"But I don't enjoy chase sequences for their own sake, am not that interested in stories about men doing things in labs, and am distinctly unimpressed by the consistent absence of well-developed secondary female characters in stories from this period."

Plus the presence of dangerously incompetent Whitehall civil servants in every episode or the interminable gadgets and cars. I'm afraid it all got much worse after the first Pertwee season.

- K