@blenkinsopthebrave

Glad you enjoyed it. It was @craig reminding me this was dedicated to Verity that made me remember it. I may put another quote on the Season 8 thread (because it’s a bit more suited for that).

@alvaro21197

I think you may be a bit late with that observation to win any kind of prize. But well done.

@blenkinsopthebrave @wolfweed @Bluesqueakpip

Let us not forget what I’m going to refer to as Rassilon’s ring in The Five Doctors. Apparently, people who put their finger in Rassilon’s Ring were gifted immortality.

At least, that’s what he told everyone. Insert your own filthy joke here.

If we were ever to venture back into New Adventure novel…[Read more]

Just before I kick in, I think its fair to say that RTD and SM probably remember Christmas in the 70s/80s as I do. When SM wrote his Christmissier-than-Christmas episode A Christmas Carol, he threw a shark in. Jaws was always a Christmas movie once the TV rights were sold. For about 10 successive years.

The other staple (apart from Bond, natch)…[Read more]

@craig

Dedicated to Verity Lambert, the first producer of Doctor Who, who died a month prior to broadcast. I’m glad she got to see the series reborn and be a huge success yet again.

Well said, and I agree. Back in 2006 SFX (doing something more constructive than coming up with spurious annoying lists) arranged a meeting between Russel and V…[Read more]

@wolfweed

Thanks for locating the clip, as I couldn’t see it yesterday.

@bluesqueakpip

Yes – I was wondering about the “feature length” bit myself. Could be like DotD with 75 minutes, but it could be longer. It may explain why the series itself looks to be running at 12 episodes, then a short break to the Christmas Special.

Collating the pre…[Read more]

Ooooh – well done @craig. Loving the countdown clock on the front page. T-56 and counting. It seems to have come round really quickly.

Glad to see you are still around @tiddler.

I had one prediction from May shot down (Doctor Who Exlusive at SDCC) and one win with the 23rd (not a feat this one – you hear August/September as a Start date and immediately pencil in the nearest Bank Holiday).

Not much in the teaser to go on, but – the excitement builds. I have a feeling they may…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip

Her barely reined-in exasperation with Duggan is indeed pitch perfect, as is the moment of compassion when she hands him her coffee.

To paraphrase Elizabeth the first “I may have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the temperament and demeanour of the First Doctor, so hang on to your gonads Duggan. Have a coffee” :-D…[Read more]

@fosterferris (@TheCrackInTheWall)

Well – I asked upthread for people for who this was their first introduction to Doctor Who, and I’ve been rewarded! Many thanks.

I guess if you were 10 when this first started then you are 19/20 now? It would be interesting to hear your thoughts on how you followed the story through the years. How was your…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave

Piped you to the post?! Ah well – at least we mentioned it. I do find that scene very magical. I therefore admire you and MrsBlenkinsop immensely!

@wolfweed

I’ve just realised that I could make a list of 10 reasons why I shouldn’t make lists.

I have to say, I immediately distrust people who can categorise stuff in order…[Read more]

On the face of it, some bewildering choices in that list BUT then I remembered SFX did a similar poll around the millennium which was similarly biased towards more recent material. From memory, a lot of references to X-Files (cause Mulder and Scully were just to die for), Star Trek:TNG “Best of both worlds” (cause Picard and Borg!) and the lik…[Read more]

As I collapse, wearily onto the sofa I find nominations stuck behind the cushions! Huzzah for Mr Davison!

@ScaryB has been counted twice provisionally because I got the impression she was teetering on the fence, and if anyone wants to reappraise their votes/correct mistakes let me know.
VOTE DAVISON – VOTE FOR AN EPISODE FOR THE F…[Read more]

I’ll just add that Adams love and inspiration from Monty Python increases as the series goes on. For anyone who doesn’t know, Adams used to pitch ideas at the team, but finally got to work with Graham Chapman on a pilot for an aborted sketch series called Out of the Trees in 1975.

It’s notable for having one sketch which clearly shows some of th…[Read more]

For me, while repetition may have dulled its impact somewhat from when I first saw it, this review continues to highlight just how full of barking imagination the series is.

From the small furry alpha-centuarian helping to “boldy split infinitives that had never been split before”, to Arthur and Slartibartfasts (“I told you it wasn’t importa…[Read more]

Very entertaining episode, and the quality of the performances is really what makes this as we start to unpick what the fiendish plot is all about.

As well as Tom being as delightfully Tom-ish as only he can, Lalla is doing great work as Romana. Her outfit is possibly explained by being only a slip of a ‘gel at a mere 125 years old. In p…[Read more]

@scaryB

Sorry to hear you’r feeling under the weather. Get well soon, and if you need cheering up theres also City of Death and Hitch Hikers! 😀

So Last of the Time Lords I don’t enjoy as much as the first part.

I mentioned might-have-beens and if people followed the Day of the Daleks retrospective I mentioned that plot about a “false future” based on a Paradox was originally pitched as a story in which the Master had conquered the Earth. I think this was RTD going back in time and using…[Read more]

OK – I enjoyed much of Sound of Drums. The idea of the Master doing a timey wimey in the background of series 2 was an interesting thought. Again in a finale we have the idea of the Doctors past actions (often flippant) can come back to bite him on the ass. In 2, he and Rose inadvertantly inspired the formation of Torchwood, which separated t…[Read more]

@TheKrynoidMan @Bluesqueakpip

I think the way the Master is presented here is probably not my preference. I think you could say that the Third Doctor (summoning Holmes) had his Moriarty, the Tenth Doctor (summoning Batman) had his Joker. An over-the-top homicidal prankster. It seems a very post-millennial thing, but its roots are firmly in those…[Read more]