An intelligent cactus? A society that worships a giant 12-sided shape? Barbara, but not Barbara? You don’t have to get very far into Meglos to begin to feel this story is the result of a drunken session of Doctor Who mad libs, complete with its own game show segment: How Do Time Lords Get Out of a Time Loop? One thing you can’t take away from Megos — it thoroughly and completely goes for it, and Tom Baker’s double act as both the Doctor and his prickly doppelganger provides a nice throughline for the whole affair. It’s all great fun… until someone loses a dodecahedron.
Special guest Mark Cockram from the All of Time and Space podcast joins! Follow them on X at @MarkCockram (AKA The Human Palindrome) and @TimeNSpacePod.
Commentary for Meglos begins at 19:29.
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Season 18, Serial 2
Story number: 110, per the The Pull To Open Codex
Writer: John Flanagan and Andrew McCulloch
Director: Terence Dudley
Producer: John Nathan-Turner
Aired 27 September – 18 October 1980
Pull To Open: Meglos
Season 4
Episode 38
Hosts: Pete Pachal and Chris Taylor
Music: Martin West/Thinking Fish
In It to Twin It (Imitating “Meglos,” with guest Mark Cockram)