Episode 2
So Maudlin
Saturday 21 June 2014
It’s 1964, and Brendan, Richard and Nathan take on the back half of Season 1: The Keys of Marinus, The Aztecs, The Sensorites and The Reign of Terror. More Barbara! More Billy-fluffs! More German Expressionism!
Buy the stories!
The Keys of Marinus (Amazon US) (Amazon UK)
The Aztecs (Amazon US) (Amazon UK)
The Sensorites (Amazon US) (Amazon UK)
The Reign of Terror (Amazon US) (Amazon UK)
The all-important topics of Architecture and German Expressionism.
Brendan’s happy censorship music is The Girl From Ipanema.
Cathy Gale from The Avengers!
Witness for the Prosecution, directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Marlene Dietrich.
Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs and Steel (Amazon US) (Amazon UK)
Cornell, Day and Topping’s Discontinuity Guide: The Aztecs.
The online Doctor Who horoscope that Brendan mentions is at tardisday.com.
BroadDWCast, a comprehensive online guide to worldwide transmissions of Doctor Who. And if you want to know even more about Australian broadcast dates (and why wouldn’t you?), you can go to this page on Gallifrey Base.
Paul McGann’s Susan audios, including An Earthly Child, Relative Dimensions, Lucie Miller and To The Death. (These last two are McGann’s Season 4 finale, so: spoiler alert!)
The Manchurian Candidate, directed by John Frankenheimer.
Carole Ann Ford stars (oh, okay, appears) in The Day of the Triffids, and in The Great St. Trinian’s Train Robbery.
Picks of the week
Nathan: Tat Wood and Lawrence Miles’s seven-book series, About Time: The Unauthorized Guide to Doctor Who (Amazon US) (Amazon UK).
Brendan: The Wonderful Book of Doctor Who 1965 (Not 1964. Sorry.)
Richard: David Whitaker’s Doctor Who novelisations: Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks (Amazon US) (Amazon UK), Doctor Who and the Crusaders (Amazon US) (Amazon UK).