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Category: Doctor Who
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On 25th August, 1975, I watched Tom Baker, in character as The Doctor, sitting in a cinema presenting clips from Disney films in the August Bank Holiday edition of Disney Time. At the end of the show, a hand was seen passing him a note. He read the note and announced “It’s from the Brigadier.…
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As anyone who knows me can attest, I have a deep and abiding affection for Doctor Who, having watched it ever since I was a wee scrap of a lad sitting in front of the TV in the living room. (My first Doctor was Jon Pertwee, accompanied by his companion Jo Grant, played by Katy…
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One thing I imagine people who have grown up with BBC iPlayer, DVR or even VCR would find hard to understand about growing up in the 1970s is the notion that if you missed an episode of a TV series, you had missed it. End of story. The only way you would ever be able…
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I just finished watching the latest series of Doctor Who on BBC iPlayer. That’s right, nearly two months after the last episode aired, the one with THAT reincarnation sequence. What did I think of it? It was… well… OK I suppose. To be honest, it has been hard to care about Doctor Who for quite…
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