IT'S CALLED ENTERTAINMENT: Great Plaid Musings

IT'S CALLED ENTERTAINMENT: Great Plaid Musings

Thursday, June 18, 2026

Whofest 2020

 At my house on Thursday & Friday May 29th & 30th with Christa.

We missed this one originally due to the COVID pandemic that year. But it's a Timey-Wiimey thing.

Theme: Viruses, Contagions & Infections

1) The Ark

2) Fury from the Deep (animated B&W)

3) The Mutants

4) Revenge of the Cybermen

5) Terminus ( New CGI)

6) Attack of the Cybermen

7) Survival

8) Doctor Who Part Three

9) The Empty Child (2-parter)

New Earth Tardisode

10) New Earth

11) The Girl Who Waited

12) Oxygen

13) Praxeus

15) 73 Yards



Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Whofest 2025

In person at my house with Christa.

November 22nd & 23rd, 2025

Theme: Memorable Villains

1) The Celestial Toymaker (episode 4 & animated episodes 

1-3 B & W)

2) The Underwater Menace (episodes 2 & 3 and animated 

episodes 1 & 4 B & W)

3) The Mind of Evil (colourised)

4) Meglos

5) Enlightenment (New special effects)

6) Mindwarp

7) The Happiness Patrol (Extended Version with new special

effects)

8) Doctor Who - The Enemy Within Parts One & Two

9) Dalek

Love & Monsters Tardisode

10) Love & Monsters

Brain Trafficking

11) A Good Man Goes to War

The Battle of Demon’s Run: Two Days Later

The Magician’s Apprentice Tardisode

The Doctor’s Meditation

12) The Magician’s Apprentice (Includes The Witch's 

Familiar)

13) The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos

Destination: Skaro

14) The Star Beast

15) The Devil’s Chord


Saturday, May 31, 2025

Doctor Who - The Reality War

Here's the comparison of the Doctors' sixteenth adventures from best to worst:

1) The Robots of Death by Chris Boucher

2) The Mind Robber by Peter Ling and Derrick Sherwin

3) A Good Man Goes to War by Steven Moffat

4) The Chase by Terry Nation

5) Carnival of Monsters by Robert Holmes

6) The Reality War (2-parter) by Russell T. Davies



7) The Woman Who Lived by Catherine Treganna

8) Praxeus by Pete McTighe and Chris Chibnall

9) Evolution of the Daleks (2-parter) by Helen Raynor

10) The Awakening by Eric Pringle

Doctor Who - The Interstellar Song Contest

My list of favorite fifteenth stories in order from best to last:


1) The Three Doctors by Bob Baker and Dave Martin

2) Fugitive of the Judoon by Vinay Patel and Chris Chibnall

3) Warriors of the Deep by Johnny Byrne

4) The Face of Evil by Chris Boucher

5) The Interstellar Song Contest by Juno Dawson



6) The Girl Who Died by Jamie Mathieson and Steven Moffat

7) The Rebel Flesh (2-parter) by Matthew Graham

8) Gridlock by Russell T. Davies

9) The Dominators by Norman Ashby (pseudonym of Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln)

10) The Space Museum by Glyn Jones

Saturday, May 10, 2025

Doctor Who - The Story & the Engine

 My list of favorite fourteenth stories in order from best to last:


1) The Five Doctors by Terrance Dicks
2) The Doctor's Wife by Neil Gaiman
3) The Deadly Assassin by Robert Holmes
4) Under the Lake (2-parter) by Toby Whithouse
5) The Story & the Engine by Inua Ellams


6) The Crusade by David Whitaker
7) The Shakespeare Code by Gareth Roberts
8) Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror by Nina Metivier
9) The Time Monster by Robert Sloman and Barry Letts
10) The Wheel in Space by David Whitaker and Kit Pedler

Saturday, May 3, 2025

Doctor Who - Lucky Day

 List of thirteenth stories for each Doctor from my favorite to least favorite:


1) The Magician's Apprentice (2-parter) by Steven Moffat
2) The Hand of Fear by Bob Baker and Dave Martin
3) Smith and Jones by Russell T. Davies
4) The Mutants by Bob Baker and Dave Martin
5) Fury from the Deep by Victor Pemberton
6) Lucky Day by Pete McTighe



7) Orphan 55 by Ed Hime
8) The Curse of the Black Spot by Steve Thompson
9) The King's Demons by Terence Dudley
10) The Web Planet by Bill Strutton

Sunday, April 27, 2025

Doctor Who - The Well

Here's my list of comparing the Doctors' twelfth stories:

1) Spyfall by Chris Chibnall
2) The Impossible Astronaut (2-parter) by Steven Moffat
3) The Romans by Dennis Spooner
4) The Web of Fear by Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln
5) The Sea Devils by Malcolm Hulke
6) Last Christmas by Steven Moffat
7) The Runaway Bride by Russell T. Davies
8) Enlightenment by Barbara Clegg
9) The Well by Russell T. Davies and Sharma Angel-Walfell



10) Survival by Rona Munro
11) The Masque of Mandragora by Louis Marks