@craig  This looks great and I look forward to watching it later today! @blenkinsopthebrave  I just finished the 4th Doctor stories called E-Space and The Ark in Space and the 3nd Doctor in Death to the Daleks and the 2nd Doctor in Power to the Daleks and I am fast becoming a fan of BG Who. This will be another story to check off. My lovely son a…[Read more]

My first comment would be that the Special Edition of the DVD is amazing value – for seven of our British Pounds, you get The Aztecs AND a reconstructed version of Galaxy 4. You also get two child orientated introductions to the Aztec people, various making of/commentaries/documentaries about Who. Plus How the Aztecs Made Cocoa. 🙂

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Hello everyone, I’ve been unemployed now for just over a week and loving every moment of it so far.

Having taken some time to celebrate, relax my mind and consider what I’m going to do next, one of my priorities is to get this site going again. So starting tomorrow we will, as @bluesqueakpip suggested up thread, start a female Time Lord…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave @winston @hiker and to everyone else.

Unfortunately the login issue is something I have no control over – I get locked out by it too.

It’s a security issue, as WordPress sites have been under attack since December when there was a massive databreach of 1.4 billion usernames and…[Read more]

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The login issue: me too.

@blenkinsopthebrave  and @craig  I have had trouble myself lately logging on for the same reason.

Thanks for the link to the video.

Hiya all – just a note to say that I’m up for any re-watching regardless of the theme (and also hadn’t realised there were so many Time Ladies!).

Sadly @blenkinsopthebrave I’m just a bit too young to remember Peter Wyngarde first time around (except for Flash Gordon but that’s hardly his greatest role!).

Now (sadly) off to the Music thread for a post.

@blenkinsopthebrave @bluesqueakpip and @janetteb  I would certainly watch and discuss anything the rest of you want. I have so little knowledge of BG Who that I will go along with all of you and learn as I go. Like I had no idea that there were so many Time Ladies in BG Who.

I don’t  know Peter Wyngarde  from Who but from the Innocents (a mo…[Read more]

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I remember Peter Wyngarde very fondly from Department S and Jason King, but I didn’t like Planet of Fire that much.

I did also think about Edge of Destruction, but it turns out that we already rewatched it, back in 2015.

However, we haven’t done the Dalek Invasion of Earth. 🙂

Looking at this in a more timetable type way…[Read more]

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Time to consider what we’re doing until the next episode, I think. We’ve certainly stopped talking about Twice Upon A Time.

Possible suggestion:A Female Time Lord retrospective.

We’ve watched rather a lot of Susan, but there is The Aztecs, BlenkinsoptheBrave’s favourite Hartnell. The next female Time Lord we see is Rodan…[Read more]

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thanks for that! Will check that out.

Thane

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Absolutely right Mr Blenkinsop. Dad introduced me to that movie:  A Matter of Life and Death

@mudlark and others: On the issue of over-egging the sexism I thought it was ironic and necessary.

Mum and I are watching re-runs of The Bill from 1983 to 91 and the continuous sexism is in your face for the 25 minutes episode. It’s…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave  the truly brilliant 1945 film by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger “A Matter of Life and Death”

I saw it here — way more than once! — under the American release title “Stairway to Heaven” — a beauty!

@mudlark  . . . the recovery of the Doctor’s memory of Clara; my reasoning all along being that the memory was simply b…[Read more]

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this time realized the connection with the truly brilliant 1945 film by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger “A Matter of Life and Death”

Yes, that struck me, too; and the stairway in the Testimony looked like an overt reference, even though – unlike the stair to Heaven in that film – it wasn’t a moving escalator.

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@blenkinsopthebrave   The ferry went up and down over each wave at an angle of about 45 degrees. All three of us remained silent.

Funny effect, that; I was once on a teeny tour boat heading out from Juneau for an exploration of Tracy Arm, I think it was, and the stretch of open water that we had to cross was absolutely horrendous (well, to my e…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip:

Bouncy? You should try the Bay of Biscay – or have you?

@blenkinsopthebrave:

Rottnest island a? Notorious for cutting up rough, one of the reasons we’ve never bothered. The other being that there really isn’t anything to see.

Missy

@blenkinsopthebrave Yes I wish I was there, but not on the cruise ship. I don’t need converting to the wonder of islands either. Various islands and they feature very highly on my “go to” wish list; Hebrides, Shetlands, Lofotons, (Norway). @Bluesqueakpip It was perfectly calm when we took the ferry to Iona. The boys feed crisps to the seagulls…[Read more]

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Islands are great, I don’t need convincing. Thanks for the pic, it looks stunning. And yes to “I Know Where I’m Going”, a bit dated, but still a great film (not watched it for ages, thanks for the reminder).

Stay cosy.

PS The downside of islands and ferries:

@janetteb and @thane16 I could use a bit of your heat over here in Ontario Canada. We are having an icy and snowy winter with the temp. outside right now sitting at -23C with a wind chill making it feel closed to -30C. Brrrr. The windows are frosty and the dog does not want to go outside for very long, nor do I. It is so cold the the snow squeaks…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave and @thane16 Received a history of S.A today which was aptly titled, “Under the Burning Sun”. We consider mid thirties to be fairly average summer temperature. It don’t get hot until the mercury gets over forty. Oh for snow.. and islands are wonderful. I often wish I could relocate to one of the remote Hebrides especially when…[Read more]