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[@robertdoherty5316]

Hi Marie-Clare I'm a recent subscriber to your channel and I am really enjoying your reactions to classic Who, I myself have been a fan since I was 5yr (I've just turned 36)🤪, been catching up on your play lists here on KZbin (too poor for patreon lol) 😆 and don't worry I've heard you loud and clear about "spoilers" so if you read this before you reach the stories in question, I just want to suggest that if you have the option of watching S19 Ep19-22 and S20 Ep1-4, Ep9-12, Ep17-20 and 20th A.S. with updated CGI effects or special editions, do so 👍🏻 they will inhance your viewing experience 😉

[@powerspyin2]

And now we start the Davison era. I hope you enjoy this era. I personally think that this era is underrated, and there are some absolute classics in this era that I'm sure you'll enjoy. Also, Davison was the youngest doctor at the time. He got the role at age 29 (If i'm not mistaken) And if you plan to get this season on blu-ray, beware of the front cover, it has spoilers.

[@phantomsidious2934]

The watcher put the outfit there for him, since the Watcher is a being from in between his 4th and 5th incarnation

[@frankshailes3205]

Excellent theory! I love it.

[@whobp8]

Your description of Tom being less emotional is an interesting one. When Tom was first cast as the Doctor he asked, "How do I play someone who's over 700 years old?" To which Producer Barry Letts replied, "With Olympian detachment." So your analysis of his character is pretty spot on.

[@rnw2739]

I disagree. Tom's enthusiasm and boundless energy is apparent for all to see in his first few seasons as is his apathetic portrayal for the last few seasons. Tom was admittedly a drunk by this time and a tad megalomaniac towards the show... wanting no companion at all, telling directors how to direct and virtually thinking he knew it all and was infallible. He is simply going through the motions from season 16 onwards and it is visible to any fool.

[@whobp8]

@@rnw2739 I think you're interpreting "less emotional" as "emotionless". The Fourth Doctor does demonstrate enthusiasm, humor, curiosity, camaraderie, anger, brooding and other emotions all the time, but when things are serious and stuff needs to get done, he is good at being detached and getting on with things. Consider Pyramids of Mars where he pushes Mr Scarman's body aside and Sarah Jane chides him for his being "inhuman". Or the way he conceals his real motivations from the Vardans in Invasion of Time. Or the way he doesn't really take time to comfort Tegan when she learns her Aunt has been murdered by the Master in Logopolis. Or his understated reactions to the departures of Sarah Jane, Leela and Romana. It's not that he doesn't feel sad to be saying goodbye to these friends, but he doesn't want to be too demonstrative about how much he is going to miss them. He has emotions and sometimes they're very much to the forefront, but he's very good at compartmentalizing them and being stoic.

[@rnw2739]

@Jack the Film Fanatic It is as visible as the most visible vision that one could visualise. The Fourth Doctor in say.... 'The Seeds of Doom', is utterly different to the Fourth Doctor in 'Warriors' Gate', and let's not pretend that is due to some fiendishly clever character arc his incarnation was undergoing.... No, he had the hump... constantly. He was often inebriated, occasionally hung over, suffering from delusions of grandeur and his own importance and it was noted by everyone except you clearly. The amount of times he 'shushes' Romana or Adric - completely drowning their line.... Never to Sarah or Harry.... Season 18 sees him looking 30 years older than he was in season 12 and that was due to his excesses, his boredom of the show, his dislike of his fellow actors even! He barely learned the lines anymore, prevarication on set and turning affable writers into screaming, ranting lunatics because he refuses to utter what some have wrote.... The pathetically childish 'gags' he put in simply because he thought them hilariously 'unpredictable'...even though their triumphant delivery was met with tumbleweed silence and expressions of despair collectively. He became the stereotypical, bitchy actors that thought what he said went, at all times, and if anyone dared to challenge then they were merely plebs. His utter dislike of every other actor to play the role before and after him, is very telling... He is absent from 'The Five Doctors' not due to another commitment or job but because he will never share a screen with another version of this Gallifreyan character who (what he laughably believes) is totally his creation! He despises his regeneration scene, palming it off as badly shot (which in fairness it is) and of course, he didn't have a massive hour long speech to utter....like you would be able too after plummeting to your death...

[@robalexander8065]

Welcome back, Marie-Clare! Fascinated by your reactions to this serial. Can't believe it is nearly 40 years since I first watched it.

[@forkinhell3545]

You and me both mate!

[@neilmcdonald9164]

"Hansome" Peter Davison was the youngest Doctor until Matt Smith...PD is also David Tennant's father-in-law🎩

[@frankshailes3205]

True, not a lot in it though - Davison was in his twenties when he started.

[@robalexander8065]

He was cast at 29 in November 1980. Following his regeneration scene in Logopolis, Peter began recording his era proper (the next serial broadcast after this one but recorded first) on his 30th birthday - April 13 1981.

[@frankshailes3205]

@@robalexander8065 Yes, and he was 29 when he did his Logopolis scene. He was also credited on that episode as The Doctor and it was repeated in the Five Faces season. The Peter Davison Years, 1981-1984 :)

[@matthewjh138]

This is the very first time in the show’s history that there’s a pre title sequence! The show was now also airing on Mondays instead of Saturdays a first

[@neilmcdonald9164]

Mondays and Tuesdays in fact so shortening the season even further🎩

[@josephryan362]

I love the fifth doctor and he is my fifth favourite doctor and I know you have enjoyed watching his era

[@seanryan3020]

Regarding your reaction to the emotional difference between Peter Davison and Tom Baker: One of John Nathan-Turner's criteria for TB's replacement was that he be "more vulnerable."

[@Indigo_Polarity]

The Fifth Doctor is really underappreciated. Very similar to a lot of modern Doctors compared to his predecessors and contrasts well with the very eccentric and alien Fourth Doctor. He was David Tennant's favourite so he drew a lot of inspiration from him for the Tenth Doctor.

[@forkinhell3545]

I think people thought the doctor had to be older, as all his predecessors were. I took to him straight away. Being blonde with a similar haircut probably helped!

[@forkinhell3545]

Hello fifth doctor, pleased to meet you! Glad you're taking to him. A lot of fans found him boring or bland after Tom Baker. I personally loved the contrast and five is one of my favourite doctors. The show did a radical departure from tradition by moving for the first time ever from Saturday evening to twice weekly showings during the week which meant the season only lasted three months. Nevertheless you're in for a treat Marie with some great stories coming your way. Enjoy the journey! 😊

[@Prayerman2009]

Patrick Troughton’s first story was on the planet Vulcan.

[@carlstephenson5921]

...yes and the story was "The power of the Daleks." An awsome introduction for Patrick Troughton! 🧑‍💼👱‍♀️🧑🤖

[@geoffmason7215]

5 only slept for a short time thankfully..also loved the callbacks..great reaction thankyou

[@ShamrockParticle]

This episode felt so alive back in the day. I then got the blu-ray and it's just as invigorating as ever, but the new effects do the story a lot of justice.

[@easty74]

This was the first episode where the lead actor was referred to as The Doctor in the credits and not as Doctor Who

[@InedibleMattman]

This was my very first episode of Doctor Who I ever saw. I was 10, and it was returning to PBS here in America and my dad wanted to watch it with me. I'd end up watching all of Peter Davidson, Colin Baker, and Sylvester McCoy before I ever saw any of the Doctors prior. So for me, this was my first Doctor. To this day, I have all the nostalgia for the Davidson era of Doctor Who. :) So glad to see you reach it!

[@Cruithneach]

*Vulnerability* is the word that comes to mind when I think of the Fifth Doctor like this

[@briangressett902]

Of classic who Tegan was up there with Sarah Jane and Romana as one of my favorite companions. When I was a kid they would show doctor who on PBS on Sat after cartoons around noon here in Mississippi and would play full stories parts. This was in late 70s early 80s. If you've never watched it you should watch The Tomorrow People. It was a great British scifi show from the 70s.

[@frankshailes3205]

The best thing about The Tomorrow People is Peter Davison's commentary on his (and his second wife's, Georgia Moffet's mother's, the brilliant Sandra Dickinson's) episodes. It's hilarious.

[@thecelticdruid.6681]

I remember this story, January 1982, the year of the heavy snow, the Falkland war and it was the year my grandmother Rita died.

[@edzeppelin1984]

One of the characteristics of the original series, which isn't really evident in the new, is that the Doctors are written to contrast with the previous. So the first is formal and stiff; the second is impish and scruffy; the third is a suave dandy; the fourth is anarchic and wild; the fifth is humble and innocent.

[@SamR1995]

My favourite Doctor and one of these companions is also in my top two so this is a really exciting era to be getting into!

[@forkinhell3545]

Which one? Can't be Adric! Lol.

[@FrankNFurter1000]

'A new era, at last!' Welcome to 5, Marie-Clare!

[@GrilloTheFlightless]

I’ve always loved the soundtrack to this story. The tune that plays when they do a bunk in the ambulance thrills me still, even after all these years. I saw this first time round and have watched it more times than I care to count ever since the VHS came out. And after all these years Ive only just noticed the symbolism of the scarf unravelling - a bit like when the 11th Doctor’s first act was to remove the bow tie.

[@t123a698]

The first time seeing this, I remember going “Eh? Wait a minute… that’s what Tennant does”… “Bloodddy hell, 10 does that too” quite a few times during 5’s first story.

[@seedhillbruisermusic7939]

I started watching your reactions way back with the 2nd story The Daleks in Season 1, so for you to be at Season 19 already is a bit weird. But I think I'll stay till the end as you're a great reactor. Really enjoy your vids MC. 🙂

[@joshuajoshua2732]

This is also the first time ever in the closing credits that he's credited as The Doctor rather than Doctor Who. Nyssa can't get back to her planet because it was destroyed by The Master.

[@conscienceaginBlackadder]

destruction of Traken is as easily retconnable as destruction of Gallifrey was, by any averagely ingenious DW writer

[@mark-s]

I'm glad you are on to the fifth doctor I felt the same regarding the 4th doctor I always thought he should have left a few seasons earlier than he did I hope you do a video regarding your thoughts on the fourth doctor and his companions

[@sixstanger00]

The Second Doctor's first story was _Power of the Daleks,_ and was set on the planet Vulcan.

[@jkmac625]

I've always thought of the Peter Davison years as my era of Doctor Who. I was 8 when this was broadcast on BBC1 in January 1982, so my memories of watching season 19 are very good, helped by that new invention of the 1980's, the Video Cassette Recorder. Castrovalva was the first story I was able to record and watch again. I also love this story because we get to explore much more of the TARDIS interior.

[@derrenlodge6502]

No,that "Old Dude" you have seen before...The last time you saw him was way back in The Ambassadors of Death,he played Quinlan.

[@frankshailes3205]

Yes, also in Hartnell and Troughton stories. A good versatile actor.

[@derrenlodge6502]

@@frankshailes3205 The Reign of Terror and The Highlanders

[@Zaphod-uk1qn]

Castrovalva is a picture by MC Escher. It was the inspiration for this story.

[@stimulusrespond]

There is a lot to enjoy in Peter Davison's run, looking forward to your reactions.

[@briangressett902]

I really wish the 3rd Doctor's son would play the 3rd doctor in the 60th. He favors his dad so much.

[@vivalapsych]

That would be so cool

[@joshuajoshua2732]

Or the 14th..

[@frankshailes3205]

Sean Pertwee has said he won't play it though, out of respect for his dad. Michael Troughton played a very second-Doctorish time traveller (in a red bus! Before Iris Wildthyme) on children's TV in a kind of time-travelling detective game show.

[@briangressett902]

@@frankshailes3205 that's saddens me he'd be perfect... but that's his decision.

[@KyleWaaka]

the 5th was my doctor when i was a kid. got to met him 30 plus years later

[@johng5859]

I am excited that you have finally reached my Doctor - Peter is the first one I can remember, and to this day I still think of him as being THE Doctor to a certain extent. He has always been one of my favourite actors too, with a whole stack of memorable TV shows to his name from All Creatures Great and Small to A Very Peculiar Practice. The cricket outfit came from the fact that Peter enjoyed playing the game - indeed, JNT first thought of casting him in the role when he saw a picture of him in cricket gear. They had also worked together previously on All Creatures Great and Small, which had first made Peter a star, and got on well. Peter himself was initially reluctant to take the role, as he worried that he was too young for it, but eventually accepted because he couldn’t bear someone else taking the part instead! He was the first Doctor to have been a fan of the show before joining it, as he had grown up watching Hartnell and Troughton, and was a particular fan of Troughton’s Doctor. It’s great to see someone who has already watched the whole show up to this point reacting to the callbacks here, as it makes it much more meaningful and special. JNT was keen to pay homage to the show’s past to please the fans, and just before Season 19 began a special repeat season called The Five Faces of Doctor Who had been shown on BBC2. This gave many viewers their first opportunity to watch the first three Doctors - the stories shown were An Unearthly Child, The Krotons, The Three Doctors, Carnival of Monsters and Logopolis.

[@selkie76]

Ah, my childhood fave Doctor. ^_^ Indeed, he remained my fave up until Matt came along and claimed that top spot - evidently I like to see the Doctor in a younger body. ^.^

[@Finbarzapek]

This is the ‘Doctor Who’ era of my childhood. Even though I started with ‘Logopolis’, it’s Peter Davison that I regard as ‘my’ Doctor. In this case it didn’t matter that you saw the title in advance because let’s be honest - ‘Castrovalva’ doesn’t really reveal anything. Looking forward to your reactions to 5’s era. I know you’re watching these episodes with no foreknowledge of what each story is about but I’m guessing you know the absolute basics of classic WHO? Like, how many seasons there were overall and how many classic Doctors there were?

[@Adeodatus100]

I've so been looking forward to this, and it's great that you like it. Despite my still being in deepest mourning for Four, I thought this was fantastic, and it's always remained one of my favourites.

[@frankshailes3205]

The writing is excellent - Christopher Hamilton Bidmead really got the fifth Doctor, this was written and recorded 4th after another introductory story by the Meglos boys fell through.

[@MarkWardReacts]

@@frankshailes3205 This was recorded 4th?! :o So even though it follows straight on from Logopolis, they shot three stories between time?

[@frankshailes3205]

@@MarkWardReacts Oh yes! Amazing, isn't it? The only clue is the Doctor's hair length. They even recreated Tegan's red wash and Nyssa's full "faerie princess" costume. The abandoned story was "Project Zeta-Sigma", a kind of anti-nuclear twin-worlds-in-conflict parable which never really came together script-wise (a bit too reminiscent of Meglos's Tigella/Zolfa-Thura perhaps). Bidmead was persuaded to write a sequel to Logopolis and thematically the join is watertight, as if it was always meant to be. Four to Doomsday was Davison's first, then The Visitation, then Kinda, then this. Funny to see the Doctor not being the Doctor when Davison had so thoroughly inhabited the role at least one or two stories earlier, recording-wise.

[@leslieride5813]

Hi Marie did you notice in the scene in the Tardis where the Fifth Doctor is unravelling the scarf and confused from his regeneration and Peter Davisons impersonation of the second Doctor ? This was a delberate tribute to Patrick Troughton who is Peter Davisons all time Favourite Doctor.

[@forkinhell3545]

As I recall he did a Hartnell impersonation as well.

[@normandavidtidiman9918]

All the companions are extraordinarily accepting of the new Doctor, especially Tegan who has only just met the fourth,yet doesn't question this unworldly happening.

[@rnw2739]

Let's have it right, she's barely bothered about her Aunt getting turned into an action figure either....heartless crone!

[@normandavidtidiman9918]

@@rnw2739 🤣🤣🤣 You’re right 😁

[@andrewgwilliam4831]

I think "Logopolis" was the first story I saw as a child, but Davison is "my" Doctor. This is maybe an odd way to introduce a new Doctor, but they were trying something different, and having a larger team of companions, each with different experiences and reactions, works quite well in dealing with the aftermath of a regeneration... although it's a bit odd, now that I think about it, how unphased they are about his changed appearance! Maybe that's an example of the sloppiness or the avoidance of emotion that were issues in "Logopolis". A clear case of sloppiness is that Nyssa says she doesn't know how to work the console, and then a moment later confidently turns the scanner on! This was the first season to be broadcast on weeknights, rather than on Saturday evenings, I believe.

[@MarkWardReacts]

This story has a massive place in my heart - in 1993 when the 30th anniversary repeat season played, and I first watched The Time Meddler, I begged my parents to go and buy a VHS of Doctor Who with my pocket money. Being quite a bright young thing, I was intrigued by something on the front cover of the Castrovalva video (I won't say what, because 'spoilers') and I chose this as my first ever Doctor Who video. And I must have watched it 50 times. I absolutely love this TARDIS team for that reason. :)

[@forkinhell3545]

Good choice for first video.

[@ianortcliff6774]

Tom Baker’s boots also regenerate into a pair of shoes. Which is nice. And there’s a hair regeneration as well as 5’s hair is brown at the end of Logopolis.

[@Joey15811]

I always saw the cricket fans room as Ians or Harrys

[@Indigo_Polarity]

Headcanon accepted.

[@SteveInScotland]

Definitely Harry, I can accept that completely.

[@gus4u2c]

The Doctor is a Cricket fan. There are Cricket references in Hand Of Fear and Horns Of Nimon.

[@frankshailes3205]

The 4th Doctor handed Harry a cricket ball in Ark in Space, to distract the sentinel death-ray thingy.

[@forkinhell3545]

Also did some bowling with stones in the quarry in the Hand of Fear just before the explosion burying Sarah.

[@blakesliberator3197]

Both Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker are equal favourites for me throughout the entire series, not just Classic Who. They're who I grew up with. When Peter Davison came along (1982 in Australia), I was 15. He was an actor already long known to Australian audiences from All Creatures Great and Small.

[@Joey15811]

I was just thinking I was missing these since your end of era break I was expecting your 4th doctor overview video first. This one for me is a just a nice calm introduce a new doctor. No strong feelings towards it either way. I work in a b&M but no longer collected the figures. Think the last one was a compnion of the 6th doctor after that just didn’t bother as needed to save to other things.

[@conscienceaginBlackadder]

Have always loved this motley family of characters. Though detractors call it a crowded tardis, it works so well, in its contrasts of character and of backgrounds. The best crowded tardis. We all think in hindsight that Nyssa should more neatly have joined as a companion in Keeper of Traken. She seemed like an emerging companion in her scenes with Adric there. Yet she was written for it just as a one-story character: and JNT was impressed and realised too like you did, how they were missing an opportunity, and continued her.

[@forkinhell3545]

Loved this team and their interactions. Just a shame that they weren't really given a chance to develop over time. Nyssa in particular had much more to offer. Just grateful that big finish gave her the growth we missed on TV.

[@derrenlodge6502]

Patrick Troughton's first story was The Power of The Daleks,it was set on Vulcan

[@benbastianiartmusic1421]

Peter Davison is Steven Moffat's favourite Doctor. The problem is that a lot of fans never took to him at the time as, in their eyes, he'd just replaced their favourite Doctor. He's never going to be top of my list, but he's definitely a breath of fresh air and there's a LOT of emotional rollercoasters in his era!

[@CRINOTH]

Though the viewing figures for Season 19 were pretty impressive. It's true though that the Doctor who comes after your favourite can he hard to take to. :)

[@ianortcliff6774]

Did you notice “little Adric” when he’s trapped in the Master’s web? Once seen it can never be unseen. Seems to be, er, semi enjoying it.

[@blakesliberator3197]

Tegan is the first Earth-born human companion since Sarah.

[@frankshailes3205]

If anyone else (like me) is enjoying Anthony Ainley's interpretation of The Master, may I recommend a little early-1970s series called "Spyder's Web" where he plays a rather Doctorishly-eccentric spy? It's absolutely daft and great fun, with one of the "companions" being a very young Trigger (Roger Lloyd Pack) long before Only Fools and Horses. Roger is a good friend of Anneke "Polly" Wills as his actor dad starred with her in "Strange Report" (another excellent series, Anneke is fantastic in it).

[@forkinhell3545]

He also appears at the start of the James Bond film you only live twice as one of the two Hong Kong policemen who discover bonds body.

[@jamestoney6108]

Where we're going we don't need beds

[@easty74]

When the Fourth Doctor regenerated, he had boots on. When the Fifth Doctor shows up in the same spot, he has shoes. lol Way to pay attention there production team

[@rheffic1971]

everybody took at least a little while to warm to Tegan, she was so very different from everyone who'd ever been in the Tardis before. But once the warming started, it never stopped!

[@rnw2739]

It never started for me and I shocked my family (and myself) back in 1984, when I performed impromptu cartwheels around our living room when she finally f**ked off!!!

[@alexfletcher5192]

In a round of appearances (including, inevitably, Blue Peter) Peter Davison found himself on the BBC's afternoon show 'Pebble Mill at One' to discuss his approach to the show. There wasn't one. in his mind, he was already too young to play the part - setting a precedent for Matt Smith of course - and his instinct was to return to the Doctors of his teens, rather than follow too closely in Tom Baker's footsteps. Asking the fans in the audience that day for advice, one of them famously suggested he play the part 'Like Tristan (Farnon)... but brave!' - and this seems to have provided the actor with something to latch onto. His stint as the younger Farnon brother in 'All Creatures Great & Small' had made him a household name in Britain and after the confidence and freewheeling humour of his predecessor, he opted for something a patch more vulnerable....

[@Problembeing]

Sad you didn’t have that connection with Tom as you did with the others, but I do understand it’s different horses for different courses :) perhaps as time goes by you might look back or revisit his era and give him a re-evaluation in the future. But, I do think you will enjoy the 5th Doctor. Even though Tom was my first Doctor, it was the 5th Doctor who I spent most of my childhood with and was the first Doctor I saw from start to end. You’re in a safe pair of hands here :)

[@forkinhell3545]

Davison was my third doctor, but is certainly one of my favourites. Happy days indeed.

[@rnw2739]

It's understandable really, Tom did hog it for waaayyyyyyy too long and it was a massive "Thank Gawd!" when he finally left....

[@Problembeing]

@@rnw2739 Good grief, no. You are perhaps looking at it as someone who may have binged it, but for me, I was 4 when I first watched Tom as The Doctor, but that was in 1979 and I only got two seasons of him and was traumatised when he left. Tom for me is the definitive Doctor, with infinite charm, wit, intellect and kookiness. He embodied the role like no one else. I look forward to the day when I can push a button and make my own AI Fourth Doctor stories ad infinitum :)

[@fishfingerscustard582]

I avoid twitter like the plague, so I had no idea people are actually against RTD coming back. Personally I love every era and every Doctor, so I'm very easily pleased!

[@markdavidson9100]

I just love love love doctor who, escapism with a new doctor

[@easty74]

Technically, The Christmas Invasion would have been Castrovalva all over again lol

[@davidobrien5057]

I was a huge Tom Baker fan (he's still my favourite Doctor) but even I was looking forward to a new Doctor and the excitement and anticipation. I was 15 and would read everything I could about the new season before it aired. I wouldn't get this excited about a new Doctor announcement again until Eccleston.

[@forkinhell3545]

The excitement that Christmas of 1981 and waiting for Davison to begin I remember as though it was yesterday. The five faces repeats and Dr who monthly certainly helped the time to pass!

[@suddenlyfrogs1906]

Will Adric go home? Remember, he's from E Space, there isn't a taxi service tht goes back and fourth :) And Nyssa can't go home, it's gone remember? Traken, that corner of the Universe was just destroyed by the Entropy field :( SO the Master is all that's left of her family and her people :'( And Troughton's first story was Power of the Daleks :) Missing episode. I've got the animated dvd of that and more recently Evil of the Daleks :D

[@conscienceaginBlackadder]

yes but inventive writers can always retcon reasons why things can'tohappen

[@frankshailes3205]

Biroc's Black Cabs has a certain ring to it.

[@helenwood8482]

The Fifth Doctor is my favourite.

[@WokingWriter]

My Doctor 😊

[@forkinhell3545]

Good choice! 👍

[@GreatHealer.]

Fascinating to watch your reaction to this one 😄I wonder if people were not glad to see Tom go by this time but happy to see a change perhaps.

[@SteveInScotland]

I wasn’t happy and I blamed the fifth for killing him as weird as that sounds. Yet he wasn’t long in winning me over and I do like the fifth doctor I thought he was interesting and unique in his own way.

[@joshbostock_2040]

I'm very excited for your 5th Doctor journey as this is an era that I don't tend to watch that often. Not for any particular reason but I would just rather go for stories from other era's. So i'm excited to discover some new gems along the way.

[@brucesimmons5517]

Welcome to the Fifth Doctor! Not my favorite, but he had some great stories and this is one of them imo.

[@SpyroCynderFan]

I do love the Fifth Doctor! I'm sure you will too!

[@CRINOTH]

Patrick Troughton's first story was The Power of the Daleks - set on the planet Vulcan. :) I get what you're saying about Tom Baker but his Doctor's main weapon was humour - he used to make his enemies underestimate him... but he would still explode with rage when it was called for... remember his anger and disgust at the Captain in The Pirate Planet for example. Peter Davison was the Doctor when I first started watching the show properly... though I wasn't yet in at this point. There's plenty of great stuff ahead in his era and I'm already trying to guess in my own mind which of this stories will please you most. :)

[@leslieride5813]

Castrovalva was in fact Peter Davisons fourth story in filming order and not his First.

[@stevesm4]

I think the fourth Doctor concealed his emotions behind a whimsical, facade unless it was something very serious indeed. Like the question of whether to destroy the entire Dalek race in Genesis of....

[@myphone4590]

The Fifth doctor was telepathically blind, couldn't recognize other timelords on sight and needed the tardis controls non-telepathically labeled. Kind of the same way the twelfth doctor was faceblind.

[@bugsby4663]

the 13th Doctor reminds me a lot of the 5th.

[@julieeverett7442]

welcome to the true 80's and a massive change in the programme! Not the best ending to my favourite doctor but a real breath with the new one. I knew Peter as a Tristan Farnon from All Creatures great and small (a book and tv series from James Herriot about his life as a country vet in the English country side in the 30's and 40s - if you havent seen or read them, you really should!!!) and assorted other roles Did you notice the theme is a little different this time? After nearly 20 years with basically the same theme it was the first of the changes (no spoilers, you would have noticed all of the modern doctors have their own theme!) The zero room was an interesting addition and it was great to see more of the inside of the TARDIS, but you should have heard the uproar back in the day about the scarf unravelling! How dare they unravel his scarf its the scarf - well no it isnt, it was the one he wore in his last season, Now if it were THE scarf that would be bad, for the modern kids, that would be like burning 9ths leather jacket, or 10ths trench coat!! And the masters back, this will be fun!. While 5th is not one of my favourites he has a great run, buckle up for another wild ride!

[@forkinhell3545]

Also worth checking out is a very peculiar practice, a comedy/drama he did after leaving Dr who.

[@julieeverett7442]

@@forkinhell3545 might have to check out that one, thanks!!

[@forkinhell3545]

@@julieeverett7442 My pleasure, enjoy.

[@frankshailes3205]

I'd love to see Marie-Clare do a Tristan Farnon marathon!

[@frankshailes3205]

@@forkinhell3545 With David Troughton and a certain Scottish actor from Horns of Nimon!

[@bobchisholm7487]

It's interesting that you're not as sad about Tom leaving as you had been with Hartnell, Troughton or Pertwee. I love Tom, he's still my favorite Doctor, but he'd been in it so long that maybe you (and we, back in the day) were ready for him to move on. He himself has said that he maybe should have left a year or two sooner. If you look at him in "Robot" and then in "Logopolis", you can see how noticeably he'd aged.. Thinking about it, there were kids in elementary school that had never known any other Doctor. It must have been really strange for them to see someone else playing the part.

[@conscienceaginBlackadder]

hence his task compared to Troughton's

[@SteveInScotland]

This is a change isn’t it! Gone are the dark colours and the scarf, in comes a cricket player and sandwiches on the green. I liked his outfit only his trousers, if you look, remind me of that fabric they use on mattresses, lol. It must be the cricket but I he always makes me think of summer and the smell of fresh cut grass in the air. Event 1, the TARDIS has gone from zero room relaxation to Turkish bath steam room in the tap of a consoles co-ordinate register!

[@icantthinkofagoodusername4575]

5:59 the saddest death in Doctor Who history

[@StephanieMaireFaith]

Peter Davison aka David Tennant father in law xD

[@Joey15811]

Also The Timecrash Children in need takes place towards the end of this season in the Timeline

[@davidbull7210]

"Shall we see if these poor policemen are still alive" "Nah fuck 'em"

[@frankshailes3205]

Just been watching Dallas Cavell, the Head of Security, in The Avengers (1963). Very exotic! His Dr Who roles were much nastier - getting whacked in the face with a spade by Hartnell, nearly killing Ben, and working as a traitor against UNIT (as did almost everyone in that story, Ambassadors of Death - see also Invasion of the Dinosaurs! Talk about "Trust No-One"!

[@davidbull7210]

@@frankshailes3205 I thought he was a bit familiar. Yes I remember him from Ambassadors. He has more than a passing resemblance to Albert Finney.

[@frankshailes3205]

@@davidbull7210 Full circle! Marie-Clare said he reminded her of the bloke off Vicar of Dibley (whose son, oddly enough, is in a later Who story and whose other son is the nemesis of Toast of London) and I always thought he reminded me of Albert Finney...

[@stephaniepage4334]

Who do you ship doctor with?sarah, river or rose

[@genemroch7059]

The 2nd doctors first episode was the power of the daleks unfortunately a missing episode. The episode has been animated so you can watch it. When ever I reminisce about the fifth doctor like now with castravolva I like to watch time crash with the 10th doctor. 😉

[@thomasstevens2746]

Welcome to the firth doctor's era

[@frankshailes3205]

The firth of fourth? ;)

[@geoffbrundell4685]

Welcome to Peter Davison era Patrick first story was power of daleks

[@Nosregni]

For the this season and most of the next, you can look at the titles because they’re vague and generic and don’t give spoilers.

[@conscienceaginBlackadder]

Spoiler by Suddenly Frogs. Unintentional +unrealised I'm sure. But announces reasons why some possible storylines can't happen, when by the inventive retconning sometimes typical in DW they could be made to happen.

[@senonimoustv2497]

One thing that always threw me off about this episode is how accepting the companions are of everything that has just transpired; the Master killing both Nyssa and Tegans loved ones and the Doctor regenerating right in front of them. They all just seem to go along with it because the plot demands it. This is the same sort of thing that people condemn the Chibnall era for.

[@swilliams937]

With Castrovalva being the fourth story produced this season, and their limited production budgets, I can see why they made Peter wear dress shoes instead of riding boots like Tom had. As a kid, though, it always irked me.

[@alexfletcher5192]

This always gives me a buzz because, having been a casual viewer for a couple of years, the bonanza of publicity around both the show's history and the incoming new Doctor (the first I could remember in my lifetime) turned me into a fan. 'Castrovalva' (based - for reasons that become clear - on a lithograph of the town of the same name in Abruzzi by the artist and visual illusionist M.C. Escher) was therefore my gateway into the show as a full-time obsessive. Within 18 months I was a paid-up member of the Doctor Who Appreciation Society (you got a photocopied newsletter on coloured paper, stapled together in the corner!) and I think I can safely say it's the one thing I've really clung onto over the years. Of course, back then the idea of the show being in any way sexy and followed by young women on Instagram was for the birds...

[@joshuajoshua2732]

In regards to Russell T Davies returning as showrunner I'll be honest I have mixed feelings about it I mean don't get me wrong it's great he's returning for great writing rise but I don't want him to repeat the same thing he did back in 2005-09 Example I don't want to see Eccleston or Tennant back as regular Doctors and I don't want Rose, Martha or Donna to return because they had good endings why ruin that? Also the show is about moving forward and I'm just concerned he will do a few steps backwards and I also don't want it to get too political. The scene where The Fifth Doctor was unravelling the scarf caused some upset in fandom at the time and apparently Tom Baker was not happy about it. I do like the bit though when he's going through a regeneration crisis and acts like The First Doctor then the Second and mentions few past companions until he finally decided who he wants to be. Also Patrick Troughtons first story was "The Power of the Daleks" (complete missing story) which was set on the planet Vulcan and at the beginning takes place in the TARDIS after they left the south pole in "The Tenth Planet" at the time the Second Doctor still wasn't quite use to earthlings or Earth and was still on the run from The Time Lords until his regeneration into Pertwee.

[@wonderproductions3949]

I seen this episode a shameful amount of times.

[@frankshailes3205]

Once you see them, it's very hard to get past Davison's almost-transparent trousers and his very brief black underpants showing through in that costume-adoption scene!

[@bananasaregood8655]

New chapter for you’re doctor who reactions! Altho davison is pretty low on my ranking of doctors he’s still really good and enjoyable to watch, full of energy and has some tennant moments

[@robalexander8065]

Or more likely Tennant has some Davison moments.

[@bananasaregood8655]

@@robalexander8065 yeh you know wat i mean haha