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William Hartnell was so fucking funny

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#william hartnell #first doctor #reg whitehead #(he played the cybermen)#from: Flight Through Eternity - The Sixties - Vol 1 #doctor who #tenth planet #when-i-say-run

In 1935, while in Tibet, the time traveling alien known as the Doctor (Doctor 2) had his first encounter with the robot Yetis and the Great Intelligence. ("The Abominable Snowmen", Doctor Who vlm 1, TV)

The Saint: The World Beater (6.20, ITC, 1969)

"Are you alright?"

"Oh, sure I am. Happens to me every day on the freeway."

"For a moment, it certainly looked like curtains for the impetuous Simon Templar."

#the saint #the world beater #1969 #itc #leslie charteris #leslie norman #donald james #roger moore #patricia haines #john ronane #james kerry #george a. cooper #eddie byrne #william wilde #rosemary donnelly #reg whitehead #anthony sheppard #clifford earl #bernard g. high #the grand finale! and it's a strangely lowkey ending. well‚ perhaps low stakes would be a better description #nobody gets murdered this week; nobody even gets their life threatened. instead we're back in the world of car racing‚ something Simon has #dabbled in before in 4.1 and 5.16 (incidentally‚ Eddie Byrne was also in 4.1 in p much an identical role; did something about him scream #car mechanic to the Saint team?). Simon's aware of what's going on almost from the outset so this becomes an exercise in him asserting a #kind of moral on the baddies (he hasn't done that in a while tbf). main baddie being the lovely Pat Haines‚ whose character has a history #with Simon that's vaguely alluded to have been romantic. she's great‚ a wicked rascal out for money‚ and almost uniquely for this series #the end of the episode catches up with her some time later to reveal that Simon has had zero impact and she's still conning people! it's #sort of lovely in a way. so yes we wrap up all nicely on a cozy feeling episode that lets pretty much everyone off the hook without #punishment. and so that was the Saint! 118 episodes later‚ done and dusted. it has its strengths and its weaknesses but there's nothing #quite exactly like it... farewell old friend. so that's that all finished i can move on to someth #but wait. what's that? Ian Ogilvy? what are you doing here? why are you beckoning towards me? no... no it can't be...

Two New ‘The Doctors: Behind The Scenes’ DVDs To Be Released

Doctor Who fans! Two new ‘The Doctors: Behind The Scenes’ DVDs featuring Patrick Troughton & Jon Pertwee to be released 7th Feb & 4th April. Get all the info here #DoctorWho @BriggsNicholas @timetravel_tv

These sets offer the definitive interviews with the production team who brought Doctor Who to life and sent you “behind the sofa”! The Doctors: The Pat Troughton Years Behind The Scenes Vol. 1 brings together six in-depth documentaries with the team who brought the Pat Troughton era of the show to life: Shaun Sutton (Head of Drama), Victor Pemberton (Script Editor) and Derrick Sherwin (Script…