Hi, I'm very glad to have stumbled across your comments here! I'm a newbie to Doctor Who (although in my defense, by the time I was born, McCoy was on the verge of cancellation), but in the last couple of years I've raced through seasons one to fourteen as well as the all the new nonsense, and it has been an absorbing and eye-opening discovery to process the different approaches to television, and just how many different factors explain the various ups-and-downs of the series in its forty-eight years.

Anyway (gasp) my point is, you raise a really interesting point. For me, I'd only enjoyed the About Time books (having read the 1st, 2nd and 3rd volumes and about to begin the 4th) because - combined with Wikipedia and more in-universe style guides - they seemed to offer such an all-encompassing view of the context of the show. But you've certainly made me scratch that opinion a little bit - I must admit, I just re-read those final essays about the Yeti-in-a-Loo business, and they don't really seem to mesh with the vibe I got from the 3rd volume, namely that Miles and Wood REALLY understand and 'get' the Pertwee era. Once I figure out how to browse these journals, I'll have to check out the blogs of those esteemed gentlemen you mention, and further understand the holes in the authors' seemingly impenetrable armour.

Thanks again!