The Moonbase

(Series 4, Episodes 24-27)

Summary: The Doctor and his friends visit the moon in Hazmat suits and discover a base that controls the Earth’s weather.  Jamie gets a bump on the noggin and becomes deliriously Scottish, Polly makes a lot of coffee (no tea on the moon) and the Doctor fakes scienceing to buy them time.  The Cybermen are back, but the future still has no women, which is a shame as it turns out the Cybermen can be defeated with nail varnish remover.

Watch it because: The Phantom McCrimmon Piper!

Original Air Date: 11 February – 4 March 1967.

Doctor: Patrick Troughton.

Companions: Ben Jackson (Michael Craze), Polly (Anneke Wills) and Jamie McCrimmon (Frazer Hines).

Writer: Kit Pedler.

Director: Morris Barry.

Producer: Innes Lloyd.

Available on DVD? Yes, although Episodes 1 and 3 are animations.