doh !!!! I was too young to catch those two as a kid, although it was fun growing up with Peter Davison, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy ahhh those were the days. (shhh don't tell Davison, C. Baker or Mccoy though but Tom Baker was the best.)

She was as fit as River Song.

yes very athletic

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Feminist: "how very dare you sir !!!"

@@mrjekyllandhyde9941 Double Plus Phhwooaarr!

Dokka Chapman one of those Time Lord things

Well, he probably read the script before hand

Such a hard act to follow but imo Peter Davison did a good job not that anyone will ever come close to the Dr with a long scarf and a bag of jelly babies

I wonder why 😏

@@Drp_br_ because she is an interesting character who in comparison to her tribe is inquisitive and intelligent and is a strong female character in the sense she can take care of herself

mrjekyll andhyde I mean, that is true too

I finally met her in November 2019 at ChicagoTARDIS. What a classy lady!

I love rose tyler

I had a 13” TV with speaker wire attached to the antenna leads tacked all around my room to get my local PBS station. Late every Saturday night, around 9 or 10 o’clock, 90 or so glorious minutes of grainy Doctor Who, every so often adjusting a wire or two to get the reception just right, which became that much more important when Leela ran into the TARDIS. Ahh, to be 13 again!

I timed the 30 'second' countdown expecting it to be much longer than the 35 seconds it actually was

stunning and brave

Yah

Yes

they say the evil one eats babies

Yessssss

Not if it's one of the deadly ones...

The assistant yeah I said assistant should be less capable than the Doctor. Leela is an interesting character and if the assistant never gets captured it will make it less interesting. If a character we are invested in doesn't face peril it's less interesting and is 1 less person for the Doctor to save. If she is an attractive female then all the better. "Men saving women how sexist !!! " no not really, men are hard wired to protect women take the compliment ladies.

@@mrjekyllandhyde9941 the series itself calls them companions, it is objectively wrong to call them assistants.

@@ahumanbeingfromtheearth1502 it used to be either assistant or companion. Assistant being a naughty word is a modern phenomenon

@@mrjekyllandhyde9941 since when there is nothing wrong with the word, people who work in shops are Shop assistants,

@@dogwalker666 There's nothing wrong with the word assistant yet people always seem to complain when I describe the Doctors assistant as his assistant

I take it you have never been in a church.

The Dog Walker it's not a church.

@@pressureworks it is there place of worship have you got seen the episode

The Dog Walker where would they have obtained the wax for the candles, and the butane for the gas candles.?

@@pressureworks I would imagine that the gas would be methane which you get from a bio digester quite simple, the candles would be as they were before we discovered paraffin, either wax from bees or more likely tallow.

Leela was a bit too violent for TV..

@@SuperFunkmachine I don't really see how that has to do with anything, also she never like stabbed a dude the doctor kept her from doing that it was more of a running gag

@@justsome500yearoldwithsmug2 Ok so she had the throw the knife to kill people, but she was by far the the most violent. Theres a reason there's a Leela test for story's , if Leela where here could you solve-things by a few stabbings?

@@SuperFunkmachine The best Companions challenge the Doctor's view of the universe and few can compare to Leela on the morality front. Better someone than her than yet another contemporaneous human yes girl like nWho keeps giving us.

@@SuperFunkmachine TV is wrong Leela is awesome !!!

Careful, you'll attract negativity talking like that

Apparently Quinn Thomas knows your opinion better than you do how odd

Same!!

Mine is on the way right now!

@@benwilliams5837 Its a great set!!

@@BobaTennant I know! I've especially been wanting to get my hands on Deadly Assassin for a while.

I'm still getting the DVDs

@@gsam2021 The DVDs are way easier to get, I dont blame you

ahh yes but he had a deadly jelly baby

CRTs are what they had back then. He probably gambled on it being a 50/50 chance it would come to him first.

He was stunned, took it out and palmed it while they dragged his body, of course. I know - I was there

But the guards would of known he was carrying something with his palm closed when moving his hands into the hand restraints.

@@IllusivePrime clearly you've never witnessed the Gallifrean palm trick

I'll explain later Lol

He had it in his hand just before he was stunned.

LOL....... I do not know about you, but my guess that is a date gone RIGHT. With a good looking woman strapped to the bed...

@@ChannelReuploads9451touché my fellow poster. Well put. 😆

She technically should t be shaving being she’s a “savage” eh???

John Erkman 🤣🤣🤣

I'd prefer to suspend disbelief than watch a hairy woman running around the screen. Not PC ? Oh well

@Ian Thompson I hope you ask their permission first.

@@tentringer4065 Lol that made me giggle I don't think Ian is going around shaving other people just himself.

Nyssa would be helpful

Romana I is the most practical choice but I would want someone like Jo or Nyssa for companionship.

who wants to see a hairy Leela ? only feminists 7% of Britons

mrjekyll andhyde Yh, god-eckkk

Women do have hair though. They are usually just encouraged to shave it though. Also Leela probably shaved her hair as it would make her worse at hunting(body hair retains smell which alerts animals of presence).

Trial of a Timelord !!!

Tenth planet is more important to The shows legacy so I’d get that

okay I think we all know where this is going. Tenth Planet is more popular and although it was William Hartnell's final story let me put the case for Trial of a Timelord: It's a vast improvement on the first series that many take such exception to. It has 4 stories ( 4 stories and 4 eps in the 1st 3 stories and 2 in the finale) the season is connected by a trial where the Doctor is being put on Trial by his own race for interferring in other times and cultures and is fighting for his life. We see the departure of Peri and the introduction of Mel. Even the Master makes an appearence not to mention the matrix as well as a twist where it becomes obvious one of the Timelords of the court isn't who he first seems to be (you may know who I mean) . If you choose to get the blu ray boxset there are tons of special features including extra updated CGI effects and Colin and Nicola take a look at the old eps . This is one of my favorite series and gets a lot of air time in my house. But of course William Hartnell is more popular and maybe it depends on how bigger Colin Baker fan you are, as some take his bold direction of the role to be unlikable not me one of the best Docs imo and this was a fine last season from the Doctor in the rainbow coat .

@Simon Leib fair enough, yeah Mel isn't one of the best companions but I like "Terror of the Vervoids" and "The Ultimate Foe" . Peri's exit is pretty epic though. (Mindwarp my favorite of the stories) I hear a lot of people say it was too long but it's one I constantly find myself coming back to. I'm just putting out the minority view point, but William Hartnell's first regeneration story is bound to be more popular let's face facts. Hmmm well I wonder which Trial story I'll watch tonight Lol

yeah you can do the hoovering without her getting in the way very handy

I was thinking of the washing up or the painting.

I thought Tom Baker was always in colour

@@mrjekyllandhyde9941 In Queensland Australia they didn't start broughcasting in colour till 1976 or so, in my family of six kids, two adults, we had black and white tv 1980, so a lot of tv was still black and white. It still tickles me to see some of this older stuff in colour. Yes oldish. 👌👍

@@saintjimmy2244 oh okay your comment makes more sense now

eleventy third

@@mrjekyllandhyde9941 yessir

a lot of years have existed this episode was made in 1978 though

mrjekyll andhyde WOW. Thanks for answering, I didn't know the show was so old, I thought it only existed since the 2000 .

@@polyanna6068 It started in 1963

Aye it started in 1963 as a previous commenter said. First ever episode was the night after JFK got shot.

why do you come in to a classic Dr Who comment section and mention this are you looking for an argument ?

They don’t, but if they can ruin something they see as liberal lefty by pretending to be a disgruntled fan and demanding change, yay.

It hasn't been Dr Who since Tom Baker.

@@herringfly Tom Baker is the best but I'd disagree that the other classic Doctor's weren't real Doctor Who.