Doctor Who evening next Saturday
Mar. 29th, 2014 08:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rich_jackoThere seems to be an appetite for more Doctor Who evenings, and I've had a request for more featuring the earlier Doctors, so let's have an evening's triple bill from near the end of William Hartnell's era:
Doctor Who - the end of the beginning
Next Saturday (5th April), my place from 4.00pm.
4.00pm: The Chase - The third Dalek adventure, and a delightfully bonkers one it is. The monsters from Skaro chase our heroes across all time and space, from the desert planet Aridus to the top of the Empire State Building, from a mysterious sailing ship to a haunted house, and finally to the planet Mechanus. It's also the end of the road for original companions Ian and Barbara, who had been in the show since the very first episode.
6.45pm: break for food
7.30pm: The Time Meddler - Following immediately on from The Chase comes the series 2 finale, significant for another reason I can't say (Spoilers!). The TARDIS apparently lands in Northumbria in 1066, but if so, why is a Saxon hunter wearing a modern wristwatch? Investigating a nearby monastery, the Doctor discovers further anachronisms. Who is the mysterious monk, and why is he so interested in the Battle of Hastings?
9.15pm: The Tenth Planet - A piece of history this, the 1st Doctor's final story, and the Cybermen's first. (I also want to watch it in tribute to Derek Martinus, the director, who passed away this week.) The TARDIS arrives at the South Pole in the near future (*ahem*) of 1986, at the same time as Earth's forgotten twin planet Mondas appears, along with its metal inhabitants. (The final episode of this is animated, since the original is - as the BBC optimistically puts it - "currently missing".)
Hope to see you here!
Doctor Who - the end of the beginning
Next Saturday (5th April), my place from 4.00pm.
4.00pm: The Chase - The third Dalek adventure, and a delightfully bonkers one it is. The monsters from Skaro chase our heroes across all time and space, from the desert planet Aridus to the top of the Empire State Building, from a mysterious sailing ship to a haunted house, and finally to the planet Mechanus. It's also the end of the road for original companions Ian and Barbara, who had been in the show since the very first episode.
6.45pm: break for food
7.30pm: The Time Meddler - Following immediately on from The Chase comes the series 2 finale, significant for another reason I can't say (Spoilers!). The TARDIS apparently lands in Northumbria in 1066, but if so, why is a Saxon hunter wearing a modern wristwatch? Investigating a nearby monastery, the Doctor discovers further anachronisms. Who is the mysterious monk, and why is he so interested in the Battle of Hastings?
9.15pm: The Tenth Planet - A piece of history this, the 1st Doctor's final story, and the Cybermen's first. (I also want to watch it in tribute to Derek Martinus, the director, who passed away this week.) The TARDIS arrives at the South Pole in the near future (*ahem*) of 1986, at the same time as Earth's forgotten twin planet Mondas appears, along with its metal inhabitants. (The final episode of this is animated, since the original is - as the BBC optimistically puts it - "currently missing".)
Hope to see you here!
