10 April 1965: broadcast of “The Wheel of Fortune”, third episode of the story we now call The Crusade. Barbara remains a captive; the Doctor is forced to reveal Vicki’s true gender.
10 April 1971: broadcast of first episode of Colony in Space. The Time Lords send the Doctor and Jo to a colony planet where the Doctor is attacked by a robot.
I liked it a lot, but after my daughter cheerfully explained to 8 year old nephew and 4 year old niece that ‘the Christmas episode is always a bit silly and not very scary cos they know lots of little kids are watching’, I have to say that the snowmen were *plenty* scary and actually those poor kids have now seen two governesses killed in horrible ways and no amount of ‘we do know she’s not actually dead’ you know takes that away for *them*. And that poor repressed widower Dad. ‘You have a gentleman friend?’
The Doctor’s rudeness to the Sontaran did seem a tiny bit misplaced and out of turn, really. Though I just adored the first scene with the worm.