DOCTOR WHO MARATHON 81st MEET-UP - THE BRAIN OF MORBIUS

Sunday 1st October 2017

It was time to meet again and about time!  We hadn't met at all in September!  So on the first of the month we gathered around Mark's house to watch a Hammer-Horror-esque tale in a slight Frankenstein vein!  The photos from this session were really grainy!  Quite awful!  don't know what happened there - but such is life - or, as they say in French France, "Celery"!

Pinch punch, first of the month, no returns and let's go!

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MJ: "We are around Mark's for The Brain of Morbius.  Leigh's just talking about Tim Wonnacott!" *Laughs* "Tim Wonnabe-your-lover!" *Singing to the tune of the Spice Girls song Wannabe* "If you Wonnacott your lover - you gotta Wonnacott my friends!"

Mark: "Who's Tim Wonnacott?!"
 
Leigh: "He's the presenter of Bargain Hunt. Well, he was until he got the sack!"
 
MJ: "Yes? Yes!"
 
Mark: "Why did he get the sack?"
 
Leigh: "For being a big old racist or something - I don't know!"

Shaun: "Oh."

MJ: "He's the one who repeated himself - he would go 'Welcome to Bargain Hunt, yes?  Yes!'  That was his thing - he would say 'Yes? Yes'."

Shaun: "Yes? Yes?"

MJ: "He would repeat himself twice."

Shaun: "I have a very important Doctor Who thing to say before you turn this off..."

MJ: "Oh here we go!"
 
Mark: "Oh no again..."

Jason: *Ignoring Shaun and staying on Wonnacott* "He's not repeating 'cos the first one has a question mark on it and the second one was the answer!  'Yes?  Yes'!"

Shaun: "You're ignoring my important Doctor Who thing!"

Mark: "I'm listening to you!"

Shaun: "While we are here at your house -"

Mark: "- Yeah?"

Shaun: "- What's the best version of Blade Runner to watch before Thursday?" *Mark laughs* "Which IS a Doctor Who thing - 'cos it's also sci-fi!!"

Mark: "The definitive edition!"

Jason: "The black and white version."

Mark: "The original theatrical cut."

Shaun: "No, f**k off!"

Mark: "Everybody knows that is the best one!"

Shaun: *Smiling* "Everybody KNOWS that's the worst one!"

Mark: "With the voice-over, that's the best one..."

MJ: "Hold on, which one 'cos I don't know which one I've seen?"

Jason: "All of them!"

Shaun: "Definitive Cut, yeah?"

Mark: "Or the Directior's cut..."

MJ: "Some people call ME the definitive cut..." *Laughs*

Leigh: *Laughs* "There's an extra letter in there somewhere!"

MJ: "Cuts?..." *Laughs*

*Some chat about the Wasabi and Ginger nuts that are on offer*

MJ: "Yeah I think I can cut-out a lot of this as there are lots and lots of conversations about nonsense!"

Shaun: *Smiling* "No no!  That was incredibly important!"

Jason: "What, Wasabi And Ginger?!  Our spin-off series??!"

*Leigh laughs*

MJ: "One was Wasabi - the other was Ginger!  Together they made.... an interesting snack!"

Jason: "After the third series of the series of -"

Leigh: "- Ginger And Lime."

Jason: "- Ginger goes off on his own - abroad.  To Japan for a year!"

Shaun: *Smiling* "Yeah I was going to say this can ONLY be funny if the Asian person is Ginger and Wasabi is like an enormous black dude of something!"

*Mark laughs*

MJ: "It's got to be INCREDIBLY racist.  Do the eyes..."

Jason: "Right it's going to have a sci-fi twist where it's one person now!"

Shaun: "Who is both!?"

Mark: "He's got TWO personalities!"

Shaun: "Everyone knows it's not racist until someone says.... ahhh!" *Smiling* "I was going to say something really horrible then - but I didn't!  'Cos I wouldn't do such a thing!  I'll leave that to Mark!"

Mark: "I'm saying nothing!!"

MJ: *To recorder* "Yeah probably don't worry about transcribing these first three minutes..."

*Leigh laughs*

Mark: "These are the MOST important parts!"

Jason: *I think back to Blade Runner* "What's the definitive version?  I think you watch ALL versions of it and in your mind you watch 'The Shaun Version'!"

Shaun: "You coalesce! Yeah I see what you mean."


MJ: "It's been AGES since we've done one of these."

Jason: "I've definitely seen the new one and thought 'This is NOTHING like what I've got in my head'!"

Shaun: "Yeah I've DEFINITELY done that with Aliens!  Like whenever I've watched The Director's Cut of Aliens - which is by far the best version - I'm like 'This is a load of new stuff and I remember this being half and hour shorter?  But all of this is good'!"

Jason: "A bit like this write-up!"

Shaun: *Smiling* "A bit like these write-ups!"

MJ: "Hah!  Which I am WAY behind because of stuff..."

Shaun: *Smiling* "It's because you're lazy!"

MJ: "Noooo - it's because of my play!"

Leigh: *Sarcastically* "It's because we've been doing SO many meet-ups that it's just got on top of him!"

MJ: "Well I was doing a play and Siobhan's been decorating the house - so I can't get to stuff!"

Shaun: "Yeah and how's this affect the write-ups you do at work during your lunch-break!?"

*MJ laughs*

MJ: "Anyway!  Body-horror thing!  It's The Brain of Morbius!  It's the guy who was the War... Lord (in the Troughton story The War Games)?  Yes.  Philip Madoc - who's also the U-Boat Captain in Dad's Army (a World War Two themed sitcom from the seventies).  'Don't tell him Pike!' - that's what he said...." (I was joking before you point out he didn't say that!)

Mark: "He's playing Brian..."

MJ: "He's playing Brian Of Morbius..."

*MJ and Mark laugh*

Jason: "I'm Brian Of Morbius!"

Shaun: *Smiling* "The sooner we START this, the sooner it will be OVER!!"

MJ: "Okay that's a good place to start!  Episode One!  Go Mark.... just GO!" *MJ and Shaun laugh* "No stay!  'Cos you know how to waggle it!  Part One...."

Photo 1: At Mark's house. 
Mark (eyes closed), Shaun (with the DVD case)
Leigh & Jason (with the sign).
All pulling the wide eyed pose of Ohica (from this story).

*EPISODE ONE GETS WATCHED*

Leigh: "Yeahhh!"

MJ: "Yay!  End of Episode One."

Shaun: "This was heading - and I was really enjoying it - this was heading to, like, an eight or nine out of ten. GIANT LOBSTER CLAW HEADLESS FRANKENSTEIN MONSTER!  If they don't f**k this up this is ten out of ten!!" *Laughter* "That was AMAZING!  I am SO happy now!!"

MJ: "The Doctor and Sarah have arrived on Kahn, we've seen the Sisters Of Kahn which have been mentioned in the new (modern) series, so that's already a nice thing."

Shaun: "They've APPEARED in the new series!"

*Jason mimics the strange dance movements the Sisters Of Kahn did on screen*

MJ: "Yes the Sisters Of Kahn did some weird dance thing, which they transported.... err well, The Doctor disappeared - he got poisoned - well not poisoned - he got knocked out by some green wine.  Or Absinthe."

Shaun: *Smiling* "'Gwine' as we like to call it!"

MJ: *Laughing* "'Gwine'!  Err yes - it's pretty good so far!"

Jason: "I don't like the giraffe's print though - a bit too Elvis for me!"

Shaun: *Laughing* "Jason's taking five points off, alone, for the giraffe print alone!  He's just NOT cool with it!"

*Mark laughs*

MJ: "And the main Professor guy's got an, 'Uhhh!' caveman/neanderthal kind of guy assisting him."

Jason: "I see it as a bad version of Beauty And The Beast's Cat Man!"

Shaun: *Laughs* "The Beast!?"

Jason: "Yeah!"

Shaun: *Laughs* "He's talking about the eighties show with Ron Perlman!"

Leigh: "Ron Perlman."

MJ: "Oh I see! (I had almost forgotten about that old show!)  Didn't he go 'Bee-Ba-ba-bada-bo'!?"

Leigh: "No, that was The Scatman!"

MJ: "Oh..."

Shaun: *Smiling* "Shush shush they're about to do the ridiculous reveal again!"

MJ: "Okay Part Two - and well done Leigh!" (for joining in with my banter!)

Photo 2: At Mark's house. 
MJ (with the DVD case),
Shaun, Leigh (with the sign) & Jason .
MJ & Jason are pulling the wide eyed pose of Ohica (from this story).

*EPISODE TWO GETS WATCHED*

Leigh: *Scathingly and part way into a chat* "She was in danger of being talked at by a floating brain in a jar!"

MJ: "Yeah that was the cliffhanger - a floating brain in a jar saying 'Urrrrg'!  I guess that is the titular character: The Brain Of Morbius!"

Shaun: "Yes!"

Mark: "I'm Brian!"

MJ: *Reading end credits* "Michael Spice played him!"

Leigh: "All things nice."

MJ: "Yes.  Oh and Sarah Jane's blind.  She got blinded by the Sisters Of Kahhhhn!"

Shaun: "No, she's blinded by the light!"

MJ: *Singing* "Wrapped up like a douche!" *Laughs*

Jason: "Yeah."

MJ: "Yeah?"

Jason: "Yeah.  That's Doctor Who."

MJ: "That's Doctor Who!  That's good so far.  It's jollying along quite nicely for me....  yeah..."

*Sniggers and Mark laughs*

Shaun: "I mean everything is made slightly better by a brain in a jar!" *MJ laughs* "Sorry!  THAT is how I live my life!!" *Leigh laughs* "And I won't apologise for that!  Despite starting off by saying 'Sorry'!"

*Laughter*

Leigh: "Are you going to apologise for that then?"

Shaun: "No!  Sorry...  Sorry NOT sorry!  It becomes an eternal paradox!!"

MJ: "You, ARE what you ARE...." *Singing to the tune of I Am What I Am* "You, are what you are...." *Laughs* "Oh that's good then."

Jason: "Oh, you've already had your birthday this year haven't you?"

Shaun: "I've had thirty-seven of them!"

Jason: *Smiling* "Not this year you haven't!"

Shaun: "Yes."

MJ: "It's a lot in one year - even the Queen doens't have THAT many!"

Shaun: "I'm LIKE the Queen!!"

Jason: "Well that gives me time to find a brain in a jar then!"

Shaun: *Laughs* "A Queen, mixed with a dog, mixed with something else that  APPARENTLY has more than one birthday a year!"

Leigh: "Since when did dogs have more than one birthday a year?!"

Shaun: "Well apparently they age seven years to ever one of our years - "

Jason: "- They don't say that anymore!  They changed that."

Shaun: "- If you want to break that down..." *Laughs*

Leigh: "Well they don't AGE that - it's just an equivalent of!"

Jason: "Yeah and they say the FIRST year is the equivalent of, like, fifteen years or something."

Shaun: "See!  I've had another fifteen.  There you go - I'm RACKING up the birthdays this year!  Everyone buy me presents!" *Smiles*

MJ: "So yeah that's Doctor Who."

*Laughter*

Shaun: "Leave that in, that's the BEST bit for sure!" (Okay I have!)

MJ: "So you've got a headless monster AND a brain in a jar!  So that's pretty good stuff for -"

Shaun: "- That's why he wants the head!  He's got the two components!"

Jason: "He's already got the other head, why does he need The Doctor's head?"

Leigh: "It's a big head.  There's enough room for a big brain."

Jason: "That Ant-Head thing - the Mutt, whatever it was - THAT was bigger!  It had teeth things."

MJ: "Yeah but he wanted to look fairly decent!  Not with an insect head!"

Shaun: "I think the head he has on already has gone bad or something."

Jason: *Laughing* "Hold on, what did you just say, MJ?"

MJ: "What?"

Jason: "You said 'He wanted...?'"

MJ: "A head that looked vaguely decent!"

Jason: "On top of THAT body??!"

*Leigh laughs*

MJ: "Well yeah!"

Jason: "'Cos you can crop it down on Plenty Of Fish or something?!"

*Leigh laughs*

MJ: "Well, you know about these things better than I!  My wife doesn't let me go on Plenty Of Fish!" *Laughs* "Well, unless we're getting fish and chips!  That's always handy..."

Jason: "I went on Tinder but they wanted my Facebook profile."

MJ: "Oh dear."

Jason: "That's as far as I got with that!" *Leigh laughs* "'Link this with your Facebook' - 'No'!"

*Leigh laughs*

MJ: *Fake snarky* "'Nurr - well then you can't have Tinder!' - 'I don't want it!'  Well there you go.  End of Part Two!" *Laughs*

Jason: "Yes Doctor Who - it's good!"*Leigh laughs* "Sarah Jane's doing stuff this week!  Didn't you say, Shaun?  Well, not Shaun - didn't you say so?" *Yes he confused himself and us!*

MJ: "I don't know!"

Leigh: "I still don't like her."

Jason: "And she still got little blue, lace-up things holding her stuff up."

*Going outside to where Shaun is smoking*

MJ: "Shaun what did you say about Sarah Jane?  Jason says you did be he can't remember?"

Shaun: "THAT... is a very broad question!"

MJ: "I know, I know!  I dunno why he just said that!  he said 'Shaun will say'!"

Jason: "No, I was talking to Leigh, but my brain was saying 'Leigh is Shaun'!"

MJ: "Oh right, so it's not you (Shaun), okay right sorry!"

Shaun: "Never have I felt so unloved!"

*MJ Laughs*

Jason: "I was thinking of Leigh."

Shaun: "I know - that's the worst!"

MJ: "That's what Siobhan says to me!"

Jason: "You were in my dream last night!"

Shaun: "Was I?!  I was in his dreams last night!  Well that's all right!  We've patched up again!  Jen will be happy!" *Laughter* "Was I some kind of super hero?  Flying you through Metropolis and then we shared a kiss and you forgot my secret identity?"

Jason: "We were in the pub, I think it was New Years Eve or Christmas Eve or something -"

Shaun: *Smiling* "- And I kissed you at midnight!?"

Jason: "- There were lots of people there - and you went off home and I went off staggering off. And then I got stuck on a motorway trying to cross -"

Shaun: "You shouldn't be DRIVING in your state!!"

Jason: "No, no! I was walking ACROSS the motorway - like Frogger (an old computer game from the 1980's - where you had to move a frog across a busy road and not get it killed!) and it was like loads of different lanes and there was lots of different cars and there was bike lanes going really fast -"

MJ: *To the recording device* "- I think you can ignore this..."

Jason: "No! Get all this down!"

Shaun:*Smiling* "No this relates back to Doctor Who!"

Jason: "Anyway the entire dream ended with a monologue of me shouting at people: 'Why can't you be happy to still be alive'!"

Shaun: "Wow!"

Jason: "So be happy with what you've got!"

Shaun: "I'm fairly certain that THAT is your subconscious screaming something at you!"

*Leigh and Jason laugh*

Jason: *Laughing* "It was the most obvious dream-sequence of a TV show that I have ever had in a dream!"

Shaun: *Laughing* "It's not the most subtle of metaphors!"

*Leigh chuckles*

Jason: *Laughing* "Ending on a monologue!!  'Why can't you just be happy'!!!?"

Shaun: *Laughing* "It immediately cuts to you and Orko running through a forest! 'Today's lesson kids'..!" *Leigh and Jason laugh* "...'Always treat your body right!'"

MJ: "Are you sure the monologue wasn't like at the end of The Wonder Years? 'Well that's what happened that day'-" *Laughs* "-' I learnt a valuable lesson - not to work in Boots with my clothes off'!" *Laughs*

Jason: "I don't think that's The Wonder Years. I think that's your Family Guy impression of The Wonder Years!"
 
*Leigh and MJ laugh*

Shaun: *Sidling up* "MJ, you know how your memory's bad?"

MJ: "Yeah."

Jason: "He doesn't remember that..."
 
Shaun: "Do you have this (recording) up quite loud when you, errr, listen to it?"

*Jason laughs*
 
MJ: "Yeah... Aww he's going to shout!"

*SHAUN SCREAMS "ARRGGGGGGGHHHHH" VERY LOUD!!*
 
*Jason laughs*

MJ: "Said Shaun!"

*Leigh laughs*

Jason: "Loudly."

MJ: "Oh, Part Three..."

*EPISODE THREE GETS WATCHED*

Photo 3: At Mark's house. 

A fight over the sign with Mark,
Shaun, Leigh & Jason .

MJ: "End of Part Three and Morbius has been put together with a robot head, although they dropped the brain. Oh no, Mondo dropped it on the floor."
 

Shaun: "Condo."

MJ: "Condo - sorry."

Mark: "Not his cousin Mondo!"

MJ: "Yep. And now he's dead because he got shot by -"

Jason: "Well he's not dead-dead. He was crawling."

Shaun: "Yeah."

MJ: "Oh was he?"

Mark: "Yeah he was still crawling around."

Shaun: "So he's passed out from the pain."

MJ: "And, errr, Shaun's just mildly annoying me with a cushion!" *Makes fake crying noises* "That's MILDLY irritating!" *Laughs* "Which is....good." *Shaun laughs* "And err yeah the Sisters of Kahn have brought The Doctor back to...."

Shaun: "Solomon - is the name you were looking for!" (No it isn't!)

MJ: "Thank you! I can never remember his name!"

Jason: "Is it 'Solomon'? It's like 'Solomon'..." (Jason is correct as it is Solon!)

Mark: "Brian Solomon."

Shaun: "Yeah, Brian Solomon!" (after this we STILL called him 'Solomon' - but I have corrected them all to 'Solon')
 

MJ: "So he um.... well there's nothing else to say about that!"
 

Jason: "It's ticking along! Still one hundred and thirty nine minutes to go!"

*Leigh comes back in the room from a loo break!*

Leigh: "Oh you really didn't need to pause it! I could have survived without seeing the re-cap!"

MJ: *Flatly* "No, you have to see it."

Shaun: "Look Sarah Jane's about to be clawed to death!   We didn't think you would want to miss that!"

MJ: "Yes, Morbius's big claw - like Clawful from He-Man - Part Four..."

*EPISODE FOUR GETS WATCHED*

Photo 4: At Mark's house. 

MJ (with the DVD case),
Shaun, Leigh (covering Shaun with the sign) & Jason.

MJ: "That was the end of Wrath Of Kahn!" *Laughs* "Sorry, Sisters of Kahn - I mean Brain Of Morbius!"

Shaun: *Smiling* "Brian Of Morbius!"

Mark: *Laughing* "Brian Of Morbius!"

MJ: "Errr Brian got his brain sorted so he became, erm, coherent and angry Morbius!

Shaun: *Smiling* "And immediately fell off a cliff!"

MJ: "Yes, and then got chased off a cliff by the Sisters of KAHHHNNN!  Which was fantastic indeed.  And the old lady who was in charge of the Kahn people sacrificed herself to let The Doctor live by giving him some of their juice!"

Shaun: "She didn't sacrifice herself to do that. She gave him the last of the juice then gave herself over to the flame."

MJ: "Yeah."

Leigh: "'Cos otherwise she was going to die anyway so it wasn't that big a thing."
MJ: "Oh okay fair enough then."

Shaun: "But there will always be more of the sacred juice for millions of more years."

MJ: "That's right - so what are you looking at there, Jason?"

Jason: "I was looking up what else Big-Eyed Woman had been in!" (this was Ohica, played by Gillian Brown, who was one of the Sisters of Kahn who kept pulling such big-eyed faces!)
 
Leigh: "Anything?"

Jason: "Doctor Who...  She liked to play the same part.  She played young Sarah Connor -"

*Huge laughter from us all*

Shaun: "Are you not using IMDB?"

Jason: "I was just up to her name to start with.  Anyway, the point is: did we like it!?"

MJ: "Yes I did like it!"

Shaun: "Yes!"

Mark: "Yeah."

Leigh: "Yeah, it was fine."

Jason: "It's what I expect of a Doctor Who episode." *Then he reads a huge list of acting credits for Gillian Brown which I will NOT repeat here! Even though Shaun wanted me to type them ALL up!*

MJ: "How did you find that then?"

Jason: "There was brains.  There was body-swaps!  There was tension!  There was brains.  There was eyes!"

Leigh: "There wasn't body swaps!!"

Jason: "Well there was a body..."

Shaun: "Yeah!  He nicked doo-ded's arm!"

MJ: "Well, they were not swapping bodies - but bits!"

Leigh: *Smiling* "It was hardly like Trading Places, was it!?"

Jason: "What, Dan Ackroyd?!"

MJ: "Eddie Murphy?!"

*Mark laughs*

Leigh: "Yeah."

MJ: "Get the f**k out of here!" *Does Eddie Murphy laugh*

Leigh: "Or what's the one with the magic skull?"

Jason: "That's Vice Versa."

Shaun: "I think, once again, we come back to.... Face Off!"

Leigh: "Vice Versa, yes."

MJ: Oh yes Vice Versa with..."

Shaun: "Freaky Friday!!"

Leigh: "That's another one, yeah!"

MJ: "No, no I'm thinking of the dad!"

Jason: "Judge Reinhold!"

MJ: "That's it! He's got a great name!  Judge Judy..."

Shaun: *Smiling* "This sh*t will all make it in!  But when we were talking about an an ACTUAL Doctor Who actress - no, that's gone!  Jason, finish your list!"

*Jason reads out more of her credits*

MJ: "So not much after nineteen seventy-four?  Perhaps she died?  Who knows"

Jason: "Yeah, from eye-dryness probably!"

*Laughter*

MJ: "I have never seen anyone flex her eyes so much!  It was mental!"

Shaun: "Then again it did make her -"

Jason: "- Intense?"

Leigh: "- Dry?"

Shaun: "- Noticeable!

MJ: "Yeah, oh yeah!"

Shaun: "Unlike most of these Doctor Who extras!"

Jason: "Well, she was talking!  She had a part!  Everyone else was just waving about!"

Shaun: "You wouldn't have paid half as much attention if she wasn't staring into the depths of your soul!!"

Jason: "That really builded the part - 'Builded the part'?? It really BUILT the part and they 'Builded' the part!"

MJ: "As people who have mostly seen Hammer Horror films-"

Shaun: "- No I've NEVER seen one!"

*Leigh laughs*

Jason: "Is that where tools get attacked?"

MJ: "Yeah."

Jason: "Okay."

Leigh: "You're a tool!"

MJ: "I guessing there was quite a link to those type of films at the time.  This is what they described as 'Gothic Horror' kind of period of Doctor Who."

Jason: "What, that episode?"

MJ: "Yeah this sort of period."

Jason: "Well, I can see that!  He didn't say 'It's alive, it's alive' though."

MJ: "He might as well have done!"

Shaun: "He did give a few 'I create lives'! Or 'I can give life' and stuff."

MJ: "Yeah."

Jason: "They would tread on the copyright issues and stuff."

MJ: "I think, by that time, it was more than one hundred years since Frankenstein."

Jason: "I'm talking more about the James Whale movie."

Shaun: "Yeah the 'It's alive, it's alive' is from the movie."

MJ: "Oh yes of course. 'It's aliiiive!'" *Laughs*

Shaun: "Which is also probably out of copyright!  Ohhh this is some rock solid copyright banter going on here!" *Bangs table with his fist - we laugh* "Make sure THIS goes in the write-up!!"

MJ: "COPYRIGHT BANTER!!"

Shaun: "COPYRIGHT BANTS!"

Jason: "It was still used in the Mel Brooks film - which was probably after this." (no, it was two years before!)

MJ: "Did you think Solon made a good bonkers Professor?"

Jason: "He WAS bonkers!"

Shaun: "Yeah, he was great! I would have been very much happy if he had turned out to be The Master!"

Jason: "He needed more people skills!   He needed assistants all the time but he was rubbish at getting assistants!"

MJ: "Yeah that's true."

Shaun: "He did the best with what he had got!"

Leigh: "He should have put an ad in the newspaper!"

Jason: "He should offer some perks! Not just steal you arm!"

Shaun: "Look, there's basically, retarded guy who is stupid enough to give you his arm and the Sisters of Kahn who are going to burn you at the stake!! I think I know which one I would go with!!"

Jason: "I don't think he went 'Oh, have my arm'!" *Leigh chuckles* "I assume he had some wine first!"

Shaun: "Yeah he had some wine - never figured it out!"

MJ: "I thought that they were going to reveal that he was a Neanderthal that had been brought back from the past."

Jason: "I think you're reading too deeply into this!"

MJ: "Although that happens later - I'm getting mixed up with Ghost Light which is a Sylvester McCoy story where that happens."

Jason: "We'll get that reference in seven years time!"

Mark: "You've ruined that now!"

Shaun: "Good because there's absolutely NO seeding it in THIS story!"

Jason: "That was Biggins arm, I think."

MJ: "Hah!  Biggins arm.   But yeah good Neanderthal guy."

Jason: "Hey maybe it was played by (Christopher) Biggins! As a cameo!"

Leigh: "Could have been."

Jason: "Although we know he's not ever in Doctor Who. I'm only doing this ENTIRE marathon watching as I'm expecting Biggins at some point!!"

MJ: "NOBODY expects The Biggins!!"

*Mark laughs*

Jason: "They'd better put him in the new series by the time we've finished this thing!"

*Mark laughs*

Shaun: "Isn't he dead now?"

MJ and Jason: "No!"

Shaun: "Isn't he?!"

Jason: "He'll never die!"

Shaun: "Well there's plenty of time!"

Jason: "He was on some show the other day."

MJ: "He will never die."

Shaun: "Was it Rentaghost? 'Cos, you know, that was in the past!" *Laughs*

Jason: "I watched that the other day. He was the back end of a horse!"

Photo 5: At Mark's house. 

A sheepish MJ (with the DVD case).

*Then some nonsense chat about Biggins, The Sun , Larry Grayson and EastEnders*

MJ: "This is not Doctor Who chat!!! " *Laughter* "I want BUSINESS!!  Doctor Who business!"

Shaun: *Smiling* "Quickly!  Back to the business of Doctor Who!  Did anyone see this week's Eastenders!!?" *Laughter*

MJ: "Bonnie Langford's in it - she's Doctor Who!  Well, she's not actually 'Doctor Who' - she's from it.."

Mark: "Is Bonnie Langford in it?"

MJ: "Yeah she's a main character."

Mark: "In EastEnders?"

Leigh: "Yeah.  She plays Pat Butcher!"

*Laughter*

MJ: "So what would you give that out of ten then?"

Mark: "What, Pat Butcher?"

*Laughter*

MJ: "I wouldn't give her one - I tell yer that!"

Jason: "I'll give her NIEN!" *Laughs* "That was meant to be German but came out a bit weird!"

Shaun: "Yeah! Very strange."

MJ: "I enjoyed the story more now that we've seen the Sisters of Kahn in the future."

Shaun: "Well that can't shade your view!!"

MJ: "It doesn't shade it! It makes it brighter! If anything!" *Laughs*

Mark: "We haven't watched that yet!"

Shaun: "Yeah."

MJ: "I enjoyed it - knowing what I know now!"

Shaun: "Jason, you failed to get a number out before in a legible way.  Now try again!   What number are you giving this!?"

Jason: "Errr, I don't know - 'cos you're angry!"

*Shaun laughs*

Photo 6: At Mark's house. 

Shaun, Leigh (with the sign) & shocked Jason .

Leigh: "I'll give it a seven!"

Shaun: *Smiling* "Yay! We have a number!!  We have one of the five numbers required for this to be over!!"

MJ: "Eight! Eight from me!"

Shaun: *Shouting like he's an Auctioneer* "Eight, we have eight!  Do we have ANY raise from eight!!?  Eight is what we are going at!  Eight, eight - any more!?  Mark, what will you bid!?"

Mark: "I'm sticking at eight!"

Shaun: "Eight, eight!   Jason?  Jason! Are you going to go up from eight!?"

Jason: "I'm also going at eight."

Shaun: "You're also going at eight!  Well that's really good, but I'm going to top you all with a nine!!"

*Oooo's and woaahhh's from the group*

Mark: "You really liked that?"

Jason: "Was it the fish-tank-monster-goggle-eyed-thing?!"

Shaun: "If it weren't for it falling off the cliff in such an unspectacular fashion, then it would have got a ten! I just loved everything about it!  The monster looked really crap - but cool! Except for the head - that just made it better!"

Jason: "You didn't like it falling off the cliff?"

Shaun: "No. It had just been, like 'I have this ULTIMATE body specifically designed for - oh no!   Not a small amount of fire and some women!!? I'm going to run off this cliff, then'!"

Jason: "He didn't design the body!?"

Shaun: "Yes he did, he specifically said it!"

Jason: "He didn't choose the head!! He didn't choose the claw - probably!  They were bits they found around!   I liked it when the arm turned against him and started killing him!"

Shaun: "No, Monstery-Jim, himself, said 'He built it to my specifications to be the ultimate form'!"

Jason: "Oh he's just showing off!  He had no control!"

Mark: "You'll find Solon was crazy though!   So he was no good!" *Laughing* "That's why he had that big pincer that wasn't any use!!"

Jason: "Why didn't he turn that clay-head thing into the tank thing?"

MJ: "Oh yeah Solon made a clay-head!"

Shaun: "I think the point is that THAT is a bust of erm -"

Jason: "- Rhymes?"

Shaun: "- Morbius's original head, that's why it looked familiar."

MJ: "Yeah."

Shaun: "And that's was it was literally made of clay and couldn't function as a head."

Jason: "Well they could have put it around the tank! If they can put a plastic bowl around his head I'm sure they could make THAT fit his head!"

Mark: "Yeah but when he's in Art Attack that's when he's useful..." (went over my head as I had not remembered a clay talking head being in the kids TV show Art Attack!)

*Shaun laughs*

MJ: "And of course we got to see The Doctor's previous incarnations!  Including loads of made-up ones!"

Shaun: "No we didn't! That was Morbius's previous incarnations - not The Doctors!"

MJ: "No, I think it is actually supposed to be The Doctor's previous ones."

Jason: *Leafing through The Book* "Big-Eyed Woman played by Christopher Biggins..."

*Leigh laughs*

Shaun: *To Mark* "It doesn't make sense - we saw nothing on the monitor of Morbius."

Mark: "I know!  That's what I'm saying - I agree with you!"

Shaun: "Mark's agreeing with me!"

Leigh: "Of course Mark's agreeing with you!"

Shaun: "Yeah, 'cos I'm great!"

Jason: "The Brain Of Morbius!"

Shaun: "Brian Of Morbius."

Jason: "Stuff." *Leigh sniggers* "Oh she DOES get a credit!  Gilly Brown."

Leigh: *Laughing* "Read it to us then!!"

MJ: "Read it!"

Leigh: "Don't just read it in your head!!"

*Shaun laughs*

Jason: "You only asked me to read it!" *Reading from The Book* "Mad surgeon, Solon, has created a headless body for the brain of a Time Lord criminal.   Utilizing elements from his nineteen seventy-four stage play Doctor Who And The Daleks In The Seven Keys To Doomsday -' that's a long title! '- Terrence Dicks originally scripted Solon as a robot'!"

MJ: "Ahh!"

Shaun: *Smiling* "Course he did!"

Jason: *Reading from The Book* "When this aspect was altered without his knowledge he requested his name be removed from the story."

Shaun: "Probably it got made better?"

Jason: *Reading from The Book* "Various members of the production team can be seen during Part Four's mind-bending contest."

MJ: "Yeah."

Jason: "Right, what did with give it everybody?"

MJ: "Various things!"

Shaun: "We gave it an array between seven and nine!"

Jason: "Average eight then, okay." *Reading from The Book* "A flawless spoof from Frankenstein notable for its unflinching horror and graphic depiction of violence.  Philip Madoc is dynamite -"

Shaun: "- He was."

Jason: *Reading from The Book* "- Ten out of ten!" *Slams The Book shut*

Shaun: "There we go."

MJ: "It is supposed to be a classic."

Shaun: "That is something I meant to say - for the recording - and it is a Doctor Who related thing for once! I thought that the gun-shot was specifically graphic."

MJ: "Yeah."

Shaun: "When Solon shot, erm, Condor or whatever his name was."

Jason: "Condorman."

Shaun: "Yeah, Condorman!"

Jason: *Laughing* "There was no blood!?"

Shaun: "There WAS blood! There was blood when the whole thing went off! It was just particularly graphic for Doctor Who."

MJ: "I thought The Book would say this, but they talked about Terrance Dicks wanting them to take his name off the story.   What they didn't say was that he said 'Oh just choose some bland pseudonym'.  So that's why it's by Robin Bland!" *Laughter* "So that's the reason!   I thought that would be quite interesting but The Book clearly didn't think so!  So yeah, I thought it was fine!   I don't know why he was annoyed with it or didn't want his name to it."

Mark: "'Cos he wanted a robot!"

Jason: In an episode of (Eighties Kids TV show) Why Don't You?  They had a bland pseudonym as well - called Sue Denim."

MJ: "Ahhh!"

Jason: "Stuck in my mind for some reason!  Don't know why."

*Leigh chuckles*

MJ: "And on THAT Why Don't You?  bombshell..." *Laughs*

Shaun: "That bit was so boring I can't even do my usual 'I have a Doctor Who thing to say' and then talk about something else!!"

*Laughter*

Jason: "I'm sure there was someone called Sue in Doctor Who once."

MJ: "Join us next time for 'Insert Name Here' -"

Shaun: *Laughing* "- Yes Susan! The first f**king companion!!"

Mark: "That sounds like a rubbish story!"

MJ: "It is! It could be The Seeds Of Death next time - which I think it is." (No, it was The Seeds Of Doom - The Seeds Of Death was a Troughton story!)

Shaun: "Now, THAT could involve foam!!"

*Leigh chuckles*

Leigh: "'Seeds' of Death?  Not 'Seas'?"

Shaun: "Yeah we had 'Seeds of something' before that - which had foam!  I'm sure of it!" (Yes, The Seeds Of Death - a Troughton story!) "That was the one with the oil rig, wasn't it?  (No that was the Troughton story Fury From The Deep!)  Which he'd worked on for 'FOUR LONG YEARS!!'" *Leigh laughs* "I'm sure that was 'Seeds of Something'?"

MJ: "No, that was Fury From The Deep."

Shaun: "Oh. It was one of the other foam ones!"

MJ: "It was. Seeds Of Death."

Jason: *Looking in The Book* "The next one is... The Seeds Of Doom!"

Shaun: "Yes! It was Seeds Of Death and it DID have foam - so this one has to have foam!"

Jason: "Aww it has a guy called 'Scorbie'!"

MJ: "SCORBIE!!"

Jason: "I was thinking more Scooby-Doo."

Shaun: "The next one is six episodes isn't it?"

MJ: Yeah the next one is six."

Shaun: "Crap."

MJ: "So we'll see you for that next one - bye!!!"

Jason: Same Who-Channel..."

Photo 7:  A photo I took at home before the meet-up!
Including my little K-9 toy (although he's not in Doctor Who yet!)

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So that was a long recording!  And I write this a LONG time after!  So just to re-cap the scores:

Shaun: 9

MJ: 8

Jason: 8

Leigh: 7
Mark: 8

Which gave us an average 8 of out of 10.  It's not often we get a nice round number!

Okay next time join us for a story that is (or as I type this WAS) a new story to me!

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

MJ - 13/02/2018