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The Master (Roger Delgado) holds Jo Grant (Katy Manning) captive in Frontier in Space (1973)

Okay so far this witch Story seems to be a remake of The Shakespeare Code from Tennant's second season. I wouldn't say this was bad (compared to the one with the Pting and the Demons of the Punjab) but its far from great. Shakespeare Code was better.

Alan Cumming is a great actor but he's being wasted here. He kind of reminds me of Soldeed from Horns of Nimon.

Best episode of the series for me.

Why? Well i live in the area in which it was set and can see Pendle Hill just a few minutes dog walk from my house. Aside from a five minute spell where it seemed to go into 'Hardship for a woman' over drive there's not an awful lot i'd say was wrong with the episode.

Alan Cumming was fun and the script was historically accurate especially in it's methods of witch finding. The zombie witches (Essentially what they were) probably proved quite scary for 7'oclock on a Sunday evening and it was great to actually have a credible and threatening alien race for a change.

Jodie came up with her best performance, especially whilst tied to the ducking stool attempting to reason with James, and thankfully kept the dumb gawping look to a minimum the rest of the time.

To sum up, whilst it was quite comfortably the best episode of this series, it still wouldn't scrape into the top twenty episodes of Nu-Who.

November 26th: Today in WHO-story

Births
1919 - Noel Coleman (General Smythe in The War Games)

1928 - Michael Hawkins (General Williams in Frontier in Space)

1929 - William Dysart (Alexander McLaren in The Highlanders and Reegan in The Ambassadors of Death)

1945 - Nicolas Chagrin (Quillam in Vengeance on Varos; son of The Dalek Invasion of Earth's music composer Francis Chagrin)

Deaths
1994 - Vi Delmar (Queen Xanxia in The Pirate Planet) aged 92

2003 - Gordon Reid (Phillips in Invasion of the Dinosaurs) aged 64

Episodes
1966 - The Power of the Daleks, Episode Four: 7.8 million viewers
1977 - The Sun Makers, Part One: 8.5 million viewers
1993 - Dimensions in Time, Part One (BBC One - during BBC Children in Need): 13.8 million viewers
2006 - Torchwood: Greeks Bearing Gifts (BBC Three): 1.31 million viewers
2016 - Class: The Metaphysical Engine, or What Quill Did (BBC Three)

Releases
1992 - Issue 194 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)

2007 - Destiny of the Daleks and The Complete Davros Collection (DVD - region 2)

2009 - Issue 143 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines)

2014 - Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 77 (Big Finish Productions)

Behind-the-Scenes
2013 - The years Christmas special was officially titled The Time of the Doctor
2014 - Recording of the Big Finish audios The Ghost Trap and Black Dog took place

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The Judoon as seen in The Stolen Earth (2008)

November 27th: Today in WHO-story

Births
1894 - Gladys Spencer (High Minister voice in The Ark in Space)
1918 - Peter Tuddenham (Nerva system voice in The Ark in Space, Mandragora in The Masque of Mandragora, the Brain in Time and the Rani and Streaker in Magic Bullet Productions' Kaldor City stories Occam's Razor and Death's Head)

1935 - Verity Lambert (Producer [1963-1966]); Johnny Byrne (writer of The Keeper of Traken, Arc of Infinity, Warriors of the Deep and the unmade TV story-turned-Big Finish audio The Guardians of Prophecy)

1937 - Rodney Bewes (Stein in Resurrection of the Daleks)

1946 - Howard Attfield (Geoff Noble in The Runaway Bride and deleted scenes from Partners in Crime)

1954 - Arthur Smith (Clarrie in the Big Finish audio The Kingmaker)

1961 - Samantha Bond (Mrs Wormwood in the Sarah Jane Adventures stories Invasion of the Bane and Enemy of the Bane and Mother Baroque in the Big Finish audio The Scapegoat; daughter of The Daleks guest actor Philip Bond)

1967 - Rosie Cavaliero (Big Finish Productions actress - Cassie Schofield in Project: Twilight and Project: Lazarus and Marge Ellmore in Infamy of the Zaross)
1974 - Alec Newman (Ed Driscoll in Blue Forgotten Planet and Julius in The Silent Scream)
1978 - Mike Skinner (Security Guard in The Time of Angels)

Episodes
1965 - The Daleks' Master Plan, Episode Three ('Devil's Planet'): 10.3 million viewers
1993 - Dimensions in Time, Part Two (BBC One - during Noel's House Party): 13.6 million viewers
2003 - Scream of the Shalka, Part Three (webcast)

Documentaries
2006 - Torchwood Declassified: There's Something about Mary (BBC Three)

Releases
2008 - Issue 92 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines); Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition: In Their Own Words 1987-1996 (Panini Comics UK)

2013 - Legacy (Tiny Rebel Studios); issue 334 of Doctor Who Adventures (Immediate Media Co.)

2015 - Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 148 (Big Finish)

Behind-the-Scenes
1967 - Blue Peter launched a Design-a-Monster competition

1969 - Don Houghton was commissioned to write The Mole-Hole Project (later to become Inferno)
1995 - All parties involved in the TV Movie signed a contract as a co-production

First picture from the News Years Day episode - Jodie has a 'Tom Baker scarf', and Bradley has a TARDIS roundels one!


The synopsis for the episode is:

"As the New Year begins, a terrifying evil is stirring, from across the centuries of Earth’s history. As the Doctor, Ryan, Graham and Yaz return home, will they be able to overcome the threat to planet Earth?"

Bonhams auction of entertainment memorabilia, to be held on December 11th includes

An original sceen-used Sea Devil costume, estimated at £2,000 - 3,000


'Dimensions In Time', Jon Pertwee's Inverness Cape, estimated at £5,000 - 7,000


A screen-used silver 'Mk 1', full-size Dalek from "The Dead Planet", built to BBC specifications, originally in 'Mk 3' livery (1965, "The Chase" et seq.), for both BBC use and charity display, estimated at £10,000 - 15,000 [NOTE - Intellectual property rights and Trade Marks of the BBC/Terry Nation estate require that this screen-used item must be used for personal home display only; any and all commercial use is prohibited expressly]

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The Doctor (Tom Baker) with the Tharil, Biroc in Warriors Gate (1981)