The Doctor Who Thread

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The on screen title card of The Space Pirates (1969)

[will graham]

I've yet to watch the new episodes but overall reaction from those I talk to has been quite negative, this includes those who enjoy new who as much as old who

[iank]

2.6 million overnights.
The same raging success that got BBC Wales Who axed.
Way to go Rusty!

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by iank

2.6 million overnights.
The same raging success that got BBC Wales Who axed.
Way to go Rusty!

You can't yet beat it with that stick because I-Player figures don't count in the over nights. We'll have to see what the seven days are like for those figures and a proper look at how it actually did. I'm guessing many hardcore Davies fans watched on I-Player well before it was transmitted.

I like how 200,000 turned off following the shite that was Space Babies.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

I quite enjoyed the first half an hour of The Devil's Chord but the musical showdown between the Doctor and Maestro would have had me turning it off had it not been Who.

As for The Twist?

I liked it. It worked for me and brought things down to earth after the OTT campness of the previous twenty minutes.

If the Moffat episode next week doesn't redeem the series then there's a good chance i won't bother watching the remaining five episodes.

Pretty much every episode from The Star Beast onwards has been really poor, with the exception being The Giggle which i mostly enjoyed.

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #1496 / Nu-Who #555

Name: Steve Oram [1973 - ]
Year(s): 2021
Stories: Flux: Chapter One: The Halloween Apocalypse ? Flux: Chapter Three: Once, Upon Time / Flux: Chapter Five: Survivors Of The Flux ? Flux: Chapter Six: The Vanquishers
Character(s): Joseph Williamson

Before Who:
Films: The Gist (2002), It's All Gone Pete Tong (2004), Dirty Filthy Love (2004), Skin Deep (2005), LifeSpam: My Child Is French (2009), Kill List (2011), Burge & Way (2011), Sightseers (2012), Welcome to the Punch (2013), The World's End (2013), The Wipers Times (2013), Cuban Fury (2014), The Canal (2014), Paddington (2014), Altar (2014), Man Up (2015), Captain Webb (2015), The Bad Education Movie (2015), Aaaaaaaah! (2015), Brakes (2016), A Dark Song (2016), The Man You're Not (2017), We Can Be Heroes (2017), Tucked (2018), In Fabric (2018), Justine (2020), School's Out Forever (2021), Tollbooth (2021), Paul Dood's Deadly Lunch Break (2021), The Kindred (2021), The Phantom of the Open (2021)
Television: People Like Us [2 episodes, different characters (2001)] / Comedy Lab [2 episodes, different characters (2002?2005)] / Hardware [2 episodes as the Builder (2004)] / Green Wing: Rumours (2004) / Twisted Tales: Death Metal Chronicles (2005) / Suburban Shootout: Botox Rox (2006) / Great News (2006) / Tittybangbang [14 episodes, Various Characters (2006?2007)] / Where Are the Joneses? (2007) / The Mighty Boosh: The Strange Tale Of The Crack Fox (2007) / Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps: Ello Ello (2009) / BBC Nought [4 episodes, different characters (2011)] / Peeder Jigson's Video Diary: What's Everyone Up To In The Break? (2011) / The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret: The Crime Scene, the Storyteller and the Sanctimonious Tower of Morality (2012) / Miranda: What A Surprise (2013) / Life's Too Short: Easter Special (2013) / Heading Out [6 episodes as Daniel (2013)] / NTSF ? SD ? SUV: U-KO'ed (2013) / Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy: Fantasy Block (2014) / The Secrets: The Dilemma (2014) / The Job Lot (2014) / Glue [5 episodes as George (2014)] / Crackanory [3 episodes, different characters (2014?2017)] / SunTrap: Overboard (2015) / Drunk History - UK [2 episodes, different characters (2015?2016)] / Midsomer Murders: The Incident At Copper Hill (2016) / The Living and the Dead [2 episodes as John Roebuck (2016)] / The Moorside [2 episodes as DC Alex Grummitt (2017)] / The End of the F*cking World *[11 episodes as Phil (2017?2019)] / Death in Paradise: Written In Murder (2018) / Plebs: Lupercalia (2018) / Urban Myths: Public Enemy (feat. Kev Wells) (2018) / Hang Ups [6 episodes as Neil Quinn (2018)] / Sally4Ever [6 episodes as Mick (2018)] / Ghosts [2 episodes as Terry (2019)] / Not Going Out: Builder (2019) / Good Omens: The Doomsday Operation (2019) / Soulmates: Watershed (2020) / Code 404 [7 episodes as DI Simon Gilbert (2020?2021)] / Line of Duty (2021)

Music Video: Bring Me the Horizon (2015): True Friends [as the detective]

After Who:
Films: Mind-Set (2022), Cerebrum (2022), This Is Christmas (2022), Love Again (2023), Sky Peals (2023)
Television: Killing Eve [2 episodes as Phil (2022)] / DI Ray [4 episodes as DS Clive Bottomley (2022)]/ Still Up [2 episodes as Tony, the Taxi Driver (2023)]

[Mojo]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

I quite enjoyed the first half an hour of The Devil's Chord but the musical showdown between the Doctor and Maestro would have had me turning it off had it not been Who.

As for The Twist?

I liked it. It worked for me and brought things down to earth after the OTT campness of the previous twenty minutes.

If the Moffat episode next week doesn't redeem the series then there's a good chance i won't bother watching the remaining five episodes.

Pretty much every episode from The Star Beast onwards has been really poor, with the exception being The Giggle which i mostly enjoyed.

The basic premise was good - travelling back in time to see The Beatles in their early years, only to discover they were recording terrible songs ( though, walking straight into Abbey Road studios and into the recording studio so easily was stretching it a bit, but anyway ).
But then we had the usual OTT villain, a boring bit and then a musical number to fill up the last ten minutes and the whole interesting idea was forgotten.
I?ll watch the Moffat episode at some point, but I can?t honestly see me watching any more of the series if these two stories are anything to go by.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

K-9, as seen during The Invasion of Time (1978)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Forbidden Planet merchandise art of the Bogeyman.

I really like it. However the story i'm imagining when i see it isn't f*cking Space Babies.

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #1497 / Nu-Who #556

Name: Sam Spruell [1977 - ]
Year(s): 2021
Stories: Flux: Chapter One: The Halloween Apocalypse ? Flux: Chapter Three: Once, Upon Time / Flux: Chapter Five: Survivors Of The Flux ? Flux: Chapter Six: The Vanquishers
Character(s): Younger Swarm

Before Who:
Films: Cabaret (1995), K-19: The Widowmaker (2002), o Kill a King (2003), London to Brighton (2006), Venus (2006), Tick Tock Lullaby (2007), Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007), The Hurt Locker* (2008), Defiance (2008), Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (2010), Snow White and the Huntsman (2012), Company of Heroes (2013), Starred Up (2013), The Counselor (2013), Sixteen (2013), The Voices (2014), Good People (2014), Taken 3 (2014), Child 44 (2015), Legend [as Jack McVitie] (2015), The Martian (2015), The Lady in the Van (2015), Sand Castle (2017), Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets* (2017), The World Is Yours (2018), Outlaw King (2018), The Informer (2019), Locked Down (2021), The Amazing Mr Blunden (2021)

Television: P.O.W. [6 episodes as Wilkes (2003)] / The Ghost Squad: One Of Us (2005) / Rosemary & Thyme: Seeds Of Time (2006) / Silent Witness: Schism (2006) / Holby Blue (2007) / Spooks* [2 episodes as Jason Belling (2004?2007)] / City of Vice [4 episodes as Lord Newcastle (2008)] / Ashes to Ashes (2009) / The Fixer (2009) / Foyle's War: Killing Time (2010) / Luther (2010) / The Runaway [5 episodes as Jim Harvey (2011)] / Eternal Law (2012) / Mayday [5 episodes as Steve Docker (2013)] / The Last Ship* [11 episodes as Quincy (2014?2015)] / Catastrophe (2015) / The Bastard Executioner [10 episodes as Toran Prichard (2015)] / I Am...: I Am Nicola (2019) / Liar [6 episodes as Oliver Graham (2020)] / Small Axe: Mangrove (2020) / The North Water [4 episodes as Cavendish (2021)]

After Who:
Films: The Hanging Sun (2022), Connemara (2022), The Settlers (2023)
Television: The Gold [2 episodes as Charlie Miller (2023)] / Fargo [9 episodes as Ole Munch (2023?2024)]