: "That's true. The War Machines and Irongrun's robots!"
Jason: "Who would win?"
Leigh: "It depends if The War Machine was distracted by a cardboard box!"
*Laughter*
Mark: "All we can be sure of is that cardboard boxes would lose!"
Leigh: "Yes!"
Jason: "I'm not convinced..."
MJ: "I'm just thinking 'Iron Pants' because I know some people call 'Pants' (underwear) 'Grunts'. And his name's 'Irongrunt'."
Shaun: "It's 'Irongrun'!"
MJ: *Laughing* "Yes I know - but t sounds like 'Irongrunt', so I'm just thinking of iron pants!"
Leigh: "Perhaps he's got iron pants."
MJ: *Laughing* "Maybe he has!"
Leigh: "Maybe he irons his pants?!"
MJ: "He would get a wench to do that! She takes it to the laundrette where Lady Dot Cotton is! And she says 'Oh I say...' "
Shaun: "I tell you something I did like in the second episode. I very much liked the Sontaran going 'Well these fabrics aren't from this time period! She's (Sarah-Jane) from the future'! That was great!"
MJ: "Yes."
Shaun: "I thought there was going to be a lot more dicking around with that!" *Mark laughs* "Make it into a whole comedy skit for a whole episode but, no. He just went 'Nah she's (Sarah-Jane) not from here she must have been in my Time-vortex all along! We'll figure this out'!"
Mark: "Yeah."
MJ: "That was good. I like the Sontaran - he's pretty good. Got a 'Chelsea Smile' as I said."
Shaun: "I'm enjoying the guy playing the Sontaran but he looked a lot better with the helmet on!"
Leigh: "He said the same about you!"
Jason: "It's a single-sex society - he doesn't need to impress anyone! Just reproduces at will. Well, not AT will - whoever Will is!" *Laughter*
Leigh: "Oi Will! I'm going to reproduce at you!"
MJ: *Laughing* "Maybe Will Scarlett will come into it in a little while!"
Jason: "And of course we're all discussing where they get their hair done! That's the main thing!"
*Leigh laughs*
MJ: "Yeah!"
Leigh: "That IS the principle concern!"
MJ: "Erm, Jeremy Bulloch - Hal The Archer. He's got a very nice bouffanty, blonde, mulletty thing!"
Jason: "Oh I didn't know his name was Hal The Archer."
MJ: "Yes. I don't know why it's stuck in my head! It's just one of those things."
Mark: "It's in the credits."
MJ: "No but I knew that before! It's one of those... even though I've only watched it once before it's been mentioned a lot - probably because he played Boba Fett and they also say 'Oh he also played Hal the Archer' in 'The Time Warrior'."
Jason: "Which one is Bloodaxe? Is he the one in the red? I saw the credit at the end."
MJ: "Oh! Bloodaxe? Well I suppose he could be the one in the red." (he was!)
Jason: "He's not Irongrun, he's not the archer..."
MJ: "Is he the one with the scrappy beard? Who's a bit:" *Makes scared noise*
"Oh I THINK he was in the (First Doctor story) 'The Savages'! (He wasn't! I've since looked it up!)"
Jason: "Oh that's not going to help!"
Leigh: *From his kitchen* "The Sandwiches?!"
*Jason laughs*
Jason: "What kind of sandwich was he in?!"
Mark: *Laughing* "Yeah what kind of sandwich?!"
MJ: "SAVAGES! But I don't know what the character was."
Jason:*Laughing* "Yeah it's not going to help me!"
MJ: "It's not going to help any of you!"
Jason: "If you told me the character name I'm not going to go 'Oh yes, Savage Number Two'!"
*Leigh laughs*
*EPISODE THREE GETS WATCHED*
Photo 3: At Leigh's house.
Mark, Shaun (with the DVD case),
Jason (with the sign) and Leigh.
Leigh: "I'm glad we watched every 'Doctor Who' episode ever!"
*Laughter*
MJ: "Yeah, that was good!"
Shaun: "The end of Part Four is a eulogy!"
*Leigh laughs*
Jason: "They're ALL historical for The Doctor."
MJ: "'The Highlanders' - which was Troughton's second story."
Jason: "Does it count as true historical if there's space travel and all that in it? There's an alien in it!"
Shaun: "It's not like the ones where he just goes back to a time where he is essentially skirting around the outside of events that have already happened."
MJ: "Well that's what they've done. They decided to do historicals again but with this kind of twist. And that's how it's gone since."
Jason: "Well, I don't like it! I like this one! I just don't think I'd squeeze an alien in every week."
MJ: "Anyway! Part Four!"
*EPISODE FOUR GETS WATCHED*
Photo 4: At Leigh's house.
MJ, Shaun (with the DVD case),
Jason (with the sign) and Leigh.
MJ: "Jason enjoyed that - said 'It was fine'!" *Leigh laughs* "So, yayyy! That was the end of part four and the castle blew-up and we had an exploding castle picture... except we didn't! We just had a quarry exploding!"
Jason: "Was Meg the old woman?"
Leigh: "Dunno!"
MJ: "I guess so - it sounds like an old woman name from back then, except for now -"
Jason: "Well she'll definitely be old by now!"
MJ: "Yeah. Although nowadays it's Meg and James - and she's not an old woman! She will be one day, but erm..."
Shaun: "Who's Megan James?"
Jason: "Meg AND James!"
Shaun: "Oh! I thought he said 'Megan James'!"
*Jason & MJ laugh*
Jason: "'Meg and Mog'."
MJ: "Hah! 'Meg and Mog'! So did you enjoy 'The Time Warrior'!?"
Shaun: "No!"
*Laughter*
Jason: "I can;t see anything wrong with that!"
MJ: "WHAT!!? Really, you didn't like it!?"
Shaun: "I barely was awake during most of it!"
*Laughter*
Jason: "Well that's going to affect your opinion, probably!"
Mark: "As with most of these it was probably three episodes too long!"
Jason: "Stop having busy Saturdays and a social life!"
Shaun: "It's nothing to do with that! I was just really bored!" *Laughs*
MJ: *Surprised* "Oh! Okay!"
Jason: "There was banter! There was a pirate! (Was there??!) There was a mad professor!"
Shaun: "I liked the Sontaran!"
MJ: "I thought the script was very good! It was witty - Robert Holmes is quite well known for writing quite funny, witty, sharp scripts."
Shaun: "I think your idea of 'Funny' and mine are very different!" *Laughs* "I don't think of 'Doctor Who' and think 'Funny'!"
Jason: *Laughing* "Yeah, but compared to Doctor Who (stories that we have seen so far) there was a lot of funny moments. Well, not a lot, but some!"
Mark: "I'm disappointed Rubbish (Rubeish) didn't go with them."
Shaun: "Yeah."
Mark: "He could have been the new companion."
Jason: "Well, he's only gone back to the UNIT time - so he's still about! Well we assume he has! They might have all been dispersed across time and space!"
Mark: "Is he definitely lurking about UNIT now?"
Jason: "I hope so, but from memory: no."
*Laughter*
MJ: "Mind you there's some of these I haven't seen, so maybe he'll be there..."
Shaun: "In the next one are they actually going to acknowledge that Sarah Jane Smith is now the companion?" *Laughing* "Or is that just it now!?"
MJ: "Yes, 'cos he hasn't actually invited her along -"
Shaun: "- No! She snuck on the TARDIS, was quite useful on that adventure..."
Jason: "We'll find out!"
MJ: "Did you like Sarah Jane Smith in that? Ignoring if you have seen her in future stories."
Shaun: "Erm, to be perfectly honest, she was certainly a better character than Jo already. So she's fine, yeah. She didn't have an awful lot to do, but..."
Mark: "She's already more useful than the UNIT-trained Jo."
*Laughter*
Mark: "So.... Yeah, she's feistier."
Shaun: "Yep!"
Jason: "She's had more outfit changes than Jo!"
Shaun: "She's very competent!"
Jason: "Jo had a lot of outfits but she had MORE outfits!"
MJ: "She DID have quite a few outfit changes! I quite like her in her Robin Hood thing - I could see her doing panto!"
Jason: "Not now you can't."
MJ: "No."
Shaun: "No, she's dead."
MJ: "No, she's dead. Not then though! Not in her prime. She's a very pretty, young lady."
Shaun: "Now we were discussing this the other day, Jason -"
Jason: "- What, that she's a very pretty, young lady?"
*Mark chuckles*
Shaun: "No! We were discussing seventies hair and that completely putting you off a woman!"
Jason: "Oh!! No, she was alright in this one!"
Shaun: "Yeah? The hair was okay?"
MJ: "Yeah I think it was!"
Jason: "I think it was more the full-on, single-coloured suit at the beginning. I remember her having more of a bowl-cut in the early ones. In that picture (on the DVD menu) she's absolutely fine."
MJ: "Yeah."
Mark: "The Doctor, however, has a better perm!"
*Laughter*
MJ: "He's a bit more bouffant-y!"
Jason: "We're talking a LOT about hair in this story line!"
*Leigh chuckles*
MJ: "Well that's what we do! That's what 'REAL men' do! They go around watch old 'Doctor Who' and talk about haircuts!"
*Leigh laughs*
Leigh: "Fletcher."
Jason: "Fletcher!!"
*Laughter*
Shaun: *Referring to DVD menu replaying some action from the serial* "Ninety percent of the action was in this little two minute thing!"
Jason: "I think yeah, I was a bit annoyed at the Sontar - I like the idea that the Sontarans are a bit sh*t. 'Cos in his head he's a galactic warrior that takes over planets."
Shaun: "Yeah."
Jason: "But in reality he's just 'I've got to repair my machine which has failed it's MOT and I need it fixed up a bit'."
Shaun: "Yeah but it's quite nice that the Sontaran, himself, knew that he was just a body to be thrown at the enemy."
Mark: "Yeah."
Shaun: "I mean his entire purpose was 'I need to get back to throw myself at the enemy' - I quite liked that!"
Jason: "What's the Sontarans enemies called?"
MJ: "The Rutans?"
Jason: "Rutans. Yeah it's a bit like 'Croutons' so I remember that! Do we ever meet them?"
MJ: "I don't know? There's sort of a war that's been going on for millennia, and stuff, and they don't seem to... I think it's mentioned in the new series."
Shaun: "Well Sontarans don't appear a lot, do they?"
MJ: "Not OVERLY much. There's an appearance with Tom Baker (two) and then Colin Baker (one) - "
Leigh: "- They always go to the bottom, like in cereals. Sultanas..."
*Sniggers*
MJ: "Anyway, that's that! How about you, Mr. Leigh? Did you find that alright?"
Leigh: "It was fine!" *Laughing* "It wasn't brilliant! But I didn't dislike it as much as Shaun did! I stayed awake through it all!"
*Laughter*
MJ: "Yeah!"
Shaun: *Laughing* "I didn't exactly dislike it - I was just really, really bored!"
Photo 5: At Leigh's house.
Mark & Shaun (with the DVD case).
Here Shaun displays his boredom.
MJ: "Were you really bored Mark?"
Mark: "I wasn't, like, as bored as I have been in other ones." *Leigh chuckles* "I'm glad it wasn't a six-parter!"
Shaun: "To be fair it's been quite a while since I was really bored by one!"
Mark: "I genuinely mean there was, like, TWO episodes of story in that!"
Jason: *Laughing* "That's what you said the last time!"
*Leigh laughs*
Mark: *Laughing* "I know! But it's still true!"
MJ: "It seemed okay to me."
Mark: "No, those two episodes of story were alright!"
Jason: "I liked the four episodes."
MJ: "Yeah I did! I thought four episodes was a nice one. We're back to six next time."
Shaun: "If there were another two episodes of that I DEFINITELY would have had a nap!" *Laughter* "I mean I was TRYING hard to stay awake!"
Jason: "It was getting two-thirds of the way through the third episode and I was thinking 'This is wrapping up!? They seem to be finishing at THAT point!' Yeah, it's alright."
MJ: "That's good, err, good sets and designs."
Shaun: *Seeing Jason take out 'The Book'* "We need to do the scores first!"
Jason: "I'm not looking at what they've got! Anyway I already know what my score's going to be. Although I don't know how I'll work it out against other things I've already given scores to. Apparently, the one I read today, I gave a very high score to, so..."
MJ: "Yeah - they're all over the place! Well I really enjoyed it so I'm going to go eight for me!"
Shaun: "Bloody hell!"
*Mark laughs*
MJ: "I know, I know - it's good! Four part. I like the Sontaran - I thought he was nice and grumpy. I liked the characters around him - they were quite funny and amusing."
Jason: "Well I'm going to go eight point five! I thought it was quite watchable. I have watched it before and I'll watch it again! Not now."
MJ: *Laughing* "They should have put that on the DVD case! 'Quite watchable'!
*Laughter*
Jason: "It is relative to other ones and I'm not a big Pertwee fan generally! But... it's alright, yeah!"
MJ: *Laughs* "Leigh?"
Leigh: "Errr, Seven."
MJ: "SEVEN!"
Leigh: "Solid seven."
MJ: "Solid seven. Now then, you two!"
Shaun: "If I can destroy this curve!"
*Laughter*
Mark: "I'm going to give it a six point eight two."
MJ: "Six point eight two from Mark."
Shaun: "That's nearly a seven!"
Mark: "That's NEARLY a seven."
Shaun: "I'm going to give it... I was going to give it lower, but I'm actually going to up it slightly as I did really enjoy the Sontaran. I'm going to give it a four point one three eight five two."
MJ: "Fair enough!"
Jason: "I want to mention something else."
MJ: "Oh okay."
Jason: "Sontaran make-up."
MJ: "Yeah?"
Jason: "I know it looks fake but I think that's believable and probably more believable than the more modern Sontaran make-up. I like it 'cos it looks a bit sh*t and looks like something that's been made - which obviously it is, but... It looks a bit fleshy whereas I think the modern ones look a bit plasticy."
Leigh: "I did notice that none of us were concerned where he got HIS hair cut!"
Jason: "I liked his eyebrows."
Shaun: "Yeah he did have little tufty bits down the side!"
MJ: "Yeah he does have tufty hairs and stuff like that! They're an interesting design, aren't they?"
Leigh: "Yeah. Space potatoes."
Shaun: "With the helmet on it looked really cool!"
Jason: "No it looks like the 'Spaceballs' Darth Vader chap!"
Shaun: "Dark Helmet."
MJ: "Hah! So what does 'The Book' say, Jason?"
Jason: "Can you put the light on, please. I can't see."
Leigh & Shaun: "Is that what 'The Book' says!?"
*Laughter*
MJ: "That's Rube-ish!"
Mark: "Yayyyy..."
Jason: "He's been waiting to say that!" *Reading from 'The Book'* " 'In the Thirteenth century a Sontaran is abducting scientists to restore his crashed spaceship. Location filming took place at Peckforton Castle, Cheshire. A new slit-scan animated title sequence debuted with this story designed by Bernard Lodge as a deliberate nod to the '2001: A Space Odyssey' star-gate trip'."
MJ: "Oh yeah - I can see that."
Jason: *Reading from 'The Book'* " ' Jeremy Bullock found later fame as Boba Fett in the 'Star Wars' films while June Brown is more famous as Dot from 'Eastenders'!"
*Leigh laughs*
Shaun: "It's not saying much about the episode as a whole so far!"
*Leigh laughs*
Leigh: "He meant to make a Landrover afterwards."
MJ: "I think he's been mentioned in other (Doctor Who) stories."
Jason: "Oh I'm thinking of a character, anyway -" *Reading from 'The Book'* " 'And his quilted lurex costume was designed by James Acheson. Pertwee and fans featured on a 'Radio Times' cover. The Doctor's home planet was finally named 'Gallifrey''!"
MJ: "Oh so it WAS his first one!"
Jason: *Reading from 'The Book'* " 'Verdict: A clever hybrid of history and science fiction. Linx is a chilling creation and, despite the hammy acting, there are some great moments. Seven out of ten'."
MJ: "Ahh! There you go!"
Jason: "Next week..."
Leigh: "'Invasion Of The Dinosaurs'!"
Shaun: *Grinning* "I've got to say I saw that title in your write-up and I'm incredibly excited for it! 'Cos whenever we've seen dinosaurs (in previous stories) they've been really crappy models, like in a doorway and stuff! And I'm wanting SIX EPISODES of THAT!" *Mark laughs* "I'll be very, very disappointed!"
MJ: "Well they are renowned for being sh*t!" *Leigh laughs*
Shaun: *Excited* "YES!"
MJ: "Apparently the story is really good, but the execution of it is not as good as it could be!"
Shaun: "Oh yeah, yeah, yeah! It's all about terrible special-effects!"
MJ: "I've never seen it so I'm looking forward to it!"
Mark: "Maybe there's not going to be as much dinosaur as you expect - 'cos that's what's expected!"
Jason: "If it's the one I think it is, I really enjoyed it!"
Shaun: "It's like 'Invasion Of The Daleks' only had TWO Daleks!" (I don't know what story he meant! 'Dalek Invasion Of Earth' had a lot of Daleks. Maybe he thought of 'Day Of The Daleks' where they had a couple of Daleks - flanked by a couple of Ogrons - moving slowly towards a country house!)
MJ: "The first episode - because they didn't want to give it away that it was about dinosaurs - they just called it 'Invasion' and so people would watch it through and at the end was the reveal. I'm telling you - in the group - as you already know it's called 'Invasion Of The Dinosaurs'."
Leigh: "Is the reveal when they open a door, and there's a dinosaur?" *Laughter* "And then they have to get on the floor and do 'The Dinosaur'?
MJ: "When you say: DO 'The Dinosaur'...." *Laughs*
Jason: "Oh it's six parts though."
MJ: "Yeah, six parts. That's what I said."
Leigh: *Sarcastic* "Yeah, Jason!"
Shaun: *Sarcastic* "Yeah, Jason, it's what he said!"
Leigh: *Sarcastic* "Yeah, Jason!"
Jason: "I try not to read it 'cos I get spoilers that there are dinosaurs in it!" *Laughs*
Mark: "Is there a whole episode of Sam Neill climbing a fence?"
*Shaun laughs*
MJ: "Two first names - Sam Neill." *Mark laughs* "Okay then, with that I will see you next time! Bye bye and all that kind of.... malarky." *Laughs* "Doctor Who."
*Mark chuckles*
Photo 6: At Leigh's house.
Mark: "Yeah, bit awkward now - perhaps we should leave...",
Shaun (with the DVD case) and a bit of Jason.
Who DOESN'T love a bit of Jason?...
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So there we go! That it be! Here be dragons! Etc etc et-bloomin'-cetera! Generally this one went down okay - except with Shaun! Here are the scores on the doors:
MJ: 8
Jason: 8.5
Leigh: 7
Mark: 6.82
Shaun: 4.13852
Which gives us a SEXY average of 6.891704. So a sort of middle story - although I thought it deserved higher! Anyhow - next time we have rubber dinosaurs going 'Grrr' 'n' shizzle.
Until then I shall return, yes I shall return....
MJ - 04/02/17
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