#Too. A very good guest cast as well with old reliables Newlands and Lee and best of all Glyn Owen and Stephanie Bidmead as a

[thisbluespirit]

#This feels like the first episode to get back to that early feel of the series with killers rats and melting aeroplanes#It's proper creepy tv horror about killer spiders and tense crawls through spider infested mines. Also it has quite a dw feel in that sense#Too. A very good guest cast as well with old reliables Newlands and Lee and best of all Glyn Owen and Stephanie Bidmead as a#Rather fragile scientist couple. Their domestic drama which might otherwise feel like padding actually adds to the episode as a whole and#Makes this a satisfying one. Poor old Glyn. I knew it was him before he even stepped onscreen just from his bellowing. Bidmead is sweet too#Sad face. Elsewhere John Savident appears to be standing in for John Barron (as long as its a John its fine) (unless he is a different#Minister of course... He's minister for health and thinking about it im pretty sure Barron wasn't that. Whatever he was.) (also is Barron#Still alive?? I hope so..). And Duncan is back yayy. I'm not sure why i like Duncan so much. He's just one of those background characters#You get weirdly attached to (and as @thisbluespirit will know im a sucker for continuity and recurring elements in my old tv). Final word#On this episode: It's very tense and creepy and then Ridge turns up and makes so many jokes in a short period of time that its all ok

But more importantly, Road Sense is getting daring - “overtaking!”  Oh my... Viewers must have passed out from the excitement.  ;-p

Hey, background characters make the world go round, and continuity is the best, just ask Michael Chapman.  Or something.  In my head this ep was later than this, but then everything fades after the introduction of Fay Chantry, James Maxwell turning up and the jetlag one.  I had forgotten it had Stephanie Bidmead in, always a good thing. /also sad face.

I have a feeling, then, you must be approaching Duff Ep #2: At Least Not As Boring As #1 But Aargh Sexism, Thanks.  But I clearly need to rewatch things and will swear to nothing at this stage.

Doomwatch: The Web Of Fear (2.8, BBC, 1971)

"Shouldn't you wear a hat?"

"Never wear a hat, spoils me hairdo."

"What about the spiders?"

"They wanna wear hats, it's entirely up to them."