#meddling monk

[pebblenessmonster]

[fanonical]

mister russell tussell davies i will personally give you fifty english pounds if you bring the meddling monk back

[maggie-d]

The Rani being back reminds me that we almost got the Monk in Modern Who and I wish we had.

[thekinglemingle]

Now that Classic Who is all on iPlayer, I'm really enjoying the Time Meddler. What an incredibly fun story

[rachelbethhines]

Speed-running Doctor Who - 1st Doctor

A quick and dirty guide for those who want to get into the show, but don't want to watch everything from the beginning.

For Those Who Just Wanna Get An Idea of the Era

The Romans - S2E4

If you just want to get your toes wet and watch only one story from the era to get a feel for things, then The Romans is fairly continuity lite and offers a good look at what defines the First Doctor's era. Plus it's only four parts and all of the episodes exist.

Plot Important Episodes

Entrances, Exits, Enemies, Lore Drops, and Character Development (missing episodes will have a * next to it. You will have to find recons and animated versions to watch instead)

An Unearthly Child - S1E1 (Very First Episode, Introduces The First Doctor, Susan, the Tardis, Ian, and Barbara)

The Daleks - S1E2 (First appearance of the Doctor's arch enemies)

The Edge of Destruction - S1E3 (character development for the tardis team and first hints that the Tardis is alive)

The Aztecs - S1E6 (character development for Barbara and the rules of time travel are defined... which the Doctor continues to break form here on after. Also introduces the Doctor's first onscreen love interest)

The Sensorites - S1E7 (character development for Susan and lore drops regarding the Doctor's home planet and people)

The Dalek Invasion of Earth - S2E2 (Return of the Daleks and Susan's last episode)

The Rescue - S2E3 (introduces Vicki)

The Web Planet - S2E5 (the Animus is the Great Intelligence, Change My Mind!)

The Chase - S2E8 (Barbara and Ian leave, and we meet Steven)

The Time Meddler - S2E9 (We meet another of the Doctor's race for the first time, and he may or may not be The Master)

Mission to the Unknown - S3E2 * (first Doctor lite episode and a prologue to The Dalek Masterplan)

The Myth Makers - S3E3 * (Vicki leaves and Katarina comes aboard)

The Daleks' Master Plan - S3E4 * (Katarina's only full story. The Doctor also meets Bret Von and his sister Sara Kingdom. One of whom may or may not be a reincarnation of a future companion. The return of both the Daleks and the Meddler)

The Massacre - S3E5 * (Character Development for Steven and Dodo is introduced at the end)

The Ark - S3E6 (Dodo's first full story... plus it actually exists)

The Celestial Toymaker - S3E7 * (the first appearance of the Toymaker)

The Savages - S3E9 * (Steven leaves)

The War Machines - S3E10 (Dodo's last story, and we meet Ben and Polly. The first time the Doctor works with the military)

The Smugglers - S4E1 * (the conclusion of One's character arc)

The Tenth Planet - S4E2 * (the first appearance of the Cybermen and the First Doctor's last story)

Personal Favorite and Least Favorite Stories

Because one man's trash is another man's treasure and vice versa

Favorite: Marco Polo - S1E4*

Least Favorite: The Gunfighters - S3E8

(disclaimer: no spin-offs or extended universe stuff was considered when making this list)

Up next: The Second Doctor

[demigodofhoolemere]

Such polite foes.

~~~~~

Monk: “Oh. Hello, Doctor… keeping well?”

Doctor: “Oh, no complaints, no. And you? Hm, hmhm.”

Monk: “Oh, so-so, you know, just so-so.”

[atalanta133]

The BBC: so now that we’ve brought back both Susan and the Rani, what are you going to do now?

Us:… I don’t know. I didn’t think we’d get this far.

[polaritydisturbed]

Careful, RTD—you're running out of Time Lords to reintroduce. At this rate, you’re going to have to reveal the Meddling Monk was secretly everyone all along.

[carefulzombie]

what

[buildoblivion]

[idkaguyorsomething]

the convoluted doctor who lore gets extra funny when you realize that, at two separate points in the past, two different companions to two different doctors ended up running into rasputin but both came to the conclusion that he was a pretty nice and normal guy. which, depending on how you interpret the power of the doctor, is either a nice subversion of a lot of tropes of stories used in pre-soviet russia, or side-splittingly hilarious as you start imagining the master getting roped into various adventures with different versions of the doctor that he can’t fuck with yet or else he’ll destroy the timeline, forcing him to play nice with the humans as part of his 4D Time Chess Master Disguise Plan #3852

[fanonical]

the first doctor finds a horned helmet in the viking era

now, vikings never actually used horned helmets

so i like to think the meddling monk just planted that there for fun and to fuck with the doctor and friends

[the-1-foxy]

Those mysterious men with time machines

[thekinglemingle]

Nearly 60 years later, even knowing the episode's big twist going in, this moment hits incredibly well

[the-all-seeing-salmon]

What if they did The Time Meddler Colourised and also just play the Master's theme every time the Monk is on screen

[demigodofhoolemere]

I think about the Monk in sunglasses all the time. Curse you, burning policy.