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The Doctor's face carved on a mountain Mount Rushmore-style? Lots of scantily-clad people running around, fighting invisible monsters? Green-tinged people with a superiority complex? And then you want to add-on an insane computer?!? Chris Boucher definitely gets his Doctor Who career to an impressive start with his ambition. Yes, this episode, we're discussing The Face of Evil!   Join us as we discuss Tom Baker's ego, the absolutely fantastic direction, Chris Boucher's amazing world building (including the complexity of the Tribe of the Sevateem), critiques of religion, the Doctor once again acting like Bugs Bunny, the surprising influence of this era of the show on Matt Groening, and whether the Tesh should work at Willy Wonker's factory or if they should be hanging out in Oz…   If you would like to watch along with us, this story is available for streaming at both Britbox US (https://www.britbox.com) and Britbox UK (https://www.britbox.co.uk). If you prefer physical media, you can also get it on DVD from Amazon US (https://amzn.to/3QZQfRY) or from Amazon UK (https://amzn.to/47VW2Pl), or on Blu Ray as part of The Collection: Season 14 from both Amazon US (https://amzn.to/3SmKq3n) and Amazon UK (https://amzn.to/462oGga).   Other media mentioned in this episode*: Space: 1999: The Complete Series (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3pbTv08 | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3p7W43u) The Tomorrow People – The Complete Series (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3Ro7zl8 | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3uHGiRE) The Avengers – Complete Collection (TV show) (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3B828eR | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3B0ChoS) Terry Nation's Survivors (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3ih2Vm1 | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3xYgMUQ) Adam Adamant Lives! (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/2UiYqzu | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3wKNIyQ) Ferris Bueller's Day Off (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3Rqmx99 | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3GoX8Yf) Doomwatch (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3jmkouC | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3G89SBg) Looney Tunes – The Platinum Collection (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3Aov8z7 | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3nRkM7w) Star Trek: The Original Series: The Complete Series (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3aifha7 | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/2YtSYvx) Beneath the Planet of the Apes (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/2ZZff56 | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3mMBmEM) Blackadder: The Ultimate Edition (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/30sMUnN | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3BU2WoN) Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3vpgmq5 | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3aPDWTv) Indiana Jones – The Complete Collection (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3n4YBbU | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3DQ3BIs) Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3ptuM83 | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3BSULsQ) The Wizard of Oz (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3ATvg9t | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3ARGSd3) The James Bond Collection (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3FWn6kg | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3DQB4lR) Rick and Morty – Seasons 1-4 (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3lAWSLv | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/31pNymB) Avengers: Endgame (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3JooSvr | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3uMpC9O) Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/2Z9Jiqz | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3vrt9sg) The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3ATu8md | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3jh2bi2) Leeroy Jenkins (YouTube: https://youtu.be/usYvefDzOqQ)   Finally, you can also follow us and interact with us on various forms of social media - Facebook, Instagram, and X. You can also e-mail us at watchers4d@gmail.com. If you're enjoying this podcast, please subscribe to the show, and leave us a rating or review.   *Support Watchers in the Fourth Dimension! We are an Amazon affiliate and earn a small commission from purchases through Amazon links. This goes towards the running costs of the podcast.

Straight Outta Gallifrey is back, talking about Romana getting her wits about, but perhaps not the presidency back.  Political assinations of character and beings are all here in this episode, where old friends return, fresh rivals perish and rise up.  What is a Time Lady like Romana to do?  Depend on allies she can trust like K-9 Mark II, Leela of the Sevateem and Narvin, director of the Celestial Intervention Agency.   Let us know your thoughts on the penultimate episode of Gallifrey series 3. X @sogallifrey Bluesky/Threads @Huestone44 prydonian.post@gmail.com   www.thehuntresspodcast.com

The evil one eats babies! Join us in our glorious recounting of the war between the Sevateem and Tesh.

  Times have changed. A choice was made and the universe diverged. And now all of history is at war. One man stands at the centre of it all. But whose side is he on? Is he with the angels? Or the demons? And does anyone even know which is which? He was a Doctor once, but now he is Doctor no more. He is the Warrior. The Doctor of War. Who Am I? by Nigel Fairs The Tesh and the Sevateem are at war, obeying the orders of their God Xoanon. But they cannot know their battle has a higher purpose, one led by the Time Lord responsible for Xoanon's condition. A Time Lord called... the Master. Time Killers by Lizzie Hopley Arriving on Marinus in search of a temporal weapon, the Warrior and the Master are confronted by a place where time literally is money. As the Master finds himself in changed circumstances, the Warrior finds himself with a deadly decision to make. The Key To Key To Time by Tim Foley As battle continues to rage across the history of the cosmos, the White Guardian opts to provide the Warrior with a way out... located at the end of a dangerous quest, with an even more dangerous companion. But can a Time War ever truly end?

A new planet, a new companion but the Doctor has been there before. Leela joins the Doctor for The Face of Evil. Will this story make an impression as much as it did on the Sevateem? Warning: This episode contains a lot of Neighbours chat. 

Ken & Mike say a final goodbye to Leela of the Sevateem (and the Fourth Doctor, for a little while!) in this final episode of Season 2. They look at several near-misses regarding potential returns of Leela to the TV screen, and then the many audio adventures of the character on Big Finish, including "The Sons of Kaldor" by Andrew Smith and "The Hourglass Killers" by Justin Richards. Farewell, Leela. You were one of the noblest companions of them all!

Get Off My World is back—and it seems, not a moment too soon! Rested — regenerated — vaxxed and boosted — with new rounds — a new co-host — relaxed swear-word protocols — and a new theme song from The Sevateem! In Episode 75: Anti-Buddhist Evangelist, Josh, Kelvin and Pat are joined by new full-time […]

Get Off My World is back—and it seems, not a moment too soon! Rested — regenerated — vaxxed and boosted — with new rounds — a new co-host — relaxed swear-word protocols — and a new theme song from The Sevateem! In Episode 75: Anti-Buddhist Evangelist, Josh, Kelvin and Pat are joined by new full-time […]

The very charming and talented Janey Winterbauer (The Suburbs, Astronaut Wife, The Sevateem, etc) stops by the studio to talk surviving lockdown as a musician, the state of the Twin Cities Scene and the possibilities that lie ahead as things open back up. She's a treasure. Enjoy!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/brian-oake-show/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Andy and Alex get all nostalgic this month as they look back at one of the very first Who videos they owned and watched a gazillion times back in the day: the glorious Revenge of the Cybermen. Although it has plot-holes you could drive a cute little Vogan cave-train through, they heap praise on this often maligned story for its pace, its music (yes its music!), its characterisation, but, most of all, the performances of the regulars who arguably make one of the best TARDIS teams ever. As well as detailing his encounter with the Cyberleader (Christopher Robbie) himself, in Loughborough of all places, Andy plugs the excellent memoir of 'Revenge's' director Michael E. Briant, which he himself commissioned and published a few years ago. It can be purchased at a special price of just £5 until the end of the year from http://www.classictvpress.co.uk. Its a beautiful tome - lots of stars from Doctor Who Magazine, either 4 or 4.5 out of 5, Andy can't remember - and Michael writes chapters on each and every one of his Who stories including those on which he worked before he was a director. Advert over. As well as their emphatically upbeat review of the story, there's a 4th Doctor quiz from the Second Doctor Who Quiz Book, the very last appearance of the Cailleach, Mark Gatiss being hilarious, and consideration of the fact that Alex's cat should probably be called Victoria and not Leela, due to her lack of Sevateem-esque abilities. Enjoy! We love you all. Next Time: The Sensorites

This week, we reflect on 400 podcast episodes, hear from some lovely listeners, and have a brilliant conversation with The Sevateem about their new project "Resurrection Part Two".

Christian Erickson is a father, husband and a creative and partner at Zeus Jones in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (A “not an advertising agency” advertising agency.) A member or former member of a lot of bands with super cool names including, but not limited to: Astronaut Wife, Fairchord & Fixer, Blue Sky Blackout, Judgement of Paris and The Sevateem. He’s also a massive Dr. Who fan as well as someone who can, in his own words, recite 90% of Robo Cop the movie from memory … which we have to say was pretty dope when it first came out. Beyond his eclectic creative resume, Christian has the best sounding mic we have every heard on the show. Join us as discuss a wide range of topics, including getting comfortable with being uncomfortable and the anxiety-reducing concept of “planned happenstance.”   • • • • • SHOW NOTES   The Caves — A Rock Opera based on Christian's favorite episode of Dr. Who can be listened to here: https://thesevateem.bandcamp.com/album/the-caves All proceeds from streaming and sales will benefit Doctors Without Borders! For updates on live performances of The Caves, follow Christian on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/TheSevateem/status/1056205843941785600 Need an advertising agency that isn't really an advertising agency, or just want to work somewhere that isn't so rulsey, go here: https://zeusjones.com Ask us a question on Twitter or Instagram. Stay up to date or buy a freakin' hoodie here: Beatroublemaker.com

NEW TO WHO AND THE CAVES OF ANDROZANIFrom the moment they land on the planet Androzani Minor, everything goes wrong for Dan and Steven and their young companion, Bridget.They become involved in the struggle between brutal gun-runners, ruthless Federation troops, and the hideously mutilated Sharaz Jek, who lurks in the depths of the caves with his android army.Key to this struggle is spectrox, the most valuable substance in the universe. Suitably processed, spectrox is an elixir of life, but it in its raw state it is a deadly poison - a fact which will cost the Doctor another of his Time Lord lives…New to Who continues with its trilogy of regeneration stories with this, the final story of the Fifth Doctor - and Our Steven’s favourite as a kid - the wonderful Peter Davison. It is also the second story featuring the first ‘American’ companion, Perpugilliam Brown - or Peri for short - played by the charming Nicola Bryant.Widely regarded as a true classic of the entire series, THE CAVES OF ANDROZANI topped the 2014 Doctor Who Magazine Mighty 200 poll. It was written by the late, great Robert Holmes, and is impressively directed by Graeme Harper, his first story as director. Harper remains the only director to have worked on both Classic and New Who.The cover of the original imprint of the 1985 Target novelisation for THE CAVES OF ANDROZANI is by Andrew Skilleter. The novelisation is written by Sir Terrance Dicks. The audiobook is read by the Doctor himself, Peter Davison.Intro theme by Our Colin (2017). Much love and thanks, Col ❤︎This month’s outro music - “Anywhere In The Universe” - comes courtesy and with the kind permission of THE SEVATEEM from their concept album, THE CAVES. Please check out their amazing ‘80s/Androzani-aesthetic-inspired website, and while you’re there please donate and download from Bandcamp, particularly as The Sevateem support a worthy and humanitarian cause in the form of Medicine Sans Frontier (US).Special thanks to Sarah Tout at Voice Box Media Training.NEXT MONTH: LOGOPOLIS

In Episode 58: Weird Maximalism, the guys, along with special guest host Gabriela Santiago, interview The Sevateem about their new album The Caves, based on the classic series story The Caves of Androzani. We dig deep into the motivation, production and reception of this beautiful love letter to old Doctor Who, and suggest some totally […]

This week we launch the final mini-arc in our Year of Women: Kicky-Stabby women! Join Deb, Erika, Katrina, and Lynne as we launch things in style -- Sevateem style! That's right, Leela is our first kicky-stabby heroine (in her first story, "The Face of Evil"), and we're thrilled to have a chance to talk about her, as it's something we haven't done much at all on Verity! What do you think of Leela? Of this story? Of this idea for a mini-arc? Let us know in the comments! ^E Also covered: Lynne ADOPTED A NEW KITTEN NAMED HUGO! experienced colliding worlds (archives + Doctor Who) when 73 photographs from "The Abominable Snowmen" were found at the National Library of Wales! Kat had her world momentarily rocked when she realized the 4th Doctor, Sarah Jane, and K9 never appeared in an episode together! had a Torchwood mini-marathon and many resulting feels! Erika now has a complete collection of the Doctor Who Mr. Men books! is doing a Doctor Who panel and a live Earp Chirp recording at Edmonton Expo! Erika AND Deb had a blast making Liz talk about The Mighty Ducks on a Beginner's Puck special! Deb is super-excited about Rachael Stott's 13th Doctor comic cover! Alisa Stern's Doctor Puppet 13th Doctor comic cover! Bernice Summerfield meeting River Song! Tegan's season 19 safety video! Extra-special thanks to our guest editor, Steven Schapansky of Castria!

In Episode 58: Weird Maximalism, the guys, along with special guest host Gabriela Santiago, interview The Sevateem about their new album The Caves, based on the classic series story The Caves of Androzani. We dig deep into the motivation, production and reception of this beautiful love letter to old Doctor Who, and suggest some totally […]

NEW TO WHO AND THE ROBOTS OF DEATHOn a desert planet the giant sandminer crawls through the howling sandstorms, harvesting the valuable minerals in the sand.Inside it, Dan and Steven relax in luxury, while most of the work is done by the robots who serve them.Then JR Southall arrives - and the mysterious deaths begin. First a suspect, then a hunted victim, JR must find the hidden killer - or join the other victims of The Robots of Death.The penultimate story of the acclaimed Season 14, this is perhaps the strongest four-parter of the entire Hinchcliffe and Holmes era having placed at number 11 in the DWM 2014 readers' poll. It's a fast-paced story with an overriding Art Decor aesthetic, and an incredible array of classic series imagery including the eponymous Robots of Death in red-eyed killer mode (doing it thirty years before the Ood!).Join Dan and Steven and special guest JR Southall for a story that showcases an imperious Tom Baker as the Doctor, and the wonderful Louise Jameson in only her second story as Leela of the Sevateem. You can hear more of JR on the Blue Box Podcast, which you can find on Facebook here, while JR is also on Twitter here.The cover of the original imprint of the 1979 Target novelisation for THE ROBOTS OF DEATH is by John Geary. It is written by Terrance Dicks and is based on Chris Boucher's 1977 original script.Intro theme by Our Colin (2017). Much love and thanks, Col ❤︎Special thanks to Sarah Tout at Voice Box Media Training.NEXT MONTH: VENGEANCE ON VAROS

NB: I forgot to mention in my intro that at about the 56th minute we have about a minute-long conversation with ADULT THEMES. This week I spoke to Christian Erickson, whose band The Sevateem have just released their album "The Caves", a synth pop concept album about The Caves of Androzani. We spoke about the album, as well as about Snakedance and the Peter Davison years. Timecodes: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:38:41 - Snakedance The Sevateem on Twitter - @TheSevateem Buy "The Caves" - https://thesevateem.bandcamp.com/ Find us on Twitter - @GalacticYoyoPod Promotional artwork by Molly Lester (@mollypukes). The songs used in this week's podcast are "Anywhere in the Universe" and "Stotzy", both taken from The Caves. Presented by Dylan Marsh.

  Once upon a time, an aspiring musician from the Land of One Thousand Lakes had an idea to create an epic work of song and lyric, in honor of a story that was dear to his heart. Because the Fates don’t always bring opportunity and inspiration to the dining table at the same time, the idea waited. It was patient. It would find its moment. It was a good idea. Nearly fifteen years passed. Lives changed, new adventures came […]

In Episode 52: Pantsuit, the guys are joined by an all-star cast of Twin Cities performers for Get Off My World!'s third anniversary live show at Minneapolis' Phoenix Theater. Hear! new material from The Sevateem, as they debut songs from their upcoming rock opera The Caves, based on a certain famous 1984 Doctor Who serial! […]

In Episode 52: Pantsuit, the guys are joined by an all-star cast of Twin Cities performers for Get Off My World!’s third anniversary live show at Minneapolis’ Phoenix Theater. Hear! new material from The Sevateem, as they debut songs from their upcoming rock opera The Caves, based on a certain famous 1984 Doctor Who serial! […]

In Episode 39: Sad Lava Monster Ballad, the boys are joined by Christian Erickson and Janey Winterbauer of the Twin Cities-based band The Sevateem! Listen as the guys rustle through Kelvin's bag of odorous nostalgia, interrogate Christian and Janey about their unfinished Caves Of Androzani rock opera, mentally and emotionally prepare for the next Doctor […]

In Episode 39: Sad Lava Monster Ballad, the boys are joined by Christian Erickson and Janey Winterbauer of the Twin Cities-based band The Sevateem! Listen as the guys rustle through Kelvin’s bag of odorous nostalgia, interrogate Christian and Janey about their unfinished Caves Of Androzani rock opera, mentally and emotionally prepare for the next Doctor […]

In Episode 38: Making The Celestial Toymaker Face, the guys pick the most representative story from each Doctor's era (only it's more complicated than that), dig deep to find anything remotely entertaining about the 1966 First Doctor adventure The Celestial Toymaker, listen to a song by future podcast guests The Sevateem, and wrap up our look […]

In Episode 38: Making The Celestial Toymaker Face, the guys pick the most representative story from each Doctor’s era (only it’s more complicated than that), dig deep to find anything remotely entertaining about the 1966 First Doctor adventure The Celestial Toymaker, listen to a song by future podcast guests The Sevateem, and wrap up our look […]

We are returned! We are here! And on this episode of 'Terminus', I discuss Leela of the Sevateem's debut story 'The Face of Evil'. All as a continuation, of course, of my ongoing 'Bigger on the Inside' series about some of my favorite companion's first stories. This one is especially happy-making and sentimental for me, by the way, as Leela was actually my very first companion back in the day when I was young. Also on this episode, you'll find some belated recommendations of Spooky Doctor Who stories from both the new and classic series for Halloween fun (I'd honestly hoped to have this out by Halloween, natch, but sadly it was not to be!), excitement about Dalek-related potential social gatherings, musings on the mysterious Janice Thorn, a bit of scratchy sore throat on my end, the Doctor as a Mountain Man, a manipulative and schizophrenic AI playing psychological games, hoarding tests FTW, and quite a bit of a meditation on eugenics. This is probably the longest episode I've ever done, as I just found I had SO MUCH to talk about, so remember that the time stamps below are your friend to help you navigate through everything to make things easier for you. Still, I hope you all will join me for my review and episode discussion. And, as always, glad to have you all aboard. Enjoy the ride!   Episode 22 – Bigger on the Inside: The Face of Evil: Edge of Sevateem   Table of Contents: 0:00:00 - Opening and Welcome 0:03:25 - Spooky Doctor Who Stories for Halloween Fun Times 0:12:08 - Happy Fandom Time 0:21:52 - Discussion of "The Face of Evil": Intro, General Thoughts, & Episode One 0:50:48 - Discussion of "The Face of Evil": Episode Two 1:06:29 - Discussion of "The Face of Evil": Episode Three 1:22:13 - Discussion of "The Face of Evil": Episode Four & Wrap-Up 1:40:33 - Coming Soon on the Next Episode! (Plus Goodbye, Thanks, and Outro!)     Links: + Email: terminusdwpodcast@gmail.com + Terminus on Stitcher + Terminus on iTunes + Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/terminusdwpodcast/ (the social group) or Like Us at: https://www.facebook.com/TerminusDWPodcast + Twitter: https://twitter.com/TerminusCast + Tumblr: http://terminusdwpodcast.tumblr.com + Terminus Amazon Online Store + Music Theme:  'Violin Doctor Who Theme' by ViolinistBAKA (on YouTube) + Earth Station One Network   Fun Links Related to the Show: + "Power of the Daleks" in US Cinemas! + NYCC (New York Comic Con) Doctor Who Panel + NYCC Doctor Who Christmas Teaser Trailer + Justin Chatwin Heroic Character Pic from Christmas Special (Spoiler?) + NYCC Official Class Trailer + NYCC Official Class Trailer #2 + NYCC Class Panel Video + The Mary Sue Round-up of NYCC Doctor Who & Class News + NYCC 'Tales From the TARDIS' Panel Video (with Matt Smith, Alex Kingston, & Jenna Coleman) + Moffat Promises Classic Doctor Who Writer For New Season! + Teardrop Explodes - 'Like Leila Khaled Said' (vid on YouTube) + 'Pygmalion' Book on Amazon US + 'My Fair Lady' DVD on Amazon US + 'Sapphire & Steel' Complete Series on DVD on Amazon US + 'Blake's 7' Complete DVD on Amazon US   BE SURE TO CHECK THE TERMINUS AMAZON A-STORE FOR WHERE TO BUY OTHER THINGS MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE!   Notes: Opening audio clips from the Fifth Doctor serial 'Terminus' and the Tenth Doctor serial 'The Shakespeare Code', copyright BBC. The female robot voice was from '2nd Speech Center' text-to-voice software. 'Doctor Who' theme was by ViolinistBAKA, link provided above.    

"Well now, it seems I have been here before." You have: Planet of Evil. Well... only up to a point. Sure the red-outlined empty creatures from the id are here again but this time they have Tom Baker's distinctive fizzog. As does the local equivalent of Mount Rushmore (although the DVD cover features someone else entirely, for some reason...). And cheap terrifying invisible monsters are causing a rumble in the jungle again, but this time they're accompanied by sultry space savage turned stowaway, a shape-throwing shaman whose hat fits like a glove, a chieftain who's just been Tango'd, and the campest IT support team ever seen. Throw in a computer with more voices than Rob Culshaw and you have one of the most bonkers bouillabaisses of the Baker era. Martin reveals he's a Horda hoarder and Jim displays a positively Luddite awareness of current technological thinking, but do they like The Face of Evil? Or do they turn their own, even more reviled countenances away in disgust? Listen to find out...

This week we cover story #89, The Face of Evil!  The Doctor comes face-to-face with his past self -- and his past mistakes -- and must repair the damage he's done to the Sevateem and the Tesh, and their deity Xoanon! QotW: What was your least favorite Sarah Jane storyline on Doctor Who? Charlie's Variety Segment/Listener Mailbag Discussion of "The Face of Evil" (David 8.5, Trevor 8, Charlie 8.5) Connor's Corner Big Finish Audio Adventure: Early Adventures -- The Isos Network (David 8.25, Trevor 8.25, Charlie 8.5) Hosts: Trevor  @WhovianTrev    Trevsplace Charlie  @insanityinchaos    The Infinite Longbox    The Comic Conspiracy David http://www.davidsafar.com/    @gwythinn    MaroonedWhovian Join us next week for our review of Doctor Who story #90, The Robots of Death! You can rent the DVD from Netflix, or buy the DVD from Amazon.com, BarnesAndNoble.com, the WB Shop, the BBC Doctor Who Shop, or many other fine retailers.

In this episode, Daniel and Shana confront the air-quote Savage in their discussion of Leela of the Sevateem in her very first story, The Face of Evil. Lots of sexism, racism, classicism, and various other -isms (implicit and explicit) to unpack here, so you might as well have a listen.  Main Topic: The Face of Evil. Pennant Roberts. Apologies to Fionnuala about Dodo. A personal hello. "Doctor Qui." Leela's costume. Cosplayers. A Dandy Pandy Aside. Jelly Babies and cannibalism. "Civilizing" Leela. If Zoe were around this story would be two episodes long. Question reality. Cargo cults. Red Dwarf. The Tribe of the Sevateem and the Tribe of Gum. National Geographic and Boobies. Leela as a Noble Savage? Capable. Questioning political authority. Both the Doctor and Leela as expatriates. Janis thorns. Sevateem/Tesh marks the Doctor's own psyche? The Doctor's Fuck-up. Tropiness. Existentialism. Fear of Technology. Blackface. Louise Jameson's legs. Shiny imagined futures. The whiteness of Mad Max Fury Road. Production. "Mount Tom Baker." Shana should blog. Leila Khaled. Femininity and violence. Praise for Louise Jameson. Bad laser effects. Next week: The Invisible Enemy.  Find Our Stuff!  Find us on iTunes! Or Facebook! We love email (oispacemanpodcast@gmail.com)! And all our episodes are on oispaceman.libsyn.com. Daniel's Tumblr Twitter Shana's Tumblr Twitter 

On this special Christmas edition of Reality Bomb, recorded live at Chicago TARDIS in November, Graeme Burk talks with DWNY's Barnaby Edwards about Christmas and Doctor Who (with a special guest contribution by Tony Lee!). Also on the show, Radio Free Skaro's Steven Schapansky drops by to talk about why Voyage of the Damned is our seasonal addition to the Gallery of the Underrated. And Alex Kennard discusses the emotional significance of the most important sound in Doctor Who: the TARDIS dematerialzation noise! Plus: the music of Quiana of the Sevateem, Serial Code Deathmatch with Steven K. Manfred, Robert Smith? and Steven Schapansky and comedy from Bill Evenson, Robert Smith? and Quiana Howard. It's everything you expect from an episode of Reality Bomb...but live on stage. What could possibly go wrong?

In this podcast Eugenia and Gerri along with guest presenter Jo Shrapnel discuss what we all want to be and that is a Doctor Who companion. Not only do they talk about those that have gone before them, they try to define what constitutes being a companion. The interview in this podcast is Louise Jameson, whose character Leela a Sevateem savage travelled with the 4th Doctor. [more]

The Fourth Doctor, traveling alone in the TARDIS, arrives on a mysterious jungle planet. He soon encounters Leela, a savage from the local tribe, who denounces him as the Evil One of fable amongst her people. She has been exiled from her tribe, the Sevateem, for profaning their god, the mysterious , which speaks to them through the tribe's , Neeva. Her father, tribal elder Sole, tried to intervene to protect her but died when taking the Test of the Horda on her behalf. Now Leela is an outcast beyond the invisible barrier around her tribal home. Neeva, meanwhile, has sent two men to murder her, an action witnessed by Leela's friend Tomas, who kills one of the men as Leela dispatches the other. In the jungle beyond that she encounters the Doctor soon wins her over by defending her from invisible monsters that rampage about, attracted by vibration of any kind. Exploring further, the Doctor finds a sophisticated sonic disruptor which creates the forcefield that keeps the creatures from attacking the village itself. Leela regales him with more folklore of her people: the god Xoanon is kept prisoner by the Evil One and his followers, the Tesh, beyond a strange black wall. The Sevateem have meanwhile decided to launch an attack on the domain of the Tesh to free their god. They are led by the combative Andor, who is determined to free his god, and also believes that an attack will unite the people. Andor suspects Neeva of being a false prophet, and Tomas tells him of Neeva's assassination attempt against Leela. Still, Andor believes the attack will succeed and is prepared to go ahead. Two warriors are scouring the jungle when they find the Doctor, and they too call him the Evil One, making a protective hand gesture which the Doctor interprets as the sequence for checking the seals on a Starfall Seven spacesuit. The warriors seize the Doctor, but not Leela, and take him to the village council, where his face is shown to all the tribe. Andor is convinced the prisoner is the Evil One, and has him confined. However, Leela manages to free him by using poisonous Janis thorns, which paralyze, then kill the victim. The Doctor is horrified by this and instructs her "No more Janis thorns, Ever". The pair flee the village and head to a clearing beyond, in which the Doctor is greeted with a stunning sight: carved into a mountain nearby is an impression of his own face. The Doctor cannot recall clearly why his face is depicted so, and persuades Leela to return to the village to find out more, despite the death sentence upon them. They return to Neeva's holy tent and the Doctor inspects the ancient tribal relics, recognising them as artifacts from an Earth survey expedition. He also finds a transceiver used by Neeva to hear the commands of Xoanon. It speaks with the Doctor's own voice, conveying exhilaration on hearing the Doctor that "At least we are here. At last I shall be free of us." They then head off to inspect the dark Wall that stands at the entrance to the realm of the Evil One. The Doctor deduces it is a primitive time barrier, and is convinced the Sevateem warriors will be massacred if they attack the fortress of their enemy, the Tesh. From a distance they see the massacre unfold, as laser beams cut down warriors armed only with crossbows and other basic tribal weapons. Half the tribe is lost in the assault and one of the elders, the devious Calib, is first back at the camp where he finds the Doctor and Leela. He is evidently intent on using the Doctor to break Neeva's hold on the tribe by exposing the faith in Xoanon as misplaced mythology. Leela's friend Tomas also arrives, and is appalled to find Calib has stabbed Leela with a Janis thorn to prevent her exposing his schemes. The Doctor gets Tomas to help him move Leela to Neeva's tent, where he uses a bio-analyzer to synthesise an antidote to the poison. When the surviving warriors return, the Doctor, Leela and Tomas are invited to address the tribal elders in defence of their lives. Leela makes matters worse when she accuses Xoanon of causing the trap at the Wall. Calib intervenes to suggest the Doctor is not the Evil One, and this can be proven by getting him to take the fabled Test of the Horda. In the centre of the village is a pit full of Horda, two-foot-long worms which hunt in packs and react to the movements of their prey. They are reputed to strip flesh from a man in an instant. The Sevateem evolved the Test of the Horda as a measure of justice and bravery. It involves suspension on a rope above the pit, and accused characters are gradually lowered into the pit by means of a rope. The Doctor is given a which has to be fired at the exact moment to sever the rope without causing him to fall into the pit – which is, of course, the fate of the guilty. The Doctor succeeds, and is therefore presumed to be a non-malign influence and freed. He proceeds to examine some relics of the tribe and repairs a disruptor gun. He also tells some of the tribe that the Sevateem are the descendants of a “survey team” which left a Starfall Seven Earth colony ship. The Doctor and Leela then go to examine the face in the mountain, and they climb into the face by scaling the Doctor's teeth. Neeva returns to his tent, where the voice of Xoanon tells him that the tribe will be destroyed, and the mysterious being then causes the sonic disruptor to shut down, leaving the village open to attack from the invisible beings. These descend on the village, killing indiscriminately, including crushing Andor to death. Tomas uses the disruptor gun built by the Doctor to expose the true appearance of the invisible beings: they are ferocious, angry depictions of the Doctor's own face as shown in the picture. Leela and the Doctor notice a figure in a space suit in the “mouth” entrance and follow it through a projection of a wall. Beyond this barrier is a rocket, which the Doctor recalls as belonging to the Mordee Expedition, his memory of events earlier in his regeneration now returning. Xoanon has detected the Doctor nearby, and when he reaches the ship the god-creature is both ecstatic that "We are here” while also manically pledging that "We must destroy us." The Doctor and Leela now meet three representatives of the Tesh, who serve and worship Xoanon. They are human too, but technologically advanced and possessing telepathic abilities. The Doctor deduces both Sevateem and Tesh are descendants of the same crew from the Mordee Expedition, with the Tesh (or technicians) involved in the same deadly exercise as the Sevateem (or survey team). The invisible creatures that attacked the Sevateem are also part of the same deranged scheme: Xoanon is a highly sophisticated computer, designed to think independently. The Doctor had once repaired Xoanon but forgot to wipe his personality print from the data core, leaving the computer with a split personality. The Doctor and Leela are soon imprisoned but evade their captors and find the remote communications device used to communicate with Neeva. The Doctor, speaking as Xoanon, instructs Neeva to tell Calib, who is now tribal leader, to lead the Sevateem survivors through the mouth of the carved face in the mountain. Calib accepts this instruction and leads them into the safety of the mouth, where the invisible beings can no longer threaten the tribe. With Leela keeping guard and holding the Tesh at bay with a disruptor gun, the Doctor ventures into the computer room of the ship to confront Xoanon. He blames himself for creating the maddened split personality of the computer and now attempts to persuade it to shut down. When Xoanon refuses it channels a vicious mental assault at the Doctor, causing him to collapse. As the Doctor writhes on the floor, Xoanon booms: "Who am I?" Leela rescues the Doctor from the mental assault, and as he recovers he warns her of Xoanon's power. Moments later they realise the computer has electrified the walls to try to kill them, and the Tesh become more purposeful in tracking them down within the spaceship. The Tesh also come under attack from Calib, Tomas and the survivors of the Sevateem, who now reach the spaceship too. This diverts the Tesh while the Doctor and Leela return to the computer room, where Xoanon briefly takes control of Leela's mind. Most of the Sevateem come under the telepathic control of the computer too. The Tesh and Sevateem soon converge on the computer room too and interrupt the Doctor as he tries to repair Xoanon, realising the computer has now triggered the countdown to an atomic explosion. Elsewhere in the ship Neeva is alone but crazed, his faith in Xoanon shattered. The shaman uses the disruptor gun against one of the images of Xoanon/the Doctor projected through a wall. The ensuing blast kills Neeva but also interrupts Xoanon's control of its subjects, allowing the Doctor to resume and complete his repairs. Xoanon's circuits explode, knocking the Doctor out. Two days later the Doctor wakes up to find himself aboard the spaceship in the care of Leela. She explains Xoanon has been quiet and he interprets this as success for his extraction experiment. They visit the computer room and find Xoanon's identity and sanity restored. The computer confirms it was running a eugenics experiment and thanks the Doctor for his repair work. The Doctor then contacts the survivors of the Tesh and Sevateem and tells them Xoanon is now cured and able to support their new society. He then heads off to the TARDIS followed by Leela. She insists she join him on his travels, and when he refuses she jumps into the TARDIS with him and starts the dematerialisation process. [] Continuity The story does not explicitly explain when the repaired the Starfall Seven's computer. The novelisation suggests that the earlier visit to the planet of the Sevateem took place during the story , in the moment when sees him begin to leave in the but calls for him to stay. [] Production Serial details by episode EpisodeBroadcast dateRun timeViewership (in millions) "Part One" 1 January 1977 24:58 10.7 "Part Two" 8 January 1977 24:58 11.1 "Part Three" 15 January 1977 24:40 11.3 "Part Four" 22 January 1977 24:46 11.7 Working titles for this story included The Day God Went Mad. [] Cast notes See also: The actors credited as Xoanon do not appear onscreen; only their voices were used. Features guest appearances by Pamela Salem (voice only) and Leslie Schofield. later played Generalleutnant Tendexter in the audio play . [] In print A novelisation of this serial, written by , was published by in January 1978. book Doctor Who and the Face of Evil Series Release number 25 Writer Publisher Cover artist ISBN Release date 19 January 1978 Preceded by ' Followed by ' [] DVD & VHS release This story was released on in May 1999 The story was released on on 5 March 2012 [] References Shaun Lyon et al. (2007-03-31). . Outpost Gallifrey. Archived from on 2008-07-31. Retrieved 2008-08-30. . Doctor Who Reference Guide. Retrieved 2008-08-30. Sullivan, Shannon (2007-08-07). . A Brief History of Time Travel. Retrieved 2008-08-30. [] External links at at at the Fan reviews reviews at reviews at Target novelisation reviews at []

The Sun Makers From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 095 – The Sun Makers serial "An ongoing insurrectionary situation would not be acceptable to my management." Cast () () (Voice of ) Others — — — — Cordo — Bisham — Mandrel — Veet — Goudry — Nurse — Synge — Commander — Guard Production Writer Director Script editor Robert Holmes and (both uncredited) Producer Executive producer(s) None Production code 4W Series Length 4 episodes, 25 minutes each Originally broadcast 26 November–17 December 1977 Chronology ← Preceded by Followed by → The Sun Makers is a in the series , which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 26 November to 17 December 1977. Contents [] [] Synopsis In the far future, the planet is habitable, heated by several miniature suns. However, the heat is available only to the ruling classes, the working population being oppressed by the ruthless, bureaucratic and omnipresent Company. When the and arrive, they help to initiate a rebellion from the Undercity, and stop the evil company's plans once and for all. [] Plot The inhabitants of Pluto in the far future are taxed to desperation, not least the Cordo, who is so overwhelmed by the size of his tax bill that he decides to take his own life by jumping from the roof of one of the vast Megropolis tower blocks. He is interrupted by the arrival of the Doctor and Leela from the , who save him from his chosen fate, and discover that false suns have been created around Pluto to provide the ability for some of mankind to live. However, the Company which owns the suns and all the buildings on Pluto is using its economic stranglehold over mankind to extort ever growing taxes through an extreme form of usury. The Doctor is concerned at this economic and social structure, where each Megropolis is ruled by a taxation , and the entire operation on the planet reports to a malevolent . Some citizens have rejected this social order and choose to live in the dark tunnels of the Undercity. The Doctor, Leela and Cordo venture there and encounter the renegades of the undercity, a vicious bunch of thieves and drop-outs led by the brutal Mandrel. He tells the Doctor that he must use a stolen consume-card to obtain money from a cashpoint or else Leela will be killed. The Gatherer of Megropolis One, Hade, has been alerted to the arrival of the TARDIS. He uses an electronic tracker to follow K9, who has now departed the craft in search of his master. K9 finds the Doctor and Cordo at a cashpoint where the Gatherer sees them and suspects they must be arms dealers. He orders his private guard, the Inner Retinue, to deal with them. When the Doctor tries the stolen card he is overpowered by a cloud of noxious gas and falls unconscious. When the Doctor awakes he finds himself restrained in a Correction Centre alongside a similarly incarcerated man named Bisham. They are likely to be tortured, but the Doctor is as concerned for Leela, whom Mandrel threatened to kill if the Doctor did not return. Leela has defended herself though, and Cordo, who evaded capture, returns to the Undercity with news of the Doctor's capture. This serves to increase Leela's standing with the thieves and the threat over her life diminishes. The Doctor's lot improves too when he is released for questioning by Gatherer Hade, but Hade is playing a game of double bluff. He has the Doctor released but orders his movements tracked, believing the Doctor will lead him to the heart of a conspiracy against the Company. Not knowing about this change in fortunes, Leela, Cordo and K9 attack the Correction Centre to try and rescue the Doctor. He has left, but they do succeed in freeing Bisham. As they depart the Centre they find all their possible travel routes blocked by Inner Retinue troopers. Leela leads her friends in an attack on the guards, but she alone is injured in a skirmish and falls from a troop transporter they have commandeered. The Doctor has returned to the Undercity to find a very agitated Mandrel, who refuses to believe he could have been simply released after such a crime. Once more Cordo returns, this time with Bisham and K9, and defuses the situation when he explains what has happened to Leela. He also uses a stolen blaster to force Mandrel to stop threatening the Doctor. He asserts control and persuades the Undercity dwellers to start a revolution against the Company. Their first target will be the main control area where the Company engineers that PCM, a pacifying drug which helps keep the population servile, is being added to the air supply. Mandrel and his gang are also persuaded to start destroying the monitors throughout the Megropolis and to start spreading the message of revolt. Leela is now presented to the Collector himself, an odious humanoid in a life-support wheelchair who is even more obsessed with money than Gatherer Hade, who fawns all over him. The Collector deduces from interrogating Leela that Hade's conspiracy theory was unfounded and orders that Leela will be steamed to death in a public execution. He is especially pleased at a public steaming and arranges immediate publicity, unaware of the revolt spreading through the Megropolis. The Doctor heads off to rescue Leela from the steamer, but is running out of time. The Doctor manages to save Leela in the nick of time, but the microphones set up to relay her death screams instead relay the sound of Mandrel warning the Doctor of how little time he has left to rescue her. The Collector is incensed and even more troubled when the revolution starts spreading even more quickly. Gatherer Hade is thrown to his death from the top of his Megropolis, and his normally dutiful underling, , joins the revolution. Leela and the Doctor head for the Collector's Palace, and there he sabotages the computer system. The Collector arrives and is challenged by the Doctor, who discovers the being is a from the planet . He is really a seaweedlike being like a sentient poisonous fungus. The Doctor denounces his operation on Pluto, which consumed Mars as well as the population were moved from Earth. Before the Collector can implement a plan to gas the population of Pluto, Cordo and the lead rebels arrive and help the Doctor defeat the remaining members of the Inner Retinue. The Collector checks his computer to find the Doctor's input has resulted in projected bankruptcy, and the shock of this causes the Collector to revert to his natural state in a compartment at the base of his wheelchair. The Doctor seals him in to be sure the threat is over, and he and Leela depart with K9, leaving Cordo, Mandrel and the others to contemplate recolonising the Earth. [] Continuity Part Two contains a rare false cliffhanger, where Cordo, Bisham, Leela and K-9 spot an oncoming guard vehicle and Cordo says, "It's no good, they've seen us." The reprise at the beginning of Part Three omits Cordo's remark, and continues with Leela ordering K-9 to hide, allowing it to easily disable the guards. Leela refers to her tribe, the Sevateem, seen in . The Company computer correctly guesses the etymology of the name. The Usurians are aware of the and , having graded the former as "Grade 3" in their "latest market survey." [] Production Serial details by episode EpisodeBroadcast dateRun timeViewership (in millions) "Part One" 26 November 1977 24:59 8.5 "Part Two" 3 December 1977 24:57 9.5 "Part Three" 10 December 1977 24:57 8.9 "Part Four" 17 December 1977 24:57 8.4 [] Cast notes Michael Keating also appeared in the audio play as Major Koth and in as Inspector Chardalot. See also . Louise Jameson stated in the of the story and on the commentary for that The Sun Makers was her favourite serial. [] Outside references Robert Holmes intended the serial to be a satire of his own experiences with the services. However, much of the political content was toned down by order of producer Graham Williams, who feared it would be controversial among viewers. Many of the letters and numbers used to denote the labyrinth of corridors in the city, for example , allude to well-known tax and Governmental forms. The actor who played the Gatherer had deep bushy eyebrows, very reminiscent of the then-, . However, Holmes presented the villains of the piece as working for a private corporation rather than a government. Near the end of Part Two, when prompted by Mandrel for a story, the Doctor begins, "Once upon a time, there were three sisters ..." mirroring the same story he started telling Sarah Jane Smith near the end of Part Three in . The Doctor refers to in passing, saying "Galileo will be pleased." When one of the rebels rhetorically asks the Doctor, "What have we got to lose?" he replies, "Only your claims!" This is a playful paraphrase of the derived from the last lines of . K-9 refers to as "the ninth ." It was regarded as such at the time the programme was written and broadcast; in 2006, Pluto lost that distinction when it was downgraded to the status of . In this episode, Leela and the Doctor are identified as "terrorists." In real life, Leela's character was partially based on Palestinian terrorist . [] In print A novelisation of this serial, written by , was published by in November 1982. Dicks chose to tone down the scene in which revolutionaries cheer as they hurl one of their former oppressors from a roof, reducing the apparent horror so that the rebels concerned feel that their actions have gone "a bit too far". book Doctor Who and the Sunmakers Series Release number 60 Writer Publisher Cover artist ISBN Release date 18 November 1982 [] VHS and DVD releases This story was released on in July 2001. The Sun Makers was released on region 2 DVD 1 on August 2011. [] References Shaun Lyon et al. (2007-03-31). . Outpost Gallifrey. Archived from on 2008-07-31. Retrieved 2008-08-30. . Doctor Who Reference Guide. Retrieved 2008-08-30. Sullivan, Shannon (2007-08-07). . A Brief History of Time Travel. Retrieved 2008-08-30. Sullivan, Shannon Patrick. . A Brief History of Time (Travel). Retrieved 2007-03-18. Viner, Katharine (2001-10-26). . . Retrieved 2007-03-18. . 28 January 2011. Retrieved 29 January 2011. 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