The Cycle of Frugality
Sunday, March 30th, 2008Quote: “A new scrimpy spirit is most noticeable in direct efforts to conserve gas and other fuels, but it is also emerging in the other routine logistics of daily living.
Archive for March, 2008
Patrick Troughton’s Doctor Who: Now You See It…
Friday, March 28th, 2008With no Avengers on BBC4 tonight, I’m about to watch a New Avengers episode in celebration of Gareth Hunt, who died yesterday; and I’ve been enjoying some Doctor Who first transmitted forty years ago this week. The Macra Terror stars Patrick Troughton as the Doctor in a satirical tale mixing giant crabs, holiday camps and 1984, and though it’s long-since been burnt for gas to feed the BBC Board of Governors, there’s still an ‘underground’ way to watch it. You can watch Pat’s Doctor in the Underground this Sunday on BBC4, too, with The Web of Fear showing at 8.35 in the evening. ‘Fear’ and ‘Terror’, you ask? Yes, this was indeed the first period in which Doctor Who saw its main task as scaring the kiddies, which may explain why I’m so fond of it. Though The Web of Fear is often hailed as one of the best of the series, for me The Macra Terror is more interesting – perhaps because this dark dystopia gets just about the best balance between the two sides of Pat’s Doctor, the ‘let-it-all-hang-out’ freethinker and the uncompromising monster-killer… “Well, according to my calculations, we’re, ah, certainly in the future, and… er… on a planet very like the Earth.
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