Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks - REVIEW - Dalekcember
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- Опубліковано 6 гру 2019
- This story has quite a poor reputation, but maybe it's time for a re-evaluation for 'Day of the Daleks'.
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The candy mans an evil 1970s villain!!! He's so menacing that even he intimidated the daleks! Now does he have cyanide in the candy?🤔
Should of been day of the ..... ogrons
Just a note. You said Evil aired in 1963 instead of 1967.
@@404TVfr shut up.
John Byrne admitted this story helped inspire the iconic X-Men story "Days of Future Past".
I always end up watching the special edition of this story due to how much better it is, effects wise the CG has certainly aged but the voices are so much better.
Would have to agree. The SE is far superior and Nic Briggs does and amazing job at improving the Daleks' voices.
I think watching the original version first creates a bad first impression
Absolutely agree. The SE is the one to watch.
I've never understood why people like the SE. The special effects are dreadful. The only good additions are the new voices and the additional Daleks and scenes from the battle section. They still manage to ruin it with dreadful sound effects and rubbish out of place laser effects. And don't get me started on the CGI city.
These changes should've been subtle, unfortunately they stick out like a sore thumb
I bought the special edition as well, the voices are much better
You mean 1967 not 1963 for Evil of the Daleks ?
It's amazing how you can watch a video 100s of times before and upload and still mess up a line -_- aha
The terminator-esque plot is well done for the era and far more interesting than the daleks here. I like this one as something different.
Aubrey Woods is the highlight of this excellent story. He's a villain but also completely believable as someone, in his own head at least, has convinced himself he is doing the right thing by acting as the middle man between the daleks and the people of this time period. With him there to act as a buffer the people are not treated as badly as they might be otherwise. He has charm and menace in equal measure. His conversion at the very end of the story shows his humanity was still flickering somewhere in his heart all along. This is an underrated story and is my personal favourite of the Pertwee era.
The 1972 audience were confused how Aubrey Woods went from Bill the Candy Store Owner in Willy Wonka, to a villain helping the Daleks in Doctor Who.
I am surprised to hear the story has a bad reputation. I loved it as a kid. And why not invade with only three Daleks? Look at what just one has done in other stories.
I don't understand the poor rep this story has either. Nu-Who would have us believe you can conquer an entire planet with a single dalek.
The story had so much to it the daleks are more of a cherry on the top of the sci-fi cake. The exchanges between Pertwee's Doctor and the Controller are a particular high point in my opinion.
Because the story was hemmed in, and did not had time to contract the normal voice actors of the Daleks. The producers almost got into serious legal trouble with Terry Nation for writing a Dalek story behind Nation's back. BBC noticed they need a season opening "hook" and went with the Daleks. The original bad guys were the Ogrons, but the Daleks got added to the scripts very late.
@@UnchainedAmericaThanks for the explaination!. I still enjoyed it, The Ogrons would have been boring on their own. Also Terry Nation wasn't that interesting a writer
I really like this story, especially the updated version with better FX
I’d describe Pertwee’s Doctor as more Austin Powers that James Bond myself, especially in his attire.
James Bond wore similar outfits in 1969's On Her Majesty's Secret Service including the frilly front shirt.
I'm just imagining the Third Doctor saying "Oh yeah baby!"
I love day of the daleks, it's the story that set Pertwee up as my favourite doctor, I have very fond memories of watching it.
One of my absolute favorite Dalek Episodes... between my imagination with the old Novelization and then the Special Edition, this story is great.
No disrespect to the other actors who voice the Daleks in that story but I think Nicolas Briggs nails it on the special edition of the story.
Great review! I remember struggling to watch this story as a kid on VHS due to the poor production values. After watching the special edition version, I won’t go back to the original. With new special effects, Dalek voices by Briggsy, newly shot scenes plus cgi Daleks & ogrons, this story is elevated into a truly fantastic timey-wimey epic! It’s a diamond in the rough!
When I first discovered Dr Who many years ago, I rushed to my local library and checked out the Terrance Dicks adaptation of this story. It was superb. So much so that when I eventually saw the serial, I was disappointed a bit. Part of it is that Uncle Terrance really streamlined the story and used the unlimited budget of the imagination on the printed page -- even the scene on the motorbikes was exciting and didn't feel like the Ogrons were running in place to make it seem faster than it was.
It's also a Who story riddled with minor production issues -- from the Dalek voices to the fact that the original version leaves the stinger in the recap segment of episode 2, 3 and 4. I do feel like the special edition corrects a lot of these..but man, it's still fun to see these in there.
This was the first Target book I bought. Yeah, TV budgets meant it didn't live up to everything that Louis Mark's wrote but I think it more than makes up for it with regard to the performances. Particularly, the exchanges between Pertwee's Doctor and the Controller.
Speaking of Katy Manning.... with Daleks.... is anybody going to bring up that little photoshoot in 1977?
12:28 Gotta say that I loved this slightly camp officer. He was so fun to watch!
Really good review man, it's great seeing you doing the classic stories. Just a few points,
At 6:07, the Ogron the Doctor shoots is clearly raising its gun about to take a shot at him, so I think Doc is justified in shooting it.
And 9:01, if you look carefully it's actually the same Orgon that says both lines
It is a really great story though. The Dalek battle at the end never bothered me too much because I always saw it as showing the strength of them that they can just sit in the field and pick off the UNIT soldiers without much effort.
Your report?
We... fond... end... destord... deh... enemeh
Any complications?
No complications.
Jo was a real cutie. Like a british Polly Pocket.
The issue with Chibnall's Who isn't the fact that isn't political, its that it's ridiculously on the nose to the point of hilarity and just badly written.
Exactly.
And the politics in these stories were just part of the story. The Doctor didn't lecture or belabour the point. Kids saw an exciting story, whether it involved guerillas or striking miners, and the adults watching could see the contemporary references if they chose to do so. Subtlety is a sign of superior writing. Nobody likes being lectured to in an entertainment programme.
12:11 That voicebox makes me laugh.
Another great review. I find the best reviews on UA-cam help me and others understand an emotion you felt watching it but couldn't explain! Example is here, Day of the Daleks is one of my favourite stories. But for some reason when I compare it to other daleks stories it falls flat. Not untill this video is realised it was due to the Daleks themselves being underutilised. Great video can't wait for Planet of the Dalek or Frontier in Space if you counting that one!
Really digging these reviews.
No complications 😂😂😂😂
I love this story any problems I have with it are fixed with the special edition it's very underrated.
Take a shot every time the controller says “ I assure you …” in this story . You will die.
Personally I find this story quite average. But I love the design of the supreme Dalek
9:44 - How brilliant would it have been if they'd cast Aubrey Woods in The Happiness Patrol?
The guy who played the freedom fighter with the dark hair and tache was Jimmy Winston who played guitar in the original Small Faces and released some solo stuff as well.
I somehow remember seeing the scene, witch was cut from episode 4. Dose anyone know how this is possible?
I tried to watch this year's ago and the only things I remember are the future Doctor and Jo, the trike buggy thing, and the weird Daleks. I may just have to go and check it out now!
There _aren't_ any CGI Daleks in the final battle. What you're seeing is an all-new final battle, filmed with an authentic film camera from the period, with fan-made Daleks (the gent from This Planet Earth Ltd. provided them) and Ogron costumes.
In the sequence where the Daleks are coming out of the tunnel, those Daleks are absolutely CGI. The ones on the battlefield itself are real props, but they have been digitally inserted into the old footage.
Thanks very much; this episode is so frequently panned, but you really hit both the good and bad about it. True time-travel stories in Doctor Who are rare, and I've always been fascinated by this one. It's a pity that someone didn't do very good research about the way Daleks talk.
One of my favorite stories ever, yes the Daleks are a bit weak but the image of them appearing from the tunnel is a classic. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
I don't understand the poor rep this story has. Nu-Who would have us believe you can conquer an entire planet with a single dalek.
The story had so much to it the daleks are more of a cherry on the top of the sci-fi cake.
there is a shop called the who shop near me which sells doctor who merchandise and is owned by a couple. i remember going there to buy the episode i was on in classic who but they had already sold the last copy to someone so i thought i'll just buy a pertwee story instead. i didnt know what to choose so i asked the the husband of the owner which story he would recommend. he recommended the daemons and a biased favourite of his which was the day of the daleks because he played one of the unit soldiers who got blown up in the remaster, so i bought the dvd and asked him to sign it and he did.
Woods reminds me of my boss. Only it isn't daleks. Its all about a double-digit yield for Wall Street.
This is the second Dalek story I saw as a 5 year old in 1980. The voices weren't an issue for me at first. Then I saw other episodes. The director obviously had no idea what a Dalek should sound like. I love the use of time travel as a plot device. The interrogation scene stands out as well. It is the first time I saw what the other Doctors looked like. A must watch.
I saw this back in the day and for me it was a stand out story.
"Doctor? Did you say Doctor?
This Dalek sounds German
Also, speaking of the Candyman, please can we have a review of The Happiness Patrol?
Just try to get that Dalek to say squirrel.
The original Dalek voice in Day of the Daleks sounds like a robot whereas Nicholas Briggs made the Daleks sound like what they should’ve been not robots like the original.
Definitely the best Dalek story of the Pertwee era. The Special edition DVD is excellent.
Definitely, though sadly not in the face of great competition on that score. I think this is a generally very underrated story just because there's clearly only a few daleks. But the story has so much to it that I don't think it's a detrimental as many people make out. The scene between Pertwee's Doctor and the Controller is particularly memorable, in my opinion at least.
“Blimey this sounds like a Tory cabinet meeting.”
You know I had a feeling that the Dalek prime minster had an uncanny resemblance to Theresa May.
I've got a feeling that Daleks don't have a UNION problem 👍
Good review mate. I saw this when it aired in the 70s, as a little kid, and it left an impression on me. I loved Jon Pertwee as the Doctor - while Tom Baker will always be the quintessential Doctor, Pertwee had such charm, grace and wit ...and of course he kicks the crap out of people. It's been so long that I had totally forgotten about this series - thanks for preserving it - still a million times better than anything done in the 2020s Dr Who. Cheers.
Looking forward to seeing this one, as Twitch didn’t stream non-Terry Nation Dalek stories. Rather bizarre though that the big comeback of the Daleks is in a serial they were just shoved into.
It's amazing what a group can create with one iconic base design, but to see the base design for one last time is sad (all in all: I want to see the original Skaro Daleks when Doctor Who ends).
I remember many years ago I would get up early on Saturday mornings and watch the John Pertwee episodes on UKTV GOLD and after watching The Deamons, I got excited because I knew that the next episode would be Day of the Daleks. So the next Saturday morning I got up bright and early for Day of the Daleks but instead of the story, it was skipped and I got up instead for Curse of Peladon.
That sucks, but Curse of Peladon is more of a classic than Day of the Daleks. Those stories you mentioned were the first three I ever saw, and Curse is by far the one I have the most vivid and fond memories of.
Much like The Chase, I only ever saw Day of the Daleks once, and forgot a good deal of what happened. Honestly, it does sound a bit more interesting than I remember it being, even if the Daleks are kind of an afterthought.
American fan of the show here: "The Day of the Daleks" was the first "Doctor Who" story I ever encountered---not on TV but in the American reprint of the paperback novelization of the episode, a novelization that cleared up a few plot holes! Like the scenes of two Doctors and Jo Grants in the Tardis at the same time at the beginning and end of the story! I'd read the Starlog Magazine article about the Tom Baker episodes (which were beginning to be syndicated in the early 80s) and grabbed the paperbacks and loved them. Loved the Tom Baker episodes but a few years into the 80s our local station played the Pertwee episodes and I loved his James Bondian Doctor! Best to you , yours in the USA----Mike Mayak
This is the first dalek story I remember seeing, so it's always been special to me, and I read and reread the Target novelisation many times. The Controller is excellent, but I have to admit the special edition makes a big improvement from a 21st century viewer's perspective.
The Daleks as a seasoning to a story is kind of dicy. Interesting to see a desert camo beige.. gold?dalek. Didn't know that was color they came in. The gun metal grey is how I think of Classic daleks. The pace really shoots along. It almost feels like your viewing two different stories. I wonder is there a longer edit of part 4?
In 1997, I went to WH Smith in Lancaster to order a Laserdisc of "Day Of The Daleks" ...... The woman on the cash desk placed the order for the Laserdisc, which she called, "Dave The Dalek" ...... Next time, I went to HMV! 🤣
Aubrey Woods, who played the Controller, played in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory as Bill the Candy Store Owner. Jon Pertwee was offered to played Willy Wonka but that role went to Gene Wilder. Jon was too busy being the Third Doctor!
Special edition of the story makes this good story great, I love it
I think the special edition makes it 2x better
I love day of the daleks i am going to have to get the dvd version of it i am going to enjoy watching the special edition of it on dvd at some point
Loving your vids! 😉 O.O.K 👌🏼💙
Talking of Doctor Who being political, there is a great short documentary on the DVD for The Happiness Patrol about politics in Doctor Who
I bought the Special Edition simply because of the new voices
That Dalek at 2:29 sounds more like Hector Con Carne from "Grim and Evil"! XD What the heck!?
Doctor Who has never been political:
The Mutants, The Sunmakers, Kinda, The Power of Kroll......
I always thought this story had a good reputation. I know Pertwee and Manning dislike it because the original Dalek models were pathetic but the updated version with Nick Briggs and updated effects is brilliant. A tightly written and highly original plot that tackles multiple genres- horror, time travel, dystopia, political thriller and all out war. Love it.
Love it ALL.
I have a lot of time for this story. It helps to read Terrance Dick's target novelisation which adds back in the pay off for the temporal duplicate Doctor and Jo and puts a bit more flesh on the bones of the 22nd century enslaved earth.I agree on you re Aubrey Woods bravura performance although he tends to get criticised for being too melodramatic and declaratory.
3:36 An afterthought in their own story? But you just said that Day of the Daleks was originally going to focus on the Ogrons and not have any Daleks in it.
9:03
9:31 Oh yeah, that bit, I will never understand that editing choice (and to spoil the humour, they figured out Jon Pertwee was the Doctor before the credits started rolling, still doesn't stop it from being funny though). Actually the editing of Day of the Daleks is a bit off because the openings of episodes 2 and 3 still have the cliff-hanger stings for some reason, it's clear the vision mixer was having a day off (I wonder how it played in the omnibus movie format since it was an early one to come out on VHS when they were editing stories into a movie format).
According to Terrance Dicks, that was an editing error.
"Blimey, this sounds like a Tory cabinet meeting" - haha
I could never get into this story as a kid, probably because of the lack of Daleks and the beginning felt very slow. But now I'm older, I always have a great time watching it. At four parts, it's actually one of the quickest-paced Dalek stories there is (if a bit rushed), and I'm always instantly invested by the brink-of-WWIII tone it establishes early on, to the point where when the budgeted invasion takes place at the end, I'm still really excited. It's one of my favourite Pertwees and the Special Edition was a good purchase.
scottish dalek at 2.29... The Doctor ! Och Aye !
I thought this story was pretty good and a nice change of pace, but my only criticism was that the Dalek voices were terrible and I was glad that they were updated in the DVD special edition.
John Pertwee is my favourite Dr who SPEARHEAD from space is my number one favourite. The day of the Darlek is another one of my favourite. The day of the Darlek have a strong story classic Dr who atmosphere good characters actors.
After hearing this original Dalek voice from this episode, I'm so glad that I watched the special edition instead.... cuz holy shit, this sound uninspired as fuck.
Wow those dalek voices are bad. I'm so glad I watched the Briggs version first.
Invading with only 3 Daleks? We sure that black Dalek isn't Sec in his early days?
I thought this was a great four part, the new special edition being better than the original, my favourite scene being the final battle between The Daleks with the Ogrons vs Unit Forces, but overall good. A later story 'Frontier in Space' that features the Master, the Ogrons and these Daleks as the Daleks only appear right at the end is a less interesting story or 'Death to the Daleks' cause some scenes didn't make sense like a Dalek being blown up after being attacked by primitive locals armed with cross bows and spears?
Whilst the three Daleks at the end don’t look like much they were still a big threat. In one of the Unbound universes (in which the Doctor wasn’t present in the 70’s/80’s to help UNIT) around 42 UNIT soldiers were killed trying to take those Daleks down
Nu-Who claims a single dalek is enough to dominate an entire planet.
Fortunately, the daleks are just the cherry on the top of the Doctor cake. The story has so much going for it anyway.
"this sounds like a bloody Tory cabinet meeting" spot on 😅
..and now we have Starmer, the most realistic robot of all
Evil of the daleks wasn't in 1963! it was in 1967! get your facts right!
These Daleks sound like robots.
I like Day of the Daleks
It's all in your head man. Watch the movie and relax.
I'm rather enjoying these.
Evil of the daleks didn’t happen in 1963
If I’m honest man, I love your videos but please stop bringing up the “Doctor Who was never political” stick, it just grinds my gears knowing people use that as an excuse.
I mean...it's not really an excuse so much as it is a statement of fact.
MrTARDISreviews oh I’m with you there. I mean I personally hate the Chibnall era but I’d never say the series wasn’t political before he came along, I mean it was obvious from day one.
Yeah, even the original Daleks story was as subtle with 'Nazism is bad' as Winston Churchill bashing your face in with a brick. The Daleks literally state 'We will not adapt to the environment, we wil adapt the environment to suit us.' Also, must agree again, the series, even recently, has never been anti-male, the Hell Bent example comes across more as that particular guy was egotistical, and she was more used to being female.
I'll sum it up: The original version was poor, The special edition is one of the best dalek stories ever.
Daleks are awesome but evil!
Why were you attending Tory cabinet meetings in the early 70s?
Doctorl whlo o-p-e-r-a-t-I-n-g can they not speak right?🤔
I'mma be real I really wanted to like this episode but GOD I found it boring
Dr Who often had 0olitical elements, but, unlike modern Who, it never got in the way of the plot or main characters.
Right, sorry I was a growing fan of this page, but you're being subjective about politics which I don't care for, either side. Modern Who /forces/ Politics down our throats, this is what the Fandom Menace are annoyed about, not just Star Wars. Classic Who doesn't /force/ Political ideas down our throats, and they explore /both/ sides! If you must have a subtle knock at your chosen enemy, take a page out of classic Who's book and do it nice and subtle, or have a go at Politicians as a whole, instead of exposing your own personal strings. It's unprofessional and immature (Quite like the modern BBC to be perfectly fair) All that aside, I'm going to continue and pray for an increase in objectivity, because that aside, these videos are very, very good and I otherwise entirely enjoyed it.
Your comment just reeks of completely missing the point of media and comes across comical when you're responding to a video series about Dalek stories. Stories which are DIRECTLY influenced by political parties with stories based on current (at the time) political issues.
DW has ALWAYS /forced/ politics in. It's how sci-fi works and resonates and it's what media does; draws inspiration from current political and social events.
@@MrTARDIS I know, but my point was it's subtlety that made the best points. Eg Daleks are perfect alien representations of Facism, I assume we agree? Just as Cybermen are the perfect alien representations of Communism, all Cybermen are absolutely equal to each other, both sides are Tyrannical of course, one because of pure Xenophobia, the other because they're making everybody exactly like them. My complaint is that the subtlety is /gone/ when in the new series you get things like Arachnids in the UK, which the writing etc aside, having somebody that's as literally Trump as you can possibly get, is anything but subtle. Look at Davros! In many senses he's the stand in for Hitler, leader of the Facists, but does he look or act like him? I mean the only reason I grew up Politically neutral was Dr. Who, with the basic and easy to grasp concept of 'Beware the Extremes' because as we both know, there are some corners of the Universe, which have bred the most terrible things. Things that act against everything that we believe in, they must be fought. The BBC have an affirmative action hiring policy... Their motivation for hiring people is entirely racial, they're using literal Identity Politics as a hiring practice.... I find it fascinatingly terrifying that many Dr. Who fans don't actually know this, despite how easy and openly accessible this information is, or they don't care lol. Just remember, I'm neutral Politically, I'm sickened by both sides, just confused by Intelligent people who still have a side.
@@suddenlyfrogs9504, for the Cybermen they're not intended to be a stand-in for communism. Creators Kit Pedler and Gerry Davies saw them as a "science-gone-too-far" concept with cybernetics and augmentation which was a new thing in the 1960s. However, you can read communism into their creation...in other words, you're NOT politically neutral and you're also reading politics into a piece of media in a subjective way. Which is completely counter to what you're complaining about.
The subtlety of politics in Doctor Who was never there. You bring up Davros in that story who may be the leader of a fascist group but he's not remotely like Hitler. Remember, the Kaleds do Nazi-salutes, recruit boy-soldiers and Nyder even wears a Nazi Iron Cross on his Uniform (no joke).
The Happiness Patrol was based on Thatcherism. The Sun Makers was about government taxes. Planet of the Ood was about slavery (a political issue).
"The BBC have an affirmative action hiring policy" - I'd like to take this opportunity to inform you that I work in the media/TV industry. I am a cis white straight male who works in media. Basically, according to people who complain at every opportunity that the BBC only hire people based on race and that most or all the white cis straight males have been axed from the company, I do not exist.
Please do not try and explain my own industry to me.
@@MrTARDIS RE: The Cybermen creation part. I know that full well, my point was intentions or not, the Daleks deliberately represented Facism, the intent of the Cybermen doesn't matter, just like the intentions of people who want equality of outcome, doesn't matter, the Cybermen /ARE/ literally, in every way the embodiment of Equality of Outcome, which is (Ignoring the details and people's intentions) what Communism and it's incestual Cousin, Socialism aim for in the long run and cause, and they always have good intentions and manage to demonize classes of people, in the modern era we have this /exact/ problem, people who use the term 'Cis, White Man' think they're being anti racist and inclusive, when anti racist doesn't exist, it's just racism and the inclusivity factor's gone completely bonkers, I'm far from the only person who's noticed this, taken a long time to uninvest from the media forcing this down our throats and get annoyed enough to become known as the Fandom Menace, the angry fans sick to death of forced Politics, I mean all the examples you gave are agreed, very good examples of Political comparisons to today, or a time in history, but we clearly disagree that these cases are subtle, none of the new series is subtle.
So, I'd now also like to point out to you that you didn't state that you work for the BBC, just in the TV/Media business, so I assume you mean you work somewhere other than the BBC? because they're far from the be all, end all of television, and I honestly hope the Beeb's License fee is scraped, so they get a more accurate feedback from their viewers. I mean can you name a current, modern drama series on the BBC, that doesn't present a straight white guy as anything other than Evil, Moronically Stupid, or both? Look at Star Wars! They've started flopping, from the Last Jedi onwards for /precisely/ the same reason the Dr. Who fanbase is so divided, because 99% of those against new Who, aren't sexist or racist, they're just told they are by Corporations and their Shill Cybermen, who don't seem to understand how partisan they've become. Same thing happened to me, until I decided I was sick of being insulted on a regular basis, by my all time favourite TV show and movies (Star Wars) Dividing the audience into 2 clear camps proves it's the writing, when one side is Partisan and complains that the other side are sexist and racist, while that side are just saying they want consistency and cannonicity. I mean look at Whittaker, she'd have made an amazing Romana, just like Michelle Gomez would have been as good a Rani as Kate O'Mara was, if only she didn't play it so comically, but /nooo/ change the past, the past is wrong. or to quote Rian Neo Marxist Johnson 'Let the past die, kill it if you have to'. Changing genders, races or even age, is just an excuse for lack of imagination or faith in new characters and ideas, which clearly doesn't work when mixed with the kill the past ideology.
Also, the use of the word 'Cis' is so clearly partisan, that I'm done here. I'd sooner get a laugh out of a Cyberman, than stop a Corporate Shill from being racist... about themselves.
Merit, that's how you get decent stories, not because they are, or aren't a race. That's racism, 101. I'm done here.
you had to bring your political views in. silly girl. thumb down.
David Andrews tbh I think it’s a parody of some Doctor Who fans.
Keep the politics out of it! The dalek's voice changes on purpose as it is "spooked" when it hears of The Doctor for the first time. This is a very, very good original story. The daleks are not inserted as an afterthought whatsoever!
Can you work on your monotone delivery a bit?
"Keep the politics out of it!"
Mate, this story is about the IRA and "freedom fighters". Get out of here.
@@MrTARDIS No it's not you fool! Bloody Sunday happened after this was even broadcast! Anyway do something about your boring voice!
@@rafflesxyz4800 Bloody Sunday happened after this story was made, but the IRA had been around for a few years.
There are literally interviews with the showrunners/writers on the DVD saying "Yes, this episode was inspired by the IRA".
Do something about your terrible opinions.
@@rafflesxyz4800 Read actual history mate, show some goddamn respect to Bloody Sunday and shut your trap.
@@SavageBroadcast / Piss off and don't call me "mate!"
Doctor was always was political, but the writing in old Who was clever. It didn’t hit you around the head and call you a phobe or racist as in Current Who.
When has Current Who ever called you a "phobe or racist"?