That trailer gives the date of the story as 2000! That's when it was
originally planned to take place with the invasion starting in 1980, but
they changed it to the 22nd century fairly late. I guess I can see why.
It would basically be saying to all the kids at home "Hey this is what
your adult lives will be: death or…

I loved that Barbara essentially threatened a Dalek by saying "We humans have…. SCIENCE!" The Dalek freaks out at this point and it's not surprising. If science got anywhere near the plan to hollow out the Earth the whole thing would fail.
The Doctor talks about 'life energies' inside the Earth and the powers of…

I'm halfway through Blake's 7 at the moment and so far it's fantastic. It's like the anti-Star Trek: the future is grim and humanity is just as nasty as ever. It makes 70s Doctor Who look big budget by comparison though. (Doesn't bother me though.)

But kids still like them, the toys still sell and the media went into hysterics when Moffat announced ONE year without them. There's a perception that Doctor Who is the programme with the Daleks which are a British Institution. I think Moffat is using them as little as he can get away with.

Dalekmania was first and big enough to warrant two movies. But then rival channel ITV started showing Adam West Batman head to head against Doctor Who and pretty much won. Doctor Who's ratings sunk so low by the end of the 60s that it nearly got cancelled. It was decided to reinvent Who (on a lower budget) and to make…

I wonder how much The Mara(s) was screwing with things less obviously by influencing the colonials. Sleep is one way The Mara can get to you (it has a more drastic effect on Teagan because of where she falls asleep) but The Mara is also linked to insanity. It seems to need an altered state of consciousness. Since the…

I've seen this three times now as an adult and understood more and got more out of it each time. It's now one of my favourite Who stories ever. I actually like the way things are left open to interpretation.

Also, the 'look at Leela! She's STUPID!' jokes really grated, especially as it out of nowhere turned out to be her last story. Terrible send off. Plus the big build up of the villains (tin foil be damned! I was really caught up in the story and forgive the SFX. I thought it was going for a sinister beurocrat type of…

You forgot the masked serial killer. I love Black Orchid. I was fully expecting it to turn out the same as usual, but the way it panned out was one of the most surprising twists in Doctor Who. In the same season as Adric exploding it added to the feeling that anything could happen.

I'd go with Black Orchid over The Visitation for the Fifth. Black Orchid is an oddity, whereas Visitation just seems like the really bog standard story in the middle of the season. I can't imagine what I'd say about it beyond 'it was okay'. Am I missing something?

But Graham Norton is already The Doctor's arch enemy!

I don't think we call the holders of master's degrees master here in Britain either. Never made the connection before. I just assumed it was short for Quizmaster and he hosted a gameshow.

I always thought the 90s novel explanation that there just happened to be two Nehru wearing devilish facial haired renegade Timelords who had weird friendly hatred relationships with The Doctor completely convincing.

I used to love the novelisations when I was a kid. The town and school library had them (plus the main library had some audios tape versions). They were the only way to find out what I'd missed. I've been a bit disappointed sometimes by stories not being as good as I thought they would be on screen. I totally prefer…

Agreed, it was wildly cleverer and darker than the after school 'drama'. I hated that stuff as a kid and loved Doctor Who because it wasn't talking down to me. (This was 1981 when I was 4/5 years old onwards). It was indeed more kiddy at other times as I've found since. I doubt that I'd have liked the non-Hinchcliffe…

It's cool that both of you found each other.

Oh shit. Just rewatched and the time all at once thing happened during Impossible Astronaut! So why does Amy remember pirates (the drawings) and River's identity? AAAARRRGGHHH!!! 
Working theory: All of time is happening at once so eyepatch Amy is from the future. That's the best I have.

It's a more subtle running joke than "Why do you always have a dildo?"

I did too. If it was intentional it was very cool.

Far less so than The Master. That guy is Wile E. Coyote with a beard. Only without the beard now. So just Wile E. Coyote.