So close-minded - has watching Doctor Who taught you nothing…
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Zaaaaarrrrbiiiiii. BeepbeepbeepBLOOPBEEEPBEEEEEEEPbeep.
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Yes. That the only Scandinavian country that exists is Norway…
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This is also an acceptable version of the story:
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So if we keep bumping this thread you’ll end up spending the rest of your life watching The Web Planet 
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Sounds like a great way to keep him out of here if we ever need to stage a complete Scandinavian takeover…
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Hope you enjoy it, I expect an 5 Pages Essay about why it’s actually good by morning 
/j
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Watching it so we don’t have to. A true hero.
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You will all be getting an essay - with an exam on its contents afterwards. If you do not pass, all forum access will be revoked.
Actually, I only watched the first episode (lots of chores to do) but I have made notes and will elucidate you all on an episode by episode basis forthwith. Needless to say there was lots to enjoy in the first episode.
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The end credits are great.
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Do you want me to wipe Heaven Sent and burn everyone’s copies so that I hold the only one in existence and will never let anyone view it unless they agree how deathly boring it truly is.
Do you?
DO YOU? Because I will, you wait and see.
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I mean, the first episode had that lovely scene with Vicki and Barbara where Vicki thinks aspirin is primitive, and Ian with the Doctor with Ian’s pen, and then his tie. Some of the best parts of the Web Planet were in the first episode..
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I’ll skip it and wait for @TARDIS32’s quiz instead!
Well, it’s interesting to see what that is. It’s not the Vaseline, the headache-inducing sound design or the sloooooooooow pace, at least…
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Sounds like an inefficient use of your time. It’d be quicker to burn The Web Planet instead 
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On a slightly more serious note, I will give you that. Episode 1 is pretty good, all things considered, and has some good stuff. It just has the Space Museum problem of going on for far too long. The Web Planet could’ve been such an unusual, weird, quirky, tight 3 or 4 parter.
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Laughs maniacally…
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In Defence of The Web Planet - Episode 1: The Web Planet
Things everyone should acknowledge are good points:
- Any of the scenes between Barbara and Vicki: the admission that Barbara and Ian had been having adventures in Rome that the Doctor and Vicki didn’t know about, including meeting Nero; Vicki’s suspicion towards the aspirin and likening it to leeches; Vicki telling Barbara about school and unintentionally insulting Barbara by thinking her school was a nursery.
- Bill Strutton (or Dennis Spooner) remembering that Vicki is from the future rather than writing her like a normal teenager (like they did all the time with Susan).
- The scene with Ian’s tie - the Doctor’s comment about Ian’s trousers falling down without his makeshift belt being ‘your affair, not mine’ is hilarious.
- The Doctor’s effervescent joy at trying to solve the mystery of what has trapped the TARDIS - there’s one scene where he literally runs off camera with excitement.
- The scene with the pyramid thing and the comments from Ian and the Doctor about it not being Nelson on the top; the Doctor’s response ‘No pigeons’ is so off hand it’s brilliant (they’re literally on a planet with no signs of life at all at this point). (The transcript is wrong for this, it has the Doctor saying ‘pity’ rather than ‘pigeons’. It’s definitely pigeons - I’ve checked the subtitles).
- Barbara spring cleaning and her evident joy at sorting out the Doctor’s mess.
- The TARDIS console spinning around from some unknown force and Barbara being taken over by her gold bracelet.
- The Doctor’s expression of sheer anxiety when he finds the TARDIS missing at the cliffhanger. So many of the stories in the early days are tales of the Doctor and companions being separated from the TARDIS, their only place of safety.
I love that, in the Hartnell era, they could have entire episodes of the TARDIS crew just exploring a strange new world. I actually think the set for Vortis is pretty good - it’s otherworldly and the craggy outcrops are quite distinctive. The brief appearances of the Zarbi whet the appetite for a truly alien species and there’s also the venom grubs which look quite cute.
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I am but no means a fan of this story but I will give you this. The first episode is good and everything on your list is good things. Much of my problems come later.
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I will have many, many good things to highlight from later episodes as well, rest assured.
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