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Doctor Who: The Last Day

In 2018 I wrote the following letter to Big Finish: 

I really enjoyed The Last Adventure, but how about a ‘last adventure’ for the Seventh Doctor? At the beginning of the TV Movie, the Doctor is returning from Skaro with the remains of the Master afte

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Doctor Who Reactions: "The Giggle" (SPOILERS)

1. "Stooky Bill" was a real thing, not aomething made up for the show.
2. "You must be used to sunnier climes." "I was born in Cheltenham." The Toymaker being an ethnic stereotype and a racist is a callback to the fact that the original Toymaker back in the

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Doctor Who Reactions: "Wild Blue Yonder" (SPOILERS)

1. I gather that they caught a certain amount of heat for casting a non-white guy as Sir Isaac Newton.
2. The "mavity" joke was perhaps not as uproariously funny as RTD thought it was.
3. "There's something on this ship so bad the TARDIS ran away?" The HADS sys

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Doctor Who Reactions: "The Star Beast" (SPOILERS)

1. We start with a recap of the story of the Doctor and Donna, which I suppose is a good thing for people who weren't watching it fifteen years ago.
2. The new opening is  OK.
3. "From a story by Pat Mills and Dave Gibbons" which appeared in Doctor Who Weekly i

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Doctor Who: Once and Future

PAST LIVES:

The Time War. The Doctor has been injured and brought to a Time Lord field hospital. His body glows with energy, but this is no regeneration into a future form - instead, the Doctor’s past faces begin to appear as he flits haphazardly betw

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The Eighth Doctor: Time War Uncharted

I used to buy/listen to quite a few "Doctor Who" audios from Big Finish, mostly in my car during my daily commute to/from work, but the pandemic put the kibosh on that. My interest was primarily in the the Eighth Doctor, "my" Doctor. One way to save

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RIP William Russell

Story  Goodbye, Mr.Chesterton, it was good that we were able to see you that one last time.

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The Return of David Tennant and the Start of Ncuti Gatwa

The Doctor has returned with four episodes, three with Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor and one fully focussed on Ncuti Gatwa as the Fifteenth-- though he gets introduced in the third of these episodes. The post is not entirely spoiler free, so be wa

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'Doctor Who' Threads: A 'Moving' Appeal

OK, as some of you may have noticed, I have been slowly but steadily moving as many of the Doctor Who threads that are on the list of same into the new "Doctor Who" forum that the Skipper has recently created. I have now moved all of the threads that

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The William Hartnell Years in COLOUR

TRAILER.

I am generally against colorization of classic films, but this clip looks good. I don't know many details but I suspect the release will be confined specifically to the BBC's iPlayer. I do hope all the episodes make it to DVD eventually, but

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Doctor Who Reactions: "The Power of the Doctor" (SPOILERS)

1)I was never wild about the Cybermasters.  They're a step too powerful for my tastes.

 

2)It was nice seeing Tegan and Ace again. Beinteresting to learn how they met. I'd love to see them bring back Carole Ann Ford for one last go as Susan.  Be funnyt

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UNIT - The New Series

This is the version featuring Jemma Redgrave as Kate Stewart and Ingrid Oliver as Osgood.

EXTINCTION
  1.1 Vanguard - p
  1.2 Earthfall - p
  1.3 Bridgehead - p
  1.4 Armageddon - p

SHUTDOWN
  2.1 Power Cell - p
  2.2 Death in Geneva - p
  2.3 The Batt

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The Sixth Doctor & Evelyn

I first became interested in Doctor Who in 2010 but, before I got into the Big finish audios I wanted to catch up on the televised version. Once I did that, I decided to concentrate on the Eighth Doctor's adventures because he didn't get a fair shake

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Doctor Who Reactions: "Legend of the Sea Devils" (SPOILERS)

1. Nice to see the Sea Devils again.  I always liked them better than the Silurians.
2. "Sea Devil." "Land parasite."
3. It would've been funny as Hell if the sea mpnster had turned out to be the Myrka.
4. "Not a bad date, am I?"
5. "No ship, Sherlock." Ho-ho-ho...
6. "You

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Doctor Who Reactions: "Eve of the Daleks" (SPOILERS)

1. "Oh, just go away with your stupid having fun".  I knw the feeling.
2. "I am not Nick." Ah, very funny.
3. "Daleks answer to no one."
4. "Daleks learn." Albeit slowly.
5. "Daleks are patient."  What?  No, they aren't!
6. "Daleks do not store stuff."
7. "Daleks do not have m

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Ncuti Gatwa Announced as "Fourteenth" Doctor

(I put "Fourteenth" in quotes because who knows what number they actually are now. They're at least the sixteenth, really, possibly the six thousandth, who knows.)

Story

 

I've not heard of him, but then, I hadn't heard of most of them when they were f

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Doctor Who Reactions: "Flux Chapter Six: The Vanquishers" (SPOILERS)

And so we come to the final chapter -  a hurried, jumbled finale to a hurried, jumbled story. In the end, I have to say that they tried real hard and it just didn't work out.  In some ways, it felt as though Chibnall had a bunch of ideas that he want

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Doctor Who Reactions: "Flux Chapter Five: Survivors of the Flux" (SPOILERS)

Really wasn't happy with this one.  The bit with Lethbridge-Stewart as a corporal in UNIT is utter BS and makes a complete hash of UNIT continuity. Aslo, REALLY don't  like the idea of UNIT having been infiltrated from the very beginning and especial

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Doctor Who Reactions: "Flux Chapter Four: Village of the Angels" (SPOILERS)

Now this was a bit more like what I was hoping for from a Doctor Who story. I especially liked the little girl who wasn't particularly upset when her great-uncle was disintegrated.  "He was never nice to me."

 

Should the Angels be able to mass the way

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Doctor Who Reactions: "Flux Chapter Three: Once, Upon Time" (SPOILERS)

Not overwhelmed by this one.  I think that it suffers from the same thing that the middle episodes of six-parters did back in the 60's and 70's - that of being the "filler" episodes wheere characters ran around, not achieving much, until they reached

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