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WATCH ALONG | CLASSIC DOCTOR WHO | 2x39 | The Time Meddler: Checkmate
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Comments
Chris Brooker
This is such a significant story for Who - the first other member of the Doctors (as yet unnamed) race, aside from Susan, history can be changed, the first post-Ian and Barbara story. And it’s a good one. Steven and Vicki make a really good Tardis team that, sadly, wasn’t given enough time to fully blossom. And now we enter the era of heavily missing stories
Ian Smith
There is unfortunately (as you've discovered from watching the next story) a huge gap between this and The Ark. So many lost (or, annoyingly) incomplete stories - including an epic 12 parter!
Malcolm Wolf
On the topic of the Doctor being "snippy", I recall the original plot had to be reshot because the actor came across as too aggressive. I wonder if writers wrote him that way just because he was quite a grump often anyway. Vicki smiling while the Doctor was getting grumpy was a bit of a reflection of real life, as often the actress would stop the actors' tantrums by using a bit of humour and being cheeky towards him.
