NEXT STOP EVERYWHERE 359: "Terminus" Is Up!

 
"Where did the other spacecraft come from?"
"The TARDIS found it. There's a fail-safe. On impending breakup, it seeks out and locks onto the nearest spacecraft."
"You never mentioned it before."
"Well, it never worked before."
-- Tegan Jovanka and the Fifth Doctor, Doctor Who: "Terminus"

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 "Terminus", the fourth serial from Doctor Who Season 20 in 1983, featuring Peter Davison as the Fifth Doctor, Janet Fielding as Tegan Jovanka, Mark Strickson as Vislor Turlough, and the departure of Sarah Sutton as Nyssa!

In this episode, Jesse, and I discuss things like Jesse coming off a big Dallas Cowboys win, big fluffy dog robots, Tubi not having Classic Who episodes on demand anymore, Jesse's thoughts on watching "Terminus" for the first time, saying goodbye to Nyssa, writer Stephen Gallagher writing Romana's departure from the series, Valentine Dyall as the computer Deep Thought in the original Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy mini-series, Liza Goddard as the ex-wife of Colin Baker, Stephen Gallagher taking inspiration from Norse mythology, "Terminus" having a number of technical difficulties during production, Eric Saward pointing out the "Yoni" is the Sanskrit word for "womb", Nyssa dropping her skirt in Part 2 as deliberate fan service, "Terminus" being the last appearance of a four-person TARDIS team until "The Woman Who Fell to Earth" in 2018, one of the Lazar extras causing Janet Fielding to become exposed, my wishing that there was a sense of urgency with the Doctor and Nyssa that was shown in "The Caves of Androzani", wondering how Terminus existed before the universe if it created the universe, Tegan being understandably suspicious of Turlough, Tegan and Turlough crawling around in ducts for most of the story, Turlough almost causing his own destruction by sabotaging the TARDIS for the Black Guardian, the Vanir suddenly being on board once they learn that Nyssa can produce a better version of the hydromel, Bor being grateful that he hadn't died and the afterlife wasn't Terminus, 1950s DC Comics characters the Atomic Knights, why Nyssa left the TARDIS, our favorite quotes from the serial, my Reverse the Reverse the Polarity segment, new listener feedback from Holly Mac and Sandi from Oregon, our next return to the Matt Smith era, 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 "Victory of the Daleks", the third episode from Doctor Who Series Five in 2010, featuring Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor, Karen Gillan as Amy Pond, Ian McNeice as Winston Churchill, and Bill Paterson as Edwin Bracewell!