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Unfortunately, there are also a handful of stories that for various aren't \u003Cu\u003Equite\u003C\/u\u003E\u0026nbsp;as exciting, and 1964's \u003Cb\u003EThe Sensorites\u003C\/b\u003E\u0026nbsp;is one of them. After a spooky and atmospheric first episode, it never really gets going and I have to admit that, despite the fact that it's got pretty much everything I'm looking for in sixties television and I really, really want to like it, it fails to hold my attention to the extent that whenever I try to watch it, I usually end up forgetting which episode I'm up to and have to look it up; sometimes even when I start watching the same episode again by mistake, I don't even notice until halfway through.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb\u003EThere's Not An Ounce Of Curiosity In Me!\u003C\/b\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a light-hearted feature on my attempts to make it through \u003Cb\u003EThe Sensorites\u003C\/b\u003E\u0026nbsp;without losing my place, and to find out if there are actually reasons worth persevering with it after all, which you can read on my site \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/timworthington.org\/2017\/09\/21\/theres-not-an-ounce-of-curiosity-in-me\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E or find in a longer form in my book \u003Cb\u003ECan't Help Thinking About Me\u003C\/b\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/timworthington.org\/books\/cant-help-thinking-about-me\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E. If you're interested in early \u003Cb\u003EDoctor Who\u003C\/b\u003E, you can also listen to me debating its supposed 'problematic' reputation with Emma Burnell and Steve Fielding on the politics-meets-pop-culture show \u003Cb\u003EThe Zeitgeist Tapes\u003C\/b\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/timworthington.org\/2018\/10\/25\/the-zeitgeist-tapes-dr-pod\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1900616647854839749\/posts\/default\/1398149670888769868"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1900616647854839749\/posts\/default\/1398149670888769868"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/timworthington.blogspot.com\/2020\/11\/doctor-who-sensorites.html","title":"Doctor Who - The Sensorites"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Tim Worthington"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/05135653945070797299"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEir5WSawHwPXHWPXucWVdkl7vIrEHsadrppC7m0BjltungMuHppwnepv4Jh4wi-tGMTLbBQGQB6-3TOtIkpTSTHTt_Id7vQi5UIHl9P6E3CcW3t9Q3qhryOKtauUSPXMUY\/s113\/profilebackup.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgavNnKRxiOVSP611v3hjjKlbVX2fsfwg53iKXBi77sSmTtOBqy1xXq0mx9hWeSBF7A_tbDlH2eiQ5-haicI0oBGzuUjIUHUitfBIx6jqq7pziMqULUwiYAqYMOgKXjGs4e83HdgSwl6xH-\/s72-w400-h288-c\/sensorites1.png","height":"72","width":"72"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900616647854839749.post-1063535515439850363"},"published":{"$t":"2017-01-24T10:04:00.000+00:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2017-07-04T15:20:42.696+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"1964"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"daleks"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"doctor who"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"radio that time forgot"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"radio times"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"the beatles"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"tv that time forgot"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"tv times"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Looking Back At... The Dalek Invasion Of Earth"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhInbiypJJwTw_r1K9DBz8jg34omePnDPh1OVNw4mGd4pyRvjGaWWUAMt58a90gh1y4wZ0cYrdqOqwxR6BoUpD48alNryMOollFmjBPFfIR3X8EjDEvuELY1JTwlwE7VHQW7vKUgscrNvfq\/s1600\/dalekinv1.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"365\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhInbiypJJwTw_r1K9DBz8jg34omePnDPh1OVNw4mGd4pyRvjGaWWUAMt58a90gh1y4wZ0cYrdqOqwxR6BoUpD48alNryMOollFmjBPFfIR3X8EjDEvuELY1JTwlwE7VHQW7vKUgscrNvfq\/s400\/dalekinv1.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBack in 1964, The Daleks really were The Masters of Earth. You\nmight think it's a big event when the BBC unveil the trailer for the\ntrailer for the 'minisode' preceding the new series of \u003Cb\u003EDoctor Who\u003C\/b\u003E, but that's got nothing on the runaway levels of\nsheer excitement that greeted their first ever return appearance. At\nthat point, with the possible exception of The Beatles (and that's only 'possible'), The Daleks were pretty much the biggest thing on the\nplanet. They didn't call it\n‘Dalekmania’ for nothing, you know.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EWorld's End\u003C\/b\u003E, the first episode of \u003Cb\u003EThe Dalek Invasion of Earth\u003C\/b\u003E, was transmitted by BBC1 at 17.40pm on 21st November 1964, and judging from the accompanying publicity\nit's probably safe to say that one or two people were reasonably keen\non seeing it. But what else might they have watched or listened to\nwhilst whiling away the Dalek Hours until it was on, or indeed afterwards while trying\nto chill out and stave off the big Post-Dalek Comedown? Well, get warming up your set - television \u003Cu\u003Eor\u003C\/u\u003E wireless - as we're going to be taking a look at some of the highlights of what else was on offer that day. As well as one or two that were absolutely not highlights in any way whatsoever...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E7.15\nOn Your Farm (Home Service)\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003E\"A weekly review of the agricultural\nscene introduced by Charles Jarvis\"\u003C\/i\u003E. The\nWeekend Starts Here!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E10.0\nSaturday Club (Light Programme)\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nA special edition of what was then the BBC's\nthen-flagship pop programme - it was actually still more popular and influential than \u003Cb\u003ETop Of The Pops\u003C\/b\u003E for a brief while - as\nBrian Matthew takes a Fab Four-inspired\ntrip to Hamburg to catch\nup with John, Paul, George and\nRingo's reissue-friendly former bill-sharer Tony\nSheridan. He also found time to have a chat with \u003Cb\u003EWenn Doch Jede Woche Mal Der Erste Wär\u003C\/b\u003E hitmaker Gus Backus, popular beat combo The Rattles, and 'Rocking Stars'-toting bandleader Günter Fuhlisch, whose collective fans quite possibly\nincluded the stars of...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E12.30\nKomm Mit! (BBC1)\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe BBC used to make loads of\nthese light drama-based foreign\nlanguage instruction courses - see\nalso Cold War-tinged ski resort\nthriller \u003Cb\u003ESuivez La Piste!\u003C\/b\u003E and Cold\nWar-tinged alien-on-Earth thriller\n\u003Cb\u003ESlim John\u003C\/b\u003E - though there was\nprobably slightly less in the way of\nEastern Bloc allegory on the\nagenda as ‘Heidi’ and ‘Dieter’\nattempted to obtain tickets for the\nopera, doubtless with mildly\namusing consequences. Incidentally, ‘Komm Mit’ means,\nessentially, ‘Come With’, so at\nleast you've learned something\ntoday.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEh5TKHtbzGUXu2KD_LlPgUWafl2X-U0pHJGmTeSSplsnBhJ4E0HLMv8W651XpKJ7SQMsJdbdLqMI_-FEh9ojF3tIpTfqyVTYMm1lyTpyYmS8SBYLnu_Z5FG6XYsCAnlYLpa6o8n2bX2e9A2\/s1600\/kommmit2.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEh5TKHtbzGUXu2KD_LlPgUWafl2X-U0pHJGmTeSSplsnBhJ4E0HLMv8W651XpKJ7SQMsJdbdLqMI_-FEh9ojF3tIpTfqyVTYMm1lyTpyYmS8SBYLnu_Z5FG6XYsCAnlYLpa6o8n2bX2e9A2\/s400\/kommmit2.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E1.40\nDesert Island Discs (Home\nService)\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nHonor Blackman chats to Roy\nPlomley and judo-throws a load of\nclassical and jazz waxings – not to\nmention Johnny Dankworth's original \u003Cb\u003EThe\nAvengers\u003C\/b\u003E theme, which is good and not rubbish like \u003Cu\u003Eyou\u003C\/u\u003E think – overboard from the\nsinking ship. She also wants\nMichelangelo’s David as her\nluxury item for some reason. Can't possibly begin to imagine why.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E4.0\nOpen House (BBC2)\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nTime for the first big ‘I... what?’\nmoment of the day, as Gay Byrne\npresides over a bafflingly disparate collection of\n'People-Places-Pops' which takes in Marvin Gaye, The Merseybeats,\nValerie Masters Tony Osborne And His Orchestra and that hep cat all the kids were going crazy for, Dr. Michael\nWinstanley, alongside some\nprominently-billed extracts from the\nbig screen version of \u003Cb\u003ELord Of The\nFlies\u003C\/b\u003E. We can but hope that this\nwas all more hip and happening\nthan it sounds.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E5.15\nJuke Box Jury (BBC1)\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDavid Jacobs presides over the\ntypically unlikely combination of\nSpike Milligan, Alma Cogan, Pete\nMurray and a very young Liza\nMinnelli - then appearing with mother Judy Garland in a 'songs from the musicals' extravaganza at the\nLondon Palladium - venturing their\nopinion on a handful of the latest\npop waxings, including top discs from The Everly Brothers, Sandie Shaw, Herman's Hermits, Frank Ifield, and those\nBeatle Boys with their new offering\n\u003Cb\u003EI Feel Fine\u003C\/b\u003E. As you can see from this still from the single's promo video, Ringo wasn't even the best\nexercise bike rider in The Beatles.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgsdgQWcDvexvFEe_c1BI19wy7NWRVuEH8zds1TDgkJlbTouSX2FMmYm_KstI8ElMZn2gttwXGifY7tzXppKmirBuCd0rh6sBl3yJhs5bIQUpCjMZy38-eRVd1VtNKmfDsHmR_Els0d4Co6\/s1600\/ifeelbike.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"287\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgsdgQWcDvexvFEe_c1BI19wy7NWRVuEH8zds1TDgkJlbTouSX2FMmYm_KstI8ElMZn2gttwXGifY7tzXppKmirBuCd0rh6sBl3yJhs5bIQUpCjMZy38-eRVd1VtNKmfDsHmR_Els0d4Co6\/s400\/ifeelbike.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E5.50pm Thank Your Lucky Stars Special (ITV)\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAnd speaking of I Feel Fine, The Beatles were also busy belting it out on the 'other channel' along with\n\u003Cb\u003EShe's A Woman\u003C\/b\u003E, \u003Cb\u003EI'm A Loser\u003C\/b\u003E and \u003Cb\u003ERock'n'Roll Music\u003C\/b\u003E, while Brenda Lee\nand Freddie And The Dreamers waved haplessly from the corner. In\nfact it was audience-chasing all the way on ITV tonight, with \u003Cb\u003EThank\nYour Lucky Stars\u003C\/b\u003E followed by \u003Cb\u003EDanger Man\u003C\/b\u003E grappling with \u003Cb\u003EThe\nColonel's Daughter\u003C\/b\u003E at 7.25pm, now forgotten big comedy name of his\nday Arthur Haynes at 8.25pm, now even more forgotten Good Honest Copperin'\naction serial \u003Cb\u003EGideon's Way\u003C\/b\u003E at 9.10 pm, light-hearted Rantzen-purloined\ncurrent affairs reports from \u003Cb\u003EOn The Braden Beat\u003C\/b\u003E at 11.05pm, and a\nrepeat of five-year-old drama series \u003Cb\u003EHG Wells' The Invisible Man\u003C\/b\u003E at\n11.30pm. And that's literally all that we can find to say about ITV on\nthat day, in an article with the primary purpose of celebrating the odd,\nthe unusual, the inexplicable and the just plain uncelebrated of\ntelevision of yesteryear. This should be printed out and stapled to the\nforeheads of anyone involved with those boneheaded 'Dismmantal Biassed BBC NOW pls' campaigns. You won't know what you're losing until it's gone\nso fight them while there's still time. Though, in fairness, they do have\nsuch powerful and overwhelming evidence of the need for 'reform' at\ntheir disposal...\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E6.0\nHistoric French Organs: 3: Saint-\nMaximin (Third Programme)\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003E“Music by Couperin played by\nMichel Chapuis on a gramophone\nrecord”\u003C\/i\u003E BBC FAKERY\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E6.30\nThe Beat Room (BBC2)\u003Cbr \/\u003ETop of the Pops\u003C\/b\u003E’ more musically credible EPs-and-live-bands-based\ncounterpart weighs in with Pat Campbell introducing performances\nfrom The Rockin' Berries, Jackie\nDe Shannon, Heinz and The\nParamounts, all of whom were\npretty big names at the time but\nwhom only shortly afterwards\nwould be left mumbling \u003Ci\u003E“I have a\nhorsey... neigh... neigh”\u003C\/i\u003E in the\nwake of Rubber Soul. And, erm, Peter And The Headlines, who weren't. Incidentally, you can read all about David Bowie's early appearances on \u003Cb\u003EThe Beat Room\u003C\/b\u003E in \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/timworthington.blogspot.co.uk\/2016\/05\/the-camberwick-green-procrastination.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EThe Camberwick Green Procrastination Society\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhAFrUeuFrtxCBZTkryhtvjOYeUbgzf4soiPZ2-gLbqJWipWVbltZkYo9jxgO7Mygs64cY95-Vx_s-BGOlmCAkTGXggF31z6aCTr00ApPNtVk_4g47RZjkHsFRRKcMT6_aeaT0-6WewR8B_\/s1600\/beatroom.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"387\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhAFrUeuFrtxCBZTkryhtvjOYeUbgzf4soiPZ2-gLbqJWipWVbltZkYo9jxgO7Mygs64cY95-Vx_s-BGOlmCAkTGXggF31z6aCTr00ApPNtVk_4g47RZjkHsFRRKcMT6_aeaT0-6WewR8B_\/s400\/beatroom.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E7.30\nStarlight Hour (Home Service)\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIt's slightly strange to think that\nradio variety shows were once\nsuch a big deal, but they were and here's one of the biggest of them. Kenneth Horne\nintroduces singers Janet Coster,\nMaryetta Midgley and John\nHauxwell, violinist Alan Loveday,\ncomics Kenneth Connor, June\nWhitfield and Ronnie Barker,\nproper ac-tor Naunton Wayne,\nand The Starlight Orchestra\nconducted by Malcolm Lockyer,\nwith a script provide by \u003Cb\u003ERentaghost\u003C\/b\u003E creator\nBob Block. All of the above doubtless had\nmuch more high profile things to\nbe getting on with at the time,\nwhich gives some indication of just\nhow high esteem radio was still\nheld in back then. In fact, we can\nsee some of those high profile\nthings now; \u003Ci\u003E“Naunton Wayne is in\n‘The Reluctant Peer’ at the\nDuchess Theatre; Kenneth Connor in\n‘A Funny Thing Happened on the\nWay to The Forum’ at the Strand\nTheatre; Maryetta Midgley in\n‘Camelot’ at the Theatre Royal,\nDrury Lane, London; John\nHauxwell broadcasts by kind\npermission of the Sadler's Wells\nOpera Company”\u003C\/i\u003E. What's more,\nNaunton Wayne was also the lead\nin a translation of Carlo Fruttero\nand Franco Lucentini's on-your-bike-\u003Cb\u003EBlack\u003C\/b\u003E-\u003Cb\u003EMirror\u003C\/b\u003E dark sci-fi\ncomedy \u003Cb\u003EThe Memory Machine\u003C\/b\u003E on\nThe Third Programme earlier in\nthe evening. Stitch that, \u003Cb\u003ELive at\nthe Apollo\u003C\/b\u003E!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E7.50\nThe Black And White Minstrel\nShow (BBC1)\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIt'd be preferable not to even\nmention this, except that... \u003Ci\u003E\"'The Black\nand White Minstrel Show' is\nappearing at the Victoria Palace,\nLondon and at the Grand Theatre,\nLeeds\"\u003C\/i\u003E. The actual programme?!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E10.05\nJazz 625 (BBC2)\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nColeman Hawkins tootles out\nsome high-definition sounds with\nthe aid of Jimmy Woode on bass,\nJo Jones on drums, Sir Charles\nThompson on piano and Harry\n'Sweets' Edison on trumpet. The\nJazz Names Shop had evidently\nclosed just before they got there.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E10.20\nNot So Much A Programme, More\nA Way Of Life (BBC1)\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe toned-down replacement for\n\u003Cb\u003EThat Was the Week That Was\u003C\/b\u003E,\nwhich the BBC had cancelled\nearlier in the year due to\ngovernmental pressure (though\nthey face-savingly, or if you will\nmisleadingly, claimed it was due\nto a need to remain impartial with\nan election in the offing - how\ntimes have changed) came in for\nsuch a bashing from the wider\nsatirical community – most\ninfamously\u003Cb\u003E Private Eye\u003C\/b\u003E's flexidisc \u003Cb\u003ENot So Much A Programme, More\nA Shower Of Shit\u003C\/b\u003E – that today\neven dedicated comedy historians\nseem to know little about what\nwent on in it. This is particularly\nastonishing given that more or\nless every edition – including this\none – still exists. So what would\nFrost, Rushton, Bron, Bird, Hudd,\nSherrin and company have been\ncasting their \u003Cb\u003EFriday Night\nArmistice\u003C\/b\u003E Satirical Eye over this\nweek? Well, British Troops were\nfinally withdrawing from Kenya,\nPope Paul VI had postponed a vote\non Religious Liberty, and \u003Cb\u003EThe\nTimes\u003C\/b\u003E had just published an\narticle declaring that the Satire\nBoom had outstayed its welcome.\nAnd then of course there was the\nreturn of those Dalek characters...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhtrWEnJet-9hTGI158VzE2HQObBf7_RIj0ZSVypk_adYnV9lFgor6LWTuIU6F7PB9wLGl1cPGEb4YS00-2SeCt97PsrVD5XXWdYmUtrvXJbUNCqcuonJHN0JqkEOH620jX_u7EQdXBZzGm\/s1600\/beatstars.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhtrWEnJet-9hTGI158VzE2HQObBf7_RIj0ZSVypk_adYnV9lFgor6LWTuIU6F7PB9wLGl1cPGEb4YS00-2SeCt97PsrVD5XXWdYmUtrvXJbUNCqcuonJHN0JqkEOH620jX_u7EQdXBZzGm\/s400\/beatstars.jpg\" width=\"352\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Chr style=\"background: rgb(127, 0, 0); color: #7f0000; height: 2px; width: 90%;\" \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjar3c3RXBV6_LUc3lnwfC2NSRkMlBPltWHgDHn175D44mYtCmopN-O2BYU0y2LKhdrStEmBQpbaaPEKV52sqobeLYIXyr7phHbr9ETmb_4OjRQPUZ50JIe4ijGbe0AngwTnw9CuNUVPrmK\/s1600\/label.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjar3c3RXBV6_LUc3lnwfC2NSRkMlBPltWHgDHn175D44mYtCmopN-O2BYU0y2LKhdrStEmBQpbaaPEKV52sqobeLYIXyr7phHbr9ETmb_4OjRQPUZ50JIe4ijGbe0AngwTnw9CuNUVPrmK\/s200\/label.png\" width=\"200\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cb\u003EThe Camberwick Green Procrastination Society\u003C\/b\u003E, featuring tons more about old TV and sixties pop music, is available in paperback \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/shop\/tim-worthington\/the-camberwick-green-procrastination-society\/paperback\/product-22692134.html\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E, from the Kindle Store \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/B01NAD7IGJ\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E, or as a full-colour eBook \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/shop\/tim-worthington\/the-camberwick-green-procrastination-society\/ebook\/product-22692228.html\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1900616647854839749\/posts\/default\/1063535515439850363"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1900616647854839749\/posts\/default\/1063535515439850363"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/timworthington.blogspot.com\/2017\/01\/looking-back-at-dalek-invasion-of-earth.html","title":"Looking Back At... The Dalek Invasion Of Earth"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Tim Worthington"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/05135653945070797299"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEir5WSawHwPXHWPXucWVdkl7vIrEHsadrppC7m0BjltungMuHppwnepv4Jh4wi-tGMTLbBQGQB6-3TOtIkpTSTHTt_Id7vQi5UIHl9P6E3CcW3t9Q3qhryOKtauUSPXMUY\/s113\/profilebackup.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhInbiypJJwTw_r1K9DBz8jg34omePnDPh1OVNw4mGd4pyRvjGaWWUAMt58a90gh1y4wZ0cYrdqOqwxR6BoUpD48alNryMOollFmjBPFfIR3X8EjDEvuELY1JTwlwE7VHQW7vKUgscrNvfq\/s72-c\/dalekinv1.png","height":"72","width":"72"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900616647854839749.post-3014738592549990469"},"published":{"$t":"2016-01-21T15:58:00.000+00:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2017-07-04T15:26:43.695+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"1964"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"1965"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"daleks"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"doctor who"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"it's still a police box"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"terry nation"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"william hartnell"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"It's Still A Police Box, Why Hasn't It Changed? Part Two: Koquillion It Was Really Nothing"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiNfFmvE2wsAQAlu9j6yRZRRcnjAsxfVDTkZHF8mamgw56UDvhcJRY8MAb8AOAyfD52V2AL8j2-Ucaxh3Xrv1ZGIBq8gP-P8AgdhaNR0cqw8FHQZcHnfDHdz6GSRY7irXicyFO_gRTaTOgx\/s1600\/hartnellzarb.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiNfFmvE2wsAQAlu9j6yRZRRcnjAsxfVDTkZHF8mamgw56UDvhcJRY8MAb8AOAyfD52V2AL8j2-Ucaxh3Xrv1ZGIBq8gP-P8AgdhaNR0cqw8FHQZcHnfDHdz6GSRY7irXicyFO_gRTaTOgx\/s400\/hartnellzarb.jpg\" title=\"\u0026quot;Otis The Aardvark? Don't be absurd, Checkerton\u0026quot;\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/timworthington.blogspot.co.uk\/2015\/11\/its-still-police-box-why-hasnt-it.html\"\u003Eour look at the first series of \u003Cb\u003EDoctor Who\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, we saw how the show went virtually overnight from being a well-made but undistinguished making-learning-fun history-fest to the ratings-topping eye of a money-spinning storm flinging around the word 'Dalekmania' in those funny triangular letters. And also how there were too many fucking rope bridges.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAfter a short break over the summer of 1964, \u003Cb\u003EDoctor Who\u003C\/b\u003E returned in the Autumn with a concerted effort to capitalise on this success in all senses of the word. Along the way, the production team would have to wrestle both with significant changes to the regular cast, and with their own apparent self-defeating wheel-reinventing determination to find the 'new' Daleks while the originals were still pretty much the second biggest phenomenon on the planet. Although the contenders for this honour most definitely did not include...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EThat Darn Cat! \u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEh6WJrGTDP-kE7dGmODEypCHol6BxMBdqDcNZENFYMWJmhs7aWA9mZqOsgnexU19r_NHX278vhsAwgGl_99TVFTx0MkESwmuW2ab1gWXBe8NaACbW0CLKxvNqvHlOc9Jmmf4YnJyMNKCxOO\/s1600\/drwhoplanetgiants03.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"293\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEh6WJrGTDP-kE7dGmODEypCHol6BxMBdqDcNZENFYMWJmhs7aWA9mZqOsgnexU19r_NHX278vhsAwgGl_99TVFTx0MkESwmuW2ab1gWXBe8NaACbW0CLKxvNqvHlOc9Jmmf4YnJyMNKCxOO\/s400\/drwhoplanetgiants03.jpg\" title=\"\u0026quot;Hello Daaaaave\u0026quot;\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nYou may recall that, back in the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/timworthington.blogspot.co.uk\/2015\/11\/its-still-police-box-why-hasnt-it.html\"\u003Efirst series overview\u003C\/a\u003E, there were a few subtle and restrained comments about the manky bulk-bought stock footage that the \u003Cb\u003EDoctor Who\u003C\/b\u003E production team were prone to using around this time in lieu of having to film resource-challenging things like sweeping landscapes and extreme weather conditions. It's only when you witness one of their attempts at filming a complicated live action sequence for themselves that you realise just why they were so keen to reach for the crumbly bits of cloudy 16mm snipped out of dismal old films nobody liked. A significant proportion of the final episode of \u003Cb\u003EPlanet Of Giants\u003C\/b\u003E involves the inconveniently miniaturised Tardis crew being unconvincingly menaced by a particularly disinterested-looking normal-sized cat, determined to inadvertently thwart their attempts to prevent unscrupulous scientist Forester from getting his hands on decidedly eco-unfriendly compound DN6. This in itself is visually problematic enough, but if you watch closely you can't help but notice that the cat itself subtly but very definitely changes between shots, from a tortoiseshell with a straight-down-the-middle light\/dark facial fur divide like some lost extra from the video for \u003Cb\u003EPassengers\u003C\/b\u003E by Elton John, to another with a more subtle blend of mug-upholstery, and back again. Of course, this might have been down to the fact that episode three was actually edited down from two episodes' worth of material, and there may well have been some proto-Eurocrats In Brussels regulations about how many consecutive hours an individual cat could spend in Lime Grove, and as such the animal handlers might actually have brought along two mogsters for the recording blocks. But let's not weigh this down with reason and logic, shall we? Incidentally, it's also worth noting that for a swotty know-all science teacher whose primary purpose was to convey educational facts to the young audience, Ian really does come across as a bit dense in this story.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EThe Dalek Invasion Of Earth Is Astonishingly Well Made \u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjvhzFqE53ipFKlPseMdegFKnoL6GKOZAexxLblOx51J9Sl0joHiY2movCZTBji7pZ5iC6LU0GVNcbq1qnd8mcrYi4dzDLC2MfhTBJH1GMI8PdXikMSO2bYNkoNZHmtpidyL7DIQexdeRPU\/s1600\/Doctor_who_Daleks_Invasion_Earth_hartnell.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"248\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjvhzFqE53ipFKlPseMdegFKnoL6GKOZAexxLblOx51J9Sl0joHiY2movCZTBji7pZ5iC6LU0GVNcbq1qnd8mcrYi4dzDLC2MfhTBJH1GMI8PdXikMSO2bYNkoNZHmtpidyL7DIQexdeRPU\/s400\/Doctor_who_Daleks_Invasion_Earth_hartnell.jpg\" title=\"[INSERT UNFUNNY NONSENSICAL TWITTER JOKE ABOUT TUBE STRIKE HERE]\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nYou probably won't be too surprised to learn that The Cat did not manage to inspire a deluge of tie-in merchandise. Nor indeed did it cause Raymond Cusick to bitterly reflect on not getting his share of the rights to it every time a camera was plonked in front of him. In late 1964, though, The Daleks were everywhere, and you could scarcely walk past a shop without being submerged by a landslide of Dalek Fish Slices whilst a shopkeeper with a top hat and monocle counted a wad of guineas and grinningly reflected on the commercial boom of 'Dalekmania'. The BBC and Terry Nation both knew that they'd have to bring them back in a big way, and \u003Cb\u003EThe Dalek Invasion Of Earth\u003C\/b\u003E got this exactly right; ambitious, imaginative, action-packed, Daleks every three seconds, and - crucially - an entirely different story to their debut in almost every regard. From this distance, it would be easy to write \u003Cb\u003EThe Dalek Invasion Of Earth\u003C\/b\u003E off as a story elevated to 'classic' status by circumstance and hype (and there \u003Cu\u003Ewas\u003C\/u\u003E a lot of hype - how many ITV shows at the time had trailers that expensive and prominent, let alone BBC offerings?), except for the fact that even now it still looks amazing. Sidestepping that never-explainable cliffhanger with a Dalek rising out of the Thames, Terry Nation's script is a clear attempt at playing with the big-screen big boys, and director Richard Martin rises to the challenge admirably with dynamic pacing, some very fast editing for the time (including lots of cutaways to Daleks, a joke that will be lost on approximately 93% of the audience), a skilful combination of imaginative location work and convincing studio sets, and just generally making everything look and feel 'bigger'. In fact, it's not really that far away from the later big screen adaptation of the story... but we'll come to that in due course. Meanwhile, if anyone has any idea of that business with the two mysterious figures caught measuring Robomen on set was all about... actually, on second thoughts, keep it to yourself will you?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EOther Stories Were Less Astonishingly Well Made\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhpQNSM4w3e-sVeZLaHJbUyfVEREoyuWs6ZzEMXNvzqxoStzQ4ZjsVnhYhm4tvWOOUG0t4PTlhUh-lHaPIVNYCrpe4ahp9XrOMvW6xqXhmtGn2CF2gz2ikWKkRNmk3TWtdMZVL2-viYNi42\/s1600\/vickiwii.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhpQNSM4w3e-sVeZLaHJbUyfVEREoyuWs6ZzEMXNvzqxoStzQ4ZjsVnhYhm4tvWOOUG0t4PTlhUh-lHaPIVNYCrpe4ahp9XrOMvW6xqXhmtGn2CF2gz2ikWKkRNmk3TWtdMZVL2-viYNi42\/s400\/vickiwii.png\" title=\"\u0026quot;Oh, please don't step on me just yet!\u0026quot;\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nOK, so we can point towards the Daleks haring across Tower Bridge, chasing Barbara past the Albert Memorial, and getting a bit soggy at Queen's Wharf, and rebut some of that insistent journalistic twaddle about cardboard monsters made of rubber or whatever it is. And yes, there are other superb effects dotted throughout this second series, from the model spaceship that doesn't look like a model at all in \u003Cb\u003EThe Rescue\u003C\/b\u003E to the flamethrower-strewn smackdown between The Daleks and The Mechonoids\/Mechanoids\/whichever spelling we're taking as authoritative today. Even those giant-sized props in the first story mostly look pretty convincing. When they don't quite pull it out of the bag, though... they \u003Cu\u003Ereally\u003C\/u\u003E don't pull it out of the bag. In fact you sometimes have to wonder if they'd even known where the bag was in the first place. You'll all have seen that Zarbi walking head first into the camera - possibly even without Pappy's Fun Club shrieking over the top - but there are so many other effect and design slip-ups more worthy of chortling disdain than poor old star-seeing John Scott-Martin. There's Vicki apparently doing her Wii Balance Board exercises to indicate that the Tardis is being forcibly moved, the hilariously unmenacing impracticality of the Mire Beast, the Optera's side-letting-down Ragdoll Productions-esque appearance, and let's not even get started on the somewhat less than advisable 'blacking up' in \u003Cb\u003EThe Crusade\u003C\/b\u003E, which is frankly too shoddily rendered even to be offensive. And all of this might well be linked in some roundabout way to...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EWhat's That Coming Over The Hill, Is It A Fungoid? \u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgU2sdyM_tJfH1-5eT6r640yBY_XJlwq7YRbZpY_OV59ao3zSO2S5-ZPj4D4VZDzFXSpZY94c1yrGqMpncUOxKaX2Z6GiO-Jnw_RJKTVLu7LUKR1DZ1_MXi3DD7gh5Qpj4pbeMMN3M5W7WR\/s1600\/fungoid.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgU2sdyM_tJfH1-5eT6r640yBY_XJlwq7YRbZpY_OV59ao3zSO2S5-ZPj4D4VZDzFXSpZY94c1yrGqMpncUOxKaX2Z6GiO-Jnw_RJKTVLu7LUKR1DZ1_MXi3DD7gh5Qpj4pbeMMN3M5W7WR\/s400\/fungoid.jpg\" title=\"That Episode Of God's Wonderful Railway needed some work.\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nOne of the strengths of the first series of \u003Cb\u003EDoctor Who\u003C\/b\u003E was that even the supporting characters were incredibly well-defined. Alright, so One-Line Wonder The Man From Lop brought down the average a bit, but on the whole they were believable characters with at least serviceable back stories, and were quite often given well-written 'star moment' scenes to explore their philosophies and motivation. On top of that, the production team very clearly spent a long time working on the regular characters, ensuring that their interactions, attitudes and propensity for twisting ankles were always consistent and easy for the viewer to identify with. Most impressively of all, some considerable thought went into making the female characters as strong and independent as was practical at the time, and they even had some dialogue on that very subject. By the time of the second series, though, this has all changed - The Doctor, Ian and particularly Barbara (\u003Ci\u003E\"Oh boy... THAT was a mistake!\"\u003C\/i\u003E) just about manage to cling on to their established personas, and there are a couple of exceptions amongst the rag-taggle of Dalek-fighting civilians, but just about everyone else ends up as little better than a one-dimensional cipher, all the way from the jovial village 'bobby' and the hilariously purpose-free Morok Messenger to new companion Vicki, who is likeable enough and has a good rapport with The Doctor, but never seems to actually 'do' anything as such. This is presumably because the bulk of everyone's creative energies was being given over to the newly-found 'So you like aliens, eh?' imperative, which would be all very well and good if it wasn't for the fact that Malsan The Aridian and company had about as much chance of dethroning The Daleks as Ian And The Zodiacs did The Beatles. And yes, this does include The Zarbi, no matter what volume of 'Plastoid' badges they may have inspired. Of course, this did change towards the end of the series... but more about that later. Meanwhile, on a similar note...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EThere Are Too Many Stories With A Good First Episode \u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiuI05RayYLLO7eexeCybCd9TNRmy_oWMgLCDhbQfHF5cLLolHZXh7NlJZU-ILJr13oqNSmYES1p7f9GjQK6qNL9hAkHgT20OfsR6ESUtQcC2xad2jOf4YH6W9N4NaW72Bwde-DqaT-O-zD\/s1600\/dalekhnell.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"301\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiuI05RayYLLO7eexeCybCd9TNRmy_oWMgLCDhbQfHF5cLLolHZXh7NlJZU-ILJr13oqNSmYES1p7f9GjQK6qNL9hAkHgT20OfsR6ESUtQcC2xad2jOf4YH6W9N4NaW72Bwde-DqaT-O-zD\/s400\/dalekhnell.png\" title=\"It's not Old Pisso. We checked.\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAdmittedly this was a problem that would continue to plague \u003Cb\u003EDoctor Who\u003C\/b\u003E for many years (and still does, if you count the ones that have a good first seven minutes), and arguably actually began with \u003Cb\u003EThe Sensorites\u003C\/b\u003E in the previous series, but this was where the phenomenon first took hold. There are few greater disappointments than a creepy, atmospheric and tightly-plotted opening episode followed by three to five of just wandering about going 'erm', and you'll find more than anyone's fair share of them here. Take, as a completely random and not at all obvious example, \u003Cb\u003EThe Space Museum\u003C\/b\u003E, which opens in fine style with imaginatively realised spooky stuff about the 'ghost' Tardis and the Food Machine acting the goat, Hartnell's Dalek-impersonating interlude, and a genuinely shocking cliffhanger, and then follows it up with seventy five minutes of meandering along corridors and re-enacting the Tony and 'Control' sketches from \u003Cb\u003EA Bit Of Fry And Laurie\u003C\/b\u003E. Then there's \u003Cb\u003EThe Web Planet\u003C\/b\u003E, in which a visually arresting opening episode with the cast wandering around Vortis in their Bespin Fatigues gives way to more or less nothing whatsoever, and adds insult to injury by at least making an effort with all that \u003Cb\u003ETop Of The Pops\u003C\/b\u003E Studio Lights\/\u003Cb\u003EJackanory\u003C\/b\u003E Kaleidoscope mayhem in the final episode, by which time most people had probably stopped watching. Quite how so many writers managed or indeed were allowed to put so much effort into their first script and yet follow it up week upon week with the first thing that sort of half came into their head-ish is something that no amount of production documentation can ever really adequately explain.\u003Cb\u003E \u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EThey Like Big Butts And They Cannot Lie\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhHyCYS_mv2kQYefWz6zjcbRKoLfCXy5N4RPBaNSxRna7VubTzFC5TTm59hJn59JT0i5S36Fjjt8LEQC5RFPfNtN92UKVWp08mnysbFTgkAhEvmbRuO0qes7nHho0SK44GSwbMj_N5ZZpF9\/s1600\/kardashchase.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"266\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhHyCYS_mv2kQYefWz6zjcbRKoLfCXy5N4RPBaNSxRna7VubTzFC5TTm59hJn59JT0i5S36Fjjt8LEQC5RFPfNtN92UKVWp08mnysbFTgkAhEvmbRuO0qes7nHho0SK44GSwbMj_N5ZZpF9\/s400\/kardashchase.png\" title=\"Nicki Minaj reported to be working on 'black and white' version of Anaconda.\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nQuite\n what changed in the couple of weeks between production blocks is \nsomething that may never be known, but the evidence is there for all to \nsee. And boy, is there evidence. In the second series of \u003Cb\u003EDoctor Who\u003C\/b\u003E,\n the fun and improving show for all the family, there is a sudden and \nmarked emphasis on casting ladies with oversized backsides, and what's \nmore the cameramen go out of their way to draw attention to this, \nanchoring their shots on the back-gotters and lingering thereon until \nWilliam Hartnell deigns to start speaking and they reluctantly have to turn to him. Even allowing for the \n'outrageous' ((C) Polly Toynbee) vagaries of sixties fashion, this still\n seems a bit jarring and, well, over-abundant. This reaches its dubious \nhighpoint - or possibly nadir - when an extra of Kardashian proportions \ntakes a stroll around the top of the Empire State Building, attracting \nthe intent attention of not only comedy Good Ol' Boy Morton Dill but \nalso a suspiciously modern-looking extra, whose reaction was almost \ncertainly authentic. And while we're in that general area, later on in \nthe story there's the inadvertent exposure of Barbara's pants...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEg8t_TEFlqmuMQvB_d2lCRzWuv8rOf3Q1755yZiQWNIoFgckeWSK9v6nwLEDXJ31Rwuey3nWIhBKR-HxYAgqBeNk3VcpbM4EsLtZFPT6pjqaUJmbUpVNcY9-ics6vEyR-6Ezb43KR7LM3CC\/s1600\/barbpants.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"266\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEg8t_TEFlqmuMQvB_d2lCRzWuv8rOf3Q1755yZiQWNIoFgckeWSK9v6nwLEDXJ31Rwuey3nWIhBKR-HxYAgqBeNk3VcpbM4EsLtZFPT6pjqaUJmbUpVNcY9-ics6vEyR-6Ezb43KR7LM3CC\/s400\/barbpants.png\" title=\"PANTS\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003ESeriously, What's With All The Ants? \u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjY3BHRmHK8PDM6I6vOi66e8LP2QMhOBYfZdD6tsDWUHgM7226w6hFd_4P2tUhCOEd8nS0okjw_V1wJBluO9qoPMT6TzvqJIqr_64nmyi28buU3Kjbs4NFOTjIQK76BvJ2zBdFVRpfkhwJJ\/s1600\/susanant.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjY3BHRmHK8PDM6I6vOi66e8LP2QMhOBYfZdD6tsDWUHgM7226w6hFd_4P2tUhCOEd8nS0okjw_V1wJBluO9qoPMT6TzvqJIqr_64nmyi28buU3Kjbs4NFOTjIQK76BvJ2zBdFVRpfkhwJJ\/s400\/susanant.jpg\" title=\"\u0026quot;MY HERO! TAKE ME AWAY FROM ALL THIS!\u0026quot;\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn \u003Cb\u003EPlanet Of Giants\u003C\/b\u003E, the miniaturised Tardis crew encounter a DN6-immobilised Giant Ant. This is, it has to be admitted, an acceptable and probably even predictable plot device for this kind of story. What is somewhat less acceptable, and certainly less predictable, is the heavy recurrence of ants as a motif in the remainder of the run. Not only is Ian tortured in \u003Cb\u003EThe Crusade\u003C\/b\u003E by Ibrahim The Bandit dabbing a trail of date honey to his wrists and inviting his 'little friends' to sample the 'great delicacy' (\u003Ci\u003E\"such ecstasy!\"\u003C\/i\u003E), there's also the not inconsiderable matter of the elephant-sized ants in the room in the cumbersome shape of The Zarbi. In the second series of \u003Cb\u003EDoctor Who\u003C\/b\u003E, the Stewart Lee's True Fables-esque struggle between man and ant is as all-pervading a feature as the much more widely remarked-upon Mercury and Static Electricity. But why the sudden fear of our eusocial chums? Did David Whittaker live in constant fear of a six-legged army hightailing it out of his kitchen carrying entire slices of cake and joints of ham? Sadly, unless there are any long-lost internal memos headed 'Thirty Two Points Of Worry (Over Ants)' knocking about, we may never know.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EWhy Are There Only Eight Planets On The Time Space Visualiser?\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgkkTeu3BCYaEqofbfa0hYnUNiHz2YPhkzbrPZ-AERWqWHuIYFr6E3IAQXtQSiG98pvVv6akW48spZ5SyHKENsnk5OVNzQ9dAgeT-i7W1YUzjjcwYHCLeVPeXzBx5Q5-kOtsYJ4l_rH0HI3\/s1600\/tsv.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"221\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgkkTeu3BCYaEqofbfa0hYnUNiHz2YPhkzbrPZ-AERWqWHuIYFr6E3IAQXtQSiG98pvVv6akW48spZ5SyHKENsnk5OVNzQ9dAgeT-i7W1YUzjjcwYHCLeVPeXzBx5Q5-kOtsYJ4l_rH0HI3\/s400\/tsv.png\" title=\"Watch an unbroadcast Hardwicke House, you idiots!\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe closest planet in the Solar System to The Sun, metal and silicate-based terrestrial body Mercury was first definitively observed as far back as the Fourteenth Century. Remotely mapped several times from the 1800s onwards, it was finally subjected to modern scientific analysis when a team of Russian scientists successfully bounced a radar signal off its surface in June 1962. However, news of this clearly had not filtered through to whoever made the Time Space Visualiser that The Doctor 'borrowed' from The Space Museum. Although ostensibly allowing visual access to any moment in space and time within the solar system, it actually only features labelled controls for eight planets (including Pluto - the International Astronomical Union hadn't started saying 'aaaaaaaahhhhh' yet), with poor old Mercury missed out altogether. We can only presume that its close proximity to the sun and negligible atmosphere renders it beyond the technological reach of the TSV. Either that, or whoever designed it wasn't really taken with that Kurt Vonnegut Jr book where those splodgy things hang on the cave walls or something. And while we're on the subject...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EThe Beatles Were As Clumsily Crowbarred In As Any New Series 'Reference' \u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgpM6m11kOf49G3T38gD4poSNDhw8O_F0rnpBOTRLhFRxlibg1NL-g3CllpXYAuwoslTzxHYdvLpCrab99O2eIUMva0x9th_GGDE9UwNtxgPKgKAFfd-xHOfBkby150IFEuvsC6_Rb8Nv4L\/s1600\/beatlestsv.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgpM6m11kOf49G3T38gD4poSNDhw8O_F0rnpBOTRLhFRxlibg1NL-g3CllpXYAuwoslTzxHYdvLpCrab99O2eIUMva0x9th_GGDE9UwNtxgPKgKAFfd-xHOfBkby150IFEuvsC6_Rb8Nv4L\/s400\/beatlestsv.png\" title=\"They were really doing Carnival Of Light, you know.\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nOK, let's not set about rewriting history - not one line - as there's no escaping the fact that even by the Summer of 1965, The Beatles were ever so slightly huge. They were already an almost unprecedented two and a half years into a chart-topping career, and \u003Cb\u003ETicket To Ride\u003C\/b\u003E was not only their ninth hit, it was also their seventh consecutive number one. It was also, it should be added, taken from the soundtrack of their second box office-walloping feature film. That said, however, there's similarly no getting away from the fact that a large part of the potential audience of \u003Cb\u003EDoctor Who\u003C\/b\u003E couldn't stand the sight of John, Paul, George or indeed Ringo, regarding them as an annoyingly ubiquitous and over-lauded passing fad who weren't really distinguishable from Heinz or The Swinging Blue Jeans. At that time there was simply no suggestion that they would make such a dramatic artistic leap forwards only a couple of months later, never mind go on to change the sociocultural face of the entire world and leave a legacy that shows no signs of abating even now, and there were plenty of people out there who were heartily sick of the merest mention of the Fab Four. So when they showed up on the Time Space Visualiser in the first episode of \u003Cb\u003EThe Chase\u003C\/b\u003E, was it really any better - for a large proportion of the audience at least - than when the All-Singing All-Dancing 'New' Series gratuitously crowbars in an appearance by a reality TV star or reference to some pop favourite du jour? No, it's not. And it could so easily have been Herman's Hermits...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EWas This The First Ever 'Reboot'?\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEghoqSJ6yznaPj2WbyoHNsy__4s-jyfHrPTZ9djVVrzVFevMqfSRJIXl1sBvXLftGnpSN2J1K4GNltd3JLcahObqMENYRWQ_AO8Yfo3jGTVgvKl7I7s-mDZNnjauCLmEfEYOePYigDNiEH1\/s1600\/meddlingmonk.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEghoqSJ6yznaPj2WbyoHNsy__4s-jyfHrPTZ9djVVrzVFevMqfSRJIXl1sBvXLftGnpSN2J1K4GNltd3JLcahObqMENYRWQ_AO8Yfo3jGTVgvKl7I7s-mDZNnjauCLmEfEYOePYigDNiEH1\/s400\/meddlingmonk.jpg\" title=\"\u0026quot;It's a five-sided Dapol one - eBay here I come!\u0026quot;\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAs exciting as \u003Cb\u003EThe Dalek Invasion Of Earth\u003C\/b\u003E is, as amusing as \u003Cb\u003EThe Romans\u003C\/b\u003E is, as good as William Hartnell continues to be, as much as any given villain might make thinly veiled statements of S\u0026amp;M-tinged intent towards Barbara, even the most ardent adherent of the black and white era would have to admit that in the second series of \u003Cb\u003EDoctor Who\u003C\/b\u003E, there's an overall feeling that they were coasting on their success a bit. Except that, right at the end of the series, something very odd happens. Terry Nation's \u003Cb\u003EThe Chase\u003C\/b\u003E, another set of scripts well above the batting average, combines thrills, action and self-contained comic setpieces with a deftness that would have had the average adult series later in the Saturday schedules seething with envy. It also waves goodbye to Ian and Barbara with a beautifully light-hearted and surprisingly 'modern' montage of them pissing about in Central London, introduces new companion Steven as a much-needed mouthy know-all, and most significantly unveils The Mechonoids, the closest thing to a rival to The Daleks until The Cybermen came along, and hurls them into a literal guns-blazing battle with said rivals in a sequence that must have left the average 1965 youngster reeling, or at the very least rushing straight out into the street to 'play' Mechanus. Then the final story, \u003Cb\u003EThe Time Meddler\u003C\/b\u003E, not only introduces us to the first ever fellow renegade member of The Doctor's race in the form of Peter Butterworth as The Monk, but is also carried along on a wit and verve that has seldom if ever been witnessed before now. Even the stock footage of longships looks quite convincing, though that shot of a fox appears to hail from another somewhat grainier universe. Frankly there is too much of it going on to arrive at any other conclusion than that the production team had decided to up their game and get more in step with whatever else was grabbing the family audience at that time. Which was... um... well ITV were scheduling \u003Cb\u003EThank Your Lucky Stars\u003C\/b\u003E against \u003Cb\u003EDoctor Who\u003C\/b\u003E so... erm... had \u003Cb\u003EQuick Before They Catch Us\u003C\/b\u003E started yet? Anyway, whoever and whatever had managed to convince them to dial things up a notch, the fact of the matter is that they did, and when \u003Cb\u003EDoctor Who\u003C\/b\u003E returned after a short break, all manner of mayhem was about to break loose...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n...but we've got a slight detour to take first. So join us again next time for A Postmodern Tramp, More Base Voyeurism, Ian Singing \u003Cb\u003EThe Glory Of Love\u003C\/b\u003E, and Something About Professor Kitzel Falling Down A Plughole...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEh58OtxAplW-a2me-JdrByQbZ8-vXXXRWXuOMG39YBs3kYbyNSov6hHUwtTbm4e6HSrTfr6A9Y89MTXd7o2NZZg3xxix7ssD6Rq8Zq1e5-HAYrwsVjukMJ_KOD1rvuJSIRPOuc6g6PWNsT8\/s1600\/Dalek_fighting_Mechanoids.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"292\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEh58OtxAplW-a2me-JdrByQbZ8-vXXXRWXuOMG39YBs3kYbyNSov6hHUwtTbm4e6HSrTfr6A9Y89MTXd7o2NZZg3xxix7ssD6Rq8Zq1e5-HAYrwsVjukMJ_KOD1rvuJSIRPOuc6g6PWNsT8\/s400\/Dalek_fighting_Mechanoids.jpg\" title=\"++SHALL+WE+DANCE+CHA+CHA+CHA\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Chr style=\"background: rgb(127, 0, 0); color: #7f0000; height: 2px; width: 90%;\" \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjODCS2A3xYPiXzk3VxTgTKngMX2j2LPHSbk-DkeNjzEb_QLIFZ49I8kEyFq6v1x_pEM_G8_JFP7wjWMM1rIg02PKr-7W96nRD6sCqE-Yvezvv6lwQHQVPZR3KJnQIkEK2zQqe3g_fyRvx-\/s1600\/wellatcov2b.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1600\" data-original-width=\"1067\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjODCS2A3xYPiXzk3VxTgTKngMX2j2LPHSbk-DkeNjzEb_QLIFZ49I8kEyFq6v1x_pEM_G8_JFP7wjWMM1rIg02PKr-7W96nRD6sCqE-Yvezvv6lwQHQVPZR3KJnQIkEK2zQqe3g_fyRvx-\/s200\/wellatcov2b.png\" width=\"133\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003EAnd if you want to read a more detailed piece on \u003Cb\u003EThe Romans\u003C\/b\u003E, \u003Cb\u003EThe Crusade\u003C\/b\u003E, \u003Cb\u003EThe Time Meddler\u003C\/b\u003E and all of the other sixties historical stories, you can find one in my book \u003Cb\u003EWell At Least It's Free\u003C\/b\u003E, available in paperback \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/shop\/tim-worthington\/well-at-least-its-free\/paperback\/product-22018388.html\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E or from the Kindle Store \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Well-At-Least-Its-Free-ebook\/dp\/B01M6BBQ9J\/\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1900616647854839749\/posts\/default\/3014738592549990469"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1900616647854839749\/posts\/default\/3014738592549990469"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/timworthington.blogspot.com\/2016\/01\/its-still-police-box-why-hasnt-it_21.html","title":"It's Still A Police Box, Why Hasn't It Changed? Part Two: Koquillion It Was Really Nothing"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Tim Worthington"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/05135653945070797299"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEir5WSawHwPXHWPXucWVdkl7vIrEHsadrppC7m0BjltungMuHppwnepv4Jh4wi-tGMTLbBQGQB6-3TOtIkpTSTHTt_Id7vQi5UIHl9P6E3CcW3t9Q3qhryOKtauUSPXMUY\/s113\/profilebackup.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiNfFmvE2wsAQAlu9j6yRZRRcnjAsxfVDTkZHF8mamgw56UDvhcJRY8MAb8AOAyfD52V2AL8j2-Ucaxh3Xrv1ZGIBq8gP-P8AgdhaNR0cqw8FHQZcHnfDHdz6GSRY7irXicyFO_gRTaTOgx\/s72-c\/hartnellzarb.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900616647854839749.post-4287142669530410104"},"published":{"$t":"2015-11-04T21:03:00.001+00:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2017-07-08T11:46:33.010+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"1963"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"1964"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"daleks"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"doctor who"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"it's still a police box"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"terry nation"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"william hartnell"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"It's Still A Police Box, Why Hasn't It Changed? Part One: Breakin' Down The Walls Of Hartnell"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjs-uwb_2SGiGH8jR2LonQxKjwWIqJ8X03nw2HUTPnyx4ngRsYtG0Y6F2Tb2ygoDleMvJgbVghgyqdOejPAndufjElhJVlYP7T-RjEee0XeafCiu7KlmQ3-8yv3WPtx0YugJLzohgyT9lzR\/s1600\/hartnellpic1.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"298\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjs-uwb_2SGiGH8jR2LonQxKjwWIqJ8X03nw2HUTPnyx4ngRsYtG0Y6F2Tb2ygoDleMvJgbVghgyqdOejPAndufjElhJVlYP7T-RjEee0XeafCiu7KlmQ3-8yv3WPtx0YugJLzohgyT9lzR\/s400\/hartnellpic1.jpg\" title=\"\u0026quot;Quick Child - The Grimleys Is On!\u0026quot;\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nLet's face it, pretty much everyone in the known universe is doing their own heavily annotated from-the-start \u003Cb\u003EDoctor Who\u003C\/b\u003E rewatch nowadays. And probably everyone in E-Space too.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAnd yes, as you've probably already worked out for yourselves, I've also started doing a from-the-start \u003Cb\u003EDoctor Who\u003C\/b\u003E rewatch, only without the annotation-heavy element. There are, let's be honest about this, so many episode-by-episode story-by-story series-by-series in-depth reviews-slash-commentaries going on right now that if I launched one of my own it would basically have ended up playing \u003Cb\u003EBonekickers\u003C\/b\u003E to \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/wifeinspace.com\/\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EThe Wife In Space\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E's, well, \u003Cb\u003EDoctor Who\u003C\/b\u003E. Which is why I had actually embarked on this epic DVD Player-hogging Bellal-heavy bonanza for no other reason than sheer personal entertainment, with the idea of taking my own critical stroll through the adventures of Hartnell and company and beyond seeming so obvious and indeed pointless an exercise that it didn't even occur to me as I sat down to watch that Kenneth Williams-esque extra pull a sarky camp face at a teen mag at the start of \u003Cb\u003EAn Unearthly Child\u003C\/b\u003E for something approaching the fifty three billionth time.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAnyway, that was the plan - effectively not to even \u003Cu\u003Ehave\u003C\/u\u003E a plan beyond watching and enjoying old episodes of \u003Cb\u003EDoctor Who\u003C\/b\u003E, and just plain watching \u003Cb\u003EThe Armageddon Factor\u003C\/b\u003E. While I was watching and enjoying, though, thoughts, opinions, observations and jokes kept inevitably occurring to me, and I ended up sharing a few of them on \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/outonbluesix\"\u003ETwitter\u003C\/a\u003E. People seemed to quite like these, and a couple of them suggested that I really ought to be doing this as a series of articles. And so, erm, here we are.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nLike Sidney Newman and his disdain for 'B.E.M.'s, though, or indeed like Head of Drama Shaun Sutton demanding a cheaper approach, we need to establish a couple of ground rules first. As a bit of a break from the norm, and in the hope of coming up with something individual enough to make it halfway worthwhile, there'll be no narrative, no through-story, and no attempt a coherent episode-by-episode recycled-flying-insect-effect-by-recycled-flying-insect-effect critical analysis. Instead, it's just going to be a series of observations that occurred to me while watching. It's still going to be series by series though, because, well, you still have to have some kind of structure. Secondly, in the case of missing episodes, I'll be listening to the commercially-released audio recordings rather than watching any reconstructions or what have you - it's actually in some ways the most reliably closest thing we have to what viewers would actually have seen on various relevant Saturdays between 1964 and 1969, it's only right that there should be some hat-tippage towards the people who put so much effort into making these recordings available at a time when that was literally all that was left of the wiped material, and above all else I'm not playing Philip Morris' increasingly tedious game. Of course, there are a couple of officially released reconstructions which throw this 'rule' slightly off target, but we'll cross that bridge as and when. Finally, where relevant, I'll be covering a couple of extra-curricular projects which, in accordance with my self-defined rules and regulations which we won't be going into here, I consider to be more or less 'canon'. Yes, they are. Or rather they will be. Stop arguing.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAnyway, now that we've got all of that established, let's get straight into Series One...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EWilliam Hartnell Is The Best Lead Actor The Show Has Ever Had\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEj6OC-cuGPm8kC00saYQV8xojGJJ60Zmet2Rhn2sApmhgvn3_OFqNXG2mI36LF3Wt2MohnUmZ88euG_Z6yMEnrQ7kU1gUOPXc_xNh8s2dikVw7QHxbvRrxAFET7uAY4SXz6PoZbVKmSeUre\/s1600\/hartnell.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEj6OC-cuGPm8kC00saYQV8xojGJJ60Zmet2Rhn2sApmhgvn3_OFqNXG2mI36LF3Wt2MohnUmZ88euG_Z6yMEnrQ7kU1gUOPXc_xNh8s2dikVw7QHxbvRrxAFET7uAY4SXz6PoZbVKmSeUre\/s400\/hartnell.jpg\" title=\"\u0026quot;Eh? Doctor Who? What's he talking about?\u0026quot;\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan id=\"goog_44027150\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\nThere. I've said it. And if you want to argue, my fingers are wedged firmly in my ears. Although we're generally encouraged to think of the early black and white days as being slow, creaky and full of 'wooden' acting (as defined by the sort of people who appear to think that primetime ITV1 dramas are full of performances roughly akin to Billie Whitelaw and Keith Michell battling it out over the last remaining BAFTA in the known universe), the actual fact of the matter is that they rarely dip beneath the level of a very good stage play - and, let's face it, in some respects most television shows \u003Cu\u003Ewere\u003C\/u\u003E essentially stage plays at that point - and that, with no offence intended, William Hartnell is several leagues ahead of pretty much anyone else he shares the screen with. Almost every eccentric slip and stumble is deliberate and intentional, any actual slip or stumble - which, y'know, sometimes happened what with it being recorded as live and that - is quickly and effectively improvised around without ever breaking character, and it's no exaggeration to say that when he's in a scene, everyone else in it ups their game considerably. So the next time someone starts up about him 'fluffing' lines and the like, bear in mind that he was initially reluctant to take the role due to being a successful and acclaimed serious film actor. He did say 'EH?' a lot, though.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EThe Stock Footage Invariably Looks Awful\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiD9QMMIJeODFI0bM7oZ9r9BeNM0CN4qi2PSFPtsmXn7Az53zb7o2SeoqjBnWAHL21TkuU8QVN5e2THKRSQLQMeu9_OzMSzWOyOIlL24T6jGg5hTGj1Sbuan3AKhN2Cgrxux9hAmSfHxwM2\/s1600\/aztecthund.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"257\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiD9QMMIJeODFI0bM7oZ9r9BeNM0CN4qi2PSFPtsmXn7Az53zb7o2SeoqjBnWAHL21TkuU8QVN5e2THKRSQLQMeu9_OzMSzWOyOIlL24T6jGg5hTGj1Sbuan3AKhN2Cgrxux9hAmSfHxwM2\/s400\/aztecthund.png\" title=\"Can't wait for the BluRay.\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIt's not really surprising that the early years of \u003Cb\u003EDoctor Who\u003C\/b\u003E should have made such sprocket-overloadingly heavy use of bits and pieces of off-the-shelf film footage from other productions, as it would have been hard and indeed costly enough for an early sixties feature film to convincingly mock up, say, a thunderstorm or a pacing lion, let alone something recorded 'as live' on a handful of sets in three quarters of a broom cupboard at Lime Grove. It doesn't really help, though, when the clips they use have the sharpness, consistency, luminance and definition of an episode of the colour \u003Cb\u003EAndy Pandy\u003C\/b\u003E that's been marinaded in used dishwater infused with marscapone before being rolled down the stairs, used as makeshift dental floss, and left on top of a blast furnace for eight months. And that's even after the Restoration Team have been able to track down, clean up and neatly re-insert the original footage - lord alone knows how it must have looked back in 1963\/64. Probably still better than when some \u003Cb\u003EGrange Hill\u003C\/b\u003E pupils on videotape stumbled across some 'foxes' on crackly poorly-matched 16mm with a big tramline scratch, though.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EThe Female Characters Are Stronger And Better Defined Than Popular Opinion Would Have You Believe\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEg5Wo4X0qb4YItITzMIm_bxXhFr5KPcrUUEdHqUVz8lluYb_p2KUGL3NGcFnuedhOQA8b5NbhHEvoJZvFtMj2rLXBjMjulfm50kOxirVUo_TLtweURHyLp8EkDGpbUaFAy64v_dzeT9Va0r\/s1600\/susping.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEg5Wo4X0qb4YItITzMIm_bxXhFr5KPcrUUEdHqUVz8lluYb_p2KUGL3NGcFnuedhOQA8b5NbhHEvoJZvFtMj2rLXBjMjulfm50kOxirVUo_TLtweURHyLp8EkDGpbUaFAy64v_dzeT9Va0r\/s400\/susping.jpg\" title=\"\u0026quot;I like Zayn best\u0026quot;\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nPopular opinion - and the slightly less popular opinion of rentagob dimwits on clip shows - would have us all believe that \u003Cb\u003EDoctor Who\u003C\/b\u003E is amongst the most problematically sexist creations in the entirety of popular culture, with 'the man' dashing around solving all of the problems and getting all of the glory, and 'the girl' left to stand in the background looking pretty, screaming a bit and handing things to him when required. There are, let's be frank, parts of the show's history where this is arguably a legitimate criticism, but the first two series are not amongst them. At this point, it's worth remembering, the show had a strident young female producer and a fifty percent female regular cast, and if the Bechdel Test is your particular favoured method of measuring worth then the overwhelming majority of those nigh on a hundred episodes pass it with ease. Even above and beyond that, Susan and Barbara will often take the lead in a storyline, facing off against Daleks, ritual historical violence and even the laws of time on their own terms, and encountering all manner of well drawn and sympathetically portrayed female characters en route. Even their less Bechdel-impressing conversations are noteworthy for a television show made in the early sixties, particularly their dealings with the numerous other ladies they meet during \u003Cb\u003EThe Keys Of Marinus\u003C\/b\u003E, and Susan's celebrated chat with Ping Cho about her life and expectations in Thirteenth Century China. Most notably of all, there's a lengthy scene in which Barbara and Susan reflect with some weariness on the male characters' attitude towards them, which is unfortunately undermined when, almost immediately afterwards, a statue grabs Barbara's arse.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEimsz_y-MsxDWy_nTYoRd3-ymxZSj844Q0itZc_-n8iwIMMC5-zmid_G-CsYJ2G77TndgT-EHQVScd6HIzPLFz636fxQQHLyBsvZmgb339x-PzmYehyphenhyphenNAl8rb5XeIPKsVZ_S_i-mD-y-QML\/s1600\/barbstat.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEimsz_y-MsxDWy_nTYoRd3-ymxZSj844Q0itZc_-n8iwIMMC5-zmid_G-CsYJ2G77TndgT-EHQVScd6HIzPLFz636fxQQHLyBsvZmgb339x-PzmYehyphenhyphenNAl8rb5XeIPKsVZ_S_i-mD-y-QML\/s400\/barbstat.jpg\" title=\"This is now in my Search History. Have fun, David Camerons!!!4\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWhich is perhaps an opportune moment to move on to...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EBarbara Would Seriously Get It\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhyDyff5tEt4FHV0uBFQ_gZN-BmKcaAhqlx4jb-ETEOcQd-nc7LOIohSZ2Kq1TpdgTr9-3NwE8a_U3p4kxvG0O03ML0mezaumDfK4TB4lwZbiRso2xbrqGG6UzJoy61Ff29QMWu6mvYB_Es\/s1600\/barb1.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"288\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhyDyff5tEt4FHV0uBFQ_gZN-BmKcaAhqlx4jb-ETEOcQd-nc7LOIohSZ2Kq1TpdgTr9-3NwE8a_U3p4kxvG0O03ML0mezaumDfK4TB4lwZbiRso2xbrqGG6UzJoy61Ff29QMWu6mvYB_Es\/s400\/barb1.jpg\" title=\"She can jam down my Fast Return Switch any day.\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWell, um, we'd probably better qualify this one a bit. With very few exceptions, the focus of the 'Doctor Who Girl' has always been slanted towards the late teens\/early twenties end of the scale, with successive production teams shamelessly stating their intention to use the latest cutesy thespianically-challenged sidekick with knockers straining against her ill-tailored top for little other purpose than to get 'the dads' watching. The fact that this role was originally filled by - gasp - a thirtysomething with 'sensible' wardrobe choices and a rather dated hairstyle has always generally been dismissed by fans with a worrying undercurrent of ageism as an of-its-time neccessity that nobody in their right mind would deploy now (apart from the fact that, erm, when Russell T. Davies did it really, really worked), and hapless Barbara has always found herself conveniently omitted from lists of sexy and\/or 'icon'-leaning companions. There were to be no adolescent-friendly full-page Doctor Who Magazine posters of poor old Jacqueline Hill. But, with the benefit of a bit more maturity in both senses of the word, let's put a stop to that nonsense here and now and point out that you only have to watch for a couple of seconds to realise that Jacqueline was a strikingly good-looking woman (especially so in \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/claytonhickman\/status\/659339358298906624\"\u003Ethese early promo shots\u003C\/a\u003E unearthed by Clayton Hickman), who also, when they deign to allow her to wear something a tad more with-it, clearly, er, 'has it going on' as well. Meanwhile, once the regular characters have got past the initial prickliness about being intruders in 'the ship', Barbara also emerges as a likeable and attractive character; witty, thoughtful and headstrong, and her flirting with Léon Colbert in \u003Cb\u003EThe Reign Of Terror\u003C\/b\u003E is really rather sweet to witness. No wonder the writers of the tie-in novels were always drooling over her. And as it's in black and white, you can pretend she has red hair too. Um, did I really just say that out loud?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EThere Are Too Many Fucking Rope Bridges\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEg5G3uGSL_QMWuyJPJ3M7FKvVTl_B2IKndXRcuVZPDSsoRBc-HxDKcxLXxO-xS4PBrVOqUvjv8t1z1snLE4ummb97sYc___iP9dc__tODdDPP8RrwyDl2gAWB0Zatt81bwcrejQsF3CCVmu\/s1600\/ropebridge.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEg5G3uGSL_QMWuyJPJ3M7FKvVTl_B2IKndXRcuVZPDSsoRBc-HxDKcxLXxO-xS4PBrVOqUvjv8t1z1snLE4ummb97sYc___iP9dc__tODdDPP8RrwyDl2gAWB0Zatt81bwcrejQsF3CCVmu\/s400\/ropebridge.jpg\" title=\"\u0026quot;And I have no desire to continue to do this in my spare time. Shiver Me Timbers. Yours, B. Beard\u0026quot;\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGot twenty five minutes of Saturday afternoon television to fill? Then why not stuff huge chunks of it full of half of your regular cast and a handful of guest stars doing desperately unconvincing 'swaying' acting as they make a protracted tension-deficient meal of their attempts to traverse a hazardous chasm by performing cramped feats of trapeze artistry with dislocated bits of a rickety-looking rope bridge whilst a sound effect snarls off-screen? Even the old Republic movie serials were never this shameless about it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EThe Bit With The Ice Soldier Unexpectedly Reviving Is Extremely Effective\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi-oX3c4LHwoTYWy1UnHWWsHHwiuKL3ccphzWs-yZAttDhhs9Z6TrvnkMT2iw0mDmp_IjS2ainmFMGvF2iLTB5R3ZE2T-0onOa3BnHHitMq0okKTp6PhFPw7imzmd9v9v_Y_oGLpe_5MFkY\/s1600\/icesoldiers.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi-oX3c4LHwoTYWy1UnHWWsHHwiuKL3ccphzWs-yZAttDhhs9Z6TrvnkMT2iw0mDmp_IjS2ainmFMGvF2iLTB5R3ZE2T-0onOa3BnHHitMq0okKTp6PhFPw7imzmd9v9v_Y_oGLpe_5MFkY\/s400\/icesoldiers.jpg\" title=\"\u0026quot;WANT SOME DO YER BRACKETS ICE?\u0026quot;\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nYou can spend six months and hundreds of thousands of pounds on ambitious CGI effects, and then spend a further six months showing off about them in an endless procession of almost indistinguishable behind-the-scenes features, but sometimes you're just going to get a better result from a meticulously directed and acted sequence in which an immobile suit of armour suddenly jerks into motion in the middle of everyone else's armour-disregarding dialogue. It's also worth noting that Peter Davison claims to have been alarmed by this as a youngster - and not by The Ice Warriors as lazy clip show compilers routinely assume - which is a seal of approval that no amount of BAFTA Craft Awards can buy. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EWhy Does Everyone Have So Much Trouble With Aydan's Name?\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgbCFfMth6IR-PMfTfhSX3hfQ8MqRkfq_tk0S2L1FOeUfCdzB9q1AcczA99Igz02E5CiTA2EwZzQlXcFOgb_VhDpHNzz-PCHTfEzgnxnrjhw1Yr12DuNydYCDbYyV8p08rtwv5C73jCC02r\/s1600\/susvoord.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"236\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgbCFfMth6IR-PMfTfhSX3hfQ8MqRkfq_tk0S2L1FOeUfCdzB9q1AcczA99Igz02E5CiTA2EwZzQlXcFOgb_VhDpHNzz-PCHTfEzgnxnrjhw1Yr12DuNydYCDbYyV8p08rtwv5C73jCC02r\/s400\/susvoord.jpg\" title=\"\u0026quot;AAAAARGH SAY IT CONSISTENTLY!!!!!\u0026quot;\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIt's \u003Cb\u003ESentence Of Death\u003C\/b\u003E, episode five of \u003Cb\u003EThe Keys Of Marinus\u003C\/b\u003E, and the travellers are transported into 'The City Of Millennium' and indeed straight into a murder mystery that they seem set to wrongly take the rap for. A bigger mystery, though, is why nobody seems to be able to agree on one single definitive pronounciation of the name of actual perpetrator Aydan. Throughout the episode you'll hear a wide range of stresses, emphases and vowel sounds, with William Hartnell alone offering more than one variation. Small wonder he nearly evaded the attention of the City's finest judicial minds.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EIt's Impossible To Remember Where You're Up To With The Sensorites\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhzsWOLe8yM4mfjr8jfg5RCs3ZFlSyuJP1bmWCEmNWIWzFZV5VqoOCjONtlD2DsT0YKlxa9qCWkQQm708j6ZG7cTsE-7Xnm0c0K2QeknCHm6UBvok7QSnnfJZHF4BtvyRHNFKuEjAFGTTVs\/s1600\/sensorites.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"298\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhzsWOLe8yM4mfjr8jfg5RCs3ZFlSyuJP1bmWCEmNWIWzFZV5VqoOCjONtlD2DsT0YKlxa9qCWkQQm708j6ZG7cTsE-7Xnm0c0K2QeknCHm6UBvok7QSnnfJZHF4BtvyRHNFKuEjAFGTTVs\/s400\/sensorites.jpg\" title=\"You'll need more than a pince-nez to work out which episode you're up to, Hartnell.\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBlack and white \u003Cb\u003EDoctor Who\u003C\/b\u003E is full of stories that start well with an intriguing first episode, but quickly tail off afterwards, and nowhere is this discrepancy more evident than with \u003Cb\u003EThe Sensorites\u003C\/b\u003E. So much so, in fact, that if you opt to break up your viewing of it to an episode-by-episode basis (and, let's be blunt, that's the only way that anyone in their right mind ever would choose to watch it), you'll have a hard time remembering exactly which episode you're on. They all seem to meld into one after a while - it looks, sounds and feels more like an early sixties British sci-fi film than anything else in Series One, which is perhaps not surprising given Peter R. Newman's background as a screenwriter, but not necessarily a good thing in itself; for a start, it's almost twice the length of one of said films, and was made for less than a tenth of their already unimpressive average budget - and the end always seems to be impossibly far off on the horizon. Some fans have speculated that nobody has ever actually \u003Cu\u003Eseen\u003C\/u\u003E the last episode, and while I know for certain that I have seen it, and recently too, I couldn't tell you a single thing about it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAnyway, that's Series One, and we'll see you again soon for Series Two, starring an Inconsistent Cat, The Other Type Of Dalek Cutaway, and Far Too Many Ants...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgXgtSvOfBe_MDojSzfKr34xC1extsGZoiHfB5yIy1f8TW0e6bQsJzseLPUYQMboRwGc_Wd_JwkjARQFOBAOojh2WHd-Nj-f5BlAYZGcm2-vWsXUrnmUg8WPrxRweIqKMk9n_Eyzh-IypVz\/s1600\/susdaleks.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"298\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgXgtSvOfBe_MDojSzfKr34xC1extsGZoiHfB5yIy1f8TW0e6bQsJzseLPUYQMboRwGc_Wd_JwkjARQFOBAOojh2WHd-Nj-f5BlAYZGcm2-vWsXUrnmUg8WPrxRweIqKMk9n_Eyzh-IypVz\/s400\/susdaleks.jpg\" title=\"\u0026quot;YOU-WILL-FINISH-THAT-ARTICLE-ON-WAIT-TILL-YOUR-FATHER-GETS-HOME\u0026quot;\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Chr style=\"background: rgb(127, 0, 0); color: #7f0000; height: 2px; width: 90%;\" \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjLdTVsc72WwU24BrZCYYBzq55PhOvYGpuD_FSC-7C4MgedJ-GkvJGiOKE6u9-LY7HT4i8MntR60d0bD6jznQNz9CWAPEikF6-CtRG4Vb66tAh2QiGHx3hqBmXLzuonzTIFL5wW8PAwSvef\/s1600\/wellatcov2.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1600\" data-original-width=\"1067\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjLdTVsc72WwU24BrZCYYBzq55PhOvYGpuD_FSC-7C4MgedJ-GkvJGiOKE6u9-LY7HT4i8MntR60d0bD6jznQNz9CWAPEikF6-CtRG4Vb66tAh2QiGHx3hqBmXLzuonzTIFL5wW8PAwSvef\/s200\/wellatcov2.png\" width=\"133\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003EAnd if you want to read a more detailed piece on \u003Cb\u003EMarco Polo\u003C\/b\u003E, \u003Cb\u003EThe Aztecs\u003C\/b\u003E, \u003Cb\u003EThe Reign Of Terror\u003C\/b\u003E and all of the other sixties historical stories, you can find one in my book \u003Cb\u003EWell At Least It's Free\u003C\/b\u003E, available in paperback \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/shop\/tim-worthington\/well-at-least-its-free\/paperback\/product-22018388.html\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E or from the Kindle Store \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Well-At-Least-Its-Free-ebook\/dp\/B01M6BBQ9J\/\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1900616647854839749\/posts\/default\/4287142669530410104"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1900616647854839749\/posts\/default\/4287142669530410104"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/timworthington.blogspot.com\/2015\/11\/its-still-police-box-why-hasnt-it.html","title":"It's Still A Police Box, Why Hasn't It Changed? 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