Show 63: Doctor Who – The Highlanders

Normally I'd be drooling over the gorgeous Anneke Wills but 'ang on lads - get a load of that geezers titfer. You're having a bubble ain'tcha?

Och aye the Noo, you sassanachs. Tether yon wee hairy beasties and set a trap for that pesky Loch Ness Monster. Can ye believe the stereotypes we’re perpetuating here? No, neither can I. Let me just finish off this deep fried Mars Bar and I’ll carry on with the post.

Robbie Burns, John Logie Baird, Arthur Conan Doyle, Billy Connolly, David Tennant…um…Scotty from Star Trek…Mel Gibson and…er…Groundskeeper Willie?

Ohhh, famous Scotsmen, we’re just up to our eyes in those blokes aren’t we? (Aren’t we?). None perhaps as famous as James Robert McCrimmon though. And it is in this story that we welcome our favourite hairy legged highlander aboard the TARDIS.

It’s an odd one this – the last purely historical story until 1982’s Black Orchid – yet it’s a curiosity, placed where it is with a Doctor/actor who’s not quite settled into the part yet.

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See you in a couple of weeks for something non-Who.

The Krankies! Connor Macleod…Robbie Coltrane…um…Burke and Hare (okay, they were Irish but they nicked Scottish corpses, that’s close enough)…

Michael Palin Poll Closed

Our Poll (on whether Michael Palin’s Around the World in 80 Days counts as Cult or not) has now closed.  Thank you very much to everyone who voted, we will abide by your decision and the results will be presented in our next show, which comes out on the 11th of November.

And there will be another chance to influence what we cover in an upcoming show…

Show 62: Doctor Who – The Power of the Daleks

Daleks conquer and destroy! Daleks conquer and destroy!

Ah, I sometimes think those mutated misfits will terrorise the universe for the rest of Time…* Still, as long as Andrew isn’t the first successful Dalek duplicate (hey, it’s possible) we’re okay for the moment. And we have reached a momentous point in C2 and Doctor Who history; the first change of the shows leading man.

Unfortunately, only clips and telesnaps really exist of this 7 part story, so Patrick Troughton’s debut isn’t quite as eventful as it should be. Or is it?

Shall we teach you the folly of our words and demonstrate the power of the Daleks!?**

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Who DVD Update

Now that the eagerly awaited Kamelion box set (The King’s Demons and Planet of Fire) has been delayed for unspecified ‘technical reasons’, various online retailers have listed January the 4th as the release date for the Peladon box set, to be followed on the 1st of February by the long-rumoured Myths and Legends collection. No details have been made available for this set as yet, however it is thought to contain the Third Doctor story The Time Monster, and the Fourth Doctor adventures Underworld and The Horns of Nimon.

Apparently, the Fourth Doctor story The Masque of Mandragora (one of my personal favourites) is scheduled for release one week later, on the 8th of February. The Seventh Doctor’s first story, Time and the Rani, is listed for release on the 1st of March.

And finally, fans of the new series will see a release of final episodes of David Tennant’s reign as the Doctor when The Specials are released on both DVD and BluRay on the 11th of January – no word yet whether this set will contain The Next Doctor.

Show 61: She-Wolf of London (eps 1&2)

Growwwllll. Time for a glimpse of a forgotten early-90s piece of gory British horror-fantasy. She-Wolf of London was an HTV co-production with Universal. It had a troubled production history, with HTV pulling out 20 episodes in after the ITV head honchos refused to broadcast any earlier than 11pm due the violence and gore which, in these more enlightened times, seems utterly preposterous…

So chain yourselves in the basement and don’t listen on a full moon. God knows what secrets some of you lot are hiding!

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