The Doctor Who Real Time Marathon

The Web Of Fear - Part One (03/02/08) Pretty good this week. Started off with Jamie closing the doors to the TARDIS before cutting to Professor Travers! visiting a stereotypical old Jew who'd bought a disused Jetty...sorry, Yeti from him 30 years ago. Travers wanted it back because he'd (stupidly) reactivated one of the control units. It only seems 5 minutes since we last saw Travers and the Yeti but it's great to see the series bring back another old monster aside from the Daleks and the Cybermen! I wonder if they'll bring back any more recent monsters like the Macra or the Martians? Anyhow, cut to the TARDIS trapped in space by a mysterious web, then on to the London Underground where the army seem to be trying to blow up the Yeti. The sets are fantastic - in fact all of it is, particularly the direction and the filming. The scenes with Travers and Silverstein were very Hammer Horror. My one problem was with the TARDIS landing at Covent Garden (on the Piccadilly L...

The Enemy Of The World - Part One (23/12/07) Quite an exciting episode this week! It started off with the TARDIS landing on a beach in Australia only for the Doctor, Jamie and Victoria to be chased and shot at by three blokes in a hovercraft. Cue exciting chase through the sand dunes. They were rescued by a woman called Astrid in a helicopter (who was connected with the gunmen) and taken to her bungalow. The gunmen followed them there and shot Astrid in the arm. She and the Doctor's party escaped through the back of the house and the gunmen (only two now as they accidentally killed one of their own when breaking into the house) took Astrid's helicopter (which they had shot earlier, damaging the petrol tank) to follow but the helicopter blew up (cue exciting footage from James Bond movie). Astrid took the Doctor et al. to her boss, Giles Kent, who revealed that all the fuss was because the Doctor is the spitting image of corrupt politician Salamander, a man with a dodgy Mexi...

The Ice Warriors - ONE (11/11/07) Hmmm. More ice and snow. The TARDIS has landed in a future where the Polar ice caps are advancing and threatening to destroy society (so sometime next year then!) at a station in a listed building that is bombarding the glaciers (in Scotland?) with Ions in order to hold them back. The Doctor narrowly averted a disaster and was eventually enlisted by Leader Clent as a scientific adviser, replacing his last one who's gone Scavenger with some hairy Scot! Meanwhile, one of the scientists has found a heavily armoured body out in the ice and brought it back to thaw at the research centre. However, this isn't just any old Viking (obviously) as the helmet has circuitry in it. The Doctor, Clent, Miss Garrett and the other scientists have gone off leaving Jamie and Victoria alone with the body to discuss the fact that all the women at the facility wear can-you-see-my-minge mini-skirts which shocks Victoria but clearly gives Jamie a woody (and in t...

The Abominable Snowmen - Part One (30/09/07) Not exactly action packed this week, but a more sedate, laid back beginning that seems in keeping with the Doctor's arrival at a Tibetan monastery. It seems that the previously shy Yeti (of the title) have begun attacking people, killing a British explorer at the start of the episode. His companion, Professor Travers, saw a Yeti but is now blaming the Doctor (who he thinks is a reporter after a story to ridicule him) because the Doctor's wearing a big fur coat that, unfortunately, makes him look like an Abominable Snowman. And the only reason the Doctor went to the monastery was to return their Ghanta (though what he was doing with it is anyone's guess!). Meanwhile, Jamie and Victoria have found the Yeti's cave (in which there's an odd pyramid of silver balls - eggs?) and are being attacked by its inhabitant. After the relative action adventure of the Cyberman story, this was an interesting change of pace and, whilst ...