I was watching Tom Baker’s City of Death the other day, again (it was very good) and I couldn’t help feeling sad when they left Duggan behind in Paris, he would’ve made an excellent companion!

It got me thinking about other characters who would have made good companions, of the top of my head I think frank Skinner would’ve made a good partnership…[Read more]

@puroandson

I’ve never really had a taste in music which is a shame I just know that I don’t like much of that pop nonsense nowadays (doesn’t mean I don’t like change!) especially the bloody beaver (good name). I suppose I like old rock songs and yeah guitars are probably my favourite instrument. Most songs I hear now though are electronic which…[Read more]

@puroandson

I was referring to 80s Doctor Who mainly and yeah I think the 80s were great as well! Better than bloody beaver anyway!

May I compliment you on your great knowledge of music, especially for people our age you have very impressive music knowledge, do you happen to play anything?

I’m not blessed with musical talent myself and possess…[Read more]

@puroandson

Oi! The 80’s weren’t that bad!
They were just bad most of the time!

I’ve never really been a big fan of the Paternoster gang, Strax I find particularly irritating especially because he is a sonataren and Using a sonataren as light comic relief really annoys me! Honestly the sonatarens are meant to be a warrior race of clones but now children just think they’re comedy butlers with a liking for scissor…[Read more]

@danh19

Hello! Nice to see some new members around these parts. My story is pretty much the same as yours, I first got a glimpse of doctor who when watching the last five minutes of The Age of Steel after that I saw the series 2 finale on DVD at Woolworth’s and my dad was saying that he remembered the Daleks back when he was a child so I asked…[Read more]

@pharellman @puroandson

I started watching Doctor Who at the start of series 3 (I had seen the series 2 finale though) and I actually can’t remember what I thought of this episode at the time. I remember the dalek episodes because Daleks were the coolest things on the planet and I remember being very scared of both The Lazarus Experiment and…[Read more]

@missy

Yes it’s a shame he invested so much in the role of Sherlock that it did kill him, but it was a very good performance and one he would be proud of!

@puroandson

It’s great to see so many people watching and reading the works of M R James, I thought I was the only person in the world who was even slightly interested in his ghost…[Read more]

Hello @puroandson

I think there may have been a case of mistaken identity! Were you meaning @thedentistofdavros or @theconsultingdoctor when you replied to my post about the lack of teaching on the jobs front, if so then I’m glad to hear that your school does so much to inform it’s pupils of life after school, our school does the bare minimum…[Read more]

@missy

I have not seen it! Might check it out now though!

Jeremy Brett was the actor who played Sherlock Holmes for a long time wasn’t he? Or am I thinking of someone else?

Thanks for the recommendation though!

Crooked house is well worth the money!

@puroandson

Thank goodness you re-wrote that whole post! Very good points and an interesting discussion! Well written

I’m very impressed that all of us on this forum could have had this discussion without it descending into madness, as is the case on many other places on the Internet!

On the subject of Schools and the pressure on students to…[Read more]

@missy

I have the crooked house on DVD! Isn’t it great! Up ther with some of M R James work (almost!)

Someone may have mentioned this elsewhere on the forum but have you seen Remember Me starring Michael Palin that’s another good ghost story and relatively new I think!

The M R James ghost stories I own on DVD are two versions of Whistle and…[Read more]

@puroandson

It’s not that I don’t like Happy Valley it’s just that I happened to miss it first time round! If it’s very good maybe I should look into it!

Enjoy series 2!

@pharellman

You speak words of wisdom! I would love to see at least one pure historical episode per series! I loved the sixties historicals The Gunfighters is an especially good one in my opinion!

This episode may not be very comic but in my opinion you need episodes like this as I think Doctor Who works very well with a more serious tone, not…[Read more]

@missy

Yes I was going to say that it is a bit violent and dark so maybe not some peoples thing! I still enjoyed it as for Happy Valley I’ve never even attempted watching it (probably because I missed the start of series 1) but I’ve heard many good things about though perhaps not for others!

I also have recently watched Line of Duty (police…[Read more]

So… Who watched Peaky Blinders?

@theconsultingdoctor

In Patrick Troughton’s Fury from the Deep the Sonic screwdriver was used for the first ever time to unscrew some screws! Not sure if it’s been used like that again?

Hello everyone!

Quite an amusing discussion going on here now @missy I didn’t know what to ship someone was either!

I’m not really into that kind of stuff but it’s quite fun to read all your posts about it!

All this talk of Sherlock is getting me very excited for series 4! Already!

@ichabod

John Hurt’s Whistle and I’ll come to you is a teleplay (and a very good one!)

I’m sure that there’s lots of other readings and teleplays of this story out there but this is definitely one of the best! It has been quite heavily adapted but is still great! There is a 1960s teleplay as well that I have seen which is quite good and you can…[Read more]

@ichabod

Sorry for a late reply but I think you summed it up and wrote that very well!

@missy

You should definitely give John Hurt’s whistle and I’ll come to you a watch it’s very good! @blenkinsopthebrave is right Hurt is brilliant in it!