Episode 32: The Sensorites

Doctor Who: the World Enough and Time podcast

In this episode Alex and Andy go right back to the first series of Doctor Who as the original TARDIS crew encounter The Sensorites. They enjoy Susan’s new-found strength but are aghast at the Doctor’s reaction. Andy shares his weird Ilona Rodgers coincidence which in turn prompts a guest appearance from Prisoner Cell Block H’s ‘The Freak’, while Alex reveals how disturbing it is when people try out an alternative pronunciation of the word ‘meme’. Elsewhere they go off on tangents as per, taking in Roy Kinnear’s likely presence on the Sense-Sphere, whether it’s OK to give Doctor Who companion actors shortened nicknames with lots of Zeds (Mazza Tazza, Lazza Wazza, Sazza Suzza), and the dire need for a Red Bubble t-shirt from Clayton Hickman with Susan and her line ‘I Won’t Be Pushed Aside!” Also, the Cailleach has departed and is rather unceremoniously replaced immediately with a new segment: a Time-Space Visualiser that Andy has built in his study, but which can only show archive music programmes, which helps us find out what the kids were getting down to when The Sensorites first aired. There’s also a New Who quiz in which Andy endeavours to score more than Alex. All this and an interview with Mr Martin Holmes who was born during The Sensorites and considers the possibility of Sensorite-mania had this story aired 2nd rather than 7th. Don’t you remember the legendary Sensorite Christmas of 1964, during which everyone was shoving dinner plates down their tights?! Next Time: Not sure.