N.B. there might (or might not) be spoilers in this article!

When the Doctor told Ace they had work to do, is this what he meant? Borrow a K-9 off Sarah-Jane or Leela and set up a science quiz for kids in the form of a cheesy game show?

Having had no new Doctor Who in 1990 and no indication that there were going to be any new episodes, I imagine it would’ve been nice just to have seen the Doctor and Ace on-screen again after almost a year, even if The Ultimate Challenge (as the game show is known) is hardly what you imagined they’d been up to after the adventure in Perivale and on the planet of the Cheetah People.

At this point, I was still a year or so away from renewing my own acquaintance with Doctor Who, so this episode of Search Out Science passed me by. When it came to viewing it for this marathon, my son and I watched it on 21st November to mark the fact that we were exactly thirty years on from its original transmission.

As such, it made for a somewhat curious first step into the wilderness …