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New thread for Troughton!Doctor

Serial: The Power of the Daleks: Ep.1 - The fact that this is animated makes Polly and Ben's bewilderment even more hilarious. The Doctor has his recorder and a badge that says Accord Every Access so he's happy.

Serial: The Power of the Daleks: Ep.2 - Ben continues to be hilarious. The Doctor's 4ft hat is amazing. I wish I could see the real thing. I can't wait for the Daleks to zap all of these idiots with their whisks.

Serial: The Power of the Daleks: Ep.3 - Troughton!Doctor really loves his badge. Poor Polly has been locked up by the bad guys AGAIN. Ben is the only one who cares though.

Serial: The Power of the Daleks: Ep.4 - If you have 1 Dalek and you add 3 Daleks, that makes 4 Daleks - Troughton!Doctor can do basic arithmetic. Ben can only think about Polly. I know how you feel, Ben. I miss her too.

Serial: The Power of the Daleks: Ep.5 - I still find the Daleks hilarious. Their sarcasm is top notch. EXTERMINATE!

Serial: The Power of the Daleks: Ep.6 - I realise this is animated, but the head bad guy really looks like The Demon Headmaster. Pretty good serial overall - not enough Polly though.

The Highlanders is missing, so we're moving on to The Underwater Menace.

Serial: The Underwater Menace - Episode 1: Welcome, Jamie! (Belatedly). This is just a slideshow with sound, unfortunately. 5 minutes in, and Polly's in danger.

Serial: The Underwater Menace - Episode 2: And now an actual real-life episode! And a very fun one at that. The Doctor is playing dress-up; Ben and Jamie are re-enacting The Great Escape; and Polly's new gf is saving her from becoming a fish. Classic.

Serial: The Underwater Menace- Episode 3: The Doctor is organising a strike amongst the fish-people. This "Underwater" ballet is quite something. Wow! That ending was proper super-villain stuff.

Serial: The Underwater Menace - Episode 4: Another slideshow episode but a brilliant one. Funny and camp. 

Serial: The Moonbase - Ep.1: Apparently the moon is inhabited by the Clangers. Cybermen! And looking more like Cybermen this time. Polly is a very good screamer.

Serial: The Moonbase - Ep.2: The Cybermen are truly creepy and sneaky in this episode. Very menacing.

Serial: The Moonbase - Ep.3: Polly is not having any of your love triangle nonsense boys. She's been told to make tea and to stay put while the men do manly things. She doesn't believe in any of that either.

Serial: The Moonbase - Ep.4: This is very violent already. But after all that it was quite easily resolved. Not the most thrilling serial but Polly was wonderful as always.

Serial: The Macra Terror - Ep.1: The first episode in colour! The whole serial is animated - this is the best of the animated ones so far. Very creepy.

Serial: The Macra Terror - Ep.2: They're trying to hypnotise our heroes by screaming at them. I'm not sure that's how that works. Ben's love for Polly transcends even the shouty hypnosis. THE CLAW!!!

Serial: The Macra Terror - Ep.3: Welcome to the danger gang. Troughton!Doctor is hilarious. Never listen to the voices, Ben.

Serial: The Macra Terror - Ep.4: The giant crabs are just... amazing. I'm so sad we can't see the real ones. I enjoyed this serial. I felt Troughton!Doctor had a personality for a change.

Serial: The Faceless Ones - Ep.1 & 2: Ben disappeared for a very long time. Slightly distracted by cartoon Wanda Ventham. Poor Polly has been replaced by a doppelganger. Ben has been replaced too but I care less about that.

Serial: The Faceless Ones - Ep.3: Why animate this in black & white when you could animate it in colour? That weirdness aside... this serial is pretty dull. I miss Polly and Ben.

Serial: The Faceless Ones - Ep.4-6: I liked the supporting cast in this one - except for Samantha. Goodbye to Ben and Polly. I will miss them but I'm glad to know they lived happily ever after together.

The Evil of the Daleks is missing, so we're on to Season 5!

Serial: The Tomb of the Cybermen: Ep. 1 - I feel like that had barely started before it was over. The Cyberman popping up gave me a genuine scare. I hope Victoria perks up a bit.

Serial: The Tomb of the Cybermen: Ep. 2 - Surprising no one, the bad guys are here to wake up the Cybermen. Unsure why the resurrected Cybermen have scissorhands but it's best just to go with it at this point

Serial: The Tomb of the Cybermen: Ep. 3 - The Cybermats are kind of adorable. Victoria is growing on me.

Serial: The Tomb of the Cybermen: Ep. 4 - The Cybermen seem to be improving visually, but their voices are horrendous. Unsurprisingly, all the bad guys are now dead.

The Abomniable Snowmen is missing, so we're onto The Ice Warriors.

Serial: The Ice Warriors: Eps 1-4 - 3000 years in the future and the computer is full of plastic cutlery. Victoria doesn't like short, tight fitting clothes but she can hold her own with the raspy voiced aliens. Jamie is dressed like Liam Gallagher from the waist up.

Serial: The Ice Warriors: Eps 5-6 - Jamie can't walk, which keeps him out of trouble, I suppose. The Ice Warriors have Lego hands! That's pretty cute. This was a pretty decent story, but a smidge too long.

Serial: The Enemy of the World: Ep.1 - This is set in Australia 2018. Australia looks like the English countryside & 2018 seems to have a lot of leather. Victoria is a wet lettuce & Jamie doesn't like the beach, which may be the final nail in the coffin for my feelings on these 2

Serial: The Enemy of the World: Ep.2 - Patrick Troughton. now in the dual role of The Doctor and Evil Dictator, is having a blast. Victoria is still being a drip.

Serial: The Enemy of the World: Ep.3 - I think the Chef is my favourite character right now. I don't even think this episode was needed, except that Evil!Troughton now knows about Doctor!Troughton

Serial: The Enemy of the World: Ep.4 - I recognise Benik as Castellan Kelner, so this is a bit weird. I like Fariah, I'd rather have her full time than Victoria. There's a lot of incidental music in this serial. Oh no, poor Fariah!

Serial: The Enemy of the World: Ep.5&6 - The reveal of the people making the natural disasters was brilliant. Even better the twist in episode 6. Jamie and Victoria have been less than useless this story, but I have enjoyed everything else.

Serial: The Web of Fear: Ep.1 - The Yeti looks like a giant tribble. I love Anne. Anne is awesome. Unfortunately, Victoria is still a huge drip. I like the setting. It feels very intimate down in the tunnels.

Serial: The Web of Fear: Ep.2 - The giant tribble Yeti has multiplied. The Doctor has disappeared. Victoria is making tea. Soap suds are taking over the underground. I like this story.

Serial: The Web of Fear: Ep.3 - This episode is missing, so it's stills and sound only but who cares because the Brig is here, even if he's not a Brigadier yet 

Serial: The Web of Fear: Ep.4 - Everybody's dead, Dave. This is very exciting. A shoot-out, a traitor, The Great Intelligence. I love it.

Serial: The Web of Fear: Ep.5 - Victoria has been kidnapped but I wouldnt worry because after five minutes with her they'll be desperate to give her back. The Doctor is happy, playing with his ball. I think he and Anne are in love.

Serial: The Web of Fear: Ep.6 - Fantastic serial. One of my faves. I wish Anne had stayed with the Doctor. Can't wait to see the Brig again.

Serial: Fury from the Deep: Ep.1 - Another animated story. Victoria picked a lock with a hairpin, proving that Jamie is an idiot. The best thing she's ever done. And ending with a tentacle monster. Good stuff.

Serial: Fury from the Deep: Ep.2 - Everyone in this looks like a classic Hollywood monster. Apparently there's a rave going on in the undersea pipe line.

Serial: Fury from the Deep: Ep.3 - These tentacles look like those little worms on strings we all had in the 80s. Mine was bright pink.

Serial: Fury from the Deep: Ep.4 - Obviously the last episode was 3. Even the Doctor is fed up of Victoria's whining now. Why is there a poster of The Master on the wall?

Serial: Fury from the Deep: Ep.5 - Oh no. Victoria has been kidnapped. Stop. Wait. Come back.

Serial: Fury from the Deep: Ep.6 - Apparently, Victoria's screaming repels the tentacles. Finally she has a worthwhile skill. I think I'd take my chances with the tentacles rather than let the Doctor fly me in a helicopter. And Victoria is staying behind woo hoo! Let's go get Zoe

Serial: The Wheel in Space - Ep1-6: The majority of the serial is just a slide show so Ive included my thoughts in one tweet. I like Zoe in spite of the horribly misogynistic tone to this serial. I enjoyed Troughton just flying off on holiday for a whole episode in the middle lol

Serial: The Dominators - Ep.1: These people are wearing dresses made of curtains, like a lower budget Sewing Bee. Jamie is still getting on my nerves, but I do like Zoe's calm.

Serial: The Dominators - Ep.2: The robots! The robots are very cute. Jamie is going to be probed. Everyone is very stupid in this serial.

Serial: The Dominators - Ep.3: Zoe is trying to raise an army but everyone is against her. Jamie is unknowingly sabotaging her by being himself. Even the way the robots die is cute. I love them.

Serial: The Dominators - Ep.4 & 5: I'm glad they didn't stretch it out to 6 episodes. I think they could have made do with 4. Resolved very quickly but better than dragging it out for no reason.

Serial: The Mind Robber - Ep.1: I like Zoe's sparkly jumpsuit. Jamie is dreaming of Brigadoon, I see. Aaaaand Zoe's an idiot. Okay, Jamie and Zoe beckoning the Doctor with those smile is quite creepy.

Serial: The Mind Robber - Ep.2: Now the Doctor is doing an escape room and put Jamie back together wrong. I think I like new Jamie more than the real one.

Serial: The Mind Robber - Ep.3: I love this. Mythical creatures, fairy tale characters, some really nice animation on Medusa's snakes.

Serial: The Mind Robber - Ep.4: Zoe is kicking this superhero from the year 2000's ass and it is glorious. This really is a lot of fun.

Serial: The Mind Robber - Ep.5: The Doctor is now writing fanfiction about himself. And now Blackbeard has shown up. Ooo ambiguous ending. I love it.

Serial: The Invasion - Ep.1: Zoe has a new girlfriend who wants to take pictures of her. The Doctor and Jamie are kidnapped twice. BBC Television Centre is looking good.

Serial: The Invasion - Ep.2: The Brig is backI like Zoe's feather boa. Oh and the Doctor and Jamie have been captured AGAIN.

Serial: The Invasion - Ep.3: Benton! I amused that Jamie is always just "the boy" when other people are talking about him. He is so dumb. And now he's hiding in a box with a Cyber-embryo?

Serial: The Invasion - Ep.4: This serial has been non-stop so far. The helicopter escape was cool. I think the Doctor has been shushing everyone for 4 straight episodes.

Serial: The Invasion - Ep.5: Isobel and Zoe calling out the Brig and Jamie's misogynistic bullshit is wonderful. The Cybermen look so much better these days. Apparently they lied to the megalomaniac. I am shocked.

Serial: The Invasion - Ep.6: I hate this guy. I hope the Cybermen tear him apart. The image of them walking against the backdrop of St Paul's is pretty iconic.

Serial: The Invasion - Ep.7: Zoe has her sparkly jumpsuit back on. And now she's saving the world with her super maths brain. She's the best.

Serial: The Invasion - Ep.8: I suppose this jolly music means it's the end of the story. What a great serial. I really enjoyed it. Lots of adventure and excitement. Very little screaming.

Serial: The Krotons - Ep.1 & Ep.2: I love Zoe's outfit. I love the relationship between her and Troughton!Doctor. She's basically his daughter. Glad to get some confirmation that Jamie is an idiot, but that's no reason to kill him.

Serial: The Krotons - Ep.3: Why do the Krotons sound like slowed down Lennon and McCartney? Suddenly everyone wants to rebel.

Serial: The Krotons - Ep.4: And after spending 4 episodes dunking on Jamie, everyone is free at last. Great little serial.

Serial: The Seeds of Death - Ep.1 & Ep.2: This story is a lot slower going than the last few have been. I do enjoy the Doctor geeking out about rockets and how proud he is of Zoe.

Serial: The Seeds of Death - Ep.3 & Ep.4:  Zoe and Gia standing up against Jamie (AGAIN) when he tells them it's too dangerous for women to help.

Serial: The Seeds of Death - Ep.5 & Ep.6: The Doctor is having fun doing science with his science friend. I have to say, the wardrobe department did well with the Ice Warrior costumes and makeup.

The Space Pirates is missing, which means tomorrow we're onto The War Games and Troughton!Doctor's regeneration. Then I'll do a round-up and next week, make a start on Three!

Serial: The War Games - Ep.1: I have no idea what's going on yet but this is brilliant. It's a good thing Zoe is there to remind the Doctor and Jamie which is their left and which is their right. That little kiss of the Doctor's to Zoe's head.

Serial: The War Games - Ep.2: The shady General has a TARDIS! A very ugly TARDIS. Jamie is such an idiot. The hypno-glasses are very creepy. Romans! This is very exciting.

Serial: The War Games - Ep.3: I want to see more of the battle zones. The sonic screwdriver actually being used as a screwdriver! I'm impressed. Oh the German General has a hypno-monocle.

Serial: The War Games - Ep.4: The Doctor and Zoe are walking around the new TARDIS wearing strange visors. Poor Carstairs has been brainwashed again.

Serial: The War Games - Ep.5: Jamie and Lady Jennifer have joined the resistance. Zoe is being tortured by an evil Zorro and a low rent Blofeld.

Serial: The War Games - Ep.6: I like The War Chief as a villain. The gang's all back together finally. Or maybe not. This is a bit of a filler episode. I do like the shifty looks the Doctor gives Zoe and Jamie when they ask him questions about what he knows though.

Serial: The War Games - Ep.7 & Ep.8: More filler episodes. Aww, Jamie has been put in charge of something, finally. Loving the hints to the Doctor's backstory and the Time Lords.

Serial: The War Games - Ep.9: Ooo, the little box! I'm quite sad The War Chief died. The Time Lords! Oh, what an ending!

Serial: The War Games - Ep.10: And now, 54 years to the day this episode was first shown, Troughton!Doctor era comes to an end. Oh, the spinning TARDIS in the sky looks amazing. I may have shed a tear when Zoe and Jamie said goodbye. Forced regeneration and exile is a sad end.

Troughton!Doctor Era Round-up 

Favourite Companion: Zoe. She is perfect. 

Least favourite Companion: Victoria. A drip. 

Favourite Serial: The Web of Fear / The War Games 

Least Favourite Serial: The Faceless Ones 

Troughton!Doctor is fun once he gets going. A loveable dork.

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“Fury From The Deep” by Victor Pemberton

Pure 100% true-school Doctor Who at its finest. The second doctor’s on-screen portrayal (a one Patrick Troughgton) lended itself so well to the written word no matter the author. It’s the inner thoughts that count. This one goes from zero to sixty in about 14 pages then proceeds to be a symphony of everything Doctor Who ever was and goes on to become, hitting all tropes like a lovely cowbell: Accusations, Whodunit, possession, a base, a siege, highly aggressive plant life, a sustained overcast creepiness.. BUMPER VOLUME is proclaimed on the cover and BUMP it does with about 20 more pages than the average Target novelization, just enough to add some modern-style emotional depth that remained hidden in much of classic Who. I fondly remember the fun of reading this on the F train. 

“Fury From The Deep” (1968) is considered a completely missing serial (no complete episodes exist in the BBC archives) and is scheduled to be brought to life by animation later this year. Special Who operative Gary Russell is involved and I hope you will all join me in making the biggest bowl of popcorn for the day that drops. Until then and after: This book (1986) rocks!