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After the ‘just keep driving’ sequence, I felt like I’d been for a run.

I think more people might be aware of the show if it hand a better promotional image. This looks like a cartoon caper about some wacky cops trying to outwit a guard dog using sausages.

I don’t know if it’s the Baileys, or the fact that the tree is up, but The Husbands of River Song just absolutely destroyed me. Beautiful.

Time Is Relative - 12.5 Revenge of the Cybermen This week, Sarah Jane finds herself on a space station, surrounded by many, many dead guys. Sarah is pulling a face that is clearly intended to communicate "They were like this when I got here." She'...

"Doctor Who has been wandering round the space station, trying to work out why so many people are dead. His attention span is notoriously short, though, and he's constantly being distracted by new things."

It's Doctor Who: Revenge of the Cybermen! Read on:

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“Utopia” contains elements of it, I always thought. Oooo-eee-ooooo.

Time Is Relative - 9.3 The Sea Devils Hurray! The Master is back. We last saw him being arrested, for being a massive intergalactic nuisance, and put in prison. He's loads more fun than Doctor Who. When Doctor Who gets locked up, he just ...

“Suddenly - pow! Sea Monsters! It turns out that The Master has been sending them emails going "Come up to the surface - it's great and you could kill all the humans!"”

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Time Is Relative - 6.3 The Invasion This is one of those stories where the BBC got drunk and lent all the episodes to their friends, but then forgot who it had lent them to. And some of those friends never brought them back. Because som...

“The main bad guy is Tobias Vaughn, which is the sort of name you'd expect to find hosting a BBC show about vintage toys. He spends a lot of time in his massive office, laughing at people and telling them they are jerks.”

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Absolutely delightful.

Time Is Relative - 1.1 An Unearthly Child Welcome, everyone, to Doctor Who! Get ready for exciting adventures in time and space! But also, don't get too ready, as first we have to hang out in this school for a bit, watching people talk for ag...

62 years, everyone. Here's my account of Doctor Who's first ever story. Featuring at least three moments that will make you smile and say, "Well that's a droll way of putting it."

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Happy birthday Doctor Who, you mad old bastard.

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Time Is Relative - 12.2 The Ark in Space Doctor Who has taken his friends, Harry and Sarah, into space to see what that's like. They have arrived on a space station in the future. There's no-one else about, so they can do what they want. To ...

“Harry is carrying his shoes about.
Maybe he’s polite, and always takes his shoes off when he enters the house. He still has his blazer on, though, suggesting he might leave any minute if conversation becomes tedious.”

It’s Doctor Who : The Ark in Space! Read on…

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Look at this wonderful old guy. God I love him.

100 Books in a year. 36 - 40 Poems and other ramblings, by Rob Reed.

Cybermen! Shrieking women! A twisted picture in an attic. Find out about the horrors I've seen in this, the year I read 100 books.

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Oh yeah

It saves loads of time. It also means you don’t put off stuff that’s good, but you never think you’re in the mood for.

We have a jar. Once or twice a year we drink wine and draw up a list of films we want to watch. I print them off, cut them up, they go in the jar.

Always choose the next film just after finishing the previous one, giving you time to plan for its length.

Time Is Relative - 14.5 The Robots of Death Doctor Who has got a new mate to play out with, and she's called Leela. This is the first time he's found a new friend in a while, and so he's kind of forgotten what you do. What you don't do, Doctor...

“The Sand-Boat is run by some robots. They are the Robots of Death, though they don't call themselves that in public. They call themselves "The Robots of... um... Nothing..."

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That final reveal was all the emotions at once.

Let’s take a look at the whole “there are too many black people on TV” thing, shall we?

After Pochin claimed Black people in TV adverts “made her mad”, all her supporters tried to use 👇🏼 as their excuse for why she was somehow justified in her overt racism.

Spoiler - she isn’t! 🤨

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The new Ainley Master figure is wonderful. What a piece of work. You can hear the chuckle.

And… to take us home…

Horror films are amazing, yeah? A genre of constant wit, innovation and variety.

I’ve had an excellent month, and these are just a handful of the films that have brought me joy.

Another score for ‘years ending in a 6’ correlating with ‘years with only one Doctor Who story.

1986 - Trial of a Time Lord
1996 - The TV movie
2016 - Return of Doctor Mysterio
2026 - End of Disney Special

(yes, I too feel like Trial is four stories, but officially it’s not & it suits my conceit)

Time Is Relative - 2.4 The Romans The Romans is great. Here we see the TARDIS crew hanging out in Italy, drinking loads of wine and - in the case of Ian and Barbara - seriously approaching the point where they need to ask if this coun...

“Doctor Who may come over as a bored alien who toys with people's lives to ward off galactic ennui. But he's also considers himself to be the best, and his propensity for showing off inclines him towards playfulness.”

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John Mackay (John Logie Baird; Nolly)

Time Is Relative - 13.1 Terror of the Zygons This week Doctor Who has gone to Scotland and just look at his little face! He loves it, doesn't he? He's got a little Scottish hat on, and a special Scottish scarf, and he's cackling madly at somethi...

“Doctor Who spends a while muttering creepily, then decides that the murderer was a Loch Ness Monster. Astonishingly, he will turn out to be right. But I reckon he says this whenever he's in Scotland, and just got lucky.”

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Two things:

1. This is such a great TV show and I love every second of it.

2. This promo image rather undersells it, and suggests they might be trying to distract a dog with sausages so they can steal sweets.

Yeah - that’s my least favourite. Doesn’t hold my interest.

People give Android Invasion a kicking as the worst, but even though its plot is bobbins, I really enjoy the constant stream of fun ideas.

What a season though, eh? What a magnificent head.

Time Is Relative - 6.5 The Seeds of Death A delightful shot, to start off. There's Jamie and Zoe, wondering what's going to happen next in this madcap life of theirs. And there's Doctor Who, giggling like a maniac. It's almost as if their a...

“Doctor Who goes to see the Ice Warriors, on the moon. They are delighted to see him, because it means they can go "Look, we made a big killy seed pod thing!"
Villains are always desperate to show off to Doctor Who.”

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