The Dead Planet Sue: What’s this one called then? Me: ‘The Dead Planet’. Sue: How many episodes is it? Me: One. Sue: Excellent. Me: Well, I say ‘one’. You’re not supposed to know. The episodes have individual titles, which means you wouldn’t have known when one adventure might end and another would begin. A story…
An Unearthly Child Sue: Eh? This was Sue’s first reaction to the episode. She absorbed it in complete silence, except for an early aside where she vaguely remembered who Dixon of Dock Green was. Me: Is that all you’ve got? Sue: I thought it would be a lot longer than that. Of all the opening…
I blame Toby Hadoke and Rob Shearman. I was reading their wonderful Running Through Corridors book when I was inevitably inspired to watch Doctor Who from the beginning again. I’ve attempted this feat several times before, of course, but I usually crumble in the middle of The Sensorities, and if I cheat and jump to…