<span class=”useratname”>@blenkinsopthebrave I read Lungbarrow some years ago. It’s near impossible to get hold of a paper copy and they haven’t made it available as an ebook but you can find it online.</span>

It is a 7th Doctor stories and picks up on some of the hints of a more mysterious and unique origin for the Doctor as well as expanding on…[Read more]

I thought this was a fine episode, very much like a 1970s ep but with 2021 effects. We are getting a picture of how all the pieces of the puzzle will fit together and also seeing a bit more of the “ancient warrior” in Jodie’s performance that was lacking in Season 11 and 12.

I’ve been through this thread and near as I can see no one has…[Read more]

For mine, this was a satisfying special. I managed to avoid spoiler, trailers, gossip etc so all I was aware of was that the Daleks were involved and that Jack was coming back.

Jack was well-used and the quips landed.

Doc: “Have you had work done?”

Harkness: “YOU can talk…”

Robertson if anything was more of a Trump parody here. That…[Read more]

Grant Imahara from Mythbusters has died at the age of 49. I only mention that here because he was a massive and active Doctor Who fanatic, and indeed presented the US pre-show for the 50th anniversary special.

@winston
Happy Canada Day. Been a long time since I was in Canada but I always had a good time there.

A Canadian, Sydney Newman, was the driving force behind the creation of Doctor Who.

Louis Mahoney, the Gambian-born actor who played three different Doctor Who roles, has just died. He played Old Billy Shipton in the 10th Doctor story “Blink” and Ponti in the 4th Doctor story “Planet of Evil”, both of them memorable stories. He also appeared briefly as a newscaster in a 3rd Doctor story “Frontier in Space”.
Coincidentally, he…[Read more]

@fearsomedaleks

I hadn’t noticed this. Can you name one of the episodes where this is seen, so I can look at it?

Sorry to be breaking this post up but it appears I am over some limit.
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The Next Doctor (continued).

Other things:

Although we saw sketches of some of the early Doctors in “Human Nature”/”The Family of Blood”, this was the first time…[Read more]

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So now we are in to the five specials shown from Christmas 2008 to New Years Day 2010.

The Next Doctor.
A typical whimsical Christmas special, lots of fun but don’t inhale. David Morissey throws himself right into the role of a Victorian-era…[Read more]

Seems there’s something wrong with this thread now. I can’t make posts of more than a few lines. I hope it’s not something I did wrong.

@dalekbuster523 one quote I missed

ROSE: Three Doctors?
JACK: I can’t tell you what I’m thinking right now.

@dalekbuster523 It’s been pointed out to me that was Rose says is “And Captain Jack Harkness has transported to the Sontaran home world”, meaning that perhaps he went willingly, perhaps as part of a mission.

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The Stolen Earth/Journeys…[Read more]

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Turn Left

A very pleasing Donna-focused episode. What-ifs are always fun.

Of course the “fun” in this ep is everything going to hell quickly. Real world events in the past few years have been so weird and perversely terrible that some…[Read more]

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Midnight

A little episode, wedged between the grand Vashta Nerada story and the explosive Keep Left.

On the board, in comments sections, I often see this referred to as a poor episode, but that’s not how I see it. There are no onscreen…[Read more]

@janetteb Yes, The Face Of Evil was a fine story, one of those that I remember most clearly from my childhood.

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Silence In the Library/Forest of the Dead

This is well and truly one of my favourite DW stories. Great sci-fi…[Read more]

Hey Rory and Amy start the episode on Earth, without The Doctor. How did they get back to 21st century Earth from the 52nd century Demon’s Run? The Doctor kind of abandoned them there.

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The Unicorn and the Wasp

A fun and somewhat silly story with plenty of humour. A bit of a breather before we head to the Library I suppose.
It does read a bit like a Christie novel: the characters are a little thinly drawn and somewhat s…[Read more]

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The Doctor’s Daughter

The previews at the end of The Poison Sky made sure to show The Doctor saying “She’s my daughter”. Come on, we knew it wouldn’t be that simple…

This is one of those episodes where The Doctor’s Wife takes The Doctor…[Read more]

There was a non-broadcast version of An Unearthly Child., sometimes called the Pilot episode but that’s a bit of a misnomer: it was just a first recording that was not sent out because the producers felt there were too many problems with the recording and performances.

One notable thing about it is that the interior of the Tardis is shown from…[Read more]

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Planet of the Ood

This is one of my favourite episodes. The moral problems of Ood slavery introduced in The Impossible Planet are addressed. Donna develops, gets to see more of the tough calls the Doctor has to m…[Read more]