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That Steel Claw cover's fab. More than a nod to Jesus Blasco there.

The Borg usually ignore everybody then end up finding their inner child, don't they?

More bothered about this namby-pamby lonely Dalek nonsense. So long as we get a Cyberman pausing in the act of flamethrowering a kitten, then shrugging and just going for it, I'll be happy.

Not getting this one, but what did y'all think of Colony Earth?

hard to follow from Meglos and The Leisure Hive onwards

That's just around the time I lost interest, only really getting excited by the first Cybermen story in ages and then getting a bit bored again, since the show was becoming more wistful each week, kind of like hearing a synthesiser set on "unicorn".

Seems to be working now.

Sing!

Best bit: Void (the one that looks like The Man Who Stole The Stars) and its reaction to losing at cards. You can see it coming but it's still funny.

Most confusing bit: Albus' and Fuscus' names are the wrong way round. Or is it irony, like having a 7ft foot henchman called Tiny partnered with a dweeb called Knuckles? And why am I asking you?

Just Plain Wrong bit: Jesus Christ Superstar.

It's kind of like Craggy Island but with all the genre stuff going on, with the beaches full of toxic barrels, landmines, barbed wire, cyborg submariners bumping into forgotten reptilian overlords (both running away from the giant crabs), fishing villages packed with furtive deformed locals and pyromaniac morris dancers, caves full of gunpowder, lost pirates and troglodytes, spooky stone circles and a castle with a Fourth Reich radar installation in it...

Only vaguely. I remember the opening titles, that James Hazeldine was in it and there was some laboratory doings on the obligatory "remote Scottish/Cornish isle" (second only to the gravel pit in Brit SF TV).

2000AD. It's never off the bloody telly these days.

From a re-read of the Progs t'other day

"No! Non! Nein! Nyet! And whatever it is in Sankrit!"

the beast in the cellar

Can't watch that without thinking of

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why are all the disintegrated contestants transmitted to Dalek central?

To be mutated into those thousands of Daleks? And by that kid with the third eye gizmo they abandoned it seems.

Enjoyable hokum but bloody cringeworthy in spots.

Germs would be the biggest problem. If theirs didn't get you, yours would get them. So probably a non-starter.

Do you have future knowledge that could be of any use (remembering that there's no electricity)?

Being a competent surgeon or medical practitioner would be enough to wow the locals without the risk of being burnt at the stake ("could you kick that baked potato out for me, mister?")

The best story along the lines of it-was-feasible-then-but-they-hadn't-invented-it-yet was Lest Darkness Fall by L. Sprague de Camp, where our time-travelling hero in 6th century Italy supposedly prevents the Dark Ages by first making a fortune from distilling, then introducing printing, telescopes and semaphore before going off to stop Islam starting.

BTW, notice the shape of the alien biochip locator gizmo he's talking to in that page? Yep, it's his old buddy who didn't end up in the pack, helmet or gun...