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It's the Badger jaws that do it!

For the opposing view I personally absolutely HATE the Psychic Paper for this very reason! It takes away the Doctor's ability to bullshit people and talk his way out of problems when all he has to do is produce a piece of paper. The writers then decided to have some people not be fooled by the Psychic Paper but then you wonder how all these people who are fooled by it got into positions of power in the first place! It's like Nu-Who's annoying Deadlock Seal that they brought in to stop the Sonic Screwdriver which got overused to hell and back because it was another easy out for the writers rather than coming up with more unique circumstances and better writing. The Sonic Screwdriver itself got upgraded and upgraded and upgraded again in Nu-Who till it could do literally anything!

@@franohmsford7548 Agreed... Psychic paper is a shortcut past conversation so they can go jogging - apparently the kids like it when everyone jogs around urgently... :) More importantly, it makes scripts much easier to write. I loved the sonic screwdriver - back when it was used to unscrew things...

I learned that "hands up" didn't have to mean "above your head" from Doctor Who. All those repeated captures and he realised that it was far more efficient to simply bend your elbows and hold your hands with your palms forward. So much less effort.

To be fair, you probably watched on a really old TV set no where near the quality of a modern monitor. The cheesy effects are easier to hide on those old tvs.

And your memories aren't quite right. It was a plesiosaur that rose from the ocean. It was there to liven up proceedings in the otherwise dull Indian Ocean environment. The drashigs appeared in the hold of the ship after following the Doctor out of their enclosure. "Nothing escapes the drashigs." Proto Harry Sullivan threw sticks of dynamite at them as they emerged, wrecking the sensitive circuitry of the miniscope they were all inside. The effects are awful by modern standards but the imagination of the writers was just amazing.

Daleks!

I think his getting high off the aerosol fumes had more to do with it 🤯🤪

Step 1. Be a hippie Step 2. Win a Nobel Step 3. ??? Step 4. Print business cards.

The first episode of The Three Doctors was shown on the first Saturday after Christmas 1972,with those gel monsters suddenly beseiging a house being defended by UNIT. My parents joked that they'd been made using the remnants of the BBC Christmas dinner.

Budgetary constraints led to some sloppiness in the execution,but I personally liked the concept and design,and tried making my own little bit of "Omega world" with bubbly-looking arched passages,doorways and junctions. And any old items found could be used to make,or add bits to,home made blob monsters.

@rjjcms1 The blob monsters were great, their eyes were really well done and creepy

The material used for the costumes of the gel guards are the same as the material on the walls for a reason. They wanted to show that the guards were made of the same material and could appear out of the wall. I thought choice material was brilliant and must have been a nightmare for the costume department bend into a garment.

We watched that whole season too. The Green Death was one of my favourites. It was shown in six parts in May and June 1973.

gary guards sounds silly

I was only 8-and-a-half but really enjoyed Planet of the Daleks. I still enjoyed it when seeing it again as an adult 20 years later,but could see the odd instance of silliness in it then.

@@rjjcms1 The only naff bit for me as a kid was the rather obvious plastic torch the emperor Dalek had for an eye.

@@aarthoorI agree. It's just so obvious.

Doctors 3 and 3 respectively.

That was how to deliver a story with a message,not the dreadful lecturing down to some think is the way now.

@@rjjcms1 This story is always stated to demonstrate DW was "always left wing" and "always had an environmental messge" but it doesn't feel that way by comparison to the new show. Or when I was 5 years old!