6th September 1975: broadcast of second episode of Terror of the Zygons. The Zygons brag to captive Harry about their control of the Loch Ness Monster / Skarasen, and unleash it on the Doctor…
6th September 1980: broadcast of second episode of The Leisure Hive. The Doctor is forced to age by the Argolins.
6th September 1986: broadcast of fisrt episode of The Forbidden Planet (Trial of a Time Lord #1), starting the belated Season 23. The Doctor is captured and put on trial; flashback to the somewhat incomprehensible beginning of the adventure on Ravalox.
6th September 1989: broadcast of first episode of Battlefield, starting the last season of Old Who. Yay Brigadier! Lots of nice scene-setting, and then a knight materialises and addresses the Doctor as ‘Merlin’.
6th September 2002: webcast of final episode of Real Time.Evelyn is saved from cyber-conversion, but the ending is a bit confusing.
Love the librarian piece.
Vidal was in full gadfly mode there, wasn’t he. The funny thing is, fantasy in the US was just about to begin its long ascent to massive market and cultural dominance.
Doug M.