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Russell T Davies to Return as "Doctor Who" Showrunner

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I'm not sure how I feel about this.  Hopefully, it's not a step backwards.

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Doctor Who Reactions: "Galaxy 4" (SPOILERS)

This story is going to be animated.  Did we not have a thread for this story?  I couldn't find one, so I'm creating this thread for a placeholder.

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A List of "What Ifs" About the Making of Doctor Who

1. General: What if the (ordinal number) Doctor had been played by someone else?
2. General: What if (non-Doctor character name) had been played by someone else?
3. General: What if none of the episodes were lost?
4. What if Sydney Newman had stuck to the "no bug-e

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Masterful

This is a special release marking the 50th anniversary of the first TV appearance of the Master in January 1971. It stars eight of the ten [known] Masters (including one Missy). NOTE: If that number doesn't sound right to you, three of the Masters ap

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

1. The “A long time ago…Far, Far away...” gag is mildly amusing, but it’s kind of jarring when it’s followed up by a re-cap of a massacre.
2. “367 minutes later”. Couldn’t just say “15 hours and 7 minutes”, could they?  Nice to see some consequences of alie

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My Top Ten Favorite Doctor Who Companions/Friends/Allies/Whatever

 

1. Susan Foreman – I always thought that Carole Ann Ford was believable as a girl that was from “somewhere else” and was sorry that the part wasn’t what she’d been told it would be.                       
2. Jamie McCrimmon – Frazer Hines had great chemist

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The Eighth Doctor: Stranded

"The TARDIS is gone. Stranded in one time and place, the Doctor, Liv and Helen seek refuge in Baker Street. But the house has changed: they now have neighbours – not all of them welcoming. And someone has a dire warning for the future. The Doctor and

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Doctor Who: Out of Time

"The Cathedral of Contemplation is an enigma, existing outside time. It turns through history, opening its doors across the universe to offer solace to those in need. Occasionally, the Doctor drops in – when he's avoiding his destiny, it’s an ideal p

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The Seventh Doctor, Mel & Ace

When I first started listening to the Sixth Doctor's adventures on audio, I became obsessed with the order of his companions and the order of the stories. On TV, the Seventh Doctor began his travels with Mel, switched to Ace, and was still travelling

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My Favorite Doctor Who Stories for Each Season (Some Spoilers)

I decided to list my favorite story of each season (or “series”, if you prefer) of the program. It was harder than I thought, because

a) There were some seasons which contained several favorites of mine, and it was difficult to choose between them.

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Doctor Who Reactions: "The Timeless Children" (SPOILERS)

1. “Assassinated presidents” - a callback to “The Deadly Assassin”.
2. I liked the little moment between Graham and Yaz.
3. Are you suffering comfortably?”
4. “Tecteun was the first of Gallifrey’s indigenous race, the Shobogans, to develop space travel.” The Shobog

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Doctor Who Reactions: "Ascension of the Cybermen" (SPOILERS)

1. “But that which is dead can live again in the hands of a believer.” Thought he was going all Lovecraft there for a second.
2. After 56 years, Ireland finally makes it into the show! We’re still not likely to see “Doctor Who and the Troubles” anytime soon

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Doctor Who Reactions: "The Haunting of Villa Diodati" (SPOILERS)

1. “She licked it.”
2. “Me and you need to take a squiz at your skeleton.
3. “Mrs. Doctor” - That was amusing.
4. “That is a lone Cyberman.”
5. “You have met my kind before?” “You could say that.”
6. You’d think the Cyberium would have “Cybernized” Shelley.

 

Overall:  An OK

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Doctor Who Reactions: "Can You Hear Me?" (SPOILERS)

1. “Aleppo” -The lost Marx Brother!
2. “You trust me, don’t you?” “Have I got to answer that?”
3. References to the Eternals, the Guardians and the Toymaker. Wallowing in the show’s history, here.
4. I had a hunch that freeing the woman was a bad idea.
5. I did like th

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Doctor Who Reactions: "Praxeus" (SPOILERS)

1. "There’s also a talking cat in Ontario, but I’ve ruled him out for now.” I wanna see the talking cat story. 
2. Another “environmental” one. “Doctor Who, she’s our hero, gonna bring pollution down to zero!”
3. I didn’t guess that Suki was an alien.
4. “Look at y

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Doctor Who Reactions: "Fugitive of the Judoon" (SPOILERS)

1. "A platoon of Judoon. Near the Moon."
2. I find Graham's "But they're police" reaction when he's that the Judoon might kill someone.
3. "Local Earth Law...12."
4. I'm not the biggest Captain Jack fan, but I enjoyed his interactions with the Fam.
5. "Khan and Sinclai

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Doctor Who Reactions: "Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror" (SPOILERS)

1. “Is she always this impertinent?” “Yes.”
2. “A Silurian blaster” “A prop we had handy”
3. “It’s an Orb of Thassor.” Oh, one of those.
4. “Have you ever seen a dead planet?” She’s the wrong person to ask that question.

 

Overall

A good episode.  I like these ones wh

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Doctor Who Reactions: "Orphan 55" (SPOILERS)

1. No pre-credits sequence on this.
2. Hyph3n looks like Barf’s little sister.
3. “If I had crayons and half a can of SPAM, I could build you from scratch!”
4. Ah, the old “It was Earth all along” trick.
5. “When I say run…run.”
6. It gets a little “Captain Planet” at the

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Doctor Who Reactions: "Spyfall" (SPOILERS)

Part One

1. A pre-credits sequence!
2. “C” is Stephen Fry. Going for the stunt-casting, then,
3. “MI6 has never countenanced the possibility of extraterrestrial life.” Within the context of this show, that’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.
4. It’s the guy who pla

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The Sixth Doctor, Constance & Flip

I remember when the Sixth Doctor began traveling with Constance Clarke. It seemed like a really good jumping on point to me, however I was still a ways away from completing my Eighth Doctor collection, a priority at the time. Constance’s first advent

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