#Galaxy 4

[therabbitofrassilon]

this is all the proof I need that vicki pallister is the doctor who character who would describe things as "scrunkly" and "scrimblo" and "onglydoople"

[lost-doctor-who]

My great excitement for The Savages animation aside, real talk, are they ever gonna get this man’s eyes right

[demigodofhoolemere]

Shoutout to my new favorite YouTube comment

[ocean-irl]

Coming soon from Big Finish Productions: “Galaxy 5: Still Drahvin’.”

[legok9]

One of the neatest things about missing episodes getting DVD releases is the unique logos made for each serial:

[pluralzalpha]

Galactic Gazetteer: Noss

Type: desert planet

Suns: three

Location: Galaxy 4

Status: destroyed

Visited by: the First Doctor, Vicki and Steven

Appearance: Galaxy 4 (1965)

Fun fact: a Drahvin ship attacked a Rill vessel and both crashed on the planet, which was unstable and going to explode in two days.

Another fun fact: this planet doesn't actually have a name, but Gary Russell called it Noss when he was working on the animated version and that's good enough for me.

[6-and-7]

Galaxy 4 The Doctor, Vicki and Steven arrive on an arid planet where they meet the beautiful Drahvins and the hideous Rills. Each has crash-landed after a confrontation in space. The Rills are friendly, compassionate explorers. The Drahvins are dull-witted, cloned soldiers, terrorised by the intelligent, warlike matriarch Maaga.

Both ships are damaged. The Drahvins' craft is irreparable, whereas the Rills' is almost ready to take off; however, the Rills have been unable to find a compatible fuel source. Although unable to breathe the oxygen atmosphere, they employ efficient robot drones, which Vicki nicknames "Chumblies". Despite numerous offers by the Rills to take Maaga and her crew to safety, she refuses their aid. When the planet is discovered to be on the point of disintegration, Maaga tries to force the time travellers to help her steal the Rills' ship and kill the Rills. Instead, the Doctor allows the Rills to draw power from the TARDIS to refuel and escape, leaving the Drahvins to their fate.

The Impossible Planet / The Satan Pit The Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler lose the TARDIS down a deep chasm, leaving themselves stranded on a space base positioned on a planet in the orbit of a black hole. Meanwhile, an entity who identifies as Satan himself is awakening and beginning to cause chaos amongst the crew.

The Tenth Doctor faces off against an enemy that defies all his beliefs while Rose and the survivors of the Sanctuary Base 6 crew are trying to escape from the Beast's legion of possessed Ood. Can the Doctor stop an impossible enemy from escaping its prison, and save the universe?

[jacksdoodlesnshit]

February’s #DWartistchallenge is ‘Send two characters on a date’. I know I missed Valentine’s Day, which would’ve been perfect, but I hope I can make it up with not one, but four dates! Zarbi x Yeti, Monoid x Vervoid, Nimon x Zygon and Raxacoricofallapatorian x Rill

[haventacluewhatimdoing]

Doctor who went 'woman? I don't know what a woman is' in 1966. Iconic

[rassilon-imprimatur]

SUSAN: “I can't, Mister Chesterton. You can't simply work on three of the dimensions.”

IAN: “Three of them? Oh, time being the fourth dimension, I suppose? Then what do you need E for? What do you make the fifth dimension?”

SUSAN: “Space.”

“DOCTOR: Yes, the planet Quinnis, of the fourth universe.”

VICKI: “Time [fourth dimension], like space [fifth dimension], though a dimension in itself, has dimensions of its own.” 

THE RILLS: “Though we are beings of separate planets, you from the solar system and we from another space, our ways of thought, at times, do not seem all that different.”

MALPHA: “Suppose they send a message through this universe?”

[...]

MALPHA: “This is indeed an historic moment in the history of the universe. We six from the outer galaxies, joining with the power from the solar system, the Daleks!”

Revisiting this post of mine after rewatching Galaxy 4 and fixating on the Rills’ phrasing a little. Playing with the Hartnell era’s outdated (often intentionally) or kitschy, already rusted “space-age” approach to cosmology. 

The outdated way of viewing galaxies as “island universes,” the idea of “galaxy” and “universe” being interchangeable terms. “Space” as something just as surreal, strange, as “Time,” with multiple dimensions of its own. The reverberation, the haunted humming, of evil and machine monsters tapping into a sort’ve “cosmic unreality.” The night sky endless “island universes” drifting past, beside, and through each other. Different galaxies, sure, but evidently equal as different dimensions, entirely different definitions of “space” and “universe.” Different properties. Dreamlike. Child’s logic. 

And this approach to space sort’ve slips away textually with Troughton, replaced with the eerie, spooky sense of vast space, of whole worlds and universes hidden in the folds of humming velvet black, but it still... I dunno. 

And it’s all so... empty. 

Perhaps, to jump a few eras and (extreme) aesthetics later, distressingly empty. 

[geronimomo-spd]

gender of the week: Steven leaning on a chumbley in the Rills spacechip, from Galaxy 4

so gender of him

[thedoctorwhocompanion]

It Looks Like Doctor Who Missing Episode Animations Will Be on BBC iPlayer Too!

It Looks Like #DoctorWho Missing Episode Animations Will Be on BBC iPlayer Too!

Animated versions of missing Doctor Who episodes are likely to be included in the haul of over 800 episodes from the Whoniverse being added to BBC iPlayer to celebrate the show’s 60th anniversary. When it was announced that the back-catalogue of Doctor Who would be coming to the streaming service, alongside spin-off material like The Sarah Jane Adventures and Doctor Who Confidential, many fans…

[demigodofhoolemere]

Happy birthday, Maureen O’Brien!

[cringecompanionapologist]

We've had Daleks defeated by placing a jacket under them, the Doctor making some cocoa and getting engaged, everyone have a good laugh over burning down Rome, Zarbi, the Doctor tricking a mind probe by imagining walruses, Dalek comedy shenanigans, Chumblies, the Doctor just wishing the audience a merry Christmas out of nowhere, The Gunfighters, Atlantis with fish people, a holiday camp hypnotized by giant crabs, Daleks acting like children playing trains and spinning around, robot Yeti, Griffin the Chef, evil seaweed, alien conquerors who literally call themselves The Dominators, characters being turned into fiction by being crushed into a giant book, and that's all before the show started airing in color.

“doctor who is too silly now!”

oh you mean the doctor who that has flattened human skin as a character? the doctor who that has the episode love and monsters? the doctor who that says that the english royal family is werewolves? the doctor who that has james corden in it? the doctor who that in the same episode that james corden is in not only does the doctor speak baby, but the baby wants to be named Stormageddon, Dark Lord of All, AND the doctor can also play soccer very well.

doctor who has always been silly

[casperthenot-sofriendlyghost]

no way vicki just sees this chonky lil robot and goes ‘that thing is a chumbley little guy’ and the doctor’s just like “chumbley? you know what, you’re right” and then refers to them as that almost exclusively from then on

[6-and-7]

TARDIS Tarot

5 of Wands - Steven Taylor in Galaxy 4

Monochrome version under the cut