| 1st Week |
Thursday 26th April, 8pm
Lecture Room 2, Christ Church |
- Boom Town & The Lost Boy
- Our link this week is the Slitheen: in the first story we will be watching tonight, we get a dose of the Ninth
Doctor and Rose, trying to stop Slitheen-in-disguise Margaret from building a nuclear power plant right in the centre of Cardiff, on
the Rift. People from Swansea might see this doing away with Cardiff as an altogether good thing, but the Doctor doesn't,
especially when he finds out that the design contains an intentional flaw that would cause a meltdown to open the Rift and destroy the
Earth. Next tonight is a story from The Sarah Jane Adventures, where the Slitheen make a return to kidnap Luke in order to exact
revenge on him for defeating them earlier in the series.
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| 2nd Week |
Thursday 3rd May, 8pm
Lecture Room 2, Christ Church |
- The Android Invasion
- This week, we get the classic combination of Tom Baker and Liz Sladen in this Season 13 four-parter. We land on
what we think is Earth, near Devesham, a quaint English village, but, in line with the TARDIS's dodgy time and space guidance systems,
the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane have actually arrived on Oseidon, where the Kraals have built a replica of Devesham in order to plan
for an invasion of Earth. All the inhabitants are androids and Harry makes a surprising reappearance, but with the Brig away in Geneva,
the race is on to try and halt the android invasion...
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Saturday 5th May
East Hagbourne & the Rollright Stones |
- Society Trip
- Having watched The Android Invasion, this weekend we will be venturing outside of the Oxford bubble to see
the village of East Hagbourne a.k.a. Devesham. We also hope to combine last term's postponed trip to Little Compton and the Rollright
Stones (filming locations for The Stones of Blood) in today's outing. Standby for more information in upcoming meetings!
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| 3rd Week |
Thursday 10th May, 8pm
Lecture Room 2, Christ Church |
- Planet of Fire
- In this Fifth Doctor four-parter, the TARDIS, with Turlough and Kamelion onboard, responds to the distress call of
a strange artefact discovered by a professor, who's daughter is (unfortunately) Perpugilliam (hereforth known as Peri) Brown. Yes,
that's right, ladies and gents: this is Peri's first story in which she so nearly drowns right at the beginning but is saved by
Turlough (another reason to dislike him). Meanwhile, the Master asserts his power over Kamelion again and makes him bring the TARDIS to
the planet Sarn whose supply of numismaton gas the Master hopes to use to restore his shrunken body to its correct size... Has Eighties'
Week come early? Oh yes, it has, but don't worry: we have more cheese from the Eighties for you in Eighth Week too!
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| 4th Week |
Thursday 17th May, 8pm
Lecture Room 2, Christ Church |
- Planet of the Ood & The Doctor's Wife
- We are in for some new Who fun this week with two stories, one with Tennant and one with Smith. The connection
between these two stories is the Ood (even though Neil Gaiman had wanted to create his own monster for The Doctor's Wife on account of
budgetary constraints). But let's be fair: this is an excuse to re-watch the brilliance that was Gaiman's contribution to Season 6,
where the Doctor, Amy and Rory follow a Time Lord distress call from an asteroid outside the universe. Awesomeness then ensues. In
Planet of the Ood, the Ood are slightly more conventional (their eyes glow the usual red, not green) and are being sold as slaves
to human buyers and need to be freed by a compassionate Doctor-Donna.
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| 5th Week |
Thursday 24th May, 8pm
Ferrar Room, Hertford College |
- 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". Be there and not feel square for once (unless your round foxes everyone).
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| 6th Week |
Thursday 31st May, 8pm
Lecture Room 2, Christ Church |
- The Daleks
- In the second story of Who ever, the First Doctor, along with Susan, Ian and Barbara, lands on the desolate
planet of Skaro where they meet two races in the aftermath of an all-out nuclear war (see Genesis of the Daleks for more details).
The Thals are primarily pacifist until the Doctor et al. turn up and convince them of the need to fight for their own survival
against their fellow indigenous Skaroean race who believe in their own supremacy, have been genetically mutated and accordingly trundle
around in armoured pepper pots: no, it's not the first Cushing movie, but rather the first (canon) Dalek story!
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Saturday 2nd June, 12pm
Old Law Library, Magdalen |
- The Madoc Marathon
- For this term's marathon, we will be paying tribute to the late Philip Madoc who had some serious Who
credentials: not only did he appear in the second Cushing film, Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 A.D., but he also featured in two
Second Doctor stories, The Krotons and The War Games, and two Fourth Doctor stories, namely The Brain of Morbius
and The Power of Kroll, as well as the Big Finish audio story, Master. Today, therefore, we shall be watching: The War
Games, Dalek - Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. and The Power of Kroll.
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| 7th Week |
Thursday 7th June, 8pm
Yeti Nepalese Restaurant, 237 Cowley Road |
- DocSoc Meal
- This term, in keeping with our endeavour to east as many different cuisines as Oxford has to offer, we have
provisionally planned to visit a curry house on Cowley Road: the Yeti Nepalese Restaurant.
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| 8th Week |
Thursday 14th June, 8pm
Lecture Room 2, Christ Church |
- The Happiness Patrol
- Considering this is Eighties Week and therefore strictly requires some cheesy Who, you may be wondering why the
Seventh Doctor and Ace are appearing this week. I have two words for you to explain this: the Kandyman, and no, not the one whose name
you can't say five times in a mirror without being hooked to death by him, but rather the pathological, psychopathic robotic killer who
is made out of liquorice allsorts (no, he's not Bertie Bassett either!). On Terra Alpha, it is against the law to be unhappy and if you
are such a killjoy then the Kandyman won't just make your dentist have a go at you for having so many cavities, but also your coroner
for taking up one of his gurneys. Come for Seventh and Ace, stay for the cringe.
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