@mensabrains

Prof. Brian Cox did a televised lecture to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who which dealt with the scientific aspects of the programme.

Current thinking is that if it were possible to travel through time, although the traveler could could go to any future time, the furthest they could travel back is the point at which…[Read more]

@Pedant

Another easter egg: the ward Zoe was in was ward AD 72.

Yep, I noticed that too but forgot to mention it. By the time I remembered it was too late to edit my post.

@miapatrick

Thanks for confirming what I heard even though I attributed it to the wrong character.

On Sunday nights at 9pm, Talking Pictures (freeview 81) have been showing…[Read more]

Dracula

Before I comment on the series, I need to get something off my chest…

Claes Bang -yes I bloody well would be his bride.

@Pedant

Well I thought it was a hoot

Yup, but I must admit that once I realised this wasn’t going to be a faithful adaptation I spent a good few minutes huffing, puffing and shouting obscenities at the TV. I wasn’t…[Read more]

Hmm, 2 posts just disappeared into the time-vortex so I’m reposting. My apologies if the previous 2 turn up.

Earlier this morning, a tweet appeared on my timeline from a member of this forum. I’m not going to name, shame or tag who it was but as the topic of politics has arisen I’d like to address the issue concerned.

Oh England what have you…

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SPOILER, SPOILER, SPOILER...

Happy New Year everyone

@thane16 – Yes, Puro, the auto subtitles can get things hilariously wrong. Which brings me to this…

@pedant – According to the subtitles on your video “I had my mates cut in half”. I’m sure we’ve all told our friends to piss off when they’re being annoying but having them dismembered might be a tad drastic 😆

@kevinwho

Very true, but let’s not make a change like that again! 😉

I’m outraged. Outraged, I tell you (not really). Colin Baker rocks, at least in the handful of Big Finish stories that I’ve heard he does 🙂

I’d stopped watching DW shortly after Liz Sladen left – not because of that, I’d just reached the stage in life where I had more i…[Read more]

@thane16

I’m always around it’s just that sometimes I forget to deactivate my cloaking device 🙂

Hope everyone had a great Christmas and aren’t suffering the aftereffects of too many sprouts. It’s been quite windy today 😆

I don’t see how not having a Christmas episode is ‘fundamentally changing’ how The Doctor is perceived.

I’d say replacing William Hartnell with Patrick Troughton was a ‘fundamental change’. Or how about having The Doctor earth-bound and unable to operate the TARDIS. Then there’s the ‘fundamental change’ from a boyish, cricket loving Doctor to an…[Read more]

@pedant Agreed, it’s my favourite from the various Christmas episodes. This one’s my 2nd favourite taken from A Christmas Carol

It was used in a Christmas advert a few years ago but I can’t remember the company or product they were trying to push. Ah, the power of advertising 🙂

Ditto what @Whisht says.

I was going to post ‘Mirror Man’ by (The) Human League but it seems @pedant beat me to it so here’s a frog related song instead.

@craig @jimthefish

Spam on the ‘Faces of The Doctor’ page – user name morganallen45

@pedant

Forgot to say – nice fireworks pics over on the Kerblam page

@thane16

Oh, Puro! I was having such a good day and you go and spoil it all by mentioning Theresa May. Grrrr 🙂

@pedant

I think they did show 1984 a few months ago but, due to my sieve-like brain, I forgot to watch it. They have a tendency to repeat films every few months so I dare say it’ll be on again soon.

True Entertainment have The…[Read more]

Hi all.

There’s a great channel broadcasting in the UK called Talking Pictures. It’s been broadcasting for quite a while but I’ve only recently discovered it.

They show old films and TV programmes which are mostly b&w and from the 1930s to 1960s but from time to time they broadcast programmes/films from the 70s & 80s particularly those that,…[Read more]

So far this series has, while being watchable, left me feeling a bit underwhelmed.

Bloody enjoyed this one though. The first half had a whiff of ‘The Beast Below’ about it – the delivery bots bearing a passing resemblance to the ‘Smilers’ added to that feeling.

Bubble wrap as a weapon – it can’t fail really. After all, who can resist popping…[Read more]

@rob – Ha, quite possibly. Along with blood, sweat, droplets of coffee and lots and lots of tears 🙂

A rather light-weight story but, with 4 new characters* to introduce it needed to be and it was enjoyable.

I was doing a bit of ‘bonkerising’ from the start which, as with most bonkerising, turned out to be wrong. I thought that the big blue space turnip may have been the TARDIS re-growing (was it the 10th Doctor that said they were grown rather…[Read more]

Phew, I very nearly missed Doctor Who due to ‘technical hitches’.

Firstly, I record TV to my PC using a USB thingy. I haven’t used it for a while ( since last year’s Xmas episode in fact) so earlier today I did a test run just to make sure it was still working and today of all days, it decided to record audio only – no video. Oh poo!

Thinking it…[Read more]