WHAT LIES BENEATH...

The legend of the earth being hungry proves true for planet Frontios' human survivor Norna (Lesley Dunlop) and the Fifth Doctor, when they encounter the creepy Tractator creatures for the first time. A memorable cliff-hanger within Christopher H. Bidmead's effective Season Twenty-One space-age adventure, Frontios.

CYBER CHECK A-OK!

The Cybermen's iconic invasion of London via St.Paul's is on hold for a little bit as one of their kind gets a costuming check, in this great behind the scenes shot from the early morning 1968 filming of The Invasion.

More on the story's missing episodes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w3wpLrxRP0

THE ARMY AWAKENS!

Though I have the vaguest of TV watching memories of the Spiridon Iceano bursting through at the end of the story, I never got to fully experience the classic Planet of the Daleks, one of my all-time fave Dalek tales, until the late eighties - thank you, Australasian TV! Up to then, and that magical discovery of classic Pertwee, there were some terrific still images from the tale/sequence that I loved looking at in magazines and sci-fi books for many years, like this atmospheric shot of the frozen Daleks starting to reactivate.

OF 'EDEN' AND 'KRIKKITMEN'!

He'll soon find his arms, his legs, his everythings for that matter, under attack by the hideous green-eyed Mandrels in the captured Eden segment of Professor Tryst's abhorrent CET machine. Until then, there's a chance for a little bit of exploration for the Doctor and Romana on that mysterious world, in this great image from the rather cheap-looking but ideas-packed adventure of unique drug shipments and ship collisions from Season Seventeen, Nightmare of Eden.

And 'ideas-packed' was certainly the mantra from that 1979/80 season's witty and in-demand story editor, and creator of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: Douglas Adams, who'd also contribute the busy and enigmatically-aborted Shada by year's end. Of 2019, one of Adams' unmade but must-read WHO adventures for the Doctor and Romana becomes available in UK paperback, Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen, a tale of xenophobic aliens out for revenge on the galaxy, linked to the most important cricket bowl in history. It's all adapted with evocative and appropriate joie de vivre by James Goss for BBC BOOKS.

Check out the original hardback review:
https://kooltvblog.blogspot.com/2018/01/kool-tv-review-doctor-who-and.html?q=douglas+adams

Get the paperback here:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Doctor-Who-Krikkitmen-Douglas-Adams/dp/1785941062/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1552913714&sr=8-1&keywords=doctor+who+and+the+krikkitmen+paperback

STACKING THE DECK!

A story that's likely best overall represented visually than via audio (with only episode four sadly in existence), the mysterious adventure set within the realms of The Celestial Toymaker has over the years become one fans either love or really hate from the First Doctor's final season. But no one could complain about the performance of the Toymaker himself, from the ever excellent character actor Michael Gough, who'd bring playful humour and subtle cruelty to the role, with the malevolent alien's interactions against the Time Lord (not for the first time as it's revealed in the story) and his separated companions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X0QSZhZ_No

POOL SNACK!

She's dreamed of dipping her feet into the cool clear waters of the renowned Paradise Towers complex, but Mel soon finds them being attacked by a deadly mechanical pool cleaner in this fun posed image of Sylvester McCoy and Bonnie Langford which is an outtake to a publicity image used by Radio Times magazine, back in 1987 promoting the well written if slightly imbalanced Paradise Towers, an intriguing variation on the classic J.G. Ballard sci-fi disturbia High Rise.

MIND OVER MATTER!

What should have been a simple bit of investigating into crooked weapons selling on Thoros Alpha soon turns into a dark and brutal nightmare for the Doctor and Peri. thrust into the world of mind transference, they're reunited with the repulsive space slug business-alien Sil, during Philip Martin's effective second section of The Trial of a Time Lord, also known as Mindwarp, where the antagonistic drama against our hero heats up, concluding its court play with a genuinely chilling finale performance from series departing Nicola Bryant that has stayed in the mind since.

It's great to see the excellent actor Nabil Shaban back playing Sil to devious perfection for an all-new drama from his creator: Sil and the Devil Seeds of Andor:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/SIL-Devil-Seeds-Arodor-Blu-ray/dp/B07NBD1R12/ref=as_li_ss_tl?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1548868173&sr=1-2&linkCode=sl1&tag=dw-single-21&linkId=1a43dc2abc17d29097c4286373b5ab21&language=en_GB