December 27

DW: Little Drummer Boy

Hey Guys,

here comes another Christmas story form the ‘Short Trip‘-Range ‘Little Drummer Boy’ from the second season. The first Doctor travels with Steven and Sara. Sadly I don’t know any other adventures with Sara Kingdom. I know that she exist and traveled with the Doctor but all the TV episode with her are not available on DVD… so this is actually the first time I hear a story with her.

Random landings

This story is mostly from Saras point of view. We got a lot of her thoughts and that would be more interessting if actually would know her story, but it also gives us in a few sentence a good summeray. That makes it a lot easier to get a grip of her character.
So in this story the Doctor tries to make random landings so the Daleks would lose their corse. But somewho they always end up at earth at christmas through the years.
So is a little boy named Robert. Of course our three heros try to find out what is behind all that. I really like the twist in this story that I didn’t see coming. It is all day excidents…

It is an interessting story. For me it is a little to happy end and in the same time not… So I don’t know where to put this story. But it is a good story and it is the first Doctor so go and listen to it.

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December 25

DW: O Tannenbaum

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merry christmas to all of you and to celebrate I got the Doctor Who Story ‘O Tannenbaum’ from the seventh season of ‘Short Trips‘. The story is about the first Doctor and Steven, who also reads the story. I love the ‘Short Trips‘ but I always find it hard to write something about it without telling you everything that happened. But like always I will try my best.

Christmas Trees

So what is the story about. The Doctor and Steven land before a old farmhouse near a forest of ‘christmas trees’. In this couttch they met a little girl named Greta, who is waiting for his father to come home.
It is not a horror story about it goes for a little creepy athmosphere. Music from a gramophone and the backround sounds a little creepy…that something is going to happen. I really like the atmosphere that they are creating. It didn’t feel like a christmas story but it kind is. A thing I love about the first Doctor is that he changed so much over all the season so much. To listen to the Doctor giving his speech is great and I have to thing of where we started with this Doctor.

It is a great story, with great atmosphere and I love the ending.

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April 27

DW: The Gunfighters – rewatch

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welcome the 8th adventure of the 3rd season of Doctor Who ‘The Gunfighters’. He travels with Steven and Dodo. The story takes place in the year 1888 in the small town Tombstone. “The Ballad of the Last Chance Saloon” was specially written for this adventure. This is one of the history episode that actually is not historical accurate.

Wild West

It is a story about the Wild West. Actually I never really understood the fascination everyone had the wild west. The story doesn’t change it. It has bars and guns… and I don’t know what is so interesting in any of that. So I don’t have much knowledge about this time. I heart of Doc Holiday but I don’t know anything about him Johnny Ringo. Most of the time I want to inform myself about the stuff the Doctor shows us but not with this…I just don’t care much about this episode.

The Doctor and the Doc

A few people want to kill Doc Holiday. He uses the Doctor to make people believe the Doctor is Doc Holiday. The three of them just try to get out of this alive. When everyone wants to see them death. Dodo get captured by Doc Holiday and she has really trouble to deal with all the death around her. With only the view adventures seeing with her I think she hasn’t made for traveling in the TARDIS. But that makes her really interesting.

So much shooting

The story is for me to much shooting and killing people. This definitely is not my favorite story. But seeing Steve and Dodo together I really wished she had more episode with them. They could be really cool and interesting. Sadly the episode is not. It also means that there is are just adventure with the Doctor left. Steven how ever will not be in The War Maschines. He has is departure in ‘The Savages’.

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April 20

DW: The Ark – rewatch

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welcome the 6th story of the 3rd Season of Doctor Who ‘The Ark’ with the first Doctor, Steven and Dodo. I haven’t seen or heart any of the primary stories. But they say that Dodo only appeared at end of the last episode of ‘The Massacre’. So this is the first adventure with Dodo and there is just two other story complete with her (The Gunfighters) & The War Machines. Vicki left the TARDIS in the 3rd story of the season ‘The Myth Makers’.

In the story the say that they are in 57th segment of time. This should mean that the first two episodes of the story is around 10000000. The last to play 700 years later.

Destruction of earth

Isn’t it sometimes scary that even after 56 years some of the stories are as current has they were than. This story is the first that mentioned the destruction on earth and how the humans will survive this destruction. The human race just never change. But now that I rewatch it, I think that with more episodes I would really start to love Steven. I like the way he thinks and see the world.

The new dynamic

Dodo is not just new to the time travel but she is also a little naive but also really joyful. So Steven is in this story a little like her father or big brother. He is run after and try to stop her when she does something without thinking. It would have been quiet interesting to see how this turns out. Sadly we don’t get that time.
I hadn’t so good memories of ‘The Ark’ but I really liked it when I rewatched it. Also got a better connection with Steven and Dodo than the first time. I really wish we had more of the stories out on DVD.

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April 13

DW: The Time Meddler – Rewatch

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welcome to the last episode of the 2nd season of Doctor Who ‘The Time Meddler’. It is the first adventure without Barbara and Ian, but we also get a new companion Steven. Steven is not one of favorites but it is possible that this is because I don’t have many adventure with him. The episode takes place in 1066.
The is the last season with the first Doctor that is almost complete. In this season only the adventure ‘The Crusade’ is missing. On season one it is just ‘Marco Polo’.
From the third season I only have 3 adventure. So after this adventure we have just 4 more adventures on DVD.

The Vikings are coming

Mostly the story is about the Doctor trying to find out who the Monk is and what he is up to. He has a lot of stuff that doesn’t belong in this time. So how does he has it and where does he come from. Also in a few days or few weeks the vikings arrive with their fleet. It is a typical adventure. Vicki and Steven are searching for the Doctor and the Doctor got captured, flies and got captured again.

Time travel

Vicki also tries to explain to Steven what the TARDIS is. Steven has a few difficulties with believing in time travel. Also the dynamic of the group is different now. Vicki has more experience with time travel but Steven is still more experience in life. Since Vicki and Steven are together the Doctor is alone. Sometimes it looks a little special when the Doctor matters dates and information about the time.

The first other Time Lord

This story brings us the first other time lord we will meet. The Monk is one of my favorite enemies of the Doctor. Sadly he never had such a big part as the Master and the only other appearance in the TV-serie is in one of the lost episodes ‘The Daleks Master Plan’. Thank good the novels and Audio Dramas didn’t forget about him. He is quiet fun.

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