Those won't be a problem at all. Many of the Key To Time stories stand up perfectly well on their own, and the first one, "The Ribos Operation," is one of the best the series ever did.

> both stories suffer from the fact that the main plot is resolved in equally facile and unsatisfactory ways

> avoid doing that entire Davros run in order;
> it might get redundant.  Maybe alternate other stories in there?)

"Deadly Assassin" limits it to 12 regenerations. Pretty sure that's where the idea of limits came from.

If I remember right, it was more like that it was a shapeshifter that usually preferred to stay in the shape of a penguin.

Would you accept "the penultimate section of the serial," including those four parts as the last half of the War Zone section of the story?

You're right. Serves me right for not looking it up. I'll correct it in the article when I have a moment.

Which kinds of ends the argument right there, doesn't it? (Where does he state it? Do you remember offhand?)

Impressive list! Got any links for these?

I'll state the cases for and against as I see them in the next installment, but I'd love to hear more opinions from either side.

And Madoc is also Solon in "Brain of Morbius," which is *also* one of the best performances in the show's history.

OK, first of all, thank you for being interested enough to want to read about episodes from nearly 50 years ago that were never actually made. I hadn't read about "Farewell Great Macedon" before, but I do love the idea of the Doctor meeting Alexander the Great and Ptolemy. Someone's put a teaser trailer for Farhi's…

People keep requesting it, though. And it's better than "Timelash" or most of "Trial of a Time Lord." There's not much else to choose from for Six.

No, it makes sense to watch them together. It's just that they should have been even more strongly connected than they are, or why even try to connect all six stories?

Well, I'll be upping my pain medication to get ready for the Sixth Doctor shows again, so maybe I'll watch "The Gunfighters" then.

The problem with "The Key To Time" is that, despite being set up as a season-long arc, the actual connecting elements are fairly thin. What it needed to connect everything was a villain opposite and equal to the Doctor who was working for the Black Guardian in search of the Key—which it did bring in, but only in the…

Yeah, I plan to write up "Keys of Marinus" relatively soon, but it's past time for me to get to some of the First Doctor episodes post-Susan - all four of my Hartnell writeups have been about shows with the original crew. ("Time Meddler" next, I think—anyone have a particular suggestion instead?)

"Greatest Show" is on the shortlist, as is "Vengeance on Varos," "Ghost Light," and "Curse of Fenric." The two Dalek movies kind of fall outside the purview of TV Club, but I'd certainly love to write them up. Maybe after I run out of Hartnell-era TV stories for this column? It's a decision for the editors who are…

Yeah, I've heard that theory before. Not entirely sure I want to believe it (especially since as far as I know the two characters were considered different people by Who's writers at the time), but it does bear thinking about.

Yeah, me either. I think they're interesting to discuss, but they're not spoiling my enjoyment of the show. (And in case it didn't come across above, I did really like "The Wedding of River Song," despite my frustration at the lack of dramatic closure.)