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The Doctor Who Real Time Marathon: Leviathan

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Leviathan: Part One   (15 /02/26) Wow! Now that was good! It shouldn't really be a surprise that, with the success of Robin Of Sherwood  on ITV, a story like this was proposed. Right now, in some other universe, Robert Holmes would have got as far as scripting Yellow Fever And How To Cure It  and Big Finish no doubt would have adapted that to great acclaim (I'm sure) and I'm listening to the Sixth Doctor and Peri battling the Autons in Singapore with possibly the Master or the Rani or both involved, too, but I honestly don't think it would have been a patch on this story - or the first episode, at least.  The influence of ITV's Robin Hood drama is very clear from the start. The TARDIS arrives in what appears to be a Medieval English woodland to witness Gurth (I wonder how he got that name!), a young local, being hunted by Herne the Hunter and a pack of dogs. Peri, at this point, looks up the history of Herne for context, leaving out the part that the figure of Brit...