Doctor Who Season Eight

[@D_Rogers]

The Katy and the Dalek photo shoot is a classic... I don't remember it appearing in the show tho... :D

[@lgoamity]

Appreciate the use of The Master's musical "theme" as he's mentioned... Had to laugh as another review of "Terror" made a point of noting the show's sound effect with on of the reviewer's giving an impression of the theme... I might never see/hear the early Master's stories the same way again...

[@StamFine]

da de da "Delgado? Where?"

[@luzhizui]

I like the footage, jokes and analysis. It's brave of you not to rank and rate the stories with marks out of 10, as many Dr Whotubers do.

[@artyfartblast3289]

The thumping music as Bessie drives past is bloody great!

[@ericnoble5194]

Season 8 as described by Diamanda Hagan: It was me, the Master, the whole time!!!

[@Thunderwing88]

Every time I think or watch season 8 I think of that line.

[@johnpotts8308]

I saw you sneaking in that topless shot of Katy Manning (and Dalek)!

[@jorgeldejesus8465]

Jo was so gorgeous, upbeat fashion doll, my first crush 😍

[@darrelclack9518]

As a doctor who fan of 45 years how have I never came across your channel and brilliant season rundowns top bannana work mate

[@SJKPJR007]

Great overview of a great season of Doctor Who. Thorough yet concise and very funny.

[@StamFine]

Thanks!

[@ezravanmelle4333]

Every story in this season is a classic, for different reasons. My personal favourite is Terror of the Autons. The Master is at his most murderous. The Doctor and Jo's first meeting still cracks me up. It's a damn near perfect story. I only wish it had taken slightly more than a 20-second conversation to convince the Master to throw away his whole plan and help the Doctor ditch the Nestenes.

[@twright1983]

The brigadier at the end of one episode I think Said something along the lines of “we thought we had captured the master but it turned out to be the Spanish ambassador “ as a joke towards delgado’s usual acting roles

[@stonebaxter]

4:10 You forgot Peter Pratt and Geoffrey Beavers who played the disfigured Master in two Tom Baker episodes, Deadly Assassin and Keeper of Traken

[@doctorlolchicken7478]

Although I prefer Tom Baker, the Pertwee era with Unit is my favorite Doctor Who period. I like the side characters, notable the Brig, Yates, Benton, and The Master (Every other Master is rubbish compared to Delgado. ). I like how Yates gets a story arc, and the Brig is always telling the Doctor off for some reason. I particularly like how the Doctor is a bit untrustworthy in earlier stories because he’s looking to escape Earth. The earthbound stories do get a bit samey, but there are quite a few real classics in there (except that dinosaur one, jeez).

[@edwyna7]

"...just like social media." Love it... Thanks for sharing all your hard work. A lot of happy memories. 🛸😁

[@rjjcms1]

Yes,I had to laugh and nod in agreement at that.

[@DTM-Books]

Well, if Doctor Who is going through a James Bond phase, then it will need an iconic Bond villain, and you can’t ask for a better one than Roger Delgado. I really need to be watching these episodes again, now that they’re all restored to color (back in the 1980s, these episodes were only available in monochrome versions and that US “movie” format, which is pretty rough for a 7-part serial.

[@blaxter101]

Love these entertaining classic Who reviews! I appreciate the humour and effort put in...especially Katy Manning and the Dalek! Cheers and thanks Stam!

[@rory_pond1701]

Feeling a bit sorry for any of the younger viewers who were previously unaware that Katy Manning had posed nude with a Dalek a few years after leaving the show, although given your Masterful use of the recurring gag, they must have figured it out eventually.

[@wadeb8212]

I was already aware and I'm not younger. I like his jokes, but this one wasn't necessary.

[@BarryLetts379]

That was not Katy Manning. That was the Master!

[@doctorlolchicken7478]

I had to watch it again to see what you meant. Really can’t play this in the background.

[@RileyZilla1001]

Thank you google!

[@Alkeeros]

I love the small changes you make to make small recurring gags. Some day I'll watch some classic Who (I was brought on board with the reboot) and may use your reviews to get a sense of which seasons I might like

[@jensbalne5781]

so, it was the Master all along!

[@StamFine]

It was.

[@lezzman]

The clue was in the name...Magister - latin for Master! See? All those pharmacy lessons paid off!

[@marky437]

Love Claws of Axos they could be so well visulised with now-a-day effects

[@kaitlyn__L]

The running gag of Pertwee listening to a wub-wub remix of the theme tune obnoxiously loud in his car is perfectly executed. I also quite dig the downtempo sax cover of the theme that shows up in some of these videos. The little sting with every appearance of the master here is pitch-perfect too. I've heard some good wub-wub covers before but none quite matched this one, to my memory. So if you (and by you I mean your sound guy Frank, if he even is a separate person!) do all these covers yourself that's a fantastically marvellous job. (I also specifically noticed the nice rendition of the First Contact theme tune I hadn't heard anywhere else, in the video for that one.) Whoops, I just spotted the "Retro Crowd" credit on my laptop - KZbin on my TV was hiding it with some UI element. My music compliments must then go toward Retro Crowd, whoever or whatever that is!

[@justinsullivan1285]

The Master was one of the best things introduced in the series. Although he was overused too much to the point of redundancy. (Much like the Daleks)

[@andrewwitty6116]

While the effects look a bit rubbish now, the killer vinyl chair from Terror of the Autons scared 7 year old me stupid and I've only just recovered from my fear of modern furniture

[@rjjcms1]

I read the Target novelisation of that story 20 years before I saw the televised version. Same with Colony in Space.

[@tskmaster3837]

Yes, the Master was in all the episodes but I like to think of it as he's the one traveling through time, the Master may have a gap of years between encounters and they may not even be in sequential order. Or not because classic Who was afraid to do that sort of thing... except when they did, such as the Cybermen stories or Time Monster. [do de do, dun dun dun].

[@aarthoor]

Great stuff, every story a classic but yes, too much Master. Mind of Evil stood the test of time, Claws of Axos was the most inventive. Colony in Space was my fave when younger.

[@lezzman]

Forgive my pedantry, but you failed to mention Peter Pratt and Geoffrey Beevers who also played The Master, albeit in the form of an animated skeleton with rotting flesh hanging therefrom.

[@StamFine]

By all means, pedant away :)

[@zerocool5395]

This conversation is so British lol

[@lezzman]

@@zerocool5395 Really? I thought my side of the conversation sounds Australian.

[@swilliams937]

As much as I enjoyed Roger Delgado as the Master, I think he would have made a terrific Doctor as well--in a parallel universe.

[@RJLNetwork]

THE CLAWS OF AXOS is my favorite from this season. Loved the aliens in that episode.

[@John-tj9to]

Your joking was on point in this video, like playing the footage of the doc and jo crawling along the ground to pure silence lol on a serious note though having the master in every single story did get old quickly and not that I have anything against Katy Manning but Jo was a definite step down from Liz Shaw who by today's standards was a much better companion. I was always disappointed Caroline John only got one season although if she was pregnant I guess she had to leave anyway.

[@PatTheBatmanFan]

Nice use of the Doppler effect 😂

[@hugodrax71]

Brilliant season. All great stories.

[@mandroid-rb4uy]

Hello Stamfine Claws of Axos and Autons invasion are such good Stories it always amazes me how entertaining Classic Dr Who can be and ahead of its time with it's mature yet Campy Fun but also serious blending effortlessly impossible capers and larger than life Villains

[@BarryLetts379]

Can't wait for you to do McCoy

[@kulturkriget]

1:10 Sneaky. Even fooled KZbins sensorship. :)

[@DevlinDomini]

Smooth editing and sound. And fun too. Cheers. Apparently was already subscribed, but just noticed you did all the cool Who videos. Now I have to watch them all!

[@stevencowie7151]

Mind is rated U in the UK, fascinatingly someone gets shot point blank in the chest in it.

[@misterphonograph1893]

Love these videos! Thank you for the entertainment!

[@Joey15811]

Terror of Autons - the better of the classic who Auton stories imo. Enjoy it way more than Spearhead Mind of Evil - Solid and underrated and overlooked The claws of axos - Decent, iconic villians and the Axons should return Colony in Space - one of the 4 worst pre Whittaker stories The Dæmons - A masterpiece and the best Pertwee story

[@daveh4334]

"Claws of Axos" was my introduction to DW. I even got a shout-out from Katy Manning on what was then called Twitter about it. I remember it as a fun but confusing time. It was part of that start-of-the-seventies BBC experiment (pre-PBS) when they were trying to find out if there might be an American audience for the show. American TV, or at least my Washington DC UHF station (remember that?) didn't know what to do with DW, or who its audience might be... Kids? Adults? College students? Sometimes it was on in the early afternoon, sometimes it was on literally at midnight.

[@StamFine]

Thanks to sloppy archiving practices at the time, those north american broadcasts in the early 70s are the main reason we have colour versions of a fair few Jon Pertwee stories.

[@daveh4334]

@@StamFine Yeah, I've heard that since, it's amazing. Back then I probably watched on a 12- or 14-inch B&W television set anyway!

[@robvegas9354]

LOLs, every second kid at school had a dad that 'worked at nintendo' back in the 80's

[@JAKECOT_CENTER]

Majister and the chipmunks

[@williamcampbell2656]

Nobody was a better Master than Roger Delagado.

[@servalan65]

Excellent!

[@StamFine]

Thank you , Madam President.

[@paulpiacentini]

Most excellent. Thank you.

[@broaisland9003]

What's the source of the music at 9:34? I know it's the Doctor Who theme, but which version?

[@SimonLeicester]

Spoiler alert: The Master did it

[@tecumsehcristero]

Leela was the most interesting companion But Jo was the best Companion and Mary Tamm's Romana should have gotten here own show

[@gdSwow]

You might need to add sacha darwin to the list of actors who portrayed the master

[@StamFine]

i'd love to, but You Tube makes updating video content difficult/impossible. we'd need to upload a whole new video.

[@HOTD108_]

​@@StamFineIt would be a bit silly to update a video to include information that didn't exist at the time of upload. The Master is going to have many more actors in the role between now and whenever the humanity loses interest in Doctor Who entirely/the end of the universe.

[@bellesogne]

7:11 Time machine and sex dungeon are not mutually exclusive. The TARDIS can be both a time machine and a sex dungeon. It's bigger on the inside, you know.

[@Joey15811]

I fancy Yates

[@carlrood4457]

He may have been a master of disguise, but he was terrible at making up aliases.

[@269productions]

You left out crispy Master 😢

[@dags1965]

You sound like Matt Day…!

[@DWor-]

Yeah, I couldn't tell who that dude was whatsoever... (j/k)

[@eckie4679]

It would have been better if the Master had been called The Bastard 😂

[@tecumsehcristero]

Too many Pertwee episodes were great bu stretched way too thin. Frontier in space and colony in space being 2 examples

[@johnellizz]

6:53 Jo invents tentacle anime!

[@rosskwolfe]

10:41 Okay... that, uh... Wut?

[@popeyedish]

Katy manning in the niff...photo shoot she did after leaving dr who.

[@robertgriffiths1724]

Bea Aurther was great as the 3rd doctor