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Ingrit Pitt’s breasts. I mean, they just are
aren’t they. Cleavage that is magnificent. Cleavage you could ski down.
Cleavage that can upstage Jon Pertwee AND Roger Delgado at the same
time. Her chest is indeed one of the seven hundred wonders of the
universe.
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The Doctor’s dream is extremely homoerotic.
It starts with a powerful eruption, we cut to a throbbing, upturned
crystal and ends with the Doctor, apparently on his knees looking up,
being told to call the black clad figure "Master".
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The Tardis sniffer-outer is unbelievably
rude looking too and could only have been designed by someone who spent
too long gazing at the Cerne Abas Giant.
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Benton has a 48 hour pass. From the ugly
jacket he is wearing, he’s either going to buy new clothes or he’s
planning to spend the weekend on his own.
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It goes without saying that nudity in front
of his colleagues and peers was less embarrassing than that jacket.
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I have to make the shameful confession that
it took ten years of viewing before I even noticed that the Master puts
on an accent while playing the part of Thascales.
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At one point the Doctor says "Do stop
whiffling, Jo". I’m not sure that whiffling is a word but it is
curiously appropriate where Jo Grant is concerned.
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TOMTIT is surely one of the great lost
hardcore lesbian punk band names.
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Pertwee’s finest comic moment is surely when
he takes a cup of tea, natters on distractedly and then hands it back,
untasted, to Jo with a sincere "I enjoyed that".
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Later we are treated to the exact opposite
when a hugely serious Pertwee occupies a good ten seconds of screen time
drinking a mug of tea while building his time jamming device.
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Jo’s fake laugh at the "entrails of a sheep"
line is hugely embarrassing. At least Susan’s inappropriate laugh in
"The Daleks" (when it is suggested there is something inside a Dalek)
can be put down to nerves. Jo just must have a really defective sense of
humour.
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How comes Pertwee was able to learn all that
backwards dialogue and yet he was so reluctant to have proper technical
lines? Was it, perchance, that this gave him the chance to do a comedy
voice?
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All that stuff with the wine bottle is so
bad that the idea of putting old rubbish together and giving it a spin
wouldn’t be reused until Dimensions in Time.
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But at least it gives us an example of Nick
Courtney’s legendary deadpan delivery when the thing doesn’t work.
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Keen to get away from the tired cliché of a
man in a rubber suit the production team cleverly decided to try a man
in a polystyrene suit instead.
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Aidan Murphy delivers his lines as if he's
on the stage, Ian Collier as if he's in a sit com and Ingrid Pitt as if
she was taught English by Stephen Hawking’s voice box.
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Continuing the series’ brief to be
educational, we now know they had mice in Atlantis and that a small
child will not be able to control a rogue elephant.
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The cliffhanger to episode 3 is either that
Yates has been blown up by a doodlebug or that the Brigadier called him
by his first name.
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Why does the yokel with the tractor shout
"One… two… six… heave"? Oh, wait, he's from the countryside so he must
be stupid. That'll be it.
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If the Doctor’s Tardis looks different
because he "redecorated", and if the Master’s Tardis looks exactly the
same, does this mean the Doctor snuck round and spruced up his mortal
enemy’s ship? Or can we take it that the line in Logopolis – "In many
ways we have the same mind" – can be extended to say "In many ways we
have the same mind and taste in interior design"?
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I’m on the brink of being overly picky here
but the Master has a Tardis which will take him back in time and a watch
which will bring people and objects forward in time. So why does he feel
the need to fake academic credentials, secure a government grant, hire
two fairly gullible scientists and build a machine with a rude name to
do what he can already do?
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The minotaur sequence is two of the funniest
minutes in Doctor Who history. We see Pertwee as the world’s least
mobile matador, we see him knock out the fearsome beast that has guarded
the maze for hundreds of years with a pat on the shoulder, and finally
he drunkenly lunges at them, misses completely and jogs a further twenty
feet so he can crash through a wall and advance the plot a bit.
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Kronos is portrayed as male throughout the
story right up until "he" is required to be spiteful and fickle (with
the Doctor and the Master in the void) and so naturally is transformed
into a woman.
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The daisy story – clearly a reference to the
drugs. The Doctor trudges to an out-of-the-way place and comes away
seeing everything as a beautiful, colourful utopia. Ok, maybe he didn’t
realise it but that old git who lived on top of the hill basically
spiked the Doc’s drink because he was depressing him so much. And now we
get to imagine William Hartnell wandering down a hill, out of his mind,
telling trees that he loves them, man.
