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Whovember: The Aztecs
It is my intention, at this early stage in proceedings, to post a review featuring each of the classic Doctors over the course of November as we celebrate 50 years of Police box-based science fiction...
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Whovember: Tomb of the Cybermen
I’m not all that familiar with the Second Doctor (probably because most of his episodes got binned by the Beeb), but having seen this story recently, I have to say he looks a lot of fun. I can also...
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Whovember: Spearhead from Space
A new Doctor, a complete new look, new logo, more Earth-bound stories, starting with the Autons… It could have been the start of the new Who in 2005, but in fact the start of the Third Doctor’s time...
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Whovember: Genesis of the Daleks
Let me preface this review by saying that Tom Baker was my Doctor. I think I remember more of the Fifth Doctor, but my introduction to Doctor Who was with the wild-eyed curly-haired scarf-wearing guy...
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Whovember: The Visitation
At the very end of Genesis of the Daleks, the Fourth Doctor reflects that out of the evil of the Daleks, must come something good. And I’m going to use that as a somewhat tenuous link to this story...
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Whovember: Vengeance on Varos
I don’t have good memories of the Colin Baker years. Having been introduced to Who by the much-loved Tom Baker, and then growing up to the utterly likeable Fifth Doctor, number Six was something of an...
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Whovember: Battlefield
In an ideal world, as we draw close to the end of Whovember, I’d be posting a review of a classic tale from the Sylvester McCoy years here. But the only story from that era I’ve watched recently is...
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Re-Dwarf: Backwards
It’s all change aboard the good ship Red Dwarf for series 3: there’s a new ship in the now familiar Spacebug, a new crew member in the just as familiar Kryten, a more active crew position for the Cat,...
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Re-Dwarf: Marooned
Red Dwarf has been ambushed by five black holes, and Holly, in her near infinite wisdom, has decided the crew would have a better chance of surviving if they take Starbug and Blue Midget while she...
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Re-Dwarf: Polymorph
Polymorph is my favourite episode from season 3 of Red Dwarf. It looks as if the effects budget for this episode was bigger than for the whole of the previous two seasons, with the shape-shifting...
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Re-Dwarf: Timeslides
This is a story about bubblewrap. No! This is a story about time travel. Yes, that’s it. Timeslides starts from the somewhat obscure premise that, somewhere in the next few centuries, digital...
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Re-Dwarf: The Last Day
Finally we reach the end of Red Dwarf series 3. And, from an ‘intersection of science-fiction and Christianity’ perspective, it’s a doozy. (That’s a theological term, by the way.) The iron shall lie...
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Doctor Who: The Mind Robber
I first watched this Second Doctor story back in the wilderness years, between McCoy and McGann, and I remember at the time thinking it was a little bit silly, what was supposed to be a...
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Monday Review: The Twelfth Doctor
You might have noticed that this time last week the internets were alive with various opinions about Peter Capaldi’s proper debut as everyone’s favourite Time Lord. I didn’t join in because, frankly,...
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Re-Dwarf: Camille
Here we are then, if my broadband holds out, the start of a shiny new season of Re-Dwarf. It’s a small, off-duty Czechoslovakian traffic warden The last time we saw Kryten, he had lied to his...
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Re-Dwarf: Justice
I’m going to say this at the outset: Justice is not one of my favourite Red Dwarf episodes. It doesn’t completely suck, but… well, the proximity of the escape pod to Justice World after (presumably)...
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The Twelfth Doctor
I’m going to make this quick, because, well, I should be writing; but it would be silly at this point not to throw together a few thoughts about the Twelfth Doctor at the end of his first season in...
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Doctor Who: The Seeds of Death
Just when you thought the internet had shut up about Doctor Who (at least until Christmas), this: a little more chatter about the Second Doctor, because as I’ve mentioned before, he has been...
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Re-Dwarf: White Hole
Finally, after many months’ absence, the Great Red Dwarf re-watch is back. And White Hole is probably one of my top three episodes ever, if I were to ever sit and compile such a thing. The story...
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Who’s First
This was going to be the latest Re-Dwarf post, but then I realised that thanks to the wonders of modern technology I can repeat my exact thoughts from, well, ten years and a day ago now, because I...
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