Comments on: My thoughts on ‘The Legend of Ruby Sunday’ – episode 7 of Doctor Who

By: James

James — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 16:27:04 +0000

I’m glad you got to listen to it! It certainly was a different show back then. Some of the monsters and effects were, erm, interesting… And your first Tom Baker, ooooooooh. I do like him in the ones I’ve seen of him. I’ve also listened to some of the dramatised audio stories he did and they’re good too.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 05:54:16 +0000

In reply to James. Thanks James! Yes, I managed to listen to the audio description of the Pyramids of Mars four parter yesterday (though I found it on iPlayer under the heading of ‘Doctor Who (1963-1996)’ and selecting series 13. It has given me some ideas for what might happen in the finale! But gosh, it was such a different show then! It was my first experience of Tom Baker too!

By: James

James — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 20:32:18 +0000

Me again! Just to let you know that ‘Pyramids of Mars’ – the classic story with Sutekh is on iPlayer (It’s under ‘Tales of the Tardis’ rather than ‘Doctor Who’)! I’ve just watched it as on BBC4. It’s 75 minutes long and gives some good info filling in about Sutekh. It also explains the role of Susan (he had a similar person in this one).

It’s got Audio Description, so I hope you can give it a watch/listen before Saturday!

By: James

James — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 19:29:32 +0000

I’m so sorry you had the issues with the audio descriptions. That’s rubbish and so frustrating!

For me it was by far the best episode of this series. Proper DW! And now I REALLY want a UNIT spinoff. They’ve got a time room and everything!

Wikipedia tells me that Sutekh is another name for Seth/Set (and go SG-1, much hurrahness. I often watch the repeats of an afternoon on Sky Mix!). The big old dog was speaking and seperate to Susan. I think she’s like a servant/emisary and she also changed to look rather like the Silence, but I think that was just a general ‘looks a bit a skeleton vibe’. The H-Arbinger’ charater also had a skull kind of look at the end too.

A DW wiki tells me that Sutekh was in one classic show with the 4th Doctor and Sarah-Jane. I’ve seen a bit of classic DW but not enough to go ‘ohhhh Sutekh’! I hope they’ll expand on this next week…

I also thought ‘is Ruby the Doctor’s great-granddaughter’! That could actually work quite well.

And YAY for more screen time for Ruby’s mum 😉 At least she’s seen UNIT now. Another spin off character?!!?!?