NEXT STOP EVERYWHERE 293: "The Android Invasion" Is Up!

 
"Strange...A village without a future."
-- The Fourth Doctor, Doctor Who: "The Android Invasion"

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 Android Invasion", the fourth serial from Doctor Who Season 13 in 1975, featuring Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor, Elisabeth Sladen as Sarah Jane Smith, and the final appearances of Ian Marter as Harry Sullivan & John Levene as RSM John Benton!

In this episode, Jesse and I discuss things like Jesse being happy just to watch a serial with the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane, the last appearance of the original UNIT crew, Ncuti Gatwa returning for Series 15 in 2025, Terry Nation writing something besides a Dalek story for Doctor Who, "The Android Invasion" being influenced by the 1956 version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, why Nicholas Courtney's Brigadier was replaced by Colonel Faraday, what we know of what happened to Harry and Benton after they left UNIT, the few UNIT appearances in the Classic Era after "The Android Invasion", Tom Baker having to have his stomach pumped after submerging himself in the pond, Jesse feeling bad for Fourth Doctor cosplayers at Dragon Con, the Fourth Doctor not showing up for his job at UNIT, Tom Baker being everyone's favorite Doctor until David Tennant's run, Tom Baker and Elisabeth Sladen's great on-screen chemistry, the Part 2 cliffhanger where Sarah Jane's face falls off and reveals she's an android duplicate, wondering why the Kraals bothered to make a one-a-day calendar with the exact same date over and over, Android Sarah Jane's trap for the Doctor that was obviously a trap, wondering if Guy Crayford had a mental block preventing him from looking under the eyepatch he didn't need, the Kraal's plan to invade Earth, wondering why Styggron would carry around a vial of a virus that could kill him, our favorite quotes of the story, my Reverse the Reverse the Polarity segment, new feedback from Holly Mac and Sandi from Oregon, watching "Hell Bent" in our next episode, 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 watch "Hell Bent", the twelfth episode of Doctor Who Series Nine, featuring Peter Capaldi as the Twelfth Doctor, Jenna Coleman as Clara Oswald, Donald Sumpter as Lord President Rassilon, and Maisie Williams as Ashildr!