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Doctor Who

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I wonder if the Doctor could go into the future to see himself in his last incarnation, some people might think it will cause a time paradox, well they are wrong because what causes it, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, (impersonation of Bill Hartnell). And also if any of his companions like Jamie, for instance, went into the Tardis in "The Highlanders" and left in the "War Games" he would of aged in the Tardis, like his hair would have grown twelve inches longer and it would change time and make him suddenly turn about five years older or for how long he was with Pat, so explain that, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, (impersonation of Bill Hartnell).

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Night and the Doctor

Bad Night:
First episode.
Despite its name this has been a good start for Night and the Doctor.
Quite fun the phone calls the Doctor has taken here.
It was certainly a Bad Night for a particular fly and the way the fly was depicted here is similar to what happened to one that was in the Sixth Doctor Big Finish story The One Doctor.
Quite funny when the Doctor came to a certain realisation about the goldfish.

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A special feature on the Invasion of Time is called Out of Time. Out of Time is also the name of a Torchwood episode which originally was shown on December 17 2006.
The Invasion of Time DVD was released in the UK in May 2008. This meant there was still plenty of time for the said special feature to have a different name other than one that was used for the Torchwood episode. Perhaps no one could come up with any alternatives to describe how little time there was in making The Invasion of Time.

Noticed that the Out of Time special feature was produced by David Agnew but David Agnew was a pseudonym used for Invasion of Time. The producer of Out of Time was in fact Andrew Beech who obviously decided to use the David Agnew name as a joke.


In the Terror of the Vervoids disc of The Trial of a Time Lord DVD release it included The Lost Season a short documentary narrated by Colin Baker about the original season 23 which got abandoned as a direct result of the 18 month hiatus between the end of season 22 and the eventual season 23, the one that got made The Trial of a Time Lord.
During his narration the subtitles correlated him as saying his “first four seasons”. Colin Baker was the Doctor for far less that time and he actually said “first full season” although to be fair to the subtitle writer, Colin Baker saying “full” did sound like “four”.
In his narration Colin Baker told about the stories that was part of this lost season and had it been made the penultimate story would have been The Hollows of Time by former script editor Christopher H Bidmead and perhaps would have been directed by Matthew Robinson. Other than the story’s name, writer and probable director, Colin Baker gave no details of what the story would have been about. It is perhaps probable that details of The Hollows of Time was not known at the time that The Lost Season documentary was made prior to it being given the go-ahead for it to be adapted on audio by Big Finish Productions as part of its Lost Stories range and starring of course Colin Baker.

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Night and the Doctor

Good Night:
Second episode.
Featuring only the Doctor and Amy.
Since Rory first began his travels in the TARDIS, we haven’t seen much of just the Doctor and Amy together.
So this has been a pretty Good Night for this two-hander and a reminder of what a good team the Doctor and Amy were pre-Rory.
Quite touching the reason for the Doctor taking Amy to a certain fairground.

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Night and the Doctor

First Night:
Antepenultimate episode.
A two-hander with the Doctor and River. Pretty good with only the two of them together with no one else around.
River certainly has something to do in this episode in more ways than one leading to a good cliffhanger.

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Attack of the Snowmen:
Attack of the Snowmen is an online short story on the BBC Doctor Who site as part of the 2011 Advent Calender.

Written by Mark B. Oliver

Part 1:
www.bbc.co.uk/​doctorwho/dw/news/ac_day_20



A creepy beginning on what was going to happen with that man.
The Doctor is reunited with the family he had an adventure with in last year’s Advent story Snowfall. This kind of mirrors the adventure that he soon be having with another family in The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe.
The titular snowmen has been described creepily well by Mark B Oliver leading to a pretty good cliffhanger.

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The final story of the first season of Big Finish’s Fourth Doctor Adventures is now known and it is called The Oseidon Adventure.

Also known are the names of the first five of seven stories of the second season featuring Romana I and K9 Mark II including The Justice of Jalxar which has been mentioned before:
1. Auntie Matter
2. The Sands of Life
3. War Against The Laan
4. The Justice of Jalxar
5. Phantoms of the Deep

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Night and the Doctor

Last Night:
Penultimate episode.
Fun conclusion to Good Night especially with lots of Rivers around.
Even the Doctor meets himself here but still the same self not another version of him.
While this episode is fun there is also a sadness in the reminder of what would become of River in a certain Library.

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Attack of the Snowmen Part 2:
www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/dw/news/ac_day_21

The bowler hat man is sinisterly descripted as well as the army of snowmen that causes trouble for the Doctor and his friends.
Well done effort leading to the thrilling cliffhanger.

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Night and the Doctor

Up All Night:
Finale.
A Doctorless and companionless episode as it features only Craig, Sophie and Alfie.
Takes place not long before Closing Time.
Not bad as it shows Craig’s foreboding of what is about to happen in Closing Time.

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Attack of the Snowmen Part 3:
www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/dw/news/ac_day_24

Pretty good conclusion with an element of Mawdryn Undead to it.
The villains were well displayed and it has been enjoyable second adventure with Rachael, Millie and Louie.
The ending to the story was quite nice.

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Christmas 2011 The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe:
The title is of course a variation on The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe.
Written by showrunner Steven Moffat.
Excellent Doctor Who debut from director Farren Blackburn.
Begins by resolving the cliffhanger to the prequel and what an explosive (literally) resolution to it with the Doctor falling to Earth. Talk about The Man Who Fell To Earth (just know the name, haven’t seen the movie).
Claire Skinner’s (Madge) name is in the title sequence. I am not unfamiliar with her as I have seen her before in the short-lived series Trinity (which also featured the Jones father and son actors Trevor Laird and Reggie Yates) and it is lovely to see her here in Doctor Who.
Since her first appearance in The Eleventh Hour, this is the first episode in which Karen Gillan’s name was not in the title sequence but she is not completely absent here as she makes a cameo which I come back to later in this post.
Amazing that the Doctor had the helmet on backwards, it is even more amazing that he even got the astronaut suit on whilst falling to Earth.
Surprised that the Doctor first met Madge three years before the main event but it was a good way in providing the explanation of why the Doctor was helping out her and her family.
Very funny when the Doctor jumped to but missed the hammock.
The wardrobe of the title refers to the TARDIS but it was another blue box that transported the Doctor and the Arwells to that other world.
Lily thought it was fairyland which the Doctor says it was not but seems to imply that fairyland is real!
One of the other guest stars Arabella Weir and she had played an alternate version of the Third Doctor in the Big Finish Doctor Who Unbound story Exile. She does not play the Doctor again for this story. In fact she does not have that much to do here and did not get to meet the Matt Smith Doctor. However it still does feel that this is the closest the Eleventh Doctor had in meeting another Doctor since his adventures began.
Fan boy moment when Droxil (Bill Bailey) says they are from Androzani Major which had previously featured in the Peter Davison swansong Caves of Androzani. Although no Spectrox from that earlier story this story still has something of value to the Androzanis that of the Androzani trees.
The wooden aliens certainly brought to mind the wooden inhabitants of the Library world from Steven Moffat’s own Library story.
As statute the wooden aliens are quite different from Moffat’s other statues the Weeping Angels.
Still on the theme of wood, the Doctor mentions meeting the Forest of Cheem in The End of the World.
Amusing when the Doctor says the mothership literally with Madge piloting the ship.
Notwithstanding that it is regularly seen in the title sequence, the time vortex looks absolutely marvellous and well done the emotionality of Madge seeing her memories and what was thought to be her husband’s last moments.
I so knew the husband wasn’t dead and he was played by Alexander Armstrong, formerly SJA’s Mr Smith.
The ending has the Doctor spending Christmas with Amy and Rory two years since they last saw him.
Like the previous Christmas special A Christmas Carol, Amy and Rory had minimal involvement in this episode. Unlike the previous Christmas tale however, Amy and Rory had nothing to do with the main plot here.
When we first see Amy she was holding a water pistol perhaps a reminder of Karen’s first ever episode The Fires of Pompeii albeit as a different character when a water pistol was used by then Doctor David Tennant.
While I would not have minded the Doctor had spent Christmas with the Arwells it seemed somehow right that the Doctor spent it with Amy and Rory instead.