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You know, even though @bluesqueakpip had clearly put The Avengers (UK) I spent most of yesterday thinking she meant the Joss Whedon movie. It only occurred to me this morning that it was Ralph Fiennes, Uma Thurman and Sean Connery with a bloody great weather machine. D’oh! Apologies to @bluesqueakpip.

Yes, of course you are both…[Read more]

@arbutus – It’s one hell of a story to be introduced to Doctor Who through, isn’t it? I think in DWM it topped the old series in a poll to find the story you’d recommend to actually get people into it.

I think @JimTheFish mentioned the ratings. There was a strike over at ITV at the time, which certainly helped, but the ratings were something…[Read more]

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Le-definitely-not-taking-Romana-on-a-date, honestly. It was the randomiser. Really, it was the randomiser.

it’s almost palpable that the two of them are on the verge of knocking each other off at this point

A ‘dirty’ weekend in Paris.

Yep – it passed me by as a nipper, but rewatching the episodes with La…[Read more]

Thanks for the news posts @Wolfweed.

That’s a great achievement for Adventure in… and Sherlock (Mark Gatiss must be a happy boy!)

And agree with @JimtheFish – comic style posters are fab!

@bluesqueakpip – agree with your points (and your comment on the blog was duly recommended), and @JimTheFish, you’ll note I was in a similar state of I-don’t-care. 😀

Just on the Guardian though, for those who still contribute. By the time the series blogs come back you will likely be dealing with the new “Beta” layout and comment system that…[Read more]

@Stickfiddler – hi, and welcome. But you’ve posted this in the wrong place! @FatManInABox, @JimTheFish, @Phaseshift, or @Craig could you move the post to Spoilers? Ta.

On this site we have one forum especially for spoilers, and they live there and only there.

By the way, have you checked out Royal Mail’s online services? I dunno if they sell…[Read more]

@JimtheFish
Well spotted on the Candyman.
And no worries about the Bond reference overlap, I’ve been posting a bit late on all the episodes…hah! Try to steal my thunder(ball) would you?!!
😉
…I’ve got my coat, I’ll ah, just close the door behind me!

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Good to see his cutting back on his wine consumption too.

I know – after episode 1 I found myself wondering what colour his kidneys were. 😀

Some of those little illustrations in the early Target Books were great for scene setting. I guess they thought it would make the range look a bit more grown up without them, but when y…[Read more]

I mentioned the Bond influence the other week, which I think was partly a Pertwee/era thing and also as @Phaseshift mentioned again, this wasn’t originally intended to have Daleks in it. I think it gains from adding them – the chain of pressure/collusion becomes stronger. How far will someone go in allowing themselves to be compromised in order to…[Read more]

Thank you all for nominations received so far.

@Craig – for someone who is busy, you had a surprisingly adept catalogue of stories nominated. 😉 Glad to hear the light at the end of the tunnel is approaching.

@janetteB – Absolutely vote for a choice. Last month, @JimTheFish asked the same thing, as Pertwee isn’t his favourite. But, you never…[Read more]

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AAAgh!
Was just about to make a snarky comment about the Fishy one’s slithery character… then I got Jim Moriarty!
Oops
I’m just misunderstood. Really!

what’s the point of putting David Tennant in it with his bizarre not-really-there-yet accent?

@JimTheFish I’m not terribly sure that’ll worry the average American. They’re used to people with strange mixes of the US accent and their immigrant parents’ accents.

Even when I was working over there, with my strong British accent, I was sometimes a…[Read more]

I liked this as an opening episode, the premise is intriguing, with lots of strands set up.

Had to laugh at this –

This is definitely one of the stories where he sometimes seems to have a bit of the Dame Margaret Rutherfords about him.

@JimtheFish @Phaseshift

Agree. I rather liked the 3rd Doctor tho. He wasn’t Hartnell or Troughton but he had a…[Read more]

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I think Skinner might work

I’d point out that he was fine as one of the three Dalek operators in The Five (ish) Doctors Reboot. Which might easily be why Moffat decided to cast him.

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Conceptually I rather like the idea that the Daleks couldn’t really be bothered to deal with their slave functionary (ies presumably) in “person”; it makes sense to me that they would have total disdain for their slaves, that they prefer to spent their time on their X-box equivalent playing Call of Duty (insert your favourite here)…[Read more]

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starting with Remembrance of the Daleks or can you take UNIT back further than the 1950s ? (mind you that was a deliberate cheat).