[Moderator's Note: Moved from the 'More Than Thirty Years in the TARDIS' thread in 'Ask the Matrix']

Having received this for Christmas, I was interested to see what others thought of it, but have so far found no thoughts at all on it whatsoever. What does everyone think of it? Personally I liked it.

I love it and can watch it over and over again, makes me feel proud to be a Doctor Who fan.

Some moments are a bit - weird, such as when the boy enters the TARDIS and Carole Ann Ford stands grinning at him for WAY too long.
And not all 'plots' got resolved, e.g Baker/Bryant vs the Cyberdudes.

I thoroughly enjoyed it, but, like Doctor Who Night and that half-hour with the anorak, feel that I (or practically any fan) could do a better job of a compilation programme in my sleep. For a start, none of these programmes even try to delve into the character of the Doctor himselves (and no, showing and reshowing those scenes from Pyramids and Genesis is just NOT SUFFICIENT).

I guess they had to make it appeal to a general audience as well, not just Who fans.

Being a long-time blooper fan of any show I really liked the Dr.Who bloopers and behind-the-scenes stuff at the end of the tape. And walking through the doors of the TARDIS into the console room was something that was long overdue, if you ask me.
The rest of the tape; great stuff. I wasn't disappointed, and thought it worth the price I paid.

But Chris, I'm quite sure I could make a programme that appealed to the ignorant plebs - sorry, the general audience - MORE than 30 Years...., as well as being more satisfying for the devoted fan. Don't tell me the public would be bored with a bit of background info on the evolution of the Doctor from Mr ooh-wouldn't-that-caveman-look-good-with-a-rock-through-his-head Hartnell to the more familiar hero's role (with plenty of clips from each Doctor), or on Gallifrey and the TARDIS and the role of the Companion and the evolution (or lack thereof) of the monster. And more about the humour of the programme - plenty City of Death quotes please (the uninitiated will be led to believe that it's ALL that good, ha!). I'd even try not to spend half the programme going on about the sexism...

Will - yeah, I liked the bloopers too, but IIRC a whole quarter of the programme was labelled 'Laughter and tears behind the scenes' or some such nonsense, whereas the bloopers themselves only took up a fraction of this 'chapter'. Bad organisation.

And by the way, I was not in the least interested in wheeling out so-called celebrities to waste good clip time by mumbling about how much they liked the show. Doctor Who can stand on its own feet without help from some CRICKETER, thank you very much. And the money spent on building a TARDIS console room (with a distinct lack of ceiling, completely ruining the effect) and getting more Daleks than the show itself could ever afford to wander round pointlessly was...well...high marks for effort, I suppose, but was it really WORTH it? When we could have had Hartnell's 'One day, I shall come back' speech instead, for free?

Still, it's nice to know that the elected Mayor of London is a Dr Who fan.

This is one of those tapes I tend to watch over and over again. While I can watch an individual story quite often, 30 YRS kind of gives a summation of the entire history of DrWho (minus the telemovie) at one go, so I don't have to go through my entire video collection to get the same vibe.

It is also one of those shows that will never be perfect for the DrWho fan. But, there you go. I could've done without famous cricketer (famous where?) and I've certainly could've done without thejerkthatkilledtheshow Grade.

But, I still enjoyed it.

I like the way the 'big three' of classic monsters seems to go
Daleks
Cybermen
Autons

I really love the Autons. I'm surprised I seem to be alone, or at least, haven't found anyone who equals my level of Autonmania.

You're not alone. They should be on top of the list. I hate shopping in the malls because of all those Autons...er... I mean mannequins in the department stores. It gives me the creeps.

Forget the Daleks and Cybermen. Forget the Borg and the Klingons. Forget the vampires and Frankensteins. Forget the Blob and the Creature of the Black Lagoon. How often are you going to meet these supposedely bad-assed monsters in real life?

The Autons, however...those guys are everywhere. One of them could be wearing the jacket you're about to buy at a JC Penneys or Marks and Spencers.

Needless to say, I hate shopping in department stores. They keep staring at me.

But stores seem to be prepared for an Auton invasion - most shop dummies now have seem to have no arms or heads, elimating weapon and vision.
Though it would be very funny to watch them try to smash their way out of a shop and parading in a drunk fashion up and down the street.

There doesn't seem to be a logical reason that so many store mannequins now have no heads or arms, unless.......IT'S TRUE AND THEY REALLY WERE AUTONS UNTIL THE DOCTOR CAME AND SAVED US ALL FROM THE GREAT INTELLIGENCE AND HIS AUTONS!!!!
Naw.
But, maybe?

Naw. The Great Intelligence used yeti. It was the Nestenes who used Autons.

Well, the great intelligence used Autons, but just covered them over in those great big furs cos it got so cold in Tibet and the underground..

For all I know the Nestenes and the Great Intelligence are one and the same. Probably not, though. The Nestenes seemed to be far superior, using any kind of plastic as a weapon. I still see the occasional fully limbed mannequin, so I guess they are still prepped to invade my neighborhood. And there are plenty of plastic flowers, plastic phone cords, plastic credit cards, plastic keyboards ..Aargh#$*(&%*^!)(*HELP_()*&*$*(42.my 248)(&%3Hadns!!_k 3wao

Who was the interviewee who went on about the feelings of perversion she got from dressing up as a Dalek (or somesuch). I just rememer this really fruitcake (forgive my choice of words, but none others seem to fit) "chick" babbling about the material the suit was made from.

Sir Rhosis

That would be Toyah Wilcox, a famous pop star (only in the UK, she never made it in the States). She had a couple of hit songs, I think. Can't really remember how they went. She tried to ride the whole punk new wave thing but cleaned up for the regular people. She was pretty cute, though. Kind of a proto Samantha Fox.

And if you don't know who Samantha Fox (who actually had a few hits in the States) is, then I am way way too old, now.

I remember Toyah being something of a feminist. If you want to call her a proto Samantha Fox, it would be best to do so from a safe distance.

Thanks for the response, guys, but it brings up another question. As a typical 38-year-old who thinks music died around 1981 or so (not really, but it is fun playing the old fogie Devil's Advocate thing), who is Samantha Fox?

I'll also retract the "chick" comment, but still say Ms. Willcox came off as a delightful goofball of the highest order (which really is a compliment).

Sir Rhosis

To put it politely, Samantha Fox used to her her photo taken with her top off in a popular daily newspaper here in Britain. Then she decided she'd rather be a singer and made recordings in the popular music genre - first hit entitled 'Touch Me' or something.

Yep, the music died circa 1980!

Ah, the Confidentials. I'm not particularly grateful to have something else to watch straight after the Greatest Joy Of My Life - I'd prefer to drool quietly with ecstasy for at least an hour just to absorb the fact that THAT WAS BRAND NEW WHO! AND IT WAS FANTASTIC! - and all the behind-the-scenes stuff certainly makes the suspension of disbelief that bit harder. And they frequently provide a glimpse of Eccleston, plunging me straight from the pinnacle of happiness to the full realisation of my tragic loss.

On the other hand, I love them really (or I wouldn't be so cross they cut 'em down from 30 - and, in the case of season 4/29, 40 minutes - to 15 minutes for the DVDs), and I appreciate the insights...alright, there aren't THAT many insights, but Tennant with a Scottish accent and RTG 'Hooray!'-ing will do just fine instead. Plus yet another Who spin-off programme is a feather in our cap. And it really, REALLY makes you appreciate the mind-boggling expense and expertise that has been put into...everything. There are plenty of details in every episode you'd never notice, let alone appreciate, if it wasn't for the Confidential.

Still, everyone's so unrelentingly pleased with themselves it gets on my nerves occasionally. I'm not expecting them to go all Michael Grade, but just ONCE I'd love 'em to admit that the episode was perhaps not as fantastically brilliant as usual. But then one of the things I love most about RTG is his utter enthusiasm for everyone's work.

That's the difference between old series DVDs and new series ones: all the extras on the new ones are essentially commercials for a product you've already purchased, while the old series have the distance to admit their mistakes.

Ah. Good point. Yeah, I don't see 'em producing a Timelash-style where-did-it-all-go-hideously-wrong documentary for Idiot's Lantern or 42 any time soon...

...though to be fair, of course, they were the greatest things in human history compared to Timelash.

And also to be fair, other than an actor or two, the people who make the old series extras generally aren't the same people who made the old series stories, which isn't the case with the new series.

Mutilated Confidentials for first half of Season 3/29:

'She's fun, she's feisty, and above all she's fearless' - what a cringe-makingly embarrassing thing to say. And Martha's not fearless, anyway.

Ahhhhh, Tennant himself suggested mouthing 'that's bigger on the inside'. Truly, he is a God amongst Doctors.

'The story for Martha is unrequited love. And actually I think far more people in life feel like Martha than they do like Rose. Rose met the most fantastic man in the universe who actually thought she was the most fantastic woman in the universe, and that doesn't really happen often' - RTG. Hey, what monster broke his heart? He's usually so...optimistic.

'Boe's not lying, but the Doctor's not got it wrong either...the truth lies somewhere in-between' - god, I remember how infuriating and intriging THAT was pre-Utopia...

Noooooooooooo! The cut-down version has removed the all-important account of how - mirroring his TV self - David Tennant was looking distastefully at the kittens at the beginning and refusing to put one of 'em down by the end of the filming...

I heard that whoever-is-in-charge-of-the-Confidentials refused to so much as MENTION Dalek-Human Sec, he thought it was so bad. Which might explain why this goes on and on about that stupid musical number.

What the hell is the point of sending the Confidential team to New York? Certainly didn't go down well with poor Tennant, though I could have done without the a-dog-just-weed-on-the-TARDIS addition to his stuck-in-Cardiff complaint.

Alas*, Totally Doctor Who is no more. Season four/thirty must somehow make its way in the world accompanied only by Doctor Who Confidential. I'm sure it will bear this burden as best it can and soldier on.

Let's face it, Totally Doctor Who was not a resounding success. Despite the fact it aired a precious few minutes of that week's glorious episode in advance, I could still only bring myself to watch it twice. (And on both occasions it somehow managed to find a BORING few minutes to air - the scribble-monster from Fear Her and the chased-by-Toclafane stuff from LotTLs.)

The rest of the episode seemed to consist of some ghastly little brats** playing stupid games whilst having the temerity to call themselves 'Team TARDIS' and 'Team Time Lord'.

Of course I feel a vague sense of failure that Who has lost one of its myriad of spin-off progs, but, frankly, good riddance.

*And when I say 'Alas', I mean 'Tee hee!'
**Alright, so I'm just jealous. I never got the chance to star in Who spin-off programmes when I was a munchkin.

With one or two exceptions, the Confidentials for Season 4/30 weren't anything to write home about. Doctor's Daughter used the flimsiest of pretexts to go on for ages about Time Crash, of all things. Sontaran Stratagem provided the universe with a strong contender for most boring 45 minutes of existence as it went on and on and on and on about the clone tank, and on and on and on and on about the car going into the water. Silence in the Library announced that the Doctor was a great reader (sensibly not attempting to provide any evidence for this ludicrous assertion).

Forest of the Dead: Now THAT was a good Confidential, not only revealing that our new Living God is an atheist but discussing the fascinating dilemma of oblivion v virtual eternity.

AND we learn that River Song's squareness gun was...Captain Jack's! I was wondering where she got it, in view of the whole 'banana grove' thing. Though did CJ actually have it on him when he dived out of his ship into the TARDIS?

And those were such lovely little clips about psychic paper, little shops, etc. Why can't all the Confidentials delve into Who history and philosophy like this instead of droning on for eternity about how clever they were to arrange some stupid stunt?

Turn Left: 'We had to keep Billie's return in episode 11 under wraps' - oh right, that's why you had her pop up in Partners in Crime, Poison Sky and Midnight, then?

Billie says she's been 'frantically buying box sets and watching my own performance...such a sad confession'. Sad isn't in it. What kind of freak doesn't already own the Who box sets?

Stolen Earth: 'As in all great love stories, he's cut down by a Dalek...Gone with the Wind, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill. They all should have had the hero cut down by a Dalek. And they would have been vastly improved.' - Have I mentioned recently that I love Russell T God?

Journey's End: Helen Raynor announces that the Doc 'has to be in pain' and is most heroic when he's sacrificing himself. Like we hadn't realised that. (Well, that the production team believed that, anyway.)

Doctor Who's Greatest Moments:

Well, it's good to see that the BBC are obviously feeling guilty about RUINING OUR LIVES this year: three hour-long programmes about how ******* marvellous our programme is.

The Doctor:

So the Doctor 'selflessly saves the universe for over 900 years'?? I don't think it's THAT selfless (given that he's LIVING in said universe), he doesn't save universes (as opposed to mere planets) THAT often, and he certainly wasn't doing it in his early Hartnell days.

Gatis claims that the wounded Ninth Doctor 'absolutely recovered' due to regeneration. He SERIOUSLY doesn't think that Tennant has ANY Time War-related issues??

And the Jackson Lake actor claims the Doctor is 'never smug'. Have these people actually WATCHED this programme?

And how can you NOT use that 'outrageous amounts of running' thing from DD when you're talking about all the running?

And of course the Ninth Doc is grossly neglected.

The Companions:

'Once they've come to terms with the two-hearted alien, they've got to come to terms with the TARDIS' - not necessarily in that order. Donna had to cope with both at once.

Hello! Is our beloved Captain Jack somehow NOT A COMPANION?????????

Hmm. Doesn't really get to the heart of the Companionship thing. Doesn't really try. Steers WELL clear of discussing the amount of lurve that was going round in that TARDIS.

The Enemies:

The van Statten actor claims he just wanted to be famous. Er...I think the most powerful man on Earth could have managed a bit of fame if he'd really put his mind to it...If, say, he WANTED people to know about his President-overthrowing, alien-collecting, Internet-owning activities...

Oh god, and now the Racnoss Empress actor is claiming that said Empress fancied the Doctor. Is it not possible for the new series Doctors to have ONE SINGLE PLATONIC MOMENT with a monster?

'Our next set of brutal bad boys' - OK, this narration's getting a bit embarrassing.

And I should be used to the old series being airbrushed out of history, but how DARE they act like our Daleks have never climbed stairs before?

>The van Statten actor claims he just wanted to be famous.>

Wouldn't a few apperances on Oprah or Saturday Night Live solve this. It worked wonders for Dr. Oz and Chevy Chase.

He could just star his own TV network. That worked quite well for Rupert Murdoch.

is it not possible for the new series Doctors to have ONE SINGLE PLATONIC MOMENT with a monster?

I'm reasonably sure none of the cybermen fancied him, although it's pretty clear Dalek Caan did.

I should be used to the old series being airbrushed out of history

Are you forgetting the fantastically memorable montage of Doctors in the infostamp? Or the Journal of Impossible Things? Or, if you really want a trip down memory lane, Sarah Jane Smith and K9? Oh, and just to nail the coffin shut, how about THE FIFTH DOCTOR himself?

Previously elevating Daleks and the Doctor's never-before-mentioned family are minor glitches in the marvelous continuity that is the Whoniverse!

And of course the Ninth Doc is grossly neglected.

Hey at least he got a mention as opposed to the previous eight.

This was the biggest problem I had with this program. A show called "Doctor Who Greatest Moments" and not a single mention of the original series, no clips no nothing.

I'm sorry but I could list off at least 20 greatest moments (if not another 20 on top of that) from the original series. In one way that's what the dvd's have over these specials- they actually use the WHOLE Doctor Who canon and not just their particular era. Watching the special on regeneration on The War Games dvd is like a breath of fresh air- all of the regenerations are covered from Hartnell to Tennant- even the telemovie.

I'm reasonably sure none of the cybermen fancied him

Really? One word from the Doc and I'm quite sure the Cyber-bride in Age of Steel would have left her groom at the altar. And CyberYvonne must have had some pretty powerful feelings for the Doc, to protect him like that...

...Ugg, see what the Empress of the Racnoss has done to my hitherto pure mind!

I should be used to the old series being airbrushed out of history

Are you forgetting the fantastically memorable montage of Doctors in the infostamp? Or the Journal of Impossible Things? Or, if you really want a trip down memory lane, Sarah Jane Smith and K9? Oh, and just to nail the coffin shut, how about THE FIFTH DOCTOR himself?

No, no, of course I'm not forgetting ANY of those happiest-moments-of-my-life! Sorry, should have made it clear I was complaining about the non-fiction stuff. Still haven't got over the Encyclopedia not bothering to mention the first eight Doctors under, er, 'Doctor'.

And of course the Ninth Doc is grossly neglected.

Hey at least he got a mention as opposed to the previous eight.

Yeah - I can kind of understand that (almost) every moment of the new series is such a joy it would be so agonising cutting them down to three hours (considerably less once you've got all those actors on to pointlessly waffle) that they couldn't face even THINKING about starting in on the previous 26 years, BUT...you'd think for marketing reasons alone the BBC would like to push the idea that the world didn't start in 2005.

The Doctor is in the encyclopedia? Really?

Well, it's a Doctor Who Encyclopedia, there'd be a bit of a gap if they left him out...mind you, that particular section is a bit pathetic for numerous reasons I list in the Who in Print: Reference Books section...

Oh. That doesn't exactly count. (Oh well, at least he's still in the genocide entry.)

SPOILERS FOR THE END OF TIME:

Er, that's all I wanted to say, really. The Confidential after The End of Time Part I had SERIOUS spoilers about The End of Time Part II. Sure, what we saw in the actual episode suggested it might be a teeny bit premature to go cracking open the champagne at the return of the Time Lords (that guy had a SERIOUS saliva problem, but then who can blame him for being a BIT peeved when the Doc wipes out your species) but until I saw RTG smugly holding forth about how totally evil Time Lords are I, well, didn't realise that they were totally evil. Silly me.

This week's Confidential mentioned that they had to make drastic cuts cos they filmed 15 minutes extra for The Hungry Earth. What it DOESN'T tell us is HOW THE HELL they could have made such a drastic miscalculation, wasted all that money and DAYS of filming? I realise that the production team is still fairly new, and that timing isn't The Moff's strongest point, and Chibnall is more used to writing for (50-minute) Torchwoods, and it's not as if I'm COMPLAINING (providing we see all 15 minutes on the DVD extras) but still...

'And, new to CBBC this year, Sarah Jane and the Bannerman Road gang recount their adventures each week in Sarah Jane's Alien Files – the ultimate guide of everything you could possibly need to know when facing hostile aliens.'

Recount their adventures? What the hell do they need to do THAT for when we've SEEN their adventures?

Oh, what am I complaining about. Who has Confidential (plus Totally for a couple of years) Torchwood has Declassified (or had - are the Americans likely to bother with such a thing?) so it's only right Sarah should get her own shameless cheap filler.

To think our programme was DEAD a few years ago...

Oh. OK. Not sure what to make of Sarah Jane's Alien Files - they're canonical (none of this 'real life' pretending-it's-just-a-TV-programme nonsense) - Sarah and Mr Smith are kindly narrating their adventures to warn us against all those nasty monsters out there - so should it be discussed here, or should I create a Files thread in the SJA section?

Just because they could be canonical doesn't make them so. And are you sure they won't suddenly turn to the screen in a later screen and wish us a Merry Christmas and talk about the writers in a future episode?

That said, I've not seen one. Keep them here from now and see how they pan out.

It wouldn't matter if Sarah did *shudders* wish us all a Merry Christmas - she's supposed to be talking straight to us. So as to alert us about all those nasty aliens out there.

OK - so: Sarah Jane's Alien Files episode one: The Trickster and the Graske:

So why does Sarah feel the need to discuss everything (personal feelings included) with Mr Smith to be shared with a bunch of strangers? (What's wrong with telling him to download all his existing files over the Internet or something?) And...er...HOW does she expect this information to be disseminated (she surely doesn't KNOW she's on CBBC)? And where do all his clips of what happened come from? What will the neighbours think (especially Rani's parents)? And surely UNIT and/or Torchwood should be arriving any moment to shut her up...?

So the Beetle and Fortune Teller 'famously targetted the Doctor's Companion, Donna Noble' - leaving aside the thrill of seeing a photo of Donna...famously? Even DONNA didn't remember it for more than two minutes! (Also, if this IS for public consumption and someone mentions it to Donna...her brains are gonna be splattered EVERYWHERE.)

'For everyone else, it was as though I'd never eixsted' - er, no. Merely as if you'd died at thirteen.

If all these Trickster-facts weren't recorded in the Alien Files, 'anyone might be as baffled as Maria was' - only if they had a Remember Box, surely? And as for the implication that us knowing about the Trickster will somehow protect us from ending up in Limbo...it'll make it MORE likely, surely?

The GRASKE planet was one of the stolen Medusa Cascade ones? For god's sake, it's a big universe! Was there a SINGLE ONE of those planets which we haven't encountered?

Why skip Temptation? (I'd think it was cos Mr Smith didn't have any of his mysterious recordings of 1951, but there was a blink-and-you-miss-it clip...)

Alright, so I've always found it unacceptable that Peter Dalton's life was expunged from the post-Wedding SJA more thoroughly than any Trickster could have managed, but...I'm not sure THIS is the most appropriate place for Sarah to suddenly start waffling about how much she loved him.

'He's brought more havoc into my life than any other alien I've met' Sarah says...of the Trickster! Look, just because he's caused your mum, dad, bridegroom and best friend to top themselves doesn't mean he's wrought NEARLY as much havoc as that Doctor...

Remember how careful Sarah was, at the beginning of the SJA, to emphasise how many wonderful aliens there were, NOT hellbent on world domination...? Well, she's certainly changed her tune...

Sarah Jane Alien Files episode 2:

So why DOESN'T Rani interview Mr Smith? Since he's so keen...

Why does she start reminising about her Clown experiences? The stupid being is back in its meteor.

'Turns out it was an alien entity that came to Earth in a meteroite' - yes, thanks, Mr Smith's already told us that. (Twice, I think.)

Gallifrey! Look everyone, it's GALLIFREY!

Huh. Just when I've forgotten enough of SJA Season 3 to be desperately looking forward to the box set, they practically repeat the Eve episode, spoiling it for me. Enitrely pointlessly, as Eve is the least dangerous alien in the universe. She was a bit dodgy as an overheating teenager, but she's all grown up now. And VERY friendly to Earthlings...

Episode 3:

LUKE'S narrating it?! They haven't got the actor around for long enough to ATTEND THE DOCTOR'S FUNERAL or anything, but they've hauled him along for THIS piece of pointlessness? Warning us against the Bane Mother (exploded!), Wormwood (fallen down a black hole (or something)!) and Kaarg (ditto!).

Mr Smith's back to being all horrible about K9? I thought they LIKED each other these days! They had sex and everything! (Well...got connected up using a USB cable. Whatever.)

Luke seems awfully confident that his mum will wash his jeans for him. Which part of I'M A FEMINIST! has Sarah Jane STILL not grasped...?

Why does Luke feel so happy about broadcasting his origins to the world? A year or two ago Sarah put the universe at stake rather than risk UNIT finding out about him...

KELSEY! It's KELSEY! So she DIDN'T fall through one of the Cracks after all! Alas, this dismally failed to grasp the opportunity to tell us what DID happen to the loud-mouthed irritant...

Sarah Jane's Alien Files Ep 5:

Why does Clyde insist on the pattern on Mr Smith's screen remaining still (at vast effort, for some reason) instead of just taking a photo of it and working from that?

LOVE Mr Smith's description of the usefulness of Clyde's drawing skills - 'were the camera ever to be un-invented'.

Mona Lisa's Revenge: AT LAST, a City of Death reference!

Though why doesn't Clyde ask what happened to all the other Mona Lisas? And Mr Smith claims that Leonardo painted SIX of 'em altogether - wasn't it one original and six copies? And what does Mr Smith know about that business, anyway?

Ep 6:

Luky Wookey Pukey! (as Ruby put it)...how lovely to see you again! What the hell do you keep popping up in the Files for when you can't be bothered to appear in the PROPER series?

So the Bannerman Road Gang (as Sarah slightly cringe-inducingly refers to them in the Files) have gone off to the Pharos Project to examine a Silurian egg (bless!). Instead of feeling all grumpy and left-out, why doesn't Luke join them at said project? It isn't far, and he has got a car...

How does Mr Smith know that the Doctor calls Judoon 'interplanetary thugs'?

To be honest, these weren't the most logical choices to stick in the Alien Files. We haven't had Daleks or Cybermen, but we get Androvax the Veil (dying of a snakebite!) and Mr Dread (deactivated by drained batteries!). And the recap of Gita getting her memories wiped merely emphasises the illogic of going public with this stuff...

Oh, if Sarah's THAT worried about us plebs coping with alien invasions...just give us the Doctor's phone number already!

Danny (in The Rebel Flesh thread): Also is it just me or are confidentials more and more about posing and why this story is so new and groundbreaking and the best thing since sliced bread rather than actual info?

The Confidential isn't even over yet! Who knows, it might just surprise us....oh wait. 'I think what Matthew's done in this episode is create something unique'?!

This is the oldest idea in science fiction! LITERALLY, what with Frankenstein being regarded as the oldest sci-fi book.

What the **** is the Confidential playing at? I realise it's gotta do SOMETHING to pad out its insane running-time, but in what way is making Karen Gillan drive at 100mph when she's never driven before and making Arthur Darville swim with sharks a good idea? I'd kinda prefer them to stay ALIVE, if it's not too much trouble.

Plus, driving lessons are incredibly boring. Luckily sharks (and Rory with a BEARD!!) aren't.

Huh. Why was there no Torchwood Declassified to go alongside Miracle Day? And why have I only just noticed this omission?

WHAT! They've just cancelled Confidential! For financial reasons! For heaven's sake, it must be incredibly cheap to make, AND it fills a whole 45 minutes every week...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/sep/28/doctor-who-confidential-axed

I mean, it's not that I'm that FOND of Confidential - talk about trying to take the magic out of things - but is Who gonna be left with ANY spin-off programmes AT ALL?

There's a twitter campaign to save it, but I doubt it will happen. And less spin-off series means better quality Who which is surely a good thing?

K-9 is still being made though ;) (and because it's not being made by the Beeb it takes no money from the Who budget)

And less spin-off series means better quality Who which is surely a good thing?

Not necessarily. Sure, in the days when RTG split his attention between Who, Torchwood AND SJA, but I don't think Moffat was particularly involved in any of 'em (so he can't use THAT as an excuse for Curse of the Black Spot). And the budget was separate, though occasionally came in useful for Who (like the Confidential going to the US and snapping some photos for Daleks in Manhattan which the PROPER Who team just couldn't afford to do).

K-9 is still being made though

Oh god. Forgot about THAT.

Huh. Anyone who buys The Essential Companion thinking it'll be a delightful little audio documentary, a la the Doctor Who at the BBC series, is in for a BIG shock. Obviously THAT sort of thing is now FAR too much trouble, so they just play a bunch of Season 5's best scenes. For two hours and forty minutes. (Well, that's what it says on the back, obviously I didn't listen for the duration. Don't these cretins realise I'm trying to FORGET said scenes enough to treat myself to a rewatch of each Season 5/31 episode? Why are they trying to RUIN MY LIFE like this??)

Just watched the Confidential for The Night's Tale. Director Richard Senior said that this is the first time in 40 years anyone's ever thought to have the TARDIS materialize within itself and goes on to say that they therefore felt like they were making Who history.

Excuse me? This is the third time it's happened onscreen.

(We don't have a Night's Tale board, nor a Confidential board anymore, right?)

*Looks mortally offended* Of COURSE we have a Confidential board, to which I've moved this. I'm sure we also have a board that covers Night's Tale, if only I had a clue what it WAS.

'It's now not so much a satellite series as half of a binary star' - DWM's bizarre reaction to Confidential's increase to 45 minutes. Sorely as I miss Confidential*, only a raving lunatic would put it on a par with True Who.

DWM also touchingly recommends that Totally Doctor Who does more animated episodes. The assumption that Confidential and Totally will run forever is slightly worrying in the current climate where both spin-offs are dead as a Dodo, and Who's episodes have got themselves drastically slashed...

*OK, not THAT sorely...

Saw some of the program last night, even though I wasn't going to (I wasn't feeling that great and it was too much eneryg to change the channel). And maybe I'm just reading too much into it, but I found Steven Moffat's description of the new doctor very interesting:

"Different to Matt".

Which I'm construing as Moffat saying "We got it wrong".

Matt's "best wishes" speech was very off as well, he didn't look or sound happy, didn't look at the camera or the interviewer until very near the end, and his body language wasn't exactly "off you go, have fun" either.

I'm really hacked off about Steven Moffat’s comments in the announcement show about ‘Helen Mirren says there should be a woman doctor, I say that the Queen of England should be played by a man’. Maybe it was meant as light hearted comment on HM’s huge award success in roles as Elizabeth’s 1&2 but it came of as nasty and implying the idea of a female doctor was utterly ridiculous and took the shine off an otherwise good choice.

I found Steven Moffat's description of the new doctor very interesting:

"Different to Matt".

Which I'm construing as Moffat saying "We got it wrong".

I don't think that's the case at all! He's just reassuring us that, after the two-most-similar-Doctors-to-each-other-ever, there'll be more of a traditional shift.

Matt's "best wishes" speech was very off as well, he didn't look or sound happy, didn't look at the camera or the interviewer until very near the end, and his body language wasn't exactly "off you go, have fun" either.

Interesting - I didn't notice but then I wouldn't, I'm about as good as a blind person at reading body-language, and anyway I was mesmerised by the way his ears looked almost Ecclestonian now he's cut all his hair off.

I'm really hacked off about Steven Moffat’s comments in the announcement show about ‘Helen Mirren says there should be a woman doctor, I say that the Queen of England should be played by a man’.

You're not the only one. First he goes out of his way to point out that it's an ESTABLISHED FACT that the Doctor can change gender, colour, etc, and then he SNEERS at those of us who wanted a female Doctor (or even accepted that she was POSSIBLE).

Of course, if the Queen turns out to be a shape-shifting alien we can apologise to Moffat. Because that's the only context in which his remark would make sense.

Plus the Moff has clearly never seen 'Orlando'.

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I don't think that's the case at all! He's just reassuring us that, after the two-most-similar-Doctors-to-each-other-ever, there'll be more of a traditional shift.
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In other words, by trying to go for the same again, they got it wrong...

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Interesting - I didn't notice but then I wouldn't, I'm about as good as a blind person at reading body-language, and anyway I was mesmerised by the way his ears looked almost Ecclestonian now he's cut all his hair off.
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You're probably the only person worse at reading people than I am then.

And whilst he's gone for a massive haircut, hasn't Matt still got to film the Christmas special?

I'll admit it did cross my mind that a black smoke/white smoke deal might have been a slightly more dignified way of announcing our new Living God, but honestly, I don't see why the journalist is quite so upset about this programme:

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/with-its-pointless-tv-special-doctor-who-has-regenerated-into-a-version-of-the-x-factor-8752142.html

Hasn't he heard of Doctor Who Confidential? Or the fact that MATT was announced in a similar (if not live) programme?

The Doctors Revisited

The Sixth Doctor:
Pretty good how it looks at the Sixth Doctor’s relationship with Peri and then Mel.
With Peri it is noted how they always bicker but they can’t be without each other and that is an example of what bickering is about.
When talking about Mel it showed a clip from her first story Terror of the Vervoids in which she gives the Doctor carrot juice. I know that Bonnie Langford (Mel) is a fitness freak herself but I don’t know whether I should be surprised that she herself does not like carrot juice.
Perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised that Dan Starkey (who played Sontarans in the “new” series including of course Strax) turned up here when talking about the Sontarans who had appeared with the Sixth Doctor as well as the Second in The Two Doctors. It was certainly quite noticeable how tall the Sontarans were in The Two Doctors.
It was also very good when the episode talked about Sil and how effective he was at being a foe even though as Colin Baker pointed out that Sil wasn’t really a villain as such.
The episode played out well when it showed Peri had supposedly died in Mindwarp (depending on one’s point of view) including Marcus Wilson saying how it made the Sixth Doctor having the resolve to stand up to the Time Lords in The Trial of a Time Lord.

The Doctors Revisited

The Seventh Doctor:
Overall an enjoyable overview on the Seventh Doctor.
Not surprising to hear once again how much Sophie Aldred as Ace enjoyed beating up a Dalek in Remembrance of the Daleks.
Nicholas Briggs mentioned the Seventh Doctor as being like a wizard like Merlin. Curiously enough among the stories that did not get represented in this episode is Battlefield in which the Doctor was believed to be Merlin. Surely the episode could have easily cut into a clip of Battlefield just after Briggs made his Merlin/wizard remark.
Marcus Wilson says that the Seventh Doctor was more than just a Time Lord. A reference to a line that was said by the Seventh Doctor to Davros in a deleted scene of Remembrance of the Daleks and since it is a deleted scene it did not get shown in this episode of The Doctors Revisited.
Thanks to Wilson pointing it out this episode presents well how Mel being with the Doctor when he regenerated from Sixth to Seventh handled the change of Doctor to the audience.
As the Doctor is someone who abhors violence this episode points out that the Seventh Doctor delegated the violence to Ace something that is emphasised by showing the scenes of him asking Ace to give him the Nitro-9 that she doesn’t have.
Pretty good in the presentation of the Rani, Davros and the Daleks in the Famous Foes segment.
As Steven Moffat pointed out the darkness of the Seventh Doctor has maintained the mysteriousness of the Doctor in general with Wilson stating that it is the Seventh who has provided the template of the development of the “new” series Doctors.

The Doctors Revisited

OK, so what IS this Doctors Revisited thing?

Perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised that Dan Starkey (who played Sontarans in the “new” series including of course Strax) turned up here when talking about the Sontarans who had appeared with the Sixth Doctor as well as the Second in The Two Doctors.

He also seems to be appearing in a lot of Big Finishes as Old Who Sontarans. I suppose one can't complain, but it's a pretty shameless jumping-on-the-New-Who-bandwagon.

It was certainly quite noticeable how tall the Sontarans were in The Two Doctors.

Frankly that's the LEAST of my problems with The Two Doctors.

as Colin Baker pointed out...Sil wasn’t really a villain as such.

The HELL he wasn't!

Sil was about the ONLY good villain of the Colin Baker era!

Hell, Sil was about the ONLy good THING of the Colin Baker era!

The episode played out well when it showed Peri had supposedly died in Mindwarp (depending on one’s point of view) including Marcus Wilson saying how it made the Sixth Doctor having the resolve to stand up to the Time Lords in The Trial of a Time Lord.

Resolve? WHAT resolve?

Admittedly my memories of Trial are a little hazy due to NOT BEING INSANE ENOUGH TO REGULARLY REWATCH IT, but...why the hell would ANY Doctor (even the despised Sixth) NEED the DEATH OF A COMPANION to get all...resolve-y?

Nicholas Briggs mentioned the Seventh Doctor as being like a wizard like Merlin. Curiously enough among the stories that did not get represented in this episode is Battlefield in which the Doctor was believed to be Merlin.

*Shakes head despairingly*

Marcus Wilson says that the Seventh Doctor was more than just a Time Lord.

The Doctor has ALWAYS been more than just a Time Lord, WORSHIP HIM!

As Steven Moffat pointed out the darkness of the Seventh Doctor has maintained the mysteriousness of the Doctor in general with Wilson stating that it is the Seventh who has provided the template of the development of the “new” series Doctors.

Interesting. If not entirely convincing.

OK, so what IS this Doctors Revisited thing?

They're once a month specials that BBC America is doing on the last Saturday of every month. This month they are up to the 8th Doctor:




http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+doctors+revisited&oq=the+doctors+re&gs_l=youtube.1.0.0l7j0i10j0j0i10.1636.5396.0.7222.14.12.0.2.2.0.160.1206.7j5.12.0...0.0...1ac.1.11.youtube.qLNwgR8MgMI

DWM says that when Confidential was abolished an actual episode of it had been filmed for the Christmas Special, which will now NEVER BE SHOWN. How incredibly pointless and spiteful is THAT? Let's face it, it would almost certainly have made better watching than The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe...

'The trick over the years has been knowing when to stand back and just let them get on with it. We can tell you a lot of stuff about Matt Smith in Venice, David Tennant getting kicked out of the Newsnight studio and so on - but we only got those amazing moments by working out, on day one, exactly how to play the bad days' - I thought on day one you said 'Come on, let's go home', given that it was a bad day? Oh, never mind that - what the hell did Matt n'Tennant DO in Venice/Newsnight? I must have missed those Confidentials...

Doctor Who Explained:
Quite surprised to that Doctor Who Explained is from the same production team that made Doctor Who Revisited with the same title sequence and all that.
Not bad explanation of what Doctor Who is about.
Many of the companion actors are interviewed but some of the companions as characters themselves gets a focus in this programme with Susan being the first companion, Sarah Jane Smith, being said to have the lasting impact on the Doctor and both of the female companions of the Eleventh Doctors.
Unsurprising that the Daleks and Cybermen gets talked about but didn’t think that the Weeping Angels got such a focus here with scenes shown of them from Blink.
The Blink footage of course includes Carey Mulligan as Sally Sparrow. Too bad Carey Mulligan herself wasn’t interview for this programme. No doubt her busy schedule would have precluded her being interviewed here.
There is the “Saving The Earth” segment with it pointing out the numerous times that Earth had to be saved by the Doctor with David Tennant noting that many stories had an Earth bias to it.
Interesting seeing the filming of The Day of the Doctor.

I can't believe ANYONE has the temerity to claim to EXPLAIN Doctor Who...

What lasting impact did it claim SARAH had on the Doctor? Git just dumped her and swanned off, never giving her a second thought (though admittedly giving her a tin dog)...

"as Colin Baker pointed out...Sil wasn’t really a villain as such."

"The HELL he wasn't!"

Sil is quite benign in his third and final appearance, in the 1993 film 'Wittgenstein'.

The Doctors Revisited: The Eleventh Doctor:
The Eleventh Doctor himself Matt Smith is among those interviewed in this episode.
While some of his predecessors have appeared in the episodes that focuses on their Doctor, the fact that Matt Smith is still the current Doctor when he appeared in this episode certainly added gravitas to the proceedings of it.
Just as I thought the Angels gets a focus here in contrast to the fact they weren’t discussed at all in the Tenth Doctor episode despite the fact they were introduced in one of the Tenth Doctor episodes Blink.
Here in the Eleventh Doctor episode we get the sad reminder of the Angels providing the swansong for Amy and Rory.
Quite amusing when narrator Gareth Pierce said the Silence were quite forgettable enemies knowing what they are beforehand.

The Story of Trock:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03hk2vy

As part of the 50th anniversary celebrations, The Story of Trock tells the story of Trock which is short for Time Lord Rock and is a band that was inspired by Doctor Who.
Interesting history about Trock as well as going through the history of Doctor Who plus a special message from outgoing Doctor Matt Smith and what a superb message that he delivered.

Sixty minutes on the history of Trock? SIXTY MINUTES???

Is it blasphemy or are there JUST TOO MANY Who-related documentaries on at the moment? If even I can't keep up with them all, how can we expect the Not We to do so? (Bloody Culture Show disappeared from iPlayer before I could finish it - was just in the middle of Paul Cornell being exceptionally stupid about how GRATEFUL we should be for The Sixteen Long And Barren Years Of Despair when my computer screen froze and I thought I'd finish it tomorrow and, oops, it's gone.)

Kudos to the one Nitcentraller who's actually prepared to wade through all this stuff...

Doctor Who Live: The After Party:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2txmt6HV80

Aired after The Day of the Doctor, this party has Doctors and companions both past and present along with fans to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who.
There were video messages from those who weren’t able to be there including one actor who hasn’t appeared in the TV series, Ben Miller.
It was also quite unexpected to see among these messages Jackie Lane (Dodo) as this is the first time I have heard what her voice sounds like today.
Quite surprised that Jake from the 2006 Cybermen episodes has been counted as a companion.
I am not sure everyone is going to agree on the winner of the Ultimate Companion game.
The After Party has been served well by clips of the series.
I have noticed that people upon seeing this thought The After Party was an awful idea.
I personally did not find it half bad as I did not take it that seriously.

William Hartnell: The Original:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PevTZHmzLxk

This is a five minute documentary on First Doctor William Hartnell which was immediately shown after the UK broadcast of An Adventure In Space and Time.
Feature the only surviving interview with Hartnell on his work as the Doctor plus interviews from those who knew him including his granddaughter Jessica Carney plus some of other Doctors including David Bradley who plays him in An Adventure In Space and Time.
A truly lovely little documentary on William Hartnell.

An Adventure In Space and Time: Behind The Scenes:
http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2013/11/an-adventure-in-space-and-time-behind.html

Interesting on Brian Cox who plays Sydney Newman recalling his own experience with the real Sydney Newman back in 1965.
I fully appreciated how much of a appreciation Jessica Raine got in playing Verity Lambert as I am sure the real Ms Lambert would have loved Ms Raine's portrayal of love.
On playing Waris Hussein, Sacha Dhawan met with the real Hussein about his portrayal of him. Definitely agree with both Hussein and Dhawan that the latter playing the other was certainly a bizarre way to have a conversation about.
Definitely felt for narrator Carole Ann Ford on the emotions that this movie has conveyed to her.
Funny to see the regeneration of Reece Shearsmith as the Second Doctor to Mark Gatiss, the film's writer as the Third Doctor, something that did not get to be included in the film itself.

It was also quite unexpected to see among these messages Jackie Lane (Dodo) as this is the first time I have heard what her voice sounds like today.

That's a point. Why the hell hasn't she had any Companion Chronicles?

I am not sure everyone is going to agree on the winner of the Ultimate Companion game.

Who won? (I switched off after five minutes.)

I have noticed that people upon seeing this thought The After Party was an awful idea.

I dunno about an awful IDEA, but the execution was truly dire. Shoving a microphone in the face of any old ex-Companion they could find and demanding what they thought of Day of the Doctor - what did they EXPECT them to say?

I personally did not find it half bad as I did not take it that seriously.

I'm afraid I take ALL my Who seriously.

A truly lovely little documentary on William Hartnell.

I found it quite sad. He was doing PANTO for heaven's sake.

An Adventure In Space and Time: Behind The Scenes

You're kidding. Is there anything they DON'T do a behind-the-scenes thing on, even now they've MURDERED Confidential? I thought the Five(ish) Doctors Reboot was JOKING...

Funny to see the regeneration of Reece Shearsmith as the Second Doctor to Mark Gatiss, the film's writer as the Third Doctor, something that did not get to be included in the film itself.

Now I've GOT to watch it...

Hmm. Yeah, Gatiss certainly makes a better Pertwee than whatever-THAT-creature-was makes a Troughton.

I found 'What a role! The Doctor's Granddaughter - the original!' a little hypocritical, in view of the fact it was such a rubbish screamy role she left as soon as possible.

Sadly the after party video has been taken down so I can't see what Jackie Lane looks like

Not THAT sadly...

••••. I watched half of it last night and planned to watch the second half today. :-)

"I am not sure everyone is going to agree on the winner of the Ultimate Companion game.

Who won? (I switched off after five minutes.)"

K9

The One Show – Doctor Who Special:
It is on Youtube starting here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWIn2SnQkyo

Aired a few days before The Day of the Doctor, this special edition of The One Show included interviews with John Hurt, Jenna Coleman and Steven Moffat plus a rendition of the Doctor Who theme music.
It was pretty enjoyable.

Farewell to Matt Smith:
www.dailymotion.com/video/x18weme_doctor-who-farewell-to-matt-smith_shortfilms

The sound is off-sync in the second half but you should be able to get the gist of what is being said and seen.

Presented by Alex Kingston.
Farewell to Matt Smith is the retrospective from BBC America on the Matt Smith era and shown there immediately before his swansong The Time of the Doctor and it is a very good retrospective on that.
Quite a surprise on seeing Zachary Levi here at the 29 minute mark or 20.50 in the countdown.
Very amusing on hearing from Chris Hardwick on the faux pas that he made when he first met Matt Smith.
To be honest this felt like a much better goodbye to Matt Smith than The Time of the Doctor.

BBC Radio Kent Special - Doctor Who Anniversary:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01nfyyp


This BBC Radio programme celebrates the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who by looking at its link with Kent including the fact that was where Doctor Who’s very first writer Anthony Coburn had lived and wrote the first Doctor Who story.
Overall OK programme about Doctor Who and the legacy it has left behind.
It was interesting to hear just how much of Doctor Who was filmed in Kent.

Doctor Who: Best of the Christmas Specials:
Best of the Christmas Specials was a special from BBC America that originally aired on Christmas Eve 2011 the day before The Doctor, The Widow and The Wardrobe and this special looks at the Christmas Specials prior to The Doctor, The Widow and The Wardrobe.
Among the new faces here is Faith Salie who I do find very pretty and she has become an actor who appeared in both Doctor Who and Star Trek because with the latter she was in two episodes of Deep Space Nine.
A pretty good overview from the interviewees on the 2005-10 Christmas Specials and they sure was solemn when they came to talk about David Tennant’s swansong The End of Time.
Very enjoyable as the interviewees stated what Christmas means in the world of Doctor Who including Chris Hardwick saying that when it came to Christmas it comes disaster then spending the year after to fix the place up only for the same cycle to begin all over again.

(I accidentally posted this at the Series 7 section, if someone could delete it over there it will be much appreciated it).

I remember her Deep Space Nine episodes, Dr. Bashir fell in love with her character.

Which Who episode was she in?

According to her IMDB listing, she hasn't been in Who at all.

I am talking about her appearance in Best of the Christmas Specials being counted as a Who appearance and IMDb has yet to include her appearance in this special in its database.

One can be a Doctor Who contributor other than appearing in the TV series.

Sorry, but if she wasn't on the cast/crew list, or she's not been an uncredited extra, then she hasn't appeared in Doctor Who - she's appeared in a documentary about it.

Your reasoning is absolutely wrong.

Her appearance in this documentary makes her a Doctor Who contributor.

It is rather absurd to base your reasoning on her IMDb listing since IMDb isn't 100% accurate 100% of the time and do not accept your apology.

Doctor Who In The US:
A BBC America Special originally broadcast in 2012 and narrated by Lachele Carl (Trinity Wells). In fact Lachele Carl does appear in front of the camera here to talk about Trinity Wells.
Doctor Who In The US looks at America being the location filming and setting of some Doctor Who episodes.
Interesting overview of the Doctor’s endeavours in America.
Since this was broadcast in 2012, it was amusing when David Tennant said it was funny now that the Chris Eccleston episode Dalek in 2005 took place in 2012.
When it came to Captain Jack, Tennant said that it was never discovered where Jack came from. Is it possible that Tennant had not seen the Torchwood episode Adam which showed the flashback of Jack as a boy in Boeshane Peninsula.
Interesting theory from Noel Clarke about something significant with Trinity Wells on why she always reports on something terrible but has stressed that it is just a guess on his part.
Good incorporation of Doctor Who at Comic Con and Matt Smith and Karen Gillan in NYC to promote the 2010 season.
As narrator of this special Lachele Carl says in her closing remarks on it being probable that Doctor Who would return to America in future.
It certainly will be interesting to see what happens the next time the Doctor steps on American shores.

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Your reasoning is absolutely wrong.

Her appearance in this documentary makes her a Doctor Who contributor.

It is rather absurd to base your reasoning on her IMDb listing since IMDb isn't 100% accurate 100% of the time and do not accept your apology.
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No, my reasoning absolutely correct, and is based on the fact that she has not appeared in any episode, has never been on set or in any of the production meetings for the show, or anything like it.

I'm not sure I'd even count her as a contributor - frankly, I'd class anyone who's worked on the show, or done something directly related to it, but never appeared on screen, as a contributor, such as the directors, camera people, make-up people and so on.

To pick two names at semi-random to illustrate my point: Billie Piper has appeared and Mat Irvine has contributed.

Otherwise, you could count whoever it was hosted the "Peter Capaldi is the next doctor" show (was it Zoe Ball? I can't remember, and don't care enough to look it up), any of the fans who've appeared on any of the DVD extra documentaries or commentaries, any comedian who's ever done a parody, or any of the BBC newsreaders who've ever announced the next doctor or companion.

As for my apology, accept it or don't. It doesn't alter the fact that on this subject, you, and not my reasoning, are wrong.

Otherwise, you could count whoever it was hosted the "Peter Capaldi is the next doctor" show (was it Zoe Ball? I can't remember, and don't care enough to look it up), any of the fans who've appeared on any of the DVD extra documentaries or commentaries, any comedian who's ever done a parody, or any of the BBC newsreaders who've ever announced the next doctor or companion.

If we're taking a vote, I'm with Chris.

After all, WE'VE all 'contributed' to Who by buying the bloody books/DVDs/videos/posting on Nitcentral/hassling Moffat at Tavern/dating NA authors, but we certainly DON'T expect to be included in lists of contributors...

And Ken Livingstone, to his credit, didn't exactly campaign to be returned as Mayor of London on the grounds that 'I popped up in a Who documentary, ergo I'm a CONTRIBUTOR to Who!'...

And he was a guest star in 'The Tomorrow Windows'!

I seem to remember he blew up the Tate Modern (or at least a robot replicant of him did) in The Tomorrow Windows, so it's possible it was QUITE SENSIBLE of him NOT to mention that in re-election campaigns...

Mmm, that might have made him more electable...

Hey, what have you got against the Tate Modern? Sure, they accidentally poisoned all their visitors with those shells once, but APART from that they've been a roaring cultural success.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tate_Modern

So that's what you two are talking about

From the Doctor Who News Page:
According to Eighth Doctor Paul McGann, a sequel to The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot has entered production.

Doctor Who Confidential is dead. Long Live Doctor Who Extra.

'Much more than a "making of" show' - it's sounding pretty puffed-up for a ten-minute Internet-only show.

When Julia Met The Doctor:
When Julia Met The Doctor was an interview with Peter Capaldi conducted by Julia Zemiro for ABC Australia and took place during his visit to Sydney for the Doctor Who World Tour.

Interesting to find out from this interview that Capaldi’s family had been in the ice cream business. Of course if he himself had gone into the ice cream business instead of acting he would not be the Doctor today.
Interesting to find out that Capaldi once worked with Burt Lancaster in the movie Local Hero (1983).
When the short film Franz Kafka’s It’s A Wonderful Life that Capaldi wrote and directed was brought up it showed a clip of it with fellow Doctor Richard E Grant.
Also shown during this interview included a still image of Dalek Invasion of Earth which was Capaldi’s earliest memory of Doctor Who, a clip of The Thick of It of him as Malcolm Tucker and the Doctor Who Live announcement of him as the Twelfth Doctor back on August 4 2013.
Overall quite a fascinating interview conducted very well by Julia Zemiro.

Of course if he himself had gone into the ice cream business instead of acting he would not be the Doctor today.

Of course he would! He was DESTINED to be the Doctor! They'd've just had to drag him away from those cornets the way they dragged Tom off that building site!

The third episode of The Real History of Science Fiction presented by Mark Gatiss, Invasion, looked at Doctor Who with Daleks and Cybermen being a focus on what it says in the episode title.
Doctor Who clips represented here were that of Dalek Invasion of Earth, Tomb of the Cybermen, The Invasion, Rise of the Cybermen/Age of Steel, Doomsday, The Stolen Earth/Journey’s End & The Pandorica Opens.
Talking about the Daleks and Cybermen here were Karen Gillan, David Tennant, Steven Moffat, Neil Gaiman, Adam Rogers and Charlie Jane Anders.

A pretty good representation of the Daleks and Cybermen here with Tennant stating that the Daleks had become a worldwide phenomenon and Gatiss stating that the Daleks got competition from the Cybermen.
Good presentation of why both the Daleks and Cybermen were very terrifying as invaders.

On August 23, the ABC presented an edited 10 minute version of When Julia Met The Doctor.

Whereas the full version had Peter Capaldi talking about Doctor Who and his work in general, the edited version was strictly to the point and that it was solely of him talking about Doctor Who apart from him briefly talking about his family history.
In the full version the clip of Zoe Ball announcing Capaldi as the Twelfth Doctor was placed at the end of the programme. In the edited version it was brought forward to when Julia Zemiro mentioned the said announcement.
Quite a good edit of the programme.

Deep Breath Extra:
Corresponding Doctor Who Extra to Deep Breath.
Pretty fun look at the making of Peter Capaldi’s first episode as the Doctor, Deep Breath.
Such a key moment at the tone meeting of Capaldi introducing himself as the Doctor.
Quite a look of Capaldi trying on his new costume and interesting how the costume came about.
This first episode of Doctor Who Extra certainly brings about the enthusiasm that comes about with the newness of Capaldi as the Doctor an enthusiasm that has flow well with this fan.

Doctor Who: After Who Live:
Doctor Who: After Who Live hosted by Chris Hardwick is the BBC America programme shown an hour after Peter Capaldi’s full official debut Deep Breath was shown on BBC America.
This has Hardwick along with Wil Wheaton, Natalie Morales, Alton Brown, Dan Starkey and Mark Gatiss (who is also the executive producer of this programme) as they give their immediate reaction to Capaldi in his full debut.
Enjoyable and often amusing comments that came from them and it Is not quite often seeing Dan Starkey portraying Strax without the Sontaran prosthetics.
Bit of a plug here not just with the episode that came after Deep Breath, Into The Dalek and new series Intruders.
Love the speculation on who Missy and Danny are and look forward to see how much of this speculation, if any, are right.

Although it was originally announced that Doctor Who Extra would exclusively be available on BBC iPlayer, the BBC has now made the episodes so far and presumably future episodes available on Youtube.

The Ultimate Time Lord:
Presented by Fifth Doctor Peter Davison, this documentary special was originally shown in the lead-up to Peter Capaldi’s full official debut as the Twelfth Doctor in Deep Breath as Davison looks what it takes to be the ultimate Time Lord.
Interesting the interview with psychologist Dr Mike Aitken on his take on the Doctors’ character traits that came with his various regenerations. This involve having a look at key scenes with the Eleventh and Tenth Doctors in The Time of Angels & Voyage of the Damned respectively.
Saw a picture of the Twelfth Doctor, Missy and the Cybermen. Watching it from this standpoint where the current season had just shown its third episode Robot of Sherwood, the episode where that picture comes from still have not come around it. Be interested to see how that episode turns out.
In talking to costume designer Howard Burden, Davison brings up Doctors and numbers by describing Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi as numbered Doctors while John Hurt is unnumbered as the Doctor.
Of course in exploring the question about what it means to be the ultimate Doctor, Davison cannot go past the Daleks as he chats to Dalek voice Nick Briggs as see some Daleks.
Briggs correctly points out that the Doctor is defined by his enemies including the Daleks and the Master.
Fanboy moment upon seeing Davison operating the TARDIS console. It is here we meet current script editor Derek Ritchie. To be honest I did not know that he currently holds this job since, at least from my standpoint, the script editors of the “new” series are not that noticeable unlike their “classic” series counterparts.
This is due to script editor credits being more visible in “classic” series episodes than they are on “new” series episodes. This plus the fact that for the “new” series, the showrunner has complete control on the final polishing of the scripts.
Good overview of the sonic screwdriver as Davison stated the need for the Doctor to have gadgets.
Even though it was cosplay it was nice to see Captain America and Wonder Woman turning up here.
When Davison talked to Doctors 6, 7 and 8, it was funny when it was pointed out how they were seated in the wrong order to their Doctor numbering.
When Davison went into a studio to interview Capaldi noticed the paper on the door of the Wizards vs Aliens logo on it. Perhaps not intentional it was still not a bad plug on that series co-created by former Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies.
In explaining what to expect of his Doctor, Capaldi says that he is less user friendly and that his recent regeneration sees his social skills still a work in progress. Watching it from this standpoint, in which three episodes of the current season have now gone by, that description is certainly correct including with the recent episode Robot of Sherwood in which the Doctor was quick to dismiss Robin Hood being the real thing and not handling it in a tactful way.
Not bad the conclusion that Davison presented on the question of what it means to be the ultimate Doctor.
Notwithstanding that three episodes of the current season have gone by, I am eager to see how much ultimate Capaldi can be as the Doctor.

Doctor Who Extra (eps 1-3):

'I promise you're going to love it' - what, you give your WORD to ALL THE MILLIONS (or, um, however many bother watching Extra) that we're ALL going to love Deep Breath...?

You mention Caecilius but not Frobisher?

'Wow! An exciting moment!' - er, yes it was until YOU decided to inform me that it was.

'So what does Peter think of his new iconic costume' - er, he told us what he thought of it several minutes ago.

'It's quite difficult to come up with new ideas for the Daleks' says Nick Briggs, feelingly. Y'know, the one who's signally failed to come up with any new ideas during his last god-knows-how-many Dalek audios for Big Finish.

'However old you are, you'll never forget where you were when you first encountered a Dalek' - actually, yes I will. I distinctly remember that game of stone-paper-scissors in Destiny, but not the metal meanies themselves...

Do you have to put black dots all over past footage (even when it's Eccy/Tennant/Matt rather than HARTNELL)?

'Anything could happen...there could be an alternative dimension' says Briggs, mischievously, when asked if a Dalek could turn good. Yeah, we all know how well THAT went in his Dalek War audios...

'The greatest hero in English folklre' - what about King Arthur?

Don't TELL people about TIMELASH you cretin!

'The greatest hero in English folklre' - what about King Arthur?

King Arthur wasn't English. The English were his enemies!

But he is still part of the English folklore, isn't he? Or do you see him as having been appropriated by the English folklore, and therefore not really part or it?

Listen Extra:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukp2CiGP_eU

Corresponding Doctor Who Extra to Listen.
With Listen showing us the Doctor as the boy, narrator Matt Botten presented not a bad overview of what is known of the Doctor in his days on Gallifrey.
It is too bad that there wasn’t an interview with the boy himself. Would love to know some information about him like what his name is as he is uncredited.
Interesting to see Orson’s living arrangement.
When asked the question of what is under one’s bed, Jenna Coleman, Samuel Anderson and Remi Gooding (Rupert) answered that question but not the Doctor himself Peter Capaldi.

Looking back on Listen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU-iuRyoc1o

Time Heist Extra:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtgrOV5C72A

Peter Capaldi mentioned that he had worked with Keeley Hawes before. That was in the 2001 TV movie Hotel! which also featured Eighth Doctor Paul McGann and real Captain Jack actor Matt Rippy.
Interesting to hear how Keeley Hawes got cast in Time Heist. It was absolute delight having her here whatever the reason and Keeley certainly enjoyed doing it.
Fun of Jonathan Bailey (Psi) and Pippa Bennett-Warner (Saibra) in talking about their characters and what would they do if they had their characters’ abilities for real.
When the memory worm was brought quite funny when cast and crew have trouble remembering it.
Narrator Matt Botten said that Psi and Saibra might return one day and I certainly wouldn’t mind if they did return.

Doctor Who: Inside Look – The Angels Take Manhattan:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgIX3-DcaGg

Karen Gillan:
“It’s the showdown of everything we’ve been building towards for the last two seasons”.

It certainly was that and the expectations that was expressed here of The Angels Take Manhattan were certainly borne fruit in that episode.
It was interesting to point out from Alex Kingston that her first episode with Matt Smith and Karen Gillan was both their first filmed episode The Time of Angels and now here she is as a bookend to Karen’s final aforementioned episode.

The Return of River Song (The Angels Take Manhattan):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0XvSKupIQ4

Karen Gillan’s Dalek Impression:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BODQZiF_5nw

Karen Gillan on Rory: The Stud?!:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNSiaBGq-J0

Karen & Arthur: What I’d Nick From the TARDIS!:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgqLR1jdR3A

Nice little clips. Usually it's so painful to see the cast promise us how wonderful this episode is, best monsters ever, yadda yadda yadda, but in the case of the Angels I can well believe that Matt was actually being sincere.

It's painful to see them casually referring to 'Rory Pond' before Moffat retconned THAT particular piece of equality out of existence.

'When you spend time together every day, all the mystique is gone and you can't look at them in that way' - Karen Gillan. Obviously Tom and Lalla could...

Why would both Ponds want the TARDIS chairs? What did TARDIS chairs even LOOK like in those days?

Saw Peter Capaldi in the season 16 opener of The Graham Norton Show.
Originally aired on September 26 2014, fellow guests in this show were Denzel Washington, Gemma Arterton and George Ezra.
It begins with Norton asking whether the TARDIS is bigger on the inside and then we see the TARDIS doors as he opens it. The TARDIS is certainly bigger on the inside as the TARDIS contains Norton’s audience!
Norton asked Washington if he was familiar with Doctor Who and the latter said no. It would seem that Washington was completely oblivious or forgotten that director Paul W.S. Anderson had wanted to cast him as the Doctor for a Doctor Who movie that Anderson wanted to make back in 2003 but one that never got made. So more than a decade later here is Washington in the presence of the current Doctor Peter Capaldi on the Graham Norton Show. In fact Washington was on this show to talk about his later movie The Equalizer based on another TV series.
Norton managed to find something in common between Capaldi and Gemma Arterton as they were both in a band.
When talking about Doctor Who more substantially, Norton went into Capaldi’s past as a Doctor Who fan. Much to Capaldi’s embarrassment this included Norton reading a rejection letter, written to Capaldi in the 1970s from Sarah Newman who was secretary to the then Doctor Who producer Barry Letts.
Norton then reads a letter from Newman that she wrote to the secretary of the Doctor Who Fan Club, which was by no means flattering about Capaldi:
“No no no. You’re not by any means worse than Peter C[apaldi]. I had a very sad letter back from him today. I think I better write and apologize. I think he’s the end and I wish the Daleks or someone would exterminate him or something to that effect.”

This then led to the following exchange between Capaldi and Norton about Newman:
Peter Capaldi: Where is she now?
Graham Norton: She’s here tonight.
Capaldi: And I’m Doctor Who.

Capaldi brought up an interesting story when he got the call that he had become the Doctor whilst filming for The Musketeers in the Czech Republic. He says that a Czech boy working on The Musketeers came to him and said that he love him in Doctor Who. Capaldi was perplexed by this as there was no way that this boy could have known that he just have been cast as the Doctor. However the boy was talking about Capaldi’s guest appearance in the David Tennant episode The Fires of Pompeii and the boy remembered him in that episode as he is a big Whovian.
Since the boy along with the rest of the world would eventually find out about Capaldi’s casting as the Doctor, Capaldi asked the boy to take a picture of the two of them. However I am not sure if such a picture got taken as Capaldi says the boy wasn’t really interested in taking a picture with him.

This show also had a clip of Kill The Moon which would be broadcast on October 4 and in a preview of the next Graham Norton Show, Norton says that one of the guests in this next show is Hugh Grant.
Grant of course is the other Twelfth Doctor. In fact he and Capaldi had worked together in the movie The Lair of the White Worm (1988).

Flatline Extra:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wlaa_PZi898

Even though the Doctor was unwilling to admit to Clara, it was good to hear from Peter Capaldi that Clara was a good Doctor in Flatline.
To be honest it did not occur to me that Rigsy was companion to Doctor Clara until it was mentioned here by narrator Matt Botten.
When Botten brought up about art coming to life, it did not surprise me that Fear Her was the first of these examples to be shown as I have noted the similarity between Flatline & Fear Her in my remarks on Flatline itself.
Interesting to hear from Steven Moffat on just how much Clara has learnt on being the Doctor in Flatline.

Saw Peter Capaldi in the season 16 opener of The Graham Norton Show.

Why would he appear on The Graham Norton Show? Graham Norton LEAKED into our reality and could have RUINED ROSE. Graham Norton danced his stupid cartoon face all over MATT'S FIRST CLIFFHANGER. AND I've just seen a screencap of the BBC subtitles getting things spectacularly wrong in the US (Danny saying 'What's up •••••' rather than 'I've got our bench') and there was an advert for Graham Norton! Right over our sacred programme, bold as brass!

OF COURSE I realise that, technically speaking, none of these blasphemies are Graham Norton's FAULT, but that's NOT THE POINT. We should offer him up to the gods in one of the Swampie's Seven Holy Rituals to appease their wrath.

Norton asked Washington if he was familiar with Doctor Who and the latter said no. It would seem that Washington was completely oblivious or forgotten that director Paul W.S. Anderson had wanted to cast him as the Doctor for a Doctor Who movie that Anderson wanted to make back in 2003 but one that never got made.

Ah. Whilst ignorance of Doctor Who is obviously a crime beyond belief (Come back Swampies! You can deal with this 'Washington' person when you've finished with Norton!) one can hardly blame him for forgetting about one of Who's numerous non-existent films.

When talking about Doctor Who more substantially, Norton went into Capaldi’s past as a Doctor Who fan. Much to Capaldi’s embarrassment this included Norton reading a rejection letter, written to Capaldi in the 1970s from Sarah Newman who was secretary to the then Doctor Who producer Barry Letts.

Bless!

“No no no. You’re not by any means worse than Peter C[apaldi]. I had a very sad letter back from him today. I think I better write and apologize. I think he’s the end and I wish the Daleks or someone would exterminate him or something to that effect.”

Ha ha ha ha ha!

Grant of course is the other Twelfth Doctor

Pah! There IS no other Twelfth Doctor!

Flatline Extra:

You're obviously getting more from these things than I am. I'm TRYING to watch 'em, honest, but it doesn't seem to make much difference. Plus the only nit that's stuck in my mind is the narrator solemnly informing us that the Doctor becoming President of Gallifrey in Invasion of Time made him one of the most important people on the planet. You don't say!

"Pah! There IS no other Twelfth Doctor!"

While Curse of the Fatal Death is not canon, I am not pretending that I didn't watch it and my comments are in accordance to what I have taken out of that experience.

Confidential Cutdown 6.6 Take Two:
Corresponding episode to The Almost People.
Funny at the beginning with the chat between Matt, Karen and Arthur in the tent and what they are just saying won’t make it to Confidential. Yeah right.
Good pun from narrator Russell Tovey about The Rebel Flesh & The Almost People being doubly hard episodes.
Intense music which began by showing the clip of the revelation of the Ganger Amy.
Good symmetry with Tovey saying that the main episode began with the birth of a Doctor and ends with the mystery of a birth.
Good overview about the brief appearance of Madame Kovarian at this point in Doctor Who, although I don’t think we knew her name at this stage.
Funny when Karen compare herself to a hamster when talking about Doctor having friends.
Intriguing at the untreated scene with Dicken shown to us by writer Matthew Graham.

While Curse of the Fatal Death is not canon, I am not pretending that I didn't watch it and my comments are in accordance to what I have taken out of that experience.

Fair enough...except, of course, you referred to THE other Twelfth Doctor as if there was only one of 'em...whereas, of course, Matt Smith is the OTHER other Twelfth Doctor...

...No, wait, sorry, Matt is Twelve if you only count Hurt but of course we have to count Tennant twice TOO, which makes post-Stolen Earth Tennant the 'real' Twelfth Doctor...

...You see why I just scream CAPALDI IS THE ONE AND ONLY TWELFTH DOCTOR! at people.

Numbers are not supposed to be that confusing.

I've just taken to counting Ten (times 2), Eleven, Thirteen.

What about the Morbius faces?

I've just taken to counting Ten (times 2), Eleven, Thirteen.

That's just WRONG!

What about the Morbius faces?

Say what you like about Day of the Doctor, at least it proved all those Morbius faces WERE Morbius's faces (or a figment of the Doctor's imagination).

I've just taken to counting Ten (times 2), Eleven, Thirteen.

That's just WRONG!

Very, but it'll save me & others from a lifetime of "Thirteen-who-is-really-Twelve, Fourteen-who-was-really-Thirteen...Twenty-who-was-really-Nineteen" and so on.

Would it help to consider it the equivalent of Daylight Savings Time? You don't keep talking about the "missing" hour.

Isn't it 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 8i, 9, 10, 10, 11, 12?

Where i is the mathematical symbol for the square root of -1.

And we thought the Paradox Faction living in the missing 15 days of the calendar was a concept a bit difficult to grasp.

Isn't it 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 8i, 9, 10, 10, 11, 12?

Where i is the mathematical symbol for the square root of -1.

I...think I'll avoid the square root of -1 if it's all the same to you.

I'll go for 'Eight-and-a-half or something':

The Doctor Games

Confidential Cutdown: River Runs Wild:
Corresponding episode to Let’s Kill Hitler.
Fitting episode title since the main episode has River doing just that at her very beginning after her regeneration from Mels.
Love the corny puns from Matt, Karen and Arthur at the beginning due to the fact of the filming at a cornfield.
Enjoyed the song (no pun intended) that was played when the clip of River using her regeneration energies to save the Doctor was played out.

The Making of the Doctor Puppet Part 5 – Settling the Score of A Timelord Christmas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKw8aI3fPmM

Fascinating account for the recording of the music for A Timelord Christmas.

Read that the corresponding Doctor Who Extra episode to the season finale Death in Heaven runs at an extended time of 23 minutes instead of the usual 10 minutes.

Confidential Cutdown: Open All Hours:
Corresponding episode to Closing Time.
As Closing Time is a Cybermen episode, I saw the cutdown version Open All Hours not long after I watch the very recent Cybermen episode Death In Heaven.
Nice look at the friendship between Matt Smith and James Corden as they talked about working on the main episode.
Closing Time is a sequel to The Lodger and Steven Moffat said that The Lodger is an episode close to his heart. Moffat recently showed his love for The Lodger more recently when he and The Lodger & Closing Time writer Gareth Roberts collaborated on The Lodger-influenced episode The Caretaker.
Open All Hours looked at the cameo by Radio 1 presenter Greg James and pity on him that he did this episode in a night shoot in which he was still there at 4am, have to catch a train at 8am and be at work at Radio 1 at 1pm. So as one can see not a lot of sleep to have prior going to work at Radio 1.
Whilst talking with James, Corden said that he had word from the producers that James was going to become the Twelfth Doctor. Obviously Corden was lied to since Peter Capaldi is now the Twelfth Doctor!
Quite fun little adventure shown here of the Doctor and Craig battling a small Dalek, among other things.
Quite like the song that was played when Craig was about to be turned into a Cyberman only to blow them up with his love for Alfie.
Roberts makes no apology that love blew up the Cybermen and so he shouldn’t.

Dedicated to my own Matt and James friendship –
Matthew See and James Lucas.

Confidential: The Nights' Tale:
The Nights’ Tale:
In The Nights’ Tale which includes looking at the making of Space & Time and the DVD subtitles has a subtitle for Director without identifying his name. This is despite the fact that director Richard Senior does speak for much of The Nights’ Tale and the caption has identified him as the director.
Richard Senior says that Space & Time is the first time that the TARDIS has been in the TARDIS. Senior is not exactly incorrect on the Doctor’s TARDIS being in the Doctor’s TARDIS as the previous times that a TARDIS has been in a TARDIS were in the season 9 closer The Time Monster & the season 18 closer Logopolis but in those previous occasions it was that of the Doctor’s TARDIS and the Master’s TARDIS being in each other.

Ingrid Oliver Talks Osgood:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02b9fpy

Samuel Anderson Uncut:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02b9kb3

The Promise of a Soldier:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02b9jcs

Osgood is, of course, adorable.

Samuel Anderson Uncut is the most pointless 1 minutes 36 seconds of anything I have ever seen.

Billie Piper on Top Gear in 2007:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzYJUUTEvgM

Interesting question on the speed of a Dalek.

Frank Skinner on his favourite Doctor Who stories and eras:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02f80w1

Doctor Who Extra: Last Christmas Preview 2:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02ftnfx

This was released for the final day of the 2014 Advent Calendar on the BBC Doctor Who website.

The recently recovered section of the William Hartnell interview on Desert Island Discs:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p009y3yj

Among the things Hartnell talked about here is that despite playing sergeants in his career he never made it that far when he was in the real army and Doctor Who managed to be mentioned just before the end of what survived in this interview.

Karen Gillan and Sylvester McCoy Q & A at Dallas Sci-Fi Expo in February 2014:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulpEjkJDqJ8

McCoy talked about working with Kate O’Mara when she played the Rani in McCoy’s debut story Time and the Rani. Sadly a month after the Dallas Sci-Fi Expo, Kate O’Mara passed away. Quite sad timing.
Funnily enough I have been watching Time and The Rani on DVD and I was thinking that when this story was originally aired in September 1987, Karen Gillan’s mum was pregnant with her as Karen would be born two months later on November 28.
Amusing that when Arthur was mentioned, McCoy did not know that it was in reference to Arthur Darvill.
Karen took selfies with some fans. Perhaps coincidental to the fact that later in the year she will be seen as the star of the short-lived Selfie.
While here Karen plugged her then upcoming films Oculus & Guardians of the Galaxy, the latter explaining why she has short hair for her role as Nebula.
Surprising that Karen was asked what if she became the Doctor. Called it a personal bias on my part but I think she would have made a fantastic Doctor. Curiously enough her successor on the show Jenna Coleman as Clara decided to become the Doctor in Flatline & Death In Heaven!

Surprising that Karen was asked what if she became the Doctor. Called it a personal bias on my part but I think she would have made a fantastic Doctor. Curiously enough her successor on the show Jenna Coleman as Clara decided to become the Doctor in Flatline & Death In Heaven!

That's a very good point.

I suppose it illustrates the difference between being groomed as a child by the Doctor (Amy in Eleventh Hour) and scaring the •••• out of a child-Doctor (Clara in Listen). If the former, the best you can hope for is for the Doctor to marry, um, your daughter. If the latter, the universe is your oyster.

I still think Donna made the best Doctor, though.

Taking Out Of Time: The Making And Breaking of Shada.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1511n4_taken-out-of-time-the-making-and-breaking-of-shada_shortfilms

The bloke who played Chris met his wife while they were making Shada.

Moffat in DWM about the death of Confidential: 'I'm not supposed to say it, but I'm going to anyway: bad day, bad decision. I know these are straitened times. I know we're all at sea and the night is colder - but you don't start burning the lifeboats to keep warm.'

What a lovely (if not ENTIRELY deserved) tribute.

When Graham Norton got exterminated for spoiling Doctor Who:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnpZS_54uoA

At last! AT LAST!

Funny!

Thoughts On… Doctor Who: The Fan Show:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYEAEvD3eBk#t=15

Doctor Who: The Fan Show

Scientific Secrets of Doctor Who:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov8xaig9PLE

Doctor Who: The Fan Show

Full Interview with Dr Marek Kukula:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCiXZbfwhlE

Doctor Who: The Fan Show

First Look At LEGO Dimensions Gameplay:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdbSznJeogs&feature=youtu.be


Includes an interview with Louis Moffat. Remember who he is related to.

Doctor Who: The Fan Show

Comic-Con Reacts to Season 39 trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmn7-6KDKvk

Doctor Who: The Fan Show

Doctor Who Fan Meet-Up:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz2bIRgNByc

Doctor Who: The Fan Show

Comic-Con Exclusive Merchandise:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQx7cVpPP74

Rachel Talalay on Directing the NuWho Series 9 Finale:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMwAUOCTj40

Doctor Who: The Fan Show

Doctor Who Comics Day!:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6dXdBV57_I

Doctor Who: The Fan Show

Full Interview with Titan Comics:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYhPDNg2O38

Doctor Who: The Fan Show

Millenium FX Makeover & Doctor Who Festival Updates:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD-6CVxGF00

Doctor Who: The Fan Show

How To Make Prosthetics (Full Interview with Millenium FX):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4ed-6QzggQ

Doctor Who Extra of The Magician's Apprentice prologue:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0327fkf

Good interview with Clare Higgins (Ohila) and interesting look at a scene from the prologue which wasn't in the prologue itself!

Yeah, good interview, good deleted clip, but OH MY GODS they're doing documentaries about TWO-MINUTE DOCTOR WHO SCENES, now...?!

Doctor Who: The Fan Show

How To Make A TARDIS Cake:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeBzEk9okVI

a still image of Dalek Invasion of Earth which was Capaldi’s earliest memory of Doctor Who.

Lucky B'Stard. I've got Delta and the Bannermen as mine.

You had a lucky escape. A few weeks earlier and it would have been Time and the Rani and there's simply NO WAY you'd be a Doctor Who Fan today.

I'm not British, remember? we didn't get S24 until later. S26 wasn't first run here until the end of 1990.

I'm not sure of the logic of this. They're both Season 24 serials. Was everyone so traumatised by 'Rani' that they didn't show the rest of it for years afterwards?

no the ABC just showed Season 24 a year after the Brits. As for Season 26, one of Whovention '90 in Sydney's drawcards was that they were showing Fenric and Survival. The ABC didn't show S 26 until almost the end of 1990

But Season 26's Australian tx dates would have no bearing on when 'Time and the Rani' and 'Delta and the Bannermen' would have been shown in relation to each other down there...?

Yeah. I only mentioned that my earliest Who memory is the ABC tx of Delta

Yes, and I only mentioned that if you'd tuned in a few weeks earlier you'd have got Time and the Rani.

I - and Kate obviously - just don't understand why you're trying to say this isn't the case.

I'm not sure about season 24 being screened in Australia only in the 90's. I remember Dragonfire being screened in 1988. There's a site set up I'm sure that can clarify. In those days it was generally a 6-9 month turnaround between screenings in Britain and Australia....

Maybe I'm confused with the 1990s screenings on Aussie pay tv.

It seems that instead of 10 minute episodes like with last year's season, Doctor Who Extra has instead been reduced to bits for this year's season.

Doctor Who: The Magician's Apprentice -


Missy and the Doctor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bSXfg4NwMU&feature=youtu.be

Doctor Who: The Magician's Apprentice Extra

The Doctor's Guitar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31b5MewfofY&feature=youtu.be

Doctor Who: The Magician's Apprentice Extra

Colony Sarff:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1XZjTEZ0Pc&feature=youtu.be

Doctor Who: The Magician's Apprentice Extra


The Grand Entrance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mxpvS7dscs&feature=youtu.be

Doctor Who: The Fan Show

Under The Lake Reactions:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=X068hr-Tv0c

Doctor Who: The Fan Show

Q & A with Cherry Wallis:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNKSI7YNAt8

The Girl Who Died Extra:
www.doctorwhonews.net/2015/10/doctor-who-extra-girl-who-died.html

Doctor Who: The Fan Show

The Woman Who Lived Reactions:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf4WTVtccXk

Doctor Who: The Fan Show

Q & A with Dan Slott:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Yp9Zo1RaOk

Doctor Who: The Fan Show

Q & A with Kezia Newsom:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhdURCM_lKA

The Zygon Invasion Behind The Scenes

The return of Osgood:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtmtbiPjLAs&feature=youtu.be

The Zygon Invasion Behind The Scenes

The return of the Zygons:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tVY2ifYSLg&feature=youtu.be

The Zygon Invasion Behind The Scenes

Osgood the cosplayer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az45wCY6fTc&feature=youtu.be

Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill discover a Doctor Who pinball machine:
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=jId7y_PRQR4

This was filmed in 2011 sometime before the revelation of who River Song was going to turn out to be.
They also said they wanted a musical episode but no such episode came along during all their time on Doctor Who.

Doctor Who: The Fan Show

Overview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8WXlq2n3DY

Doctor Who: The Fan Show

Sleep No More Reactions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y2mbMQIgec

Doctor Who: The Fan Show

Q & A with Carrie Hope Fletcher:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsk3O02A1Pk&feature=iv&src_vid=-y2mbMQIgec&annotation_id=annotation_4035694299

Doctor Who: The Fan Show

Q & A with Stuart Ashens:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fmv9E24Fnc&feature=iv&src_vid=lsk3O02A1Pk&annotation_id=annotation_3023282189

Face The Raven Behind The Scenes

http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2015/11/face-raven-behind-scenes-211115222208.html

In the corresponding Doctor Who Confidential episode to The Time of Angels, Eyes Wide Open when Alex Kingston performed a stunt as River Song she says if this was her Marilyn moment. Presumably she meant Marilyn Monroe.
At this point in the series I am guessing Steven Moffat had already decided that River was going to be married to the Doctor and curiously enough Marilyn Monroe would also be married to the Doctor.
Whether the wedding between the Doctor and Marilyn Monroe in A Christmas Carol was because Moffat had remembered Alex Kingston's Marilyn remark whilst filming for The Time of Angels is something I can only speculate.
In The Time of Angels itself, Amy guess that River is the Doctor's wife, a guess that would eventually be proven correct but Moffat refuses to confirm whether Amy was right in Eyes Wide Open.

Oh, there are WAY better behind-the-scenes clips than THAT.

Just watch Capaldi flap those arms! Gloriously evil!

Doctor Who: Heaven Sent Extra:
blogtorwho.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/doctor-who-series-9-behind-scenes-on.html

Doctor Who: The Fan Show

Hell Bent Reactions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM0XWI68BJA

Doctor Who: The Fan Show

Q & A with Ben Cook:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSo1Fph2Eto&feature=iv&src_vid=DM0XWI68BJA&annotation_id=annotation_290475499

Doctor Who: The Fan Show

Q & A with Blair Mowat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt5pGwsBZvU&feature=iv&src_vid=MSo1Fph2Eto&annotation_id=annotation_335291543

Doctor Who: The Fan Show

The Husbands of River Song Reactions:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdIwboY1ikU

Doctor Who: The Fan Show

Q & A with Bethany Black:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtSwX7WfuPg&feature=iv&src_vid=QdIwboY1ikU&annotation_id=annotation_3626367207

Doctor Who: The Fan Show

Q & A with Jake Yapp:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k5WG7M3V-0&feature=iv&src_vid=TtSwX7WfuPg&annotation_id=annotation_2634453395

The Infinite Monkey: The Science of Doctor Who:




www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06scz8s




Hosted by The Power of Three guest star Professor Brian Cox, this episode of The Infinite Monkey discusses the science shown in Doctor Who and broadcast on Christmas 2015 just before The Husbands of River Song.




Unsurprisingly the controversy over the science in Kill The Moon gets brought up here.
Not bad and amusing comments at the end including about Cher and British Opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn.

Doctor Who: The Fan Show

LEGO Dimensions Easter Eggs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV5nPMA67F8

A Dalektable Adventure? You need the wicked witch to open the Pandorica? Captain Jack challenges the Doctor to round up all five dancing Ood to celebrate the face of Boe's birthday...dear GODS. I had no idea such things existed.

Unsurprisingly the controversy over the science in Kill The Moon

There was controversy over the science in 'Kill the Moon'? I thought everyone agreed it was terrible.

Absolute Genius with Dick and Dom: Derbyshire:
This episode of Absolute Genius with Dick and Dom broadcast on February 20 2013 during the 50th anniversary year of Doctor Who looks at Delia Derbyshire who realised the Doctor Who theme tune by Ron Grainer.



A fun and interesting profile on Derbyshire and the titular host recreating the Doctor Who theme tune on their own.



This plus an appearance by Seventh Doctor Sylvester McCoy.



A fun episode in memory of the subject at hand.

Well I'm glad it was fun, I seem to remember the radio play about her being suicidally depressing.

Doctor Who: The Fan Show

Gallifrey One 2016:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_3903675803&feature=iv&src_vid=AqucBuCZ4js&v=07KbyHjO_K8

I have to say this is the first time that I have seen Shaun Lyon both talking and in the flesh.

Doctor Who: The Fan Show

Cosplay at Gallifrey One:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1ESQjTS7WM

Doctor Who: The Fan Show

What Are the Ribbons at Gallifrey One:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqucBuCZ4js&list=PLb9R5PhzQaCEgMy9uQE_T0O8uCtotltCE

The Practical Effects of Doctor Puppet "Twelfth Night" :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCQepD5rBVU
Interesting look on the making of Twelfth Night.

In the penultimate episode of Doctor Who Confidential season 5, Alien Abduction, the corresponding episode to The Pandorica Opens, the main episode's director Toby Haynes described the scene in which Rory could not stop himself from shooting Amy as a Romeo and Juliet moment.
Whether Haynes knew about it before, Amy herself Karen Gillan had played Juliet in a Romeo and Juliet sketch in The Kevin Bishop Show.

Doctor Who Festival London 14.11.15:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGAs4GSJCGI

Funny when someone mispronounced Steven Moffat's name in his presence.

Funny answer to the question of which companions they like to see come back.

Someone asked about whether Doctor Who would be filmed Ireland one day.

This triggered a memory of a teacher in high school who I think is Irish in background and told us about her trips to Ireland and how beautiful it is.

Now this was back in the 1990s when Doctor Who was not on most people's radar.

I had made it known back then I was (and still am) a Doctor Who fan and she says that wasn't a big Doctor Who fan.

I have not seen this teacher since I left high school in 1997 and I have no idea whether she has gotten into NuWho when it came around in 2005.

So if I ever get to see a Doctor Who Ireland-filmed episode I will make an attempt to track her down and asked whether she has seen that episode and what she thinks about it.

Doctor Who Panel RICC (Rhode Island Comic Con): Karen Gillan and Alex Kingston.

Part 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq2ABLp7GKo

Doctor Who Panel RICC (Rhode Island Comic Con): Karen Gillan and Alex Kingston.

Part 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFSm96gfZjk

Doctor Who Panel RICC (Rhode Island Comic Con): Karen Gillan and Alex Kingston.

Part 3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu7SryFzsEQ

In Part 3 there was a plug on Karen's short film Conventional which she starred wrote and directed.

In case there are still those who haven't seen Conventional here it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIWRI1g_NFE

Also it was mentioned that Karen has written and directed a feature and from what I could hear of it, it will be about Scotland and I look forward to seeing that film.

In The Curse of the Black Spot, Lily Cole played the Siren.
Cole was a supermodel before becoming an actor and in the corresponding Doctor Who Confidential episode Ship Ahoy, narrator Russell Tovey refer to her as the supermodel siren and that description immediately brought to mind Elle Macpherson in Sirens!

Doctor Who Confidential 6.5 Double Trouble, the corresponding episode to The Rebel Flesh it included a clip from The Eleventh Hour of Amy not looking away whilst the newly regenerated Eleventh Doctor was changing into new clothes.

Karen Gillan (Amy) herself would know what it is like to be stared at in a state of undress in her first post-Who work Not Another Happy Ending.

In Double Trouble for the filming of The Rebel Flesh the date December 1 (2010) was mentioned and it is eight days before my birthday on December 9.

I got curious and I looked up the filming schedule online and The Rebel Flesh was filmed on December 9 at Neath Abbey. Quite lovely knowing that Karen spent my birthday in 2010 filming this episode.

Doctor Who: The Fan Show

Planet of the Ood Review:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTXdLnR9yMM

Doctor Who: The Fan Show

Q & A with Sarah Dollard:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byAWfh-QS9U

Doctor Who: The Fan Show

Q & A with Chris Foxx:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?annot...&feature=iv&src_vid=byAWfh-QS9U&v=UPfJT4xyFzg

Toby Whithouse explains the Bootstreap Paradox:
amp.twimg.com/v/cffd0d0a-f8a7-4210-b8fc-53070e19ab38

The provided link is incomplete.

Colin Baker in DWM: 'I don't want to mock the afflicted, or to rub salt into a wound, but I think even the person whose idea it was would have to admit that the Afterparty show didn't deliver...We were herded around like...they didn't actually have cattle-prods, but "Stand over there! Be quiet! Walk! When they say this, do that!"' - yeah. IT SHOWED.

The Doctor interviews Captain Kirk:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtYiOQ5NquQ&feature=youtu.be

William Shatner as the Doctor? Egad! =80

Mercifully I switched off before anything of the sort was suggested. I just couldn't take the sight of Pertwee degrading himself in that manner. (Actually, I think I just couldn't take the sight of Pertwee full stop. I'm very bad at coping when Doctors AGE after they've regenerated into someone else, it's just WRONG. Except in Tom's case, obviously he's still effortlessly THE DOCTOR however white-haired he is.)

Doctor Who: The Fan Show

Meeting The Class Cast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGAvR1nC_nU

Patrick Ness Introduces Class:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO69qKRxOt8

Tour of Coal Hill - Class: Behind The Scenes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBasyqb7XKk

Jordan tours backstage – Class: Behind The Scenes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfsmQKrP1_Q

The Big Questions: Crotch grab:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T_ccNoX4PM

To think I frequently regarded Doctor Who Confidential as overlong and a bit pointless...

Greg’s most challenging scene – Class: The Big Questions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq3ccCkRvbE

Doctor Who: The Fan Show

The Daleks Review featuring Nicholas Briggs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGNJIjPjPh0

The Return of Doctor Mysterio guest stars Charity Wakefield, Justin Chatwin and Tomiwa Edun reveals where they would take the TARDIS for Christmas:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/34958dttfwPH1qcVv8BgJJV/where-would-you-take-the-tardis-for-christmas

Presented for Day 10 of the Advent Calendar on the official BBC Doctor Who website.

Justin Chatwin and Charity Wakefield tells us the best Christmas they ever had:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3pMQ2WVBMdflkMrqgJtFs59/the-best-christmas-you-ve-ever-had

Presented for Day 13 of the Advent Calendar on the official BBC Doctor Who website.

Matt Lucas’s spaceship tour:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04lnz87


Presented for Day 17 of the Advent Calendar on the official BBC Doctor Who website.

Charity Wakefield on what makes the Christmas Special The Return of Doctor Mysterio so brilliant:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04m3gsn

Presented for 24 of the Advent Calendar on the official BBC Doctor Who website.

Where will you be watching the Christmas Special The Return of Doctor Mysterio:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04m0b10

Doctor Who: The Fan Show

The Return of Doctor Mysterio Reactions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM7EqdxuCEM

Christel described The Return of Doctor Mysterio as Love, Actually in space.
I wonder if she realised that with The Return of Doctor Mysterio starred official Twelfth Doctor Peter Capaldi, Love Actually starred the other Twelfth Doctor Hugh Grant.

Doctor Who: The Fan Show

Q & A With Christel Dee & Luke Spillane:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMcfv8yD6Yw

Christel and Luke finally get a taste of their own medicine as they answer questions that has been put to their guests in previous Shows.

Two different versions of The Avengers gets mentioned here and I wonder if everyone who watched this immediately knew the differentiation between these Avengers.

I wonder if she realised that with The Return of Doctor Mysterio starred official Twelfth Doctor Peter Capaldi, Love Actually starred the other Twelfth Doctor Hugh Grant.

Yeah, he played the Doctor in a skit of some kind, if memory serves me.

Doctor Who: The Fan Show

Peter Capaldi Is Leaving Doctor Who:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llcYxsyEtlE

Is it just me or is The Fan Show unwatchably bad?

I think it is just harmless fun.

Doctor Puppet

The Many TARDISes of Christmas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z42tId83bgQ

The behind the scenes look at the making of the recent Doctor Puppet Christmas Special The 12 Doctors of Christmas as Alisa explained about the different TARDISes that was used here.
Quite interesting explanation from Alisa about the TARDISes here.

Doctor Who: The Fan Show

Ice Warriors, NuWho Series 10 Latest & LEGO Daleks!:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYQFctALutM&list=PLKEzuOOEQvYMecMxfTEcNDLFPF4zv5IBC&index=1

Space Helmet's take on the Confidential cancellation: 'A BBC Three spokeswoman said Confidential had been "a great show for BBC Three over the years, but the priority is now to build on original British commissions, unique to the channel." Commissions, since they brought it up - and these are real - such as Extreme OCD Camp, Britain's Worst Teeth and Help Me Anthea, I'm Infested.'

Well, in their defence, BBC3 did eventually make Class.

OK, that's not really a defence, is it.

Doctor Who: The Fan Show

10 Things From The NuWho Series 10 trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dkg6if6WXXA

I actually stooped to watching that in the desperate attempt to get SOMETHING out of the trailer to kick-start all that ecstasy I SHOULD be feeling, but funnily enough having an intensely irritating woman talk at me did NOTHING to awaken my dead heart.

Complementing the upcoming season of Doctor Who is Whovians a panel show from ABC (Australia) to be hosted by Rove McManus and here are the details:
““Rove McManus: The Next Doctor? No… the next big Whovian!
Rove McManus presents Whovians – a brand new switchover show coming to ABC2 and iview for Doctor Who Series 10.


Sunday nights are about to get a whole lot more galactic as Rove McManus and his team of superfans present a brand new half hour panel show to dissect, delve into and delight in the world of Doctor Who. Airing straight after the weekly premiere of the much anticipated Doctor Who series 10 on ABC, Whovians will be filmed in front of a live studio audience, and air on Sundays at 8.30pm on ABC2 and iview.undefined> As well as unpacking the most recent episode, Rove and the team will open the doors of the TARDIS and go back through the annals of time to lovingly analyze, critique, and unravel the mysteries of this much loved globally renowned series.

Rove is a long time Doctor Who enthusiast and will be joined by other self-confessed Doctor Who superfans, Tegan Higginbotham, Adam Richard and Steven ‘Bajo’ O’Donnell, as well as a roster of celebrity guests.

This is a show by Whovians but one that won’t exclude the rest of humanity.

“I’ve been a fan of Doctor Who for as long as I can remember so you can imagine how pleased I am to be hosting a show about it. Whether it be the classic era that dates back over fifty years or the modern series that has created its own decade-long legacy, it’ll be nice to have the opportunity to talk about my favourite TV show with like-minded individuals and be paid to completely geek out. You might say I’m so excited that I too feel like I have two hearts beating in my chest - and yes, it’s references like that which prove I’m the right guy for the job," said Rove McManus.

Brian Minchin, Executive Producer of Doctor Who adds “Whovians will be the perfect companion piece for the thrilling new series of Doctor Who on ABC. It’s fantastic to have this exciting newprogram to delight Australian fans.”

Rebecca Heap, ABC Head of Programming and Digital, said: “As the home of Doctor Who in Australia we are thrilled to offer our audiences another way to engage with the popular program, as well as welcoming Rove back to our screens.”

So get ready to get on board. #WhoviansAU

Whovians is an ABC production. It will be filmed in front of a live studio audience and broadcast as live on Sundays at 8.30pm on ABC2 from Sunday April 16.”

Doctor Who: The Fan Show

NuWho Series 10 Is Almost Here!:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JzqTP9w-n8

I discovered here that the two-part season finale is directed by Rachel Talalay.
This means that she has directed all three of Peter Capaldi’s season finales.

Well, I suppose it was minimally less ghastly than The Fan Show usually is - at least until that Cyberman was STUPIDLY downgraded to that silly human.

Whovians trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS0greEQH_M

Karen Gillan jumps on a trampoline in a clip from Doctor Who Confidential 5.13 When Time Froze, the corresponding episode to the 2011 season finale The Wedding of River Song from this article in 2016:
http://www.cultbox.co.uk/videos/instantly-improve-your-day-watching-karen-gillan-on-a-trampoline

Doctor Who: The Fan Show

Jamie Mathieson, Mimi Ndiweni & Kieran Bew - The Aftershow:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jxqs51gwX-s&t=18s

Funny when Mathieson talked about chalky blonde.

The Whovians discussion episode on The Pyramid At The End of The World was presented as a date night episode to reflect the theme of consent and love that was presented in the said episode that was being discussed.
This included host Rove McManus being joined here by his wife Tasma Walton and pictures of couples who just happened to be Doctor Who fans.
This Whovians episode came on May 28 and this date is of a personal irony to me as it is the wedding anniversary of an old schoolfriend who I thought was going to be my wife if circumstances had not prevented us from being together, primarily us ending up in different places due to parental decisions.
It is one of life’s cruel ironies because I probably would not be the Doctor Who fan that I am today if we had gotten to be together.

Also Tegan (my friend) had her boyfriend, Paul, along for the show as well.

I enjoy the show despite Adam Richard cackling like a raging queen every two seconds at every lame joke he makes.

I think my favbourite bit so far has been Justin Hamilton's "Who News" segment when he talked about the Mr. Men series of books and said there was a new series based on companions and after one about River and one about Sarah-Jane (I think) he said "and then there's this one about Adric" and up popped a picture of a Mr. Men book called "Mr. Explosion" and a giant "KABOOM" on the cover...

The Aftershow: World Enough and Time:

'It was like having Kylie back' - Brian Minchin on the reaction to Mondasian Cybermen. Hmm. I remember RTG saying something along the lines of 'We've had Kylie, but it was RICHARD DAWKINS everyone was worshipping...'

Yeah, the Aftershow isn't growing on me, by the way.

I watched a small portion on YouTUbe and I switched off after about two minutes. The host drove me crazy....

Yeah, I'd like to blame the utter pointlessness of that sort of programme, but, let's face it, it's the host...

The bits from Genesis and Pyramids...... they're clip-friendly, I guess, and don't really need much context to work.

Doctor Who: The Fan Show

LGBTQ In The Worlds of Doctor Who:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg5BWxatZEU

Calgary Expo – Doctor Who Panel – Matt Smith & Karen Gillan – April 2014

Part 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPdplYiH2_A

Calgary Expo – Doctor Who Panel – Matt Smith & Karen Gillan – April 2014

Part 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzTFI7T_QJo

Calgary Expo – Doctor Who Panel – Matt Smith & Karen Gillan – April 2014

Part 3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoDAoeGcNNI

Calgary Expo – Doctor Who Panel – Matt Smith & Karen Gillan – April 2014

Part 4:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlLhr6KASZs

They mention that Arthur Darvill making a joke of Karen looking like Mrs Doubtfire.
Kind of prescient to Karen’s now upcoming movie Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle which include archive of the original Jumanji star the late Robin Williams who was also the said Mrs Doubtfire.
Karen said that she would like to play Lady Macbeth and Matt saying that she is more suited as a witch in Macbeth.
Incidentally Karen subsequently would be in the unaired pilot The Devil You Know which is about the Salem witch trials.
On the question of crossovers with Doctor Who, one of Karen’s answers was Girls and had watched elsewhere of her saying that she watches Girls and I myself am watching this series having just began its second season.

Weeping Angel: Halloween Tutorial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaFIAHxMlSA&feature=youtu.be

Remembering Seven Keys To Doomsday:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxOzt7BwOLs

Fascinating documentary of the stage play Doctor Who and the Seven Keys To Doomsday starring Trevor Martin as the Doctor.
Includes an audio reconstruction of bits of the play which I am guessing is from the Big Finish adaptation of it.
A bit strange seeing Martin reminiscing about playing the Doctor in this stage play as he recently passed on October 5 2017.
In fact the documentary is dedicated to his memory as it was released at the end of the same month of his death.

Toyah saying she thought the Cybermen were unbelievably sexy has to be the weirdest party of "More than Thirty Years"

Is there any particular variety of Cyberman that drives her mad with lust? I mean, does she have a thing for really really shiny silver or perhaps for flashlights...?

Russell T Davies & Steven Moffat Talk Rose and The Day of the Doctor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JtGluXxx4E&feature=youtu.be

As mentioned here Paul Cornell did the novelisation of Twice Upon A Time by Steven Moffat.
Twice Upon A Time included the Brigadier’s paternal grandfather and Cornell himself had inserted the Brigadier in his novelisation of the 1997 mini-series The Uninvited.

RTG wanted to do Gridlock! *Wailing noises* NEED! NOW!

RTG never even WATCHED Rose while novelising it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

'If you cut and paste it's boring...You've got to kick it a bit' - TRAITORS to Terrance Dicks!

'I thought it would be below him' - Moffat re asking Cornell to novelise Twice Upon a Time. Whilst spending eight years failing to ask him to write for PROPER Who, presumably.

They had to cut half an hour from Twice Upon a Time?! ('It was longer than Dunkirk') - but it didn't even have a plot! How could it have overrun so much? How come Moffat doesn't know what an hour-long script looks like by now? When can we see all this murdered material? I hadn't noticed a 50% EXTRA FREE! sign blazoned across the DVD...

Why didn't the idiot ask if there were going to be any MORE?

RTG wanted to do Gridlock

He DID do Gridlock. He wrote it.

I mean, he wanted to novelise it but was forced to do one of the big event episodes instead.

Ah, well, one can't have everything.

I see ABSOLUTELY NO REASON why we can't have a novelisation of Gridlock as well as Rose, dammit. (And all the others too. Obviously.)

What I meant was that RTD can't have everything, not us. Sorry about the confusion.

But OF COURSE Russell T God should have everything, WORSHIP HIM!

Sorry, I can't.

Not after Miracle Day. Sorry

Well, we all have our off days. For example, the Duchess of Sussex doesn't realise she's Selma to the Duke's Troy McClure...

That doesn't get him off the hook in my books.

Miracle Day isn't THAT bad.* A haunting exploration of what it means to be human, starring our beloved Captain Jack...

*One can maintain this position fairly easily as long as one isn't actually WATCHING Miracle Day, and as no one except me ever rewatches the thing I feel on pretty safe grounds in pretending that THE MEMORY CHEATS.

A haunting exploration of what it means to be human

Bwha?

What were you drinking when you came up with that interpretation? Of all the ways I can think of to describe Miracle Day* "exploration of what it means to be human" doesn't even come into the top 25.

* Slow. Dull. Overly long. Highly illogical. (Words that wouldn't make it past NitC's censorware). ;-)

Jack already knows what it means to be human. He was human for a long time before Bad Wolf messed up his life.

What were you drinking when you came up with that interpretation?

Nothing, I'm having a teetotal month

Well, I'm pretty sure that's what Miracle Day was aiming for, though I s'pose I might be getting it confused with The Lazarus Experiment...

Jack already knows what it means to be human.

I wasn't referring so much to Jack as to humanity.

Bad Wolf messed up his life

To be fair, his life was pretty much messed up (and by 'messed up' I mean 'ENDED') by the whole taking-on-a-half-a-million-strong-Dalek-army-almost-single-handed...

Needless to say, Miracle Day killed Torchwood dead.

My, how times have changed since I spend the second half of the noughties on a permanent Who-high that joyously encompassed Torchwood. I actually found myself thinking 'Yeah, problem?'

Anyway, it's awfully lively for a corpse. (Well, on audio anyway, if you can say one thing for Exodus Code, it killed the Torchwood novels stone dead.)

Doctor Who: The Fan Show

The Steven Moffat Interview Part 3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=styqnGNTffM

The final part of the Steven Moffat Interview and it looks like it is also the final episode of Doctor Who: The Fan Show.

and we all say thank heavens for that!

I was trying not to say thank heavens for that, but sod this 'tact' thing...thank heavens for that!

I'm going to go out on a limb and say bring back confidential. Whilst it was similar in tone it was just talking heads and behind the scenes stuff. The fan seemed as much about the host as anything else.

Hear, hear!

(But...HALF-HOUR Confidential, OK, not the bloated monstrosity it eventually evolved into.)

Whovians will be back on October 8 on ABC (Australia) on the same day of the start of the first Jodie Whittaker season as it covers this new season.

Doctor Who Confidential: Season Six: Cut-Down DVD Versions:

Curse of the Black Spot: 'We're properly delivering everything you'd expect from pirates' says The Moff...after his chums ran through everything you'd expect from pirates and realised there wasn't a parrot. (Come to think of it...why wasn't there a parrot! Nothing like a nice distracting animal to get our minds off the plot, or lack thereof.)

The Doctor's Wife: A lot better than the others, what with it talking about the TARDIS instead of just going on about random bits of filming. But I could really have done without Matt Smith telling me the Doc was turned on by her.

'It must have changed his relationship with his ship, I don't know how, maybe we'll find out' - no it didn't and we won't.

The Rebel Flesh/The Almost People: Ah bless, they actually think this is the really terrifying story of the season.

Caerphilly Castle's haunted by a Green Lady? Yeah, that's a pathetically weak ghost story compared to what Elisabeth Sladen said about Wookey Hole.

Night Terrors: The moustache on Mark Gatiss's face is a more mesmerising and/or horrific than anything we saw on-screen during this particular story.

Girl Who Waited: Oh god, they're showing the racing-car and swimming-with-sharks stuff, I specifically thought when I sat down to watch the cut-down versions that at least the first thing to be cut will be that godawful utterly irrelevant we-taught-Karen-to-drive-and-Arthur-to-swim-with-sharks! stuff.

'There can only be one Amy in the TARDIS, who do you want' - there were two Amys in that DVD short story.

Wedding of River Song: 'Nothing says "I love you" more than a machine-gun' - Arthur Darvill. Bless!

Caerphilly Castle's haunted by a Green Lady?

Well, Fyvie Castle, in Scotland, is haunted by a green lady, Dame Lilias Drummond.

Green lady? Is that a green-colored ghost or a ghost that claims to be environmentally friendly? ;-)

Whovians will return on Monday October 8 7:30pm on ABC Comedy (Australia):
tvtonight.com.au/2018/09/returning-doctor-who-whovians.html

Our rejoicing over the demise of The Fan Show was obviously premature, as it now seems to have been replaced by something every bit as brief, pointless and irritating:

Access All Areas

That 'Access All Areas' seems to just be some (but oddly not all) of the previous short videos they've released, linked by the pointless addition of a host (no offence to whoever that was). I don't see why they can't just put ALL the behind-the-scenes stuff in one long video, call it 'Confidential' and put it on TV?
Heck, the short clips even have the 'Confidential' style voice-over

linked by the pointless addition of a host (no offence to whoever that was)

No, LET'S start insulting whoever-that-was.

At least the Fan Show host had wild enthusiasm, quirkiness and an interesting line in gender-ambiguity going on. Sure, she was extremely annoying but THIS host manages to replace all of the above attributes with...a horrible great stud through her lip.

Directing The Woman Who Fell To Earth:
https://www.blogtorwho.com/video-jamie-childs-talks-about-directing-the-woman-who-fell-to-earth/

Access All Areas on The Ghost Monument:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrrQgTagJB8
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Access All Areas on Rosa:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCWEfNwLHAQ

Access All Areas on Demons of the Punjab:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9UP186fZv0

William Hartnell: The Plaque Unveiling:
First Doctor William Hartnell was honoured in Ealing Studios with a plaque dedicated to him in October 2018 and the Doctor Who Appreciation Society made a documentary of it:
http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2018/11/william-hartnell-tribute-documentary.html?fbclid=IwAR3R5LwnWsiBfreRMv8sF3nGgtvKfaEh6emtRSjtTnw4Xbe3kjfaOJza4UI

Very moving tribute from those who knew him and the plaque is well deserved.

Access All Areas on Kerblam!:
https://www.blogtorwho.com/video-doctor-who-kerblam-access-all-areas-7/?fbclid=IwAR3aUfoDKeB8OLodd5u59uHJ785x3E6S1va4ca9Rdp6I8srJ_Cike2irCVU

Access All Areas on It Takes You Away:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdxA8E-A1bw

That fitness looks so wrong.

They should have done the Pertwee Years like the Tom Baker Years.
A bit more of an overview documentary feel I think for Hartnell and Troughton. The creation of Who, the first regeneration... all too briefly touched on without much background or context. But that's hindsight talking. The episodes were the selling point, the links just... links at the time.
For the Hartnell years, I'd have kept the episodes the same, just because you'd have to really.
For Troughton, I wouldn't have done Snowmen/Enemy/SP. Underwater Menace 3, Web 1 and SP2 would have given one ep from each season and shown all Troughton companions.

Interview with Eric Saward on his novelisation of Resurrection of the Daleks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ICjkuihWcw&fbclid=IwAR3U3iPEo5TkwWTZ7Tzc-tG9g2WhvduTOveVzW5-j9WWLRu0bPX2zCrERtk

How About We Animate That on Doctor Puppet:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DH8a_m0Hk0k

Doctor Puppet Commentary - Twelfth Doctor Mini Episodes:


www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3XVIkMeOa8

Doctor Puppet Commentary - Episode 3: The Doctor in the Garden:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vX0uBpGnbo&feature=emb_title

Funny.

Doctor Puppet Commentary - Episode 4 - Smoke and Mirrors:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI36jT5kxk0&feature=emb_title

Making of The Abominable Snowmen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8LQlaknAOU&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR3Yd0KuHmWlhCsUd2IofMWLUyOuFPcd98EbPOAn6yBby4FGy01309hSObQ

Despite Snares apparently knowing nothing about it, I sense animation of this is coming up.

Doctor Puppet Commentary - Episode 5: Baker’s Eleven:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jmz9Gzc8Upc&feature=emb_title

Doctor Puppet Commentary - Episode 6: The Sign of Four:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhWTPWH5azA&feature=emb_title

Saying goodbye to Bradley Walsh and Tosin Cole:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIAIaMn0rxI&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR1_NQ1tWPjuaU-ACOVwpsMOQVTHeZS-GkZqJfpq-KmFDLZ1r29UJcSkJ4I&ab_channel=DoctorWho

'I feel bereft' 'I don't like change' 'I'm gutted' 'I don't want to think about it because I keep crying' - and if THAT'S how you feel about mislaying a couple of Strays, JODIE!, imagine how the rest of us feel about LOSING OUR THIRTEENTH DOCTOR...

Well, that's assuming she wasn't acting. ;-)

Maybe the first take was "I'm going to miss what's his name and the other one."
And the director said, "Look, Jodie, just read the lines we wrote for you."

;-)

Could be.

Doctor Puppet Commentary - The Planet That Came For Christmas:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfRz-KF_Wtg&feature=emb_title

Great Lives: Caroline Catz on Delia Derbyshire:
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000rcpn

Caroline Catz on Delia Derbyshire is an episode of the radio series Great Lives and this has actor Caroline Catz talked about Delia Derbyshire, the woman who realised the Doctor Who theme.
Catz became fascinated with Derbyshire because of her realisation of the Doctor Who theme.
Not only that but Catz played Derbyshire herself in a film called Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and Legendary Tapes which Catz also written and directed.
Quite a fascinating piece on Derbyshire and how it took years after her death to get the recognition that she really deserves as well hearing an account of how the Radiophonic Workshop worked (no pun intended).

The Making of The Daleks Master Plan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAKOFXODtwE

This was posted on August 8 2020, Terry Nation's 90th birthday.

Doctor Who – With Puppets: Alisa Stern’s Story:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCEWCihR9Sk&fbclid=IwAR1pmF92rOaJ2av-MwLGZ7RfEhlXBrkniHEwm3q3n6sRylpmN5GUOnIb4ZI

Dorable!

Is it just me or did the Nardole puppet look more Nardole-ish than the real thing?

Ooh, oochie! I can't believe it doesn't want to...play with the Doctor-Puppets sometimes...

Meet Vinder & Bel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzKh6mOgcDU&list=PLKEzuOOEQvYNU9O67hmHp0ksUy79sor_A&index=8

JODIE! used to play Vinder's MOTHER-IN-LAW? Sorry, how old did they think she LOOKED!

So Vinder is Bel's husband but has never told her he loved her before?

JODIE! used to play Vinder's MOTHER-IN-LAW? Sorry, how old did they think she LOOKED!

You do realise that a mother-in-law can be a lot younger than the actual mother, younger even than the individuals she is a mother-in-law to.

It's usually called Hollywood casting. It's not uncommon in films and TV to have actors whose real-life ages aren't as far apart as their characters ages should be. I was watching a YouTube video the other day when they mentioned that an actress was 13 years older than the actor playing her son. However the characters ages don't match the actors.

Heck I was in a play where I played the father to a girl who was two years older than I was.

Of course the ages of the Doctor actors are no where near the Doctor's age!

The Dalek Execution:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYrhlzNs0ac

On The Web of Fear Special Edition DVD saw Going Underground, the documentary on the making of The Web of Fear.


This had Ralph Watson commenting on him as Captain Knight being dead when he was killed by a Yeti and that he as Ralph Watson isn't there yet.



In the case of sad timing The Web of Fear Special Edition which includes Going Underground came on August 16 2021 almost two months after Watson had died on June 20.

Doctor Who Am I trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEM__h1fRVQ

From the Doctor Who Page on facebook (not the official one):
"A new behind the scenes show has been commissioned for BBC Three called “Doctor Who: Unleashed”, which will begin in 2023 alongside the 60th anniversary. The show will be fronted by BBC Radio presenter, Steffan Powell.

The show will be in the same format as Confidential, which ran from 2005 to 2012."

*Blissful sigh* Ah, truly, He has come back to us and all's right with the world...

...I mean, not that I particularly LIKE any of the behind-the-scenes programmes, but that's entirely beside the POINT.

Different trailer:

https://youtu.be/Cn9OFpjWMBk

So 'Doctor Who Am I' got a brief theatrical release in UK cinemas this October and is now on DVD and streaming for our delectation.

How much you enjoy it is dependant on how tolerant of Matthew Jacobs' self-deprecatory average shlub routine that he carries through most of the film - and he's on screen for almost all of its 80 minutes. This can wear a bit thin and it's helpful to bear in mind that he's playing a role, one that he slips out of in the film's most interesting moments.

But no matter how much Jacobs centres himself, it's not really a film about him. It's not about the TV movie that he wrote, although all of the key players (including Eric Roberts and his on-screen/real-life wife) show up. What its mostly about is fandom, or specifically American fandom of the kind that dresses up in costumes and goes to conventions. Someone points out early on how completely different this is from the British fan experience, but no one really develops on this despite some well known UK fans popping up from time to time.

Which is a shame because almost all the observations made about the section of fandom it focuses on are trite and well-worn, if ultimately affectionate: the idea that these are damaged people looking for meaning in life and that's OK really is not a new nor particularly helpful one. There are some ill-advised attempts to draw parallels between fandom and the gay experience and (more extensively) to compare it to a religion. The latter gives us one genuinely interesting unforced moment when Jacobs views footage he's taken of fans with Paul McGann, who he says he's "like the pope". But there are too few of these unguarded moments.

Some fun is had with the US trailer for the TV Movie, which bills it optimistically as "The Motion Picture Event of the Year" and there are interesting hints of tension between Jacobs and Philip Segal, with the former hinting at resentment for his script taking the brunt of the blame for the TVM's failure. But when Segal shows up in person these dissipate.

(Segal, it turns out, is now the very successful producer behind the kind of reality TV shows that end up as landfill on ITV4 - 'Ice Road Truckers' and the fishing show that a murky soundtrack renders as 'Deadliest Cats'.)

And the failures of the TVM are pinned very much on the twin sins of a) "the Doctor is half-human" and b) the kiss(es), without ever pinning down why these represented fundamental misunderstandings of the show's ethos or pointing out that there were considerable problems elsewhere. The oddest omission of all is that no one points out that neither of these were Jacobs' ideas but had been present in scripts by two different writers who'd preceded him on the projects. Instead he's left ruminating about his personal connection to these ideas, which owe much more to US television formatting of the 1990s than anything in his own life experience.

(A few clips from the TVM crop up here and there and remind us how rancid much American television of that period now looks.)

But 'Doctor Who Am I' is at its best when it's talking not about the TVM but 'The Gunfighters' and its place in Jacobs' childhood memories, relating it to his bipolar father and suicidal mother. At one convention he attends a screening and panel about the 1966 serial and it's here and really only here that it feels like we're seeing Jacobs as he really is, genuinely affected by the experience. But if that sounds too heavy there's also quite a sweet if distant anecdote about Jackie Lane.

Though for oddness value, nothing beats the scene where Jacobs takes part in a mock seance to try to contact Matthew Waterhouse.

Our moderator should beware that not only does 'Doctor Who Am I' not feature any deadly cats, but it does include a three-month old baby (named after Billie Piper) and... worse still... several appearances by Graham Norton.

So 'Doctor Who Am I' got a brief theatrical release in UK cinemas this October

Ridiculous.

Some fun is had with the US trailer for the TV Movie, which bills it optimistically as "The Motion Picture Event of the Year"

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

And the failures of the TVM are pinned very much on the twin sins of a) "the Doctor is half-human" and b) the kiss(es)

b) is a bit odd THESE DAYS given the glorious success of TennantDoc, who's never adverse to snogging a Companion or two.

Instead he's left ruminating about his personal connection to these ideas, which owe much more to US television formatting of the 1990s than anything in his own life experience.

He...doesn't have any life experience at being half-human? Or snogging?

(A few clips from the TVM crop up here and there and remind us how rancid much American television of that period now looks.)

Our telemovie does not look RANCID.

(They totally should have used this tagline to promote it instead of It's About Time...)

several appearances by Graham Norton.

I always said we should have had him put down to stop him BLASPHEMOUS INTRUDING on our programme...

April 28 2023 marks ten years since the original broadcast of the fourth episode of The Doctors Revisited, The Fourth Doctor.

For its world debut on BBC America, this was followed by a broadcast of Pyramids of Mars, representing the Fourth Doctor.

Having appeared in the previous episodes with a beard I did found it very noticeable that David Tennant does not have a beard here.

As the earliest surviving Doctor, Tom Baker himself manages to make an appearance here about his own Doctor.

As noted by narrator Gareth Pierce, the Fourth Doctor was not afraid to use humour as his weapon and Tom Baker certainly did that very well.

One thing that I have always noticed about the Fourth Doctor era is that there were few UNIT stories in his early years. This reflects Steven Moffat describing the Fourth Doctor as an eternal child and David Tennant describing him having a free willing nature. Certainly this meant the Fourth Doctor was never going to be tie down to anything including UNIT.

This was emphasise well by showing a clip from Pyramids of Mars in which he expressed his frustration in working for the Brigadier with Sarah suggesting that if he is tired of being UNIT scientific adviser then he should resign.

Quite well in the segment on Sarah showing what a double act she and the Fourth Doctor were.

Leela and K9 were also discussed. Not surprised that Louise Jameson (Leela) turned up here as she was the only long term companion of the Fourth Doctor that I expected to appear here since Lis Sladen (Sarah) and Mary Tamm (Romana I) had passed away and I didn't go into reasons why I thought Lalla Ward (Romana II) wasn’t here and I won't again.

In fact I found this episode was rather conspicuous in not talking about either of the two Romanas at all.

Famous Foes that were talked about were the Zygons and Dalek creator Davros. It is fitting that Nick Briggs is interviewed in this episode as he has made Dalek and Davros stories for Big Finish including voicing the Daleks which he also performs for NuWho.

I had found it very effective in presenting the scene of the Fourth Doctor’s hesitation in destroying the Daleks at their birth in Genesis of the Daleks as that was truly a powerful moment from the era of the Fourth Doctor and it is a story I revisited very recently.

As the earliest surviving Doctor, Tom Baker

I literally thought 'No, that's Jo Martin' for a split second, there...

the Fourth Doctor was never going to be tie down to anything including UNIT.

Yeah, and it's SO WEIRD his future self who bears such a delightful resemblance to Four ends up as some Curator stuck in some stupid museum for (probably) CENTURIES.

that was truly a powerful moment

That still has me (usually internally) screaming JUST DO IT DOCTOR! JUST DO IT SARAH, CALL YOURSELF A FEMINIST! every time I think of it...

September 29 2023 marks ten years since the original broadcast of the ninth episode of The Doctors Revisited, The Ninth Doctor.

For its world debut on BBC America, this was followed by a broadcast of Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways representing the Ninth Doctor.

This episode presents well on the guilt the Ninth Doctor feels in his part on the Time War.
While this was made before The Day of the Doctor I got to see this Revisited after that 50th anniversary special. So I was watching this thinking the Ninth Doctor shouldn't be that guilty about Gallifrey considering what actually happened to it in The Day of the Doctor. As revealed in The Day of the Doctor, the Ninth Doctor has no memory of what he and the other Doctors had done for Gallifrey and that is why he still has that guilt.

Narrator Gareth Pierce in his introduction of Jackie said that the Doctor had never met the mom of a companion before.

Technically that is not correct as the Seventh Doctor did meet Ace's mother Audrey in The Curse of Fenric as well as the Fourth Doctor meeting Nyssa's stepmother Kassia in The Keeper of Traken.

As Chris Eccleston himself did not take part in this Revisited, the interviewees presented a very good assessment of his Doctor and the lasting impact that he had left behind.

the Ninth Doctor shouldn't be that guilty about Gallifrey considering what actually happened to it in The Day of the Doctor.

QUITE.

Way to retroactively undermine a character's entire raison d'etre.

Not to mention render him a complete hypocrite with all that 'My entire planet died. My whole family. Do you think it never occurred to me to go back and save them?' stuff...

the interviewees presented a very good assessment of his Doctor and the lasting impact that he had left behind.

Hope they mentioned the SHATTERED HEARTS.

Every episode of Whoy goodness is to be blessed with Doctor Who: Unleashed. Mercifully only 30 minutes long instead of that insane 45 minutes that RUINED Confidential...

October 27 2023 marks ten years since the original broadcast of the tenth episode of The Doctors Revisited, The Tenth Doctor.
For its world debut on BBC America, this was followed by a broadcast of The Stolen Earth/Journey's End representing the Tenth Doctor.
Unsurprisingly this episode looks at the extent of the Tenth Doctor’s relationship with Rose and the affects it had on Martha.
I had thought that it was well deserved that Wilf gets looked at as one of the Tenth Doctor’s companions.
The Famous Foes that are looked at here were that of the Cybermen and the Sontarans both of whom made their return to Doctor Who in the “new” series during the Tennant era.
I was surprised that it did not have a look at the Weeping Angels considering they were introduced in one of his episodes Blink. However I later discovered they do get a focus in the Eleventh Doctor episode.

Talking Doctor Who a documentary about classic Doctor Who in celebration of the 60th anniversary presented by David Tennant on November 1:
https://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/60th-anniversary-documentary-talking-doctor-who-hosted-by-david-tennant-98843.htm?fbclid=IwAR0P62zdkA9-du47CrbzjCJ3BgQbAeqbELXR2hrY4ByUAFmz33HTwZqOSrY

Doctor Who 50th Anniversary: Script to Screen - 50th Read Through:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZGTA5JGvQA

Marking the tenth anniversary of The Day of the Doctor.

November 23 2023 marked ten years since the original broadcast of Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty and was shown immediately after the 50th Anniversary Special The Day of the Doctor.

The said party has Doctors and companions both past and present along with fans to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who.

There were video messages from those who weren’t able to be there including one actor who at that point hadn’t appeared in the TV series, Ben Miller. This would be rectified when Miller played the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robot of Sherwood almost a year later in 2014.

It was also quite unexpected to see among these messages Jackie Lane (Dodo) as this is the first time I have heard what her voice sounded like back then as opposed to when she played Dodo.

Quite surprised that Jake from the 2006 Cybermen episodes had been counted as a companion.
I thought The After Party had been served well by clips of the series.

I had noticed that people upon seeing this thought The Afterparty was an awful idea.

I personally did not find it half bad as I did not take it that seriously.

I had noticed that people upon seeing this thought The Afterparty was an awful idea

It wasn't the best idea in the world but it was the execution that made it so unspeakably godawful.

The Official Doctor Who Podcast trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJeIo9VBwts

David Tennant's Stand-In in Wild Blue Yonder: Video Diary:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwr_mE0tD_Q&fbclid=IwAR18EbRzeowXLHPDw1OwVEZfJcyA9xNLcDDp_-oJL9hPELh82ePnI0MG96g

Serious Acting with David and Catherine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bASJEchs3N8

Becoming the Toymaker:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ4Mmd22MEs&t=1s

Imagine...programme interviewing Russell T God:

'All the other boys were discovering football and girls but I was too good for that' -

He's laughing about his 'divine right' to Who while also referring to His accident of returning to Who as 'The net fell over me like a Tom and Jerry cartoon' - BLESS!

Less amusingly, re being gay: 'Straightaway, the shame comes. Straightaway, the silence.'

The programme is remarkably misleading about certain issues - 'Christophe Eccleston could only make one series' (NO! He could have made MANY series dammit!) and RTG 'moved to Los Angeles, but before he could start any new projects...' - did you just write Torchwood out of RTG's history?

Ooh, and He knows what'll be happening in Who in 2026...

The Fans of Who:
Documentary about Doctor Who fans made by a Doctor Who fan.


Part One:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNST6A4ObLQ&t=5s

The Fans of Who

Part Two:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrGBj2xpWjI