An Adventure In Space and Time: The Origins of Doctor Who (21st November)

[Stuart Wallis]

the same Mad Larry who accused Mark Gatiss of being a racist over the Unquiet Dead.

I can only think they considered Mark came down with the Green Death while writing it and came down with a nasty dose of full-blown Boyo-ism that nobody else noticed at the time...

[dalekkiller]

Oh no it was because the Gelth were a metaphor for asylum seekers. Therefore it was showing immigrants and asylum seekers as evil and murderous operating under a cover of being poor suffering refugees. According to Mad Larry

[Stuart Wallis]

Hmmm... Coincidental? Maybe. Provable? Anyone's guess!

[Martin Curnow]

I've just been watching this again.

It's taken me right back to last November and the excitement that was abounding at the time.

Bliss........................

[Rob McCow]

It stands up well to rewatching.

I sobbed at the Matt Smith bit again. That look David Bradley gives to camera is unbelievably moving. It's just superb.

[Andrew Curnow]

The bit that always gets me is Hartnell's "I don't want to go" which, although it works on a few levels I guess, is fundamentally a sad, sad moment where he knows he has to give up the most amazing time of his life. David Bradley does it so well.