Show Me The Way

I guess that we have all become familiar with Doctor Who’s format over these last few years, with a 13-episode series running in the spring along with a smattering of extra bits and bobs like Children in Need specials and musical concerts throughout the year, with the jewel of these bits/bobs being an hour-long Christmas extravaganza of varying quality.  There has been much hot air expended throughout fandom over the alleged “gap year” between Series Four in 2008 and Five in 2010. Most of this outcry I have been happy to dismiss in

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Tags: bbc hd, David Tennant, Michelle Ryan, Planet of the Dead, Russell-T-Davies, TARDIS, The-Mill, Tritovore, UNIT, Upper Boat

The Poison Sky was the conclusion to last week’s cliffhanger although we then got another surprise one tagged on the end of the episode, which was only slightly spoiled by the BBC’s “One to Watch” trailer earlier in the day, more on that later though.  It hardly took a great mind to work out the best way to rescue poor Wilf from the car, in fact while the “great mind” was tinkering about under the car with his suddenly impotent

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Tags: BBC, Bernard Cribbins, Confidential, Doctor, Donna, Martha, One to Watch, Poison Sky, Rose, Sontaran, UNIT, Valliant, Wilf

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