Season 7 - Patrick Troughton - The Tomb of the Cybermen

The Tomb of the Cybermen was actually the first classic episode I ever saw and despite the fact that it briefly fooled me into believing that I didn’t really like the classic female companions at all, it is one of my favourite episodes. Patrick Troughton is captivating as the Doctor, he is silly and serious in perfect harmony and his devotion to his companions is palpable. Most of all though, it is his mind that I admire, he watches the people around him with equal parts curiosity and suspicion and isn’t afraid to do what needs to be done.

Season 22 - Patrick Troughton and Colin Baker - 'The Two Doctors'

The Two Doctors saw the return of Patrick Troughton and Frazer Hines to reprise their roles as the second Doctor and his companion Jamie McCrimmon alongside Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant as Peri Brown. In this episode the Sixth Doctor has a vision of his previous self being put to death at the hands of a Sontaran so Peri and her Doctor home in on Patrick Troughton’s whereabouts and race to save his life? 

The Episode is partially based in a very 80s Neon and chrome space station and partially based in a grand manor house estate in Spain where Dastari and Chessene (a genetically enhanced Androgum) are conducting time experiments with the help of the Sontarans which are threatening the very fabric of time itself. It’s always fun to see a Doctor interact with himself and this is the third time that Patrick Troughton returned to his role for a one off episode so it must have been very exciting for the audience at the time who had seen him interact with all of the other Doctors in turn. However there isn’t actually a lot of interaction between the Two Doctors in this episode at all something I was really quite disappointed about. 

My Doctors (Cross Stitch pattern) by Kristy

So in honour of Our Year with the Doctor I decided to have a go at designing a Doctor Who cross stitch pattern and here is the result! (Available to purchase from my Etsy Store 'SnowFallonSea' ) I'm going to be stitching this over the next week so pictures of the finished piece to follow.

Season 10 - Jon Pertwee - The Three Doctors

On the second day of ‘Our Year with the Doctor’ we sat down to watch the 1972 season 10 episode ‘The Three Doctors’. This was a great episode and is a fan-favourite because not only was it released to mark the Doctor’s tenth year of television but it was also the first Doctor Who episode to feature a previous incarnation of the Doctor returning to our screen, alongside the current Doctor. In fact, as the name suggests, this episode featured all three of the early Doctors, William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton and the current Doctor Jon Pertwee.

This episode, much like most episodes of the period, was made up of 4 segments each with a 25 minute duration and was originally aired on 30^th December 1972 and for the following 3 weeks after. This episode introduced a legendary Time Lord known as ‘Omega’, he was initially introduced as an alternative to the Master following the death of Roger Delgado. The intention was to fill the need for a rogue Time Lord character. Omega has often been revered through Time Lord history as one of the founding fathers and the Gallifrey’s ‘greatest hero’, he was a stellar engineer who was working on developing time travel until he was lost and believed dead when his experiments created a supernova and he fell into the resulting black hole.

Day 2 - 'The Three Doctors'

For this evening's Doctor Who viewing Jack and I sat down to watch the the first two 25 minute episodes of the 1972 Doctor who episode 'The Three Doctors'. This was the first ever episode of 'Doctor Who' which saw and old Doctor coming back to meet with a current Doctor. This was also the episode which marked the Tenth anniversary of the Doctor on our television. The first part of this episode aired on 30th December 1972 and ran for 4 weeks.

Review to follow .... :)