Got this yesterday and watched the first disk last night. It starts with a promo for Sherlock, which looks astonishingly unpromising. Won't be watching that. It is a sad commentary that a Twenty-First Century Watson can be a veteran of Afghanistan ju
Read more…Next Sunday night, on Masterpiece Contemporary on PBS, David Tennant will host the showing of Lennon Naked starring Christopher Eccleston as John Lennon and Naoko Mori (Torchwood) as Yoko. Should be good!
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/contempor
Read more…Marco Polo -
The Reign of Terror -
The Crusade -
Galaxy 4 -
The Myth Makers ---
Marco Polo, Episode 1: “The Roof of the World” --
Marco Polo is “less missing” than some of the other missing stories in that it has been reconstructed with photos and s
This turned out to be a trickier question than I thought it would be. (Note: I am adopting a fairly broad definition of "companion", here. I am also assuming a certain upcoming episode od The Sarah Jane Adventures goes the way I imagine it wil.) Seve
Read more…This is another animated story featuring David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor. Originally shown on the BBC website, it has been released as part of a two-disc set. "Dreamland" is about 45 minutes long, and features the Doctor in the American Southwest i
Read more…Part One:
1)Ah, yes, the David Brierley K-9. He does OK, but he's no John Leeson.
2)"Rednecks"?
3)"I suppose you could say the yoke's on him..."
4)"Listen to that hirsute moron."
5)"Sit." Romana kicks arse.
6)"By the pyramids, imagine the size
"City of Spires" - "Wreck of the Titan" - "Legend of the Cybermen"
Read more…When I started watching old Doctor Who on DVD, Tracy (she who is my wife) at first wasn’t even interested in watching them, much less choosing them, but she eventually got drawn in and became as big a fan as I. Now, with only a handful of stories lef
Read more…I watched episode four of “The Brain of Morbius” last night. I’m not quite sure what to make of the scene which apparently reveals eight previous incarnations of the Doctor prior to William Hartnell, though! One the one hand, there are so many discre
Read more…Got my copy of the David Tennant "Hamlet" DVD yesterday, and of course, spent the evening watching it. Here are my thoughts as I wrote them down:
1)Interesting - they don't show the Ghost, at first.
2)Is that Picard as the Ghost, too?
3)That's def
http://www.bbcamerica.com/shows/doctor-who/extras/time-travel-quiz.jsp
11/12 ... darn baseball question!
Read more…Right around Christmas last year I purchased a small stack of Doctor Who DVDs from B&N online which had been marked way down, but I’m not necessarily watching them in order. Last week I posted a reaction to “Carnival of Monsters” (66), but I didn’t c
Read more…When I realized I owned the story that immediately preceded the “Dalek War” boxed set but hadn't watched it yet, I considered watching it before “Frontier in Space” and “Planet of the Daleks”. I also had high hopes for it when I realized that it was
Read more…So after many years of gentle and not so gentle prodding I have finally started watching Doctor Who. In the past I have seen snippets of the new series, and generally walked away muttering “… all right … that was odd. … Don’t see much point in that.
Read more…Yeah, I ... don't know what to make of this:
Fox Developing U.S. Version of BBC Hit Torchwood
SEASON ONE: EPISODE 1: “Everything Changes”
A brutal murder leads WPC Gwen Cooper to Torchwood, a journey that will change her life forever.
This is definitely Gwen Cooper’s episode, all the way. Essentially it’s the story of an ordinary police off
