Very true. Capaldi looks like he could play a great Charles Dickens character, especially in the not so great Thin Ice. Yeah, Deep Breath is probably the best opener Capaldi got. Series eight had three of my fav's, Flatline, Time Heist and Mummy on the Orient Express.

the good old days....

It was also the last strong series in my opinion.

Series 9 had a reasonable two part Dalek opener plus Face the Raven and series 10 had too many poor to average episodes. Only The Pilot, Thin Ice, Empress of Mars and the two part finale were above average.

Well Empress of Mars was more like a Pertwee story, but without it being six parts long. I still view the story as somewhat tedious to be honest. Thin Ice was just bland and rather boring, and The Pilot had the lesbian love interest take off with Bill and the alien girl in a pool of water previously named Heather. Don't you just luv the politically correct BBC.

Who: Before And After #38
Name: Keith Pyott
Year(s): 1964
Stories: The Aztecs Episode 1: The Temple Of Evil - The Aztecs Episode 4: The Day Of Darkness
Character(s): Autloc

Before Who:
Films - Marvellous History of St. Bernard (1938), Call of the Blood (1948), The Spider and the Fly (1949), Tony Draws a Horse (1950), Time Bomb (1953), The Colditz Story (1955), Who Done It? (1956), Miracle in Soho (1957), I Accuse! (1958), Bluebeards Ten Honeymoons (1960), Operation Amsterdam (1960), The Village of the Damned* (1960), Weekend with Lulu (1962), A Pair of Briefs (1962), The Phantom of the Opera (1962), The Pirates of Blood River (1962)
Television -The Quatermass Experiment, ITV Television Playhouse, ITV Play of the Week, Armchair Theatre, The Invisible Man, Splendid Spur, Deadline Midnight, Bootsie and Snudge, The Big Pull, Tales of Mystery, Out of This World, The Sunday Play, The Avengers, The Human Jungle, The Saint, Festival

After Who:
Films - The Devil Rides Out* (1968)
Television - The Avengers, The Wednesday Play, Troubleshooters, Out of the Unknown, Half Hour Story, The Prisoner, Half Hour Story, Late Night Horror, The Caesars

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Billie Piper featured on the Radio Times cover 1-7th of July 2006 prior to her 'farewell' appearance in Doomsday.

Who: Before And After #39
Name: John Ringham
Year(s): 1964 / 1966 / 1971
Stories: The Aztecs Episode 1: The Temple Of Evil - The Aztecs Episode 4: The Day Of Darkness / The Smugglers Episode 2 - The Smugglers Episode 4 / Colony In Space Part 1 - Colony In Space Part 5
Character(s): Tlotoxl / Josiah Blake / Robert Ashe

Before Who:
Films - Ivy League Killer (1959), Very Important Person* (1961)
Television - Formula for Danger, Age of Kings: Richard II Part 1: The Hollow Crown, Age of Kings: Richard II Part 2: The Deposing of a King, Age of Kings: Henry IV Part 1: Rebellion from the North, Mill of Secrets, Age of Kings: Henry IV Part 3: The New Conspiracy, Age of Kings: Henry IV Part 4: Uneasy Lies the Head, Age of Kings: Henry V Part 1: Signs of War, Age of Kings: Henry V Part 2: The Band of Brothers, Age of Kings: Henry VI Part 1: The Red Rose and the White, Age of Kings: Henry VI Part 2: The Fall of a Protector, Age of Kings: Henry VI Part 3: The Rabble from Kent, Age of Kings: Henry VI Part 5: The Sun in Splendour, Age of Kings: Richard III Part 1: The Dangerous Brother, Age of Kings: Richard III Part 2: The Boar Hunt, Z Cars, Studio 4, The Sunday Play, The Plane Makers, The Avengers

After Who:
Films - Flambards (1978), A Married Man (1984), Shadowlands (1985), New World (1986), Franchise Affair (1991), V for Vendetta (2005)
Television - BBC Plays, The Flying Swan, Dixon of Dock Green, David Copperfield, The Avengers, The Forsyte Saga, The Baron, The Railway Children, Dad's Army*, Nana, The Saint, The First Churchills, The Wednesday Play, The Worker, Woodlanders, Up Pompeii, Catweazle, The Mind of Mr. J.G. Reeder, Hine, Bachelor Father, The Flaxton Boys, Casanova, Brighton Belle, Frighteners, The Adventures of Black Beauty, Colditz, War and Peace*, ITV Saturday Night Theatre, Some Mothers Do 'Ave Em, Barlow, Menace, Spy Trap, Armchair Theatre, The Protectors, Are You Being Served?, The Pallisers, Moody and Pegg, Sadie: It's Cold Outside, Poldark, Dickens of London, Raffles, The Ghosts of Motley Hall, Play of the Week, Pennies From Heaven, Angels, Minder, Goodbye Darling, Play of the Month, The Barchester Chronicles, Sherlock Holmes, Terry and June, The Piglet Files, The Darling Buds of May, Doctors, Wallander

First ‘Time Lord Victorious’ stories announced! | Doctor Who TV

"BBC Books will be publishing two novels to tie into the multi-platform Doctor Who story, Time Lord Victorious, starring the Eighth, Ninth and Tenth Doctors.

Time Lord Victorious is a brand-new multi-platform Doctor Who story told across audio, novels, comics, vinyl, digital, immersive theatre, escape rooms and games!

Set within the Dark Times at the start of the universe, three incarnations of the Doctor must travel across Space and Time as they defend the universe from a terrible race.

These two novels are just some of the stories in this epic saga!

https://asset-manager.bbcchannels.com/i/2fz050k80001000

We live forever, barring accidents. Just like everyone else in the universe.

The Doctor travels back to the Dark Times, an era where life flourishes and death is barely known...

Then come the Kotturuh – creatures who spread through the cosmos dispensing mortality. They judge each and every species and decree its allotted time to live. For the first time, living things know the fear of ending. And they will go to any lengths to escape this grim new spectre, death.

The Doctor is an old hand at cheating death. Now, at last, he can stop it at source. He is coming for the Kotturuh, ready to change everything so that life wins from the start.

Not just the last of the Time Lords. The Time Lord Victorious.

The Knight, the Fool and The Dead will be released in October 2020 and can be pre-ordered 'here [Waterstones; £9.99]

https://asset-manager.bbcchannels.com/i/2fz060k80001000

Even a Time Lord can’t change the past.

A wasteland. A dead world… No, there is a biodome rising from the ashes. Here, life teems and flourishes, with strange, lush plants and many-winged insects with bright carapaces – and one solitary sentient creature, who spends its days talking to the insects and tending this lonely garden. This is Inyit, the Last of the Kotturuh.

In All Flesh is Grass we are transported back to The Dark Times. The Tenth Doctor has sworn to stop the Kotturuh, ending death and bringing life to the universe. But his plan is unravelling – instead of bringing life, nothing has changed and all around him people are dying. Death is everywhere. Now he must confront his former selves – one in league with their greatest nemesis and the other manning a ship of the undead…

All Flesh is Grass will be released in December 2020 and can be pre-ordered here [Waterstones; £9.99]"

Those look interesting. I love the cover of the second book. Three Doctor's and loads of Daleks. :woot:

It's obvious which Doctor's are the most saleable, even to the BBC, so it will be a total miss fire doing a huge merchandise campaign with former Doctors then having to sit through Chibnall, Whitaker and the 'fam' when it returns to tv.

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Barbara (Jacqueline Hill) looks on aghast as the ant like Zarbi attack a Menoptera in The Web Planet (1965)

During the recent Zygon Invasion / Inversion watch / Tweet-a-long, writer Peter Harness says he pitched an idea for a story involving the Mara to Steven Moffat, but unfortunately it never came to fruition.