C058 Colony in Space

It's Space Pocahontas, but with lubed-up wrists, tear-away paper calendars and mud wrestling! * * * Doc is temporarily un-exiled by the Time Lords, and travels with Jo to the unremarkable planet of Uxarieus in the year 2472, where a band of ineffectual human colonists, after fleeing an overpopulated and dying Earth, fail to make things work yet again. The space colonists, and by proxy Doc and Jo, face multiple obstacles, partly in their encounters with the indigenous Uxarieans — or primitives — occasionally with an alleged giant Iguana, and last but not least when an Earth spaceship full of soldiers from the Intergalactic Mining Company arrives, toting rifles and laying claim to the planet for themselves. Listen to this Classic Doctor Who review now, to hear us try to answer such questions as: * Did The Doctor even know he was on a mission for the Time Lords? * Are we dome or shed people? * Do they teach the ol' lubed-up-wrists trick in Escapology 101? * How do you distract a telepath with sleight of hand?! * How much improved are robots when adorned with lizard hands? * Why did the Uxarieans build a doomsday weapon in the first place? * And many, many more... * * * Check out WHOBACKWHEN.COM for more information, Doctor Who TV Serial and Audiobook reviews, ratings and ramblings, and loads more podcast episodes. WEB: WhoBackWhen.com FACEBOOK: Facebook.com/WhoBackWhen GOOGLE+: plus.google.com/+Whobackwhen YOUTUBE: WhoBackWhen.com/YouTube TWITTER: @whobackwhen Toodle-Pip!