It's got a few things going for it.  After the crap production values of season 17, it at least looks good.  The makeup on Ancient Tom is pretty good too.  And it never fails to crack me up when one of the blueberries falls off an Argolin's head cone.

It's like the inverse of "Underworld".

It's even easier than usual to forget dialogue about Adric in this serial, since he's so absolutely inessential to the plot.  I suppose his wandering through the void flipping a coin is thematically important, but other than a bit of exposition about the ship's dwarf-star alloy and his MZ-assisted rescue of the rest…

The opening tracking shots through the ship's interior do an amazing amount of world-building for something almost entirely devoid of actors and dialogue.

Don't fuck around.  Start with 10yo Laphroaig.

Don't fuck around.  Start with 10yo Laphroaig.

Split in half.  Douse with butter.  Broil cut side up.  Eat.

I laughed an awful lot at the sketch with Kate Hudson and Maya Rudolph in the Japanese version of "Laverne and Shirley".  I was stoned out of my mind at the time, so it probably wasn't an entirely objective judgment.

Some places do, some don't.  Last month, a woman in Connecticut walked into a police station with a staggeringly rare WWII German rifle.  It wasn't part of a buyback, but if it had been, the department stated that they would have had to destroy it.  That seems incredibly dumb.  Not many survived the war, and the thing…

They probably shouldn't destroy all the guns.  People often turn in rare and valuable historic firearms for a $50 Walmart gift card or whatever.  The police should hold those out and sell them to collectors for fair market value.  The proceeds could be used to fund more buybacks.

How much extra would it cost to throw in the screenplay?  It's like four pages of dialogue, and most of that is "I gotta change the jets."

Long shots of Pertwee running are hilarious, since he has such an odd gait.

They got a little more experimental with the titles in season 7, didn't they?  There's the strangely-named "Doctor Who and the Silurians", the extra sting in "Ambassadors" and the lava sequence in "Inferno".

I believe the copy I have is a VHS rip from an older release, which was partly colorized.  After the first episode, it randomly changes between B&W and color every few minutes, which makes for an interesting viewing experience.

The Christmas gateau St. Honore turned out splendidly this year.  I remembered to put the second packet of gelatin in the wonderfully rummy chiboust rapide, so it stood up nicely, and the double recipe of pate a choux made for a few extra cream puffs.

I'll take whatever missing Troughton I can get, even if it's censor clips from "The Space Pirates" dubbed into pidgin Urdu.

I'll take whatever missing Troughton I can get, even if it's censor clips from "The Space Pirates" dubbed into pidgin Urdu.

And Jo Grant, Queen of the Upskirt.

And Jo Grant, Queen of the Upskirt.

Maybe it's not quotable, but damn near everything that came out of Strax's mouth was pure gold.