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Are we still trying to get back to unit HQ?

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Hello and welcome back to Flight Through Entirety, the only Doctor Who podcast coming to you live from the Disorientation Centre.

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I'm Brendan.

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I'm Nathan.

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And I'm that thing that Tom Baker pulled out of the console that he left in the priory because I have no idea where we are.

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Where are we?

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We are in some sort of mysterious forest, not designed by Roger Murray Leach on this occasion.

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It's the Android Invasion.

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Oh, it'll be terrible.

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So this one's mine as well.

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And it's Terry Nation. is your favourite...

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Bring out the avocado mousse.

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I feel somebody's going to die.

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I always thought that was, you know, special sauce from a Mac.

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You didn't use canned avocado.

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Was there such a thing?

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So I had my checklists when we were doing the 70s Harry Nation Dalek story.

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I love your checklist.

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Can we do one again?

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I don't really have a checklist here, although there isn't a radiated planet, so I might mention.

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I made a few notes of some Terry tropes and he's like, oh, I do want to say one thing about Terry.

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And that is that is reliable.

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I really liked his stuff in the 1960s.

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I, like, a huge fan of Keys of Marinace?

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Yep.

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Even we have come round to He's America.

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Oh, I always like his...

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I like his 3 Dalek stories, 4 Dalek stories, which have like...

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Well, 3.5, really, all right.

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But they have they're different from each other.

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They have increasing stakes.

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He does, you know, rely on the same tropes, but he can keep he can keep the story going.

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I don't feel comfortable without a plague.

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We get a plague in this one.

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So since Keith of Marinus, this is his only non-dalek story.

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And it's the 2nd last story that he will ever write for the program.

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He'll come back in 1979 to do Destiny of the Daleks, which is just, you know, terrible.

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Dusting off the Daleks, yeah.

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But, you know, like I think his stories have been quite enjoyable at times and sometimes sort of terribly camp, but this one's a bit terrible. really, isn't it?

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I really like it.

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This is another example of something I mentioned last week where the Holmes Hingecliff stories will often have one NAF episode followed by 3 really good ones or 3 really good episodes followed by a NAF one.

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I think this one is in the latter.

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The last episode really lets it down.

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I'm going to start off, um, just by mentioning some terry, you give us the terry tropes?

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Surprisingly few.

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Okay.

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Compared to, say, Planet of the Daleks, or even Genesis of the Daleks had a lot more terry tropes.

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Of course, we've got the plague, the virus, check, check.

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We have an opening where there is someone acting mysterious who then dies.

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Check.

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We have an examination of that body kickstarting mystery about the plot.

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And we have a companion who twists their ankle.

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That's him but tailoring.

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Almost twister.

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So plague and radiation?

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Oh, yeah.

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Sorry, we do have the radiation as well, which is a terry thing.

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But he tries to do something a little differently with it because as opposed to the Daleks or Destiny of the Daleks, where the radiation is debilitating and slowly wears down the crew.

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Here, it doesn't really do anything.

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No, no.

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The doctor mentions, oh, there is a higher level of radiation.

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It's not too much to worry about if we're not in it too long.

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It's, I think it's a clue that he overlooks and I think it also kind of motivates what the kraals are going to do.

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So this is Terry Nation.

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It's also Barry Letts directing, as you can tell, from the sort of appalling CSO that gets used, for instance, in a...

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He loves to see also. too bad.

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What about Guy Craford's CSO cockpit?

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I'm sorry, that's pretty terrible.

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That is pretty good of pain.

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They could have stuck him against a flat in the cargo hold.

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For the listener at home.

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When is a cockpit not a cockpit?

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It's when Barry Lance is directing?

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So when Patrick McNee was forced to stand in front of the sign saying cock in during the new Avengers title sequence, which premiered this year.

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He did do.

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We're looking forward to the podcast.

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Put up a screen grab of that.

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Genesis, I think, is heavily written by Bob Holmes, rewritten by Bob Holmes.

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How much is that?

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Well, I never touched on that because it is the best Dialect story ever because they're hardly in it.

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Well, I was trying to think of it, actually, because it did have a big list of Terry tropes.

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I did look back, you know, trying to find some interviews and stuff that suggested that this was the case.

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But all I could get was just a report where Holmes and maybe Terrence Dix is Terrence Dix's commissioning stories for season 12 or he's somehow involved.

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Yeah, Terence Dixon Barry Letts came up with the concept of going back to the Dalek's origin.

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And didn't they complain to Terry that he'd just done the same thing?

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you know, like we bought this script twice.

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I think they kind of did the thing that Ian Hendry did to writers on the Avengers, where he would call them all hacks, which got them terribly wild on, so they wrote better stuff.

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And so does Bob Holmes expect Harry now to have learned his lesson and do a good job?

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And he expects Barry Letts, who's a very experienced director and who's done this a lot.

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Does he expect them, and this is what Sandra says.

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It's like, Holmes and Hinchcliffe leave those 2 alone to do the Android invasion.

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And as a result, it's a bit of a disaster.

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And, you know, like the person that Holmes chooses to rewrite.

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Like he chooses to rewrite Pyramids of Mars on one side and he chooses to rewrite Brain of Morbius, which is Terence Dix, who's pretty reliable inside of robot.

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But so, but he doesn't rewrite Nation.

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He mustn't have time.

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And so it's not very good.

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I think it's very much that.

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It's also because Brain of Morbius will talk more about this next week.

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Brain Morb has had to be rewritten by an edict from Philip Hinchcliffe.

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So, for instance, with Pyramids of Mars by Lewis Griefer, both Holmes and Hingcliffe were in agreement that the script wouldn't really work for Doctor Who.

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Right.

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Whereas for Brain of Morbius, Holmes and Dix had worked very closely on the script and they both really liked it, but it was Philip Hinchcliffe, who came along and said, oh, no, we're not doing that.

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Now we're doing this, but we'll talk about this more next time.

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But yeah, I think certainly how busy Holmes was with those 2 surrounding stories, and possibly with Planet of Evil as well, might have influenced this, but Holmes did do a fair amount of rewriting on the story.

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He actually rewrote a lot of episode 2 and three.

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See, what you don't get, you get such sort of banal terry dialogue, you know, like I really miss the incredible, uh, witticisms that you get in pyramids of Mars.

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And again, even more so embracing.

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And we haven't even touched on the trouble with Harry.

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Now a bit worried, gentlemen.

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I hope this is Todd on the way in, but who knows?

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It may be a stigrin duplicate.

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I think we should put some air back in that octahedron. floating terrariums looking, you know, a bit sealed.

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Hi, Todd, how you feeling?

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The involvement of unit in this story is quite peripheral.

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And I think it's a shame that we get to see evil, Benton, and Harry. for the most part in this their last appearance.

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And there's no real goodbye.

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Also to that.

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Colonel Faraday is a bit of a idiot.

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And I can see why Nick Courtney was not involved with this for whatever reasons.

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Are you pleased that Nick didn't come back just to deliver those lines?

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What do you think of this unit's final outing?

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I need a new lease of life.

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I must go and try the Planet of Khan.

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I hear they've got some elixir there.

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I hope I don't lose my head over it.

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This is why I loathe this story because of the wasting.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Not just the wasting of a martyr, but the wasting of John Levine at this point as well.

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That's last ever, and it's...

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It's the waste of an entire idea.

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No wonder.

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No wonder Nick Courtney's...

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I think so.

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Well, the most...

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The most bizarre thing about that is...

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Terry Nation, his scripts were a lot more heavily focussed on the Android element, the Android duplicates.

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In Terry Nation's original script, Android Harry actually actively hunted Sarah and they had lots of interaction and what have you.

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Do you know who was responsible for pulling that out?

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Robert Holmes.

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No, it was Hinchcliffe.

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Hinchcliffe said, don't push Harry so much.

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Don't push Ian.

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Oh, because we're DM emphasising him.

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Yeah, he wanted to push more of Sarah.

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It's such a terrible thing.

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What the hell was wrong with Inchcleiff thinking that in Marty's character was not, I know I'm personalised.

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He did make him.

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He admits that he's made a mistake.

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Yeah, I'm being unfair.

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But, oh, it's my, it's my one thing for this season.

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I really want Harry Simon, but...

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So here you've got Harry completely wasted and we've seen evil...

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And he doesn't mean drunk like this podcast.

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We've seen evil duplicate Harry before.

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Yeah, we have with the pitchfork. spectacular.

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Yeah, he was so good in Zygons as Evil Harry that he was cut out for the video release.

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Does any of the gentlestness remember the not the DVD, but the VHS release of Terror of Zycons.

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That whole scene with Sarah and Harry in the barn was cut to pieces because it was considered too terrifying simply because of Ian Martis' performance.

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And watch again the DVD release where it's there in full. is the best thing.

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It's beautifully done, of course, but he's good.

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He's really, really good.

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And hot.

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Did we mention that?

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kind of.

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But he's really wasted here.

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Never say no to a pitchfork list.

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Like, there's no point.

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There's no point to him being here.

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There's no point...

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No, that's exactly yeah, yeah.

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It's also awesome.

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But what we don't get is any real fun with the Androids, and we get it in episode four.

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There's a huge structural problem with the story, which is the 1st 2 episodes set up this, Earth looks like it's been invaded and it's undermined control, and there are scary androids with gunfingers, which are pay because they're fantastic.

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Like a bond finger bang.

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They're really, really good.

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They're perfect for imitating the playground.

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I think they're really funny And so that's what that's what it looks like is happening.

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And Tom goes along with that.

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That's what his theory is.

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And he comes up with a whole bunch of theories that turn out to be completely wrong.

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Like, oh, they could have been a radiation league. they could have been...

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He's nearly omniscient last year.

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Yeah, and the doctor gets it so wrong.

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Because it's Terry and he's kind of being retro and he's forgotten that the doctor knows everything sort of nowadays. he's not writing for pertwee either because he knew everything.

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Yeah, but you know, I quite I quite like that when the doctor brings up these theories, he doesn't he doesn't marry himself to any of them, you know, he kind of goes, oh, well, this could be happening.

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I'm not sure it is but it could be.

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And so what that means is for the 1st 2 episodes, everyone that we see is an Android.

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And so there are no chances of people meeting their Android duplicates.

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Then in episode 3, we're baffing around, wasting time in the crime base, and so we don't have any Android people meeting there.

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I want to call them robot replicas.

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Do you remember that episode?

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There's an episode of Press Gang by Stephen Moffatt called Unexpected, which is about a TV show called Professor X, which was really ropey that all of...

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Which actually started in these new adventures.

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I think it predates them.

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Oh, wow.

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Yeah.

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No, it's Colonel X. Okay.

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He was playing...

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Professor X is the new...

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He's played by Michael Jason, who is who is...

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And he talks about robot replicas of things.

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So I want to call these the robot replicas.

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So no one meets their robot replica because we're still faffing about on the planet aside.

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And then we go to Earth and we spend a while getting to Earth and really then it only happens just a couple of times.

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Yes.

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And the one big moment, which I thought was just fantastic and is kind of underplayed, it's there on the space freighter, somehow in 19.

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What year is this, Brandon?

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This is now set in 1976.

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So in 1976.

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We're building Britain is building space freighters to take freight into space for some reason, but whatever.

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Well, now in this new timeline in 1970.

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We had missions to Mars.

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So, you know.

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So they're probably taking freight to Mars or so.

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Still seemed.

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Anyway, it's all right.

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Don't make any sudden noises, Richard.

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1975.

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I know what I was doing in 1975.

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What were you doing?

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Watching Molly Meldrum on Countdown and being embarrassed.

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I do apologise.

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It is now set in 1975.

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Previously, it was said in 1980 with Crayford having gone missing in 1978.

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It is now set in 1975 with Crayford having gone missing in 1973.

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The reason we know this is that the calendar the doctor finds has a 1973 date structure.

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Do you know the bridge...

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It does actually only have one day repeated over and over again.

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Friday, July the 6th.

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Only happens in 1973.

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But we need to say that if we just look at the real world for a moment.

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British telemetry, because I am a nerd, was leading the world.

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NASA was not thought to be the 1st people in space.

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We haven't even got to the whole fact that the Nazis were running NASA because Verner von Brown was, in fact, a major in the SS, and they were a blood cult, and there is a whole conspiracy theory that is backed up by people who are actually working in NASA. that Von Brown's team were deliberately delaying the space program for the Americans because they've all had the same uniforms and they were all doing the same stuff.

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It's very much like the Masons.

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My great great great grandfather was one of the triumvirate of the Australian Freemasons.

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So it was one of the top 3 which is pretty terrifying in itself.

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And so I've seen a little bit of literature on it, and the stuff that I've seen in the family archives is that it's a blood cult, just like the SS.

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They're all based on the book of Zion, the books of Zion.

242
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And indeed, and I'm digressing, however, where I'm coming from is that?

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This stuff is not...

244
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This theory is crazier than...

245
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No, it's actually true.

246
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And if you really, yeah, there's some firsthand stuff of the, yeah, the Nazis were running the early American rocket program.

247
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However, the British space program itself, the Brits were far more ahead in rocket telemetry than the Yanks before all of this was happening.

248
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Um, it was thought in the 50s and early 60s that Britain would, in fact, be the 1st people to land a man on the moon, and that was a genuine thought, that was not something in the popular press that was actually thought by the government and by the, the, the, the hit boys that beat.

249
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No, it's true.

250
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It's actually only Kennedy's speech that we will land a man and then his deaf in 63, that made, for all you want to say against Lyndon Bane Johnson.

251
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For all you want to say against Nixon and LBJ, they thought, no, no, if we want to keep the American dream alive, we need to be 1st on the moon.

252
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But Britain was looking very likely, they were able to far more accurately power their engines and power, telemetry, of course, is the science of getting a rocket to where you want it to be, far more ahead than the US.

253
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Um, there could have been a British space program.

254
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And okay, we're already in the twilight of that.

255
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But in the 60s, it was very much a real thing.

256
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And there were viewers who were watching this who would have remembered that British aeronautics and British space program was.

257
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It was a possibility.

258
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Absolutely, way back when, in Doctor Who, in an exciting adventure with the Daleks, instead of being a school teacher.

259
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Ian Chesterton was on his way to be interviewed for a job making rockets. right.

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I have a copy of it right.

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I got him reading it.

262
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Well, so the point that I was about to make.

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We never segue now.

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Before we headed off somewhere.

265
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There were Nazis, it was really good.

266
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It was like back in the college bunker. right.

267
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This whole season, no, last season was just full of Nazis.

268
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It's very present.

269
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What I was about to say is there is a moment when we're in the space freight, and this is where we jumped off from, isn't it?

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Where, you know, those sort of terrible pod things that look like dogs' noses, you know, the pod.

271
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Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

272
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They look like fronts of really crushed up e-type jags.

273
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Yes, yes, it must have been a nasty accident.

274
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And the doctor gets up and looks out, but the other doctor is in the foreground.

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You sort of think, oh, great.

276
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We're actually going to have people meeting their robot replicas, but it doesn't actually happen until episode four.

277
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And there are some good scenes where it happens.

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There's that scene where the doctor's in the office with Colonel Faraday and Harry, and he brings out the robot detector and it detects both of them as well as the doctor, the robot doctor who comes in to confront them.

279
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That's terribly fun and funny.

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And the doctor, you know, finally defeating and sort of trying to beat up his robot replica is all very fun.

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But even when the robot replicas turn up, Basically, before we even get to see it happen, they knock out their counterparts and substitute for them.

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So there's no people confronting their robot replicas at all and the whole thing is sort of terribly dumb.

283
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It is a wasted opportunity.

284
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And yeah, it's especially, it's disappointing again for Harry and Benton that they're so easily subdued, you know.

285
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And, of course, um, Nick Courtney is not available, so we get Colonel Faraday plays by...

286
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Who's terrible?

287
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Plays by... played by Patrick Neal, who played Mother.

288
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This is the mother, but it's a...

289
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Yeah, this is the thin stage of his career.

290
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Yeah, because he used to be very, very big.

291
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At this stage, he's, I think, in his late 30s or early 40s, he's actually quite young.

292
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Is he only that young?

293
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Yeah, I thought he was much older, but no, for his health, he was told after the Avengers team.

294
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He really am.

295
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Yeah, slimmed out.

296
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In the 1968 69 series with the Avengers with Linda Force, and he played their boss in a wheelchair.

297
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Fat bloke in a wheelchair.

298
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Or Ironside, really.

299
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It was actually a reflection.

300
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It was a trigger on.

301
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It was bloody terry nation because he thought that they don't have a boss.

302
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How does this series make any sense?

303
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It was more interesting than we didn't know.

304
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That being said, he's very good as mother.

305
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Yeah, he's lovely.

306
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He doesn't get a chance to do anything here.

307
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I have a feeling, you know, it was meant to be Nick.

308
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It's Barry Lett's directing.

309
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Barry just probably pointed and said, you know, walk that way, walk that way.

310
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It's quite tragic with Patrick Neal, really, because he was mother in the Avengers and that really...

311
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Yeah, and it really sent his start rising and he started to get lots of work.

312
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But he had to lose the weight for his health.

313
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So he lost the weight.

314
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But people were casting him because in the frame, he's the fat bloke. you know, you notice him.

315
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People weren't noticing him when he lost weight all through the 70s.

316
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He was only getting sporadic work.

317
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So towards the end of the 70s, he said, bugger it. put the weight back on.

318
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In 1984, I think it was.

319
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He did one of the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes, and it was one of his last productions after he'd put even more weight back on.

320
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And he died of a heart attack.

321
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You know, it's it's quite several.

322
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But he's not good in this at all.

323
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Ian McNee, you're listening.

324
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Yes, we can.

325
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He's sadly not good in this at all.

326
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It's not his fault, though.

327
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No, do you know why it's not, that's not good because this story, I wonder if there's a little bit of underhand poker playing, a little bit, a little bit of poker face.

328
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Do you think barriers deliberately sabotaged?

329
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No, I think Hinchcliffe and Holmes are?

330
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I think they're saying if you really miss this early 70s viewer, if you think it was better back in the pertweed day, we're going to show you why it wasn't.

331
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We're going to let Barry have his hand.

332
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And we're going to give you a 70 story so much so that we're actually going to give you Stepford Wives and Westworld and all those other stories, including the Avengers stories when every 2nd episode was about a village deserted and the hour that never was.

333
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Is that the story, Brendan?

334
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Yeah, it's really this, I think this is actually the worst of the season.

335
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I think it is too, but can we mention, we're contractually obliged to mention Sandafar.

336
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And what Santa says about terror, the Zygons, is that it is actually a pastiche of the pertwy era, but it's really done well.

337
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What they don't do is do a crummy story and say, look at that, that's what the purty year is like, that's why it doesn't work.

338
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What they do is a really good, enjoyable story, which nevertheless shows that the show has sort of progressed beyond the person.

339
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Yeah, like, this is how we do this story now.

340
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So now, what happens, therefore, is that this comes across as a really just a pale imitation of terror of the zygons.

341
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Can I do a checklist?

342
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Yeah.

343
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We're set in a small village.

344
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There's a hidden camera for the aliens to monitor the villages located in the park.

345
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There's a hidden alien base nearby.

346
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The aliens are mostly represented by a single male character who's a villain in a rubber mask.

347
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The aliens created duplicate Harry and some other duplicate people.

348
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The aliens home planet is gone or becoming uninhabitable and they want to invade the earth.

349
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So this is a sort of crummy version of Zygons, and it just doesn't have any of the wit and charm that Zygons had.

350
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But what it does have.

351
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And I think this is worth saying in all fairness is what it does have is some pretty spectacular moments.

352
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Yeah, it's it's great for Tom and Liz wandering around the countryside.

353
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Mind the bramble.

354
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Oh, I said mind the bramble.

355
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Which was a throw in line.

356
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Yeah.

357
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Oh, you know, all their really good stuff is throwing lines.

358
00:22:51.420 --> 00:22:56.819
I watched the DVD with the production subtitles on and practically every location scene with the 2 of them.

359
00:22:56.880 --> 00:23:13.680
There was a subtitle to the effect of Tom Baker and Elizabeth Sladen. reworked a lot of their scenes with a shoot, which is a polite way of saying, and we actually had a sample of some terri nation dialogue, the doctor going, eeny, meeny, miny, mo, replaces the doctor saying, let's see where we are.

360
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Scintillating, Terry.

361
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Well done.

362
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Yeah, it's it's not good.

363
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And I'm gonna raise something else.

364
00:23:20.880 --> 00:23:23.460
Maybe you were going to race that's a terrible thing.

365
00:23:23.519 --> 00:23:24.599
But what?

366
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What are unit doing at the research centre?

367
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The brigadier has an office there.

368
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They knew they didn't have the brigadier.

369
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Why keep that in?

370
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Why not have Colonel Faraday as the commanding officer there?

371
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And Benton and Harry were just there for 2 weeks to see off the space program because unit were there the last time we sent a rocket up.

372
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And that's how Crayford knows where they are.

373
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But to have Crayford know the brigadier, but not well enough to create Nander a duplicate of him, but he can know Colonel Faraday, who's presumably only there occasionally to fill in for the brigadier while the brigadier in Geneva, where if we were in the original timeline, he would have been retired by now. anyway, I do not know.

374
00:23:59.460 --> 00:24:02.700
And that's my that's actually my main problem with this story.

375
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I'm easily pleased.

376
00:24:05.880 --> 00:24:16.259
I mean, there are fun things that I've already mentioned the finger guns in the Androids, but I think, you know, the Cliffhanger to episode 2 is really like it's crummy.

377
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It's stupid.

378
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It's stupid.

379
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Like their face is full off the Androids when they roll over.

380
00:24:20.759 --> 00:24:25.619
Slayden sells it It's the exact scene from step for wives, yeah.

381
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And I'm not talking about the truly ontological threat that is Nicole Kidman.

382
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If you look at the original, it's really...

383
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Oh, this is the children.

384
00:24:36.000 --> 00:24:37.200
Oh, I didn't know they did a rematch.

385
00:24:37.259 --> 00:24:38.640
Yeah, it's pretty bad.

386
00:24:38.700 --> 00:24:39.359
It's great.

387
00:24:39.420 --> 00:24:41.519
It's just John Windham in apotheosis.

388
00:24:41.579 --> 00:24:50.339
But the $6000000 man does Day of the Robot and there was a doll figure of called Maskatron, which I have in a box here.

389
00:24:51.240 --> 00:24:55.799
That is very much a Guy Crayford type Androidy.

390
00:24:55.920 --> 00:24:57.779
Oh, they never made a copy of Guy Crayford.

391
00:24:57.839 --> 00:24:58.440
They didn't really need to.

392
00:24:58.500 --> 00:25:01.740
Why the hell does he think he can't see?

393
00:25:01.799 --> 00:25:04.259
And again, Nicholas Courtney?

394
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Why the eye patch?

395
00:25:05.700 --> 00:25:12.539
Yeah, so that's, I actually found some video and if I can find it, I'll put a link to it in the show notes.

396
00:25:12.599 --> 00:25:16.680
They actually interview Milton Johns himself, and I think some other people are...

397
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He's the best thing in this.

398
00:25:17.700 --> 00:25:20.400
Yeah, well, like, he was great as Bennett.

399
00:25:20.460 --> 00:25:23.640
Remember him in Enemy of the World, where he was like evil sadistic?

400
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Monster.

401
00:25:24.240 --> 00:25:25.980
He was wonderful, really terrific.

402
00:25:26.039 --> 00:25:29.579
I think he's I think he's really good as Crayford, despite the eye patch thing.

403
00:25:29.640 --> 00:25:32.880
You know, that's, that's, that's a script slaw. rub than an actor flaw.

404
00:25:32.940 --> 00:25:37.980
For instance, very early on when Stigren wants the doctor alive and Crayford argues with him.

405
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I was thinking to myself why does he do that?

406
00:25:40.259 --> 00:25:42.599
And it's Stockholm Syndrome.

407
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He has become so indebted to his captors that he doesn't want competition.

408
00:25:47.640 --> 00:25:56.700
Well, in fact, we get that, you know, the scene is it in episode 3 where Crayford comes into the doctor and Sarah's cell to deliver some exposition. good in that scene.

409
00:25:56.759 --> 00:26:00.119
You know, the nervousness and the twitchiness of a character.

410
00:26:00.180 --> 00:26:00.660
He's so good.

411
00:26:00.720 --> 00:26:10.259
And they will get him back in a couple of years time to basically reprise the role of someone under control of sort of potato-headed aliens.

412
00:26:10.799 --> 00:26:12.960
I mean, he is really funny.

413
00:26:13.019 --> 00:26:14.579
We haven't exhausted that yet, have we?

414
00:26:14.640 --> 00:26:17.279
No, there's still 2 doctors to talk about.

415
00:26:17.880 --> 00:26:22.799
So, yeah, look, I mean, he is he is okay, I guess.

416
00:26:22.859 --> 00:26:25.319
So but what about the eye patch?

417
00:26:25.380 --> 00:26:28.740
Well, I mean, that's the stupidest thing that ever happened, isn't it?

418
00:26:28.799 --> 00:26:30.059
Is it the stupidest thing?

419
00:26:30.119 --> 00:26:30.900
I think it actually is.

420
00:26:30.960 --> 00:26:33.000
It's even...

421
00:26:33.119 --> 00:26:38.579
Like, you know, it's even stupider than Horace's policy for furnishing suited, prison sales.

422
00:26:38.700 --> 00:26:40.619
Because, you know, you could even kind...

423
00:26:40.619 --> 00:26:45.000
You could even kind of hang a lantern on that of, you know, in Egyptian culture.

424
00:26:45.059 --> 00:26:47.640
You bury people with things they need in the afterlife.

425
00:26:47.640 --> 00:26:49.259
Like bomb.

426
00:26:49.319 --> 00:26:51.839
Missiles, robots.

427
00:26:51.839 --> 00:26:54.900
This was his favourite explosive device.

428
00:26:55.740 --> 00:26:57.299
That's it.

429
00:26:57.359 --> 00:26:57.900
Brilliant.

430
00:26:57.960 --> 00:26:59.519
He loves that, actually.

431
00:26:59.579 --> 00:27:01.920
He loved that a siren war missile.

432
00:27:01.980 --> 00:27:04.440
Used to take it to the park on picnic.

433
00:27:04.500 --> 00:27:06.660
Speaking of Su Tech, she's jumping around us at the moment.

434
00:27:06.779 --> 00:27:09.299
She's feeling much better off. after she threw up this morning.

435
00:27:09.359 --> 00:27:11.160
Yes, all over Sitics too.

436
00:27:12.359 --> 00:27:13.980
That's right.

437
00:27:14.279 --> 00:27:17.940
I actually think the Kral's plan is pretty stupid as well.

438
00:27:18.000 --> 00:27:18.720
Oh, yeah.

439
00:27:18.720 --> 00:27:20.099
When do we start?

440
00:27:20.160 --> 00:27:22.319
I quite like the stupid villains.

441
00:27:22.380 --> 00:27:31.799
We have a plague that affects kraals as well as human beings, so maybe their technology doesn't stretch to a plague that only affects human beings.

442
00:27:31.799 --> 00:27:33.599
Or indeed immunisation.

443
00:27:33.720 --> 00:27:35.220
Yeah, that's right.

444
00:27:35.279 --> 00:27:36.960
So they're having a giant panic about it.

445
00:27:37.019 --> 00:27:38.160
They're all going to Harry.

446
00:27:38.160 --> 00:27:42.059
Harry robot replica is pouring the water and he has a giant pan.

447
00:27:42.119 --> 00:27:43.319
Out of the Vaseline jar.

448
00:27:43.380 --> 00:27:45.299
Yeah, it is a Vaseline, doesn't it?

449
00:27:45.359 --> 00:27:47.759
And Zari let's put it in a crinoid pod.

450
00:27:47.819 --> 00:27:53.099
Which looks fine from a distance, and Barry lets decides to give her a close-up, where you can very clearly see it's a Vaseline job.

451
00:27:54.480 --> 00:27:58.859
So we've got that. then it's not airborne or anything.

452
00:27:58.920 --> 00:28:01.079
No, you've got it's got to be contact.

453
00:28:01.799 --> 00:28:03.299
Yeah, contact or injure water.

454
00:28:03.539 --> 00:28:05.880
Yeah, do you think they were going to put it in the water?

455
00:28:05.940 --> 00:28:08.460
It's a monster, they put it into a doctor's water.

456
00:28:08.519 --> 00:28:11.940
It's a monstrous thing when Sarah almost drinks the water.

457
00:28:12.000 --> 00:28:14.339
It's too close, Philip Hinchcliffe.

458
00:28:14.400 --> 00:28:15.000
But that's okay.

459
00:28:15.059 --> 00:28:16.740
She gives a guard a good stiff jolt.

460
00:28:16.799 --> 00:28:17.880
She really does.

461
00:28:17.940 --> 00:28:23.220
In fact, she rescues the doctor no less than 3 times in this story and it is a bit of a departure for Terry.

462
00:28:23.279 --> 00:28:28.859
You know, he does include, at least include one ankle twist, you know, but she is actually pretty proactive.

463
00:28:28.920 --> 00:28:30.660
And in fact, I think it's a pattern.

464
00:28:30.720 --> 00:28:36.539
I think that Sarah, this season rescues the doctor vastly more times than he rescues her.

465
00:28:36.599 --> 00:28:37.200
You do.

466
00:28:37.200 --> 00:28:37.559
She does.

467
00:28:37.619 --> 00:28:39.539
You can say it now, Richard.

468
00:28:39.599 --> 00:28:41.400
What's this show becoming?

469
00:28:41.460 --> 00:28:43.019
The event.

470
00:28:43.019 --> 00:28:44.099
It's becoming the event.

471
00:28:44.160 --> 00:28:47.279
But don't forget, this is a very much Avengers Terry Nation story.

472
00:28:47.339 --> 00:28:52.140
This has more filmed outside broadcasting than any other story, this season.

473
00:28:52.200 --> 00:28:55.319
It really chewed the budget. paired down.

474
00:28:55.380 --> 00:29:00.299
It's 9 minutes into the 1st episode before we're on videotape. do like that.

475
00:29:00.359 --> 00:29:00.900
It does look good.

476
00:29:00.960 --> 00:29:02.460
I love...

477
00:29:02.460 --> 00:29:03.420
I love that opening.

478
00:29:03.480 --> 00:29:04.740
Yes, when the doctor comes in.

479
00:29:04.799 --> 00:29:06.119
The locations are lovely.

480
00:29:06.180 --> 00:29:08.579
You think we're finally going to get a holiday for them?

481
00:29:08.700 --> 00:29:12.720
There is 31 minutes of film in this episode.

482
00:29:12.779 --> 00:29:14.819
Is that why she takes a while?

483
00:29:14.880 --> 00:29:15.359
to come back.

484
00:29:15.420 --> 00:29:16.680
Yeah, I think you know what?

485
00:29:16.740 --> 00:29:22.619
I think it is because Philip Hinchcliffe made him take a lot out and that's the paired down version.

486
00:29:22.619 --> 00:29:24.059
And that is why we will see next week.

487
00:29:24.119 --> 00:29:26.519
Brian of Morbius is entirely in the studio.

488
00:29:26.579 --> 00:29:29.460
That's the only way Philip could rationalise it in the budget.

489
00:29:29.519 --> 00:29:37.559
But it works so well, not that I'm going to predicate Brandon Morbius, but Brandon Morbius is BBC Shakespeare.

490
00:29:37.619 --> 00:29:41.400
And it's performed exactly the same way as the Shakespeare's we had to watch.

491
00:29:41.460 --> 00:29:44.400
You know, I'm going to say something in praise of this story.

492
00:29:44.400 --> 00:29:51.960
And it's because it's not because we'd particularly criticise this story because this story deserves a lot of the criticism it receives.

493
00:29:52.019 --> 00:29:54.420
I still enjoy it because it's got Tom and Liz running about now.

494
00:29:54.480 --> 00:29:55.200
Yeah, fabulous.

495
00:29:55.259 --> 00:29:56.160
They're really good in this.

496
00:29:56.220 --> 00:30:06.299
But I do think that the twist that we're not on an earth that's been invaded by aliens, we're on a training ground for a species that's going to invade us.

497
00:30:06.359 --> 00:30:09.900
I think it's possibly Terry Nations cleverest plot twist.

498
00:30:09.960 --> 00:30:12.839
However, it's Danger Man's episode Colony 3.

499
00:30:13.019 --> 00:30:15.000
It's also every scene of the prisoner.

500
00:30:15.059 --> 00:30:16.500
It's the invasion.

501
00:30:16.559 --> 00:30:18.059
Invasion of the Earthmen.

502
00:30:18.059 --> 00:30:21.539
Invasion of the Earthmen, which was the 1st script Terry Nation wrote for the Avengers.

503
00:30:21.599 --> 00:30:24.299
However, it doesn't have a terrible rubber snake.

504
00:30:24.359 --> 00:30:30.480
It is, the other problem with it is it just goes to show that basically everything that's happened for 2 episodes doesn't matter.

505
00:30:30.539 --> 00:30:32.400
And I think that's a problem.

506
00:30:32.460 --> 00:30:37.619
And also episode 4 is really, really heavily compromised in terms of quality, you know.

507
00:30:37.680 --> 00:30:38.700
By the end of the story.

508
00:30:38.759 --> 00:30:41.400
You're like, why are Harry and Benton in this story?

509
00:30:41.460 --> 00:30:42.779
Why did we mention?

510
00:30:42.900 --> 00:30:43.619
Why did we?

511
00:30:43.680 --> 00:30:50.940
Really, it's a tease for the 1st episode where we see the Brigadier's office. is a tease that Nicholas is going to be there and he's not.

512
00:30:51.000 --> 00:30:52.500
It's it's in...

513
00:30:52.559 --> 00:30:55.019
I not going to say it's insulting to the viewer, but it's very rude.

514
00:30:55.079 --> 00:30:58.619
It's like it's like saying, please come to my house for a party.

515
00:30:58.680 --> 00:30:59.819
I'm going to have delicious pizza.

516
00:30:59.880 --> 00:31:01.500
I've been serving everyone kale salad.

517
00:31:01.559 --> 00:31:03.059
Can I?

518
00:31:03.059 --> 00:31:06.119
Can I?

519
00:31:06.180 --> 00:31:08.579
Hey, kale salad's fine on its own, but not when you're expecting pizza.

520
00:31:08.640 --> 00:31:09.900
No, it's monstrous.

521
00:31:09.960 --> 00:31:11.819
Can I say something about part four?

522
00:31:11.880 --> 00:31:15.720
Part 4 is after 11 episodes.

523
00:31:15.779 --> 00:31:22.680
The 1st time a woman speaks on camera apart from Sarah.

524
00:31:22.740 --> 00:31:28.980
Yep, so there are no women uh in, there are no women guest cast in Planet of Evil.

525
00:31:29.039 --> 00:31:31.319
Gosh, that Liz Slatin was a greedy book.

526
00:31:31.380 --> 00:31:37.980
There are no female guest cast in, there's no female guest cast in Pyramids of Mars.

527
00:31:38.039 --> 00:31:42.960
In episode one, a truck pulls up and no less than 6 women, I think.

528
00:31:43.019 --> 00:31:45.420
Well, maybe 5 or 6 we don't get out of it.

529
00:31:45.480 --> 00:31:46.680
But they don't really say anything.

530
00:31:46.740 --> 00:31:52.740
And then we get Tessa, who might actually be like Indian, I think, and she does do a slight accent.

531
00:31:52.859 --> 00:31:56.579
And she is played by the wonderfully named Heather Emmanuel.

532
00:31:56.640 --> 00:31:57.720
Yeah, she's fan.

533
00:31:57.779 --> 00:32:00.839
So I thought possibly she may be New Caledonian also.

534
00:32:00.900 --> 00:32:03.000
Oh, okay, I don't know, to be honest.

535
00:32:03.059 --> 00:32:05.759
Well, whatever, but it's a woman who's speaking on camera.

536
00:32:05.819 --> 00:32:08.339
She's got no discernable personality traits.

537
00:32:08.400 --> 00:32:15.539
She's really there just to read off the computer like Sigourney Weaver and Galaxy Quest, but she's at least there and they don't make her make the coffee.

538
00:32:15.599 --> 00:32:17.220
And yet, she's clearly educated.

539
00:32:17.279 --> 00:32:23.460
You know, she's working as a radio astronomer or tracking a spacecraft landing.

540
00:32:23.519 --> 00:32:26.759
It actually kind of throws back to ambassadors of death.

541
00:32:26.819 --> 00:32:30.900
When we had...

542
00:32:30.960 --> 00:32:39.839
We had that one, we had that wonderful woman in Ambassadors of Death, who, even when like the Recovery 7 was about to crash, Recovery 7 approaching reentry.

543
00:32:39.900 --> 00:32:40.859
I loved her.

544
00:32:40.920 --> 00:32:42.000
Yeah, she was great.

545
00:32:42.059 --> 00:32:48.059
I'd just like to mention before we move on, you know, this is a story that is far less than the sum of its parts.

546
00:32:48.119 --> 00:32:49.559
There are lots of great little moments.

547
00:32:49.619 --> 00:32:56.579
The doctor's gadget that he uses to scan for radiation at the beginning. the same gadget that Patrick uses to test the electrified rails in the web of fear.

548
00:32:56.640 --> 00:33:00.119
The doctor says 300 years ago I would have recognised this pod.

549
00:33:00.180 --> 00:33:02.759
It's a Kraal invention, 300 years ago, he was Patrick.

550
00:33:02.819 --> 00:33:03.599
Yeah.

551
00:33:03.599 --> 00:33:05.099
Patrick could have met the Kraals.

552
00:33:05.160 --> 00:33:06.119
That's kind of nice.

553
00:33:06.180 --> 00:33:07.859
I like the design of the kraals.

554
00:33:07.920 --> 00:33:09.599
The masks are a bit too restrictive, but oh, well.

555
00:33:09.660 --> 00:33:12.299
They're obviously wine weed, though.

556
00:33:12.359 --> 00:33:13.740
I love the latex.

557
00:33:13.799 --> 00:33:16.559
Mark, and when someone gets tied to a bomb.

558
00:33:16.559 --> 00:33:18.000
I mean, I like that.

559
00:33:18.059 --> 00:33:19.980
Yeah, it's good when someone gets thrown to a bomb.

560
00:33:20.039 --> 00:33:22.740
Did you know this this Divsham?

561
00:33:22.799 --> 00:33:23.339
It really is.

562
00:33:23.460 --> 00:33:28.140
In reality, the BBC's training ground for directors and cruise?

563
00:33:28.200 --> 00:33:34.440
It was where they went and sent them and yeah, they did little fake shoots around the woods and then they vaporised it.

564
00:33:34.500 --> 00:33:36.420
Yeah, they did in general, they've April. yes.

565
00:33:36.480 --> 00:33:40.920
It's also in robot, the same, the same area is used as, as OB for robot.

566
00:33:40.980 --> 00:33:43.920
Harry has an iPad in episode two.

567
00:33:43.980 --> 00:33:47.759
He's got this sort of iPad shaped thing that he's tapping away on.

568
00:33:47.819 --> 00:33:49.740
I mean, that's evil, Harry.

569
00:33:49.799 --> 00:33:53.640
I like that Crayford is Stigren's pet.

570
00:33:53.759 --> 00:33:58.079
It kind of evokes Plan of the Apes without directly ripping it off.

571
00:33:59.640 --> 00:34:01.980
Crayford is Stigren's pet.

572
00:34:02.039 --> 00:34:03.359
Yes, too.

573
00:34:03.359 --> 00:34:04.319
Did I say Stigran?

574
00:34:04.319 --> 00:34:05.160
or Soutet.

575
00:34:05.160 --> 00:34:07.259
I want to be Stigran's pet.

576
00:34:07.559 --> 00:34:09.780
No, you really don't.

577
00:34:10.500 --> 00:34:16.019
It is the most SM relationship we've seen in Doctor Who for, oh, at least a month.

578
00:34:17.219 --> 00:34:21.119
But yeah, it all...

579
00:34:21.119 --> 00:34:24.059
Actually, actually, since Scarman and Sue Tech.

580
00:34:24.119 --> 00:34:27.000
I'm the only Sutex bitch around here.

581
00:34:27.059 --> 00:34:28.139
You won't get a chance.

582
00:34:28.199 --> 00:34:31.860
I'll steam those shoulder pads straight off your jacket.

583
00:34:31.920 --> 00:34:33.360
And he does.

584
00:34:33.420 --> 00:34:36.480
I'm very glad that Julian, or was it?

585
00:34:36.539 --> 00:34:43.679
Sandy came back then, Richard, because Kenneth Williams mentions the Android invasion in his diary.

586
00:34:43.679 --> 00:34:47.219
In one night of television, he calls the Good Life terrible.

587
00:34:47.280 --> 00:34:51.480
Porridge disgusting. and declares that Doctor Who gets more and more silly.

588
00:34:51.780 --> 00:34:55.679
I have nothing to say against that. fair enough.

589
00:34:55.739 --> 00:34:57.719
It's a travesty.

590
00:34:58.500 --> 00:35:01.440
Why Sarah wearing a scarf again?

591
00:35:01.619 --> 00:35:03.599
Yeah, would that just say?

592
00:35:03.719 --> 00:35:04.199
Yeah, that's right.

593
00:35:04.320 --> 00:35:12.059
She's thinking about the scar and how nice it is and how much she needs... when she's being replicated.

594
00:35:12.119 --> 00:35:13.559
Yeah, it's that moment.

595
00:35:13.619 --> 00:35:14.760
Is that our is that our tag?

596
00:35:15.840 --> 00:35:20.280
It's that moment from Star Trek, what are little girls made of when Kirk being duplicated?

597
00:35:20.340 --> 00:35:25.500
So he decides to think really racist thoughts, which will give the duplicate away. right.

598
00:35:25.559 --> 00:35:27.599
He starts reciting himself.

599
00:35:27.659 --> 00:35:29.760
Mr. Spock, I'm sick of your half-blooded interference.

600
00:35:47.940 --> 00:35:52.920
And on that note, we've come to the end of our journey from...

601
00:35:52.920 --> 00:35:56.099
Oh, it's Sidon to Devesham.

602
00:35:56.159 --> 00:36:08.519
We're heading back off into space now, soon to be drawn off course and brought down by the combined power of more women that you can shake a stick at, plastic small, silver sprayed necklaces for the next episode.

603
00:36:08.639 --> 00:36:10.199
And teapots on their heads.

604
00:36:10.260 --> 00:36:11.099
It's all fabulous.

605
00:36:11.159 --> 00:36:13.320
Are you doing the eye goggle right now?

606
00:36:13.380 --> 00:36:14.460
I'm doing it.

607
00:36:14.519 --> 00:36:16.980
I'm wearing them now, dear listener.

608
00:36:17.039 --> 00:36:26.579
Until then, please check us out online at FTE podcast on Twitter, flight through entirety.com or flight through entirety on Facebook and iTunes.

609
00:36:26.639 --> 00:36:29.039
That's Soutec saying, please leave us a review.

610
00:36:29.099 --> 00:36:34.079
But until then, I'm off to powder my face, so I'll just take it off now and good night.

611
00:36:34.139 --> 00:36:35.039
Good night.

612
00:36:35.099 --> 00:36:36.059
Good everything.

613
00:36:37.679 --> 00:36:39.840
You have been missing.

614
00:36:39.840 --> 00:36:41.280
It's so too embarrassing.

615
00:36:41.340 --> 00:36:43.800
Nathan Budley, Brendan Jones and Richard Stone.

616
00:36:43.920 --> 00:36:49.619
This episode, just full of Nazis, we were recording on Sunday, the 5th of June.

617
00:36:49.679 --> 00:36:57.300
The next episode to be released on August 23rd, before you activate your hostility circuits, checking bondfinger.com.

618
00:36:57.360 --> 00:36:58.860
Then you'll really be annoyed.

619
00:37:02.280 --> 00:37:06.239
People generally think that No, let me try this again.

620
00:37:06.360 --> 00:37:07.920
People generally think.

621
00:37:08.039 --> 00:37:08.940
Do they?

622
00:37:09.000 --> 00:37:10.260
Generally.