It’s time for another monthly bonus
episode of The Weekly Stuff Podcast with Jonathan Lack & Sean Chapman, episodes
where we will be discussing serials from classic Doctor Who history.
Today, we dive into the incredible
and singular run of the Third Doctor, Jon Pertwee, with the wild, wacky, and
wonderful 1971 serial “The Daemons,” by Barry Letts and Robert Sloman (writing
under the joint pseudonym “Guy Leopold”). The last serial in the season that
introduced Roger Delgado’s iconic Master, and featured him in every one of the
year’s stories, “The Daemons” closes Season 8 on an action-packed high note,
with one of the most thrilling, creative, and straight-up entertaining stories Doctor Who would ever tell. And it
features the entire Third Doctor gang, including companion Jo Grant (Katy
Manning), Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (Nicholas Courtney), and UNIT soldiers
Sergeant Benton (John Levene) and Captain Mike Yates (Richard Frankling). In
addition to “The Daemons,” we also talk about the entire Third Doctor era up to
that point, and all the ways it distinguishes itself from other periods in the
show’s history. If you haven’t been following along yet, this is a great place
to start.
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