“Who Are You? Who? Who? Who? Who?”

Last Saturday I had the great joy of seeing The War Machines on a cinema sized screen at Riverside Studios in Hammersmith: Watching these four episodes of Doctor Who from 1966 in the exact space in which they were made, Riverside being one of Doctor Who’s regular recording studios during the 1960s.

The event, presented by James Goss and Gavin Rymill was a marvellous way to spend a few hours on a Saturday afternoon, with the pair introducing each episode in turn, offering notes and observations that enhanced everyone’s experience of what is already, at least in my opinion, one of the most rewatchable Doctor Who stories ever made.

I wasn’t going to write about the event for Psychic Paper, in part because the serial isn’t all that far away from its slot in the regular The Long Way Round¹ column, believe it or not, and I didn’t want to pre-empt myself. But the story and my own history with it have been rattling around my head since I came back from Hammersmith, and because of both this and how the mobile Buttondown site has been playing up for the last few days, I’ve decided I’m going to anyway.