Meglos

(Series 18, Episodes 5-8)

Summary: Science takes on superstition over a dodecahedron on the planet of the dodgy blonde wigs.  A pair of imbecilic bounty hunters offer up a Jacob Rees-Mogg lookalike as a sacrifice and are menaced by a large cactus (don’t question how the cactus managed to work all those computers with no fingers).  Said cactus traps the Doctor and Romana in a phenomenally boring fold in time which they are forced to ham-act their way out of and Romana suffers the fate of so many Doctor Who companions when she is attacked by a plant.  Despite everyone being very confused by the Doctor’s cactus-face doppelganger, Meglos is defeated and the people of Tigella learn to live and work side by side in peace and harmony.

Watch it because: Jacqueline Hill.  Need I say more?

Original Air Date: 27 September – 18 October 1980.

Doctor: Tom Baker.

Companions: Romana (Lalla Ward) & K9 Mk II (Voiced by John Leeson).

Writer: John Flanagan and Andrew McCulloch.

Director: Terence Dudley.

Producer: John Nathan-Turner.