A serial that contains a baby tyrranosaurus rex, an explosive device that turns people into trees(!) and a female villain Time Lord – it can’t be bad, can it? No, it can’t! … But it can be fairly dull. And weird.

Show notes and links:

* Snapping a T-Rex – Doctor Who – Invasion of the Dinosaurs – BBC (youtube.com)

* “Doctor Who” The Mark of the Rani: Part One (TV Episode 1985) (imdb.com)

* “Doctor Who” The Mark of the Rani: Part Two (TV Episode 1985) (imdb.com)

Venegance on Varos – an anagram for “Cavern Gave One Son”, mind you – is not a good serial of Doctor Who. Not at all. It’s a shame, really. Oh well. Maybe next week!

Show notes and links:

* “Doctor Who” Vengeance on Varos: Part One (TV Episode 1985) (imdb.com)

* “Doctor Who” Vengeance on Varos: Part Two (TV Episode 1985) (imdb.com)

* The Bible is “Body Fascist” (youtube.com)

* Electric Orange – YouTube (youtube.com)

* the muon is it proof of special theory of relativity? (youtube.com)

One of my recurring nightmares is to be stuck in a room with a person whom I can’t understand. We try to communicate, but his voice keeps coming out as a disjointed series of shrieks that I am unable to understand… The Cybermen are a little bit like that. I just can’t understand them either. And I don’t mean that as in understanding their motivation or their raison d’être or anything like that – no; I mean the actual words coming out of their … face-box-thing.

Still, though. The Doctor is mellowing out, Peri is less annoying and we get to see some amazingly brutal scenes involving the Cybermen. So it’s not all bad.

In a serial called The Twin Dilemma, one would expect a dilemma surrounding a pair of twins, right? Not that the twins hardly appear in the episode at all, but the drama has to do with the new Doctor.

All good things must come to an end, they say, and when it comes to Peter Davison’s run as the Doctor – that’s true as well. As far as the serial goes, don’t give up on it if you don’t like the first episode. It gets a lot better as soon as you’re getting into the second episode.

Show notes and links:

* The Caves of Androzani (TV story) | Tardis (wikia.com)

* The Caves of Androzani – Wikipedia (wikipedia.org)

* “Doctor Who” The Caves of Androzani: Part One (TV Episode 1984) (imdb.com)

Turlough is out, Kameleon is out, Peri is in. Also, the scores are down.

Show notes and links:

* “Doctor Who” Planet of Fire: Part One (TV Episode 1984) (imdb.com)

* “Doctor Who” Planet of Fire: Part Two (TV Episode 1984) (imdb.com)

* “Doctor Who” Planet of Fire: Part Three (TV Episode 1984) (imdb.com)

* “Doctor Who” Planet of Fire: Part Four (TV Episode 1984) (imdb.com)

* Peri Brown | Tardis | FANDOM powered by Wikia (wikia.com)

After a great episode, it’s rare to get another great episode. So … this one wasn’t great – but it was certainly very very good!

Two terrible serials in a row did not leave us with high hopes for Frontios, but thankfully we were positively surprised. Enquire within to hear the derring-do tales of The Doctor and his two visible and one invisible companions!

Show notes and links:

* Frontios – Wikipedia (wikipedia.org)

* The Whisperer in Darkness – Wikipedia (wikipedia.org)

I hate to be that guy, but I believe that the title of this story comes from the process that you will undergo a few hours after sitting down to watch it. It’s just dreadfully dull. In fact, don’t listen to this episode, just take my word for it. We gave it two points out of ten. It’s not worth the time spent listening to the episode, even. Please, for the love of all that is holy, step back! Stay away while you still can!

Back in the days, there have been a handful of episodes that Petter and Breki just plain did not like. Some of the worst contenders on the list have been the ones involving the Silurians and the Sea Devils. So … you can imagine our trepidation as we went in to see this set of episodes – which features both of them.

Now; I’d like to say that we were pleasantly surprised, but … we just weren’t. Quite the contrary.

Show notes and links:

* “Doctor Who” Warriors of the Deep: Part One (TV Episode 1984) (imdb.com)