Chartfridays

Your Welcome. I'll get the list for next week up in the next few days. Thanks to everyone who joined was great fun.

Crikey didn't expect that. Couldn't could it?

Thanks glad you thing the ratings are fair, I tried do them very much based on what I saw rather than their reputations but it's fair to say Marco Polo probably had the best reputation. Although I think that reputation might actually be aided by it being missing.

Yeah, I've never listened to them all, but listened to post-2000s on my own, these things are always better with others. (Edited to remove the likely Freudian slip)

https://sync-tube.de/rooms/BxzggJCF3 Link here. Will start at 4.00pm.

I'll send a new link around 3.30 for the synctube

Don't forget about this guy's 4pm.

Rats sinking ship.

Yeah the 30 thing was hilarious. Bishop is definitely playing to his strengths by leaning into the comedy - Nesbitt and MacMillan have been good guests.

Let's see how this is then. I like Bishop tbh but chat show seems an odd vehicle for him.

People saying this is too complicated really make me wonder just how thick the average person actually is. You dial in the number, if it's right you bank the money, if it's under you lose however many your under, if it's over you're out. It's hardly Only Connect

It's an odd sort of show. I'd f*** off the lifelines, they make the game far too easy. Think the idea of it being limitless is a gimmick tbh, can't see people winning more than a few hundred thousand.

The Reign of Terror 8 August 1964 - 12 September 1964 (6 x 25) Season 1: First Doctor, Ian, Susan, Barbara The final series of the first season is a good one to finish on. After The Sensorites I need something slightly more down to Earth and what better than a trip to 17th century France. The TARDIS crew dynamic still continuing to take more shape with The 1st Doctors rather cruel and callous side on open display in the initial episodes threatening to kick Ian and Barbara off into wherever they land convincing them that it’s England in the 60s - thankfully for Ian and Barbara they’ve learnt not to trust the Doctor that much just yet. The storyline is fairly enjoyable, capture and recapture of the companions and The Doctor going off to put on his best conniving and impersonation display yet in impersonating a citizen in order to be able to reunite with friends and get them released. The backdrop of the war offers some good visual scenes, which the animation of the two missing episodes handles very well. This certainly has a slightly darker tone than previous serials up to this point - not all that unsurprising given the setting of the French Revolution, and plot is at times a bit too cumbersome for its own good - a few characters could easily be trimmed round the edges, but on the other hand the complexity and depth is also a great contributor to the rather grand feeling of the serial. It’s certainly very watchable, unlike the previous serial. End of Season 1 Rankings. Anyway this takes us to the end of Season 1 - 42 episodes down - these being the longer earlier seasons still, and 8 stories down, it feels an adequate time to begin rating and ranking the stories so far to refer to later on. 9.6 Marco Polo An excellent storyline and while the recon may have given it a flattering light on this, the costuming and settings are also absolutely fabulous - and as far as can be deduced some brilliant acting from Mark Eden as well as many others really makes this the stand out of Season 1 for me. 9.2 The Aztecs This really doesn’t fall too far behind though, again some excellent acting and brilliant settings gives this serial a really grand and eminently watchable feel which in this era is really important giving the naturally slower pace of a lot of the serials. 8.5 The Daleks Yes the Daleks are tremendous and Skaro is excellent and it certainly marks an incredible moment to see this all for the very first time, but the serial is somewhat badly let down by slow pacing and a couple of dreadful episodes (The Ordeal). It’s by no means bad and is certainly a very important serial in the show's history. 8.0 The Reign of Terror Probably the last of the very good serials from the first season. The points noted in the above review are key - the French Revolution setting, the Doctor's plotting and impersonation to achieve his objectives and strong minor characters. 7.5 The Edge of Destruction This is the sort of idea that could have very easily backfired but thankfully it doesn’t and leaves us with a really nice little serial that’s pretty important for the character development of the TARDIS crew and certainly improves our understanding of the companions for the rest of the series.. 7.0 An Unearthly Child These reviews are for the entire serial which is a shame because the first episode is an absolute masterclass, unfortunately there’s only so far you can actually take the stone age storyline before things get a bit boring and crappy. 6.5 The Keys of Marinus And now we head to the objectively bad - it’s a remarkably positive comment on the series that there’s only 2 of them. The court scenes episode rescues this, unfortunately it barely makes up for the abomination that is The Snows of Terror as an episode. The overall plot is at least comprehensible, if slow and at times painful. 5.0 The Sensorites I think I gave my opinion on this enough in my actual review of it - it’s not one I really intend on rewatching any time soon. The Sensorites are naff as aliens and as villains, especially as they’re not actually villains. It’s just incredibly slow, incredibly dull and boring and annoying. The twist is nice but nowhere near enough to rescue it.

Sounds pretty decent from the preview compared to their last few albums. Thinking the idea of them getting R1 supported as mooted above is fanciful, could well get R2 support though.

Newcastle continuing are cup form of recent years despite a new manager and new owners. Oh well we should be focussing on the league anyway

Nice for them to get the goal. The fact all the games are FTA does seem to have restored a little bit of the magic to the FA Cup tbh - it's obvs never gonna be what it once was but it certainly feels slightly bigger.

Tyrone and Phil's bickerimg I'd exactly the kind of rubbish that needs to go. The seen with the inflatables was nonsensical. What would have once been two macho love rivals getting at eachother and perhaps even having a fight or bitching to their own circle of friends about the other is now presented as a comic farce. Tyrone and Phil fighting over Fizz is certainly no Mike and Ken fighting over Dierdre. All the charachters are being morphed to fit the plots instead of the old days where the plots were morphed to fit the charachters. The show needs a root and branch overhaul and if it doesn't sort itself soon I'll be out.

Man City making light work of Swindon Town so far. 2-0

But they have lost some of their most enduring characters because they don't like the direction of the show in recent years. Bev Callard cited the lack of iamspamspamamisink drama and high level of sensationalism as one of the main reasons she won't return ever. Other stalwarts have left for similar reasons, and a lot of the newer actors have no idea how to act community scenes that used to be the shows backbone. The hard hitting storylines aren't as hard hitting cos they're constantly happen.and we don't have time to grow to like the charachters. A smaller cast, less episodes and simpler storylines are the answer

So just the usual soap fan whinging. With viewing figures as low as they are fans should just be glad they show isn't being wound down.

They could just reduce the number of episodes of the soaps so they could easily be shown another night?

Yup it's so prevalent if you have any contact with others you'll probably get it at some point. It might be milder than previous strains but it's still pretty horrid. I'm also hearing more and more vaccinated people saying theyve caught this than any previous wave. Even with vaccinations this has floored me, I'm really not surprised unvaccinated people are getting hospitalized from it.

That's seals it, just for you I'll play them in full

Oh f*** I'd forgotten about them. I'll throw that one to the rest of you? I was just going with biggest hit on the EPs but if people want all of them then why not, it's only an extra half an hour to an hour at most which is nothing here?

These are absolutely brilliant. Gave me a much needed smile. To be frank those reviews are probably more highbrow than the ramblings found here.