The War Machines

"The Cardboard Boxes of Death", "Doctor Who and the Post Office Tower"

"The One with the Internet" (USA), "Kit Monsters Destroy Tokyo" (Japan)

Doctor Who meets some youngsters in a night club and they help him ensure the internet becomes a repository for naked women rather than a tool for evil

*** - Blah blah prototype for the UNIT stories blah blah

"My dear Dodo - I will miss you my dear. It's been a joy and a pleasure to travel with you these past few months" (Dodo’s leaving scene, cut before broadcast)

Doctor: You know there's something alien about those pants, I can sense it!

Dodo: Smells okay to me

The Post Office Tower's revolving restaurant was actually closed to the public after William Hartnell got drunk and trashed it during the wrap party

Jackie Lane left the series after William “Doctor” Hartnell gave her the nickname “Frumpy Toadshagger”. It started out as a bit of fun but soon made her young life hell. Hartnell even used his behind the scenes power to have the title put on her dressing room door and even her copies of the scripts.

Although never stated on screen, Polly’s full name was to have been Polly Bird as the character was a “dolly bird”. Head of Serials Malcolm Rabbit took this suggestion seriously and suggested Polly be renamed Dolly. Writer Ian Stuart Black threatened to withdraw his script and the matter was eventually settled out of court with neither side able to talk about it. Hence Polly was never ever ever given a surname.

The concept of a network of computers joined together to create a world wide web is indeed a scary one and I for one hope it never happens.

To create the slightly dazed effect of being hypnotised, the affected cast members would smoke some of the drugs before a take. Mary Whitehouse called this “a fucking disgrace” when she was told about it. Bless her.

BBC Audience Research concluded that the public wanted more stories like this. “It was wizard” said a teacher from Northampton, “Smashing”, “Groovy” and “Far out” were the verdicts of some school boys from Middlesborough and “Dr Who has run out of steam” was the opinion of one anonymous housewife.

Si Hunt

"I was busy cataloguing my archive of shop-soiled copies of "Doctor Who" Magazine (there is a specialist market for soiled magazine amongst some of the more peculiar collectors) when I happened across an "opinion" about the departure of the companion Dodo. The writer opined that Miss Lane was badly done by in not having a leaving scene. "Don't be pathetically stupid" I said wittily when I'd tracked the man down to his doctor's waiting room one Thursday morning. "How dare you have feelings for mere actors. They are nothing more than meat puppets and don't have any right to deserve proper treatment. The fact that they are allowed to handle valuable scripts before even experts like me can touch myself with them... can touch them is reward enough. To show compassion because no leaving scene was recorded is beneath contempt." I would've continued my droll diatribe but a burly nurse bundled me out of the practice and jabbed me with a hypodermic. "What a prick" she said as I stumbled woozily around the car park. "Nonsense, woman" I replied, "You barely punctured my skin". Then I passed out and awoke some time later when a dog urinated on my face. But I made my point and that is what really matters in the long run."

Lots of scary, evil, monstrous cardboard boxes

Just HOW phallic is this building???