The Doctor Who Real Time Marathon

State Of Decay: Part One (22/11/20) This week's episode felt more like Doctor Who than the series has in a while! I'd hazard a guess this is partly because it was written by Terrance Dicks, but it also had a very Gothic feel akin to some of the Hinchcliffe era (but better). It opened with scenes which seemed to be set in Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages with the Three Who Rule in their rather gorgeous castle and peasants in the adjoining village being taken away at a selection (including the Head Man's son). I'm guessing that the Doctor and Romana arrived some time later due to the way Ivo and the Head Guard were talking about the fate of Ivo's son. It turns out that the castle and village are the only civilisation on the planet, and the advanced technology K9 detected was because they're all descendants of a ship from Earth which passed through the CVE that brought the TARDIS to E-Space a thousand years ago. The peasants seem to live in fear of the Three Who R