Classic Rewatch: The Mark of the Rani
Six and Peri are struggling as the Luddites are rioting, the Master is plotting, and there’s a new exiled Gallifreyan to further complicate things.
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Six and Peri are struggling as the Luddites are rioting, the Master is plotting, and there’s a new exiled Gallifreyan to further complicate things.
We’re narrowing to the finalists in our competitive brackets for both the (televised) iterations of the Master, and the (non-companion) Friends of the Doctor.
When one companion washes in, another saunters out, and a third one explodes, it can only mean the Master is back…at least in in some tiny way.
Given random pairings of eight screened portrayals, we decide which Masters are more important to the full Doctor Who story, and who we’d most love to see again.
It feels fitting that as we ready ourselves for the 60th anniversary special in 2023, we have the opportunity to enjoy this gem of a 20th anniversary story from 1983.
A familiar foe puts an unexpected tool to use in a plan to subvert the signing of the Magna Carta, and the Doctor, Tegan, and Turlough are quickly swept into the sword fight. Literally.
Season 19 closes with a story that has too much of some things, not enough of others, and a thing or two that never should have been.
With the unraveling of a scarf and the donning of a smart cricket jumper, the Fifth Doctor’s era begins in earnest in the opening story of Season 19.
At long last, our enjoyment of the Fourth Doctor era in our rewatch of “classic” Doctor Who stories comes to a close with the final story of the 18th season.
With more affection for Anthony Ainley than we can reasonably ‘master’, we collectively praise a well-told and well-executed long-game villain payoff.