The Two Doctors
Joe Siegler
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The Two Doctors
This Story: Season 22, Story 4. Production Code 6W
Overall: Story 141, Episode 639-641
Airdates: 16 Feb 1985 – 2 Mar 1985
Written by Robert Holmes
Directed by Peter Moffatt
Note
- The tweets for Episode 1 had miffed counts. Tweet 1 of 3 is correct, but tweets 2 & 3 were mislabled as “Episode 2”, which they are not.
- This was Patrick Troughton’s final appearance in Doctor Who, as he died about two years after this.
- For some reason Twitter is refusing to display the third tweet in this sequence so I’ve compensated with just a screenshot.
- Also I made a mistake in the original tweets for Episode 1. They should all say “The Two Doctors 1/3”, but in the second and third tweets it mistakenly says 2/3
Links
[ Wikipedia | Tardis Data Core | SPS Historium | Amazon US DVD | Amazon UK DVD ]#DoctorWhoMarathon Ep 639 - The Two Doctors 1/3 (Serial 6W Story 141) - 16 Feb 1985 1/3
— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) March 31, 2023
This was a fun story. I know some people slag on it, but I loved having Doctors 2/6 together. Troughton's appearance does bring up some canonical issues, like where this fits in the timeline. pic.twitter.com/j0DF9SCI9N
#DoctorWhoMarathon Ep 639 - The Two Doctors 2/3 (Serial 6W Story 141) - 16 Feb 1985 2/3
— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) March 31, 2023
From this comes the 'Season 6B theory', which feel fits this quite well. We also get Jamie back. This was written by Robert Holmes, & is full of his character development. This also has the pic.twitter.com/eODzbipB2f
#DoctorWhoMarathon Ep 640 - The Two Doctors 2/3 (Serial 6W Story 141) - 23 Feb 1985 1/3
— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) March 31, 2023
6 rescues Jamie who becomes a companion w/Peri as they search for what happened to 2. As it usually is with two races vying for power (Sontarans & Androgums), they end up trying to backstab pic.twitter.com/MBwBlekyQh
#DoctorWhoMarathon Ep 640 - The Two Doctors 2/3 (Serial 6W Story 141) - 23 Feb 1985 2/3
— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) March 31, 2023
each other, which dominates most of their time here. Dastari/Chessene are trying to take the power of time travel from 2 here, and experiment on him, turning him into an Androgum. This story pic.twitter.com/ACoTnMOkCz
#DoctorWhoMarathon Ep 640 - The Two Doctors 2/3 (Serial 6W Story 141) - 23 Feb 1985 3/3
— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) March 31, 2023
is oddly fractionalized with various parts existing w/o interacting with each other for large parts. There's a bit with Shockeye eating a rat raw that caused a stir when it first went out. pic.twitter.com/UpmZBZNmey
#DoctorWhoMarathon Ep 641 - The Two Doctors 3/3 (Serial 6W Story 141) - 2 Mar 1985 #DoctorWho 1/3
— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) April 1, 2023
My biggest complaint about this story is how long it took to get 2 & 6 together. They have the typical multi Doctor sniping. This ep has the super fun sequence with 2 as an Androgum pic.twitter.com/6BGkxE3GjC
#DoctorWhoMarathon Ep 641 - The Two Doctors 3/3 (Serial 6W Story 141) - 2 Mar 1985 #DoctorWho 2/3
— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) April 1, 2023
going to Seville on an eating binge with Shockeye. Loved that. In the end, everyone is defeated as you'd expect, & we get some final sniping between 2 & 6. I love Jamie's giving pic.twitter.com/L54AYNQOck
#DoctorWhoMarathon Ep 641 - The Two Doctors 3/3 (Serial 6W Story 141) - 2 Mar 1985 3/3
— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) April 1, 2023
Peri a kiss at the end. Story also has a few violent moments which were used in attacking the show. This was Patrick Troughton's final appearance in #DoctorWho before his death two yrs later. pic.twitter.com/Msrs7y5L69
