All Of Time And Space Podcast

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All of time & space. Everywhere and anywhere, every star that ever was, where do you want to start? A #DoctorWho podcast hosted by @MarkCockram.bsky.social @TheIainMartin.bsky.social https://anchor.fm/alloftimeandspace

The book taught young me that green scaly rubber people are people too, and the TV version is Doctor Who’s moral centre, still resonating more than half a century later. But also: it’s so exciting on screen! The cast and characters are superb. Best Third Doctor story for me.

Contemporary perspectives on early #DoctorWho are always interesting. Here reviewer Peter Quince suggests that on the evidence of its second ever episode the series is “now lost and gone for ever”, despite the promise of its first. Harsh words. From the Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 7 December 1963.

A newspaper cutting reviewing the second of episode of Dr Who and the Tribe of Gum. The reviewer is happy to accept the time travelling police box but not cave people arguing about fire. He concludes as detailed in the post.

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Anthony Carroll says great story. Brilliant location work. Great character. Feel dr Quinn as have been in more episodes. Maybe it is one episode too long (like lot of 7 parters). Pleasing death count Only quibble is music. The horns the horns! 8/10

That’s properly exciting news! Because I love Spearhead and Inferno (and had the DVDs / tapes long before the others in the season) this story and Them Bastards of Death (I think that’s the title) always feel a bit newer and I’ve seen them fewer times. But loved this one, especially …

That's what makes the ending land. Because before this, the Doctor might have done what the Brig does at the end and blow them up (see Seeds of Death). We suddenly have a new moral code for our hero and maybe the series as we know it begins here thanks to Hulke and Dicks.

The Doctor's immediate acceptance of the Silurian at Quinn's house is a big turning point in the show's history. This Doctor isn't one who's immediately going to blast the aliens. He's the one who will try and understand their points of view.

I do like this story but it contains something that really makes me groan. A plague solved in a few minutes by a genius with a test tube. If public health had Dr Who and Liz Shaw working for them, we’d all live to be 200. However, I absolutely adore the batshit crazy music.

I like it. Most of it, anyway. The parts with the plague spreading are really creepy, and the deaths unpleasant, especially Peter Miles, a brilliant "There's nothing wrong with ME?!!!" moment. I don’t think the Brigadier had much choice at the end. I like the relationship between the Doctor and Liz