Enough tedious self-referencing (I think the 'net's got enough of that). What hit me first? What, apart from the absolute insanity of a story-line that asks for Concorde touching down in a pre-historic heath on Who's budget? Well, erm, the décor actually - Heathrow's all rusty brown, as are the seats covers on Concorde, as are the security officer's uniforms (I can barely see Nyssa amongst all this - and that's not good), and everything in the prehistoric period's all cool grey (most especially the prophylatics, sorry, plasmatons). It's the classic 70s meets 80s Who!

You can probably tell that I'm trying to avoid talking about the story - I felt just the same as I did 18 years ago - it all starts so well - a really fantastic opening TARDIS scene with all the regulars taking up where they left off (amazing - they had to write this scene themselves - Saward had had them behaving as if nothing had happened - what a talentless git), then some lovely funny moments such as Davison's face when he sees Heathrow on the scanner, Sutton and Fielding's reaction to his 'we'll be out of here in two shakes', and a total absence of Matthew Waterhouse. Then, after 20 minutes, they get off the plane and the budget runs out, so it's off to a studio-set which William Hartnell would have found cramped, via CSO-ville. Antony Ainley puts in a performance that just leaves you wondering if he'd had serious brain injury since 'Castrovalva', Sarah Sutton puts her heart into a totally worthless script, Fielding and Davison wander around as if pre-occupied with their holiday plans, and just to make the agony complete, bloody Matthew Waterhouse shows up.

Unsurprisingly, the audience run away in droves. Ten million people tuned into episode one after the publicity coup of Adric's death- ten million!!! And this is the under-cooked tripe they got - you won't convince anyone that Doctor Who is anything other than silly pantomime if this is how you follow one of the biggest shows of the season. I wouldn't care, but two years later, JNT and Saward did it again with 'Caves' and 'Twin Dilemma'! I know this is getting repetitive, but what did Bidmead do after the Master's return in 'Keeper'? He bettered it with 'Logopolis'. He wouldn't let Xeraphin' near a camera until it had had more work - let alone say 'Oy, Peter, let's stick Concorde in it. Oh, and while you're about it, let's have the Master as well, but make sure he's a total prat, won't you?'

After Earthshock episode 4, a school friend said - 'I watched 'Doctor Who' for the first time for years last night and it was absolutely amazing'. Next week, he said, 'what I load of crap, I'm not watching that again'. If it wasn't for the fact that Nyssa's in it, that would be my verdict on 'Time-Flight'. Best advice - buy it, and wear a paper bag over your head when she's not on screen.