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+Episode: 4620
+Title: The Second Doctor, Part 1
+Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr4620/hpr4620.mp3
+Transcribed: 2026-07-31 16:15:18 (official HPR transcript)
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+This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 4620, for 2026-04-17
+Today's show is entitled, "The Second Doctor, Part 1"
+The host is Ahuka and the duration is 00:13:16
+The flag is Clean, and the license is CC-BY-SA
+The summary is "We start a look at the Second Doctor Who, Patrick Troughton."
+Hello, this is a hookah welcome you to Hacker Public Radio and another exciting episode in our ongoing series on science fiction and fantasy
+And we're talking again about Dr. Who
+Previously we looked at the first doctor and
+You know at a certain point he just became unable to continue and
+In most shows that would have been the end of the show now
+There have been occasional situations of
+A new actor coming in and taking over a previous actor's role, but they're unusual
+Particularly when you're the lead actor and the focus of the show
+But that did happen here and the reason is Patrick Trouton
+Because he is he's the reason we're still talking about Dr. Who
+He took over the lead role in a popular and successful show and continued the success
+It might have been a disaster, but it wasn't and
+Trouton did not attempt to be another heart and all he had his own distinct way of playing the part
+He established the principle that the personality of the doctor changes when he or she regenerates
+This made it much easier on all the actors and followed him in the role and
+Each one has been very distinctive and how they embodied the doctor
+Sadly many of his episodes and some complete stories are missing now due to the short-sighted policy of the BBC
+That they would discard older shows in many cases wiping video tapes for reuse
+Of course you can't blame them too much since I doubt anyone in the 1960s would have believed that the show would still be going over
+60 years later
+But there is always hope that some more episodes will be recovered
+There are people who collect old TV shows in various formats such as film and video tape and it is virtually
+Certain that some missing doctor who episodes still exist in private collectors hands though how many is not known
+Now to take the place of the missing episodes we have in
+Reconstructions in a number of cases some of them using tell us snaps
+Telly snaps are photos taken of the monitor screen and
+You can
+Put those together is almost like a storyboard of what the story is and they always had the soundtracks
+Because a lot of a lot of kids and maybe older people as well would tape the
+Audio tape the show when it was broadcast
+Then there's animations and there've been a number of those
+And there's even for a few trout and stories where fans have restage the stories a stage place
+And I've watched some of those on YouTube so there are ways to experience at least a little of these missing episodes
+And even as I write this, there are indications that more episodes may be found and returned to the BBC
+Now trout and took over in the third story of season four which aired in late
+And his first story was power of the Daleks
+This is the first story for Patrick Trouton is the doctor and starting with the Daleks was a smart move
+There were so popular that they guaranteed a good audience and would get trout enough to a good start
+The Tardis lands on a planet called Vulcan
+Where a scientist has found a derelict ship containing a few Daleks
+He thinks he can bring them back to life and won't listen to the doctor who tries to warn him
+Meanwhile rebels on Vulcan are trying to overthrow the government there
+In the end the scientists sacrifices himself to stop the Daleks
+The rebels do succeed in overthrowing the fascist dictator and all as well for now
+Ben and Polly are
+Along as the companions
+Continuing their stay in the Tardis after starting with the first doctor in the war machines
+Now this is one of the completely missing stories
+But there is an animated version which is available on DVD where you can watch it on YouTube and I've put a link in the show notes
+Next was the Highlanders
+It's another historical story
+Now historical stories would largely be dropped
+Around this point
+But this one takes us to the Battle of Kalodin in 1746
+Where the last gasp of the Jacobite rebellion was snuffed out by the English army
+The Tardis crew are first captured by the Scots
+Who are not kindly disposed to people who are obviously English
+Then they are captured by the English who have decided their traders and want to hang them
+After various adventures they get away and bring with them a young Scottish lad named Jamey
+Jamey McCrimon who becomes the third member of the Tardis team when he promises to teach the doctor to play the bagpipes
+Now
+This is just an average historical story
+The most memorable part of it is the introduction of Jamey as
+They truly beloved companion and he would stay with the doctor all the way through the end of Trouton's run
+So there was only one Trouton story that Jamey was not a companion
+And the fellow who
+The whole who plays him is still in high demand as a guest
+Dr. Who conventions around the world his name is Frazier Hines
+He was not actually intended to be a companion at first
+Now they had shot two endings one where he joins the doctor and another where he is left in Scotland
+Well, they did decide to keep him
+But in the next few stories for which scripts had already been written
+He is less central to the plot and sometimes gets lines originally written for another character
+Now, this is another story where all the episodes are missing though there are reconstructions available
+Then there is the underwater menace
+um, and this is an example of
+High Kitch
+So bad that it's good the Tardis team arrives on an island formed by an extinct volcano
+Where they are brought underground to a sunken city
+They are told that their arrival was foretold by the goddess of the city and that they would be sacrificed
+Now they're rescued by a scientist who is known to the doctor
+But it turns out he has gone quite mad
+The city is Atlantis and he says he will raise it but his plan involves blowing up everything with nuclear bombs
+Underwater scene of swimming ladies that is absolutely hilarious
+But it is an inventive little story
+The scene of the mad scientist raging as he disappears under the water is pretty good too, and it can't be like
+Now as we mentioned
+Early in Patrick Fountain's run as the doctor
+This show decided to drop
+Most of the history and focus more on monsters and science fiction to compete with shows like lost in space and land of the giants
+Now this particular
+Story is missing two of the four episodes but reconstructions exist for the two missing episodes
+Then here's the moon base
+The cybermen are back and this time they're attacking a base on the moon
+They have been infiltrating the base through a hole in the basement wall
+Which is where you scratch your head and wonder why the air doesn't all leak out through this hole
+But ignoring that
+How about since the cybermen are still significantly organic how are they breathing in a vacuum
+Still the doctor puts the emphasis on science as a way to defeat them
+The return of the cybermen was sufficiently popular for them to become the acknowledged second best
+Enemy of the doctor after the Daleks of course
+And as such they would come back again in several of Troutton stories and continued up to the present to be featured in Dr.
+Now this story is also missing two of its episodes
+But they have been animated so you can get a decent experience of the story now and there is at least one decent jump scare here
+Next story the macrotera
+The macra made an appearance in the David Tenant story gridlock
+But this is where they began
+The tardis materializes on a planet where a colony seems very happy
+Except for one malcontent who claims he has seen huge crab like beings at night
+Then the doctor sees them as well, but no one else seems to notice them
+It turns out these creatures are very good at
+Conditioning people to not see them and to believe what they are told to believe
+Ben ends up brainwashed by them though the others escape this
+And the colony is busily engaged in producing some kind of gas and this turns out to be essential to the macra
+Oxygen is poisonous to them they need this gas
+Finally Ben breaks his conditioning and rescues the other and the macra are defeated
+When they reappeared in gridlock
+I was never clear to me what the purpose was
+It just looked like an Easter egg for long time fans and was never explained or justified
+This is another story that is missing all of its episodes in the original form
+But an animated version has been released and is available on DVD and on YouTube and again link in the show notes
+And finally the faceless ones
+This is a very good inventive story that purports to take place at Catwick Airport
+Though it is of course not really shot there, but it is a smaller place nearby
+The tardis materializes there and the first problem is that none of them have passports
+This is the only thing that matters to the immigration people of the airport
+Meanwhile something puzzling is going on with a company called Kameleon tours
+One young lady, played by Pauline Collins, is trying to find out what happened to her brother,
+who went on a tour with them, sent a postcard, and then vanished
+It turns out that the folks running Kameleon tours are an alien race of shapeshifters
+Hence the faceless ones who are kidnapping people to help repopulate their planet
+The obvious plattle is that this would involve repopulating with people, not Kameleons
+But never let that get in the way of what is otherwise a nice romp full of action in suspense
+Now a production team was hoping to get Collins as a companion, but she turned them down
+At the end Ben and Pauli take advantage of the fact that they are on earth at the proper time
+And decide to leave the tardis and get on with their lives
+So now only Jamie is left
+But I bet that won't be true for long
+Now for this story four of the six episodes are missing
+But again, this is a story that got to complete animation treatment as before
+You can purchase the DVD or watch it on YouTube link in the show notes
+So this is a hookah for our hacker public radio signing off and encouraging you to support free software. Bye bye
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