Visit the official Doctor Who website

Visit the official Doctor Who website
Look to the future

Asylum seekers...

Asylum seekers...
Refuge of the Daleks

Doctor Who picture resource

Doctor Who picture resource
Roam the space lanes!

Explore the Doctor Who classic series website

Explore the Doctor Who classic series website
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Infiltrate The Hub of Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood

Infiltrate The Hub of Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood
Armed and extremely dangerous

Investigate The Sarah Jane Adventures

Investigate The Sarah Jane Adventures
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Call on Dani’s House

Call on Dani’s House
Harmer’s a charmer

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Intercept the UFO fabsite
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Uncover the secrets of the Dollhouse
Programmable agent Echo exposed!

Hell’s belles

Hell’s belles
Naughty but nice

Love Exposure

Love Exposure
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Primeval portal

Primeval portal
Dressed to kill or damsels in distress?

Charmed, to be sure!

Charmed, to be sure!
The witches of San Francisco

Take on t.A.T.u.

Take on t.A.T.u.
All the way from Moscow

Proceed to the Luther website

Proceed to the Luther website
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DCI Banks is on the case

DCI Banks is on the case
You can bet on it!

On The Grid with Spooks

On The Grid with Spooks
Secret agents of Section D

Bridge to Hustle

Bridge to Hustle
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Life on Ashes To Ashes

Life on Ashes To Ashes
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Claire’s no Exile

Claire’s no Exile
Goose steps

Vexed is back on the beat!

Vexed is back on the beat!
Mismatched DI Armstrong and bright fast-tracker Georgina Dixon

Medium, both super and natural

Medium, both super and natural
Open the door to your dreams

Who’s that girl? (350-picture Slideshow)

Tuesday 6 November 2007

Ten Past Five


The new edition of the Radio Times, out today, has a terrific “Doctor Who” cover. The look on fifth Doctor Peter Davison’s face says it all! Mind you, so does the smirk on the face of David Tennant’s tenth Doctor!! Peter is obviously wondering what-the-hell his future incarnation has done to the console room of his TARDIS? David is grinning, confident in the knowledge that he is now the big boss man! It’s a good picture but it does suggest that the “Children in Need” Special, “Time Crash”, is going to be played for laughs. I guess you can’t have an angst-ridden story when its purpose is to raise money for those less fortunate than ourselves. The new episode, written by Steven Moffat, airs on Friday 16th November, exactly a week before the 44th anniversary of the show on the 23rd. It’s interesting to note that the last time two Doctors collided, sixth Doctor Colin Baker with second Doctor Patrick Troughton, was also the last time the Time Lord faced the Sontarans, due to return next year. I wonder if Peter will be bringing any of his former companions with him? I’d love to see Peri again…

6 comments:

Old Cheeser said...

You and your Peri fiaxation! I know a few years back Nicola Bryant had some kind of accident with her back which rendered her inactive, she doesn't appear to have lost her looks though.

I'm really looking forward to the special though as you say I wonder if it will have humorous slant. Mind you the "stop-gap" special (between "Parting of the ways" and "Xmas Invasion") was largely serious in nature...

My only real reservation is how old PD now looks. Oh well, I guess we'll just have to all suspend disbelief...

TimeWarden said...

"Time Crash" already seems to have much in common with "The Three Doctors"! Hartnell looked much changed, through age (and ill-health), when he reprised his role of the first Doctor in that Tenth Anniversary story, as Davison does now in what could be seen as the 44th Anniversary story!

Bill's Doctor was also seemingly annoyed at his successors ("So you're my replacements - a dandy and a clown!"), as Davison appears to be with Tennant in the photo on the cover of this week's Radio Times.

I didn't know about Nicola's accident, Simon, so thanks for the information. Apparently, her back injury was caused by a fall on the stage, in the early 2000s, but she is now fully recovered, thank goodness.

Regarding her looks, and I do quite often(!), it's hard to believe she was 45 last month. I never liked what they did with her hair for "The Trial of a Time Lord", or the mess they made when writing her out, and prefer to remember Nicola as Peri from her previous two seasons of "Doctor Who".

Miss Bryant was extraordinarily lucky to have appeared in both Peter and Colin's best "Doctor Who" stories. Now, about your Tegan fixation!!

Steve said...

Love the black and white James Bond-esque pic at the bottom! Plainly I was missing out big time by not catching DW during the Pete Davison years... Must admit I'm feeling quite ambivalent about the DW outing at Children In Need... bu I suppose at the end of the day the cause is more important. However, I'm hoping that Moffat's sense of pride will cause him to pull off something worthy and spectacular...

TimeWarden said...

The black and white pic, Steve, was a publicity shot taken to introduce new companion Peri to "Doctor Who", back in 1984, in a story filmed in Lanzarote called "Planet of Fire". It was indeed hot stuff as she spent most of the first episode in a bikini! It was very well-directed!!

I'd forgotten how close the transmission is, of the "Doctor Who" mini-episode, until I saw the Radio Times cover!

Andrew Glazebrook said...

I'm looking forward to seeing Davison as the Doctor again, could be great fun !!!

TimeWarden said...

Me too, Andrew.