For the supporter perk series “Three Of These” for 2026 we’re looking at three different British Sci-fi series of the 1970s starting with the early rat-infested episode of the weird science shit watchdog organization program Doomwatch. Join us as we find out why London children, pets and good sense are all being eaten by a colony of giant genetically engineered cannibal super rats and just how The Department for the Observation and Measurement of Scientific Work is going keep Britain safe from the terror of stuffed rodents glued to actor’s pants. Why does it say “Welcome to you-apostrophe-R-E Doomwatch?” And why is Doomwatch in quotes?
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0:04
For meat? Human meat?
Dave
0:15
This is the Extra Extra Hot Great Podcast, episode 399, our first installment of three of these for 2026. I am the Commonwealth's smallest refrigerator, David T. Cole, and I'm here with professional busybody, Sarah D. Bunting.
Sarah
0:35
That's Dr. Busybody.
Dave
0:37
And what Huxley would describe as pneumatic, and I call nubile, Tari Ariano.
Tara
0:42
Oh my. Hi.
Dave
0:50
Hello, everybody, and welcome to this bonus bonus episode of Extra Extra Hot Great. It is now the fourth year of three of these. That's crazy. I can't believe that's happened.
Sarah
1:01
I can't either.
Dave
1:02
We're back to the top of the batting order. It is me. The theme for this year's three of these segment is 70s British science fiction television I have not yet seen. And the first one is a show called Doom Watch. This episode comes from March 2nd, 1970. It is Series 1, Episode 4, Tomorrow, The Rat. Doomwatch, as depicted in the show, is the street name for the Department of Observation and Measurement of Scientific Work. It was created, this is a little backstory you don't get in this episode, guys. created to placate the lefties in the UK worried about science run amok while actually it was supposed to do basically nothing. It was just there to be on paper. So that is the premise of it. Before we get into the details quickly, Chen check-in, should people watch this episode of Doom Watch Saturday Buddy? Squeak! I mean, that's a good answer, just as is.
Sarah
2:10
I'm i'm not mad that i watched it but i'm not gonna tell anyone else to watch it either.
Tara
2:16
I mean, I thought it was pretty funny, but I agree with Sarah. It's such a weird curiosity that it's hard to recommend full-throatedly.
Dave
2:25
There are some moments that are delightfully caught in time and including the plot, but it's got a lot of dead air in this one, but let's get into it. It'll be fun to talk about. So, Doomwatch formed, expected to do nothing except they made the mistake of hiring one Spencer Quist, an old asshole who leads Doomwatch with his own sense of honor and open contempt for all the stupid people he works with, such as Lothario Dr. John Ridge, who likes himself some silk neckerchiefs and specializes in being the British version of Larry Dallas from Three's Company.
Tara
3:09
Mm-hmm.
Dave
3:10
Toby Wren, he's a scientific researcher who also likes neck handkerchiefs.
Sarah
3:16
Cravettes.
Dave
3:17
Yes. Colin Bradley, he's the lab tech of the organization. And finally, we have Pat Hunneset, a girl.
Tara
3:26
Yep. Has no qualities other than that.
Dave
3:29
Or perhaps just girl, actually.
Tara
3:31
The girl one.
Dave
3:33
This episode's scientific nightmare situation is, Giant genetically altered rats are eating Londoners, as we discover in the opening scene, when a toddler is being pushed in a stroller, is left at the stairs of a stoop for reasons, and on seeing a furry friend yells, pussy, pussy, and then he gets eight. And then we're into the credits.
Sarah
3:59
This is the Britishest toddler that ever British toddlered.
Dave
4:03
You mean you talk about Nigel?
Sarah
4:05
Yes.
Tara
4:06
Yes.
Sarah
4:07
Nigel Frobisher Pym.
Tara
4:09
In my notes, I have, get this kid some friggin' Richard Scary books if he's misidentifying a rat as a cat.
Dave
4:16
Seriously.
Sarah
4:16
Thatcher's England, folks.
Dave
4:18
We get the credits. It is just some footage of nuclear detonations. And then the words, Doom, what? It was sort of like the electric company. Doom, what?
Tara
4:30
Yep.
Dave
4:30
Doom, what? Doom, what? And then we are back. We are at Doomwatch HQ, and here is a series of interactions between Quist, the leader, and his staff, just so you understand that he hates everybody. Here is him interacting with Girl. I think it's disgusting. Makes me sick. Quite an unremarkable reaction. Here he is interacting with Dr. Love, as I come to call him. That is John.
Tara
5:03
Rats aren't dangerous, they don't attack unless they're.
Dave
5:12
The only time I'm skeptical is I have to sneer. I know my rats. I know my rats.
Tara
5:21
Squeak, squeak, squeak.
Dave
5:22
Now, lab tech guy. I've got something. It's not much. Let me be the judge of the paucity of the information. Just, like, let people do their jobs for a bit. The morale in this office must be absolutely dead.
Tara
5:35
I really didn't notice this as we were going. He is quite a bitch.
Dave
5:38
Oh, yeah. He just like hates everything and everybody. Like he is just an asshole.
Sarah
5:43
Not to mention that it's so over lit. And in that like particular way of 70s British television programming. Oh, yeah. It's just like they must just have the headachy all the time. Like all the paint is sort of peeling and everything is sort of grimy. And it's like a lot of green polyester. Morale is low.
Dave
6:07
That look always ties in my brain with Austerity Britain in the 70s. Those two things are forever linked in my mind.
Sarah
6:14
Tomorrow People reruns on Nickelodeon in the 80s.
Dave
6:18
Yeah, it's overlit, but also it's got that videotape quality that you see in this era where any bright light source will smear for a little bit if the camera pans us exactly that ilk. All right, let's move on with some plot. there've been some more attacks seven more where all in west london um, 10 or more rats and that they began to eat it it was his dog jesus christ show out of the gate with a dead dog and not the first dead dog we're gonna hear about in this episode either no.
Tara
6:55
And trauma for this off-screen child yeah.
Dave
6:58
Does the dog die.com doom wash does the dog die. Yes, actually, two. And a horse. Alright, so, on hearing this, Quist sends Ren and Girl out to the field to catch a monster rat and they end up at this, of course, as they all are, depressing British home that hasn't been updated since the war and won't be for a while still because we are ramping up to Austerity Britain in the 70s. They are met by a woman who explains that her kid Alan was sitting at their depressing kitchen table when he just started to slide over on his seat as if by magic, only to discover that a giant rat was in fact pulling on his pants and chomping at his leg. And then she explains her husband ran in and kicked the rat off and is scurried away into a hole behind the saddest fridge in Britain. Then she mentions, this housewife, that there was also a woman there. So then we smash cut to the office of Doomwatch's series antagonist. This guy is the baddie of the show. He is a budget Malcolm McDowell guy called the minister.
Tara
8:14
Yep.
Sarah
8:15
Mm-hmm.
Dave
8:15
He is the put-upon government guy we hate who, with the woman of note, Dr. Mary Bryan, a geneticist who might have created a race of super rats who eat flesh and then set them loose while being funded by this guy's government umbrella.
Sarah
8:31
Working at home.
Dave
8:32
Working at home, yes.
Sarah
8:33
Dr. Bryant.
Dave
8:35
The minister during the conversation with Dr. Bryant calls Doomwatch a science Gestapo. He berates Dr. Bryant for coming up out of the woodwork because he knows that Quist will sniff her out and be on the trail. It's all a bit convoluted, but the gist is she created cannibal rats as a rat population control measure slash advanced her research into some dark stuff we'll get into later. But of course, life finds a way and the rats will escape and wreak havoc on London. Somehow this scene is 80 minutes long. It seriously could have been an office memo, you know, make cannibal rats at home beware of too much. End of scene.
Sarah
9:15
Also, this is the beginning of our journey with the acting that's happening with the Mary Bryant portrayal, which I just found extremely weird. And just a whole lot of manic pixie dream genetic engineering girl twisting around of the blocking and heavy sighs, staring into the middle distance and being depressed that she did a good job being evil about rats.
Dave
9:44
But also smiling at the wrong time was one of her tics as well.
Sarah
9:48
Inappropriate affect. There is a woodcut of Mary Bryant in the dictionary next to that phrase.
Dave
9:53
Yeah. So this long conversation between those two and like, oh, finally it's over. No, it's not over. We're still in the office. Bryant leaves. Quist enters. They share a moment where he's like, have I seen you? Nah. He actually makes her stop and he's like, hmm? And he's like, no, no, you can go now. I was like, all right, Quist. settle that. So another 80 minutes between evil minister guy and Quist basically spent listing all the useless ways we used to kill rats, but these rats won't die from ending with this. What about the birth control idea, the inducing of sterility? We're still one. Until someone raises a religious objection. As inevitably, they will.
Tara
10:38
All right.
Dave
10:40
Just imagine a bunch of vicars, like the type you see in all those cozy British mysteries. Just like...
Tara
10:46
Rat life begins at conception.
Dave
10:48
Rat life begins at rat conception.
Sarah
10:51
Picketing outside the tube station.
Tara
10:53
Okay.
Dave
10:54
So we're finally done with that scene after 160 minutes we're back at doom watch hq quist has a moment as he's trying to remember where he knows dr brian from and the process of him conjuring this memory is acted out like he's taking a shit after being constipated for a week he's like oh yeah yeah.
Sarah
11:20
I'm so glad we got to see all of it and relive it again for a week.
Dave
11:24
So in the next office over john the playboy ridge is on the phone as quiz gives him a new task well of course i will darling yes i will, Mere nervous energy. Well, I got a job right up your alley. You chat up a merry brand. All right, so Quest is like, all right, go get her, boy.
Sarah
11:58
Yeah, sausage trap. A classic.
Dave
12:02
Stick it in here and get some info, please.
Tara
12:05
And Ridge is like, all right.
Sarah
12:06
Yeah my notes literally are like so he's going to bone bryant and get some intel.
Dave
12:12
Quiz plan is of course for john to get to know the doctor and find out everything she knows about giant flesh-eating london rats oh come on john she's what huxley would describe as uh.
Tara
12:28
Call nubile in other words she's a nice bit of homework, Oh, really?
Dave
12:33
We've got something for this, don't we?
Sarah
12:37
Yuck. Fucking A, Abby.
Dave
12:43
So Doomwatch then runs tests on a dead rat, discovers they got more braininites than other rats. They're super intelligent rats. Oh, shit. So Ren sets out on a return visit to the sad kitchen house to set traps with the lab tech, Colin. It takes forever. they set some traps they go into the living room to wait they're listening ren lights up a cigarette slowly smokes half of it before they start hearing rat noises and then they're like no no no not yet, and like okay now for some reason yep and then they re-enter the kitchen and inspect the traps slowly to discover. They've propped open the gates with spoons and forks.
Sarah
13:35
I don't. Here is my issue with this show. Certain scenes were filmed like in verite real time, as you were just describing. And then when you get into the kitchen for the big reveal that the rats, thanks to the extreme lengthiness of the previous part of the scene, had had time to invent and deploy tools in a human manner. You get this really weird, like, skrink, skrink, like, zoom in, zoom out, reveal of whatever the rats have perpetrated in the scene, but it's barely enough time to see it. And then when they are describing it for the people in the back, in the rest of the scene, they're talking really fast. I don't understand the pacing of this program.
Dave
14:20
Yeah, frustrating and bewildering, for sure.
Tara
14:23
Weird choices are being made.
Dave
14:24
And the other thing, since you mentioned, like, you know, the rats that you hear and don't see, There are scenes with lots of rats and those are shot outside of the studio in the field with Rat Wrangler, I suppose. But when it comes to the sets, you only really ever see one rat at a time. So I think they had like one behaved rat that they could use for the whole show. They're in the kitchen. The traps have been propped up with cutlery by the rats. They are super intelligent rats. And now comes the episode's best scene by a country mile. Suddenly, as they're inspecting it, with no noise, the rats are on Colin and Ren. And by on them, I mean a stuffed rat glued and tacked on to pant legs and jackets.
Dave
15:09
These guys start flailing around, punching these very immobile rodents. And then Ren does some serious Ed Wood stuff with the rat with his hands. He's like, oh, no, the rat's going to get me. I just caught it. Oh, it's near my face. I got to shift it left and right and then pull it down and pull it up. It's got so much strength. And then Colin is trying to stomp on rats on the floor and hit them with a giant frying pan. And then we're not done. And then the husband we have yet to see rushes into the kitchen, grabs a broom and starts like trying to sweep the rats into a corner and starts hitting them. We don't see the rats that he sees on the floors. There's no rats on the floors. Then they go. They disappear again. Colin, the lab tech, treats Wren's possibly fatal bite on his hand with scotch. No, wait. He's just giving him some scotch to drink.
Tara
16:04
Oh, wait.
Dave
16:05
Two servings. Let's remember, these two are supposed to be scientists. He's bleeding from a super intelligent, slightly radioactive rat, and they're going to put some scotch in him.
Sarah
16:17
I mean, that'd be my first instinct. Not scotch. Different brown whiskey, but I'm not a scientist, and that's why.
Dave
16:25
So they discuss how they each definitely killed a rat during this melee, but they're nowhere to be seen. The surviving rats took them away to be ate. So at least the scientists got the cannibal rat part of everything right. New scene. Dr. Bryant, the creator of these cannibal rats, is now at a pub where John, a.k.a. Dr. Love, will soon put the moves on her. But before he can do that, a drunk, reminiscent of the Major from Fawlty Towers, approaches.
Tara
16:55
Yeah. same again before you, and you don't stand a snowball's chance you can push up didn't have to tell like it is Mary yeah.
Dave
17:25
It was a little hard to hear but the second part of that is easy lay. I'm not an easy lay. Enter Dr. Ridge being smooth.
Sarah
17:35
As it were.
Dave
17:36
Chatting things up. And then we smash cut to him pouring himself a drink at Mary's after they just fucked.
Sarah
17:44
Wearing her bathrobe.
Tara
17:46
In this extra bathrobe that she has, but he put his pants back on, too. That would be too much for British television. She can be clearly naked under her robe.
Dave
17:55
He's.
Tara
17:56
Got to be robe plus pants.
Dave
17:57
Well that robe is so short that if he didn't have pants on we would have seen his testicles tripod yeah absolutely uh-huh and then he makes a move for seconds he's like uh once wasn't enough here we go let's do it again and we get this be assured that my interest is entirely dishonorable.
Tara
18:39
Woman, are you? You're a biologist. You probably get even more excitement out of your rats. Yuck.
Dave
18:47
Guys, British foreplay is weird.
Sarah
18:50
Yeah. Well, they had to make two with less.
Dave
18:53
And then Mary sort of continues the conversation and like, I'm paraphrasing here, but kind of says what really gets her motor running is eugenics. Today, killer rats. Tomorrow, eliminate the abnormal. It's just like we just go from zero to 100 on this. And then because Dr. Love is a professional, after calling her a Nazi, he fucks her again.
Tara
19:20
Classy.
Dave
19:21
You betcha.
Tara
19:22
You know what? Larry Dallas would, too. So give him a break.
Dave
19:26
Meanwhile, at a farm, a young woman finds a half-eaten horse while soft porn music plays in the background. Look at the size of that dead horse.
Tara
19:53
Wait, is that actually how long it was or did you lengthen it?
Dave
19:57
I shortened the screen. That was half the screen.
Tara
20:00
Okay.
Dave
20:00
Oh, my God. Great. Yeah.
Sarah
20:03
The very strange choices being made construction wise.
Dave
20:07
And speaking to the crazy lighting of this episode, she's supposed to see this half-eaten horse that the rats got to. Pretty gory. Like, they actually, it doesn't look real, but it's still gory. It's like, gory version of those posters at the doctor's office where it's like bone and muscle, except it's like bone and muscle and goo. And you just sort of see one of the horse's legs coming out of the blanket and it's all got bone and viscera around it. It was actually, I thought, for the time, I was surprised.
Tara
20:36
Yeah. It's gnarly.
Dave
20:38
Then a bunch of boring stuff happens, but here's the gist of the back half of the episode. The press gets whiff of the rat attacks. Rat attacks.
Tara
20:47
Rat attacks.
Sarah
20:49
Rat attacks.
Dave
20:50
The minister makes Dr. Bryant fake resign for the sake of public appearances. The sad kitchen couple reads the newspaper all about Dr. Bryant's admissions. He is aghast at the doctor's actions and says, and I had to rewind this like six or seven times because I did not believe my ears, says she's out of her Chinese mind.
Tara
21:14
Whoa.
Dave
21:15
Did you guys pick up on this?
Tara
21:16
No.
Sarah
21:17
No.
Dave
21:18
Have you ever heard this slur before?
Tara
21:20
No.
Sarah
21:21
No.
Dave
21:22
Okay. I had to look it up because I'm like, what just happened? Did I hear it right? I must have not heard it right, but I put it into Google. And yeah, it's a pejorative thing that people used to say.
Tara
21:31
Oh, it's not a compliment?
Dave
21:32
No, it's not a compliment.
Sarah
21:34
All right.
Dave
21:34
I don't really know if people said that in America. I mean, the American version would be cotton picking, I'm going to guess.
Tara
21:40
Right?
Sarah
21:41
It's that sort of thing. It's not.
Tara
21:43
Right.
Dave
21:43
Yeah. It's that kind of thing, I think. Anyways, ouch.
Tara
21:46
Yikes.
Dave
21:47
Yeah.
Sarah
21:47
Yeah.
Dave
21:48
The next little thing is a rat hitches a ride in the ambulance. and I thought maybe he was attacking a driver on the highway we see later, but that guy isn't in an ambulance. He's just in a fancy car. And they do a poor job of connecting the dots, but I can give my theory a little bit later in this rundown.
Tara
22:04
Yeah.
Dave
22:05
Lots of scientists are conjecturing and discovering rat things we already know about for like 10 minutes. Like the rats are smart. Like, yeah, we know the rats are. Yes, we know they're eating people. They can use tools. Yeah, we know they don't like nuts. Yes, the guy who's always feeding the rats nuts stop feeding the rat nuts. They don't like nuts.
Sarah
22:25
What about Deez Nuts?
Dave
22:27
And then Ren, that's the Doomwatch researcher, I guess. He feeds them nuts. No go. Feeds them corn. No go. Nonchalantly feeds them human flesh. Wait, hold on.
Tara
22:44
Breaks.
Dave
22:44
When? Reversing. Never explained.
Tara
22:49
No.
Dave
22:50
He's just like nonchalantly drops it into the combo. Like he just picks them up at the local Tesco bag of human meat and a flake bar, please. And it looked like the little bowl looked like Tofurky, the stuff I put on my salad. We are at Dr. Brian's house with her homemade lab. The rats are so smart. They figured out doctors containment room traps and levers and doorways. They have discovered how to use their own levers to get out. Dr. Love spends three minutes tapping walls in the containment room with a coin.
Sarah
23:31
Oh my God.
Dave
23:32
Wait, okay, wait. Closest to the pin wins. How many taps on walls did he give?
Tara
23:39
14.
Dave
23:40
Sarah.
Sarah
23:41
11.
Dave
23:42
Tara wins 14. Actual number 27.
Sarah
23:46
Oh my God.
Dave
23:48
And it doesn't even do anything.
Sarah
23:50
I must have just gone into a fugue state and stopped caring.
Dave
23:54
He's like checking like for false walls or something like that. And then like the end of that is like, oh, the rats can use levers now. That's how they open this little door to the secret of them universe or whatever uh we're treated to rats across london montage the first thing is that rat attack in the car i was explaining it as not part of the ambulance thing then a woman opens a cupboard in her kitchen we see a can of coffee a tin of coffee move on his own towards her before a rat pops out and i assume then jumps on her face and eats her nose or something like that.
Tara
24:34
It's pretty funny.
Dave
24:34
Yeah. Classic. We see a rat come out of a toilet as a woman is washing her hands at the sink.
Tara
24:41
And not only that, but the toilet is closed. The lid is down.
Dave
24:45
Yeah, he's like, hello.
Tara
24:46
Yeah, totally.
Dave
24:49
The next scene is a, do you know what a group of rats is called?
Tara
24:53
Oh, I did at one time.
Dave
24:55
A mischief of rats. A mischief of rats is chasing children, killing three of them, we discover. That does not take place on camera, though.
Tara
25:04
God.
Dave
25:04
Including the sad kitchen couple's kid. So I guess either he got out of a hospital in time to get eight at home or that rat that climbed into the ambulances of ones that killed him, but they don't connect that dot. So I don't really know what his fate ultimately was.
Tara
25:21
R.I.P. Alan.
Dave
25:22
Yeah. So mom and dad are really sad about their kid getting ate by a rat, as we all be. And we all grieve in different ways. But here's how mom grieves. What the fuck was that? Can you be a bee, but instead of using bus, use ums. Honey.
Tara
25:46
It's so weird.
Dave
25:47
Yeah, it is weird. Let's hear it again.
Sarah
25:55
I mean think about how you would respond if uh the city of london responded to this crisis with a happy montage of mass rat executions i don't think you'd be happy about it we're.
Dave
26:09
Not there but we'll get there the problem is so bad now that doom watch actually gets real resources from the minister's boss. They don't come out and say it, but I think we're supposed to assume that is the prime minister of Britain that they're having a meeting with. And after all this science, after all this investigation, the solution is give us money so we can just fucking drop poison everywhere in London. It's going to kill a lot of livestock and pets, but that's the price we're going to have to pay. The newspapers respond, rats, rats, rats, declares the Daily Express. Well, the time reports PM declares war on rats in the Daily Something or Other says, rat situation serious. And then, as Sarah was alluding to, we get the Now is Time the Poison the Rat montage with this weird jaunty music. Jill in the rat.
Sarah
27:07
Mod squad.
Dave
27:09
And then we just get a lot of shots Lots of wet, dead rats on sewer concrete lips and by the shore. And then we cut to Dr. Brian's house. There's a knock on the door. Sad kitchen mother is paying a visit. Spits on her. Closest to the pin wins. How many times does she spit on her?
Tara
27:28
Four?
Sarah
27:28
Three?
Dave
27:29
Four is the correct answer.
Tara
27:31
Yay!
Dave
27:31
Four spits. Three in a row and then one after a little bit, just for good measure.
Tara
27:35
In my notes, it's just, she shows up to spit on her a bunch. Then come at her with a knife.
Sarah
27:41
Yeah.
Dave
27:42
That sounds like the rest of the development.
Sarah
27:43
Baring the lead.
Dave
27:44
A bunch of jelly beans. A thing of jelly beans, I think it's.
Sarah
27:49
A mischief of jelly beans.
Dave
27:50
A mischief of jelly beans. And not only does she want to spit on her, She pulls out a kitchen knife and tries to stab her unsuccessfully, but she does draw blood. And then she leaves. Dr. Love is coming over because he just wants to fuck her again. All the mystery is over. We've probably solved everything we need to know about the rats in order to kill them. Doors open. I think he's thinking like, oh, yeah, here's the invite. The door is slightly open. Comes in. Things are dark. There's a knife on the floor. He is expecting, you know, to perform the scientific method, but it looks like maybe something else has happened here. Finally gets into containment room where he finds Dr. Bryant dead, half eight from the rat she created, presumably drawn to the blood in her arm. And a final moment for the episode worthy of Calcolon himself. Dr. John Ridge, the love doctor, emotes like 240% more than he needed to. as the episode ends with this. Tomorrow, the rat.
Tara
29:15
Do what?
Dave
29:16
That is do what? Series one, episode four, tomorrow, the rat. What a journey.
Tara
29:24
Yeah. I saw on IMDb this is one of the highest rated episodes by viewers. So I assume this is why you picked it. And I shudder to think how slow the rest of them are if this is like one of the better ones.
Dave
29:39
Yeah. There is a lot of people talking and then going over that point later in a slightly different part of the same office. But when it gets down to brass tacks, when we get down to the rav at all, it's thoroughly entertaining in a how did this get made sort of way. Oh, television of yesteryear. And the fact that you add on to that, it's British and it's also sci-fi or sci-fi adjacent. It all just sort of like, it's a heady brew. It's a heady brew.
Tara
30:10
It is.
Sarah
30:11
I did not expect to be seeing a basically mid-century British actor thwapping a, cat toy made out of furbit remnants on an austerity Britain sad kitchen table. But that is what occurred. And I'm not going to say it made it all worth it because it did not. But it was there was a lot of information. It's just too bad that they sometimes sped speed talked through it and then other times repeated it for no reason while smoking an entire cigarette like 120. It just was very strange. Very strange.
Dave
30:48
It was strange. And the guy who wrote and directed this also created the show. So you think he would have more pride of ownership and sort of like move things along. But I think also he had half an hour of a story and one hour to fill. So that was part of the problem as well. Like when we watched, what was it called? The Tomorrow People?
Sarah
31:08
Right?
Dave
31:09
Like that was sort of consistently energetic and didn't have too many of these sort of time-filling lulls. This one did. And also didn't have somebody exploding out of a window at the end. But I really enjoyed the parts where they just went for it. And they're like, and now you're being attacked by rats. Hold on. Wardrobe has to pin the rat to your pants for this scene.
Tara
31:31
Yeah. Good find.
Dave
31:33
Thank you. All right. If you want to watch this episode of Doomwatch, it is on the internet. It is on YouTube. You may watch it. I don't recommend it.
Tara
31:42
No.
Dave
31:44
All right, guys, that is it for another episode of Extra, Extra Hot Great. We started off our 70s UK sci-fi three of these feature for 2026 with the Neckerchief and Rat Infested episode of Doomwatch. Stay tuned for part two of this three of these in the weeks or months ahead as we discuss another weird moment in austerity Britain science fiction. Remember! I am David T. Cole, and on behalf of Tara Ariano...
Tara
32:20
Yes, I do get more excitement out of my rats than a roll in the hay with you.
Dave
32:24
Sarah and Sarah D. Bunting.
Sarah
32:26
Maybe you should start denying your team a sex life, Wistie.
Dave
32:31
Thanks for listening, and we'll see you next time, right here on Extra, Extra Hot Great. You are more repulsive.
Clip
32:43
And you don't stand a snowball's chance. Yeah, push off.