Jelly, Magic, Explosions - that's everyone's kind of party, surely? Or, how Toby learned to stop worrying and love The Three Doctors. But will your host choose the same thing as podcaster, writer, performer and all round Doctor Who legend Siobhan Gallichan to will they have a difference of opinion about this story's assets?

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So we are approaching the 60th anniversary aren't we? Well then, let's have an anniversary type story now so it doesn't get swallowed up in the actual celebrations. So what better than an anniversary story that wasn't really broadcast at anniversary time? And arguably isn't even an anniversary story really, if you look at when it was on? The Three Doctors was repeated as part of the Five Faces of Doctor Who repeat season which is where your host Toby Hadoke first encountered it. Will this mean that there's a difference between his experience of it and that of his special guest, podcaster extraordinaire Siobhan Gallichan? Only one way to find out - pull them from their separate time streams a bung them together to argue about it. So long as someone has remembered to bring a recorder...

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Well things end with a bang - and a melt and a burn - as the story makes the most of its setting and throws in a bit of Reithian educational content (albeit jazzed up with some alien interference that would not sit comfortably in the history books). There's not much about the making of a television series in this podcast (or indeed about The Making of a Television Series) but there's plenty to talk about as Earth is brought to the brink of armageddon but saved by a fire in a bakery. But will actor, writer, podcaster and renaissance man Richard James and host Toby Hadoke alight on the same things in this episode that make them glow, or will they go down in a blaze of glory?

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"Now is the time to say goodbye. Now is the time to yield a sigh. Till we meet again... in the TV movie and the New Series." Your host Toby Hadoke can't tell you how upsetting a certain event in this episode was - oh, actually, he can tell you, and he does so at length. Will the sonic screwdriver's demise resonate (like concrete?) with special guest Richard James or will he and Toby argue like the Doctor and the Terileptil? Tune in and find out everything you need to know ... except the names of any of the inhabitants of the village. They sadly, will remain anonymous forever.

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The Doctor is annoyed with Richard Mace, the android is zapping people, and the Teileptil shows his (scarred) face. But will actor and writer Richard James and host Toby Hadoke agree on what is best about this episode, or is someone going to get ratty?

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Well, it's back to Season 19, which seems to be the Davison season that attracts the most people who record their contribution to this podcast as soon as they choose their story. This time it's Space Precinct actor Richard James who selects his favourite things from a story that has it all - the future, the past, and a present in the form of Fred Elliott from Coronation Street.

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"Aye though we hunted high and low, and hunted everywhere..."

It's a pretty grim conclusion to this lighthouse saga, but there is still plenty opt enjoy. Will guest Martin Geraghty and host Toby Hadoke, who have been pretty much on the same wavelength, match again this time around, or will they be as different as Leela's eyes are by the story's conclusion? 

Ooh host Toby Hadoke has really enjoyed this one. The bodies start piling up and the story gets a bit like The Thing (having already got a bit like The Fog) and the characters are all getting their moments to shine. And surely, surely, there's only one choice for the best thing in this episode? It's one of the best examples of its kind....

Things are getting foggier outside the lighthouse, and inside its getting busier and testier and, in places, funnier. Tom Baker is at the height of his powers, even if he hates the director and is being mean to his co-star, whilst the writer could do this programme brilliantly in his sleep and the director is a veteran sci-fi wrangler. Add to that a pitch perfect guest cast and a superb setting and Martin Geraghty must be spoilt for choice. This is definitely an episode that provokes an impassioned commentary track: strap yourselves in. 

It's oil verses electricity, man verses beast, Tom Baker verses the director. Quite a few battlegrounds then, yet each provokes great creativity using the simplest of ingredients - an isolated setting, a small cast, an angry leading man. And yet this one never lets up - not a line is wasted, and there is plenty for our guest, illustrator Martin Geraghty, to draw our attention to. Hopefully the commentary will be illuminating....