I try to picture the current Chibnall era attempting to handle a story like Pyramids of Mars. And as soon as we get to Sutekh's line 'Abase yourself before me you insect.' all I can hear is Jodie Whittaker saying 'oh now, that's a bit rude.' Fantastic review of an era of Who I was lucky enough to watch on original broadcast as an 8 year old. And there wasn't a single story that didn't terrify me. Job well done, Robert Holmes, job well done.
the way you're dragging Harry 😭😭😭 What's he supposed to do? Keep an extra little outfit in his blazer pocket ~just in case~? "I say, I'm jolly glad I brought along my #justgotkidnappedfit!" /j
I play a lot of scrabble and I can tell you (if you're interested, and I just know you are) that "kraal" is a real word meaning a cattle enclosure. You're very welcome. P.S. This is probably the very best season of Tom's era. Seeds of Doom is bloody amazing.
These reviews of the classic series are great. They're funny and spot on when it comes to the stories. They bring me back to watching Doctor Who on PBS early Saturday afternoons after a morning of cereal and cartoons when I was a kid before I got kicked outside for the rest of the day. Terror of the Zygons was always a favorite.
It's a shame that Robert Banks Stewart couldn't contribute more to the show. His stories, as fantastic in nature as they may have been, had a grittiness to them that grounded them in the real world. The part in Zygons where Harry cops a head-shot, and the more Earthly criminal elements of Seeds Of Doom were what made them classics.
I was born in 1970 and grew up with Doctor Who , especially Tom Baker. This season really did scare the crap out of me. Seeing this really is a blast from the past. Well done , love your work.
Tom Bakers 4th dr was seen driving motor cars in 3 stories in Robot he drives a UNIT Land-Rover and also his yellow car Bessie in Terror of the Zygons the car the the 4th Dr drives is a UNIT Land-Rover and finally in Seeds of Doom he drives a big black car a Limousine AKA a Daimler
In Australia we were initially denied the stories " Horror of Fang Rock" , " Brain of Mobius" and "deadly Assassin" . The were given an R rating and couldn't be shown in the children's time slot that Dr Who normally occupied. I remember "Brain of Mobius: being show later at night a few years later
Yes. I don't know what the deal is/was in Australia, but I didn't see Brain of Morbius and Deadly Assassin until years later when I was an adult (still am). Although I did see Horror of Fang Rock as a kid. Fang Rock and Seeds of Doom, especially when they are being chased around in the snow by the plant monster, or when they're holding Sarah's arm when the egg is hatching scared the absolute crap out of me as a six-year-old. Also when the Marcus comes from down that time tunnel-thingy in Pyramid of Mars and the ground smokes wherever he plants his feet and then he grabs the Egyptian by the shoulders which instantly start burning him--holy shit--I watched a lot of Dr Who from behind the kitchen cupboards or even the fridge...
Seeds of doom is my favourite old school Dr Who episode, and I have no idea why the Krinoid has never featured again, especially in the new series that loved to recycle tropes over and over (another Dalek episode anyone?)
Whenever I ask my mum about when she first saw doctor who she always tells me the one with the plants scared her the witless. She used to hide behind her fingers and watch it.
Pyramids of Mars, an evil Egyptian God on an alien planet through a Stargate who wants to conquered the galaxy.......... what an amazing idea, I'm surprised the idea was never ripped off and used as the basis of another sci-franchise.
Pyramids of Mars was the first episodes that my best friend in 4th grade tried to hook me on Dr. Who with. It didn't catch fire then, but it stayed in my mind and when I was older and re-discovered the 4th Doctor, I was all over it this time. Never looked back.
I agree with Terror of the Zygons’ score by Geoffrey Burgon. It truly is fantastic & so haunting and my favourite 4th Dr score (followed closely by Genesis of the Daleks, The Seeds of Doom, The Brian of Morbius and City of Death). However I do think the other guest composers (not Dudley Simpson) did well also and I personally find them more interesting then Dudley’s latter music Season 9 onwards. The Silurians, Death to the Daleks & Revenge of the Cybermen by Carey Blyton are very clever & thought through which just sound very jaunty & cheesy to modern ears. The Sea Devils by Malcolm Clarke is so alien, aquatic & atmospheric. The Mutants by Tristram Cary is just so alien & freely which suits the images of the Mutants & it’s alien world. And Inferno?...Do I even need to talk about how fantastic that stories sound design is, especially Delia Derbyshire & Brian Hodgson’s atmospheric & haunting Stock Music Tracks
@@StamFine I’m not saying I didn’t like Dudley’s scores. On the contrary, from Season 3 to 9, his scores were often smothered best in the show. I mean scores like The Celestial Toymaker, Evil of the Daleks, Fury from the Deep, The Seeds of Death, The War Games, Spearhead from Space, The Ambassadors of Death, Terror of the Autons, The Claws of Axos & The Curse of Peladon are some of my favourites in the shows entire history. However, from The Time Monster all the way to his final score, The Horns of Nimon, I felt like his music while satisfying, weren’t anything special or memorable. It seems like instead of creating memorable tunes & styles, he decided to focus on atmosphere & inconspicuous. It works and there’s nothing exactly wrong with it but it does mean they aren’t that interesting. Much like Murray Gold from Series 5 to Series 10, it worked but did feel like he had ran out of tunes do styles, with only scores like Planet of the Daleks, The Sontaran Experiment, Genesis of the Daleks, The Brain of Morbius, The Robots of Death, The Sun Makers, The Invasion of Time and City of Death being actually memorable & interesting. It also doesn’t help that Dudley didn’t keep any of his music, with only 4 of his 62 scores existing in their entirety, while all of the guest composers from the Troughton era onwards did keep their music, which means they can be enjoyed on their own and appreciated as just music itself
@@theevildalek5425 Dudley made the mistake of assuming his original tapes were being kept safely by the BBC. He was quite upset when he realised most of them had been wiped and re-used! The other composers requested (and therefore got) lower-speed (usually 3.75 IPS) "listening copies" made from the original 15 IPS masters.
Seeds of Doom was the only occasion when Dr Who scared me. It was the scene when the tentacle (?) shot out of the seed and attached itself to the man's face.
[NODS] It was one that I failed to audio-tape when it first aired (no money for fresh tapes!), and I quickly regretted it, so I was so glad when they repeated it the following year. It quickly became one of my favourite stories to listen to. Even with long stretches without dialogue (e.g. towards the end of parts two and four), the soundtrack tells the story through such a perfect blend of music and sound effects (despite the regular "Special Sound" provider Dick Mills being absent; Peter Howell fills in brilliantly!), not to mention all those little tell-tale sounds that actors make when physically playing out a scene: A footfall here, an aggressive grunt or an exasperated sigh there, the clonk of Sorenson's flask of antidote landing on the desk...
Despite the weaknesses of their (to date) one and only story, I always thought the design of the kraals was terrifying. It would be great to see them back some day in nu-Who, considering how much better modern makeup techniques could make them look.
Seeds of Doom was my first ever view of Doctor Who, and like you said of the season in general it scared the s*** out of me to the point that it was going to be my last. But the another rightly convinced me that I would like Doctor Who if I gave it another go. Going back and watching that episode it was a pretty good episode, but it was first broadcast in Australia just a bit too early for my childhood to handle it.
Stam Fine, your videos are amazing!!! Cant believe the views you've got. The quality is good enough for a tv show. Extremely enjoyable to watch and very knowledgeable. I love Dr who and these vids cover the golden age. Keep up the good work !!!
Have you seen the special features of the DVD? Oh Mummy! tells the story of Sutekh after the events of the story and there's a gag about the hand that held down the cushion.
Bit harsh on the Skarasen, it was one of the most well done of all the giant monsters on old Who, better than Kroll, Robot, Myrka. Not perfect but has its moments
Started watching Dr Who at Planet of the Spiders, so was well into the series by this series. All are absolutely brilliant stories. A high point for Who IMO 👏
Pyramids of Mars was my favorite Doctor Who serial, I owned the VHS tape (in movie format, of course), and played it endlessly. Like many diehard fans, I would consider the “gothic horror” period to be the show’s great peak. And now I really want to watch some episodes.
This season is legit Hammer Horror. All that's missing is Christopher Lee. Perhaps Morbius could've regenerated from a triple-donged Frankenstein into a Gallifreyan Dracula. Would've made the already brilliant story even more perfect.
Oh wow, yeah! I remember when I first saw people eating pizza on an American sitcom, and I was like: "*What* is *THAT* ?!? They... they just grab chunks off this big flat thing in a box on the floor... and then they *eat* them? With gooey stuff dripping off the sides like that? Where are their table manners?!?" =:oo "Pay Day Pizza" is now a favourite monthly treat. No table required. =:o}
My mum sat me down in front of Seeds of Doom, aged 5, during it's original run. I was scared shitless and had nightmares about being fed into a mulching machine for years.
These are seriously amazing though -- the blend between 1) series background, 2) review, 3) humor, and 4) production is awesome! Keep up the good work!
Apparently the bit in Brain of Morbius is a ad-lib. Solon admiring the doctors head, Doctor: "... I have had several, I used to have an old grey model before this, some people liked it." Sarah (Elizabeth Sladen's ad-lib) : "I did."
Our audience is increasing steadily. Most channels take a few years to really get going, ours started September 19, so we're on track. Also, deep dives on 1970's Doctor Who are just things we like rather than something we expect everyone would watch.
A reminder that the IKEA Big Book of Egyptology arrives as a large bag of individuality printed letters that you assemble at home. Comes complete with a size 5 Allen key.
When ordering zygon pizza, down it with some ginger pop and then lie down on a kraal bed until Dr Solon's stomach pump arrives... 🤣 Tom ensures its hard to believe 6 or 12 or 86999999+ actors played it... your review of this season is as great ot the season itself! ❤
It is interesting as most people think the film the Thing they think of the John Carpenter gorefest but Seeds of Doom is actually closer to the Thing from another world which was a Howard Hawks movie from the 1950's which was a walking plant creature
I must be in the minority in loving (Forbidden) Planet of Evil. I remember when it first aired and I found several aspects of it to be truly horrifying!
IMO season 13 was awesome but the way the UNIT concept was finally abandoned and dropped after 5 years as a regular feature could have been done millions of times better and I wonder how season 12 and 13 would have worked as sixth and seventh seasons of Jon Pertwees tenure could Terror of the Zygons Planet of Evil Pyramids of Mars the Android Invasion Brain of Morbius and finally Seeds of Doom have worked with Jon Pertwee . The Android Invasion is fckg terrible in the sense that the 2 UNIT regulars Harry Sullivan and Sergeant John Benton make their swansong in Dr Who and neither man ever comes back to to the classic series of Dr Who and some people think the way UNIT was dropped from Dr Who after 5 years from 1970 to 1975 was not as well done and the UNIT concept had become very tired and very stale by the debut of Tom Bakers 4th dr and the fact Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge Stewart was not in the Android Invasion and also Seeds of Doom was a shame in billions of ways but IMO UNIT make their final regular appearance in Dr Who because in Android Invasion the 2 UNIT regulars are mainly androids and in Seeds of Doom none of the UNIT regulars are even present at all and we get 2 generic UNIT characters instead of the regular UNIT team the UNIT characters in Seeds are Major Beresford and Sergeant Henderson who are not a patch on Alistair Lethbridge Stewart and John Benton
Planet of Evil was great on a mínimal budget . You are very wrong. A great episode! Thats what good writing does! There was palpable sense of menace ! Almost evey episode of this season Was above average, with the exception of Android Invasión!
Seeds of Doom was good, should gave been 4 episodes. I agree that Elizabeth Sladen may have been best companion ever. However, Pertwee teaching Jo Grant to expand her mind and Tom Baker's doctor to Leela's Eliza Doolitte., as well as , Romnana II saying " Get on with it , Doctor!" ( very few companions complained about the Doctor) the best . But, ok Sarah Jane Smith.
Really Bakers second season all the way too his penultimate season it's all A Class Dr Who with even the bad stories are way better then anything you have in the 1980's Time flight time lash and Time and the Rani, as well as basically all Dr Who since Flatline in the new show.
You are too hard on "Android Invasion". It may be one of the weakest for that season, but considering we're experiencing the apex season of classic Who, I'll gladly give it a pass considering what the seasons were like s few years later.
I’ve always found this season to be a mixed bag. Dr Who during this era really turned into a horror program, which given their budget and Tom Baker’s moody baritone worked extremely well, at least in theory. And while “Terror Of The Zygons” is appropriately creepy and “Pyramids Of Mars” an absolute classic, I think the rest of the season veers from dull to awful. “Planet of Evil” has those great jungle sets but some bad guest performances and makes little sense. I just found it to be unpleasant. “The Android Invasion” as you noted starts out creepy but gets silly and stupid and feels like a real wasted opportunity. “Morbius” is painfully sluggish but features several good performances and is an interesting twist on Frankenstein. At least we get a little time lord back story out of it. “Seeds Of Doom” starts out as a decent rip off of John Campbell’s Who Goes There?, which was adapted twice as The Thing for cinema. Unfortunately it drags out endlessly after the first two episodes and - in spite of some decent-for-Who effects - becomes quite a chore to finish. Like “Planet Of Evil” I ultimately just found it unpleasant. The producers probably had the right idea, taking Who in a horror direction, but a whole season of it became a bit too much, and they really needed more scripts like “Zygons” and “Pyramids” for it to really work, which unfortunately they didn’t have. The next season would have a lot more variety, and end with probably the best three serial run the series ever had, then or now.
Season 13 was a dark and scary place. I think I was about 8 at the time and loved it. Just watched in back on Britbox.....sigh! Sadly today's woke, snowflake world will never make such TV again.
Started watching Dr Who at Planet of the Spiders, so was well into the series by this series. All are absolutely brilliant stories. A high point for Who IMO 👏
Pyramids of Mars is one of my favourite stories. Everything about it just comes together.
I try to picture the current Chibnall era attempting to handle a story like Pyramids of Mars. And as soon as we get to Sutekh's line 'Abase yourself before me you insect.' all I can hear is Jodie Whittaker saying 'oh now, that's a bit rude.'
Fantastic review of an era of Who I was lucky enough to watch on original broadcast as an 8 year old. And there wasn't a single story that didn't terrify me. Job well done, Robert Holmes, job well done.
Gosh Elisabeth Sladen was cute :)
the way you're dragging Harry 😭😭😭 What's he supposed to do? Keep an extra little outfit in his blazer pocket ~just in case~? "I say, I'm jolly glad I brought along my #justgotkidnappedfit!" /j
I play a lot of scrabble and I can tell you (if you're interested, and I just know you are) that "kraal" is a real word meaning a cattle enclosure. You're very welcome.
P.S. This is probably the very best season of Tom's era. Seeds of Doom is bloody amazing.
Yeah Seeds of Doom was disturbing, the whole body horror aspect of it terrified me as a 5 year old, it was demented
These reviews of the classic series are great. They're funny and spot on when it comes to the stories. They bring me back to watching Doctor Who on PBS early Saturday afternoons after a morning of cereal and cartoons when I was a kid before I got kicked outside for the rest of the day. Terror of the Zygons was always a favorite.
This season is definitelly one of my favorites, really like all the Horror themed episodes.
It's a shame that Robert Banks Stewart couldn't contribute more to the show. His stories, as fantastic in nature as they may have been, had a grittiness to them that grounded them in the real world. The part in Zygons where Harry cops a head-shot, and the more Earthly criminal elements of Seeds Of Doom were what made them classics.
I was that kid. Born 1969. It scared the poop right out of me! Wouldn't change a thing 😂
I was born in 1970 and grew up with Doctor Who , especially Tom Baker.
This season really did scare the crap out of me.
Seeing this really is a blast from the past.
Well done , love your work.
A contender for Dr Who's greatest ever season. And for what it's worth, I really like The Android Invasion.
Tom Bakers 4th dr was seen driving motor cars in 3 stories in Robot he drives a UNIT Land-Rover and also his yellow car Bessie in Terror of the Zygons the car the the 4th Dr drives is a UNIT Land-Rover and finally in Seeds of Doom he drives a big black car a Limousine AKA a Daimler
In Australia we were initially denied the stories " Horror of Fang Rock" , " Brain of Mobius" and "deadly Assassin" . The were given an R rating and couldn't be shown in the children's time slot that Dr Who normally occupied. I remember "Brain of Mobius: being show later at night a few years later
Yes. I don't know what the deal is/was in Australia, but I didn't see Brain of Morbius and Deadly Assassin until years later when I was an adult (still am). Although I did see Horror of Fang Rock as a kid. Fang Rock and Seeds of Doom, especially when they are being chased around in the snow by the plant monster, or when they're holding Sarah's arm when the egg is hatching scared the absolute crap out of me as a six-year-old. Also when the Marcus comes from down that time tunnel-thingy in Pyramid of Mars and the ground smokes wherever he plants his feet and then he grabs the Egyptian by the shoulders which instantly start burning him--holy shit--I watched a lot of Dr Who from behind the kitchen cupboards or even the fridge...
I like the way antimatter in Doctor Who and Star Trek was used in the bizarre way Dark Matter is nowadays.
It is strange, therefore evil!!
Seeds of doom is my favourite old school Dr Who episode, and I have no idea why the Krinoid has never featured again, especially in the new series that loved to recycle tropes over and over (another Dalek episode anyone?)
Definitely the scariest era. Those plant creatures and the 3 wangered monster gave me nightmares for years
Whenever I ask my mum about when she first saw doctor who she always tells me the one with the plants scared her the witless. She used to hide behind her fingers and watch it.
"Terror of the Zygons" and "The Seeds of Doom" are my favorites. The Zygons are one of my favorite monsters.
Pyramids of Mars, an evil Egyptian God on an alien planet through a Stargate who wants to conquered the galaxy.......... what an amazing idea, I'm surprised the idea was never ripped off and used as the basis of another sci-franchise.
🤣🤣🤣👍Yeah, maybe they could call it "Stargate" or something.
Pyramids was the first Doctor Who episode I ever watched...and I was hooked.
13:15 the Crinoid Always made me think of The Thing From Another World.
Pyramids of Mars was the first episodes that my best friend in 4th grade tried to hook me on Dr. Who with. It didn't catch fire then, but it stayed in my mind and when I was older and re-discovered the 4th Doctor, I was all over it this time. Never looked back.
Those Mummies scared the crap out of me as a kid despite chasing everyone at only a walking pace. If they could run, would be insanity, lol.
The thing was that even though they weren't fast you knew they were going to get you sooner or later.
I started watching at 4 and a half. By this time I was a Dr Who hardened 6 year old.
Without doubt the witttiest and best coverage of dr who I've ever seen ..and I'm old ! Fantastic work ..
I agree with Terror of the Zygons’ score by Geoffrey Burgon. It truly is fantastic & so haunting and my favourite 4th Dr score (followed closely by Genesis of the Daleks, The Seeds of Doom, The Brian of Morbius and City of Death). However I do think the other guest composers (not Dudley Simpson) did well also and I personally find them more interesting then Dudley’s latter music Season 9 onwards. The Silurians, Death to the Daleks & Revenge of the Cybermen by Carey Blyton are very clever & thought through which just sound very jaunty & cheesy to modern ears. The Sea Devils by Malcolm Clarke is so alien, aquatic & atmospheric. The Mutants by Tristram Cary is just so alien & freely which suits the images of the Mutants & it’s alien world. And Inferno?...Do I even need to talk about how fantastic that stories sound design is, especially Delia Derbyshire & Brian Hodgson’s atmospheric & haunting Stock Music Tracks
Some like Simpson's scores, some people didn't. Burgon's scores where two of those occasions where a different composer worked out really well.
@@StamFine I’m not saying I didn’t like Dudley’s scores. On the contrary, from Season 3 to 9, his scores were often smothered best in the show. I mean scores like The Celestial Toymaker, Evil of the Daleks, Fury from the Deep, The Seeds of Death, The War Games, Spearhead from Space, The Ambassadors of Death, Terror of the Autons, The Claws of Axos & The Curse of Peladon are some of my favourites in the shows entire history. However, from The Time Monster all the way to his final score, The Horns of Nimon, I felt like his music while satisfying, weren’t anything special or memorable. It seems like instead of creating memorable tunes & styles, he decided to focus on atmosphere & inconspicuous. It works and there’s nothing exactly wrong with it but it does mean they aren’t that interesting. Much like Murray Gold from Series 5 to Series 10, it worked but did feel like he had ran out of tunes do styles, with only scores like Planet of the Daleks, The Sontaran Experiment, Genesis of the Daleks, The Brain of Morbius, The Robots of Death, The Sun Makers, The Invasion of Time and City of Death being actually memorable & interesting. It also doesn’t help that Dudley didn’t keep any of his music, with only 4 of his 62 scores existing in their entirety, while all of the guest composers from the Troughton era onwards did keep their music, which means they can be enjoyed on their own and appreciated as just music itself
@@theevildalek5425 Dudley made the mistake of assuming his original tapes were being kept safely by the BBC. He was quite upset when he realised most of them had been wiped and re-used! The other composers requested (and therefore got) lower-speed (usually 3.75 IPS) "listening copies" made from the original 15 IPS masters.
Planet of evil is probably one of my favorite 4th doctor story tbh
Nice to see Only Fools & Horses' John (Boycie) Challis in Seeds of Doom! You get all manner of actors turning up in Who supporting roles...
Found out there's a Stam Fines play list on Spotify. I now drive around booming Dr Who dubstep.
Seeds of Doom was the only occasion when Dr Who scared me. It was the scene when the tentacle (?) shot out of the seed and attached itself to the man's face.
Those androids sans faces were my nightmare fuel. Thanks for the videos!!! 📺📺📺
Planet of Evil is great! Bone chilling baddie, scary sound effects, just a great show.
I completely agree!
[NODS] It was one that I failed to audio-tape when it first aired (no money for fresh tapes!), and I quickly regretted it, so I was so glad when they repeated it the following year. It quickly became one of my favourite stories to listen to. Even with long stretches without dialogue (e.g. towards the end of parts two and four), the soundtrack tells the story through such a perfect blend of music and sound effects (despite the regular "Special Sound" provider Dick Mills being absent; Peter Howell fills in brilliantly!), not to mention all those little tell-tale sounds that actors make when physically playing out a scene: A footfall here, an aggressive grunt or an exasperated sigh there, the clonk of Sorenson's flask of antidote landing on the desk...
These season reviews are superb! Would love to get your take on shows such as Sapphire & Steel, Blake's 7, UFO etc.
I never noticed the hand holding the cushion before lol
Despite the weaknesses of their (to date) one and only story, I always thought the design of the kraals was terrifying. It would be great to see them back some day in nu-Who, considering how much better modern makeup techniques could make them look.
And unlike the Zygons would likely not be ruined!
Seeds of Doom was my first ever view of Doctor Who, and like you said of the season in general it scared the s*** out of me to the point that it was going to be my last. But the another rightly convinced me that I would like Doctor Who if I gave it another go. Going back and watching that episode it was a pretty good episode, but it was first broadcast in Australia just a bit too early for my childhood to handle it.
Best season review on TH-cam of this classic run. Excellent thanks.
Elisabeth Sladen, simply lovely.
Stam Fine, your videos are amazing!!! Cant believe the views you've got. The quality is good enough for a tv show. Extremely enjoyable to watch and very knowledgeable. I love Dr who and these vids cover the golden age. Keep up the good work !!!
Have you seen the special features of the DVD? Oh Mummy! tells the story of Sutekh after the events of the story and there's a gag about the hand that held down the cushion.
I love me some classic who DVD extras, most of them anyway.
Bit harsh on the Skarasen, it was one of the most well done of all the giant monsters on old Who, better than Kroll, Robot, Myrka. Not perfect but has its moments
Oh that's John Challis (Boyce from only fools) in seeds of doom!
Started watching Dr Who at Planet of the Spiders, so was well into the series by this series. All are absolutely brilliant stories. A high point for Who IMO 👏
Pyramids of Mars was my favorite Doctor Who serial, I owned the VHS tape (in movie format, of course), and played it endlessly. Like many diehard fans, I would consider the “gothic horror” period to be the show’s great peak. And now I really want to watch some episodes.
The feature length videos were excellent.
This season is legit Hammer Horror. All that's missing is Christopher Lee. Perhaps Morbius could've regenerated from a triple-donged Frankenstein into a Gallifreyan Dracula. Would've made the already brilliant story even more perfect.
I like the pizza joke with the zygons, although when i first saw this who story when i was a nipper, i had no idea what a pizza was
Oh wow, yeah! I remember when I first saw people eating pizza on an American sitcom, and I was like: "*What* is *THAT* ?!? They... they just grab chunks off this big flat thing in a box on the floor... and then they *eat* them? With gooey stuff dripping off the sides like that? Where are their table manners?!?" =:oo
"Pay Day Pizza" is now a favourite monthly treat. No table required. =:o}
I watched this season on its original run aged 5. It really did scare me shitless, especially Seeds of Doom.
My mum sat me down in front of Seeds of Doom, aged 5, during it's original run. I was scared shitless and had nightmares about being fed into a mulching machine for years.
These are seriously amazing though -- the blend between 1) series background, 2) review, 3) humor, and 4) production is awesome! Keep up the good work!
"I used to have an old gray model; Some people liked it." "I did."
Next season, The Fourth booted SJS off the TARDIS at the wrong place, no reason.
Heh! You suspect he bore a grudge? =:oD
Damn. I was just about to 'like' this when i found is already done so. Keep it up, Stam. Can you do Bergerac next?
Loved all the monsters the golden age of Dr who
Perfect timing since I just finished this season as well
It's a good season.
"scaring the shit out of six-year-olds!"
That was me.
mission accomplished :)
I was 5.
I was negative 30 or something idfk
great review and superb season that was
Apparently the bit in Brain of Morbius is a ad-lib. Solon admiring the doctors head, Doctor: "... I have had several, I used to have an old grey model before this, some people liked it." Sarah (Elizabeth Sladen's ad-lib) : "I did."
Hi, really like your material . Well made interesting and fun ! Can't understand the lack of views . Regards Will
Our audience is increasing steadily. Most channels take a few years to really get going, ours started September 19, so we're on track. Also, deep dives on 1970's Doctor Who are just things we like rather than something we expect everyone would watch.
I grew up on doctor who , can't watch it now ....
Everyone remembers the Doctor Who from when they were young. Kids today love the modern show the same way.
@@StamFine it's viewing figures are at an all time low it's a shadow of its former self it's pc bs
12:16 " MARLENE !! "
A reminder that the IKEA Big Book of Egyptology arrives as a large bag of individuality printed letters that you assemble at home. Comes complete with a size 5 Allen key.
wow, thanks! i forgot how awesome this season was!
Loved the IKEA jokes!! LOL 😂😂😂
When ordering zygon pizza, down it with some ginger pop and then lie down on a kraal bed until Dr Solon's stomach pump arrives... 🤣 Tom ensures its hard to believe 6 or 12 or 86999999+ actors played it... your review of this season is as great ot the season itself! ❤
I absolutely loved Brain of Morbius
It is interesting as most people think the film the Thing they think of the John Carpenter gorefest but Seeds of Doom is actually closer to the Thing from another world which was a Howard Hawks movie from the 1950's which was a walking plant creature
At first it was inevitably compared to Day of the Triffids.
Skorby = Boycie
I must be in the minority in loving (Forbidden) Planet of Evil. I remember when it first aired and I found several aspects of it to be truly horrifying!
this is my fave season!!!!!
I thought the android invasion was the scariest classic who episode
I love the android invasion
PYRAMIDS OF MARS is my favorite story of Season 13 and in my Top 10 overall Doctor Who Stories.
Sisterhood of Slough 😅
Sutek (pyramids of mars) was an interesting villain, likely inspired by something from ancient Sumeria.
Scared the living S**t out of this 5 year old (1976) too😁.
A staple of my childhood. A reason for my curiosity still being alive.
Nice!
Paul Morrow Space 1999
IMO season 13 was awesome but the way the UNIT concept was finally abandoned and dropped after 5 years as a regular feature could have been done millions of times better and I wonder how season 12 and 13 would have worked as sixth and seventh seasons of Jon Pertwees tenure could Terror of the Zygons Planet of Evil Pyramids of Mars the Android Invasion Brain of Morbius and finally Seeds of Doom have worked with Jon Pertwee . The Android Invasion is fckg terrible in the sense that the 2 UNIT regulars Harry Sullivan and Sergeant John Benton make their swansong in Dr Who and neither man ever comes back to to the classic series of Dr Who and some people think the way UNIT was dropped from Dr Who after 5 years from 1970 to 1975 was not as well done and the UNIT concept had become very tired and very stale by the debut of Tom Bakers 4th dr and the fact Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge Stewart was not in the Android Invasion and also Seeds of Doom was a shame in billions of ways but IMO UNIT make their final regular appearance in Dr Who because in Android Invasion the 2 UNIT regulars are mainly androids and in Seeds of Doom none of the UNIT regulars are even present at all and we get 2 generic UNIT characters instead of the regular UNIT team the UNIT characters in Seeds are Major Beresford and Sergeant Henderson who are not a patch on Alistair Lethbridge Stewart and John Benton
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What is the music that plays for the Loch Ness monster bit at 2:30?
Love tom and Sara rush home from work to watch it on npr in Mississippi usa.no trash like we get now.
Please read this in a whispering British accent
Why do all us bad guys whisper everything in half of these bloody episodes?
[WHISPERS:] Because it's cree-ee-ee-ee-eepy! =:o}
Oh Sarah...
Planet of Evil was great on a mínimal budget . You are very wrong. A great episode! Thats what good writing does! There was palpable sense of menace ! Almost evey episode of this season Was above average, with the exception of Android Invasión!
Seeds of Doom was good, should gave been 4 episodes. I agree that Elizabeth Sladen may have been best companion ever. However, Pertwee teaching Jo Grant to expand her mind and Tom Baker's doctor to Leela's Eliza Doolitte., as well as , Romnana II saying " Get on with it , Doctor!" ( very few companions complained about the Doctor) the best . But, ok Sarah Jane Smith.
I must ask, whose version of the theme tune is that at the end of your video, and where can I find it?
So the Zygons had a pizza delivered to Bananaman?....
Really Bakers second season all the way too his penultimate season it's all A Class Dr Who with even the bad stories are way better then anything you have in the 1980's Time flight time lash and Time and the Rani, as well as basically all Dr Who since Flatline in the new show.
I have read the original script for pyramids of mars and it is better than the televised version
Irn Bru = iron brew
made from girders
Three dongs....😂
Morbius?
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Love your reviews but WTF is Urn Bru...think you need to Iron out your accent! ;-)
"Irn Bru: It's made from girders!" =:o]
You are too hard on "Android Invasion". It may be one of the weakest for that season, but considering we're experiencing the apex season of classic Who, I'll gladly give it a pass considering what the seasons were like s few years later.
It’s actually pretty fun tbh
It was fine for at least the first two episodes but fell apart badly towards the end.
I’ve always found this season to be a mixed bag. Dr Who during this era really turned into a horror program, which given their budget and Tom Baker’s moody baritone worked extremely well, at least in theory. And while “Terror Of The Zygons” is appropriately creepy and “Pyramids Of Mars” an absolute classic, I think the rest of the season veers from dull to awful.
“Planet of Evil” has those great jungle sets but some bad guest performances and makes little sense. I just found it to be unpleasant. “The Android Invasion” as you noted starts out creepy but gets silly and stupid and feels like a real wasted opportunity. “Morbius” is painfully sluggish but features several good performances and is an interesting twist on Frankenstein. At least we get a little time lord back story out of it. “Seeds Of Doom” starts out as a decent rip off of John Campbell’s Who Goes There?, which was adapted twice as The Thing for cinema. Unfortunately it drags out endlessly after the first two episodes and - in spite of some decent-for-Who effects - becomes quite a chore to finish. Like “Planet Of Evil” I ultimately just found it unpleasant.
The producers probably had the right idea, taking Who in a horror direction, but a whole season of it became a bit too much, and they really needed more scripts like “Zygons” and “Pyramids” for it to really work, which unfortunately they didn’t have.
The next season would have a lot more variety, and end with probably the best three serial run the series ever had, then or now.
Season 13 was a dark and scary place. I think I was about 8 at the time and loved it. Just watched in back on Britbox.....sigh! Sadly today's woke, snowflake world will never make such TV again.
Virtually every 'Doctor Who' documentary on TH-cam these days has narration by some Aussie trying to be hilarious and failing dismally.
Started watching Dr Who at Planet of the Spiders, so was well into the series by this series. All are absolutely brilliant stories. A high point for Who IMO 👏