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‘Doctor Who’ 60th Anniversary Marathon – ‘Victory of the Daleks’

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Today, we’re checking out the third episode of Series 5 in the new ‘Doctor Who’ TV series called ‘Victory of the Daleks’ by Mark Gatiss, starring Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor and Karen Gillan as Amy Pond. This is the ‘Doctor Who’ episode where Matt Smith’s Eleventh Doctor meets the Daleks for the first time. It’s also an episode where the Eleventh Doctor and Amy meet up with Ian McNeice as Winston Churchill, as they travel back in time to the Cabinet War Rooms during the Second World War. This episode also features Bill Paterson as Edwin Bracewell. There are two new types of Daleks introduced in this ‘Doctor Who’ episode. There are the Ironside Daleks and there are the New Paradigm Daleks. Is this a ‘Doctor Who’ episode that impressed me greatly when I first saw it on TV back in April 2010? ‘Victory of the Daleks’ can be checked out on DVD, Blu-ray and BBC iPlayer. Continue reading

‘Doctor Who’ 60th Anniversary Marathon – ‘The Beast Below’

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It’s time for us to check out the second episode of Series 5 in the new ‘Doctor Who’ TV series called ‘The Beast Below’ by Steven Moffat, starring Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor and Karen Gillan as Amy Pond. In the episode, the Eleventh Doctor and Amy visit the Starship UK in the distant future where they discover a unsettling secret involving a giant star whale. Can the Doctor and Amy survive the Smilers and Winders aboard the Starship UK? This ‘Doctor Who’ episode also features Sophie Okonedo (who I’ve seen in the 2006 film ‘Stormbreaker’) as ‘the bloody queen’ called Liz 10 ( 😀 ) and the late Terrence Hardiman (well-known for playing the Demon Headmaster and he’s been in the Big Finish audio adaptation of ‘The English Way of Death’) as Hawthorne. ‘The Beast Below’ can be checked out on DVD, Blu-ray and BBC iPlayer. Continue reading

‘Doctor Who’ Marathon – ‘Victory of the Daleks’

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Here is the first ‘Doctor Who’ episode with Matt Smith’s Doctor where he meets the Daleks for the first time. And it was a disappointing Dalek episode for me at the time. However this episode does feature Ian McNeice as Winston Churchill who summons the Doctor to show him his new Ironsides. Continue reading

‘Doctor Who’ Marathon – ‘The Beast Below’

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It’s time for the second episode of the Matt Smith era of ‘Doctor Who’. In this episode, the Doctor and Amy visit the Starship UK in the future and face ‘The Beast Below’. This episode also features Sophie Okonedo as Liz 10 as well as scary Smilers and a giant whale that has the starship on its back. Continue reading

Series 5 of ‘Doctor Who’ with Matt Smith

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All my DVD reviews on Series 5 of new ‘Doctor Who’ are now on ‘Bradley’s Basement’. This includes the thirteen episodes from Series 5 and it stars Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor and Karen Gillan as Amy Pond with Arthur Darvill as Rory Williams and Alex Kingston as River Song. Continue reading

Prisoner Zero, Smilers, Winders and Daleks with Matt Smith

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At last, I’ve finally reviewed the first three episodes of Matt Smith’s era of ‘Doctor Who’. Today, I’ve added my DVD reviews on the first three stories from Series 5 on ‘Bradley’s Basement’. These stories star Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor and Karen Gillan as Amy Pond with Arthur Darvill as Rory Williams. Continue reading