1)Another scary story from Mr. Moffat - with clockwork robots, and a literal "monster under the bed". The idea of using body parts as technology is sufficiently creepy. I question the logic of the robots' solution to their situation - cannibalizing t
Read more…1)Ah, the late, great Elisabeth Sladen. As I've said elsewhere, the team of Tom Baker and Elisabeth Sladen were what got me hooked on the show. They weren't my first Doctor/companion combo, but they're the ones that really "clicked" for me. If they
Read more…1)I thought the werewolf was pretty well-realized in this. I'm not sure how an alien werewolf leads to Shaolin monks in Scotland, but, oh, well. There were some genuinely scary moments in this. The implication that the royal family are all werewolves
Read more…1)"Further than we've ever gone before." I liked this story OK, but I always thought that setting it in the year 5,000,000,000 was a bit much - not that the TARDIS couldn't go that far, but that it seemed unlikely to me that people that far in the
Read more…(The DVD set includes a "Children in Need" special, which is a brief bit set between the end of "The Parting of the Ways" and the start of "The Christmas Invasion". Basically, the scense concerns Rose freaking out a bit and the Doctor having a bad r
Read more…This was the second movie derived from Doctor Who, this one derived from the serial "The Dalek Invasion of Earth" As with the previous movie, the script follows the serial fairly closely, with one of two exceptions which I will note when they come up
Read more…One of the earliest WHO stories I ever saw, back in the '70s, and the first one I saw every episode of (having missed the last 3 parts of "THE SILURIANS" and Parts 4-6 of "THE AMBASSADORS OF DEATH"). More frightful and horrific than usual, especiall
Read more…I'd been meaning to re-watch this picture for quite some time. For those of you who are not familar with it, in 1965, a theatrical film was produced re-making Terry Nation's first Doctor Who serial, "The Daleks". The plot follows the TV version
Read more…1)I've never seen most of these shows they're parodying, except for the one episode of The Weakest Link which had a bunch of pro wrestlers, and Booker T. was asked to name a single word of French and couldn't do it, and William Regal and the Anne Dro
Read more…1)According to our Russell on one of the extras, this was meant to be this season's "cheap" episode. If so,, then I think they did a good job covering it up.
2)The "Previously" part kind of gives away who the baddie is going to be in this one. Perhap
Read more…1)Our Steven shows his gist for creepy stories with this one. Lots of good scary moments in this one - I especially liked the bit with the TARDIS phone ringing. I like the moments where even the Doctor seems a little bit weirded out. The transformati
Read more…1)"Peter Alan Tyler, my dad..." So, now we come to the "tear-jerker" episode. I gather Paul Cornell based the character of Pete Tyler on his own father, even down to some of the things he has Pete say. I'm not the biggest Cornell mark int he world,
Read more…1)Here we have the story of a "failed companion". It might've been nice if Adam had been allowed to develop a bit, but at least he saves some time by going wrong almost immediately. Of course, Rose and the Doctor seem to be somewhat against him from
Read more…1)Gee, I wonder what the threat will be in this episode?
2)In Henry Van Statten, we re-visit yet another staple of the old series, the Arrogant Human Who Thinks He can Control the Alien Threat for His Own Purposes. I particularly liked the scene with
Read more…1)"It's not twelve hours - it's twelve months." It was interesting to see one of the Doctor's "time goof-ups" make this kind of trouble for Rose. Really, you'd think this kind of thing would happen more often, considering the TARDIS' notorious unrel
Read more…1)Well, after starting out with an "Earth invaded" story, and following up with a "crisis out in space" story, we now re-visit another of the old show's story types, the "pseudo-historical". (A side note on Doctor Who terminology as I learned it: Wh
Read more…1)So, five billion years in the future looks like a cheesy hotel?
2)"Welcome to the end of the world." I like the inversion of expectations here - the Doctor is not going to save the Earth.
3)"The paper's slightly psychic." "The paper's a somewhat l
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