I've never found Inferno too long, it always grips me from start to finish.

Inferno moves slowly in order to build tension. I wouldn’t cut a second of it. In my opinion it’s the best episode of any Doctor in any era.

Pertwee and Baker are by miles my favorite Doctors. The 70's was almost a magical time for me growing up as a kid watching this era of Who and 1970 stands out as one of the shows finest seasons!

One of my favourite seasons ever.

The outdoor shooting for "Inferno" made use of what was then the Berry Wiggins oil refinery on the Hoo Peninsula in Kent, England. As a child of 5, I was taken by my dad to watch some of the filming, and I got to meet Jon Pertwee. Jon was MY Dr Who forever after. He was so kind and patient with me. I was a shy child, and he took the time to speak gently with me and make me smile. I have never forgotten this. I am 59 years old now!

INFERNO is my favorite from this season and is my favorite 3rd Doctor story overall!

Spearhead From Space demonstrates how good this series could have looked if it was always shot on film.

Tom Baker & Jon Pertwee are my favorite doctors by a wide margin. Loved the episodes when the doctor worked with UNIT. The Brigadier & Jo were some of my favs as well. You do a wonderful & absolutely hysterical review of the seasons. Really brings back my youth of watching on PBS with my father & idiot brother. I thank you wholeheartedly for that.

Literal LOL at Pertwee's doctor attempting to start Bessie's predecessor. Great use of artistic license there.

pertwee was the james bond of dr. who.

Liz to this day is one of my favourite companions. She don't take crap from anyone, and DESTROYS a minidress like no one's business. Intelligent, independent, AND hot?!?! Sign me the hell up.

One of the best easons ever and Liz was brilliant.

I would definitely have watched "The Brigadier Blows Sh17 Up" and "The Liz Shaw Mysteries. "

Pertwee was MY Doctor. This was the season I was introduced to Dr. Who as an afternoon serial by a local, non-network, station. Pre-internet, or personal computer for that matter, the only thing I knew of British TV was the numerous syndicated shows stretching back to Secret Agent Man, AKA Danger Man. I loved the programs but like BBC America today, very few Briitish shows were ever available on a regular schedule. They pulled Dr. Who at the end of the summer and I never saw it again until I bumped into it in various PBS stations around the country. Thank you for this delightful history.

Jon Pertwee's first season is a triumph. Every serial shines in my opinion. A strong season for sure.

I was shattered to find out the Brig's moustache was fake! Shattered!!!

John Pertwee is my favourite Doctor Who because I remember watching all the episodes during the 1970s on black and white television in Australia.

Jon Pertwee brought a James Bond vibe to the role which is obvious working for U.N.I.T. Pertwee is my second favorite doctor.(Tom Baker being my favorite)

Series 7 is my favourite of all time. Totally brilliant.

2:25 -- Wow I forgot how damn fine-looking Caroline John was as Liz Shaw.

Jon Pertwee was my favorite Doctor of all! Everyone loved Tom Baker - and I just had to be different! 😎👍

The Doppler effect on the tunes is a really nice touch. I'm sad to hear that our antipodal cousins are not able to trust things they read on the sides of buses either. Excellent video

A unique season. Unsettling, eerie and with a generous dose of Quatermass.

Have only just stumbled across this video / channel and love it - extremely well (and amusing) put together review, this video deserves a LOT more likes. I'm currently watching, and reviewing (in text) each Classic Series story - even the recons of the sadly wiped 1960s stories; I'm mid-way through s8's 'Colony in Space' presently (some stories I'm only seen decades ago / never, at most having read the Target novels of them). I think I'll have a nice diet of watching one of these previous series reviews a day for the coming week or so! :) Series 7 saw so many changes in the series all at once, it's the closest thing the Classic ever had to a 'reboot'. I adore 'Spearhead from Space', to date it's my favourite Pertwee story; the Doctor is a bit off in places, playing it far more for comedy than would be the norm, but that could be explained away to regeneration effects. The iconic sequence with the Auton massacre in the high street is surprisingly stark and graphic, even now. 'The Silurians' is a surprisingly thoughtful script by Malcom Hulke that, even though is padded by an episode or so towards the end, is a strong one that stands out even more on hindsight. 'The Ambassadors of Death', the weakest of the season, is that odd case of being flawed on so very many levels, and yet somehow still being watchable enough to not be a total dud. The quality of production at the time and some good moments, but such a shame the storyline is often confusing and with gaping holes that make it hard to follow - yet still finding time to pad with absolute mundane things (like the Doctor spending ages trying to turn Bessie 'round in the mud!!) 'Inferno' finishes the season on a high, an excellent production and another favourite of mine. Tense and quite stark in places, it's a shame in many ways the 'reality' of s7 couldn't continue and develop longer. It's also a shame they never quite worked out how to utilise Liz, wonderfully played by Caroline John, as she was a great companion in so many ways ahead of her time, but alas it wasn't to be. ...That's my boring ramble on s7, I'm looking forward to going through your other season reviews over the next few days!! :)

On a side note, I would totally watch a Doctor Who spinoff called "The Brigadier Blows Shit Up.".

70s Doctor Who is the best Era ( 3rd & 4th Doctor) Golden Era

A really well made & presented vid with some very good gags too! Keep up the quality work :)

I only just found your reviews. I'm starting from here, as it's where I started with the Doctor.

Great work about a great work of TV.

i LOVED THIS! Had to go back.....my first doctor was Tom Baker! Went to a Reinissnce Fair, someone was dressed like Tom Baker, i said "DOCTOR! AGAIN!"" and he totally got into character and said "you again, so glad to see you, doctor!" My daughter was about 7 and said "you're the Doctor! My father told me about you!" The nice fellow said "half lies, half truth, but your father is a good man, good to see him again!" She was STUNNED! "You know Doctor Who?" "of course kiddo, i know everyone....but i like this incarnation!" (side note - her first "doctor" was Matt Smith, so she might have had "a crush" on that.

I think Jon Pertwee did very good with the straight acting except for when something was supposed to be killing him, he got this silly look on his face that I don't think was intentional.

One of the top three seasons of the entire run in my view (well from what I watched, I didn't watch regularly from the early '80s onwards). I was eight when I saw season 7 so I was scared rigid by the Autons here (not so much in the sequel a year later) especially when it came to life behind the guy who broke into the lab, gripped by the stories of Silurians and Ambassadors and scared and tensed up by the Primords and ruthless characters and impending doom of Inferno. As an eight-year-old it was alarming to see things like Autons and Primords which looked like distorted versions of humans and which could actually run after you, a new one for Dr Who.

Dr. Elizabeth Shaw... that was the name of Noomi Rapace's character in Prometheus. Wonder if that was Ridley Scott's nod to Dr. Who

I like this running gag in the review of Bessie playing loud music while the Doctor is driving it. lol

Spearheads looked like a movie. Whereas prior seasons looked like studio soap operas.

Love this season. For all its faults, I really enjoy Ambassadors of Death. It's got a real James Bond feel to it. And Inferno is a masterpiece - deliciously dark and apocalyptic.

Oh, now I know why this is my favorite Doctor. Thanks for the videos!!! 📺📺📺

John Pertwee has always been my favourite, even though I actually grew up with Tom Baker! Although, he's amazing too- just like Petrwee best

The car starting gag was one of the biggest laughs I've had for a long time!

I was 5 in 1970, so John was my first (and best doctor) I new Patrick but John got me into Dr Who

I loved DOCTOR Liz Shaw (& Caroline John) & she did keep defending Earth in BBV (Bill Baggs Video) as the head of PROBE with only casual hints to her origins allowed.

This Doctor was the first that I watched regularly. I liked his taking charge style and the nature of his stories. In fact we visited my auntie who had a colour television, so he was the first Doctor I saw who did not appear monochrome. Did not see Star Trek in colour until 1978. Another era but great times to be a child.

The Pertwee era is probably my favorite of the series.

Having recently watched Inferno, I found it to be utterly amazing and captivating. The total star of the production is the use of the white noise of the drill as its soundtrack, ever present, ever droning but once that sound changes, oh wow, duck and cover boys and girls. If I have a complaint with it, it's Part 7 but not because the serial was overlong, it's that the Doctor was either unconscious or trying to explain what was going to go wrong in the wrong way. All he had to do was remove the man in charge by saying "hey, isn't he mutating now?" But as the Doctor wasn't in the sanest state of minds, it's more of an observation than a complaint. A++... it's not really a rating but Inferno isn't really a Doctor Who serial. It's a novel that borrows a few characters from Doctor Who season 7.

I would gladly hop over too the lava ad gremlins time line if it meant I could watch The Liz Shaw Mysteries

Loving your stuff. Thank u ✌️

you guys do a good job. I enjoyed the presentation.

Nice 👍

Some of the episodes from the ambassadors of death were broadcast in black and white and were much later for DVD remastered in colour

I always wondered why spearhead from space had superior film quality to the rest of pertwees era, shame they couldn't afford the top shelf film all the time and not just cos of a strike.

I'm A Huge Doctor Who Fan. Thanks Mate. X

The drum and bass/techno Dr Who theme whenever he's driving will never not be funny to me.

I'd watch the Liz Shaw mysteries.

Excellent

Pertwee was my first Doctor :)

Been loving these reviews. If you don’t mind me asking what remix of the theme are you playing whenever the Doctor drives a car in the videos? (I’ve taken to calling it a Time Lord’s Ice Cream Truck music.)

I've no idea why youtube dropped this into my lap but i'm glad it did. Took me right back to a time before the watershed. Ahh..! And yes, i did 'like' it because i actually, dictionary definition liked it. A proper youtube vid and not a 'tv' show (well, maybe a little bit). Still, informative, educational and entertaining..are you now the new BBC?

Jon Pertwee was cast initially to be a pottier Doctor than Patrick Troughton because he was an established comic actor but he surprised everyone by playing the part straight.

Inferno feels like what all of season 7 should be. A thrilling tale of earth under threat with errie soundtracks and dark themes.

bought a book about dr who which said it was not shown in USA until number 4 which is incorrect we saw #3 after cartoons saturday mornings

I'd definitely watch "The Brigadier Blows Shit Up". Or a UNIT spin-off. Surprised they never tried to make one in the Modern Era. Maybe they felt it would be too similar to Torchwood.

This is a good video, but I do have 1 question... Why did you start with Season 7 rather than 1?

great video, i honestly would like to know what is the theme that plays whenever the doctor drives Bessie because it sounds very cool

Doctor Who Season 7: John Carpenter's Doctor Who

Pertwee's first season is one of my personal favourites. Unfortunately they made a number of tweaks in subsequent seasons (and lost Caroline John) leaving things much less to my taste.

"Hail Hydra!" Lmao!

A Favorite BBC Series.

Big Finish will get a lot of ideas for spin offs from this video.

Wasn't the 3rd Doctor supposed to be cashing in on the James Bond action film popularity ?

Whats the music you use for bessie? Some sort of techno dr who theme?

Are you likely to visit the earlier who? Would be good to have your thoughts on Harnel era. Plenty of comedy

Hey Stam, Sorry to bug ya again but will you do Quatermass? Cheers from Quebec!!!

Before the reboot of the show Pertwee and Baker where the best. I can't put one above the other

I would watch a show called The Liz Shaw Mysteries

Dis anyone else hear "Poor Liz Shaw" as "Paulie Shore" ?

8:27 - AVON?!?

I would watch the shit of "The Brigadier Blows Shit up"

Love your reviews. Do you have a Patreon?

8:19 *_"Infinitely shitier, and less impressive"_* precisely sums up the "dinosaurs" in "The Invasion of The Dinosaurs", which I've sometimes called "The Attack of The Atrociously Fake Looking, Rubber Monsters".

Not the plasticine dinosaur :(

Hey, where can I find your reviews of Seasons 1-6? Can't find them on your channel...😵

Wheres your review of season 1-7 please

gud vid..

Why do these reviews jump from season 1 to season 7? 🤔

Oh. Jon Pertwee made my 14 year old self realize that I just wasn't into girls.

Where's your first 6 series? Finding it very hard to find your videos in sequence..

Where's the reviews of seasons 1 through 6 ?

Why did you skip Hartnell & Troughton?

Live Hazmat Suit Wrestling 😆

So, have you reviewed number 10 yet?

Back when I started watching Doctor Who reruns in the early-80's, I never liked Pertwee's Doctor, but in the 90's DW fans brainwashed me into accepting him being one of the best because he was "serious" and "heroic". The last few years I've watched a few stories with Pertwee, and realized, my childhood opinion was correct -- he's just a jerk. Tom Baker will always be #1, with honorable mentions to William Hartnell for being the first and David Tennant for being the best on the revived program.

Not something I would have watched too often. Having grown up in that time, looking back at how the world went ga-ga with the UN ideals that lately have proven as shyte, the Who mobile, and the Doctor just about stuck on Earth, I would have hated it

Spearhead from Space - The most over rated story of all time. To me its just an average post regen story. I don’t get why everyone thinks its one of the best of all time Silurians - Love this one could do with sone trimming but great. Ambassadors- Decent but too long. Inferno - Good but extremely over rated. The drilling and primord parts are meh but the volcano and paralell world aspect is great. Shame we never had an exit for Liz. My opinion is take 2 episodes of ambassadors and 1 from Silurians/Inferno and add another 4 parter and Give Liz said exit

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I really liked Liz Shaw and couldn’t stand Jo Grant. The third Doctor’s run is great apart from over ambitious effects, dodgy music and Jo Grant. Still, there’s no Bonnie Langford so I can’t complain too much.