I'll add my two cents that this is a ridiculous comment. The Golden Age of television was the 1950s; that's the Silver Age of comic books, whose Golden Age was the 1930s.

Are we being set up for a crossover episode with Doctor Who and H.G. Wells?

Took me a minute to realize you didn't mean Geordi LaForge.

As I just wrote in another thread: the script leaves a few things dangling about how the professor went out and found a "mammoth". I wouldn't be surprised if he's part of the Clara story arc.

There's definitely something up with the professor's role in this episode. He's a civilian on a Soviet ship. He went into the ice and claims to have found a "mammoth" that's bipedal and human-sized. He was taking it back to Moscow to have it defrosted, which at least implies that he knew it was still alive.

I vaguely recall that the 13 regeneration limit was retconned sometime towards the end of the classic series.

A sub with a malfunctioning electrical system at a depth of 700 meters would be pretty frickin' cold.

Try ROT13 next time.

I visited Leningrad in 1990. I brought along two cartons of American cigarettes and a gross of condoms to swap and as gifts. My much smarter friend brought a dufflebag of blue jeans, and was much more popular than I.

OTOH, this appears to be a personality difference between now-Clara and the first two incarnations of her character. No problem if it's paid off by the storyline reveal. But I feel like Oswin, while trapped by the Daleks, was much more fearless than Clara.

Or run him over with a tank, if anyone remembers Bloom County.

I'm always a bit confused by storylines like this—it seems that the humane thing for the Doctor to do would be to offer a TARDIS roadtrip. Haven't seen one yet (haven't watched all of the classic eps), so is there some sort of rule against this in-story?

I disagree—the arrival of the Martians is set up by the radio signal and the Doctor's mention that they're scattered out there. To me, the question was whether that was true, or if the Doctor knew the race was extinct and was lying in the moment.

Also in the camp of people who enjoyed Hounds. I wonder if all of us have also watched Being Human, as that actor (name escapes me) has a lot to do with the quality of the episode. And the werewolf connection between the series is a nice touch.

One of the most bizarre experiences of my life was spending three weeks in 1990 Russia, then coming home and stopping by the 24-hour supermarket near my house. I had lived with it my entire life, but so quickly after traveling my first thought was, "whoa, this is insane."

The existence of political officers embedded with the military is actual history, but American fiction tends to portray them at constant odds with the ship commanders. In reality, you didn't get to command if you weren't a loyal Communist (exceptions made during WWII), so the political officer's role was generally to…

I mistook David Warner for the actor who played the professor in "War Games", so that was a third reference I was including.

And a rather small crew during the Cold War.

I don't think Time Lords *can* be rewritten out of history. On the other hand, we've never been explicitly told whether Susan is full-blood Gallifreyan or if "granddaughter" was an affectionate name for an adopted Companion.

CVS owned People's for a while before changing over the name. People's existed in DC when I arrived in 1993; I want to say the name was changed in '96 or so.