davros « Adventures with the Wife in Space

Remembrance of the Daleks

Thanks for the memories…

Part One

Remembrance of the Daleks We begin Doctor Who‘s 25th season with Sue in her favourite new T-shirt and an atmospheric pre-titles sequence…

Sue: What the hell is this? This isn’t Doctor Who.

And then the theme music kicks in. By the way, is it just me or does the freeze-frame really irritate you as well?

Sue: Ooh, new music!

Me: No it isn’t.

Sue: Oh yes it is. And it sounds great.

Me: ...

Continue →

28
FEB

196

Categories: 7th Doctor

Tags: 7th doctor, ace, daleks, davros

Sue couldn’t wait to see this story. The combination of Graeme Harper and the Daleks was just too much for her to resist and she was dying for it. Unfortunately, we had to postpone the experiment for a couple of days because I had a temporary threshold shift. If you’ve never been unfortunate/stupid enough to experience this yourself, it’s basically a muffled, ringing ...

Continue →

10
DEC

147

Categories: 6th Doctor

Tags: 6th doctor, daleks, davros, peri

Resurrection of the Daleks

Posted by: Neil Perryman

Brave heart, Susan…

I thought long and hard about which version of Resurrection I would screen. Should I make Sue watch the two-part double-length version transmitted by the BBC in 1984, or would the four-part edit that was originally planned by the production team be a better option? I went to Facebook and Twitter looking for advice and the following exchange really made me laugh:

John Williams: If you show her the 4-part version, I’ll petrol bomb the house.

Robert Dick: Show her ...

Continue →

3
NOV

139

Categories: 5th Doctor

Tags: 5th doctor, daleks, davros, lytton, tegan, turlough

Destiny of the Daleks

Posted by: Neil Perryman

It’s the story that no one wants to watch right now…

When we heard the news about Mary Tamm last week, we were stunned. We’d both been thinking about Mary quite a lot over the last few weeks, thanks to the blog, and one of the main reasons why The Key to Time season scored so highly with Sue was Mary’s performance. Beautiful, clever, witty, resourceful, and one of Sue’s ...