There's always the old joke about how everyone rips off Doctor Who. The Borg saying "resistance is futile" can be traced back to the Cybermen and Daleks saying "resistance is useless" twenty years earlier. And so forth. It's so ingrained in science fiction culture that people borrow and steal from it without even…

Yeah, it's hard to think of very many stories where people don't get killed off: Edge of Destruction, and um… It's a family show, but it's awfully blood thirsty. People get killed and eaten left and right. Basically it takes a story where they don't even get out of the TARDIS to change that.

As long as these Classic Doctor Who reviews keep coming, I'm happy. Also note how the upcoming reviews have a month and not a specific date. Setting the expectations broadly doesn't seem like a bad idea.

In other Doctor Who news, what about the following recent whiplash: Netflix is dropping Doctor Who, no wait it's keeping Doctor Who, now it's Amazon Prime that's dropping Doctor Who! Was this some kind of expiring contract and a bid for an exclusive deal?

Yeah, I've been looking forward to the next post too. Hopefully we'll at least get an update about what is going on—family illness? Dog ate the computer? Trapped in a pocket universe?

I imagine it would involve a lot of dirty ASCII.

Hey, is Blake's 7 available in the States in any format? DVD, streaming, uh VHS…anything? I saw bits and pieces of it on PBS back in the day, but I would love to go back and watch the whole series. I've never been able to find it.

You make a good point about the format we watch these programs in nowadays. They were intended to be seen once on a smaller screen than most modern screens. The BBC basically didn't do reruns in the 1960s or 1970s. (If I recall correctly, they did exactly one Doctor Who repeat before 1980—when the Second Doctor…

In terms of the "collect the widgets" plot style, I'm glad that the classic series generally avoided this. That series works best when the plot has a chance to develop. It never worked well in shorter formats: most two-episode stories are painful to watch, so trying to tell a story in less time would be even worse.

It depends on how they use the Joker in this film. The New 52 Suicide Squad has Harley Quinn front and center. The Joker could appear in a cameo or flashback: Harley and the Joker try to rob a bank, Harley gets caught, then gets recruited to join Suicide Squad. That would be fine. On the other hand, if they make…