CLASSIC DOCTOR WHO | City Of Death - Part 1 | REACTION

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[@darkerbit]

This here story is one of *THE* classics. A "little-known" writer named Douglas Adams, wonder if he'll ever write a highly successful book series after this...

[@frankshailes3205]

He also wrote the little-known Pirate Planet. Talking of Terry nation recycling stuff (last story), Douglas Adams was eve more guilty of that. Half his books are rehashes of his Dr Who scripts (e.g. Krikkitmen, Shada, and this story)! Still, if you're going to steal, steal from the best.

[@cordularaecke]

Anyone who can make a character called Magicthighs has my vote.

[@Mnemonix8001]

Was it more popular than Oolon Colluphids trilogy of philosophical blockbusters ?

[@Mnemonix8001]

@@cordularaecke I demand that you may nor may not vote this way.

[@ancientonezero]

Of course we love City of Death. Everyone loves City of Death. Anyone who doesn't love City of Death...Is probably a Jagaroth.

[@MarieClaresWorld]

Ha! This made me chuckle!

[@Mnemonix8001]

It is unfortunately not possible to kill such people twice

[@johnmayhew9769]

“it’s all too much for my little head on a Thursday!” I know how you feel. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.

[@blakesliberator3197]

12:25 Contemporary Earth + Weird + Plausible characters + Famous location filming - all adds up to _Beautiful!_

[@neilmcdonald9164]

The Count actor in the white suit had played the King in the Hartnell story The Crusades 🎩

[@davidbull7210]

Julian Glover. Very well known actor.

[@AlanCanon2222]

@@davidbull7210 He's super good at getting all melted and/or destroyed ("Quatermass and the Pit", "City of Death", "City of Death", "The Empire Strikes Back", "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade". Good work if you can get it, I say!

[@frankshailes3205]

Interestingly the first choice to play the Countess was Julian Glover's real-life wife, Isla Blair. Sadly she was already engaged on another job so wasn't available, though she did get to play her husband's wife in Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade some 10 years later.

[@dubliam8064]

It's lucky how such an amazing story has the honour of being the most viewed of all time

[@BronyDanProductions]

While Tom and Lalla weren’t a couple yet, it was during their stay in Paris that their relationship blossomed.

[@SteveInScotland]

It didn’t last, that’s not to say both don’t have great, fond memories of that time, so that something positive.

[@frankshailes3205]

@@Quietstormusic More likely Tom's boozy times in Soho. Where did the rumours of cocaine come from??

[@MrPaulFCockburn]

City of Death is, arguably, THE pinnacle of Douglas Adams’ contribution to Doctor Who, and was the serial in which Julie Gardiner (new Who’s first Executive Producer, alongside Russell T Davies) saw the potential of the series in the 21st century. As for the title, it’s a French pun: “Ville de l’amour” (City of Love) sounds quite similar to “Ville de la mort” (City of Death).

[@frankshailes3205]

Not to mention the modern meaning of "La petite mort" ;)

[@ftumschk]

@@frankshailes3205 I don't know about modern; its first recorded use as a byword for orgasm dates to the 1880s.

[@frankshailes3205]

@@ftumschk I should say "current". Sorry, I was tired and not expressing myself clearly.

[@DeanStrickson]

Just a great story with tons of Douglas Adams and Tom Baker humor. No matter how many times I’ve seen it, it always makes me laugh.

[@DanDanDaaaan1]

City of death is one of the absolute top tier stories for me. Up there with pyramids, genesis and inferno

[@ruairiedwards8616]

City of Death is one of the most widely loved and praised stories of the classic era. It’s definitely one of Tom Baker’s best adventures, alongside stories like Genesis of The Daleks and Pyramids of Mars.

[@joshuajoshua2732]

And of course The Robots of Death and The Talons of Weng-Chiang.

[@stimulusrespond]

I always have time for City of Death, even having watched it countless (ho-ho) times. I will resist further comment until the last part.

[@zakjaggs9761]

And here we have my favourite Doctor Who tv story of all time.

[@MyAbridged]

That ship at the beginning with the legs appears in New Who, in Dalek it can be seen in the background of Henry Van Statten's vault along with a few other cameos including a Xenomorph egg

[@SteveInScotland]

You made a really good point there that I hadn’t thought of before. It feels like the beginning to a doctor who movie. It really does. It is a favourite story, not just because itv were on strike, it has a great leading cast. Paris helps, lol. It feels like it had a budget where some previous stories had almost no budget at all. It’s fresh air to be honest. I think also the fact that the new Davros in the last story was so bad, this story automatically feels better anyway. It’s a high after a low.

[@ftumschk]

4:16 The jaunty music as Tom and Lalla are crossing in front of the traffic is a little nod by Dudley Simpson to George Gershwin; it's a variation a theme from the latter's "An American in Paris".

[@Will-nn6ux]

"What's Scarlioni's angle?" "I don't know, I was never any good at geometry."

[@ListerDavid]

I’m so been looking forward to your reaction what with it being set in France. The little professor the last time we saw him he was behind the bar and was shot in the back at the Last Chance Saloon. “We started off with the Googly eyed Medusa looking thing”. Is that what Medusa Cascade really looks like then?? 🤣

[@CountScarlioni]

Hurray! my username is no longer a spoiler. Phew! As good as City of Death is, a small quibble I do have with it is all the padding of the characters wandering Paris. It's a bit too much for repeated viewings. It includes great visuals and perhaps Dudley Simpson's finest hour as incidental musician, but at the end of the day it IS still padding, and copious amounts of it! At least it's a higher class of padding than what the show of this era would normally give us. I guess the production team were _really_ keen to show off they'd actually been to Paris and was going to make damn sure we knew it! Apparently they justified the location trip by pairing down their filming requirements so that it would have cost about the same to go abroad as it would to have done it all in a BBC studio. Back then I'm pretty sure Doctor Who was unknown in France, so the filming would have elicited no particular interest from Parisians.

[@ftumschk]

Your name may no longer be a spoiler, but unfortunately we're now all terrified of you :)

[@moonpawooe7134]

Although your quibble is a fine quibble as quibbles go I feel it's a trifle padded out ....would you care for a jelly baby?

[@matthew-Williams]

You are in for a real treat with this story. Great writing from Douglas Adams and great acting from Catherine Schell ( Maya from Space1999)

[@johnreid9959]

The man In The hat Pat Gorman was in 84 different dr who shoes between 1964-1985 as a extra some pertwee stories as many as 3 characters when you get up to 1985 I’ll paste a link

[@Alfwin]

This story is amazing! The plot is excellent, the characters are entertaining, and the comedy is absolutely on point. Maybe there are a few too many shots of them walking to places, but I get the impression they wanted to show of that they were filming on location, and it doesn't detract from the story. Bit of Who trivia: When they're on their way to the Louvre, and Romana's listing off alien art galleries, she mentions the Braxiatel Collection. When this episode was written, there wasn't any deeper meaning attached to that, but the expanded media have taken that name and ran with it: The collection's owner, Irving Braxiatel, is now a prominent recurring character in the novels and in several Big Finish ranges. He's a Time Lord who works with a team of his past and future selves to run a black-market art dealing operation, and is often implied (but never confirmed) to be a close relative of the Doctor. I love how Doctor Who lore can take the most obscure throwaway lines from the show and build them into full characters with rich, complex stories of their own!

[@bananasaregood8655]

Doctor who goes abroad! First time they filmed outside the uk, the locals must have been like ‘what the fk is that man wearing?’ Haha 6:18 you might recognize that shot from ‘The next doctor’ when all the doctors are shown from the info stamp

[@ftumschk]

Oddly enough, he may have fitted in rather well. The inspiration for the 4th Doctor's look were Toulous-Lautrec's famous posters of Parisian cabaret artist, Aristide Bruant: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristide_Bruant

[@bananasaregood8655]

@@ftumschk true, but thats more the 4th doctors early look, bit different by this season. Wish he still wore the hat and scarf like that

[@blakesliberator3197]

LOVE this story. Back on contemporary Earth. _Great_ guest stars. Love Julian Glover. Love Catherime Schell (Maya in Space 1999). Love David Graham (Voice of Brains in Thunderbirds). Love Tom Chadbon (Del Grant in Blakes 7).

[@johntomlinson6849]

The Professor is David Graham, one of the two men providing Dalek voices from 1963-6. In 1966 he also played Charlie, the stuttering barman in The Gunfighters whose death in part 3 upset you so much when you watched it many moons ago.

[@TheZodiacz]

David just turned 96 on 11th July!

[@frankshailes3205]

Best known (apart from the Daleks) as Parker, Lady Penelope's chauffeur/right-hand man on Thunderbirds. Based the voice on a local bar landlord near the studios, apparently.

[@joestacey6185]

Lalla Ward chose the schoolgirl outfit after rejecting the original costume. She didn't realise the sort of fan letters it would attract.

[@1nelsondj]

It never hurts to keep the dads watching.

[@joestacey6185]

@@1nelsondj That was Doctor Who policy in the 70s and 80s.

[@AlanCanon2222]

She does look fetching in the hat!

[@neptune04]

hate to see what would have happened if she had gone with the original suggestion of it being a catsuit.

[@paulrichards4452]

City of Death is the first Doctor Who story I can remember watching and it’s a bonus that it happens to be one of the best stories ever made. Great reaction.

[@andreww4473]

In the early 2000s I bought the DVD of this story, as I thought it was a 4th Doctor story I hadn't seen. When I watched it back I began to recognise parts of it. There is one particular scene in the next episode which confirmed this for me. I thought I had never seen it before - but it seems to be my earliest memory of watching Dr Who as a child. I can't wait to see your reaction to the rest of this story. Of all of Tom Barker's stories, this is one of my favourites. Enjoy!

[@leslieride5813]

This is the 10/10 rated story that i mentioned to you the other week the only one in the entire Graham Williams Era a very strong story and strong supporting Cast the two best ingredients of the very best Classic Doctor Who Stories. This was the very First time that the series had overseas Filming in Paris for four days. In those days any Location filming on any Doctor Who story would be done first Graham Williams felt that filming in Paris would add to the story and give it more scope and it certainly works this story is a cut above your Average Graham Williams Story and in my view the Best one of his Era.

[@ftumschk]

Agreed - it's easily the best Williams-era story for me, and the only one in my Tom Baker Top Five. The other four are all from the Hinchcliffe/Holmes years.

[@davidbull7210]

Incidentally both Count and Countess Scarlioni have appeared in Bond films, the former as a main villain, the latter as a bit of crumpet.

[@TomEyre]

Everything about this story is just top form! I think Robots of Death was the highest viewed story outside of ITV being down.

[@TheZodiacz]

Yes it was (12.7 million viewers). Then it was The Rescue and The Web Planet (both 12.5 million). The only time New Who has gotten more viewers than Robots of Death was Voyage of the Damned (13.3) and Day of the Doctor (12.8)

[@bugsby4663]

Written by script editor Douglas Adams using a pseudonym. This is one of the giants of the show and luckily is one of the first DW stories i ever saw back in the nineties. I hired the video (showing my age now) from my local library.

[@andykey78]

VHS rental from the local library! My God I'd forgotten all about that 😂 Memories flooding back, thank you 👏

[@frankshailes3205]

Along with David Fisher (the original script, set on the Riviera in the 20s) Adams rewrote it with Graham Williams during one whisky-and-black-coffee-fuelled weekend.

[@Dogbarkssome]

Not sure if you recognised Julian Glover as Count Scarlioni - he was also Richard the Lionheart in 'The Crusade'.

[@Adeodatus100]

Julian Glover is one of those great classical actors who, now and then, when we're lucky, will do pretty much anything for a paycheck - Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and, of course, Doctor Who. He's an absolute delight to watch.

[@AerodeonThorne]

Cool that there were aliens and private detectives and the Mona Lisa and Paris. As a kid, all I cared about was Romana’s school uniform. 😊

[@stephensinclair3771]

Lol

[@conscienceaginBlackadder]

It's what makes school uniform wrong

[@geoffmason7215]

been looking forward to this one /its so good on its own/and of course MC's french connection (ha Ha)

[@darynvoss7883]

This is my absolute favourite Classic Who story.

[@darynvoss7883]

Julian Glover has had a highly acclaimed stage career but has also done a lot of prominent TV and film work, mostly as baddies: General Veers in Empire Strikes Back, Kristatos in the Bond film For Your Eyes Only, Donovan in Indiana Jones, voiced Aragog in Harry Potter, perhaps best known to young people as Pycelle from Game of Thrones. This was his second DW story as he appeared as the Lionheart in The Crusades in 1965.

[@escapetheratracenow9883]

I used to cycle home from school every lunch time for a week just to watch this episode again, having recorded it on our Ferguson Videostar top-loading VHS recorder. We'd been in Paris the year before and stopped at the Trocadero station. Loved it, and the Latin quarter the Doctor and Romana passed through after Notre Dame Cathedral. Fantastic story in every way!!

[@Herdwick]

'David Agnew' the writer of this story is actually three people who co wrote the story together, those being David Fisher (Stones of Blood), Douglas Adams (Pirate Planet) and Graham Williams (The Invasion of Time) and yeah this story if brilliant!

[@frankshailes3205]

@DistortedDan Yes, in that case it was Graham Williams and Anthony Read the script editor writing under the in-house pseudonym.

[@alexfletcher5192]

One of the more famous cliff-hangers in 20th century Who, this one had my father lunging for the buttons on the TV to change channel, having caught sight at my horrified expression! (Sadly, he wouldn't be able to lunge for anything by the end of the year). With typical Whovian logic, there is no practical way of fitting the expanded green monster skull inside a reproduction of Julian Glover's head - so was this, in part, the inspiration behind the so-called compression field later used by the Slitheen?

[@swilliams937]

"Let them GAWK!!!" 😂 😂 Always loved the little lines like that.

[@geraldvance7925]

That story has an excellent cast. Catherine Schell from space 1999 and Julian Glover from Star Wars and Game of Thrones.

[@robalexander8065]

Glover was also in The Crusade.

[@zakjaggs9761]

@@robalexander8065 and blakes 7

[@CaptainNemo1701]

Don't forget the scientist in the basement is David Graham, perhaps more famously known as the voices of Parker & Brains in the original 60's Thunderbirds series.

[@geraldvance7925]

@@zakjaggs9761 I forgot he was in Blake's 7

[@matthewjh138]

The actor playing the count actually was in the hartnell story the crusades he played king Richard the lion heart, his also been in big films from janes bind to Star Wars the empire strikes back.

[@ftumschk]

The Doctor should have felt at home in Paris. The inspiration for Tom's costume came from Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's iconic posters of Parisian cabaret artist Aristide Bruant: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristide_Bruant (I know this thanks to the fine documentary on the Tom Baker years on the "Clever Dick Films" channel. MC and others should avoid it for fear of spoilers, but the channel is a must-see for those already familiar with Classic Who.)

[@Cruithneach]

A knockout story with Tom on top form and a notable contribution from someone called Douglas Adams - who he?

[@julieeverett7442]

a favourite. And who is this Adams guy, maybe I need to go find my towel!!!!!!

[@sallyatticum]

I love this episode. I have always wanted to revisit Leonardo da Vince. I'd hoped Capaldi would visit him, as he is an artist.

[@seedhillbruisermusic7939]

a few years ago I was getting a bus to see my pal and I meant to ask the driver for a city-day ticket, that would get me on any bus in the city for the day but I was thinking about Dr Who just before the bus arrived and I asked the driver for a city-death ticket! I was mortified but he found it hysterically funny. A city-death ticket! Oh the cringe.

[@toddbeilby6484]

A wonderful episode. The script, acting, locations are great and The musical score is fantastic! 😊 Lovely reaction 💕

[@blakesliberator3197]

Has there every been a story or a movie in which Julian Glover has _not_ played a villianous role? He does it so well!

[@davidbull7210]

You are watching one of the top 10 stories of all time. A complete gem. The title is apparently a play on "Ville d'Amour" / "Ville de Mort"

[@tombaxter6228]

I THOUGHT you'd like this one! Lalla Ward chose the schoolgirl outfit, because she thought it might make more girls interested in Doctor Who. It turned out that it also attracted an entirely different demographic... "I was so naive!" She says, in a interview on her outfits..

[@alexfletcher5192]

Production Unit Manager John Nathan-Turner costed the trip to Paris, with Tom, Lalla and a skeleton crew sent out to film in various locations. They were met by puzzled looks from onlookers - France had always steadfastly refused to purchase the show. Perhaps they'd seen some of the 1960s stories...

[@DoctorWhoAdventures]

Oof!!! That cliffhanger hits hard every time I watch it :O Awesome reaction!! :D

[@markbelsom3174]

This story is one of THE classic fourth doctor stories, definitely one of my favourites.

[@joshuajoshua2732]

This is an all time classic this is another one of my favourite Doctor Who serials. I like Romana's schoolgirl outfit very alien. The actor who plays the Count Julian Glover also appeared in Doctor Who once before as King Richard The Lionheart in 'The Crusade' during William Hartnells run back in 1965. Doctor Who was still not a well known programme in France at that time so people where unaware of what they were filming. When I was in Paris back in 2001 francs were only just renamed euros.

[@jimcat6795]

This episode has a bouquet

[@joecrammond6221]

apparantly Lalla Ward had a falling out with the costume designer over what she would rare for this story and eventually designed the costume herself to appeal to the children audience, City of Death is certainly a great story, helped by the first ever filming outside of the UK, something new Doctor Who would do more often

[@joecrammond6221]

careful of spoilers for mary claire

[@frankshailes3205]

@@joecrammond6221 and anyone else following along the same episodic journey.

[@neptune04]

That's surprising Lalla usually didn't argue with the higher-ups often like that.

[@1nelsondj]

Paris is quite a few steps up from filming at the local sandpit.

[@cosmosrunner]

Never fails to make my top five stories. Tom Baker's era is the best, hands down.

[@ihateunicorns867]

Duggan: "What's Scarlioni's angle?" The Doctor (to Romana): "Have you ever heard of Scarlioni's angle?" Romana: "No, I was never any good at geometry."

[@staxxx8101]

This for me is just one of the absolute perfect examples of how doctorwho when under a competent script writer can produce some of the best tv in history, just the whole mix of sci fi comedy and intriguing storytelling just fits together for such a compelling treat. Trust me you have yet to see the best parts 3-4 are easily some of the best who to offer, I only wish the quality could be uptained throughout the modern era. New who can only stand in awe of the talent and uniqueness of the classic era. By far the best of season 15-19 and probably one of the best stories of all time, definitely in most peoples top 10’s and certainly cemented in many peoples top 5’s! :)

[@powerspyin2]

This has been a reaction that I've been waiting for. It's one of the best doctor who stories ever

[@sallyatticum]

All the scenes of them running through the city remind me of the opening credits of both That Girl (because of the hat) and Mary Tyler Moore Show.

[@easty74]

This was the first ever Doctor Who story I watched. When I was 8 years old. Way back in 1982

[@julieeverett7442]

and here it is, another of the best of Toms stories! You look at any top ten from classic era this is high up there along with genesis (there IS one more- but we'll talk about that one when it comes up!!) the first time dr who recorded outside the UK. Tom and Lala were together in real life (and later married) There was also some controversy with it too. Romanas costume it raised some eyebrows (and other things) with some males having school girl fetishes at the time.

[@Payne2view]

Another one of those episodes with an alien which freaked me out as a kid. It doesn't look so scary now.

[@jkmac625]

6 year old me found the cliff-hanger to this episode very scary. It must have been around this time when I got some Doctor Who toys for Christmas, a Tom Baker action figure and a TARDIS to put him in. I found that if I twisted the head around I could pretend he was one of the Jagaroth as the moulded curly hair at the back looked like Scaroth's alien face.

[@johnwhite8074]

This is my earliest memory or watching Doctor Who.. purely because out of the Then THREE channels in 1979 it was what all those millions of viewers where watching due to the Itv strike.. I can clearly remember the one eyed Cabbage and the episode 3 cliffhanger... I was hooked from then on..

[@billthewhovian]

City of Death, great story that's all I'll say for now.

[@thecelticdruid.6681]

I absolutely love Dudley Simpsons score, I fell in love with it in 1979. I remember the ITV strike.

[@whobp8]

A much beloved story by the fans. And I can see that you're smitten with this one already. You're going to have so much fun with this! 😄

[@daleksupreme2913]

A great story, Best Doctor, one of the best companions ever (maybe the best), General Veers, Paris! it doesn't get better than this

[@AubreySciFi]

Its a classic! I Love city of death.

[@alexfletcher5192]

Douglas Adams once famously said 'I love deadlines - I love the swooshing sound they make as they go by'. Nowhere is this more accurately pointed up than 'City of Death' (possibly a play on 'City of Love' - think about it...), where he and Graham Williams locked themselves away for a weekend with alternative lashings of whiskey and coffee and rewrote David Fisher's 'The Gamble with Time' more or less from scratch. The influences on the script are many and various, but some people have pointed out resemblances to the 1975 Blake Edwards' comedy 'Return of the Pink Panther'. In the film, Peter Sellers' bumbling Inspector Clouseau is on the trail of 'The Phantom; criminal alter-ego of Christopher Plummer's English aristocrat Sir Charles Lytton. Replace Clouseau with Duggan and Sir Charles with the Count Scarlioni (Julian Glover even wears a variation on Plummer's outfit from the movie) and parallels start to emerge. Add the fact that Catherine Schell - who portrayed Lady Lytton in the movie - plays the strangely compliant Countess here and the evidence looks compelling.

[@mistymisterwistyjones9668]

So glad you enjoyed one of the greatest stories from 'imperial phase' Doctor Who.

[@stephensinclair3771]

The best alien ship in the show.

[@frankshailes3205]

Think this was model-filming-master Ian Scoones's work. Didn't he paint the prehistoric earth/sky backdrop too?

[@stephensinclair3771]

@@frankshailes3205 not sure...but it could be. Names familiar. They need to bring the Jagaroth back.

[@robertkramer2271]

This was the first story where they filmed on location outside the UK.

[@davidneal9368]

He is the longest running doctor.. Bring back memories. Wonder he never tripped over his own scarf 🧣

[@chrisboot2468]

When in Paris on holiday with friends, I demanded we go up the Eiffel Tower just so I could get that shot....

[@oddjob5589]

"the Doctor is never well organized"= Marie Claire, truer words were never spoken

[@philippaine2169]

Great reaction as always a good one this one 😀

[@geoffbrundell4685]

Fantastic story this is. Lara costume was her idea. June Hudson the costume designer had her wanting wear a catsuit but Lara said to her want about school uniform.

[@frankshailes3205]

Doctor Who has been set in Paris twice before, in the first season with the Revolution, and another Hartnell story that is now lost, "The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve". Both are historicals and were, of course, studio-based so never got to go to the real France, more's the pity.

[@Jaime-dd4sw]

Ah, City of Death. It sure is City of Death. I very much agree with your statements at the end about this feeling unlike other Doctor Who stories and really feeling more like the start of a movie. It's very much.... City of Death. I'm not going to comment on the story itself because truly? What's there to say? It has it all. It's City of Death. Per your question about Kerensky's accent, according to the novelization (which I am embarrassed to admit I have listened to on audiobook - because I love how Lalla Ward reads it - more times than I can count) Professor Fyodor Nikolai Kerensky was born in Budapest. Obviously the romance between Ward and Baker gets brought up a lot when talking about this story. I mean they're running around Paris holding hands and grinning at each other. Lalla Ward maintains they were so busy working on the show there was no time whatsoever for any funny business while in Paris, while Tom Baker likes to make jokes about how there were journalists with them and they had to sneak about to evade being spotted together. I ship the Doctor and Romana so I am very biased here, but well... we sure are watching two individuals in that special flush of love running around Paris together, huh?

[@CRINOTH]

It's certainly a very highly regarded story - I think it's almost impossible to not enjoy it. It's another of those tiny handful of stories not novelised during my childhood so I knew very little about it until watching it for the first time in the 1990s. It's a real "feel good" watching experience - yet, brilliant though it is, it's not even my favourite story of this season... That's yet to come. :D

[@sixstanger00]

Now that you're here, I can tell you -- "City of Death" is regarded as one of the best, if not THE best DW stories of all time.

[@apollo12002]

One of my all time favourites

[@psionicdreams]

This was the first Dr Who anything I ever saw and (we must have missed the beginning bit) it scared the pants off me when teh Count took his face off! I ran out of the room, my mum was worried about me 😅 It's also my favourite Dr Who story ever, despite my initial fear of it I always watched the repeats, eventually bout the dvd... I just checked - I haven't got the dvd. Time to go shopping ;)

[@stephencoppins9467]

In your last video, when you were talking about wanting an Earth-based story, with a weird alien and a spaceship, I was going, “Check. Check. Check.” 😁 This is the first Doctor Who story I remember watching as a kid.

[@andykey78]

"Blow me sideways..." Hmm, never heard that expression before let's have a Google... 😳

[@coltonbrantley9713]

Marie-Clare There Are Classic Doctor Who Stories That Stand Out To All Of Us And This One The City Of Death Is Without A Doubt One Of My Favorites Of All Time And With That Being Said Keep Up The Amazing Work As Always And Stay Safe Out There In The UK 💖💖💖,Lord Colton Of Gallifrey

[@tardisnet9487]

One of my favourite stories

[@soupdragon1971]

I'd knew you'd love this after your wish list from the previous episode. Watching this story (and the previous one) are some of the strongest DW memories I have from my childhood, probably because as you say ITV was on strike so there was no competition. As flawed as it is, I think it is Tom Baker's best story. The location work, special effects, acting talent and writing make it quite unique. Whilst the face removal scene looks a bit fake now, at the time I remember it being a huge talking point at school the next day. I think it was helped by the fact that the Jagaroth look significantly different from any previous humanoid monster in the show.

[@markdavidson9100]

C’est tres bien Marie Claire, Merci beaucoup

[@mudcrab3420]

Marie-Clare wondering if Time Slip is the name of the episode. GIGGLE... "With a bit of a mind flip You're there in the time slip And nothing can ever be the same You're spaced out on sensation, like you're under sedation"

[@mudcrab3420]

Okay - I am getting a tiny bit scared here by some of our host's predictions. What did we get earlier? Something about wanting something set on either Earth or a Space ship? EXACTLY! Also, Kerensky - the time scientist - is Hungarian. This story is set in France. What was our host about to watch a few videos ago? The France-Hungary game!!! EXACTLY!!!

[@Will-nn6ux]

The artist drew a picture of Miss Minutes.

[@thekiweasel4103]

Sorry, I've been busy (my birthday and other things) I will try to keep up this time, MC.

[@chrisbrooker7260]

Had a feeling you’d love this one.... This is great. Weird, very Douglas Adams weird. But awesome on so many levels Tom and Lalla are very loved up, Julian Glover is in it., and There’s more awesomeness to come

[@brandonriley950]

I actually seen this story before it's a pretty good one 😁 just wait till see the next part of the story ull love it

[@keithneale3055]

I knew you would love it.