First UNIT
Jan. 21st, 2015 08:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rich_jackoA few people have been asking when I'm going to do another Doctor Who evening. How does Saturday 31st January sound? (That's ten days away, not this coming Saturday.)
We'd be watching a double-bill of Patrick Troughton epics from 1968. I've chosen them as they feature the first appearances of one Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart and UNIT, but they are also absolute classic stories in their own right.
4.30pm: The Web of Fear
In order to escape an attack in space, the TARDIS makes an unscheduled landing and ends up deep inside the London Underground. Here, the travellers soon find themselves engulfed in a thrilling battle with the Great Intelligence and the Yeti, a deadly enemy set to invade the Earth. But as events take a turn for the worse, it becomes clear that the golden prize is not just the Earth, but the Doctor's mind too...
7:00pm: break for food
7:45pm: The Invasion
Investigating the disappearance of an eminent scientist, the Doctor and his companions follow his trail to the London headquarters of International Electromatics, a global supplier of electronic equipment, run by the formidable Tobias Vaughan. Teaming up with the newly-formed United Nations Intelligence Taskforce (UNIT), under the command of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, it soon becomes apparent that Vaughan is working to his own sinister agenda. As Cybermen invade in cities all over the world, can the Doctor convince Vaughan to help him defeat their plan for global domination?
11:00pm: end
Sadly, a great many of Patrick Troughton's episodes are, as the BBC euphemistically puts it, "currently missing". Whilst most of each of these two stories are intact, one episode of "Web" is reconstructed with telesnaps and two episodes of "Invasion" with animation. This shouldn't spoil your enjoyment though. The animation in particular is very well done by Cosgrove Hall. All the reconstructed episodes use the original TV audio tracks.
Please let me know if you're planning to come along. Turn up from 4pm.
We'd be watching a double-bill of Patrick Troughton epics from 1968. I've chosen them as they feature the first appearances of one Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart and UNIT, but they are also absolute classic stories in their own right.
4.30pm: The Web of Fear
In order to escape an attack in space, the TARDIS makes an unscheduled landing and ends up deep inside the London Underground. Here, the travellers soon find themselves engulfed in a thrilling battle with the Great Intelligence and the Yeti, a deadly enemy set to invade the Earth. But as events take a turn for the worse, it becomes clear that the golden prize is not just the Earth, but the Doctor's mind too...
7:00pm: break for food
7:45pm: The Invasion
Investigating the disappearance of an eminent scientist, the Doctor and his companions follow his trail to the London headquarters of International Electromatics, a global supplier of electronic equipment, run by the formidable Tobias Vaughan. Teaming up with the newly-formed United Nations Intelligence Taskforce (UNIT), under the command of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, it soon becomes apparent that Vaughan is working to his own sinister agenda. As Cybermen invade in cities all over the world, can the Doctor convince Vaughan to help him defeat their plan for global domination?
11:00pm: end
Sadly, a great many of Patrick Troughton's episodes are, as the BBC euphemistically puts it, "currently missing". Whilst most of each of these two stories are intact, one episode of "Web" is reconstructed with telesnaps and two episodes of "Invasion" with animation. This shouldn't spoil your enjoyment though. The animation in particular is very well done by Cosgrove Hall. All the reconstructed episodes use the original TV audio tracks.
Please let me know if you're planning to come along. Turn up from 4pm.
