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"Doctor Who and his Aunt", "Doctor Who and Martin Jarvis", "Zarbi-di-doodah Zarbi-di-ay"

"The One with the Animussssssssssssssss" (USA), "What the Hell is an Isoptope ?" (Isotope News)

Doctor Who has a really crap month and a half (our time)

*** - It's awful in black & white but imagine how bad it would be in colour. Or if we only had the soundtracks. Let's be thankful for grains of mercy.

"I'll just have a rinse and set my man" (William Hartnell has a hairdresser flashback when the Animussss` communication device lowers over his head)

"Whatever power has taken hold of the TARDIS has taken your pants"

Contrary to fan belief, no Zarbi bumped into the camera during the recording of this serial.

Contrary to popular myth, the peculiar camera effect throughout this story wasn’t caused by Vaseline on the lens. Sadly, a member of the crew ejaculated on the camera just before recording and the mistake wasn’t rectified until seven weeks later when someone was brave enough to touch the affected lens. Those who witnessed the same camera broadcasting the evening news will never forget the sight of Richard Baker shot through a layer of semen.

As part of the first ever National Science Week, the BBC drafted in a team of top experts to take part in the production of this serial. As a result, it is the single most accurate story ever made. Fact.

The acid used in part one was actually real acid while the school tie was a normal tie painted with nail polish. For the use of her cosmetics, Maureen O’Brien received an ex gratia payment of three shillings.

This was the first Doctor Who story to be entered for the Turner Prize. Sadly it was beaten by a painting (this was, remember, back in the days when paintings were art).

A recent survey found that seven out of ten viewers thought this story was best viewed while under the effects of hallucinatory drugs. The other thirty percent said they strongly disapproved of such drugs but we suspect that was the crack talking.

Si Hunt

"I was taking a stroll through a particularly nasty part of Bendaton when I overheard a rather namby pamby fellow talking to a close friend of his. "Darling, I find nothing beats Vaseline for an out of this world experience" he exclaimed. I assumed, as anyone would under the circumstances, that he was referring to Story N and I quickly decided to set the record straight once and for all. "Don't be pathetically stupid" I quipped after jogging the half mile back to where they were sat. "The myth about V-a-s-e-l-i-n-e on the camera lens for the surface shots of Vortis was dispelled in my seminal tome 'Doctor Who and the Technical Uses of the Ruffman-Hertz Lens Between 1964 and 1970' and to hear people in the twenty first century still disseminating subhuman propaganda is frankly beneath contempt." The man who had offered the witless opinion took his hand from his close friend's posterior (where he was no doubt straightening a cushion or removing a tiresome crease from his colleague's trouser) and waved it in the internationally acknowledged "fist of enlightenment" gesture. I left them to their new found state of educated bliss."

Interesting uses for Vaseline

Hiring Martin Jarvis for the evening