NEXT STOP EVERYWHERE 254: "The Invasion of Time" Is Up!

 
"Even the Sonic Screwdriver won't get me out of this one!"
-- The Fourth Doctor, Doctor Who: "The Invasion of Time"

Hello again, everyone! My partner in time Jesse Jackson and I are back with a new episode of Next Stop Everywhere: The Doctor Who Podcast!  This time, we discuss "The Invasion of Time", the sixth serial from Doctor Who Season 15 in 1978, featuring Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor, John Leeson as the voice of K-9, John Arnatt as Borusa, and the departure of Louise Jameson as Leela!

In this episode, Jesse and I discuss things like Jesse's Bruce Springsteen sneakers, the pseudonym "David Agnew", the Sontarans invading Gallifrey being a big deal, Derek Deadman as the Leaky Cauldron barman in Harry Potter, "The Invasion of Time" being a replacement for the unproduced story "The Killers of the Dark", Louise Jameson wanting Leela to be killed off in "The Invasion of Time" only to be told it would be too traumatic for younger viewers, the four actors who played Borusa, Rodan being the first female Gallifreyan since Susan Foreman, the initial plans to reveal the Time Lords weren't native Gallifreyans, the Doctor becoming Lord President of Gallifrey to give the Vardans access to invade, why the Doctor pretended to work with the Vardans, why the Doctor wanted Leela banished to the Outlands, the Doctor behaving like an evil villain in the first two episodes, Borusa as the Doctor's former mentor, Leela forming a resistance group of Outsiders and exiled Time Lords, why K-9 stayed on Gallifrey with Leela, the last-minute decision to have Leela fall in love with Andred for no real reason instead of killing her off, Leela and Rodan making a more believable romance than Leela and Andred, the two old bickering Time Lords waiting for the swearing-in ceremony to begin, the unfurnished lower levels of the TARDIS interior, the awkward moment when the resistance defeats the Vardans only to be invaded again by the Sontarans, the Sontarans wanting to conquer everything in every time, the TARDIS pool, Castellan Kelner being a complete weasel, our favorite quotes of the episode, my Reverse the Polarity segment, new feedback from Holly Mac and Sandi from Oregon, Jesse starting up a Babylon 5 rewatch podcast, Jesse, DJ Nik and I having a great celebration of George Perez's career on TitanTalk: The Titans Podcast, and more!

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Be sure to come back in two weeks for the next episode of Next Stop Everywhere as Jesse and I discuss "Out of Time 2: The Gates of Hell", the second audio drama from Big Finish Productions' Doctor Who: Out of Time series released in 2021, featuring David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor, Peter Davison as the Fifth Doctor, Mark Gatiss as Joseph Delon, and Nicholas Briggs as the voice of the Cybermen!