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For my birthday, I received ‘The War Games in Colour’ on DVD, which I’m very pleased to have. I have shared my thoughts on the colourisation of ‘The War Games’ back in December 2024 when it came out on BBC Four. So, I don’t need to share them again here. Continue reading
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And thus, we’ve come to the fifth and final story of Season 9 of the classic ‘Doctor Who’ TV series with Jon Pertwee as the Third Doctor. Let’s finish our look into the season by checking out the six-part story ‘The Time Monster’ by Robert Sloman and producer Barry Letts. As well as Jon Pertwee, the story stars Katy Manning as Jo Grant, Nicholas Courtney as the Brigadier, Roger Delgado as the Master, Richard Franklin as Captain Mike Yates and John Levene as Sergeant Benton. The story also features guest stars like Wanda Moore as Dr. Ruth Ingram, Ian Collier as Stuart Hyde, George Cormack as King Dalios, Ingrid Pitt as Queen Galleia, Donald Eccles as Krasis, Aidan Murphy as Hippias, Susan Penhaligon as Lakis and David ‘Darth Vader’ Prowse as the Minotaur. Continue reading
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It’s time for one of my favourite stories out of Season 2 of the classic ‘Doctor Who’ TV series as well as my favourite story from the William Hartnell/First Doctor era. Today, we’re taking a look at ‘The Romans’, a four-part historical adventure where our heroes – William Hartnell as the First Doctor, William Russell as Ian, Jacqueline Hill as Barbara and Maureen O’Brien as Vicki – get to visit Italy in 64 A.D. They start in a Roman villa in Assisium before ending up in Rome where the fifth Emperor – Derek Francis as Caesar Nero – reigns. This is a ‘Doctor Who’ historical adventure that is injected with a lot of comedy by the story’s writer Dennis Spooner, who’s also the script editor on Season 2. Continue reading
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We come to one of the best pseudo-historical adventures in the new ‘Doctor Who’ TV series in Series 4, starring David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor and Catherine Tate as Donna. It’s time for ‘The Fires of Pompeii’ by James Moran. This is an episode where the Doctor and Donna travel back in time to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Pompeii in 79 AD. This episode features guest stars who would become prominent in ‘Doctor Who’s history like Peter Capaldi (who would go on to play the Twelfth Doctor) as Caecilius and Karen Gillan (who would go on to play Amy Pond) as a Soothsayer. There’s also Tracey Childs (who has played Elizabeth Klein in the Big Finish audios with Sylvester McCoy’s Seventh Doctor) as Metella, Caecilius’ wife, and there’s Phil Davis (who I’ve seen in the BBC’s 2005 TV production of ‘Bleak House’) as Lucius. ‘The Fires of Pompeii’ can be checked out on DVD, Blu-ray and BBC iPlayer. Continue reading
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And Happy New Year everyone! 🙂 It’s the penultimate instalment of the 2022-23 ‘Nyssa Challenge’ mini-review season today! Since it’s the 60th anniversary of ‘Doctor Who’ this year, let’s revisit a Short Trips book anthology by Big Finish called ‘Short Trips: Transmissions’. One of the stories in the anthology has the Fifth Doctor and Nyssa in it. Continue reading
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The second episode of Series 4 of ‘Doctor Who’ and it’s Donna Noble’s first trip into history today! This is ‘The Fires of Pompeii’ where the Doctor and Donna travel back to 79 AD on the day that Mount Vesuvius erupted in Pompeii. This episode also features Peter Capaldi, Karen Gillian and Tracey Childs in guest star roles in the episode. Continue reading
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It’s time for some old Amazon reviews to be re-posted on my blog today! And this time, I’m posting my reviews on Series 2 of ‘Torchwood’, a spin TV series from ‘Doctor Who’. This series stars John Barrowman as Captain Jack Harkness, Eve Myles as Gwen, Burn Gorman as Owen, Naoko Mori as Toshiko and Gareth David-Lloyd as Ianto. There’s also Freema Agyeman as Martha Jones in Series 2. Continue reading
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All of my DVD reviews on Series 4 of new ‘Doctor Who’ are on ‘Bradley’s Basement’. This includes the 2007 Christmas Special called ‘Voyage of the Damned’ and the thirteen episodes of Series 4. The series stars David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor and Catherine Tate as Donna Noble. Continue reading
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Today, I’ve posted three new ‘Doctor Who’ reviews on three stories starring Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor with Frazer Hines as Jamie and Wendy Padbury as Zoe. These three ‘Doctor Who’ stories focus on the end of the Patrick Troughton era as well as the end of the black-and-white days. Continue reading
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Today, I’ve added my latest DVD reviews on five stories from Series 4 of the new series of ‘Doctor Who’, starring David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor! Continue reading
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