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Time Ram takes on alien jungle and inconsistent Morestrans as we translate Tom Baker’s ‘The Planet of Evil’ into the Sylvester McCoy era. In the process we uncover apologetic guns, unusual hospital design and cult show The Chunderbirds!

(*Number of E's in EEEVIL subject to change)

(It should be noted that this episode was recorded some time ago, before the result of the American election was known, and also before other recent revelations about a certain TV fantasy writer...)

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Time Ram suffers from assegai-envy as we take Sylvester McCoy’s ‘Ghost Light’, add a soupçon of extra companions and serve again for Jodie Whittaker! Features creepy museums, random glowing ostrich eyes and comedy Groucho Marx walks. It’s time to go to Java (by boat).

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The Reckless and the Carer ✨🤍

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Marvelous! A great version of what I suspect is one of our sillier episodes

Time Ram - Armageddon Comes to Milton Jeavons

It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine. Why? Because it's in an alternate reality where The End of the World was a Tom Baker story; one where Lady Cassandra is a bald, silver Penelope Keith, where Leela, Jeb Jajubjajoo (Bob Hoskins), and the decaying Robo-Pleasance fight to survive on a dying Earth, and where K-9 helps a blue plumber played by Helen Mirren fight the Living Skins from The Tomorrow People in an oversized air duct. Better put the Beatles on the iPod, because this is one wind that will be so mighty as to lay low the mountains of the Earth!

alt. versions under cut

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Time Ram goes all mystery and suspense as we turn our focus to Peter Capaldi’s ‘Death to the Daleks’. Probably. Music cues! Von Daniken! Voices like angels! Roots! Helen Mirren and an unlikely late appearance by Paul Darrow! It’s all going on. HOO-HAR!

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Hurrah! (Don't mention the statue...)

Time Ram - 1964: Year of the Dragon

I wanted to try and get this done while the Year of the Dragon is ongoing, so I did scrape through with a few weeks to go!

The Doctor's loss of Susan is fresh, but his next adventure is going to be absolutely frozen as the TARDIS arrives on Iceworld and encounters cheerful waitresses, mercury-powered freezers, space pirates, and ice-cold criminals. The Doctor has a literal cliffhanger. Vicki throws away her pinnie and flips over a coin. Belazs gets a proper character arc. Kane is building an ice statue of his lost love. That... is ice, right? RIGHT?

Alternate versions below the cut

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Katarina's sacrifice

AKA: That time I spent ages trying to draw a scene from an episode that no longer exists for a character that only appeared in a few episodes in the 60's.

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First of all, I love that you're keeping a spreadsheet! Secondly, yeah, that's a really good tie-in and information I should add to my own master document when I get around to updating it...

Sometimes when we release these episodes it seems like they're going out into a void, so I'm delighted to hear that we helped you on your drive home. That really makes it feel worthwhile. Thank you for your kind words and enjoy the holidays!

Time Ram is better than a Time War as we take our expansive Christmas extravaganza and investigate special episode ‘Day of the Doctor’! Packed full of frilly shirts, yellow horses heads, felt tips and Benton’s infinite cup of coffee alongside all kinds of seasonal treats. Join us for a verse or two of Surely it’s Susan.

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Time Ram is better than a Time War as we take our expansive Christmas extravaganza and investigate special episode ‘Day of the Doctor’! Packed full of frilly shirts, yellow horses heads, felt tips and Benton’s infinite cup of coffee alongside all kinds of seasonal treats. Join us for a verse or two of Surely it’s Susan.

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Loving the alt gingerbread man! Most definitely a better idea than Percy Pig...

Time Ram - The Jollity Patrol

It's always Christmas on Terra Alpha. The overpowering stench of peppermint pervades the air, the Chuckle Brothers are armed with sniper rifles, and Humbugs will be shot on sight. So when that grumpy old Doctor arrives, it's not for gingerbread and Christmas cheer, but Segway chases, tonic water, and Jazz Agents. It's Theresa May, not Margaret Thatcher; Stycorax, not Sycorax; Percy Pig, not Bertie Basset*, as the Doctor and Nardole battle the Jollity Patrol.

*alt. versions with gingerbread man Kandyman below the cut, because I had a vision that wouldn't leave me. He could even say "Run, run, fast as you can, you'll never escape the Kandyman." Or words to that effect.

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Katarina Rough Sketch

For his Patreon reward, a patron gave me a challenge: a drawing of Katarina, one of the companions of the First Doctor—who exists mostly in missing episodes. (There is one complete episode with her as well as a brief clip of her last *harrowing* scene.) This is the very rough preliminary sketchbook drawing for the upcoming finished reward. (Spot the Doctor!) https://www.patreon.com/posts/katarina-rough-16733172

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Mood.

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Stephen Taylor and Dodo Chaplet! I didn’t appreciate these two enough on my first watch through. Maybe I’ll have to go through again…

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Time Ram is joined by our special guest – journalist and comedian Steven Palace – to review (or roast?) Victory of the Daleks which we have transplanted from the Matt Smith era to Jon Pertwee. In this way, we experience Schroedinger’s pregnancy, stupid science, T-Rexes made from old carpet and the Teletubbie Daleks! It’s all Totally Terry Nation…

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May the starsheep bring you home

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be the doctor who artist you want to see in the world. zygon in a dress.