Pointless Witterings

Starring Colin Baker & Nicola Bryant. Written by Philip Martin. Directed by Ron Jones. The TARDIS is adrift. Deprived of a vital power source, the Doctor and Peri have one last hope - the planet Varos. But Varos is a dangerous place. Trapped in the dreaded Punishment Dome, the Doctor and Peri must fight for their lives - and save the starving population for the machinations of the villainous, reptilian Sil... Season 22 is a season now infamous in Doctor Who history for its high dependency on violence and continuity to fuel its stories. It's also regarded as a bit of a low-point in the show's history, for precisely these reasons. And Vengeance On Varos certainly has one of these traits in abundance, while the other is virtually absent. It's as violent as any other story in season 22, possibly more so than others in some regards, but, unlike a lot of the macho-posturing elsewhere in the season, this has a reason for it. And, while it's by no means perfect, (the

Starring Jon Pertwee & Elisabeth Sladen, with Nicholas Courtney, John Levene & Richard Franklin. Written by Malcolm Hulke. Directed by Paddy Russell. Returning to London, the Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith find a city almost completely devoid of life. The civilian population has been evacuated in the wake of an unimaginable event: somehow, dinosaurs have returned to terrorise the Earth... As the Brigadier and UNIT fend off increasingly vicious attacks from gigantic prehistoric reptiles, the Doctor investigates just how these monsters are appearing without warning. But when Sarah Jane is kidnapped, the Doctor realises that perhaps even his oldest friends can't be trusted... For years and years, Invasion Of The Dinosaurs was just 'the one with the rubbish dinosaurs'. The reputation of this story was built solely on that one tiny detail, to the point where any other parts of this story were totally forgotten about. And it was uniformly terrible: everyone who