[Episode 14]

The Doctor and Steven find themselves in the middle of a religious purging, one they cannot stop no matter how much they long to ("The Massacre"). And after picking up a new companion named Dodo, the trio lands on a spaceship containing the last survivors of the human race ("The Ark"). [ 52:35 || 24.1 MB ]

The above is from: http://www.earth-2.net/podcasts/biggeronth.../bigger_014.mp3

Listening right now...another very enjoyable episode so far :-).

On the reconstruction front, I tend to struggle watching them too. I wonder if you would find it easier to listen to the BBC audio releases, that come with additional dramatic narration (usually by one of the actors who played a companion, Peter Purvis is particularly good as the narrator). I find them a lot easier to follow, and enjoy the episodes a lot more that way.

[Episode 12]

It's actually not nearly as common as that - thank God - but I have to wonder, dramatically speaking, if they really thought through the companions' departures through, when two out of three female companions so far have gotten married off.

I may be mistaken, but I think we have a while before a companion leaves to get married again.

Just going through the rest of the companions in my mind, i think it only happens another 2 times in the whole of the rest of the series. I've put the names of the characters in spoiler tags in case people are watching the series in order and don't want to know whats going to happen, although it's a long way off. On the first occasion it works quite well dramatically

(Jo Grant basically falling in love with a human/younger version of the Doctor)

, the other is completely ludicrous and bizarre

(Leela falling for a guy who she's barely spoken 3 lines to in the whole story)

. You could also make case for one other

(Peri, who the Doctor and audience think is killed, but later we find she's married Brian "Gordon's Alive" Blessed)

[Episode 12]

I'm loving this series. As a long time Doctor Who fan it's always fun to hear people's reactions to the early years, particularly seeing them in order.

To expand upon the answers to 2 questions that Mike asked about the TARDIS. We have seen TARDIS's in their natural state, without the chameleon circuit activated. In one story (I won't name it because it would ruin the surprise when you get that story, but i think anyone who has seen it will know which one i mean), where we see a number of TARDIS's in use, mainly by one particular character but also towards the end we see more on Gallifrey. They appear to be plain black cubes, with a door that slides out.

Also in reference to the question about whether the TARDIS takes on the properties of objects it disguises itself as, the evidence in the series seems to suggest that it does. In a Sixth Doctor story, the chameleon circuit starts working and at one point it disguises the TARDIS as a fully functioning organ, and the Doctor plays a short tune on it. But more notably, in a Third Doctor story, the Master's TARDIS (admitedly a more advanced design) is disguised as a spaceship, and works like a functioning spaceship, flying onto the planet and landing.