If you were handed the keys to a spacious house, complete with every amenity, and seated on a sprawling property, but every room had a distinct and inescapable unpleasant odor, could you still enjoy the place enough to call it home? If you won a high-performance luxury car, but the trunk (boot) kept popping opening randomly and the radio wouldn’t stop playing “Memories” from Cats at full volume, could you make it your daily commuting vehicle?

It’s difficult to gain the fullest appreciation from something that has so many wonderful characteristics, but simultaneously exhibits egregious flaws. We want to celebrate the positives, and somehow pretend the negatives are at least dismissible, at most misinterpreted. Sure, some aficionados will click their tongues at a crazy straw in the bottle of Châteauneuf-du-Pape, but does that really make it any less exceptional of a vintage?

This week, television editor and fellow Gonna Geek Network podcaster Wil joins us to revel in the story and cringe at the effects of ‘Invasion of the Dinosaurs’. Malcolm Hulke’s script and Paddy Russell’s direction provide the canvas for exceptional cast performances, but the shortcomings of the effects have become infamous legend since 1974. We are consummate optimists, however — so we boldly tackle the pterodactyls, take aim at the T. Rex, and celebrate the many things that make this six-part Pertwee and Sladen something truly memorable, in a good way.

EXTRA: A little “Five Rounds Rapid” Q & A with our new guest!

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• As If You Couldn’t Tell, That Wasn’t Pearl in the Cyberman Suit
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