@Bunface @Craig @ScaryB – loving the Chris Waites and the Carollers spot and Easter egg pointing to Susan again.

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I seem to recall the Doctor telling Ruby that they are in London at the same time as The Hartnell Doctor and Susan. (Or words to that effect.) And at some point a bit later he stares wistfully across at where his…

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I think you (and Mrs B) are spot on with 1925. That’s exactly the year the Toymaker sneaked in (and I think it’s related to the Doctor blowing the salt superstition in Wild Blue Yonder (he says something then about having made it up, and that he’ll pay for it, now that it’s out there that it’s a fallacy.).

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@blenkinsopthebrave *Waves back from across the pond!* Glad you enjoyed it, and great we’ll be able to discuss the new season in (almost!) real time.

@thane16 Hi Puro, I was thinking about you watching The Devil’s Chord – look forward to reading your thoughts on it which I’m sure will be a much deeper dive than mine 😀

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<div>I suggest opening a page as soon as is practicable for you Craig, but don’t go missing out on your beauty sleep. People will soon figure out not…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave Now this is weird. I knew it was dropping on Disney+ slightly earlier. What I didn’t realise was that it was also dropping on the BBC iPlayer at the same time.

They have dropped the first two episodes – which are showing back-to-back tonight on terrestrial TV.

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the gold tooth?

Max Capricorn surely?

@blenkinsopthebrave  That news makes me feel sad. Maybe I just don’t like change. I am getting used to having to wait for many of my favourite shows to come to the library or DVDs because I can’t afford the many streaming services I need to watch them. Still Doctor Who and the BBC go together like tea and biscuits. I must be getting old.

Stay safe

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ow! What do I know?

Kinda written in stone then…

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I stress… ‘I hope Disney doesn’t have.. (such an option)’

‘Season 1’ (I didn’t even know that!) should = ‘bye bye ZChib.’ Press big reset button. We been here before. When is Bobby coming out of the shower?

I made up the three year option. Really! I know nothing. If you hadn’t guessed that already.

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@blenkinsopthebrave I love the trailer. And thank you for sharing that Radio Times article. Both make me feel more enthusiastic about taking up with Doctor Who again. But, as I’ve said before, I really don’t want to subscribe to Disney+, so I’ll have to wait for the DVDs to make their way to my library. (If we didn’t already have too many DVDs,…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave. Now that made my day. I am very happy indeed. Was hoping for just this.

cheers

Janette

@blenkinsopthebrave Now that is some good news! RTD and Moffatt together again, what could be better.

Stay safe

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Welcome back!

Thanks!  Looking forward to lots more bonkers theorizing.

But her change of feeling regarding her neighbour from the beginning of the episode to the end still still seems a bit puzzling.

I had to go back and re-watch.  You’re right, it is a bit odd.  The only thing I could think of is that seeing the Tardis and re…[Read more]

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Yes, the coronation of QEII saw a major boost in the sale of TV sets in the UK. As you may remember, this featured as a major plot device in The Idiot’s Lantern, where the Tenth Doctor and Rose inadvertently end up in London in 1953. It was also the case in Norfolk where we lived, although there was no transmitter serving the…[Read more]

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Thanks for the tip regarding the DVD. I didn’t realise that anything other than stills survived of the original Quatermass Experiment, because the only method of recording in 1953 was by filming either the live action or the image on the TV screen, and the resulting picture quality was sometimes more than a bit fuzzy. The s…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave Oh, that does look good! I refuse to subscribe to Disney+ simply to keep up with one series I love, so I will have to wait and see if our library system will be getting it in digital form. Up to this point, they’ve been very good at adding each season’s and the specials DVDs and Blu-rays to their collection. I don’t know if the…[Read more]

Well, I thought that was very good, although again it did feel just in places like RTD was raiding both his own and other showrunners’ greatest hits — not that that’s necessarily a bad thing. The Goblin King impaled on the church spire kinda reminded me of Deep Breath and Ruby Sunday really did remind me of Impossible Girl-era Clara a lot.  And…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave. Thank you for sharing the new trailer. IT looks promising, a refreshing change for a trailer.

Really looking forward now to the new series having watched the specials.

Cheers

Janette

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sorry for inflicting The Five Docs on you. Suppose I’ll have to look it again myself.

It was not a glorious WHO era… the next story ‘Warriors from the Deep’ was supposedly the one that killed classic WHO. Makes you wonder how (a) barnstormer like Androzani could still be made.

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You are, of course correct; Susan is unlikely. But then it’s easy to lose count of how many times London has been devastated or been almost destroyed and recovered in the past/present/future of the whoniverse 😕