4×04: The Sontaran Stratagem

It’s always nice to have a stratagem. According to dictionary.com its a plan, scheme or trick for deceiving an enemy, although what exactly the inhabitants of Earth had done to deserve the wrath of Staal The Undefeated and his Tenth Sontaran battle fleet wasn’t quite clear from episode one of this series’ first two-parter. Essentially, the plot involved the Sontarans surreptitiously distributing a new carbon eliminating device for all the world’s 800 million cars that was coupled

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Tags: Bernard Cribbins, Christmas Invation, Cloning, David Tennant, Haka, Helen-Raynor, Martha-Jones, Ryan-Sampson, Sontaran, Stratagem, Time War, UNIT

Hit, Miss or May Be

The Friday night comedy slot on BBC1 is always a successful one and, seemingly, this is regardless of the quality of the product on offer (see, My Hero as prime example).� The latest effort is After You’ve Gone, starring Nicholas Lyndhurst and Celia Imrie and it follows in the footsteps of the really rather good Not Going Out, so it had a lot to live up to in my book.� There were some positives such as Nicholas Lyndhurst.� He is one of those actors to whom I have a knee-jerk reaction of

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Tags: After-Youve-Gone, BBC1, Celia-Imrie, Comedy, Dani-Harmer, Nicholas-Lyndhurst, Not-Going-Out, Ryan-Sampson, Sitcom