Dr Who Meets The Tense Planet

Dr Who Meets The Tense Planet

The Complete And Utter History Of Dr WHO? (Part Thirty)


"Their giant booties had the stench of ten men! Their build-up aspidistrary systems allowed them to do the vacuuming in deep space! They had endowed themselves special parts! These were the dreadsome Khybermen!"

So it came to pass that the First DRHOO done landed in the Southern Polar Snow Cap Base Zone Area where he announced that his old body-warmer were wearing a bit thin in places and frankly had several gaping holes in it that BENNY should really have darned with his seaman's needle-and-thread.

But events escalated when astronomers began phoning in to say that there were a new heavenly body that they had been watching through their refractors and that maybe somebody should do something about it before it were too late.

The new planet (called Mentos) were exactly like the Earth except it were the other way round and this were a clever special effect that they done by launching a mirror into space (with the aid of a specially-chartered ENSA rocket) and filming the reflection of our own terrestial globe, thus saving money on having to build an expensive model or something.

This story were the first to feature the awful Cybramen who had given themselves new chests and they had come to get our energy drinks as they wanted to feel like they had wings, whereas at present they just felt a bit run down.

Much has been written about the Cyboremen especially by a man who played one who done a book detailing their Histories such as the story 'The Governor's Flyballs' which became a novel in the 1990s but had rude words in it and thus were not made on the television in case those particular rude words caught on amongst the Youths.

But this storey are most famous for being the one in which William Hartley-Hare handed over his part to Paddy Trousers, who become the Second DROHO in a scene where their faces were swapped over, which lead to 'Swap Shop' some years later starring the Fourth DRHOHO.

This story had much real science in it that were injected by co-writer Kitty Peddlecar who made the Kybomen allergic to radiations, which is fair enough, and also having old films played at them, which is more of a stretch, come to think of it. They also stole coats off of soldiers as everyone has to have a hobby. Even in the hairless vacuums of space!

This story would set the template for much of the Second DRRHO's era, in that it were made in black-and-white and has bits missing.

And so the sun set on the First DRHOS and his face done a change along with his trousers, which saved a bit of time next week...

Next episode:

"Well, yes."

(By Andrew Trowbridge)