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

Not trying to pick a fight or anything, but how do you respond to people who go on about how the word 'primord' isn't used on screen or in the novelisation or even (so I believe) in the actual script and is thus just a made-up-by-fans name for a bunch of vaguely silly-looking monsters?

I think it's a nice name, obviously, and Inferno rocks my boat - my favourite Pertwee story by some way. One might even call it a towering achievement if one didn't mind being slapped...

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Nice Pun!

vaguely silly?
damned near stupid I'd say!
esp.Benton! Lordy!

I was in a hurry when I picked the name-and it was when I stared at my own name-Pamela,
that I remembered Primord-so that's it!...but Stahlmann's Mutants sounds very Cool!

It's a brill story-one to shove in the face of anyone 'ribbing' you about Who-nice to see 'Liz'
& 'The Brig' getting a chance to act differently.

I must say I prefer the earlier stages of the mutation to the full sideburns and whiskers phase, but this is mere quibbling. (Stahlmann's Mutants sounds like an industrial punk band from the mid 80s!)

Never mind act differently, it's nice to see the Brigadier getting a chance to act at all... A fine story. though, and an interesting one: would you say the parallel world sequence counts as the longest piece of padding (ie, unnecessary to the actual plot) in the history of Doctor Who?

the longer stories usually suffer a little from padding-but I suppose when they were first shown this would not have been so obvious-from week to week it may have been more acceptable.

Still-it's nice to see the 'nasty' possibilities of consequences left unchecked.