| 1st Week |
Thursday 17th January, 8pm
Lecture Room 2, Christ Church |
- Dalek and Resurrection of the Daleks
- We kick off the term with not one but two Doctors pitting themselves against the Daleks.
Captured in a Time Corridor, the Fifth Doctor, Davison, and his companions are forced to land on 20th Century
Earth, diverted by the Doctor's oldest enemy - the Daleks. It is here the true purpose of the Time Corridor
becomes apparent: after ninety years of imprisonment, Davros, the ruthless creator of the Daleks, is to be
liberated to assist in the resurrection of his army. In the next episode, the Ninth Doctor and Rose arrive in
2012 to answer a distress signal and meet a collector of alien artefacts who has one living specimen. However,
the Doctor is horrified to find out that the creature is a member of a race he thought was destroyed: a
Dalek.
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| 2nd Week |
Thursday 24th January, 8pm
Lecture Room 2, Christ Church |
- The Krotons
- Back to some cheesy, black and white Who this week with the Second Doctor on
2nd Week. The TARDIS arrives on the unnamed planet of the Gonds, who are ruled and taught in a form of
self-perpetuating slavery by the alien Krotons - crystalline beings whose ship, the Dynatrope, crash-landed
there thousands of years earlier after being damaged in a space battle. Periodically, the two most brilliant
Gond students are received into the Dynatrope, nominally to become "companions of the Krotons" but in truth to
have their mental energy drained, after which they are killed. Can the Doctor break the cycle and save the
Gonds?
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| 3rd Week |
Thursday 31st January, 8pm
Lecture Room 2, Christ Church |
- Vampires of Venice and State of Decay
- Another double Doctor treat this week as both the Fourth and Eleventh Doctors take on
blood-sucking foes. First, we join Matt Smith as he attempts to take the Ponds on a romantic trip to Venice
which soon goes horribly wrong. The Doctor and his companions quickly discover that Signora Calvierri's school
for the betterment of young ladies hides a sinister secret. In State of Decay, the Fourth Doctor's TARDIS
materialises on a medieval planet, where the townsfolk live in fear of the Three Who Rule, who govern from
their mighty castle. Investigating, the Doctor discovers that the Three Who Rule are ancient astronauts who
became vampires long ago, and their castle is actually their spaceship. When Romana and Adric are kidnapped,
the Doctor must ally himself with a band of renegade peasants to stop the resurrection of one of Gallifrey's
greatest enemies: the King Vampire itself.
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| 4th Week |
Thursday 7th February, 8pm
Lecture Room 2, Christ Church |
- Paradise Towers with Committee Elections
- According to the sales brochure, Paradise Towers is a utopian blueprint for community
living: the perfect place for Mel to take a leisurely swim. However, when the TARDIS arrives, the Seventh Doctor
and she discover that the futuristic tower block has fallen into ruin and a series of unexplained disappearances
have the tenants terrorised. As gangs of teenage girls run wild in the hallways, a squad of bureaucratic
Caretakers struggle to retain control. To keep the citizens of Paradise Towers safe, the Doctor must confront
the resident evil lurking in the basement... Elections will be held at the end of the meeting. Anyone who fancies
running for a position is more than welcome to apply, particularly if you think you have presidential qualities.
Or just come and take part in something vaguely resembling democracy.
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| 5th Week |
Thursday 14th February, 8pm
North Quad Lecture Room, St. John's |
- The Geek Quiz
- In the legendary Geek Quiz, members of Oxford's geekiest societies get together in order to
battle it out for the crown of "team who won that term". If you can write a round not entirely related to
Doctor Who, then bring it along. Be there and not feel square for once (unless your round foxes
everyone).
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| 6th Week |
Thursday 21st February, 8pm
Lecture Room 2, Christ Church |
- The Ambassadors of Death
- Time for Pertwee and Liz Shaw this week. The Doctor joins UNIT's investigation of the mystery
surrounding Mars Probe 7. Space Control has had no contact with the astronauts on board since it started back from
Mars seven months ago. Now the Recovery 7 rescue mission has run into similar difficulties. This second ship gets
back to Earth, but the astronauts are kidnapped after landing and Liz Shaw notices that the Geiger counter is at
maximum. It turns out that the ship's occupants were not the human astronauts after all...
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| 7th Week |
Thursday 28th February, 8pm
Atomic Burger, 96 Cowley Rd |
- DocSoc Meal
- It's back to our old favourite this term, Atomic Burger. Packed with pop culture and every
burger imaginable, near to most and somewhere that will actually appreciate us: perfect.
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Saturday 2nd March, 12 pm
Old Law Library, Magdalen |
- Bug-Eyed Monsters Marathon
- After the vampires in 3rd Week, we'll be completing our monstrous Who collection with the
termly marathon. This term we join the Fourth, Third, First and Tenth Doctors for: The Ark in Space, Planet of
the Spiders, The Web Planet and The Unicorn and the Wasp. Beware, all those with arachnophobia, or spheksophobia
for that matter.
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| 8th Week |
Thursday 7th March, 8pm
Lecture Room 2, Christ Church |
- Warriors of the Deep
- Haven't had enough of the Fifth Doctor, Tegan and Turlough? Then what luck! We have another
week with Peter Davison and this time we see the return of two monster races last seen during the Jon Pertwee
era, the Silurians and the Sea Devils. The year is 2084, and there is a cold war in progress. The world is
divided into two opposing superpower blocs. One of the blocs has created a secret base, Sea Base 4.
The Fifth Doctor, Tegan and Turlough arrive on Sea Base 4, a nuclear warhead station under the sea that has some
very nasty neighbours.
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