YMMV / Doctor Who S2 E9 "The Time Meddler"

• Hilarious in Hindsight: The Doctor criticizes the Monk for interfering, which is what the Time Lords put him on trial for. The Doctor seems to have affected history in a way similar to the Monk. Then there is the Time Lord Victorious.
• Moral Event Horizon: Word of God confirms that the Vikings did, in fact, rape Edith.
• Once Original, Now Common: This was a Wham Episode at the time because it was the first story pitting the Doctor against another alien force in a historical period — up until then, historical stories and science fiction stories had been entirely discrete, so The Reveal that the Monk is another time traveller was a huge twist that broke the established rules of the show. Of course, the 'pure historical' (a story taking place on Earth in a historical period with no sci-fi beyond that of the time travel itself and the presence of the Doctor, companions and TARDIS) is a format all but abandoned after the William Hartnell era, so modern viewers checking out his stories often find it more surprising when the Doctor goes into the past and aliens don't show up.
• Signature Scene: Steven and Vicki discovering the Monk's TARDIS at the end of Episode Three.
• Stock Footage Failure: There was originally a very poor quality looking shot of the viking ship approaching. The restoration team used a new scan of the stock footage for the DVD, but found that (by going from a multi-generational 16mm recording of a videotape recording to a 35mm newsreel extract) the restored stock footage looked too high quality. In the end, artificial grain and softness was added to make the stock footage look like the rest of the episode.
• Unintentional Period Piece: It is evident that this story was produced in The '60s: all the Monk's possessions are contemporary with that era, and he refers to the TARDIS as a "modern" police box. Only his gramophone is old-fashioned, and it was intended to be a tape recorder in the script.

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