Respecting the viewers, and me! "The War Games" is nearly five hours long—even a four-parter is the length of a feature film, and this one's the size of a miniseries. I'm sure there's enough there to talk about in two columns.

Ringham is interviewed on one of the DVD extras, and candidly admits that he was channeling Laurence Olivier far more than he realized he was doing at the time. I don't mind - without the way he played Tlotoxl, this one would have been a lot less fun.

I think you'll find that both those guys are actually pen names for Donald Westlake.

Absolutely. And Cooke really gets what makes the original novels tick, too.

"Sacred Ginmill" is a classic, one of my favorite crime novels by any writer. It's even better if you read the earlier books also, because the cumulative weight of Scudder's problems really bear down on him in "Ginmill."

I'll be back! Nothing's been killed.

"War Games" is so crucial I felt like I should get to it sooner rather than later. It's hard to talk about the Time Lords without it. Six and Seven are going to return, don't worry.

And it's probably time to get Six and Seven back into the rotation. My system's just about recovered after the three-week nausea-fest of "Twin Dilemma," "Time and the Rani," and the TV movie.

I have no particular end date in mind - I just haven't nailed down what the screening schedule is after Nov. 6. "City of Death" will probably be the next Tom Baker, and "Horror" is definitely on my list also, but probably will want to jump to some other eras first.

I hadn't considered that, but it makes sense. And you can add to the evidence for it that the Cyberleader's console seen above is hexagonal, like another familiar machine's. I just wish the actual on-screen explanation had been better.

Maybe, maybe. There's still a *lot* of TV to cover, but there's some interesting material out there, much of which I've barely explored. I liked "Shalka," and the web-cartoon version of "Shada" is pretty good too.

The total extent of the explanation:

It's definitely not always an act, which I like. There are times when Troughton's Doctor panics when there's nobody else around to watch him, except of course us.

I've had this idea bouncing around in my head for a couple of days about a Dalek version of William Butler Yeats, but so far I've only come up with this:

@Lovecraft: Will you settle for the David Agnew episode?

Yeah, for sure. But since they're so steeped in nostalgia, I'll wait until more of the earlier shows are written up. That's one reason I'll wait on "Remembrance of the Daleks" as well.

That's a good idea. It'd probably make sense to fill in the middles some more before taking on the endings (so that the moment can be prepared for, y'know), but I'll keep it in mind for later.

I don't have the facts in front of me, but my understanding is that Doctor Who had a budget that was comparable to a soap opera, which was problematic because traditional soap operas could use the same sets/costumes/etc. over and over again, whereas Doctor Who had to come up with a new alien planet every four to six…

And I might add…
What are YOU doing here?

The YouTube clip calls it "In This Land," but now that you point that out I think it's probably mistitled. (They also spell his name as "Davies.")