Broadcast and Reception
| Episode | Broadcast date | Run time | Viewers |
Archive |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Episode One" | 20 May 1972 (1972-05-20) | 25:04 | 7.6 | PAL colour conversion |
| "Episode Two" | 27 May 1972 (1972-05-27) | 25:05 | 7.4 | PAL colour conversion |
| "Episode Three" | 3 June 1972 (1972-06-03) | 23:59 | 8.1 | PAL colour conversion |
| "Episode Four" | 10 June 1972 (1972-06-10) | 23:55 | 7.6 | PAL colour conversion |
| "Episode Five" | 17 June 1972 (1972-06-17) | 24:29 | 6.0 | PAL colour conversion |
| "Episode Six" | 24 June 1972 (1972-06-24) | 24:55 | 7.6 | PAL colour conversion |
Paul Cornell, Martin Day, and Keith Topping gave the serial an unfavourable review in The Discontinuity Guide (1995), describing it as "immensely dull and painful at the same time". In 2010, Mark Braxton of Radio Times felt that the serial teetered between "delightful" absurdity and "outright, galloping stupidity, and sadly it tips too often into the latter." While he praised the realisation of Atlantis and the Doctor and Jo, he wrote that many poor decisions were made in production and "any drama just dribbles away". DVD Talk's Stuart Galbraith gave The Time Monster two out of five stars, finding problems in the plot structure and Kronos. In 2010, SFX named the scene where the Doctor balances ordinary objects to counter TOMTIT as one of the silliest moments in Doctor Who's history.
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