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Welcome to the Twenty-First instalment of Who Review, my ongoing quest to watch and review all available episodes of SF’s longest running television series, Doctor Who. This week, The Doctor and his companions embark on their most bizarre and surreal adventure as they encounter The Mind Robber.

EPISODES

The Mind Robber (5 Episodes)

BROADCAST DATES

14 September – 12 October 1968

THE DOCTOR

Patrick Troughton

THE COMPANIONS

Jamie McCrimmon

Zoe Heriot

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Welcome to the Twentieth instalment of Who Review, my ongoing quest to watch and review all available episodes of SF’s longest running television series, Doctor Who.

This week, the final season of Patrick Troughton’s reign as the Doctor begins with The Dominators.

EPISODES

The Dominators (5 Episodes)

BROADCAST DATES

10 August – 07 September 1968

THE DOCTOR

Patrick Troughton

THE COMPANIONS

Jamie McCrimmon

Zoe Heriot

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Welcome to the Nineteenth instalment of Who Review, my ongoing quest to watch and review all available episodes of SF’s longest running television series, Doctor Who. This week, we move into a new era as Patrick Troughton takes over as Doctor Who in Tomb of the Cybermen.

EPISODES

Tomb of the Cybermen (4 Episodes)

BROADCAST DATES

02 September – 23 September 1967

THE DOCTOR

Patrick Troughton

THE COMPANIONS

Jamie McCrimmon

Victoria Waterfield

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Episode #24 features:

Dust Jacket: Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

Popcorn Junkie: Dark Shadows

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The Grey

Released: 2011

Directed by: Joe Carnahan

Starring: Liam Neeson, Dermot Mulroney, Frank Grillo

Plot: After their plane crashes in Alaska, seven oil workers are led by a skilled huntsman to survival, but a pack of merciless wolves haunts their every step.

For: Wonderful cinematography / Neeson is great / Wolves are well done

Against: Order of deaths pretty obvious / You can only use the sudden pull away trick so many times before it gets boring

Favourite Scene: First appearance of the alpha wolf

Rating: 3.5 Lukes

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