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The Impossible Planet / The Satan Pit / The Mark of the Rani / The Creature From The Pit

Season 1, Ep. 22
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Clocking on and plunging deep into the shaft, I'll Explain Later returns with a heavily accented "Trouble Down t'Pit" special. The Doctor dangles, as David Tennant and chums confront evil itself in The Impossible Planet / The Satan Pit. Tyneside tykes and wooden miming as the Sixth Doctor tries to rub off The Mark of the Rani. And we make all the obvious comments about Erato as Tom Baker grapples with The Creature from the Pit. Along the way, Matt embraces his inner Yorkshireman, Jim ponders whether we've met Lucifer and John posits an erotic setting of Wagner's oeuvre.

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