Ticket to Ride

Slow but steady anticpation is building in advance of the second (or first, depending on your perspective) of this year’s Doctor Who “Gap Year” specials.  I’m looking at Planet of the Dead as “2 of 5″ rather than “1 of 4″ because The Next Doctor is as much a part of the period between Series Four and Series Five as anything else.  There has been a bit of a push from the Beeb’s  marketing peeps with a few guest appearances on the usual outlets, such as Michelle Ryan on Blue Peter tonight; RTD on yesterday’s BBC Breakfast; something to do with a

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Tags: bbc hd, Bernard Cribbins, David Tennant, Michelle Ryan, Planet of the Dead, Radio-Times, Russell-T-Davies, Waters of Mars, Wilf

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