8 April 1967: broadcast of first episode of The Faceless Ones. The Doctor, Ben, Polly, and Jamie land at Gatwick Airport to get mixed up in an affair of vanishing corpses; Polly is apparently brainwashed.
8 April 1972: broadcast of first episode of The Mutants. Geoffrey Palmer is the best thing in this story and he gets killed before the end of this episode; five more to go, folks…
I haven’t gone the survey in detail myself, but I admit that I was unimpressed by Old Man’s War, though more for the reason that I just don’t think it’s terribly well written than anything else (I’ve just finished Redshirts which I enjoyed more for its concept, but still thought the writing was workmanlike at best.)
I guess I just have to put Scalzi down as one of those writers who I find perfectly readable, but whose great success I find rather baffling. Having said that, I do enjoy his non-fiction writing rather more.