Hooray for Peter Davison. Hooray for Black Orchid. Although, if you listen to the cast commentary on the DVD, you’ll note there isn’t a lot of love for this one. It’s a bit like Pertwee and Manning with Day of the Daleks.

It’s a bemusing start – an attack on someone, followed by a pervy approach to a sleeping woman who looks a bit familiar.…[Read more]

In keeping with the tone of this story @wolfweed, I proclaim your picture to be both spiffing and topper. 🙂

@Whisht

Glad to know you’re on board for the rewatch. Be interested on your thoughts if you’ve now watched all BSG.

Yep – it’s Romo Lampkin. The Sheppard’s are a dynasty of sci-fi going back to his dad, Morgan (he played older Canton in that double parter). Just think – back in the 80s Day of the Triffids, hacking down a nasty plant, Bablyon 5 a…[Read more]

@wolfweed @blenkinsopthebrave @bluesqueakpip

Huzzah – the mystery of the missing episode 10 is resolved.

While I know the Peter Jackson thing was enticing, I think Caroline Skinner, just before she left, said they were exploring it, but it came down to filming a couple of eps equivalent in NZ which the BBC don’t currently have firm production…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip @midnyt @JimTheFish @purofilion

Oh, you have to love Mark Sheppard. I’m convinced he’s on a one man mission to simplify this whole “six degrees of separation” thing by appearing in just about every genre show possible. Usually in an extremely memorable way.

I have a massive soft spot for Shindig myself, but the flavour of the Wes…[Read more]

@fatmaninabox

Hey, don’t let anyone put you off your intro to Colin.

I always think it’s much fairer to let Colin put you off himself. 😉

Only joking – some people really do like him, so what the hell. I have kept a note of those people who did ask for him to be featured though, and will be mentioning them in a post later, nearer to the date…[Read more]

Oh yes, Baker Mk II! I’ll leave the nominations for a couple of weeks but I seem to remember that the nominations were Vengeance on Varos and the Daleks one (in which he doesn’t actually appear much). Varos seemed the clear favourite by a country mile, but we’ll ask again later and include Mark of the Rani.

Anyone asking for Twin Dilemma or th…[Read more]

@JimTheFish @Bluesqueakpip @blenkinsopthebrave @ScaryB

Oooh – thanks for the feedback. Sounds like a plan. I’d be interested in comparing the two myself Who stories myself.

I thought it would be good if there was enough interest to launch it as a “plan” later on when the sites more busy and ask if anyone wanted to contribute a blog (or Blogs)…[Read more]

On the subject of retrospectives, I mentioned back during the voting on Pertwee I had concerns over the start date for the Capaldi series, when attention will rightfully be on the new boy.

With a start date of 23rd August, and a continuous (we hope) 12 week run that’ll end on 8th November.

Our Davison serials will take us to 26th July. A two p…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip – Apologies for the delay in responding. After a brief chat with @miapatrick on Sunday I lost internet connection, and was away earlier in the week.

Looking at the vote for Peter Davison, it’s the double bill of Black Orchid and The Awakening, which for those committed to collecting the DVDs means a (relatively) expensive four w…[Read more]

Welcome back @miapatrick ! Hope your study is going well.

I’m glad someone else has enjoyed it. Eva Green has been a standout for me in the series, which I didn’t automatically expect. I think the way they played the cards on her story (particularly revealing her childhood association with the Murray’s) was really well done.

I thought I’d menti…[Read more]

Has anyone been watching Penny Dreadful? I don’t have Sky, but my brother recorded it for me, and I’ve just got the finale to get (probably in a couple of weeks).

It’s an odd one, because it shows the progressive move of TV to ape Movie and move into the world of Comic Books for ongoing franchising. I’ve followed a few conversations elsewhe…[Read more]

@ScaryB

… and the Great Escape

In retrospect, that has to have been a missed opportunity for eleven. Remember the throw away scene in Impossible Astronaut with the tunnel to the camp commandants office?

Having the Doctor (with the obvious football skills of Matt Smith) spending time in a concentration camp and leading a series of escape a…[Read more]

Hell – Hitch Hikers can even make a “previously on” plot catch-up entertaining. 🙂

It’s actually quite a surprising episode, because for large parts of it our heroes are just used for framing an important story about the Earth, which Award winning fjord designer Slartibartfast imparts to Arthur, and therefore us.

The Deep Thought compute…[Read more]

@janetteB

inspired by a genre of film which I really dislike.

I used to be really bemused as to why these films were so popular, because you saw one, you effectively saw them all. Just different scenarios and different hazards. Growing up, Christmas wasn’t complete without one though (as far as TV land was concerned). As a teenager, I d…[Read more]

Gosh – Episode 4 came round quick didn’t it? I think that was always my immediate thoughts when watching these originally. I could tell my engagement in the story by saying after four weeks, “was that it? Surely we have another episode of this?”.

Really enjoyable rewatch, reminding me just how good Lalla (who should have a Happy Birthday, thanks [Read more]

So – Last call for Votes, and looking at first choices, the scores on the doors are currently:
VOTE DAVISON – VOTE FOR AN EPISODE FOR THE FIFTH!

Story (Episodes)
Notes

Kinda (4)
@TheKrynoidMan @whisht

The Visitation (4)
@bluesqueakpip @Phaseshift

Earthshock (4)
Null points

The Arc of Infinity (4)
Null points

Enlightenment (4)
Null p…[Read more]

Largely, to call out to someone, just put a @ in front of their name, and the software does the rest. Clicking the help tab at the top will give you more instructions as it gets a little more complicated when you’ve changed idents. So @fosterferris works, but @TheCrackInTheWall doesn’t (the help menu gives some hints on how to check this).

It’s…[Read more]

@ScaryB

And I’ll ignore Phaseshift‘s attempt at lowering the tone

Oh, I am awful. But, go on, you still like me, don’t you.

I put a link to a SFX interview between Russell T Davies and Verity Lambert on the Voyage of the Damned thread, but there was an extract in it about actors and age, which I’d completely forgotten.

Would you cast an older Doctor?

R: No. There’s no question of it, because he’s doing this 12 hours a day, six days a week for nine months of the yea…[Read more]