h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

saw u posting this in the useless facts thread about how long a piece of string is/was

In a Dr Who episode the Third Doctor (Jon Pertwee) asked that question of some allegedly human astronauts to verify their identity. They were aliens of course. I nearly wet myself laughing at that...)

which episode was that and which monsters?

i love a good who

did you know about the new forth coming spin-off with captain jack called torchwood (an anagram of doctor who!)

Hi! I shall have to ask my son which episode that was - my brother and son and I were watching, and fair wet ourselves, as my father used to ask that... My son has an encyclopaedic knowledge of such things. So, I'll get back to you on that.

Thanks for the info about the spin-off, sounds fascinating!

Hi, invisible knight..

I asked my son about the episode - it is 'Ambassadors of Death', and here is a link he found about it...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/ambassadorsofdeath/plot.shtml

My son has an encyclopaedic memory about such things.

thank you

not an episode i remember but i wasn't very old during the pertwee era.
i'm one of those "mostly remembering baker" as "their" doctor.

mind you, i'll never forgot the green maggots and the spiders of (metabelis 3 i think it was?) that planet.
i think the spiders was how john pertwee's who was killed having stumbled into the tardis and on the floor at the end of the last episode to turn into tom baker.

then tom baker got the giant robot as his 1st assignment i think?

then some series of business with a time ring (you had genesis of the daleks during that) and finally the tardis was allowed to work.

I didn't have television during the Tom Baker days, but my son has bought some of the TB episodes on DVD. (He won The Sunmakers on the BBC World Service, on a Wright Around the World competition. Good stuff!)