The Doctor Who Real Time Marathon

The Hollows Of Time: Part One   (08 /03/26) So, we're back with the stories which were actually  commissioned for Season 23 and this one, by former Script Editor Christopher Hamilton Bidmead, is a doozy! This follows his previous form as a script writer on TV where each script improves on the last, from the dire Logopolis  to the vastly superior Castrovalva  to the brilliant Frontios , and gives us an engaging mystery in a quaint English village which turns out to be a sequel to his last story and sees the return of the Tractators. Sort of. Because we've not actually seen any yet - well, not full ones, and not especially alive  ones, either. Arriving in the coastal village of Hollowdean on the premise of visiting the Doctor's friend the Reverend Foxwell (who used to work alongside Alan Turing as a code breaker), the Doctor and Peri encounter a cult who follow the mysterious Professor Stream (Stream? Why, that's an anagram of...!). The Professor, it seems, also w...

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...