Just one thought on the newest episode (which I liked mostly, if you exclude that horrible noise to lure the spiders...): It cannot be a coincidence that the episode is called "Arachnids in the UK" on the 41st anniversary of the release of the Sex Pistols album Never Mind the Bollocks ;-)

That's me at the 80's now in my marathon.

Season 17 wasn't great but it wasn't bad either. The presence of Destiny of the Daleks and City of Death (the latter being the only masterpiece since Talons of Weng Chiang, all the way back in 1977) elevated it above Season 15 and probably above 16 (EDIT: actually City of Death alone is better than anything in Season 16 so its above that one as well. Its closest rival, and it is a good Story to be fair, is probably The Ribo's Operation. Stone's of Blood was pretty good too)

I am glad to be at the 80's (though technically the final 2 episodes of The Horns of Nimon, which was nowhere near as bad as its reputation suggests, came out in the early 80's). The 70's were great for the first 7 years (and I FLEW through them, just over a few weeks or so the Pertwee era took. Sometimes I got through 10 of those episodes a day) but I've been stuck with 1977-1979 for months now. Its really been a chore, forcing myself to watch some of them (Underworld, Armageddon Factor). But I've still to see a few from Tom's final Season that I haven't watched before and I've seen barely any Davison. I look forward to it.

Pic of the Day # 644
 

The black Stealth Cyberman as seen in 1985's Attack of the Cybermen.

Pic of the Day # 645
 

The Doctor under attack from an IMC mining robot in the 1971 story Colony in Space.

October 31st: Today in WHO-story

Births
1919 - Daphne Oxenford (Archivist in Dragonfire and the older Agatha Christie in the deleted scenes from The Unicorn and the Wasp)

1922 - Talfryn Thomas (Mullins in Spearhead from Space and Dave in The Green Death)

1934 - Steve Emerson (Guard in The Macra Terror and an extra & stuntman on The War Games, The Claws of Axos, Frontios and Revelation of the Daleks)

1963 - Sanjeev Bhaskar (Colonel Ahmed in Death in Heaven and Doctor Avishkar Sangakkara in the Big Finish audio The Eight Truths/Worldwide Web)

1970 - Craig Kelly (Joe in the webcast Scream of the Shalka)
1974 - Joshua Wanisko (writer of the Big Finish audio Forever Fallen)
1982 - Justin Chatwin (Grant/The Ghost in The Return of Doctor Mysterio)

Deaths
2001 - Jenny Laird (Neska in Planet of the Spiders) aged 89

2005 - Mary Wimbush (Lavinia Smith in the one-off Doctor Who spin-off K9 & Company) aged 81

2007 - Howard Attfield (Geoff Noble in The Runaway Bride and deleted scenes from Partners in Crime) aged 60

2012 - Brian Cobby (Oroog in the Big Finish audio The Creed of the Kromon) aged 83
2015 - Byrd Wilkins (Preacher in A Town Called Mercy) aged 50

Episodes
1964 - Planet of Giants, Episode One ('Planet of Giants'): 8.4 million viewers
2009 - K-9: Regeneration (Disney XD)
2015 - The Zygon Invasion: 5.76 million viewers

Introductions
1964 - Launch of the second series of classic Who

Releases
1991 - Issue 180 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)

2011 - The Gunpowder Plot (BBC Cymru Wales Interactive); The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Complete Fourth Series (DVD and Blu-ray - region 2)

2014 - The Widow's Assassin (Big Finish Productions)

Behind-the-Scenes
2005 - Rewrites to The Christmas Invasion, New Earth, The Age of Steel and Doomsday took place
2007 - Following the death of Howard Attfield, an agreement was made for his scenes from Partners in Crime not to be transmitted out of respect. Bernard Cribbins' Wilfred Mott character from Voyage of the Damned was promoted from one-off character to semi-regular and to be a relation to the Noble family, allowing Howard's scenes to be re-recorded with Bernard instead
2008 - Recording of the Big Finish audio anthology The Company of Friends took place
2013 - Recording of Big Finish's audio adaptation of the Doctor Who novel The Romance of Crime took place
2017 - Recording of the Big Finish audio The Helliax Rift took place

there's a missing episodes article in the Daily Mirror
https://scontent.fman2-2.fna.fbcdn.n...a8&oe=5C8669FE

i wonder if they jumped the gun on the official press release?

Of all the stories they could mention they just happen to mention Marco Polo.

If that has turned up and gets a release next year they can cancel Nu-Who for all i care. :ghostclap:

Nicely said.

I'm all for seeing Marco Polo. A nice Blu-ray release wouldn't go a miss. As to whether all the episodes have been found or just a few, it'll be the Doctor Who find of the early part of the 21st Century.

Let's hope the BBC don't wreck the DVD/Blu-ray cover with that vile Fem Who logo.

They will do no doubt but it doesn't bother me as long as it's reversible.

I don't even want to see it on a reversible sleeve. It pains me to have that muck on a truly classical Dr Who story that was masterful and brilliantly written, compared to the junk that's being served up to all these PC, diversity driven, supposed Whovian's of today.