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Doctor Who: Sleep No More  Season 9, Ep 9

This terrifying story is assembled from footage discovered in the wreckage of Le Verrier Space Station. [more inside]
posted by fearfulsymmetry on Nov 14, 2015 - 66 comments

Doctor Who: The Zygon Inversion   Season 9, Ep 8

Shapeshifting Zygons are everywhere in the UK, and there is no way of knowing who to trust. With UNIT neutralised, only the Doctor stands in their way. But how do you stop a war? And what can the Doctor do to save his friends? [more inside]
posted by fearfulsymmetry on Nov 7, 2015 - 67 comments

Doctor Who: The Zygon Invasion  Season 9, Ep 7

The Zygons, a race of shapeshifting aliens, have been living in secret amongst us on Earth, unknown and unseen - until now! When Osgood is kidnapped by a rogue gang of Zygons, the Doctor, Clara and Unit must scatter across the world in a bid to set her free. But will they reach her in time, and can they stop an uprising before it is too late? [more inside]
posted by fearfulsymmetry on Oct 31, 2015 - 59 comments

Doctor Who: Series 9: 6. The Woman Who Lived  Season 9, Ep 6

England, 1651. Deadly highwayman 'the Knightmare' and his sidekick stalk the dark streets of London. But when they find loot that is not of this world, they come face to face with the Doctor. Who is the Knightmare in league with? And can the Doctor avoid the hangman's noose and protect the Earth from a devilish betrayal? [more inside]
posted by fearfulsymmetry on Oct 24, 2015 - 74 comments

Doctor Who: The Girl Who Died  Season 9, Ep 5

Captured by Vikings, the Doctor and Clara must help protect their village from space warriors from the future, the Mire. Outnumbered and outgunned, their fate seems inevitable. So why is the Doctor preoccupied with a single Viking girl? [more inside]
posted by fearfulsymmetry on Oct 17, 2015 - 75 comments

Doctor Who: Before the Flood  Season 9, Ep 4

On a remote army outpost, a fearsome alien warlord called the Fisher King sets in motion a twisted plan to ensure his own survival. The ripples will be felt around the universe. Is this chain of events inevitable? And can the Doctor do the unthinkable? [more inside]
posted by fearfulsymmetry on Oct 10, 2015 - 52 comments

Doctor Who: Under the Lake  Season 9, Ep 3

When an underwater base comes under attack, the Doctor and Clara must save the frightened crew and defeat an impossible threat. But what is behind these terrifying events? And can they really be haunted by ghosts? [more inside]
posted by fearfulsymmetry on Oct 3, 2015 - 45 comments

Doctor Who: The Witch's Familiar  Season 9, Ep 2

Trapped and alone on the terrifying planet Skaro, the Doctor is at the heart of the evil Dalek Empire - no sonic, no TARDIS, nobody to help. With his greatest temptation before him, can the Doctor resist? And will there be mercy? [more inside]
posted by fearfulsymmetry on Sep 26, 2015 - 78 comments

Doctor Who: The Magician's Apprentice  Season 9, Ep 1

'Where is the Doctor?' When the skies of Earth are frozen by a mysterious alien force, Clara needs her friend. But where is the Doctor, and what is he hiding from? [more inside]
posted by fearfulsymmetry on Sep 19, 2015 - 112 comments

Doctor Who: Death in Heaven  Season 8, Ep 12

In the last in the current series, Missy's plan comes to fruition, the Doctor gets a temporary promotion, the dead come home and they've got shiny new suits. [more inside]
posted by Grangousier on Nov 8, 2014 - 88 comments

Doctor Who: In the Forest of the Night  Season 8, Ep 10

The Doctor, Clara, Danny and a classful of children find themselves in a mysterious forest that has grown up in central London - and all over the world - overnight. [more inside]
posted by Grangousier on Oct 25, 2014 - 66 comments

Doctor Who: Flatline  Season 8, Ep 9

While the Doctor is trapped in a tiny Tardis, Clara has to save Bristol and the world from invaders from a flat universe who have come to steal our dimensions. [more inside]
posted by Grangousier on Oct 18, 2014 - 50 comments

Doctor Who: Mummy on the Orient Express  Season 8, Ep 8

The Doctor takes Clara on one last holiday on board an Orient Express that flies through space. But there's an ancient monster on board, and once you see it you have sixty-six seconds to live. [more inside]
posted by Grangousier on Oct 11, 2014 - 48 comments

Doctor Who: Kill The Moon  Season 8, Ep 7

The Doctor takes Courtney on a trip to be to be the first woman on the moon, however it turns out the moon is not what it seems. [more inside]
posted by Grangousier on Oct 4, 2014 - 92 comments

Doctor Who: New Earth  Books Included   Season 2, Ep 1

A sequel of sorts to The End Of The World featuring the return of Cassandra. The Doctor and Rose travel to New New New New New New New New New New New New New New New New York in the year 5,000,000,023 and enter a hospital run by CatNuns! But the catnuns are hiding a terrible secret. But First.... {we're a bit out of sync cos I called the Christmas special episode 1 and fanfare doesn't like there being two threads numbered that.. unless maybe I can cheat and make it a different category, sorry for all the trouble} [more inside]
posted by Just this guy, y'know on Oct 1, 2014 - 7 comments

Doctor Who: Christmas Invasion  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 1

First of all start with this: Children in need regeneration special. Now, onto the episode! The newly regenerated Doctor, suffering side effects from his regeneration, crash lands the TARDIS in London. He exits to meet Jackie Tyler and Mickey, and collapses in front of them. [more inside]
posted by Just this guy, y'know on Sep 24, 2014 - 17 comments

Doctor Who: Time Heist  First Watch   Season 8, Ep 5

The Doctor turns bank robber when he is given a task he cannot refuse - steal from the most dangerous bank in the cosmos. With the help of a beautiful shape-shifter and a cyber-augmented gamer, the Doctor and Clara must fight their way past deadly security, and come face-to-face with the fearsome Teller - a creature of terrifying power that can detect guilt. Description from BBC
posted by Magnakai on Sep 20, 2014 - 48 comments

Doctor Who: Parting of The Ways  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 13

The Dalek fleet is poised to destroy the Earth and only The Doctor, Rose, Jack and a band of television producers can stop them. [more inside]
posted by Just this guy, y'know on Sep 17, 2014 - 6 comments

Doctor Who: Listen  Season 8, Ep 4

The Doctor goes in search of whatever it is that's under the bed when we wake up, terrified, at night. This takes him, and Clara, into Danny Pink's childhood, to the end of the Universe and a barn in the distant past where a frightened boy is trying to sleep. Meanwhile, Clara has several shots at the same date with Danny. [more inside]
posted by Grangousier on Sep 13, 2014 - 80 comments

Doctor Who: Bad Wolf  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 12

The Doctor, Rose, and Jack Harkness find themselves separated, waking up with temporary amnesia in various mid 2000's television game shows. The Doctor finds himself in a Big Brother house hosted by the Davinadroid, Rose ends up on the set of The Weakest Link hosted by Anne Droid, and Jack wakes up facing two female androids who offer to give him a makeover on a show similar to What Not to Wear. This won't date badly, not at all. [more inside]
posted by Just this guy, y'know on Sep 11, 2014 - 7 comments

Doctor Who: Robot of Sherwood  Season 8, Ep 3

In a sun-dappled Sherwood Forest, the Doctor discovers an evil plan from beyond the stars and strikes up an unlikely alliance with Robin Hood. With all of Nottingham at stake, the Doctor must decide who is real and who is fake.
posted by mumkin on Sep 6, 2014 - 66 comments

Doctor Who: Boom Town  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 11

The Doctor, Rose and Captain Jack arrive in Cardiff in the year 2005. Mickey Smith arrives by train. The Tardis is there to refuel at the Cardiff Rift formed in 1869 but whilst enjoying lunch they spot the face of the escaped Margaret Blaine (containing the Slitheen Blon Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day.) [more inside]
posted by Just this guy, y'know on Sep 3, 2014 - 7 comments

Doctor Who: Into The Dalek  Season 8, Ep 2

In the midst of a warzone, the soldiers occupying Aristotle, a secret human outpost, have captured a lone Dalek. This Dalek is so damaged that it has come to view its own kind as evil, and claims it wants to help the humans exterminate the Dalek legions. When the Doctor and Clara arrive on Aristotle, they are miniaturised and sent into the body of the Dalek itself, in the hope of understanding what has happened to it. As the Doctor confronts the question of whether there can ever be such a thing as a good Dalek, he must also confront the hatred in his own heart. [more inside]
posted by Just this guy, y'know on Aug 31, 2014 - 87 comments

Doctor Who: The Doctor Dances  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 10

Second Part of a two parter: See Part One (The Empty Child) The Child's plague is spreading throughout wartime London, and its zombie army is on the march. The Ninth Doctor and Rose form an alliance with intergalactic con man Captain Jack, but find themselves trapped in the abandoned hospital. They head to the crash site of Jack's supposed space junk and discover the ground zero for the mysterious plague. [more inside]
posted by Just this guy, y'know on Aug 27, 2014 - 8 comments

Doctor Who: Deep Breath  Season 8, Ep 1

In Victorian London, the Paternoster Gang, comprising of Silurian Madame Vastra, her human maid and wife Jenny, and Sontaran butler Strax, are summoned by the police force when a dinosaur suddenly materialises outside the Houses of Parliament. Vastra observes that the dinosaur has something stuck in its throat, and moments later it spits out the TARDIS onto the banks of the Thames. [more inside]
posted by Just this guy, y'know on Aug 24, 2014 - 141 comments

Doctor Who Administration

I have a couple of admin questions. [more inside]
posted by Just this guy, y'know on Aug 22, 2014 - 19 comments

Doctor Who: The Empty Child  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 9

Chasing a metallic object through the Time Vortex, the Ninth Doctor and his companion, Rose Tyler, arrive in London during the Blitz. [more inside]
posted by Just this guy, y'know on Aug 20, 2014 - 10 comments

Doctor Who: Fathers Day  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 8

The Doctor takes Rose back to the day her father died. Rose, in a moment of weakness saves her fathers life. [more inside]
posted by Just this guy, y'know on Aug 13, 2014 - 7 comments

Doctor Who: The Long Game  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 7

The Doctor, Rose and Brand New Companion, who I'm sure we'll be seeing a lot of arrive at Satellite 5 in the year 200000. Something is not as it should be! The Mighty Jagrafess of the Holy Hadrojassic Maxarodenfoe has taken over the station and is using it to control the lives of the people below. Ultimately the Doctor destroys it by futzing with the environmental systems, but is there a longer game afoot? [more inside]
posted by Just this guy, y'know on Aug 6, 2014 - 8 comments

Classic Who

I have had a request that Wednesday Who could be accompanied by a Classic Who watch, going all the way back to an unearthly child. [more inside]
posted by Just this guy, y'know on Aug 6, 2014 - 6 comments

Doctor Who: Dalek  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 6

The Doctor and Rose follow a distress signal and end up in Utah, in the far flung future year of 2012. They find themselves in a museum of sorts full of alien artefacts. This is the private collection of a very rich and powerful man called Henry Van Statten. The only living part of his collection is an alien he calls The Metaltron, but is in fact, A DALEK! The doctor is terribly cross that a Dalek has survived the Time War. He tries to destroy the Dalek, but it escapes after using Rose's DNA and presumably time travel energy (Blinovitch Limitation Energy) and kills it's way through the base. Eventually the stolen DNA causes it to mutate into a creature which feels emotions other than hate, and after basking in sunlight, it finally self destructs. [more inside]
posted by Just this guy, y'know on Jul 30, 2014 - 17 comments

Doctor Who: World War Three  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 5

A two parter with Aliens of London the Doctor and Rose (and mickey the idiot) stop a coup d'etat of green farty aliens. [more inside]
posted by Just this guy, y'know on Jul 23, 2014 - 11 comments

Doctor Who: Aliens of London  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 4

The Doctor accidentally returns Rose to London a year too late, but get's away with it because everyone is distracted by a spaceship crashing into Big Ben. [more inside]
posted by Just this guy, y'know on Jul 16, 2014 - 8 comments

Doctor Who: The Unquiet Dead  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 3

The Doctor and Rose travel into the past, Cardiff 1869 where the dead are more lively than they ought to be. [more inside]
posted by Just this guy, y'know on Jul 9, 2014 - 12 comments

The Sarah Jane Adventures: Invasion of the Bane  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 1

Bubble Shock is a new drink that is taking the world by storm. It's strangely addictive and everyone's drinking it. Sarah Jane is so fascinated by the phenomenon that she is almost oblivious to the arrival of her new neighbour, 13-year-old Maria Jackson, a young girl starting a new life with her father.
posted by zarq on Jun 13, 2014 - 2 comments

Torchwood: Everything Changes  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 1

When South Wales Police Officer Gwen Cooper witnesses the resurrection of a murder victim, it begins her journey into a dangerous underworld of savage monsters and alien hunters. Her chance encounter with the enigmatic Captain Jack Harkness and the Torchwood team will change her life forever.
posted by zarq on Jun 13, 2014 - 35 comments

Doctor Who: The End of the World  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 2

The Doctor takes Rose on her first trip in the TARDIS to the year 5,000,000,000, where wealthy alien delegates have gathered on observation space station Platform One to watch the Sun expand and destroy the Earth. [more inside]
posted by zarq on Jun 12, 2014 - 42 comments

Doctor Who: Rose  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 1

Rose Tyler is an ordinary shop worker living an ordinary life in 21st century Britain. But that life is turned upside down when a strange man calling himself The Doctor drags her into an alien invasion attempt. [more inside]
posted by zarq on Jun 10, 2014 - 59 comments

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