Episode 28: Terror of the Vervoids

Doctor Who: the World Enough and Time podcast

It's back to those heady days of 1986 where news of Bonnie Langford's casting devastated Andy, and even 8-year-old Alex understood what a terrible threat to Doctor Who this irrepressible endlessly tap-dancing stage-school screamer posed. But what did they make of Mel's debut then and now? Alongside this debate (there is no debate dear listener just resigned horror) they consider the purpose of a Judas Goat, the satiable curiosity of the Elephant's Child and that playground favourite 'On with the Motley'. Oh do f*** off Pip 'n' Jane. As well as musing on the Hyperion 3's curious policy of incinerating all laundry and the miraculous properties of headphones that have not been plugged in, the Doctor's perplexing choice of this adventure as a defence of his peripatetic peregrinations is unequivocally interrogated. See! Anyone can use a f***ing thesaurus. Elsewhere, Alex still has trouble understanding what a 'bridge' is in sci-fi, we receive a fleeting visit from the Cailleach and the Wee Papa Girl Rappers, and Alex subjects Andy to another bout of his favourite quiz game (not his favourite quiz game). Entirely unavoidable swearing throughout. Next Time: The Masque of Mandragora