Really enjoyed it: some great moments and good writing that had some easter eggs for fans but wasn’t impenetrable for non-fans. Solid piece of Who. Thought it was cheeky to name two characters after William Hartnell and his wife, Heather, but it was a nice touch.

This is magnificent - great job!

Dominic and Billy on the commentaries are the most fun ever.

“Personal isn’t the same as important.”

I’m an Ian Banks... but probably not the one you were expecting.

The stuff about the Doctor being a major figure in the universe that everyone knows and loves goes back to the New Adventures in the early/ mid-90s and is suggested at in some of the McCoy stories in the classic run: Curse of Fenric and Greatest Show in the Galaxy hint that the Doctor is a near-mythical figure in some…

Where did the Doctor put his sushi? Other than that, looks like a good fun Christmas special.

Captain Laserbeam is missing from this list:

Anyone else thinking that Kyle McLachlan is prepping for a part in a Ronald Reagan biopic?

It is 65: TV stations like to block their years by quarters of 13 weeks. If they can block a show into a regular schedule of five times a week for a quarter, it needs to have at least 65 episodes before it can be considered as something they can set and forget. Until the next quarter.

Came here to say exactly that. Only noticed it when I realised that the Hero of these stories is usually the “only” person with ties/ skills/ beliefs that embrace all the disparate castes. And that there are few characters who are only a few years older than the protagonist and that the age gap between the hero and…

Tom Baker recently said in an interview that he auditioned as Saruman but wasn’t willing to commit to spending several years in New Zealand.