HEADING FOR A FALL...

Meeting his demise in the best Frankenstein's Monster tradition, the evil rebirth of the Time Lord megalomaniac Morbius is now at an end, as the mind/creature falls over a cliff within the spooky, lightening-lashed world of Karn, challenged by the fierce determination of the local Sisterhood witches. Great art by Tom Connell, a commission that appeared in one of the early UK DVD files magazines for the Classic Series.

My memories of The Brain of Morbius from its original transmission are near complete, especially the opening episode, many of the scenes with the Sisterhood of Karn, and the grisly moments that would make Mary Whitehouse boil over with rage, including Condo's brutal shooting and Morbius's brain glooping out of its container! 

Gothic glory days, indeed! 

CLASSIC ART: THE PERTWEE ERA

Heroes, villains and monsters galore, the colourful and exciting Jon Pertwee era of Doctor Who cemented the show's popularity with audiences for years to come, of which all are well showcased in this lovely image composition by Lee Johnson.

THE KROTONS EMERGENT!

Now charged with enough crystalline energy absorption needed to reactivate both themselves and their massive ship, the two Kroton bio-robots are now planning the further enslavement, or destruction, of the weakened Gond populace that live in their thrall, in a memorable moment from The Krotons, the first repeated Patrick Troughton adventure (in 1981) on BBC TV since 1968! 

The Krotons ★★★ | Radio Times

OUT NOW FROM BBC PHYSICAL AUDIO: 'WHAT STILL REMAINS'

Caught in a Temporal Cycle Overrun, the TARDIS deposits the Seventh Doctor and Ace on a mysterious Earth space station precariously kept in place, by time manipulation, around an unusual neutron star. The station's meagre crew, the majority of whom have prior disappeared in mysterious circumstances still being investigated, hope to harness the unique powers of a mysterious object removed from the star that could ultimately help solve Earth's ongoing energy crisis. But there's more to this 'object' than meets the eye, as the Doctor soon discovers the shocking truth about its function and history. Can the building crisis around them be stopped before the annihilation factor begins?

Beware the Time Decay. Beware the shadow! 

Adam Christopher delivers a technobabble heavy but enjoyable space adventure story for the Seventh Doctor's era that is well told by the versatile fan favourite Sophie Aldred, who effectively brings out a fun Scottish burr in vocalising Sylvester McCoy's unique and enigmatic Time Lord.

Get What Still Remains here:

Doctor Who: What Still Remains: 7th Doctor Audio Original: Amazon.co.uk: Christopher, Adam: 9781529940671: Books

FROM THE DEPTHS...

It's well known that there are all kinds of nasty things within the legendary London River Thames, but who could ever in their wildest dreams (or nightmares!) expect an iconic patrol Dalek emerging from its depths...

 A genuinely classic scene from The Dalek Invasion of Earth, which I'm sure excited audiences young and old enjoyed no end back in the day, hungry for their return phenomenon..

DESTINATION: SHANGRI-LA!

The era of Rock 'n Roll meets the Doctor and Mel as they travel with other aliens to a unique holiday destination experience. All goes relatively well until the arrival of the brutal Gavrok and his Bannerman mercenaries, in pursuit of the mysterious fugitive, the Chimeron Queen, in the popular and nostalgic three-parter Delta and the Bannerman. Personally, I prefer the intriguing original title for the story: Flight of the Chimeron.

Great Lee Johnson art composition for Doctor Who - The Complete History.

'THE TRIAL OF A TIME LORD' AT 40: THE MYSTERIOUS PLANET!

Within the strange environs of Marb Station, on the planet whose strange underground inhabitants refer to it as 'UK Habitat', the Doctor faces a brutal stoning for accidently traversing the human's cultural water conservation. Luckily, his umbrella saves the day for our colourful hero, from the colony's most-eager-to-kill residents. 

The late Robert Holmes scripts for episodes 1-4 of The Trial of A Time Lord may have taken an undeserved structural battering from the idiots of the BBC's then Sixth Floor, but the story's intriguing and quirky opening episode was nonetheless a triumph and warmly received by critics and viewers on its original transmission.