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  • Doctor Who Recap: Season 1

    Doctor Who Recap: Season 1: Episode 13: The Brink of Disaster

    Posted on February 4, 2012 | No Comments
    With the fast tracked script, also came the time sensitive nature of filming. Due to budge restrictions, most episodes were allowed only one take.  William Hartnell was gradually succumbing to the disease which would eventually rob him of his memories.  Viewers may notice when he...

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  • Doctor Who Recap: Season 1

    Doctor Who Recap: Season 1: Episode 10: The Ordeal

    Posted on January 14, 2012 | No Comments
    Climbing over styrofoam boulders and pushing their way through plastic leaves and branches, Ian, Barbara and the small group of Thals continue their search for a secret way into the Dalek City via the mountains. The viewer is treated to several ‘swaps’ between the journey...

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  • Doctor Who Recap: Season 1: Episode 8: The Ambush

    Posted on December 17, 2011 | No Comments
    The Time Travelers’ plan works, and they stumble through the Dalek City, whilst initially the Doctor and Susan push the Dalek around  and Ian struggles to work out how to control the Dalek from the inside. However, they are discovered when questioned by another Dalek....

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  • Doctor Who Recap: Season 1: Episode 7: The Escape

    Posted on December 10, 2011 | No Comments
    Susan struggles out of the city and into the (very fake) forest, where she meets an attractive athletic man who identifies himself as Alydon of the Thal race. It would seem that the Daleks perception of mutation is a little different to ours. Thankfully, the...

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  • Doctor Who Recap: Season 1: Episode 6: The Survivors

    Posted on December 3, 2011 | No Comments
    With Barbara lost in the deserted city, the time travellers continue to search and explore their surroundings, not only for their missing companion, but for mercury they need to fill up a vital piece of the Tardis. They begin to weaken, feeling the effects of...

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  • Doctor Who Recap: Season 1: Episode 5 :The Dead Planet

    Posted on November 26, 2011 | No Comments
    When the Doctor announces that they have landed, they discover his calculations and navigation have brought them to a petrified forest presumably on a planet far away from Earth. The Tardis needs time to recalibrate, which leaves the travellers at a lose end. The forest...

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  • Doctor Who Recap: Season 1: Episode 4: The Fire Maker

    Posted on November 19, 2011 | No Comments
    Sadly, just as the Doctor and the companions reach the Tardis, they are captured and brought back to the cave by Kai. Kal repeats his story that Zaw killed the old woman. The Doctor points out that Za’s knife is clean but Kal’s knife is...

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  • Doctor Who Recap: Season 1: Episode 3 :The Forest of Fear

    Posted on November 12, 2011 | No Comments
    Huddled in the back of the cave, they focus on the skulls which have been spilt wide open.  While the tribe sleeps huddled up like kittens, the old crone wakes and steals a sharpened stone.  She makes her way into the blocked up cave by...

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  • Doctor Who Recap: Season 1: Episode 2 : The Skull of the Caves

    Posted on November 5, 2011 | No Comments
    Where better to take new passengers in a wild trip throughout time, than the dawn of history? With a brass band backing announcing impending doom, the Doctor and his party are unconvincingly captured by a dirty and rag – tag tribe who are trying to...

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  • Doctor Who Recap: Season 1: Episode 1: Unearthly Child

    Posted on October 29, 2011 | No Comments
    The iconic Doctor Who brand has recently enjoyed a resurgence of popularity, attracting new fans who now rub shoulders with the steadfast old guard. Doctor Who is listed in the Guinness book of Records as the longest running science fiction television show, even so, its...

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