Doctor Who: Gallifrey Public Radio Keir Hansen, Jay Witten, Haley Malle, Julie Hansen

With a keystone, a sword, and an elephant in the console room, Thirteen and friends head to 19th century China to thwart a catastrophic plan from a classic foe.

It feels fitting that as we ready ourselves for the 60th anniversary special in 2023, we have the opportunity to enjoy this gem of a 20th anniversary story from 1983.

We close the first season of the SJA with a story that deftly incorporates the preceding challenges, ups the ante, and even provides for a supercomputer showdown.

A familiar foe puts an unexpected tool to use in a plan to subvert the signing of the Magna Carta, and the Doctor, Tegan, and Turlough are quickly swept into the sword fight. Literally.

Left untended, and with inspiration from one of our favorite (and most playfully argumentative) convention panel "games", we establish a single-elimination competition among those who are not 'categorical' companions of the Doctor.

With a trickster entity messing with a pivotal event in 1964, we see how horrible the world would be without our beloved Sarah Jane Smith.