I liked the French option from the novelisation of Curse of Fenric, because the era kind of tied in with Ace's portrait from the extended Silver Nemesis.

Thanks for all the reviews Christopher,

Should be playing some 5th Edition D&D this weekend with friends. One of their sons is now the age I was when I started playing - it's the circle of RPG life! Call of Cthulhuis my main game - big news in the RPG was the return to publisher Chaosium of company founder Greg Stafford and CoC designer Sandy Petersen.

What made the last episode worse was that it was rather a shameless rip-off of Death to the Daleks. Sarah references the city of the Exxilons even though it was Jo with Jon Pertwee in that story. Perhaps we can assume that the Doctor has regular slide shows of previous episodes for new companions. As a kid I loved…

Darker Than You Think by Jack Williamson - the Werwolves are an organised group planning on taking over the world.. but they're just so damn sexy!

We've all managed not to say 'release the Kraken' thus far, but…

This is a pretty thoughtful analysis, and as you say the idea that every side the Doctor meets is 'wrong' in some way makes for an interesting tale. There's added resonance in the fact that the dodgy gun runners are supported by a 'green' Earth organisation that has echoes of the IRA. Entertaining as a little kid…

I'll never be over property rights.

Yeah, this is really a great one if you appreciate or can at least stand the opulent design. The acting and characters are great, and you don't really want to see any of them die. Well, perhaps for Zelda. And Travis. And maybe Uvanov. But none of the others!

The telepaths breaking out comes from ITV's Doctor Who "killer" The Tomorrow People, currently being revised yet again for an unsuspecting audience. Stick to the David Bowie song Oh You Pretty Things, y'all. Mr. Fibuli comes directly from Peter Pan, increasing the Piratey-ness of the whole thing. There's also Monty…

Also showing Leela's badassery: asking the Doctor to kill her after she thinks she's permanently blind.

LORD PALMERDALE!

He's pretty good in 'Event Horizon' as well

If you think the line about the outhouse is bad, British viewers probably got more of a titter out of Jo's line: "I'm up on the slag heap with the Professor."

The story goes that Pertwee initially wanted to play the Doctor as a very dapper, well dressed gent, more like the Master with his Nehru-collared suits.  But the Edwardian suit from his attic he wore at his first photo shoot made too great an impression.    

I'm pretty sure this is also the first story I ever saw in full, even if much of it was from behind my parent's vinyl sofa.  I think I was just 4 years old when it first aired.  An excellent story, and the deliberate pacing works to its advantage.  " A possible influence on Alien" suggests the Dis-Continuity Guide. …

Try Kim Newman's 'Life's Lottery', featuring murder, incest, under-age sex, robbery, time-travel, arson, terrorism, mutilation, suicide, lottery-wining and banking.  If you cheat and read through the book sequentially , that's the only way to get the meta-narrative of the interstellar organisation going back through…

Bushmills.  That's Protestant whiskey!

Villy Vestandpants, the Viennese Vindow Viper…

"Even my sonic screwdriver can't get me out of this one!", mugs Tom Baker, staring Harpo Marx-like into our living rooms.