Sarah Jane making herself fall down that near horizontal slope is hilarious.

The Five Doctors perfectly captures the spirit of getting all your favourite characters' action figures and pitting them against each other, it's glorious and all the richer for experiencing the preceding 19 years, good on you Sesska it's been an incredible journey and much like The Five Doctors itself, this was a joy to watch, there's a golden reaction moment every five seconds! It's amazing how effortlessly Patrick Troughton and Jon Pertwee slip back into their roles and Richard Hurndall was a great choice to portray the 1st Doctor. Maybe I'm biased because he's my favourite but I always thought Three gets best served in this special - Bessie, a reunion with Sarah Jane, his archenemy (not Delgado alas but still one of Anthony Ainley's best turns as The Master), faces the Cybermen which he never did during his era, the Raston robot encounter, zipline to the Tower action, the classic reverse the polarity line and best of all teams up with the Brig to K.O The Master. Absolutely legendary.

Unfortunately William Hartnell passed away in 1975 also Tom Baker was not interested in doing the Doctor so soon after leaving the role. So to play the 1st Doctor actor Richard Hurndall was brought in and scenes from he unfinished Shada serial were used for Tom.

"ill return it at the first opportunity" still has the seal as the eleventh doctor on trenzalore 😂

"The seal of the High Council of Gallifrey. Nicked it from the Master in the death zone." -11th Doctor, The Time of the Doctor. I love the implication that he's just had that in his pocket for all that time.

And the Doctor STILL hasn't returned the Master's borrowed Seal to the High Council! Good job too - Eleven certainly needed it on Trenzalore...

The excitement she is feeling is reflective of what i felt watching this in real time back in the day. I recorded this on cassette tape and listened to it in the car for WEEKS!

"one more car chase" is a perfect reaction to seeing Jon Pertwee again.  I do think it's an excellent twist that the Time Lords send the Master in to try to rescue the Doctor, but he won't believe he's telling the truth when they meet him.

Tom Baker not coming back is mostly a case of it's too recent for him to think it was a good idea to come back so soon.  But, it was him declining to do it rather than he was too busy doing something else to be able to if he had wanted.

Notice how the 5th Doctor starts acting like the 1st Doctor when they’re together?

We were ECSTATIC when this came out. And the USA saw it first! I had been to my first DW convention the week before and met Tom Baker. 1983. Good times! So many interesting bits. Sarah Jane arrived two episodes after the last Delgado Master story and left one episode before he returned. She finally meets the Master!

God, I love the Five Doctors! :D
This is why we have specials, it's to remind us that the show can go full circle and hit us on all the familiar feelings.

22:20 I love it when randomly a piece of recognisable Douglas Adams writing pops up in British SciFi!

The Five Doctors is one of my favorite storylines from the original series

8:10 - What you have to understand is that in 1983, this scene from Shada had never been shown before. This was literally brand new Fourth Doctor footage for fans at the time. There was no "I recognise this scene" because this was the first time anyone ever showed it.

A truly heartwarming reaction Sesska. Many thanks, a 7 year old in 1983 UK ❤

if you go watch the Name of the Doctor, you'll recognize where they got the clip of the 2nd Doctor running from now.

I think John Pertwee said it best, "Tom was being Tom." There are some publicity photos on line showing the actors in costume around Bessie. Tom is always in the exact same pose because they used Madame Trudaus Wax Museum dummy of Tom in costume.

I think this is the first time that Cybermen and Daleks appeared in the same episode but sadly they didn't have them appear together.

Re: Sarahs fall. The script called for her to fall off a cliff and cling to a root or something until the Doctor recued her. However due to the danger of the stunt and lack of suitable cliff edges at the chosen location it was changed to Sarah falling down a slight incline.

The humblebrag about channels that "don't have the stamina to go through Classic Who". Iconic! :D

Warms my heart to see you having so much fun with this. Especially the Second Doctor and Brigadier moments. I think that pairing is the highlight of this story. Also, I don't think I've ever heard you say "bro", so when you said "bro, shut up" to Castellan, it was clearly serious!

I just watched this yesterday for the first time and I wondered the same thing as you, if Susan tripping was an in-joke. I always hated that when it happened in her episodes, so maybe they were making fun of that trope too. And I love that you have a Cyberman action figure at the side for this reaction. :)