The Doctor Who Real Time Marathon

  EARTHSHOCK  (Part One)  08/03/2022  Well, that was rather brilliant! The Cybermen are back and (from what we saw) they look pretty amazing! The episode focused on a a military expedition investigating the disappearance of 7 Palaeontologists and Geologists in a cave system on Earth somewhere. One survivor, Professor Kyle, directed the group who were shadowed throughout by a couple of black, amorphous androids. One by one, several were picked off by the androids and turned to mush until the main group encountered the Doctor, Nyssa and Tegan in the cavern where Kyle's group were originally attacked (and killed). Earlier, in the TARDIS, Adric aired some of his problems to the Doctor who didn't take it well. To be frank, I totally support Adric. The Doctor, in his new incarnation, has had fuck all time for Adric and treated him quite badly. I fully understand how Adric must feel having had his life tutor taken away, and the Doctor's reaction was incredibly petty and chi...

BLACK ORCHID  (Part One)  01/03/2022  Well, we're back in Earth's history again! This time it's June 1925 and everything's gone a bit Agatha Christie. The TARDIS has materialised on the platform of Cranleigh Halt train station and the Doctor et al. have been picked up by the chauffeur of Lord Cranleigh believing them to be there to play in a charity Cricket match (I expect that's going to come back and bite the Doctor on the arse!). Not only that, but Nyssa is the spitting image of Lord Cranleigh's  fiancée, Ann; yes, it's a doppelganger story. And not only that  but there's been a murder! A mysterious stranger (who I suspect is Lady Cranleigh's supposedly dead eldest son, George) is being kept bound in a secret bedroom at the top of the manor. He's guarded by a native South American, Brazilian given that he's been reading Portuguese, who has the most embarrassingly realised lip plate I've seen (to be fair, it's the only fake lip plat...