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My name is Austin and I’m the Whovian, and these are my sons Corbin and Tripp and we’re the noobs!
This is the podcast that introduces a whole new generation to Doctor Who by watching an episode each week and discussing it from the perspective of a dad who’s seen it before, and two sons who haven’t.
Welcome to Episode 200 covering Daleks Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.
Super-short Recap
This is the one where the Daleks have a really dumb plan and the Doctor has a worse one. And we’ll have to bypass Watford! That place is crawling with Daleks.
Production notes
- Story # NOTHIN!
- Originally aired July 26, 1966
- Written by: Milton Subotsky, David Whitaker
- Directed by: Gordon Flemyng
- The Avengers (1967)
Cast
- Tom Campbell – Bernard Cribbins!
- Wilfred Mott, himself!
Checklist
- Name of the episode spoken in dialogue?
- nerp
- Creature of the week
- Daleks
- Scuba Dalek!
- Apparently, they’re immune to bombs, but shoving causes immediate explosion
- What is the fog that they shoot?! Cuz it can kill a dude, or EXPLODE A CABIN!
- The multi-colored Daleks are awesome
- Daleks
- Needless sacrificial death
- Dortmun went and picked a fight with a Dalek that was LEAVING THE BLOCK! He then BLEW UP THE WHOLE BLOCK!
- Cutting-edge special effects
- The Dalek ship was pretty on point
- The shot of it in the skyline, not so much
- The Dalek ship was pretty on point
Other stuff we noticed
- That opening scene!
- Was that just to get a police officer trying to get into the TARDIS as an actual police box?
- Nice fourth wall break
- So in THIS universe, Dr. Who only fights the Daleks
- Imagine a Dr. Who Cinematic Universe!
- That’s not how magnets work…
- The whip to the mouth!
- The Robomen lunch scene! 5 out of 80 minutes of this movie was spent on this schtick!
- Instead of the Mystery Machine, they had a Rebel Machine!
- Are you SURE he’s going to follow you to Watford? YES! We’ll have to bypass Watford…
- The barrel-roll shotgun blast gets the MVP!
- Attack the Daleks! No take-backs!
- This order cannot be countermanded
Who’s Who?
- Who is Louise?
- She is, in fact, NOT Barbara
- Who is Susan?
- She’s like 12
- Who is Tom Campbell?
- A police officer who went into the wrong police box at the wrong time
- He’s athletic as crap with that door stunt!
- Who is Dr. Who?
Is that how that works?!
- Which is crazier? The Dalek’s plan to blast the metallic core of the earth into the sun, or the Doctor’s plan to divert the explosion into a magnetic convergence of the north and south poles that will suck the Daleks, and ONLY the Daleks, into the earth’s core?!
- Completely unrelated, the final scene with the cop stopping the robbers flies in the face of all of Doctor Who Canon.
Overall impressions
- Overall rating out of 10 –
- Jared – 8 Was that Austin Powers, but serious?
- Austin – 9 it doesn’t deserve it
- Corbin – 9 greasers
- Tripp – 10 for all the wrong reasons
The Game Plan
- Next week we’re covering the Best of Thirteen and we’re covering Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror .
After that is the Easter Special Legend of the Sea Devils.
Closing
Noobs and the Whovian is a production of Master Closet Studios, where it’s always smaller on the inside. Your Senior Producer is Austin Reason. Our Audio Engineer is Thing One: Tripp Reason. Our Production Editor is the Other One: Corbin Reason. Special thanks to tardis.fandom.com for the trivia, and to Jared for the Classic Who Connection. Shout outs to Victor and Jared for their Patreon support.
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