By Roy Mathur, on 2014-06-22, at 16:20:00--16:38:30 BST, for Roy's Rocket Radio
Hah, that just means my iPhone and a free app that records linear wavs at 48 kHz. I mentioned trying out a magnetic Joby GorillaPod and the GripFast clamp thing last week. Well it's all returned to the shop. The clamp thing wasn't holding the phone tightly enough and the GorillaPod was too tiny.
Oh well, back to putting the phone on a stack of books.
I would do the podcast from the car, but right now it's parked outside and it would look a bit odd to be sitting in the car for an hour talking to myself. And with my hair...
Only two more chapters and I'm done with the first draft of my first completed novel! Huzzah! Immediately that's finished, I'll be editing it, writing a screenplay based on it and starting a space opera novel.
Yeah, that really IS a lot of work, but so what? You only live once. Not twice. Mr. Bond.
1st Doctor, Series 2, 9, 1--4, 1965
Broadcast: 03 July - 24 July 1965
Writer: Dennis Spooner
Director: Douglas Camfield
Producer: Verity Lambert
Cast: William Hartnell as the Doctor, Maureen O'Brien as Vicki and Peter Purves as Steven Taylor (companions)
Synopsis: Medieval England 1066 just prior to the Harold's bish-bash-bosh with William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings. The Doctor stumbles on to a monk who is meddling with the time line. The monk wants to defeat another invasion attempt by the Viking Harald Hardrada king of Norway. His plan is to blow up the Viking fleet with atomic weapons from the future, thereby ensuring Harold's army is fresh and able to defeat William's Normans at Hastings. The Doctor, quite naturally, takes against this meddling. During the course of the adventure we find out that the Monk is another time-traveller from the Doctor's home, with a better TARDIS (a Mark IV) than the Doctor. We also find out that he's been meddling throughout history. He had looted the past for treasure. He's also done that old time-travelling chestnut of a trick of depositing money in the bank and then collecting vast sums from accrued compound interest from the future. He has also influenced Leonardo Da Vinci in creating flying machines. Basically he's been a bit naughty. In the end the Doctor sabotages both his plans and his TARDIS by removing the Dimensional Control making the interior of the Monk's TARDIS too tiny to operate, effectively marooning him in the past. The Doctor leaves a note for the Monk saying that he might come back to visit him. The Doctor and his companions then leave for their next adventure.
My View: Nice outfits for new companion Steven and Vicki (cloaks). I miss Ian and Barbara a lot though. Something about those two clicked with me. I do like Vicki though. Steven Taylor? Haven't yet quite warmed to him. Interesting adventure because it is the first time the Doctor comes up against one of his own kind and, while the monk isn't quite as nasty as the Master, we are given a taste of things to come. The storyline is simple and, thankfully, isn't stretched out too long like some of the other historical-type DW dramas. There are lots of incidental characters who I did not mention, like the Saxon villagers and the Viking invaders. The Doctor also strikes up a rather close friendship with the pretty wife of the village's headman. Doctor, Doctor, tsk, tsk, tsk.