Raunchy photoshoots, the return of UNIT and a Cyberman plan as epic as it is absurd

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The Second Doctor and his companions, Zoe and Jamie, materialise in the TARDIS on the wrong side of the moon, only to discover an alien presence that they’ll ignore for four episodes and then head off to the 1970s and (less) swinging London.

There they encounter the perfectly reasonable conglomerate of International Electromatics, lead by Tobias Vaughn, who’s played by Kevin Stoney, who previously portrayed the similar character of Mavic Chen in The Daleks’ Master Plan. They also bump into UNIT, lead by now Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, whom we last met in The Web of Fear, and who is now backed up by the also legendary Sergeant Benton (played by John Levene, who can be seen hanging out with Ponken in the pic on http://whobackwhen.com/c046-the-invasion/).

Vaughn has struck an accord with an old foe of the Doctor’s, though — the Cybermen — and as the title of this serial would imply, they’re planning an invasion.
Have a listen to our review as we ask, and attempt to answer, the important questions, such as:

• Is Toby Vaughn a robot?
• Did Isobel and Turner do it?
• Would yoghurt survive the Cyber Megatron Bomb?
• … and much, much more!

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C046 The Invasion | Classic Doctor Who

It’s The Clone Wars but with a baked potato planet and a nuclear weapons Tinder app.

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Martha’s back again— Again! And now there are two of her as the weird bath-time clone is keeping a side-eye on the Doctor, as he does his best to foil the Sontaran plan for world domination and keeps a trigger-happy UNIT in check.
Donna, meanwhile, is trapped in the TARDIS, and the TARDIS is trapped aboard General Staal’s spaceship, whence Staal, his clone buddies and Luke Rattigan, aka Not-Mark-Zuckerberg, witness the potatoification of Planet Earth.
And Wilf is in peril. Also the world. And the Sontarans prevent nuclear war with a Tinder app.
Listen to this review of The Poison Sky now, which continues the storyline in, and our review of, N046 The Sontaran Stratagem.

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N047 The Poison Sky | New Doctor Who

Brains in jars, a squeaky interrogation toy and the DC and Marvel Universes collide in this Doctor Who Christmas Special

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Ho-Ho-Ho! Yarp, last year, back in 2016, we got exactly one new Doctor Who episode, namely, The 2016 Christmas Special, The Return of Doctor Mysterio.

What’s it about? Glad you asked. Here, have a Bite-Size Chunk Of Who:

10-year-old Grant loves swallowing. Good thing the Doctor shows up on his roof with an indeterminately powerful pill-sized gem for him to ingest and give him super powers.

Fast-foward 24 years. Grant is now a professional nanny and cuckold by day, vigilante superhero “The Ghost” by night. Coincidentally, there’s an alien invasion afoot, perpetrated by brains in jars who now want his super-powered body.

Doc’s there as well, of course, along with returning-character-now-official-companion Nardole and not-Lois-Lane Lucy Fletcher, Grant’s childhood love and present-day employer and stalkee.

Brain surgery, comic book references and alleged hilarity ensue.

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B029 The Return of Doctor Mysterio | The 2016 Christmas Special

There are hundreds of Doctor Who TV stories out there and we intend to watch them all! Not just that – We’ll watch, review, discuss, debate, rate and praise and/or poke holes in every episode of Doctor Who, starting with William Hartnell’s first ever serial, 'An Unearthly Child'. That’s right, we’re working our way through Classic Who, from 1963 and onward, episode by episode and Doctor by Doctor. And parallel to that, we’re reviewing all of New Who as well, starting in 2005 with Eccleston in 'Rose'.

And hold up! As though we’re not devoting enough time to Doctor Who, we’re tackling the audiobooks, too! First in line, we’re reviewing The 8th Doctor Adventures by Big Finish, starring Paul McGann as The Doctor.

From comparing Dalek and Cybermen military stratagems to ranking companions by hairstyle, we’ve got it covered. And while you subscribe to us on iTunes, we’re populating WhoBackWhen.com with written reviews, episode statistics and an ever-growing Visual Index of aliens, creatures, historical figures and companions that the Doctor meets along the way.