Doctor Who: Spearhead from Space - REVIEW | Review of Death

[@HudsonMedia]

“Oh Jamie, my knickers have fallen down.” 😭😭😂 The stuff you guys come up with. After a rough week, this was a wonderful listen. Thank you both as always. Spearhead is my favourite story.

[@BenLindsay3001]

FINALLY! PROPER DOCTOR WHO!

[@StevieWeevie66]

I was going to say the same thing!

[@theevildalek5425]

Channing kidnaps The Doctor in Ep. 1 because while he was mingling in with the news reporters, one of them says “I think I've put my finger on it. That chap's found one of those meteorites and won't tell them where it is.” Channing eavesdrops on that conversation & that’s why he kidnaps The Doctor at the end of the episode

[@gordon767]

He doesn’t deal with Channing first, as he twiddles with the knobs on the Nestene machine and then he runs off to let the Nestene to deal with the Doctor. Then he just dies when the Nestene creature is killed and the connection with the rest of the Autons is severed.

[@alexbradley-stocks5109]

I was part of the Bournemouth University Doctor Who society back in the day for about 3/4 meetings until one day when half of them turned up in their homemade papier mache Sontaran face masks and I realised, nope... this is too intense/weird for me 😂 And only about 3 of them had ever seen a Classic Series story which baffled me...

[@MostIngenious]

In the original broadcast, the plastics factory doll head scene was scored with a Fleetwood Mac tune, replaced with the library track for home video.

[@silverwolf5735]

It's a remarkably confident and sure footed start to what would turn out to be a highly successful period for the show. I've always thought the Pertwee era would've been the best time to work on the show as there appears to have been non of the personality and artistic conflicts/clashes that blighted many other eras.

[@StevieWeevie66]

My first ever encounter with Doctor Who when I was only 4 years old. The Autons terrified me. And I was hooked.

[@whoswhoadoctorwhopodcast]

The "Stuff of Legend" live event was amazing! I really hope we get more live recordings with different Doctors in the future...

[@Jaketherobonrd]

Oh man! I’m so happy for this review on Spearhead because I love this story and this season. A great opener to this season and 70s who. My first time watching this story was when I got it on holiday along with Terror of the Autons in the Auton boxset. But I like it starts off with Everything going on with UNIT at hospital, while the spheres landing on Earth and seeing the Brigadier And Liz Shaw talking before we see Jon. Although my criticism with the story its a bit slow start, that you don’t actually see much of Jon and no Autons presently in part 1. But by part 2 it starts picking up and becomes so enjoyable and I’m entertained every moment, really into the story. The Autons of course are a great monster, there something about them I find creepy is what’s behind those plastic faces, with those hollow eyes and blank faces that makes them scary. Honestly they remind me of Michael Myres abit. Going back to BBC Two, like I said in the Genesis review I do vaguely remember 4 years old at the time seeing repeats of this story on BBC Two, this went out before The Simpsons and remember being little scared by the closing credits, I sat in the living room only. ( of course I wasn’t a doctor who fan at the time and I didn’t know what I was really watching back then). But Overall solid opening story and what is to come in this season. So we can tick off Spearhead and Ambassadors off the list, now waiting for reviews of The Silurians and Inferno, can’t wait to hear about those two.

[@domsquared9878]

We do get the window smash in 30 years, just watched it a couple weeks ago

[@rowanthorne7365]

If you want to listen to the cool rock track in the factory, it’s Oh Well (Part 1) by Fleetwood Mac. Enjoy ☺️ Loving this guys

[@stephenreed2093]

They should do a special edition with a filter in the interior scenes to make them look like studio video. They could also film an insert so that we can see the Autons breaking the ship windows. Also replace Jon Pertwee’s fake dog barking with a real dog sound effect.

[@kemmdog4444]

John Woodnutt was also the Draconian Emperor in Frontier in Space.

[@benbastianiartmusic1421]

One thing I always wondered as a kid is how do the Autons close their hand guns up? Do they just casually click it back in 😂

[@steelbarber]

I don’t watch classic who stories but it’s fun to be told about them from you guys :)

[@markwardel6751]

Great story...another one I watched on dark Saturday evenings back in 1970. Still a deliciously creepy watch today.

[@Sigurd-r5]

The 'Joes' in the video game 'Alien Isolation' are reminiscent of the Autons and just as creepy, in their boiler suits.

[@TheNickofTime]

Funny you should mention the Fugitive Doctor’s continuity issues in a video talking about Spearhead from Space: There’s a fan theory that places the Fugitive Doctor between Troughton and Pertwee instead of before Hartnell, and a lot of things fall into place that way. The issues of already having the police box TARDIS, already having traveling companions companions, all that stuff now makes sense. The theory goes that when the Time Lords had the Doctor forced to regenerate at the end of the War Games, they drafted the resultant Fugitive Doctor to do some shady off-the record work for the Division, then erased her memory and forced another regeneration to carry through with the Earth exile like nothing ever happened. After all, it is already established that the Time Lords strategically blocked some of the Doctor’s memories at this point, it’s how they stop him being able to repair the TARDIS. The biggest obstacle to the theory is how it would offset the thirteen lives limit that we see Matt Smith bump into, but we also know that the Time Lords can grant extra lives when they have reason to (like to cover up the evidence of a missing incarnation), so it’s not a fatal flaw. Normally I don’t care much about convoluted fan-theories, but this one fits in nicely enough that I accept it into my headcanon.

[@ganon492]

Me and my mate were at the pub tonight chatting about doctor who n shit, I mentioned how as a kid I watched your channel & he said he did too. Both couldn't believe we knew about you and that we were watching you at the same age before we knew eachother haha. We were on about your stop motion episodes n stuff. Just wanted to let you know lol, you were memorable in our childhoods.

[@batmanmarch]

@ganon492 That's amazing, thanks for sharing!

[@kemmdog4444]

Nice to see Talfryn Thomas and Prentis Hancock in this story,too.

[@kemmdog4444]

Heck,you guys could do a whole episode about David Graham.

[@CJFS00s]

( 3:02 ) Up there with The Eleventh Hour imo! 👍🏻

[@kemmdog4444]

RIP the legendary David Graham.😢

[@TheValeyard92]

I'm not sure if I've understood this potential point of confusion correctly, but at the risk of saying something obvious you know already: Scobie is the only human "on display" at Madame Tussauds. The others are the Nestene facsimiles. When they all wake up, they presumably head off to replace the originals a-la Scobie at the end of episode 3.

[@peterthompson1989]

Really think it's time to have a new auton story. Rose was good but obviously had to focus more on reintroducing the doctor and Rose to a new audience. Other than that, they've only had cameos. Praxeus could have been an auton story really.

[@mrdoctorgilmore]

While I still enjoy the Pertwee era, I've somewhat soured on it as not only do I find it somewhat repetitive, I prefer when the show has more variety and experimental, not to mention I find the fan attitude of it being "Real Doctor Who" annoying.

[@thomasjohnson8391]

Still got the Auton figure first appearance of liz shaw

[@squoosee]

I've found my people

[@jevonator_9479]

This was the first episode of Doctor Who I saw back when it was still on Netflix in the US 😁 Maybe I’m biased, but I wholeheartedly agree with Billy that this might be the best episode of Doctor Who ever 😊

[@theevildalek5425]

59:13 …I don’t know what Billy is on, because that’s not what happens. The Doctor deactivates the Fake Scobie & the real Scobie regains consciousness at Tussauds. There are no other fake or real people at Madam Tussauds. Is it because you can hear the startled voices of visitors in the background?

[@theevildalek5425]

This is the 3rd comment I’ve made. This is the trouble of making comments as you’re watching the video 😅

[@MostIngenious]

I reckon they didn't show the TARDIS materializing on film because that would require a pricey optical effect.

[@TheValeyard92]

Additional non-sequitur: I like The Monster of Peladon. And The Web Planet.😝😝😝

[@JD-Media]

B&M sets are still not out yet lol

[@JamesWho1]

Sam Seeley what a character 😂🤣

[@thomsboys77]

The rock music playing during the doll factory sequence was ‘Oh Well’ by Fleetwood Mac

[@KennyBacchus-z9s]

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[@theevildalek5425]

I don’t know what Billy is saying when it comes to how little music there is. There’s plenty used in it I feel. There’s about 16 minutes of made for music in the story, & that’s not counting all the tracks that got reused multiple times in the story. kzbin.info/www/bejne/p4atqq1rebKLbZIsi=qowCBUPUSGnBPNaj Fun-fact, this was the first Doctor Who story made where the music was made after the story was filmed (as obviously before, music was played in while the episode was recorded) Also, 53:58 Does Billy not know what Fleetwood Mac is?

[@dratheart]

This is such misogyny. We have two guys saying the smart, capable woman doesn't work, just like the new male producer Barry Letts & his script editor Terrance Dicks decided promptly firing her without even an on screen goodbye scene; and like The Brigadier who forgets DOCTOR Liz Shaw has an MD among her credentials and PhDs which she must remind him of saying "Brigadier I AM a Doctor, remember?". I get that they need a non-super smart person to ask the questions the audience may be asking but that easily could have been the Brigadier, Sgt. Benton, Captain Yates, or any UNIT person or friendly one-story helper person as often happens in Doctor Who. Liz Shaw was awesome & poor Caroline John got shafted but it turned out okay in the end but only because she was pregnant at the end & bowed out of acting for a bit anyway to raise her child.

[@Medievalannie]

I really love Liz as a character, and it's amazing that we got that companion archetype, but I do understand the frustration they are expressing in terms of how much her character was allowed to do on screen. I don't think they're being misogynistic, but just addressing the underlying issue with the show putting Liz in a more static, less active position in certain stories because the doctor needs to be the cleverest one in the room. Unfortunately, that means Liz gets sidelined. But I don't think pointing out that issue is in itself misogynistic.

[@TheValeyard92]

​@Medievalannie Is it actually a problem with Liz as a character, though? Or just that that particular production team couldn't figure out how to work with what they'd got? I mean, "goodness, two geniuses" didn't seem to be a problem for the entire season preceding this with Zoe, and it wasn't a problem for the 2 & ¾ seasons with Romana either.

[@whovian59]

Spearhead is one of my favourite ever stories, but I'm sorry, I quickly lost interest in watching a review with a longer runtime than the classic itself. Maybe follow the example set by Mr Tardis, and put up an edited version?

[@Aribbonofsoundmen]

Repent guys, and come to Christ. Seek the Lord while he may be found. Please, when you are alone, pray to your heavenly Father and ask for forgiveness. confess in a prayer that you wish to be filled with the Holy Spirit and be sanctified by the body and blood of Jesus. The new and eternal covenant. Cry out to the Lord for mercy. Please try it, guys

[@andrewlawless9796]

mangina, mangina