FEMININE FIREPOWER!

Chumbley in tow, the ruthless commander Maaga (an excellent performance from the first rate Stephanie Bidmead) and her trained female Dhravin clone soldiers are ready for action as the planet they have crash-landed on enters its death-throes. A very sixties posed photo shoot for the appealing little First Doctor Season Three launcher, Galaxy 4.

More on the 'Missing Episodes', of which Galaxy 4 is a part:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWh2umpPHX0

JUST YOUR AVERAGE HORNY LITTLE DEVIL!

Released from the dark bonds of his shadowy prison existence, the fearsome horned beast that is The Destroyer is let loose to wreak havoc in our universe, and especially against our Time Lord hero. An impressive visual creation for the Seventh Doctor adventure Battlefield.

TOO CLEVER BY HALF!

The original series may have had only a few female enemies for the Doctor to tackle, but they were certainly all excellent. Even better, with Colin Baker's era we were introduced to a new Time Lord opponent with the Rani, and who better to play the cruel and intellectual scientist than the charismatic, stunning cat-eyed beauty Kate O'Mara. And she had a state of the art, very groovy new TARDIS to pilot, too!

BEYOND GREEN FINGERS WORK!

The indoor garden centre and hanging plants of the TARDIS have certainly gotten out of control these days, yet prove a perfect hiding place for the Doctor and his friends to evade those pesky 'Cockney' Sontarans no less, near the finale to The Invasion of Time. I wonder if that Venus Fly Trap-like/Little Shop of Horrors-esque creature still resides inside the TARDIS?!

The site sends a very Happy Birthday to everyone's favourite Jelly Baby-eating fourth incarnation-  Tom Baker - on his 85th!

THE FOOLS ARMY!

There was clearly lots of fun to be had on location for Jon Pertwee's second season opener Terror of the Autons, and especially when the Radio Times magazine turned up to do a special cover shoot- as can be seen here with this great image of Nicholas Courtney as the Brigadier, inspecting some new recruits from Robert Brother's Circus, in 1970.

TARDIS UNDER ATTACK!

Beyond reading his novelisations, and seeing near-mythic episodic pics in magazines of my youth, The Krotons, shown during the landmark BBC 2 repeats season 1981 The Five Faces of Doctor Who (thumbs up to JN-T on getting that landmark five-week run through, back in the day!), was my first proper experience of watching Patrick Troughton's Doctor Who, and I was quickly very impressed with him in the role. The story itself is basic but efficient from Robert Holmes, and not the clanger the Whovian critics might have you think. The scene above, where the TARDIS is attacked by one the crystalline Krotons, is certainly a memorable moment.

Five Faces season BBC 2 TV trailer:
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x158xpc

TIME OF THE MALUS!

Dormant for over a hundred years, the malignant, energy draining Harkol Probe, aka the Malus, begins to break out of its Earthly bonds in a terrific image from the Season 21 gem The Awakening, an Earth-based story which would have benefited from the kind of three-part length explorations that the McCoy era would later enjoy. A distinctive alien creature, via effects whiz Tony Harding, whom we hope might get a little bit more animated with a future official Season Blu-ray release, perhaps?

WHEN HARTNELL BOWED OUT...

The coming of the Mondasian Cybermen and the end of the First Doctor's lifecycle combine to make The Tenth Planet an intriguing finale to William Hartnell's groundbreaking three-year run. It's just a shame that illness saw the actor not able to appear in the story's third episode, especially after a great early dramatic speech his Doctor makes against the newly-arrived creatures in the previous installment. Though we have the excellent animated version of the missing last episode, plus the infamous Blue Peter regeneration snippet, to enjoy, the overall aura of the Doctor's first magical regeneration/'rejuvenation' must have been an amazing and never-to-be-forgotten thing to see live on small B/W TV sets back in 1966.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmXoHKzp4Lc

Terrific art by Andrew Skilleter for an aborted BBC VHS release for The Tenth Planet back in the 90's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk1vRAtz-JA