What the hell is Doctor Who?

Simply, British television's biggest drama series. It was launched in 1963, cancelled in 1989 and brought back in 2005. It's about an alien (a Time Lord) travelling with a human companion in time and space in a Police Box that's bigger on the inside, oh and when the Doctor dies, he changes his face. Since the series was revived in 2005, three actors have played the Doctor. In Series 1 he was played by Christopher Eccleston, in Series 2,3,4 and the Specials by David Tennant and from Series 5 onwards by Matt Smith.

Series 7

Cast

Matt Smith - The Eleventh Doctor
Jenna Louise Coleman - Clara Oswald



Asylum of the Daleks by Steven Moffat
Dinosaurs on a Spaceship by Chris Chibnall
A Town Called Mercy by Toby Whithouse
The Power of Three by Chris Chibnall
The Angels Take Manhattan by Steven Moffat
The Snowmen by Steven Moffat
The Bells of St John by Steven Moffat
The Rings of Akhaten by Neil Cross
Cold War by Mark Gatiss
Hide by Neil Cross
Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS by Mark Gatiss
The Crimson Horror by Stephen Thompson
Nightmare in Silver by Neil Gaiman
Episode 14 by Steven Moffat

50th Anniversary Special by Steven Moffat

Broadcast on 23rd November
David Tennant and Billie Piper are returning. John Hurt joins the cast.

It's a bit early to make this thread isn't it? Although I spose you could say the same about the Lost one.

Yeah another great series this year. I got a few of the latest boxsets of the older episodes to replace my VHS's too recently so all is well

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It's never too early for a Doctor Who thread.

I've just finished watching The Power Of Kroll in my slow crawl through The Key To Time season. It features some of the worst green screen and model work I've ever seen, and is a perfect example of how far the show has come. Personally I think even the new series is at its best when dealing with small scale stuff, but thanks to a pitiful budget TPOK is just hillarious.

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Key To Time is excellent TV! Pertwee era is my favourite still though

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It'll be busier than you think anyway, there's a Torchwood audio play coming up soon plus the filming of the new series whoch I'll keep you all updated with, granted, it won't be as busy when Doctor Who is actually on

I have loads of the Big Finish Audios of Who. Are they doing the Torchwood one?

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Nope, going to do a big update to the first post later on, I'll add all the stuff about it then

So is it BBC?

There audios for Who are always far worse than BF ones

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It's for Radio 4's Afternoon Play, so yes it's from the BBC

Oh might put more effort in then if its on Radio 4

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Anyone picking up the William Hartnell classic "The War Machines" at the end of the month? The final shot of Harnell in the trailer is simply awesome!

I absolutely love classic Doctor Who and have a large collection of the DVD's. Takes me back to my youth of being terrified on Saturday tea-times during the 70's. I still vividly remember the big reveal of Scaroth in "The City Of Death".

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That last episode was some of the worst TV in the history of the series. It was just beyond rubbish and into a whole new level of awfulness. Even a friend at work who is a die hard fan of over 20 years hated it.
The overuse of nonsense technobable to suddenly whip up miraculous ways to overpower the Daleks just lost the show all credibility. So this new human/Timelord woman can in seconds think up ways to control Daleks when the entire Timelord race could not?
I could think up better endings than that and I'm a complete idiot so why do people accept it from Dr Who?

And then there is a five part mini series I think that torchwood is pretty much dead after that hits.

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Maybe but definetly think there'll be a few specials

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Set in CERN apparently.

Torchwood I didnt like to be honest. Not something that gripped me

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Torchwood series 2 was a vast improvement over series 1 I felt. I still find the almost constant sexual references just don't suit the Who universe and spoil it but the stories in series 2 were much stronger and certainly kept me watching.

I did like the way they brought them into the Who Finale though.....


And Tate didnt turn out as bad as I feared.10000000000 times better than Langford thats for sure

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I've got all the classic DVD's released to date so I'll be picking this up. Black & White Who FTW!!

I was really looking forward to the Trial of a Time Lord boxset though, if only to see if it is as bad as its reputation. The documentaries on it should be interesting as well, seeing as it's when the wheels really started coming off the classic series.

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