The quest for the next segment of the Key to Time takes the Doctor and Romana to... checks notes... Earth. So on this exotic planet these first two episodes of ‘The Stones of Blood’ have our classic Whosome Twosome in rural England finding Neo-Druids in lieu of the third piece. Whilst attempting to course-correct Romana wears incorrect foot-wear, the ‘Doctor’ pushes her off a cliff for her folly, and the titular stones sadly beat K9. If only K9 was made of paper...

We discuss the remaining two episodes of ‘The Pirate Planet’ and... oh boy... buckle in cuz it’s gonna be a bumpy flight. The Doctor evades death several more times. The Mentiads end up being psychic good guys. Nurse is the 3D printed version of the despotic Queen Xanxia. Captain is destroying planets to kill Xanxia... but he’s still a bad guy... right? Right?!? All whilst Romana is a murdering bad ass. And it turns out the second Key of Time was the friends we made along the way. But really the planet Calufrax.

In ‘The Pirate Planet’ the Doctor and Romana continue their quest to find the six Keys to Time and attempt to land on the boring-ass planet of Calufrax . Instead they apparently land on Zanak: a planet covered in rare gems with nary a quarry to be seen (so far...) and no easily located second Key of Time... sad face. Whilst our classic Who pairing bicker classically, these first two episodes find the Pirate Captain blustering evilly at Romana and the Doctor facing certain death in not one but two cliffhangers! Ah, the 70’s: the time before the internets and spoiler culture.