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Time Ramvent Day 2: Jolly Good Bottom William Hartnell's take on the 'Empty Child/The Doctor Dances'. Or, more accurately, ‘The Empty Child / Air Raid / Hospital of Fear / Volcano Day/ Unexploded Bomb / The Doctor Dances’. Thrill at the introduction of the handsome Captain Steven Taylor! Chill at some genuine brat of acting in a gas mask filled with the eyes covered up! Weep at the reunion between Nancy and her... son? Would they do that in the '60s? Oh dear...

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Oh, naturally! I'm working it into my Time Ramvent plans (month of Time Ram art to celebrate the 60th), so look forward to that come November.

This week's episode of the Time Ram Podcast: Third Doctor classic 'Spearhead from Space' gets an Eleventh Doctor makeover.

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Time Ramvent Day 22 - Torchwood and the Sad Omen It's David Tennant's 'The Dæmons', the tragic final story in Series 2. Strange things are afoot -- I mean ahoof -- in Devil's End, and Time Team is quickly supplanted by Torchwood. Ianto makes some calls. The Doctor gets a chilly reception. Yvonne Hartman is flouncing around in her pajamas. And at the center of it all, the local vicar seems to have a very old connection to the Doctor -- but who could 'Reverend Magister,' possibly be?

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Time Ramvent Day 13: Mummy (and a Nice Tux) on the Orient Express Today, it's Colin Baker's 'Mummy on the Orient Express' and a reminder of why I don't normally draw panel comics. My god, how does anyone keep any sense of continuity? Anyway, it's the first (published) Time Ram episode, featuring Jasper Carrott, Tomek Bork, the malevolent Magnox, and a lot of ex-spleening to do...

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Time Ramvent Day 30: The Girls in the Fireplace It's the end of Time Ramvent, but the moment has been prepared for... with Jodie Whittaker's 'The Girl in the Fireplace'! It's a thrilling space adventure in pre-Revolutionary France! The Post Office is the only thing ensuring time runs properly. Yaz is about to throw hands with Madame du Pompadour. The Doctor is on a horse.

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Time Ramvent Day 12: Excellence in Silver It's Colin Baker's 'Nightmare in Silver', and the shock reveal that Peri's been a nanny this whole time! Or something like that. A trip to an amusement park planet goes horribly awry when the TARDIS lands right in the midst of the opening salvo of a new Cyber-War. As Peri gets flanged after by Porridge the totally-not-a-space-emperor, the Doctor is forced to match wits and shouting against his only true intellectual rival; himself, but in monochrome.

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Time Ramvent Day 7: Maximum Power of Three It’s Tom Baker’s ‘The Power of Three’, the story that famously takes place over a year now shrunk down to a couple of days, because Four is NOT going to stay still for that long. It’s the start of season 12, the swan song of the UNIT era, and the possible extinction of all humanity. Who’s up for a fondue party at the Sullivans’ house?

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Time Ramvent Day 29: The Naughty Cactus Wants a Shape It's Jodie Whittaker's 'Meglos'! The TARDIS is summoned to perform maintenance on the Dodecahedron, which is slightly complicated by the fact that the Doctor has apparently just stolen it. Ryan and Graham get chased by Miriam Margolyes and Jimmy Nail. Yaz moons after the Doctor. The Doctor encounters her evil, green, and prickly twin.

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Time Ramvent Day 24: The Bells of Allons-y! David Tennant stars in 'The Bells of Saint John'! It's Donna's introduction story... possibly for the second time, we'll see what ends up replacing 'The Runaway Bride'... and she's having some serious computer trouble. And there's... well... it's in Standard Definition, so that's something. And Wilf's there! Lovely Wilf.

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Time Ramvent Day 19: Norwegian Wood Today's story is Paul McGann's 'It Takes You Away'! It's the Norwegian with the frog, or possibly the Canadian one with William Shatner. Chang Lee cracks wise and finds a minidisc player. Erik should absolutely be charged with child neglect. Grace meets Grace (played by Grace), who's there replacing Grace. Or maybe it's Ulysses, played by Gabriel the Toad? And Meglos fights moths in the Auntie Zone!

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Time Ramvent Day 16: The Professor, Ace, and the Chase Through Space It's anniversary season, and that can only mean one thing; the return of Ian and Barbara in Sylvester McCoy's 'The Chase'! Not featuring Bradley Walsh. The dastardly Daleks are out for revenge against their greatest foe -- two middle-aged schoolteachers. Well, what did you expect from a project that Dalek Putey worked on? From the ironically-named Aridius to meeting Larry Hagman on the Empire State Building, from the possibly satirical Festival of Ghana to the deadly world of Mechanus, the TARDIS crew are starting to run out of something they've always had in great supply -- time.

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Time Ramvent Day 11: Saturday Super Stor It's Peter Davison's 'The Invasion of Time', and the Doctor has finally lost it. He's returned to take up the mantle of the Gallifreyan Presidency, a plotline which hopefully can be woven in at some earlier point. Tegan's been expelled from the Capitol, Turlough's gone on the run, and Nyssa's fallen in love with Maxil Andred! At least the TARDIS scenes look a bit better, even if Gallifrey's come over all beige.

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Time Ramvent Day 6: Cinema Veritas Today, it's Jon Pertwee in 'Extremis' -- the Master faces his execution, the Doctor faces an existential crisis, and the Brigadier faces VATIPUTE, the Vatican's secret supercomputer (coming soon to Big Finish)! Blindness! Computers, as interpreted by the BBC in the 1970s! Interrupting Popes! All to be continued in 'The Pyramid at the End of the World'... wherever that turns up.

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Time Ramvent Day 4: Freshwater Troughtons of Mars It's Patrick Troughton's 'Waters of Mars,' a perfectly standard Second Doctor story with a base under siege, Ice Warriors, and an excess of foam. The Time Lord Victorious? Oh my giddy aunt!

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Time Ramvent Day 26: The Doctor's Nuclear Family It's Matt Smith's 'The Doctor's Daughter', featuring River Song, Clara Oswald, and the titular Daughter of the Doctor... MacGuffiny, played by Lily James. It's a low-rent Clone Wars as the Doctor, River, and MacGuffiny struggle both to find the mysterious Source and to figure out their new family dynamic. Meanwhile, Clara and Hath Peck face off against Memory Quicksand, Hand Mines, and of course, the dreaded Macra-rena.

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Time Ramvent Day 25: Dirty Box from Space It's Matt Smith's introductory episode, 'Spearhead from Space'! Plastic rains down on Leadworth, bringing with it a crashing blue box. The Doctor steals Helen Mirren's look. Amy steals her dad's dirty old box. Rory is just trying to make it through the day. Relatable, relatable Rory.