The Aztecs

"But you can't rewrite history! Not one line! Barbara, one last appeal: what you are trying to do is utterly impossible. I know! Believe me, I know!"

The Aztecs is the first surviving historical story (with nothing existing of Marco Polo which was also written by John Lucarotti) and it's Doctor Who's attempt at Shakespearean drama. It's brilliant and I love it. It would have to be one of the best stories from the Hartnell era and only emphasises the tragedy that John Lucarotti's other two stories - Marco Polo and The Massacre - no longer exist in the BBC's archives.

Speaking of stories that don't exist in the archives, this realise contains the only surviving episode of Galaxy 4 along with a reconstruction of the other three episodes. It's hard to judge how good the story is just on this. While the reconstruction is effective in getting the story across it's not the same as seeing the actual episodes.

The other feature on these discs is documentary The Doctor Forever: The Celestial Toyroom covering the history of Doctor Who action figures. It's a very entertaining history of the good, the bad and the ugly of the merchandise range (and I loved Russel T. Davies' confession that he still collect Dalek figurine. It's nice to know I'm not the only one!). And there's also a clip from Michael Bentine's series It's a Square World featuring the late Clive Dunn as a familiar looking figure who managed to blow the BBC Television Centre into outer space