Tag: Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
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Deep Breath – Some Quick Thoughts
Deep Breath is, at its core, a fairly typical regeneration debut story. The story itself wasn\’t bad, but wasn\’t exactly anything special either. But a regeneration story has the primary function of successfully introducing the new Doctor to the audience. This is the single most important thing we needed from Deep Breath, to break in…
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Doctor Who: 50 Years in Space & Time (Part 11)
Here\’s the penultimate part of my look back at Doctor Who\’s 50th Anniversary: The Radio Times Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Special The TV Times Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Special 11. Radio Times 50th Anniversay Special The Radio Times Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Special is a real doozy, with no less than TWELVE variant covers featuring…
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Doctor Who: 50 Years in Space & Time (Part 9)
Here\’s the next part of my look back at the Best of the Bunch from Doctor Who\’s 50th Anniversary: The Night of the Doctor – mini-episode prequel The Last Day – mini-episode prequel 8. The Night of the Doctor Commemorating Doctor Who\’s 50th Anniversary, and the first of two very good mini-episode prequels to The…
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Doctor Who: 50 Years in Space & Time (Part 6)
November was, overall, an eventful 50th Anniversary for Doctor Who. Lots and lots of great things were happening, on television, on DVD and in the magazines. I can now look back upon the entire 50th Anniversary and list my favourite items. Here, starting with the best, and working my way back, is what I consider…
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Doctor Who: 50 Years in Space & Time (Part 4)
In my last post, I discussed the Doctor Who contents of the 50th Anniversary editions of both the Radio Times and the TV Times, and both magazines have pulled out all the stops for the 50th Anniversary. But when it comes to the magazines, nothing beats Doctor Who Magazine. The November 50th Anniversary edition of…
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Doctor Who: 50 Years in Space & Time (Part 1)
As this month marks the 50th Anniversary of Doctor Who, my all-time favourite telefantasy series, I reckon that now is the perfect time to relaunch this blog as a dedicated Doctor Who thingie, rather than the more general telefantasy blog of its previous regeneration. I now do all of the more general stuff over on…