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The Whoniverse lands tomorrow.

And RTD has an Instagram post.

(Am too tired to add pictures, but it looks very shiny!)

ETA: And on Tumblr.

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It looks as though the BBC are themselves providing - the intros & insert pieces seem to be going up on YT as we speak here: https://www.youtube.com/@doctorwhotube3638/videos ETA: all up now, def not geolocked, unsure how absolutely complete they are (but certainly looks like the majority of it)
Ooo, thank you muchly. Good news indeed.

The stories they chose are pretty solid ones, IMO - The Time Meddler, The Mind Robber, The Three Doctors, Earthshock, Vengeance on Varos and The Curse of Fenric.
Yeah, you could do much worse. Well, I say that with no great love for Three Doctors, Earthshock, or Vengeance. But I'm not like 'why, why would you pick that?'

So, having Seven and Ace meet up and be, hey, we need to talk about Fenric, out of all of them, just felt so logical, because they do, they really do!
Yeah, that sounds excellent. Honestly, Earthshock and Vengeance seem somewhat similar to me. In the 'hey, we probably have massive unfinished emotional business about this, maybe we should talk about it' sense. Just the word 'Adric' in Power of the Doctor added about five years to my life, I think. And lord knows Six and Peri is a whole disaster that needs addressing outside the realms of Big Finnish.

I love Tegan! I don't know who's my favourite, but she's one of them. <3
Bless her shouty heart <3 Wildly under-appreciated, and she was basically there for Five's entire run! (My other main faves are Leela, Polly, Liz Shaw, Barbara, Zoe . . .)

I watched TWG when I was at uni, because the town library had a handful of DW videos, and you could rent them - but for one night only. As a part of my student experience, picking it up on a Friday afternoon and binge watching it most of it that evening, and finishing it the next morning while everyone else was out partying somewhere and leaving the tiny utility room with TV and bean bags to me and my weird HEARTBREAKING 60s TV was something I've never forgotten. (10/10 would recommend.)
Aaaaaah, that sounds amazing! That is quite the time crunch, but also I can see it making it all more intense.

So sweet and strange to see it! Only one and a half of their stories together survive, but they both were from the future and in very isolated, awful situations when the Doctor & co found them and they always seemed to bond very quickly & because The Time Meddler was the first actual full DW serial I saw after Seven and Ace (the wilderness years were fun, not) thanks to BBC repeating one per Doctor back in the early 90s, I have a lot of fondness for them as an underrated, burninated team TARDIS.
Makes a lot of sense. I'd forgotten that sort of shared background thing, given how piecemeal Steven's run is. And the Time Meddler really is fun, so if you have to watch one . . .

Plus, I love Vicki generally.
Me too! It feels bad to say it, but Susan leaving was the best thing to happen to the early show. My One-era happy place is Ian and Barbara canoodling while One and Vicki run around like a pair of juvenile delinquents. (Apparently my One-era happy place is The Romans. Kinda rape-y for a happy place, but there we are.)

My One-era happy place is Ian and Barbara canoodling while One and Vicki run around like a pair of juvenile delinquents.

That is the best One-era happy place, definitely.