BBC – Doctor Who – News: New CBBC spin-off announced. Russell T Davies has created The Sarah Jane Adventures, a brand new series for CBBC. Set in present-day West London, the programme stars Elisabeth Sladen, continuing her much-loved role as Sarah Jane Smith. Yasmin Paige will join her as Sarah’s 13-year-old neighbour Maria. The BBC…
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The Talons of Weng-Chiang – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: The Doctor brings Leela to Victorian London to see how her ancestors lived, but is rapidly drawn into a fiendish plot involving Chinese tongs, disappearing women, an Oriental stage magician, a murderous ventriloquist’s dummy and giant rats in the sewers. Had the pleasure of watching this…
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It occured to me that the whole business of time radiation seems a bit… rum. I can forgive the whole business with the Dalek in the first season. The principle that the Dalek’s harnessed temporal technologies to power their regenerative and functional systems – faced with a time travelling enemy – seems to make sense.…
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Wow! Just wow! I think it’s taken me a couple of days to assimilate that final episode. Doomsday was stand-out Who. From the revelation of the Genesis Arc; through the witty interchange between the Cybermen and the Daleks; to the solid, emotion-packed performances of the main actors. And that music – the baritone chanting heralding…
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The Doctor’s new companion has been revealed: the actress Freema Agyeman, who plays an ill-fated and very dead member of the Torchwood technical staff in Episode 12 of Season 2. I’m sure they’ll have a very good explanation for her turning up as the Doctor’s companion – an identical twin? Parallel universe copy? Perhaps a…
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Possibly the best Doctor Who episode ever. How could the pay-off from this 45 minute episode fail to please anyone? Even if the ultimate conclusion somehow lacks the necessary excitement or satisfaction – you can always go back and watch repeats of ‘Army of Ghosts‘ – and know that you have witnessed something good!
Poor cat. Poor poor poor cat. How could they do that to poor lil’ Ginger? They say, as an actor, you never want to work with animals or children. Well, this episode must have been a real fright for the adults involved! I enjoyed Fear Her a great deal. Except for the business with sticking…
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With Billy Piper leaving at the end of the season, I was set to wondering who I’d like to see filling the companion slot on the TARDIS. In all truth, I’d quite like to see the return of Captain Jack, those his involvement in the Torchwood project might make that problematic. I’m reasonably certain we…
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I’m caught between loving and loathing this latest episode. Love & Loathing hardly features the Doctor and Rose at all… but, at the same time this didn’t really detract from the story. I have the general feeling for the season – how The Doctor impacts on those around him… whether they come into contact with…
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Nope… still not working for me. Sorry. I can thoroughly recommend that you get a hold of a copy of Big Finish‘s excellent Spare Parts. The Fifth Doctor and Nyssa find themselves on a world living in fear of a police state, where people scrape a meagre living and a dark traders making worryingly good…
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