The Time Meddler (and S1/S2 Oscars)

The Time Meddler (part 1)

The first Doctor Who episode without William Russell or Jackie Hill. Will we be able to cope?

The Doctor and Vicki talk about how much they'll miss the school teachers, and William Hartnell gives a sigh as if to acknowledge he is the last original left standing. The Doctor is worried Vicki might want to leave too, but she keeps getting distracted and talking about other stuff. Oh that Vicki!

DOCTOR: I just wanted to ask you, are you sure you didn't want to go home too? I didn't give you very much time to consider now, did I? I should hate to think that you're just staying for the sake of an old man.
VICKI: Oh, Doctor! I made my decision. I wanted to stay.
(all quotes come with thanks from the Doctor Who Transcripts Page)

But then, a rattle from beyond the doors. A Dalek got on the ship? Hartnell flickers a worried look.

Bond Henchmen Ranked!

 Some thought it would never happens. Others talked of mirages. But no, a mere seven years after I first mentioned a countdown of James Bond Henchmen "soon to be written", it actually exists. I'd like to thank Calvin Dyson and Being James Bond's channels for inspiring me to dust off what I'd started and actually finish it. (I have around 200 unfinished projects in a folder delayed by parenthood, and, to be more accurate, magpieitis!) 

So yes, James Bond. There's a new film coming out, allegedly soon, and it's the 25th in the series. No better a time than glance back over 59 years (I should have delayed it another year and assumed the same would happen to No Time To Die, really) of James Bond. Having asked ourselves once what the great Bond themes were, now we can ask: who were our greatest Bond villain's henchmen. For as the series proves, behind every bad man lies an often much more effective bad guy. Or gal.