I am rewatching all of Doctor Who in order, and I'm still in the first season but the costumes are wild

Some of the episode titles are amazing though

I have now reached the one where the TARDIS gets miniaturised, which is BRILLIANT. This is the first cliffhanger

(The second cliffhanger is - "And then he pulls the plug out of the sink...")

Have just reached an episode that features Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth I, Abraham Lincoln, the Daleks AND the Beatles.

It contains a reference to the Beatles having a memorial theatre in Liverpool, which in 1965 is clearly written as a joke, but now very obviously isn't

My nerd pilgrimage has now reached the 2nd Doctor. When I was a baby nerd, only five 2nd Doctor stories - out of *21*! - existed. You can now buy 14 on DVD, and there's another one out next year. It is sort of amazing.

also, let's be honest, this wouldn't have happened if Doctor Who hadn't turned into one of the biggest franchises into the world for a bit, so thanks RTD I guess

Although not quite big enough for me to have persuaded anyone to pay me to write about this, so swings and roundabouts

Got to the end of the fourth season, when the Doctor destroys the Daleks once and for all. Phew! Thank god that's happened.

Just hit a cliffhanger in which the army blows up a tube tunnel, and honestly I have never been scared of Doctor Who before, but this

"Cannon Street and Tower Hill have gone now." "That just leaves... the Monument." *dramatic music*

Honestly this one could have been written specially for me, they look at the map and everything.

So there's a point in the late 60s where the production team of the show with the most flexible format every devised just start making the same story over and over again and expect everyone not to notice. It's weird.

Isolated high tech base, check. Paranoid commanding officer, check. Monsters, chekc. Security chief, check - in one of these stories there's a security chief in a *monastery*. Just... why. Why do that. Why keep remaking the same bloody thing.

look I'm gonna keep adding to this thread until someone is stupid enough to let me write it down for money so you're just gonna have to deal with it okay

Now only two and a half Troughton stories to go, which means I will finally be free of the endless tedious base under siege stories which are all exactly the bloody same. Doctor Who as dumb ITC action series.

This experience has made me realise that, in the old show, I have a strong preference for the odd nunbered Doctors though.

Also you note that the BBC have quietly but obviously shifted to animating all the missing episodes at the exact point I decided to watch the entire show, in a transparent attempt to force to do it again some time.

Anyway. 234 episodes down, 461 to go.

Now onto the aggravatingly & incompetently named Doctor Who & The Silurians, which was a favourite as a kid. It's great, obv, but main realisation - it's another 60s base under siege only with a few clever twists, isn't it?

1970 is meant to be the big break in the original series (new Doctor, new setting, colour, which allows VSO, etc). But watch the series in order and you realise that it's not.

Just realised that, in the credits for the Dr Who story commonly known as "The Ambassadors of Death", the last two words arrive a second later and in a bigger font.

In other words, it should be more properly known as "The Ambassadors... OF DEATH".