The Doctor Who Real Time Marathon

The Mark Of The Rani: Part One   (02/02/25) That was a much more traditional adventure than more recent outings and all the better for it! We're in Northumbria in the early 1800s, at the height of the Industrial Revolution, and in Killingworth where George Stephenson is working, and is about to hold a meeting of some of the great intellects of the day (although we haven't actually met any of these historical figures). The Doctor was about to take Peri to Kew Gardens at around the same period but the TARDIS was mysteriously pulled off course, landing them just north of Newcastle (as nearly everyone's accent testifies). This, it turns out, was instigated by the Master, who somehow survived being burned alive on Sarn. He subsequently paid a visit to Miasimia Goria, a planet ruled over my another renegade Time Lord known as the Rani. She's a brilliant Chemist, apparently, and has been visiting Earth during periods of conflict (currently monopolising on Luddite activity in t...