Terror of the Zygons

“Miss Zygon”, “Doctor Who and the Suckers”, “John Woodnutt – As Seen on TV”

“The One With the Lock Ness Monster” (USA), “Docteur Who et les Monstres Humides Effrayants” (Germany)

Doctor Who gives the Brigadier a bang that even he finds satisfying.

*** - More shows should be made like this or the old stereotypes of Scottish village life will persist.

“Bagpipes? I thought that was what Elisabeth’s gynaecologist looked after” (Tom Baker’s joke wasn't appreciated and was cut from episode one)

"You can't rule the world in pants. You've got to come out on to the balcony sometimes and wave a tentacle."

Cast members quickly found that the best way to annoy John Woodnutt was to sing ‘How much wood would John Woodnutt nut if John Woodnutt would nut wood?”

Brotan was five minutes and a small contractual amendment away from joining the cast of Home and Away. Sadly it never happened.

The Nebworth Clutch said Terror of the Zygons was ‘Scotch-tastic’ while the Edmonton Oilslick said ‘I don’t understand the accents but man does it look good’.

Doctor Who is at its best when the ultimate evil turns out to be Matthew Corbett’s hand in a Halloween mask.

The Zygon control room is the only set in Dr Who history to be made entirely out of cold pizza. What a waste. Classic television or no classic television.

A printing mistake meant that episode three's script had all character names replaced with the words ‘Tom Baker’. Mr Baker didn’t notice the mistake until it was physically pointed out to him. He was heard to shout ‘what the hell is that paper thing?’

...is not to take anyone at face value because they might be a shape changing alien with a plan to conquer Scotland.

Si Hunt

"The public house featured in Story 4F brings back one of my most painful memories due to the mounted moose head which hangs on the wall. Some years ago, while I was visiting Doctor Flapjack, Ian Devine and my former housemate Elkie decided to play a practical pleasantry on me. I returned home to find Elkie's head apparently affixed to the wall. Ian Devine explained that she'd been run over by a milk tanker and the emergency vet had only been able to salvage her head from the milky carnage. Quick thinking from Ian Devine and quick drying filler from Mr Gobsheight, the taxidermist, had preserved Elkie's head for posterity. I was a younger man in those days and prone to slight overreactions. I rushed to the bathroom, determined to end my life. The only medication I had to hand was the new suppositories prescribed by Doctor Flapjack. I did my best and overdosed on them, settling back on the lavatory seat and waiting to die. After half an hour of a rather blocked feeling in my lower torso but no actual death to speak of I gave up and went downstairs where I found Ian Devine and the still alive Elkie roaring with laughter. Elkie had not been killed, she had merely cut a hole in the wall and popped her head through. Once this was explained I joined in with their laughter - they had certainly pulled one over on me <g>. I found out later that day that Doctor Flapjack had given me placebo suppositories for experimental purposes. I was furious but, having paid for them, continued to insert them three times a day until the supply was exhausted."

Dr Martin Megabody, writing in "The City Administrator's Notebook", claimed that Terror of the Zygons was "essentially a confrontation between the human greed as personified by the oil platforms and our innate insecurity as it relates to the inner thoughts of others which plays out on a mechanically processed platform of dramatic metaphors and comedic palliatives while undermining the psychological paradoxes inherent in the classical battle between those that seek to strengthen the weaknesses of humanity and those that wish to weaken the strengths of the species." The second sentence was universally considered to be even worse.