NEXT STOP EVERYWHERE 337: "Galaxy 4" Is Up!

 
"Women?"
"Yes, feminine. Uh...female."
"Oh, we have a small number of men, as many as we need. The rest we kill. They consume valuable food and fulfill no particular function."
-- Maaga and the First Doctor, Doctor Who: "Galaxy 4"

Hello again, everyone! My partner in time Jesse Jackson and I are back for another new episode of Next Stop Everywhere: The Doctor Who Podcast! This time, we discuss "Galaxy 4", the first serial from Doctor Who Season 3 in 1965, featuring William Hartnell as the First Doctor, Maureen O'Brien as Vicki Pallister, Peter Purves as Steven Taylor, and Stephanie Bidmead as Maaga!

In this episode, Jesse and I discuss things like Jesse's recurring family joke "Do the Cowboys suck or what?", finally closing on the sale of my parents' house, the original recording of "Galaxy 4" only surviving with Episode 3, Jesse's thoughts if "Galaxy 4" was worthy of being reconstructed with animation, recent animated reconstructions being done cheaply in order to make them profitable, the "Galaxy 4" animation looking like it was drawn in 1965 when the original serial was aired, Angelo Muscat as the Butler in the classic TV series The Prisoner, the Episode 4 cliffhanger setting up "Mission to the Unknown," wishing science-fiction TV shows still accepted unsolicited script submissions, writer William Emms not being happy that the male Drahvins were made female by producer Verity Lambert, the cast not being happy with the script and Hartnell being threatened if he didn't follow it, Episode 3 being discovered in 2011 after being purchased at a school fundraiser in the 1980s, Chumblie being a combination of the words "chum" and "friendly," Jesse's thoughts on the live-action footage that he watched, Steven trying to get the Doctor to go swimming, the recent "Tales of the TARDIS" short with Maureen O'Brien and Peter Purves reprising their roles as Vicki and Steven, Hartnell's Doctor softening by his third season, the First Doctor being less over-protective of Vicki than he was of Susan, the twist that the ugly Rills were the nice aliens while the prettier Drahvins were the villains, the Chumblies being another failed attempt to recreate Dalekmania, Steven being surprised that the Rills have no problem letting them go, Maaga vs. MAGA, Maaga being clearly insane, the Drahvins not needing men being very progressive for 1965, our favorite quotes of the story, new listener feedback from Holly Mac and Sandi from Oregon, trying to get Jesse back on The Fandom Zone Podcast, our next episode recording on the actual 20th Anniversary of "Rose", 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 celebrate the 20th anniversary of New Who as we regenerate our discussion of "Rose", the first episode from Doctor Who Series One in 2005, introducing Christopher Eccleston as the Ninth Doctor, Billie Piper as Rose Tyler, and Noel Clarke as Mickey Smith, and featuring the return of the Autons!