Hello everyone, the Historian here with our latest wrapup post. It’s been said (well, I’ve read it, anyway) that “The Space Museum” has only one real problem: episodes two, three and four.
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Story wrapups, where we discuss the story as a whole.
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Wrapup – The Crusade
Hello everyone, the Historian here. Well, I did promise the wrapup post would get written before the Project reconvened on 21 May…and it is 20 May, so I’m just barely making it. My apologies, everyone. I plead low energy and a busier life than usual. That being said…
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Wrapup – The Web Planet
Hello everyone, the Historian here with more apologies at the lateness of this post. But here, better late than never, is a wrapup of this very odd story.
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Wrapup – The Romans
Hello everyone, the Historian here with, as promised, the wrapup post for this tonally different historical story. Over the past few weeks, I’ve thought of many things to say, so I’ll have to martial my thoughts and work them into something coherent. (Let me apologize in advance, in case I fail in that last task.) As always, bear with me.
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Wrapup – The Rescue
Hello everyone, the Historian here to wrap up both the first Doctor Who story of 1965 and the first TARDIS Project story of 2010. And it’s a great way to start out the new year: a well written, well acted, well directed and well designed piece of work. Not only that, but a new and promising addition to the cast in Maureen O’Brien’s Vicki.
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Wrapup – The Dalek Invasion of Earth
Hello everyone, the Historian here. A little under a year ago, I wrote about how the Daleks’ first story “changed everything” for the then-brand new Doctor Who. Just under a year later, the Daleks returned to the show in a story that has just as much significance as their first.
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Wrapup – Planet of Giants
Hello everyone, the Historian here with the wrapup post for the first story of Doctor Who’s second season, “Planet of Giants.” As I’ve said in each episode review (see below), neither Ketina nor I were much looking forward to this story as we both remembered it as being (charitably) slight and a bit dull. It was odd to discover that, according to several interviews I read at the Doctor Who Interview Archive that this was Carole Ann Ford and William Russell’s favorite story. Obviously, it was time for a reassessment, so I tried to go in with an open mind. And I was rewarded–as Ketina and I both discovered, this story, although still problematic, has a lot to recommend it.
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Wrapup – Season One
Hello all, the Historian here, with a TARDIS Project wrapup for Doctor Who season one. Yes, we have made it 1/6th of the way through to our goal! It’s taken us just over 10 months, from 23 November 2008 to 9 October 2009. We were forced to skip one episode, due to technical difficulties, and we were occasionally forced to break our “one every week” rule for various reasons, but we still managed to get through every other episode, a week at a time. My plan is to break this post down into two basic sections, one about the season itself and the other as a bit of a “Project Report.” So, let’s begin!
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Wrapup – The Reign of Terror
Hello all, the Historian here with our last story wrapup of the season! But first, a little treat courtesy of the Doctor Who Interview Archive: an interview with William Hartnell that would have appeared during the time between the airing of “Prisoners of the Consergierie” and “Planet of the Giants.” In other words, right where we are now! (By the by, a definite TARDIS Project recommendation for the Interview Archive. Check it out!)
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Wrapup – The Sensorites
Hello all, the Historian here. I apologize for the lateness of this post, but here we are to wrap up the last science fiction story of the first season. Or, perhaps I should say, two stories, since this serial can be divided into two seperate-but-related stories. The first two and a half episodes chronicle the steadily rising tension on the Earth space ship, while the last two and a half bring us adventure and mystery on the Sense-Sphere. I found both halves to be quite a lot of fun (with quibbles) in completely different ways, though Ketina disagrees a bit; she much preferred the second half, but found the first to be fairly tedious. (See below for the links to our individual episode reviews.)
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