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That’s a great ranking.

Thanks matey. Hope you enjoyed the review.

Enjoying!! Wanted to point out the translation as it fits with how you all were describing the character.

Yeah feel free to let us know any observations mate. Close Encounters of the Third Kind Review coming in the next few days.

Hi Doug thanks for joining us. It was good fun and also a test run and we will definitely be doing them going forward. Essentially a pub chat discussing the latest news and topics.

​@@Sci-FiChronicles79Nice one. I miss a good Pub chat. I will have the beers and ciders lined up for next time 👍

Warren I would be more than happy to have Leela fall in love with me 😀👍

Hi Pete thanks very much for the positive feedback. We have plenty more coming so keep watching. If you have any suggestions for movies and shows you would like us to review let me know. 🙂👍

Hi Doug thanks for the great feedback I am glad you’re enjoying it. More currently in the edit suite as we speak and on the way. 🙂

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Hey Rob Great to hear from you and I am glad you have found us. We have been going for a few months now and many more to come. Glad to have you watching. 🙂👍

Absolutely mate is it the height of the telepathic power? 😂

Hi Warren good to hear from you. The final fight should have been very Karate Kid or Bloodsport! 😂

A lifelong fan along with my friends on the show. If you watched the show you would get our views on the review.

Divining Dragon thanks for turning up and being an important member of this community. Ian’s insights about Indy was great and it’s so good to have him on board.

Doug it’s nice to have such nice feedback so thank you and it’s also important to have you as part of this community. It’s early days but it’s great fun.

​@@Sci-FiChronicles79 you hit the nail on the head it's about fun and thats the vibe you guys give out ps love the opening credits. I rewound to see what i had missed

The intro was created by the great Greg Chapman. If you ever want him to do something for your channel let me know and I can put you in touch with him. 🙂👍

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Warrengilson1835 definitely some great comedy moments in this story. 🙂

That’s a great point and I suspect it was just overlooked.

😂 yeah Susan deserved to be married off as a punishment for stopping them all escaping in this one. I think I would fill the Tardis with loads of ladies from Space 1999 if I could. lol

Exactly Doctor Who has been great over the years of building on what has come before but that Sutekh incident is an example of people using the history of the show cheap results.

😂 I know keep it nice and vague Tardis

Interesting point Warren. I don’t have a copy but will try and track one down.

Hi Divining Dragon thanks for your comments and your thoughts on Sensorites as the season finale makes sense and you are correct it would have been useful to build on Susan’s abilities from there into season 2. What time are you home from work? I am currently reviewing the upload schedule and I would like to update it so you can watch it when each story goes out and engage with live shows that will be coming down the road. 👍

@@Sci-FiChronicles79 That is kind. I'm not sure my schedule would readily work for you, Paul, and Gary. I'm in Texas on American Central Standard Time. I know that Paul is in the UK at least six hours ahead of me, and Gary is on the American West Coast--two hours behind me. Typically, I make it to school at roughly 8AM each morning, and make it home about 5PM. But that skewers the hours you need to work with your panel. I do practice elder-care and make sure my mother has everything she needs--which sometimes interrupts my availability. Saturdays in the afternoon I tend to be the most available. I do know that Type 40, Tzvi Lebetkin, Who's Views, The Sense Sphere all seem to have busy Sundays, so I'm thinking Saturday may be a way to expand your live viewership. But I just don't know much about how the TH-cam algorithm works. I DO know that I'm really enjoying your reviews! And I want your channel to grow!

Hi Deadmab746 I hope you are well? Thanks for watching and commenting. 🙂👍

@@Sci-FiChronicles79 You're welcome. Maybe if I get to a keyboard I'll write something more related to the topic.

Make sure you do good to have you in the chat/comments. 👍🙂

Thanks Steven really appreciate your feedback. 🙂👍

Just getting over damn Man-flu , so I needed this. You cheered me up ,thanks guys👍. I remember seeing this when it was first broadcast. I have vague memories of reliving the episodes with school friends. I must confess we were all about the Monsters, so straight Historicals were not our favourites. As an Adult I've learnt to appreciate them, but even now I prefer a Monster in the mix. Nice one 👍👍

Thanks mate coming from the guy behind Rebecca Gold that’s big praise. Anyone who hasn’t seen Rebecca Gold should check it out on TH-cam now! @RebeccaGold 👍

Thanks just something I am working on and testing at the moment. 🙂

Hi Warren yes agree they did adapt this as they went along but it certainly wouldn’t be out of character for the first Doctor to lie to Susan but maybe they just didn’t want Ian and Barbara to know the full facts. 🙂👍

It’s a fantastic artist called Daryl Joyce. If you go on X you can find him and he puts up daily images. It’s a privilege that he is happy for us to use them on the show. 🙂👍

@warrengilson1835 Daryl also has a book out showing his Doctor Who artwork and has a calendar coming out that is now available for pre-order. 🙂

Hi Warren Great to hear from you and thanks for subscribing. I enjoy New Who up until the Jodie Whitaker era onwards and enjoy it but as you say it doesn’t hold a candle to the classics. I setup the channel because I wanted to get back to talking about the pure joy of this fantastic show so it’s great to have you on the journey with us. We are putting episode reviews up every Monday evening at 6pm and the next one is The Reign of Terror. Let us know your thoughts. 🙂

Thanks for the positive feedback Doug. These are an absolute joy to do. Yep DD and you have invites so feel free to come back to me whenever you feel comfortable. 🙂👍

@@Sci-FiChronicles79 Will do mate thank you for the invitation 👌

Hi Divining Dragon no problem watch it when it’s convenient for you. I am going to be looking at the schedule and potentially putting it out later. Thanks for your support my friend and as said before we will have to get you on at some point to join in the reviews. 👍

@@Sci-FiChronicles79 Watching on replay, I'm reminded that it felt for the first time Susan was both assertive AND 'gifted' as her latent powers came into play. I know how such a gift would be played today, but it seems in 1964 they weren't quite clear on how to capitalize on such a promising element to the story. I'm almost tempted to think--since she'd be gone shortly thereafter, and Hartnell would be gone in two more years, that if they'd TRULY mined that component to give Susan more agency in other stories, that Carole Ann Ford may have been willing to negotiate to stay until the 'end' of Hartnell's run wherein an epic story that combined her departure with his regeneration could have been crafted. However, hindsight is 20-20. Ah, the lost narrative opportunities! I did love the way the sensorites were explored as a culture--just 'uncanny' enough to be disturbing, but still accessible to the audience. And the role of the humans as the 'surprise' sympathetic antagonists feels a bit original to me. Other stories in the future would play with this dynamic, but it seems The Sensorites really explored this for the first time--and the negotiated resolution speaks to the narrative resolutions that would be utilized in classic Star Trek just a few years later. It did remind me of some elements we'd seen previously this season, but still added something distinct and different. Thank you for a terrific stream!

Hi @Wolfie-p7q thanks for watching and the great comment. Great minds think alike and something just worked with the first Doctor and historicals. I do enjoy the Big Finish audios with Stephen Noonan as the First Doctor so check them out if you get a chance. Great to have you with us on this journey. Sensorites will be going live Monday at 18:00 so let us know what you think and also what you think of the previous season 1 stories we have already reviewed. 🙂👍

@@Sci-FiChronicles79 As RetroDoc says The Witch Hunters by Steve Lyons is a great read, Byzantium! by Keith Topping and City at World's End by Christopher Bulis are also worth reading. I just love how you guys get the depth of the Hartnell era compared with new-Who, so it’s not just me telling myself that the stories were better. The First Doctor ticks all the boxes that Sydney Newman wanted as far as I’m concerned, I’ve had a lifelong interest in history, astronomy and cosmology and I think this is partly due to those early years watching Dr Who in the 1960s. I’ll checkout your review of An Unearthly Child, The Daleks, The Edge of Destruction, Marco Polo, The Keys of Marinus, and look forward to your take on the Sensorites.

@@Wolfie-p7q Hello love. Delighted that you are enjoying the reviews! As with Jon and yourself, I second (or third!) that opinion. As iconic as the Daleks were, the real jewels in the crown of those first 3 seasons were the historicals. They were done so well and performed excellently by Hartnell. We’re not there yet but I’m also very fond of The Romans and The Crusade. It really is difficult to imagine any other Doctor having the brass neck to March into the Concierge as Hartnell did! 😂 I thought David Bradley did an absolutely splendid job in An Adventure in Space and Time but I’ve never listened to his Big Finish audios so I cannot compare. I HAVE listened to the Stephen Noonan First Doctor Adventures and I can heartily recommend those. They really FEEL like you have been transported back to the 60s. You can tell there’s a lot of hard work and love gone into recreating that era, not least by Noonan himself. Bradley may resemble Hartnell but Noonan sounds like he’s channelling Hartnell’s spirit! It’s unfair to say that he’s merely impersonating Hartnell because it is so much more, it’s a performance in its own right whilst being as faithful as possible and he gets better and better with each story. He raises the bar every time. I’m not sure how you feel about Dodo but these adventures begin to flesh her out a lot more and her relationship with the Doctor. It’s nice to see - or hear - some gaps being filled there. The actress who plays Dodo - Lauren Cornelius - does a great job and as a Northern gal, I’m very impressed with her northern accent! 😁

@@Sci-FiChronicles79Great minds again! I’ve recommended them too! 😂 Looking forward to The Sensorites on Monday. I’ll bring my sash! 😉😁

@@Wolfie-p7qYou’re quite right. 60s Who WAS better written and acted, there’s no too ways about it. And that’s because they took it seriously and they had a strict remit to follow: to inform and to educate as well as to entertain to as wide an audience as possible. This seems to have been largely lost. In recent years, it’s moved on to preach, to lecture and to entertain an ever decreasing percentage of people and then they wonder where they are going wrong? Thank you for the book recommendations 🤗

Hi Doug That sounds superb and it must have been great to have been at the advanced screening. A replica Fedora and leather jacket is awesome and mums the word on your toy replica whip mate! 😂

​@@Sci-FiChronicles79 phew 😀 Display purposes only 😉

Hello again Doug! 🤗 I am SO envious that you had that first hand experience and had no idea of what to expect! That’s a very rare thing indeed! I had a similar experience when The Fellowship of the Ring was released. I had no idea what the Lord of the Rings was, other than a sequel to The Hobbit which I vaguely remembered reading. My boyfriend at the time had seen the trailer and thought it looked good. All I knew was that it had Elijah Wood in the lead role who I’d seen in The Faculty and Deep Impact and I wasn’t particularly impressed with him as an actor lol. So it was more to appease my boyfriend than anything else and oh boy, was I wrong! 😂 I love that you have your own fedora and jacket and the less said about the whip, the better! Amazing! 🤣

Thank you for being pleased to see me pop up again! 😁 I ADORE these films. This stream was such as a pleasure. It’s always good fun being on with my friends 🥰

@@boomerdoug4242As Ian would say “He’s lying!” 😉😂

Hi Doug great to hear from you mate. Gary’s incriminating photos are locked securely in the vault in a location he won’t find! 😂 Thanks for the positive feedback and it’s brilliant having Sarah onboard the legend that she is! 🙂

Hello my lovely! Great to see you checking out Jon’s channel! Haha yes he swindled me into it, the rapscallion that he is! 😉 Seriously though, I was honoured to be invited on. I love classic who with a passion and I have such a fondness for the Hartnell era, from where it all began! Things all seemed so much simpler back then. No politics, no tribalism, just good old-fashioned storytelling. I don’t mind admitting to you Dough that I’ve had a real crisis with current Doctor Who. It hasn’t felt like Doctor Who to me and I no longer feel any interest or enthusiasm in covering the current era hence my absence from Type 40 for so long. Plus other personal circumstances that I shan’t bore you with! When Jon said he was reviewing classic who on his channel, I practically bit his hand off! 😂 Glad you’re enjoying the reviews and it’s lovely to see you again Doug 💙

I’ve ordered Daryl’s calendar too!

​@@starryeyedwho. Hi Sarah, lovely to hear from you . I miss our little chats. It's clear you guys are having fun. I totally agree with you regarding Classic Doctor Who. In fact I even put together a little video on growing up with Doctor Who on my channel. I don't think I'm unique in this but, I often link landmark moments in my life with memories of favourite TV and Movies ( much like music prompts memories) and Doctor Who looms large in my happy memories. I hope you are well and happy 💙

@@boomerdoug4242 I’m very well thank you love. It’s just been a difficult 6 months. Aww I miss you too but you’ll be seeing and hearing from me much more regularly soon! Yes we are having a ball and I’m looking forward to doing more. I didn’t know you had a channel Doug. What’s it called? 💙

Hi Divining Dragon thanks for the great feedback. We had a great time with this one and like you I think they missed a trick not going back to Marinus with Troughton that would have been great. 👍

Agree completely

Hi @Diviningdragon Marco Polo is incredible and like you I wish this one was found and we had it in colour. It’s such a good story and I would say the strongest of the historicals. I love how it plays like a Travel program with Marco Polo narrating the journey with his journal. I have only ever listened to the audio recording. You will definitely have to come on the channel when it’s convenient you would fit right in. 👍

Hi Roy, Thanks for the comment. I completely agree with you. During the original Doctor Who era they were limited by technology and although they still tried new things that sometimes didn’t come off they at least made sure they made they developed the scripts. I hope you are enjoying the channel? We are recording The Aztecs and Reign of Terror this weekend so a new recording will be dropping Monday at 18:00 (UK) 🙂👍

Hi Divining Dragon thanks for your comments. I agree this story not only launched an iconic monster/villain for the Doctor but blasted this show into the atmosphere with regards to its popularity. We are recording Aztecs and Reign of Terror next weekend and that’s season 1 complete. Looking forward to Dalek Invasion of Earth and trust me we haven’t forgotten about the Cushing movies! 🙂👍

Hi Divining Dragon good to see you mate. You will have to come on one of our reviews. 🙂👍

This boxset is going to be amazing. 🙂👍

Thanks for the nice comment TimeLordRavon. Hopefully we will have you as a regular viewer. We are doing reviews of Classic Doctor Who weekly so let us know what you think. 🙂👍

@@Sci-FiChronicles79 oh yes ,that would be ,like the ninth doctor said :"Fantastic."

@@Sci-FiChronicles79 I have subscribed to you

That’s as you say “Fantastic” thanks for joining us on the Journey. Our Review of The Aztecs goes live at 18:00 tonight (UK) so feel free to let us know what you think. 🙂

@@Sci-FiChronicles79 yeah thx u ,my vid sbout the Faleks will be Released on13th August at 6pm

Thanks for the great feedback Doug. Glad you are enjoying it as much as we are having fun making them. Great to have you along for the journey. 🙂👍

Thanks, Doug, glad you're watching! These are extremely fun to do

@@gar535 Glad to be onboard I can tell you guys are having fun

Hi Doug Glad you enjoyed it we had a blast recording this one. Glad you enjoyed the colourised version I have it in the collection but it just didn’t work for me. Like you the original in always the one I go to just because it’s been a lovely companion since I was a kid. 🙂 We recorded a couple today The Keys of Marinus which will go live Monday at 18:00 UK and The Aztecs that will go live a week Monday at 18:00. Our schedule will be Monday nights and we will also be looking to discuss other sci-fi shows and movies that will go out on other nights.

@@Sci-FiChronicles79 Excellent 👍

Very true. New Who misses the serialized format, where we can only digest half an hour at a time, maybe once a week. I think the binge process loses something in terms of a show creating a cultural touchstone that lasts generations. Young people DON'T know what they are missing.

Thanks for noticing I just put this one up as a text mate! Its such a very good and regeneration. :)

Hi @Dougsims4242 thanks for subscribing and great to have you onboard. Let me know your channel so I can subscribe mate. :)

@@Sci-FiChronicles79 youtube.com/@dougsims4242?si=5YVMeIHAJ361fMf2 This should take you there. Otherwise type BOOMER DOUG......NOT Boomer DOG....which I just found out also exists.🫣 I've had some crazy views on a couple of videos. I have no idea what I'm doing, but loving people sharing childhood memories of classic shows they love

Oh! I found it today! I'm going to be following this! Classic Who!!!

​​​@@diviningdragonwelcome aboard DD. These are nice chats by two knowledgeable guys clearly enjoying themselves. Gary AKA Retro Doc joins the team in future episodes. Well worth your time 👍

Thanks Doug. Paul is a good friend of mine and this is a project we have wanted to do for ages. Glad to have you along for the ride mate. :)

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It’s the original broadcast version for me it’s so good but I do think they could have trimmed it down to six episodes.