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- Planet of the Spiders was a six-part episode of the third Doctor of the TV series, Doctor Who. It was the last episode in which John Petwree would play the Doctor, and showed his regeneration into the fourth Doctor, played by Tom Baker.
- But wait there’s more! So much more of the deepest lore in fact that we’d best get it all out of the way so I don’t have to stop to explain something every thirty seconds. So: It’s also the first time the programme called replacing its main star "regeneration,” The Brigadier's future wife Doris and the Doctor’s future imbecile Harry Sullivan both get namechecked, it’s the second and last appearance of the Whomobile, Mike Yates’ last canon appearance until he’s an illusion in The Five Doctors and just sad to see in Dimensions in Time(that one’s super-canon though),The Master’s widow Kismet Delgado gets to pretend she’s a spider, it rips off bits from both a James Bond and a Quatermass film that both came out in 1967 and a book called Flowers for Algernon from 1966(I guess the show as like
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- Planet of the Spiders was a six-part episode of the third Doctor of the TV series, Doctor Who. It was the last episode in which John Petwree would play the Doctor, and showed his regeneration into the fourth Doctor, played by Tom Baker.
- But wait there’s more! So much more of the deepest lore in fact that we’d best get it all out of the way so I don’t have to stop to explain something every thirty seconds. So: It’s also the first time the programme called replacing its main star "regeneration,” The Brigadier's future wife Doris and the Doctor’s future imbecile Harry Sullivan both get namechecked, it’s the second and last appearance of the Whomobile, Mike Yates’ last canon appearance until he’s an illusion in The Five Doctors and just sad to see in Dimensions in Time(that one’s super-canon though),The Master’s widow Kismet Delgado gets to pretend she’s a spider, it rips off bits from both a James Bond and a Quatermass film that both came out in 1967 and a book called Flowers for Algernon from 1966(I guess the show as like seven years behind the times or something), Rusty later rips off the spider-on-their-back thing for NuWho, parts of this and the following episode Robot (Tomtom Baker’s first episode as the Proctor) were recorded at the same time so both Jon Pertwee and Baker were literally the Doctor at the same time (it’s a paradox ha ha!), and an idiot reads William Blake’s The Tyger (hi Phil!). I also found this sentence on Wikipedia which sort of sums it all up for me: "Pertwee didn't announce his retirement until after his request for a raise was denied in December 1973." Then-current bouncing ball of quirkiness Matt Smith gave a shout out the planet “Metebelis III” in the 2019 episode Hide (which could rightly also be called Love and Monsters, if you think about it), but pronounced the planet’s name differently than Pertwee had when they made this story over three hundred years previously. In this story, the Doctor pronounces it “die-ah-BEE-tis,” whilst Smith later had it “meh-teb-eh-liss”. Word has it that he pronounced it the Purtwhee way during filming, but changed to the latter form during re-taping of dialogue (a common film making technique used to cover for shoddy recording made on set, in hopes of disguising the sound of cocaine being snorted or, more frequently, the occasional audible sob an actor might let slip in a moment of weakness and realization). “True Fans” raked Smiff over the burning coals of nerd rage and one online poll even showed 81% of fans held the opinion that this was somehow important to anything ever, including Doctor Who. Sigh.
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