tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64356745662863435112024-03-18T21:39:32.891-07:00WHO SAID WHAT ABOUT DR WHO Quotable Doctor Who QuotesWho Said What About Dr Who is a site that celebrates things said about the Doctor Who show, The Doctor, his companions, friends, enemies, monsters and most everything connected to the Doctor from the TARDIS to his Sonic Screwdriver. This site contains quotations and comments by actors, writers, TV production crew as well as contributions from critics and fans. Who Said What About Dr Who is the official website of The Quotable Doctor Who quotes book series published by Blue Eyed Books.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6435674566286343511.post-84163853992101163042012-05-07T05:04:00.000-07:002013-04-23T13:18:11.907-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6435674566286343511.post-14923917820023008592011-08-08T13:33:00.000-07:002011-08-08T13:33:12.813-07:00Dr Who's Peter Davison goes insane at Heathrow Airport!The Fifth Doctor, <b>Peter Davison</b>, in an interview in this month's <i>Saga magazine</i>, was asked "What's the silliest thing you did recently?"<br />
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His reply, <span style="color: blue;">"Making a DVD for a Doctor Who convention, I couldn't attend. I filmed it myself at Heathrow Airport, acting as the Doctor. People must have thought I was insane."</span><br />
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to the world of Dr Who Twitter. </b></h1></div><span style="font-size: medium;">Tweeting under the cheeky nom de plume of <a href="http://twitter.com/#%21/SawbonesHex" target="new">@SawbonesHex</a>, the Sixth Dr Who has joined the twittering thousands of Doctor Who fans on Twitter and has already built up a large number of followers. <br />
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In his Twitter profile, Colin describes himself as: <span style="color: blue;">"Actor, columnist, writer, husband, father, Wycombe Wanderers fan, grumpy old man."</span><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;">So what can we expect from a real Doctor Who in his forthcoming Tweets? <br />
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If his first few offerings are anything to go by - and knowing Colin's comical nature - we are in for a treat of Tweets, as the following early epigrams prove: <br />
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<div style="color: blue;">"Woken to find I have 3260 followers! Quick Colin - do something interesting... erm - er ...boiled egg and soldiers perhaps while I think."</div>14 Mar 2011<br />
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<div style="color: blue;">"Am sitting with Derek in the Ideal Home Exhibition being told by a strange lady that she can't stand Dr Who - sigh!"</div>12 Mar 2011<br />
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As Colin has not been on Twitter too long - his first Tweet was only four days ago - it is too soon to really judge what 140 character long insights and pearls of wisdom he will shower us with. But, he has - in the past - been one of the more vocal of the Eleven Doctors on speaking about and supporting the show and the character. So, to welcome Colin to Twitter, here are a few of our favourite Baker's Treats from his time on the show ... <br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b>COLIN on HIMSELF, THE DOCTOR AND THE TV SHOW</b></div><i>On previously appearing as Commander Maxil in 'Arc of Infinity' (1983)</i> - <span style="color: blue;">"In one episode I actually shot Peter Davison, but this was in no way an attempt on my part to get his job."</span><br />
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<div style="color: blue;">"It is everybody's dream to play their hero, whether it is Lancelot or Biggles or Doctor Who, because they are characters in modern mythology."</div><br />
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</tbody></table>"It was John Nathan-Turner's edict for me to have big hair. He thought that short-back-and-sides was not the Doctor." </div><br />
<div style="color: blue;">"Doctor Who is special, it's a huge part in the British public's consciousness."</div><br />
<div style="color: blue;">"The good thing about Doctor Who is that it does carry messages. Behind every story, if you look for it, it is usually making some other point. The tolerance of violence on television goes with swings of the pendulum, and we have to go with whatever is publically acceptable."</div><br />
<div style="color: blue;">"We were told there is one Golden Rule: no hanky-panky in the TARDIS." </div><br />
<i>On the BBC's decision to temporarily postpone the series in 1985</i> - <span style="color: blue;">"I'm astounded that the BBC sees fit to axe its most popular product. The programme is part of the British way of life. If I were an ordinary member of the public I would express my rage." </span><br />
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<i>On news of the 2005 reboot</i> - <span style="color: blue;">"Fantastic! The backs of sofas, which haven't been visited by children much in the last 15 years, are going to be busy, We're moving ours away from the wall in readiness. A whole new generation have their own Doctor about to happen."</span><br />
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<div style="color: blue;">"I don't know if it's a prompted memory, but people still say, 'I used to hide behind the sofa.' If Doctor Who came back, think of all those backs of sofas that have been lonely for so long they are suddenly going to have children behind them again."</div><br />
<div style="color: blue;">"I have four daughters aged 15 to 22 and as far as they were concerned, Doctor Who was like listening to the radio in the Fifties, it was a thing of the past. But now they are all hooked on the New Series and because they liked the new one they went back and got my old episodes to watch and suddenly it's made me a hero in my own home."</div><br />
<i>On the possibility of making a reappearance in the New Series</i> - <span style="color: blue;">"I take every job on its merits. I'm not not keen, nor am I sitting here waiting for the call. It's so unlikely to happen that I don't spend much time thinking about it. I don't look the same. I started playing the part 25 years ago! Peter Davison does still look pretty much like he did then, but not me. I suspect I could play a part in the New Series without you even knowing it was me."</span><br />
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<i>On the 11th Doctor</i> - <span style="color: blue;">"As if David Tennant hadn't already proved the visibly beneficial power of time-travel on the genes, the new one, Matt Smith is so young that he is likely to be asked for ID if he tries to purchase an intergalactic gargle blaster in licensed premises either side of the Atlantic."</span><br />
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<i>On his pre-Doctor role as Commander Maxil in Arc of Infinity</i> - <span style="color: blue;">"I cast Colin because I liked him as an actor, and as a person he has a tremendous sense of humour. He’s a very intelligent guy and he’s bringing a lot of himself to the part, especially in the form of this dry wit."</span><br />
<b>Ron Jones</b> - Dr. Who director <br />
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<div style="color: blue;">"Colin Baker, a decent-enough actor who got stuck with the least-appealing personality of any Doctor, and the worst costume in the entire history of television itself."</div><b>Christopher Bahn on <a href="http://www.avclub.com/articles/doctor-who,39924/" target="new"><i>AVClub.com</i></a> (2010)</b><br />
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<div style="color: blue;">"It would certainly be gratifying to witness the resurfacing of the character's old disdain and distance, which manifested itself to a greater or lesser extent in each incarnation from William Hartnell's irascible professor to Sylvester McCoy's scatterbrained yet ruthless game-player, peaking with the blisteringly arrogant and vainglorious Sixth Doctor, performed with camp abandon by Colin Baker in the mid-80s."</div><b>Joe Stannard on <a href="http://thequietus.com/articles/00902-dr-who" target="new"><i>TheQuietus.com</i></a> (2008) </b><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">"Colin always was a damn fine actor and a damned fine Doctor. He plays the role with care, consummate professional skill and you would have to be blind as an exceptionally short-sighted bat not to notice that he is having the time of his life doing it." </span><b> </b><br />
<b>Michael Angus in <i>The Celestial Toymaker</i> (1992) </b><br />
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<div style="color: blue;">"Though dressed in the most ungodly attire ever seen on television, the sheer awfulness of Season 23 left Colin the much maligned innocent pleading for decorum while the panto rages around him. Under these circumstances, even Billy Hartnell would have appeared to have been playing it deadpan." </div><b>Michael Haslett in <i>Skaro 6</i> (1992) </b><br />
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<div style="color: blue;">"Despite Colin Baker giving a grandiose theatrical performance that the micro-budgeted show just can't take, he occasionally delivers moments of quiet angst and subtlety." </div><b>Jonathan Wilkins on <a href="http://totalscifionline.com/reviews/3889-doctor-who-the-twin-dilemma" target="new"><i>TotalSciFiOnline.com</i></a> (2009) </b><br />
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<div style="color: blue;">"Colin tried his best to raise scripts literally written on horse s**t with cow-pie pencils to something watchable, but even Anthony Hopkins couldn't have saved Colin's Doctor stories." </div><b>Penny Sautereau-Fife on <a href="http://www.cracked.com/funny-270-doctor-who/" target="new"><i>Cracked.com</i></a> (2009) </b><br />
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<div style="color: blue;">"It's harder to take this Doctor seriously than it was with any other Doctor. I don't blame Colin Baker: I blame that he was given so little to work with. He was saddled with a steep uphill clownishness that it would have been hard for any actor to get over."</div><b>MaryAnn Johanson on <a href="http://www.flickfilosopher.com/blog/2010/05/052910classic_doctor_who_blogging_th.html" target="new"><i>FlickFilosopher.com</i></a> (2010) </b><br />
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<b>For more on Colin Baker, <a href="http://www.colinbakeronline.com/">click here to visit his Official Website</a>.<br />
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Happy Birthday Alex Kingston</span></b></h2><b>aka Professor River Song in <i>Doctor Who</i></b></div><br />
Today marks the birthday of Alex Kingston, the English actress famous for her roles as Dr Elizabeth Corday (in <i>E.R.</i>), Queen Boudica, Moll Flanders, Helen Maynard in <i>Marchlands </i>and a host of other film roles including <i>Croupier</i> and <i>Alpha Dog</i>, plus cameos on TV in <i>CSI</i>, <i>Without A Trace</i>, <i>Peak Practice</i>, <i>Flash Forward</i> and <i>The Bill</i>.<br />
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But Alex, born in Epsom, Surrey in 1963, is best known to <i>Doctor Who</i> fans as the enigmatic and extremely sexy Professor River Song.<br />
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To celebrate Alex's birthday today, here is a selection of quotes by Alex and about the actress and River Song.<br />
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</tbody></table><b>ALEX on RIVER SONG </b></div><br />
<div style="color: blue;">"I've always wanted to be like Sigourney Weaver in <i>Alien</i>; this is probably as close as I'll get."</div><div style="color: blue;"><br />
</div><div style="color: blue;">"I like the character. She's feisty. It's a nice meaty role in a fun television show. I decided that she's a female Indiana Jones because she's a time-travelling archaeologist and you don't get to play those roles very often at my age." </div><br />
<i></i><span style="color: blue;">"She has met this Doctor before, although he hasn’t met her yet in his incarnation, except that he remembers when he was David Tennant. He remembers seeing her die - so he knows her future. He knows the bit she doesn’t know - God it’s so complicated!" </span><br />
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<i>Comparing 'Doctor Who' to 'E.R.'</i> - "<span style="color: blue;">The budgets are smaller but everyone works just as hard. Someone told me I’m going to get a River Song action figure. I don’t quite believe it. You don’t get that on <i>E.R."</i></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b>OTHERS on ALEX and RIVER SONG </b></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Silence in the Library / Forest of the Dead</i> (2008)</b></div><div style="color: blue;">"Alex Kingston - effortlessly hip in a slim-fitting astronaut's suit - playing Professor River Song. If Clint Eastwood were a woman, this would be her." </div><b>Benjamin Cook in <a href="http://www.radiotimes.com/content/show-features/doctor-who/alex-kingston-guest-stars/" target="new"><i>The Radio Times</i></a> (2008)</b><br />
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<div style="color: blue;">"We don’t yet know what the significance of River Song’s relationship with the Doctor is, but what we do know is that Kingston and Tennant have a fantastic on-screen chemistry with each other. Obviously there’s something with Tennant where he clicks with 40-something redheads. Sorry Kylie."</div><b>Iain M Hepburn on <a href="http://www.behindthesofa.org.uk/2008/06/nobody-in-the-l.html" target="new"><i>BehindTheSofa.org</i></a> (2008) </b><br />
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<div style="color: blue;">"The calm poise Kingston brings to River Song taking the wind of out David Tennant’s usually full sails like never before in the course of the series." </div><b>Mark Wright on <a href="http://blogs.thestage.co.uk/tvtoday/2008/06/doctor-who-49-forest-of-the-dead/" target="new"><i>TheStage.co.uk</i></a> (2008) </b><br />
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<div style="color: blue;">"The Doctor's backwards love interest, the kick-ass space-archaeologist Professor River Song."</div><b>Daniel Martin in <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2010/apr/17/doctor-who-series-31-episode-three" target="new"><i>The Guardian</i></a> (2010)</b><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>The Time of Angels / Flesh and Stone</i> (2010)</b></div><i>On being asked to reprise her role</i> - <span style="color: blue;">"I was quite surprised, I thought I died in my previous episode!" </span><br />
<b>Alex Kingston (2010) </b><br />
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</tbody></table>"A typical piece of Moffat timey-wimey plotting, reintroducing us to River Song, as sassy and loveable as ever. Alex Kingston looks like she’s having a riot. Also, her relationship with the more geeky Doctor Eleven is possibly even more fun than it was with Doctor Ten."</div><b>Dave Golder on <a href="http://www.sfx.co.uk/2010/04/24/the-time-of-angels/" target="new"><i>SFX.co.uk</i></a> (2010) </b><br />
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<div style="color: blue;">"Sharing guest star status with the returning foe is Alex Kingston as the enigmatic River Song. Alex Kingston’s portrayal of this adventurer was the highlight of season four and she makes a welcome return here, sparring with the Doctor from the get-go. Sexy, confident and witty, River Song is an intriguing character, and there’s the implication that she’s more than the Doctor’s wife. Might she actually be a future version of the Doctor him / herself? Fandom would probably explode, but it’d certainly be funny."</div><b>Jonathan Wilkins on <a href="http://totalscifionline.com/reviews/4916-doctor-who-the-time-of-angels" target="new"><i>TotalSciFiOnline.com</i></a> (2010) </b><br />
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<div style="color: blue;">"In the space of three short episodes featuring River Song (and the awesome Alex Kingston), we’ve gone from 'The Doctor’s what?' to 'No, she can’t really be the Doctor’s wife - that’s too obvious.' "</div><b>Maryann Johanson on <a href="http://www.flickfilosopher.com/blog/2010/05/050210doctor_who_blogging_flesh_and.html" target="new"><i>FlickFilosopher.com</i></a> (2010) </b><br />
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</div><div style="color: blue;">"If you’re like me, you’ve probably already stopped wondering who this River Song woman is and have simply accepted her as an occasional bonus companion whenever the Doctor’s situation looks especially bleak."</div><b>Patrick Riley on <a href="http://www.kasterborous.com/2010/09/25/river-song-wife-or-android/" target="new"><i>Kasterborous.com</i></a> (2010) </b><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>The Pandorica Opens / The Big Bang</i> (2010)</b></div><div style="color: blue;">"There was still room to weave River Song still further into the Doctor’s life, although hers are mysteries still yet to come (she’s the woman to call if there’s a Dalek to kill, mind)."</div><b>Simon Brew on <a href="http://www.denofgeek.com/television/521319/doctor_who_series_5_episode_13_finale_review_the_big_bang.html" target="new"><i>DenOfGeek.com</i></a> (2010) </b><br />
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</div><div style="color: blue;">"The glamorous and inscrutable Ms. Song ... the most emblematic character of the Moffat era ... She really is sort of a female Captain Jack. She's from the future, like Jack. She's flirty and impure and takes time travel in her stride, and is a bit of a con artist/rogue. She reminds me of how much fun Jack was before he became immortal and a boss."</div><b>Charlie Jane Anders on <a href="http://uk.io9.com/#%215588457/how-we-learned-to-love-the-doctors-dashing-lady+friend-river-song" target="new"><i>io9.com</i></a> (2010) </b><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b>OTHER DOCTOR WHO TRIBUTES</b></div><b><br />
<a href="http://dr-who-quotes-quotable-doctor-who.blogspot.com/2011/03/happy-birthday-john-barrowman-aka.html" target="new">Happy Birthday John Barrowman </a><br />
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<a href="http://dr-who-quotes-quotable-doctor-who.blogspot.com/2011/02/dr-who-nicholas-courtney-1929-2011.html" target="new">Tribute to the late Nicholas Courtney - The Brigadier </a><br />
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<a href="http://dr-who-quotes-quotable-doctor-who.blogspot.com/2011/02/dr-who-happy-birthday-christopher.html" target="new">Happy Birthday Christopher Eccleston </a><br />
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<a href="http://dr-who-quotes-quotable-doctor-who.blogspot.com/2011/02/elisabeth-sladen-happy-birthday-to-best.html" target="new">Happy Birtday Elisabeth Sladen </a><br />
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<a href="http://dr-who-quotes-quotable-doctor-who.blogspot.com/2011/01/happy-birthday-tom-baker-4th-doctor-who.html" target="new">Happy Birthday Tom Baker </a><br />
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<a href="http://dr-who-quotes-quotable-doctor-who.blogspot.com/2010/12/happy-birthday-nicholas-courtney.html" target="new">Happy Birthday Nicholas Courtney </a><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b> ALL THE ABOVE QUOTATIONS ON ALEX KINGSTON and PROF. RIVER SONG </b><br />
<b> CAN ALSO BE FOUND IN THE <a href="http://www.blue-eyed-books.co.uk/" target="new">BLUE EYED BOOKS</a>' PUBLICATIONS: </b><br />
<b> THE QUOTABLE DOCTOR WHO - <a href="http://www.blue-eyed-books.co.uk/doctor-who-quotes-book" target="new">VOLUME ONE</a> and <a href="http://www.blue-eyed-books.co.uk/doctor-who-quotes-book/quotable-doctor-who-volume-two-enemies-monsters-other-characters-dr-who-quotations" target="new">VOLUME TWO</a>. </b></div><br />
<div style="color: white;">.</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6435674566286343511.post-60427012494544477412011-03-11T01:49:00.000-08:002011-03-13T11:01:54.863-07:00Happy Birthday John Barrowman aka Captain Jack on Dr Who / Torchwood<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><div style="color: red; text-align: center;"><b><h2>Happy Birthday John Barrowman <br />
aka Captain Jack Harkness <br />
on Doctor Who / Torchwood</h2></b></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Capt Jack Harkness + The Doctor + Martha</td></tr>
</tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;">One of the best-loved actors to have appeared in the <i>Dr Who</i> series reboot celebrates his birthday today. John Barrowman who plays, the bisexual time-agent cum erstwhile companion of the Doctor, Captain Jack Harkness in both <i>Doctor Who</i> and his spin-off series <i>Torchwood </i>was born - in Glasgow - on this day in 1967. <br />
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To celebrate his 44th birthday here are a few quotations about John and Captain Jack ... <br />
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<b>JOHN B. on Capt. Jack Harkness</b><br />
<div style="color: blue;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD23T1257qyGGBwDOdVt7E-qLn1BeHuZIrCXK63WbrOLWybM3lnWVyAzZdtN_nctexLOijhgD_mFGzH6bBaDSJnamJqQrrQXgFcYcGcYktW577VhDznC_c1pLeidMr2SKnnB2xRoXNNb1H/s1600/john-barrowman-am-what-I-am-book-captain-jack-harkness-dr-who-quotes.gif" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a>"There's a lot of me in Captain Jack and there's a lot of Captain Jack in me. And there is no pun intended."</div><div style="color: blue;"><br />
</div><div style="color: blue;">"I'm a grown man who gets to go to work every day and fight aliens, play with guns and kiss beautiful people. What more could I ask for?"</div><div style="color: blue;"><br />
</div><div style="color: blue;">"When I go back to <i>Doctor Who</i>, I have to readjust and do things differently because Jack is not the leader, he's just part of a team. Jack is the brawn in that organisation, whereas in <i>Torchwood</i>, he's the brain and the brawn."</div><br />
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<b>Others on John / Jack </b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John Barrowman's Autobiography </td></tr>
</tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"></span>"Captain Jack Harkness makes his debut [in <i>The Empty Child</i> - 2005], and becomes one of the great fictitious captains in history." </div><b>Seth Moore on <i><a href="http://www.gutmunchers.com/DoctorWhoSeries1.html" target="new">GutMunchers.com</a></i> (2010) </b><br />
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<div style="color: blue;">"Enter Captain Jack, the 51st-century denizen who has evolved past bisexuality, past polysexuality, past pansexuality, into the realm of the just plain horny. As long as it might be able to say "Yes," it's a potential partner." </div><b>Whitney Cox on <i><a href="http://www.smrt-tv.com/v2-17/column_outtakes.html" target="new">SMRT-TV.com</a></i> (2006) </b><br />
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<div style="color: blue;">It was ... the introduction of gorgeous pansexual eye-candy Captain Jack Harkness that made the First Series of the revival watchable."</div><b>Penny Sautereau-Fife on <i><a href="http://www.cracked.com/funny-270-doctor-who/" target="new">Cracked.com</a></i> (2009) </b><br />
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<div style="color: blue;">"Captain Jack is so boring. If I'm gonna have to look at his face and acting, then they might as well hire David Duchvony."</div><b>Matthew Milam on <i><a href="http://blogcritics.com/" target="new">BlogCritics.com</a></i> (2006)</b><br />
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<div style="color: blue;">"Jack Harkness is played with gung-ho camp by John Barrowman, having appeared last year in <i>Doctor Who</i> as - steady, chaps - a bare-chested piece of homoerotic cheesecake."</div><b>David Belcher on <i><a href="http://heraldscotland.com/" target="new">HeraldScotland.com</a></i> (2006) </b><br />
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<div style="color: blue;">"In Jack regalia, Barrowman looks like Tom Cruise with suspenders, but minus the Scientology. (Except for when he starts musing about 'alien intervention,' 'mind probes,' and 'sleeper agents...ready to take over')."</div><b>Ken Tucker on <i><a href="http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20180998,00.html" target="new">EW.com</a></i> (2008)</b><br />
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Above quotations taken from <b><a href="http://www.blue-eyed-books.co.uk/doctor-who-quotes-book" target="new">The Quotable Doctor Who - Volume One</a></b>. <br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b>OTHER DOCTOR WHO TRIBUTES</b></div><b><br />
<a href="http://dr-who-quotes-quotable-doctor-who.blogspot.com/2011/03/happy-birthday-alex-kingston-aka-river.html" target="new">Happy Birthday Alex Kingston aka River Song </a><br />
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<a href="http://dr-who-quotes-quotable-doctor-who.blogspot.com/2011/02/dr-who-nicholas-courtney-1929-2011.html" target="new">Tribute to the late Nicholas Courtney - The Brigadier </a><br />
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<a href="http://dr-who-quotes-quotable-doctor-who.blogspot.com/2011/02/dr-who-happy-birthday-christopher.html" target="new">Happy Birthday Christopher Eccleston </a><br />
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<a href="http://dr-who-quotes-quotable-doctor-who.blogspot.com/2011/02/elisabeth-sladen-happy-birthday-to-best.html" target="new">Happy Birtday Elisabeth Sladen </a><br />
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<a href="http://dr-who-quotes-quotable-doctor-who.blogspot.com/2011/01/happy-birthday-tom-baker-4th-doctor-who.html" target="new">Happy Birthday Tom Baker </a><br />
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<a href="http://dr-who-quotes-quotable-doctor-who.blogspot.com/2010/12/happy-birthday-nicholas-courtney.html" target="new">Happy Birthday Nicholas Courtney </a></b><br />
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</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6435674566286343511.post-28136796641674980542011-03-02T13:02:00.000-08:002011-03-02T13:23:07.726-08:00Dr Who: Bernie Ecclestone evokes memories of Doctor Who and Davros<div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: red;"><h1>BERNIE ECCLESTONE</h1></span> <h3>Formula One supremo and Doctor Who villain in waiting?</h3></b></div><b>BEN CARTER</b> on <a href="http://www.theroar.com.au/2011/03/03/bernies-shower-of-madness/" target="new">TheRoar.com.au</a> posted an article about Formula One supremo and "the now silver-haired 80-year-old <b>Bernie Ecclestone</b> from Suffolk." Nothing new about an Australian motor racing blog taken a pot shot at old Bernie. But, Ben shows he's a long-time Doctor Who fan as he makes several allusions to Dr Who characters and storylines ... <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bernie aka Dr Who #1 William Hartnell</td></tr>
</tbody></table>"Ecclestone, who variously appears to be considered as either a genial-looking type in the mould of an early incarnation of Doctor Who or challenging Wikileaks’ main main Julian Assange for best-James-Bond- villain-in-waiting-for-MGM-writers, has been ruling the sport of Formula One racing with a maniacal streak matching Who baddie and Dalek creator Davros for the last few years."</div><br />
The main thrust of Ben's post was about Bernie's idea for introducing artificial rainfall during F1 races to make the action more exciting in the wet. Such climactically questionable thinking put Ben in mind of the evil creator of the Daleks ... <br />
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<div style="color: blue;">"This is a man clutching at straws. Like Cricket Australia – and, in some ways, the AFL – it’s structural changing of the game for the sake of a short-term wide-eyed impulse, with little thought of the consequences. Just like Davros and his best-ever rants at his arch-enemy, the Doctor, really. Some thirty years later, Davros, almost inexplicably after falling into a black hole, was back in <i>The Stolen Earth</i>."</div><br />
For the full article, go to <a href="http://www.theroar.com.au/2011/03/03/bernies-shower-of-madness/" target="new">TheRoar.com.au.</a> <br />
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btw Bernie is no relation to Christopher Eccleston - the 9th Doctor. <br />
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<div style="color: white;">.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6435674566286343511.post-19611783788397108002011-02-24T08:54:00.000-08:002011-02-24T12:26:51.727-08:00Dr Who: Far from Mundane Day on Twitter for Doctor Who Fans<h1><div style="color: red;"><b>"Mundane Dr Who" is far from boring for Doctor Who Twitterers </b></div></h1><h3>After a day of idle thought (Well, Eric Idle thought maybe) a number of Doctor Who fans wiled away their time submitting their suggestions for Mundane Dr Who shows on Twitter under the hash tag of <a href="http://twitter.com/#%21/search?q=%23mundanedrwho" target="new">#mundanedrwho</a>. The idea was to come up with slight variations of real Dr. Who shows that would make them boring in some way. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Follow Us on Twitter (<a href="http://twitter.com/#%21/QuotableDrWho" target="new">@QuotableDrWho</a>)</td></tr>
</tbody></table><h3>Here are some of our favourite submissions ... as well as being a fun read some suggestions do make you stop and think about what the real show title was. <br />
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The following were suggested by a number of Twitterers ... <br />
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<span style="color: blue;">The Nice Warriors </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Blank </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Spearmints from Mars </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Terror of the Zygotes</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Daleks In Matalan </span><br style="color: blue;" /> <br />
<span style="color: blue;">The Dalek Invasion of Perth</span><br />
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The following appeared to be the sole work of these Twitterers ... <br />
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<b>@Markgatiss </b><br />
<span style="color: blue;">The Unquiet Deaf</span><br />
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<b>@UndeadMedic </b><br />
<span style="color: blue;">The Files of Pompeii</span><br />
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<b>@RadarRanger </b><br />
<span style="color: blue;">Tea-Time and the Rani</span><br />
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<b>@onesharper </b><br />
<span style="color: blue;">LegoPolice</span><br />
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<b>@ThatBenBaker </b><br />
<span style="color: blue;">The AOL 30 Day Trial Of A Time Lord</span><br />
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<b>@Ewoolerton</b><br />
<span style="color: blue;">The Tampons of Weng-Chiang</span><br />
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<b>@cloud64 </b><br />
<span style="color: blue;">The Unrinsible Enema</span><br />
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<b>@milkcarton </b><br />
<span style="color: blue;">The Rooibos Operation</span><br />
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<b>@ChrisDWilliams </b><br />
<span style="color: blue;">The Bran of Morbius </span><br />
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<b>@daibhidc </b><br />
<span style="color: blue;">The Pantry Door Opens</span><br />
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<b>@cliffchapman </b><br />
<span style="color: blue;">The Keys of A Morris Marina</span><br />
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<b>@suthers</b> <br />
<span style="color: blue;">The Claws of Argos</span><br />
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<b>@dr_whom </b><br />
<span style="color: blue;">The Planet of Ikeas</span><br />
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<b>@catmachine </b><br />
<span style="color: blue;">The Cursor of Peladon</span><br />
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<b>@rachelhatesjazz </b><br />
<span style="color: blue;">The Caves of Andrew Sachs</span><br />
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<b>@TimAJefferies </b><br />
<span style="color: blue;">The Ledger</span><br />
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<b>@scottm </b><br />
<span style="color: blue;">The Macrame Terror</span><br />
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<b>@davidbrider </b><br />
<span style="color: blue;">The Celestial Teamaker</span><br />
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<b>@Greebobek</b> <br />
<span style="color: blue;">The Julie Walters of Mars</span><br />
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<b>@Brian_Burr</b> <br />
<span style="color: blue;">The Hedge of Destruction</span><br />
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Some suggestions from us at <a href="http://dr-who-quotes-quotable-doctor-who.blogspot.com/p/volume-one-doctor-tv-show-companions.html" target="new">The Quotable Doctor Who</a> (<a href="http://twitter.com/#%21/QuotableDrWho" target="new">@QuotableDrWho</a>) ... <br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Planet of the Itsy-Bitsy Spiders</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Carnival Cruise of Monsters</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Ambassadors of Ferrero Rocher</span><br />
<br style="color: blue;" /><span style="color: blue;"> The Kind Robber</span><br />
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<div style="color: white;">.</div></h3>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6435674566286343511.post-38290439298812522102011-02-23T05:52:00.000-08:002011-03-13T10:59:55.288-07:00Dr Who: Nicholas Courtney 1929-2011 - Tributes to The Brigadier pour in.With the very sad news that Doctor Who has lost one of its legends in Nicholas Courtney, who so memorably brought Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart to our TV screens.<br />
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The following are just some of the thousands of tributes that have poured in proving that The Brig was more than a much-loved character and Nicholas Courtney was more than a perfect gentleman ... <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">RIP: Nicholas Courtney - The Brigadier </td></tr>
</tbody></table><b>Nicholas Courtney official site</b> <b>obituary </b>- <b><a href="http://www.greyhoundleader.com/" target="new">GreyhoundLeader</a></b> <br />
This site will be setting up a special page for condolences to be left.<br />
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<div style="color: blue;">"The Brigadier is dead ... We shall miss him terribly."</div><b><a href="http://www.tom-baker.co.uk/pages/content/index.asp?PageID=159">Tom Baker </a></b><br />
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<div style="color: blue;">"Desperately sad to hear that Nicholas Courtney has passed away. A childhood hero and the sweetest of gentlemen. Splendid chap. All of him. x"</div><b><a href="http://twitter.com/#%21/Markgatiss" target="new">Mark Gatiss </a></b><br />
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</div><div style="color: blue;">"Doctor Who 'Brigadier' Nicholas Courtney dies aged 81"</div><b><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12549622" target="new"><i>BBC News </i>Obituary </a></b><br />
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<div style="color: blue;">"Legendary Doctor Who actor who played The Brigadier opposite five Time Lords dies aged 81"</div><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1359939/Actor-Nicholas-Courtney-played-The-Brigadier-Dr-Who-dies-aged-81.html" target="new"><b><i>Daily Mail</i> Obituary </b></a><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/8343786/Nicholas-Courtney.html" target="new"><i>The Telegraph</i> Obituary </a></b><br />
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<a href="http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/230851/Doctor-Who-co-star-Nicholas-Courtney-dies-at-81" target="new"><b><i>The Express</i> obituary </b></a><br />
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<div style="color: blue;">"Nicholas Courtney, Doctor Who's legendary Brigadier, mourned by fans ... The time-space continuum feels a little bit smaller without him in it."</div><b>Dan Martin in <i><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2011/feb/23/doctor-who-nicholas-courtney-brigadier" target="new">The Guardian </a></i></b><br />
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<div style="color: blue;">"Doctor Who actor Nicholas Courtney dies"</div><b><a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/2011/02/23/doctor-who-actor-nicholas-courtney-dies-115875-22943758/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter" target="new"><i>The Mirror</i> Obituary</a></b><br />
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<div style="color: blue;">"Doctor Who legend dies at 81."</div><b>Jen Blackburn in <a href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/3429220/Doctor-Who-legend-Nicholas-Courtney-dies-aged-81.html" target="new"><i>The Sun </i></a></b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Brigadier with Doctor Who #3, Sarah Jane & UNIT</td></tr>
</tbody></table>"Nicholas Courtney is a trending topic on Twitter. I shouldn't be surprised, I don't think anyone ever had a bad word to say about him."</div><b><a href="http://twitter.com/#%21/TomSpilsbury" target="new">Tom Spilsbury</a></b> - Editor of <i>Doctor Who magazine </i><br />
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<div style="color: blue;">"Very sad news about Nicholas Courtney. A true gentleman, a wonderful actor, a dear friend - splendid chap, all of him."</div><b><a href="http://twitter.com/#%21/BarnabyEdwards" target="new">Barnaby Edwards </a></b><br />
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<div style="color: blue;">"Nick Courtney really meant something to my generation of Who fans. His performance- funny, emotional, restrained, human - heart of the show."</div><b><a href="http://twitter.com/#%21/Paul_Cornell" target="new">Paul Cornell</a></b> <br />
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<div style="color: blue;">"Has no words to decribe the loss of Nicholas Courtney, a true gentleman and much loved icon. RIP, with a heavy heart."</div><b><a href="http://twitter.com/#%21/TobyHadoke" target="new">Toby Hadoke</a></b> <br />
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<div style="color: blue;">"To those wondering, actor Nicholas Courtney has died. He played the Brigadier in Doctor Who for many years. He was one of life's good guys."</div><b><a href="http://twitter.com/#%21/claytonhickman" target="new">Clayton Hickman </a></b><br />
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<div style="color: blue;">"Nicholas Courtney will be very much missed. A brilliant actor and warm, charming man. God rest him."</div><b><a href="http://twitter.com/#%21/jonculshaw" target="new">Jon Culshaw </a></b><br />
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</div><div style="color: blue;">"Aw...Nick Courtney is trending worldwide. Feel the love. RIP"</div><b><a href="http://twitter.com/#%21/murraygold">Murray Gold</a></b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nicholas Courtney's Autobiography</td></tr>
</tbody></table><b>Scott Matthewman </b>in <b><i><a href="http://blogs.thestage.co.uk/tvtoday/2011/02/nicholas-courtney-1929-2011/" target="new">The Stage</a></i></b> <br />
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<b>Frank Collins </b>on <b><i><a href="http://cathoderaytube.blogspot.com/2011/02/nicholas-courtney-16-december-1929-22.html" target="new">Cathode Ray Tube </a></i></b><br />
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<b>Simon Brew on <i><a href="http://www.denofgeek.com/television/784079/nicholas_courtney_19292011.html" target="new">DenOfGeek</a> </i></b><br />
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<b>Christian Cawley on <a href="http://www.kasterborous.com/2011/02/23/nicholas-courtney/" target="new"><i>Kasterborous</i></a> </b><br />
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<b>MaryAnn Johanson on <i><a href="http://www.flickfilosopher.com/blog/2011/02/female_gazing_at_brigadier_ala.html" target="new">FlickFilosopher</a></i></b><br />
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<b>John Bensalhia on <i><a href="http://www.shadowlocked.com/201102231528/opinion-features/doctor-who-a-tribute-to-nicholas-courtney-aka-the-brig.html" target="new">Shadowlocked</a></i></b><br />
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<b>Chuck Foster on <i><a href="http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2011/02/dwn230211003008-nicholas-courtney-1929.html" target="new">The Doctor Who News Page </a></i></b><br />
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<b>Ryan Love on <a href="http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/s7/doctor-who/news/a305376/doctor-who-star-courtney-dies-aged-81.html" target="new"><i>Digital Spy</i></a></b><br />
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<b>Edstrading's</b> <b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHfj0GcqJ1g" target="new">YouTube video tribute </a></b><br />
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As our own offering on this sad day, we would like to point you in the direction of our <a href="http://dr-who-quotes-quotable-doctor-who.blogspot.com/2010/12/happy-birthday-nicholas-courtney.html" target="new"><b>Nicholas Courtney 81st Birthday tribute</b></a> on 16 Dec 2010 - which contains a lot of great quotes by and about Nicholas and the Brig. <br />
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<span style="color: white;">.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6435674566286343511.post-1260731633968602982011-02-22T03:15:00.000-08:002011-02-22T06:40:33.765-08:00Dr Who New Series Poll - Choose the best Doctor Who series since 2005.<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="color: red;">Doctor Who Poll <br />
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<b>SERIES ONE - 2005</b><br />
<b>Doctor</b>: Christopher Eccleston<br />
<b>Main Companions</b>: Rose Tyler, Mickey Smith.<br />
<b>Highlights</b>: Rose, Dalek, Fathers Day, The Empty Child.<br />
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</tbody></table><b>SERIES TWO - 2006</b><br />
<b>Doctor</b>: David Tennant<br />
<b>Main Companions</b>: Rose Tyler.<br />
<b>Highlights</b>: School Reunion, The Girl in the Fireplace, Doomsday.<br />
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<b>SERIES THREE - 2007</b><br />
<b>Doctor</b>: David Tennant<br />
<b>Main Companions</b>: Martha Jones<br />
<b>Highlights</b>: Human Nature, Blink, Utopia.<br />
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<b>SERIES FOUR - 2008</b><br />
<b>Doctor</b>: David Tennant<br />
<b>Main Companions</b>: Donna Noble<br />
<b>Highlights</b>: The Doctor's Daughter, Silence in the Library, Journey's End.<br />
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<b>SPECIALS - 2008-09</b><br />
<b>Doctor</b>: David Tennant<br />
<b>Main Companions</b>: Jackson Lake, Christina De Souza, Adelaide Brooke, Wilf Mott.<br />
<b>Highlights</b>: The Next Doctor, Waters of Mars, The End of Time.<br />
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<b>SERIES FIVE - 2010</b><br />
<b>Doctor</b>: Matt Smith<br />
<b>Main Companions</b>: Amy Pond, Rory Williams. <br />
<b>Highlights</b>: The Eleventh Hour, The Time of Angels, The Pandorica Opens.<br />
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CHRISTOPHER ECCLESTON</b><br />
</h1><h3 style="text-align: center;"><b>The Ninth Doctor Who</b></h3>Do Time Lords have birthdays? Do they celebrate their various 'Regeneration Days' in the same way we mortal humans celebrate our birth - with cake, candles and presents? <br />
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Well, it's the Ninth Doctor's 'human' birthday today and a Very Happy Birthday to Christopher Eccleston - the man who brought back <i>Dr Who</i> to our TV screens in 2005. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Christopher Eccleston - 9th Dr Who [BBC TV}</td></tr>
</tbody></table>A somewhat surprising choice as the eponymous hero, Christopher would only spend one series as the ninth incarnation of The Doctor. But in that short space of time, in Time Lord years anyway, he definitely made his mark and left a legacy that continues through David Tennant and Matt Smith. And, more importantly to some, he successfully bridged the divide between the Classic series and the New. <br />
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Before his short-lived stint in the TARDIS, Christopher was probably best known as Nicky Hutchinson in the gritty TV series <i>Our Friends in the North</i> in 1996. This role combined with his roots (born in Salford, Lancashire in 1964) gave extra emphasis to his most famous line from <i>Doctor Who</i>, <span style="color: blue;">"Lots of planets have a north." </span><br />
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In 2005, he won the National Television Awards Most Popular Actor for his role as The Doctor. No mean feat for an actor in a 'new' series. But, for reasons really known only to himself, he left the series after his initial one-year contract was up. <br />
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Equally at home on the big screen, his film credits include <i>Let Him Have It, Shallow Grave, Elizabeth, 28 Days Later, Gone in 60 Seconds</i> & <i>The Others</i>.<br />
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To celebrate Christopher's birthday, we present some of our favourite quotes by and about Christopher and his time on <i>Doctor Who</i> as the 9th Doctor. <br />
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<div style="color: red; text-align: center;"><h3><b>QUOTES BY CHRISTOPHER</b></h3></div><div style="color: blue;">"I know there's going to be a backlash because no Doctor has ever looked or sounded like me. In the past, it appeared that all Doctors had to be white and middle-class and speak with Received Pronunciation. That made it seem as if intelligence and heroism were the sole preserves of the middle class."</div><div style="color: blue;"><br />
</div><div style="color: blue;">"The Doctor is always moving through time. He's never at home. That struck me as quite sad and quite resonant for our times. He's the idealistic, humane alien, isn't he? And this must be something to do with his desire to belong."</div><div style="color: blue;"><br />
</div><div style="color: blue;">"The Doctor is brutal at times, he's confrontational, inflexible. He sometimes creates carnage. There's nobody like him in Disney."</div><div style="color: blue;"><br />
</div><div style="color: blue;">"His defining characteristic is his love of life. Iggy Pop's Lust for Life should be his theme tune. If the series contains a message for eight- to 12-year-olds, it is that life is brief ... seize it and shake it."</div><div style="color: blue;"><br />
</div><div style="color: blue;">"What's dawned on me about <i>Doctor Who</i> is that I'm trying to entertain a different audience. It's exciting and funny and scary and it's aimed at families, so I'm kind of acting for children and I feel very lucky to be able to do that."</div><div style="color: blue;"><br />
</div><div style="color: blue;">"Russell T. Davies is such a committed <i>Doctor Who</i> fan that the writing has probably ensured that I'm playing a version of Patrick Troughton or Tom Baker or William Hartnell. But it's also a version of me as a kid. The Doctor has that insatiable curiosity that I was lucky enough to have when I was young."</div><div style="color: blue;"><br />
</div><div style="color: blue;">"<i>Doctor Who</i> is always brought back to Earth. It's not about fighting aliens on the planet Zog. It's about real people."</div><div style="color: blue;"><br />
</div><div style="color: blue;">"My hope is that the eight-year-olds who watch it, I'll be their first Doctor. I hope they haven't seen any DVDs of anybody else. I loved playing him, and I loved taking part in the basic essence and message of the series, which is, 'It's a short life, seize it and live it as fully as you can. Care for others, and be respectful of all other life-forms, regardless of colour and creed,' and to be part of that is fantastic."</div><br />
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<div style="color: red; text-align: center;"><h3><b>QUOTATIONS ABOUT CHRISTOPHER</b></h3></div><div style="color: blue;">"Ah, yes, the Doctor. He's Christopher Eccleston, of course, casting as inspired as making Vincent D'Onofrio a cop." </div><b>Damien Love in <i>The Sunday Herald</i> (2005) </b><br />
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<div style="color: blue;">"Eccleston brought a real, nearly tangible, sense of madness to the character of the Doctor. He was the ladies' Tom Baker, with a head injury."</div><b>Keith Breese on <i>FilmCritic.com</i> (2005) </b><br />
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<div style="color: blue;">"Christopher is nearest to Bill Hartnell. A dangerous character and a love to explore."</div><b>Maureen O'Brien (2005)</b><br />
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<div style="color: blue;">"The latest Doctor - leather trenchcoat, black T-shirt, sticky-out ears, toothy grin, Salford accent, doesn't stay still for a second." </div><b>Matthew Sweet in <i>The Daily Telegraph</i> (2005) </b><br />
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<div style="color: blue;">"He's got the grinning madness of Tom Baker but he's got the vulnerability of Peter Davison, and a bit of that excitedness that Paul McGann brought to it."</div><b>Clayton Hickman (2006) </b><br />
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<div style="color: blue;">"Christopher Eccleston's leather-jacketed, slightly demented hard-nut Doctor was the right man to make a break from the show's heritage of frock coats, frilly cuffs and hammery."</div><b>Caitlin Moran in <i>The Times</i> (2007) </b><br />
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<div style="color: blue;">"Chris got away with the short haircut. He looked like a bin-man."</div><b>Paul McGann (2009)</b><br />
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<div style="color: blue;">"In 2005, Christopher Eccleston walked away from the biggest job on TV. Whether he quit <i>Doctor Who</i> through fear of typecasting, boredom, ambition or simply an allergy to the Sonic Screwdriver has never really been revealed."</div><b>Andrea Mullaney in <i>The Scotsman</i> (2010) </b><br />
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<b>Quotes taken from <a href="http://dr-who-quotes-quotable-doctor-who.blogspot.com/p/volume-one-doctor-tv-show-companions.html" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" target="new"><u>THE QUOTABLE DOCTOR WHO</u></a><a href="http://dr-who-quotes-quotable-doctor-who.blogspot.com/p/volume-one-doctor-tv-show-companions.html" target="new"> - Volume One</a>. </b><br />
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<div style="color: white;">.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6435674566286343511.post-7407951078999299682011-02-01T02:14:00.000-08:002011-03-13T11:11:05.713-07:00Elisabeth Sladen - Happy Birthday to the 'Best Dr Who Companion' !!<div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: red;"><h1>HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELISABETH SLADEN </h1></span> who played Dr Who's 'best companion' Sarah Jane Smith </b></div><br />
Elisabeth Sladen celebrates her birthday today and we celebrate the Liverpool-born actress who played one of the great if not greatest of Doctor Who's companions. <br />
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</tbody></table>Elisabeth initially appeared on <i>Doctor Who</i> in 1973 with the Third Doctor Jon Pertwee and stayed for three and a half seasons having been joined in the TARDIS by the Fourth Doctor Tom Baker. <br />
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Elisabeth made a few return guest appearances as Sarah Jane on <i>Dr Who</i> in the ensuing years, but finally and thankfully returned to our TV screens full-time in her own show - the <i>Sarah Jane Adventures</i>. Not so much a <i>DW</i> spin-off but a one-woman showcase. <br />
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The affection in which Elisabeth is held is best summed up by John Connors on <i>LiveFromMars.co.uk</i>, <span style="color: blue;">"There always was an appropriately timeless quality about Sarah Jane Smith that makes her easily transferable to modern telly in a way that most classic Doctor Who companions would not be. Lis Sladen's natural acting style is part of that reason and you feel that if TV had been made thirty tears ago the way it is now, Sarah would have enjoyed as satisfying a story as Rose Tyler."</span><br />
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Elisabeth is more down to earth when summing up her <i>Who </i>character, <span style="color: blue;">"I sometimes think, 'If I knew what made Sarah Jane so popular, I'd bottle it.' "</span><br />
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She was equally as matter of fact in her overview of the show that made her famous, <span style="color: blue;">"Doctor Who is so simple but if you mess around with it you've got nothing." </span><br />
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And she also knew that any partnership - whether it be on telly or in real life - depends upon chemistry, <span style="color: blue;">"You can appreciate the companions' talents, their looks or whatever but they have to be paired with the right Doctors."</span><br />
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Although Elisabeth brought a more feministic attitude to her companion's role, she was clearly in tune with what was primarily required of Sarah Jane, <span style="color: blue;">"I love to scream. People should scream more. They scream at a lower pitch nowadays. I should write a Thesis on screaming."</span><br />
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Maybe the best <i>WHO </i>tribute to Elisabeth / Sarah Jane (as both have become synonymous with each other) came not from one of her Doctors but from a fellow companion. Louise Jameson, who played Leela, had the following to say on the <i>SJA </i>show, <span style="color: blue;">"I have to confess to being a little bit jealous that Lis Sladen is back, but being furious that she ended up with K-9. It's my dog! But I can see why they've done it, as Sarah Jane always comes up number one in all the polls - with Leela a close second!"</span><br />
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</tbody></table>To celebrate Elisabeth's birthday, here is a small selection of quotations and reviews about her and her most famous role ... <br />
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<div style="color: blue;">"<i>The Time Warrior</i> {1973} marked the beginning of Season Ten, along with a laundry list of 'firsts' for the series, but the story's most appealing can be summed up in three words: Sarah Jane Smith."</div><b>Kristin Munson on <a href="http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/doctorwhotimewarrior.php" target="new"><i>DVDVerdict.com</i></a> (2008) </b><br />
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<div style="color: blue;">"Also of note in the Pertwee years is the introduction of the first companion who was essentially smarter than him in Sarah Jane Smith, who was eventually abandoned by the Doctor when he realised she wasn't in complete stunned awe of him but in fact humouring him so he'd shut up and do his job."</div><b>Penny Sautereau-Fife on <a href="http://www.cracked.com/funny-270-doctor-who/" target="new"><i>Cracked.com</i></a> (2009) </b><br />
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<div style="color: blue;">"I have a certain sympathy with the argument that these ladies have served successive Doctors as stereotyped Little Women boosting the Great Male Ego, but Sarah, in both Elisabeth Sladen's performance and the scripts she progressively earned, got a sight nearer to subverting the omnipotence than Robin ever did for Batman."</div><b>Peter Fiddick in <i>The Guardian</i> (1976) </b><br />
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</div><div style="color: blue;">"Elisabeth Sladen was the object of my first-ever boyhood crush: there is still something very sexy about the way she pronounces 'Doc-tor.' "</div><b>James Chapman, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/184511163X?ie=UTF8&tag=botdf-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=184511163X" target="new"><i>Inside the TARDIS</i></a> (2006) </b><br />
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<div style="color: blue;">In <i>The Five Doctors</i> {1983} Elisabeth Sladen effortlessly rose above bland lines to retain her 'best companion' crown."</div><b>Tim Munro in <i>Doctor Who Bulletin 80</i> (1990)</b><br />
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If you have any comments or tributes you would like to add to the above in celebrating Elisabeth and her career, please add them in the comments box below. <br />
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<span style="color: white;">.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6435674566286343511.post-57913533452726445012011-01-27T05:00:00.000-08:002011-01-27T05:29:12.743-08:00Dr Who National TV Awards - Doctor Who Top Tweets on the NTA voting.<div style="color: red; text-align: center;"><h1><b>DOCTOR WHO <br />
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NATIONAL TELEVISION AWARDS </b></h1></div><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;">After the 'shocking' events at last night's National Television Awards (NTAs) that saw Doctor Who awardless for the first time in living memory, we have collected together some of the best tweets about the NTAs and the Dr Who snub. The show itself lost out to Waterloo Road for Best TV Drama, while Matt Smith was beaten to Best TV actor by David Jason. </span><br />
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<b>@brianw44 </b><br />
<div style="color: blue;">"Waterloo Road is, without a doubt, the best drama on TV. Except for all the other much better dramas of course"</div><b><br />
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<b>@lozwinter </b><br />
<div style="color: blue;">"#NTAs. Doctor Who was robbed. Hush to all those saying it's because RTD left. @steven_moffat is the messiah & its never been better. SO THERE"</div><br />
<b>@spikly </b><br />
<div style="color: blue;">"I agree with the #NTAs, a digger driven into a school is win. Great scripts & actors like in #Sherlock & #DrWho just don't cut it anymore."</div><b><br />
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<b>@LaFiKiChant </b><br />
<div style="color: blue;">"Whovians and Sherlock fans - we listened too well to @steven_moffat when he asked for an exact draw! Damn the vote split!"</div><br />
<b>@JohnNor </b><br />
<div style="color: blue;">"#Sherlock is #DoctorWho's Moriarty, they fell over votes waterfall - together! #ntas @Steven_Moffat just too good, they were evenly matched."</div><br />
<b>@Legopolis </b><br />
<div style="color: blue;">"Next series, @steven_moffat, write more jokes into Sherlock so it can win Best Comedy and Doctor Who can win Best Drama again." </div><br />
<b>@fishcustardzine </b><br />
<div style="color: blue;">"@steven_moffat I wouldn't worry about not winning one of those pointless awards. We all know you make quality telly anyway! :)"</div><br />
<b>@vidjam </b><br />
<div style="color: blue;">"Bah! Is it too late for Doctor Who and Sherlock to form a coalition?" </div><b><br />
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<b>@pad87d </b><br />
<div style="color: blue;">"Was #DrWho going to win at the National Television Awards? Of course not: it's better & less popular than it was"</div><br />
<b>@joecassels </b><br />
<div style="color: blue;">"Doctor Who always won at the National Television Awards under Labour. Bloody Tories."</div><b><a name='more'></a><br />
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<b>@gmp24_0</b> The Police<br />
<div style="color: blue;">"We're letting the prisoners watch the #NTAs. The fact that Waterloo Road beat Doctor Who and Sherlock are making them riot. Thanks."</div><br />
<b>@tardib </b><br />
<div style="color: blue;">"Quoi ?! Ni Doctor Who ni Sherlock n'a remporté la catégorie "Best Drama Series" aux NTA. Y'a un problème là..."</div><br />
<b>@Via_The_Void </b><br />
<div style="color: blue;">"Maybe it was the reaction to the new Daleks which put some people off! I'm clutching at straws!"</div><br />
<b>@ClariQueen </b><br />
<div style="color: blue;">"Yes, I'm a Tennant fan. No, I'm not blaming our dear little Matt Smith. I think he is just as brilliant."</div><br />
<b>@Cloister_Belle</b><br />
<div style="color: blue;">"The bitching that was going between Tennant fans & Smith fans over who was to blame for it was beyond childish"</div><br />
<b>@DrWhoTimeVortex </b><br />
<div style="color: blue;">"Doctor Who and Matt Smith didn't win NTAs becausse viewers feared that Smith would be announcing his resignation - just like Tennant did."</div><br />
<b>@theconsoleroom </b><br />
<div style="color: blue;">"Whatever, i still think #DoctorWho and #MattSmith have been fantastic! We missed out tonight but that won't stop us being fans!!"</div><br />
<b>@wnfeed </b><br />
<div style="color: blue;">"Would be nice to see the Doctor take something home tonight, other than a dry cleaned tweed from Dot's!"</div><b><br />
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<b>@RadioFreeSkaro </b><br />
<div style="color: blue;">"Gallifrey Base is down right now, possibly flooded with messages from smug Waterloo Road fans."</div><br />
<b>@CameronYardeJnr </b><br />
<div style="color: blue;">"After losing to Waterloo Road, the next series of Doctor Who will be set on Earth...in a school! </div><div style="color: blue;">It'll be set in a girl's boarding school so they can have Amy in a school uniform. That'll get them votes!!"</div><br />
<b>@SVAnderson</b><br />
<div style="color: blue;">"Recorded #NTA & turned it off after #DrWho lost. Sad times. Shall have to put my Dr Who boxset on to cheer up. Next year it's yours Doctor!"</div><br />
<b>@kasterborousdw </b><br />
<div style="color: blue;">"#ntas kills #doctorwho fandom in one clean move"</div><br />
<b>@dalekwidow</b><br />
<div style="color: blue;">"Still stunned that both 'Doctor Who' AND 'Sherlock' came away empty handed from last night's #NTAs. I predict success at BAFTAs instead"</div><br />
<b>@michelleeb </b><br />
<div style="color: blue;">"Ok, #doctorwho didn't win a #nta. But no other programme got a whole mini-episode right at the beginning. Therefore, it wins."</div><br />
<b>@Whovian_23 </b><br />
<div style="color: blue;">"Wonders when the 'will the #DoctorWho #NTAs scene be a DVD extra questions' will start up?"</div><br />
<b>@BlogtorWho </b><br />
<span style="color: blue;">"Miss the Doctor Who scene with Matt Smith & Dermot O'Leary (amongst others) from last night's NTAs? See it here - </span><a href="http://tinyurl.com/67f9xhq" style="color: blue;" target="new">http://tinyurl.com/67f9xhq</a><span style="color: blue;"> </span><b>"</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We were also active last night during the NTAs and here are some of our offerings that were retweeted by others, so someone must have liked them ... </span><br />
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<a href="http://twitter.com/#%21/QuotableDrWho" target="new"><b>@QuotableDrWho </b></a><br />
<div style="color: blue;">"If Matt Smith does not win Best Actor, Dermot deserves to be locked in the Pandorica with Louie Spence, Gillian McKeith & Andy Gray."</div><div style="color: blue;"><br />
</div><div style="color: blue;">"Matt Smith's been shafted by DelBoy!"</div><div style="color: blue;"><br />
</div><div style="color: blue;">"Good old Bruce Forsyth ... would have made a great Doctor Who ... a "Time Lord of the Dance" perhaps?"</div><div style="color: blue;"><br />
</div><div style="color: blue;">"Just worked out that this year #NTAs stands for "No Timelords Allowed" ... oh well, here's to Series 6 and more Matt Smith mayhem"</div><div style="color: blue;"><br />
</div><div style="color: blue;">"For #drwho fans who are bemoaning the lack of success at #ntas ... 'Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.' Jesse Owens"</div><div style="color: blue;"><br />
</div><div style="color: blue;">"#DrWho fans heal the #NTAs hurt ... WIN Official #DoctorWho 2011 Calendars. 3 brand new Series 5 calendars to be won <a href="http://bit.ly/dTwhar" target="new">http://bit.ly/dTwhar</a> "</div><br />
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If you have a Twitter account and don't follow any of the above Who tweeters, check out their Twitter pages ... there's a lot of great WHO stuff going down across the Twitterverse. <br />
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If you have anything to add to any of the above tweets or have somehting fresh to say about the NTAs, please use the comments box below ... <br />
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<div style="color: white;">.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6435674566286343511.post-89995547123443120652011-01-26T01:07:00.000-08:002011-01-26T01:52:08.808-08:00Dr Who Quotes: The Quotable Doctor - Which Doctor is Our Doctor Who?<h2 style="color: red;"><b>Doctor Who: Our Extra-Special Doctor among Doctors at Large </b></h2><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Who Said What About DR WHO</b> is dedicated to finding the best quotations and reviews about Doctor Who and the TV show. The one problem searching for great quotes about The Doctor is that our search often unearths things that have been said about other famous Doctors and doctors in general. Rather than ignore this rich source of doctor-based material we thought we would list some of these non-Dr Who doctor quotes and see see how they could relate to our Doctor ... </span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Our Doctor is always good at keeping others from doing harm. </span></i><br />
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<div style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">"A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession."</span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Martin H. Fischer</b> </span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Our Doctor has been working 24 /7 for the past 900 years. </span></i><br />
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<div style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">"A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health."</span></div><b><span style="font-size: large;">Gilbert Highet </span></b><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Our Doctor is a teacher, and a leader and an interesting subject himself. </span></i><br />
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<div style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">"The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman."</span></div><b><span style="font-size: large;">Jonathan Swift</span></b><br />
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<div style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Being a doctor could make you more close-minded than regular people."</span></div><b><span style="font-size: large;">Alex Chiu </span></b><br />
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<div style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died."</span></div><b><span style="font-size: large;">Erma Bombeck </span></b><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Our Doctor's life work is to make sure no living organism dies ... unless it has to. </span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Our Doctor thrives on passion and can create passion in others. </span></i><br />
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<div style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">"The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find."</span></div><b><span style="font-size: large;">Denis Diderot </span></b><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Our Doctor is the best one the Daleks always run into ... and he always finds them. </span></i><br />
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<div style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">"The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity."</span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Arthur Schopenhauer</b> </span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Our Doctor delights in the weaknesses of humankind ... he even abides our wickedness and stupidity. </span></i><br />
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<div style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">"The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him."</span></div><b><span style="font-size: large;">Sigmund Freud </span></b><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Our Doctor is transparent to his companions, but like a mirror he reflects back hopefully through what is shown to him. </span></i><br />
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<div style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">"The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes."</span></div><b><span style="font-size: large;">Desiderius Erasmus </span></b><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Our Doctor can appear ignorant, reckless and thoughtless but his reputation is built not on the priveleged backs of princes but on the struggles of the poor and oppressed. </span></i><br />
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<div style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">"When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge."</span></div><b><span style="font-size: large;">Sir Arthur Conan Doyle </span></b><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Our Doctor has been tried as a criminal but his nerve and knowledge have always seen him go free. </span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Finally ... </span><br />
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<div style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Time is generally the best Doctor."</span></div><b><span style="font-size: large;">Ovid </span></b><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">One assumes that Ovid met our Doctor on his travels in the past. </span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;">Coming soon</span> ... we look at how our Doctor Who compares to other famous Doctors: from Dr Seuss to Dr Gregory House, from Dr Doolittle to Dr Doom, from Dr Zhivago to Dr Phil, from Doc Holliday to Dr No ... and more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;">.</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6435674566286343511.post-27101625553788527202011-01-23T08:32:00.000-08:002011-02-17T00:15:19.250-08:00Dr Who Competition - Win Official Doctor Who 2011 Calendars<div style="color: red; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>WIN !! Official BBC Doctor Who 2011 Calendars </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><b>COMPETITION NOW CLOSED </b></u></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6rnNSK3OO1HoJtlEt4q_vGP003_1cfggG-pgOURAPVLygG6QL5aYNruMo_PE76Vai9X1wlFx_nQz25F-dCeJ4p6MbKwD666VAZrZR1WKLUXl1XOVQD4lVP7b0kMf6YfHFk1J-aZaUeOlr/s1600/Calendar+2011+front.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="195" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6rnNSK3OO1HoJtlEt4q_vGP003_1cfggG-pgOURAPVLygG6QL5aYNruMo_PE76Vai9X1wlFx_nQz25F-dCeJ4p6MbKwD666VAZrZR1WKLUXl1XOVQD4lVP7b0kMf6YfHFk1J-aZaUeOlr/s200/Calendar+2011+front.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.blue-eyed-books.co.uk/doctor-who-quotes-book" target="new"><b>Blue Eyed Books</b></a> has three brand new Dr Who Calendars - of the Fifth series starring Matt Smith as the 11th Doctor and Karen Gillan as Amy Pond - to give away. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Doctor Who</i> is all about Time and Space, so if you have got the Space on your wall for this great Time 'piece', have a go at our quick Doctor Who quotes quiz for the chance to win a calendar <span style="font-size: small;">(RRP £7.99)</span>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Answer this question ... </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDFCvjtqYJdBDSqgUxL0QQuV5pGzvbsBWIOHJJ-6UyRMryKeJkIx7No1A2IU2bMN_Q_ghIXtihrkDUmQrS9gYzQsS7MtLYpBCdr5o9hjqWjL3i6mXWJpnIXQsgYcexCq6p-z_Jh7NAJR9a/s1600/Calendar+2011+back.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDFCvjtqYJdBDSqgUxL0QQuV5pGzvbsBWIOHJJ-6UyRMryKeJkIx7No1A2IU2bMN_Q_ghIXtihrkDUmQrS9gYzQsS7MtLYpBCdr5o9hjqWjL3i6mXWJpnIXQsgYcexCq6p-z_Jh7NAJR9a/s200/Calendar+2011+back.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">In <i>A Christmas Carol</i>, by what first name did the 11th Doctor claim to know a certain seasonal saint? </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDFCvjtqYJdBDSqgUxL0QQuV5pGzvbsBWIOHJJ-6UyRMryKeJkIx7No1A2IU2bMN_Q_ghIXtihrkDUmQrS9gYzQsS7MtLYpBCdr5o9hjqWjL3i6mXWJpnIXQsgYcexCq6p-z_Jh7NAJR9a/s1600/Calendar+2011+back.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="font-size: large;">" <span style="color: blue;">Father Christmas, Santa Claus, or, <br />
as I've always known him ...</span> <span style="color: red;">????</span> "</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">a. Jack b. John c. Jeff d. Joe </span></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></div><span style="font-size: large;">Send your answer - with "Dr Who Calendar Comp" in the subject line and add your name, email address and country details in the message - to <a href="mailto:blueeyedbooks@gmail.com" target="new">Blue Eyed Books</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="mailto:blueeyedbooks@gmail.com" target="new"> [click here to email]</a>.</span></span><br />
<div style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Competition closed Feb 7th.</span></span></b></div><br />
<b><a href="http://www.blue-eyed-books.co.uk/home" target="new">BLUE EYED BOOKS</a></b> is the publisher of <b><a href="http://dr-who-quotes-quotable-doctor-who.blogspot.com/2011/01/dr-who-quotes-book-special-offer-25-off.html" target="new">THE QUOTABLE DOCTOR WHO</a></b> quotes book - Volume One now available in the UK at 25% off (a saving of £3.74 on RRP). For more details, <a href="http://dr-who-quotes-quotable-doctor-who.blogspot.com/2011/01/dr-who-quotes-book-special-offer-25-off.html" target="new">click here</a>. <br />
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<b>Competition closed</b>: 7th Feb 2011<br />
<b>Winners</b>:<br />
Chris Dawson, Leicester, UK<br />
M. Jeffries, Aberdeen, Scotland<br />
Jay Sigulic, Indianapolis, USA<br />
<b>Answer</b>: c. Jeff <br />
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Thanks for all the entries from 14 different countries proving Doctor Who is a global, if not universal, phenomenon. <br />
<span style="color: white;">.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6435674566286343511.post-52502966535604727292011-01-23T08:31:00.000-08:002011-01-23T08:34:06.853-08:00Doctor Who Quotes Quiz 1 - Winner of The Quotable Dr Who quotes book<div style="color: red; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Quotable Doctor Who Quotes Quiz 1 <br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The winner of our <a href="http://dr-who-quotes-quotable-doctor-who.blogspot.com/p/dr-who-quiz-puzzle-iq-tests.html" target="new">first Quotable Doctor Who Quotes Quiz</a> is ...</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>DAVID LOUGHRIDGE </b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> from Northern Ireland </b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">For a look at the ten Doctor Who quotation questions and answers, please <a href="http://dr-who-quotes-quotable-doctor-who.blogspot.com/p/dr-who-quiz-puzzle-iq-tests.html" target="new">click here for our Quiz Page</a>. </span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Our second Quotable Doctor Who Quotes Quiz - to win one of three Official 2011 Dr Who Calendars - can be found by <a href="http://dr-who-quotes-quotable-doctor-who.blogspot.com/2011/01/dr-who-competition-win-official-doctor.html" target="new">clicking here</a>. </span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="color: white;">.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6435674566286343511.post-84514873113500590752011-01-20T03:35:00.000-08:002011-01-20T03:35:36.196-08:00Happy Birthday Tom Baker: The 4th Doctor Who Quotes - 77 going on 777<div style="color: red; text-align: center;"><h1><b>TOM BAKER <br />
The 4th Doctor Who Quotations </b></h1></div><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Happy Birthday: 77 going on 777 </b></span></h3><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">To celebrate Tom Baker's 77th birthday today, we have chosen a selection of our favourite Fourth Doctor quotes from the <i>Doctor Who</i> show ... </span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghEsDgJNfuZSxFSqHDb3KhbPTKotcrZrrKr2YVSeOmstyB-pKDSDXs0hvqUTfmckOBWhR-rD4Q8baMhwPFn3L4mkKfoNfJRDEWvVzjMFKWZROa3Buv-H9w-WgXM3vVNaLuipN09OJnTIZ1/s1600/Tom+Baker+book+cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghEsDgJNfuZSxFSqHDb3KhbPTKotcrZrrKr2YVSeOmstyB-pKDSDXs0hvqUTfmckOBWhR-rD4Q8baMhwPFn3L4mkKfoNfJRDEWvVzjMFKWZROa3Buv-H9w-WgXM3vVNaLuipN09OJnTIZ1/s320/Tom+Baker+book+cover.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;">The 4th Doctor: <span style="color: blue;">You may be a doctor, but I am The Doctor. The definite article, one might say.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Robot </i>(1974)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The 4th Doctor: <span style="color: blue;">I'm a Time Lord ... I'm not a human being. I walk in eternity.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>The Pyramids of Mars </i>(1975)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The 4th Doctor: <span style="color: blue;">Killing me isn't going to help you. It isn't going to do me much good either.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>The Face of Evil</i> (1977) </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The 4th Doctor: <span style="color: blue;">The localised condition of planetary atmospheric condensation caused a malfunction in the visual orientation circuits. Or to put it another way, we got lost in the fog. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Horror of Fang Rock </i>(1977)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Boursa: <span style="color: blue;">You have access to the greatest source of knowledge in the universe.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The 4th Doctor: <span style="color: blue;">Well, I do talk to myself sometimes.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>The Invasion of Time</i> (1978)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The 4th Doctor<i> after outwitting Lady Adrasta's chief engineer</i> - <span style="color: blue;">Well, to be fair I did have a couple of gadgets he probably didn't ... like a teaspoon and an open mind.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>The Creature from the Pit </i>(1979)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Fisk: <span style="color: blue;">Your name and date of birth?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The 4th Doctor: <span style="color: blue;">I'm called the Doctor. Date of birth ... difficult to remember, sometime quite soon I think.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Nightmare of Eden</i> (1979)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The 4th Doctor: <span style="color: blue;">You know, K-9, sometimes I think I'm wasted, just rushing around the universe saving planets from destruction. With a talent like mine, I might have been a great slow bowler.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>The Horns of Nimon </i>(1980)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The 4th Doctor: <span style="color: blue;">They asked me to stay on, you know ... be a Decider.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Romana: <span style="color: blue;">You, a Decider?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The Doctor: <span style="color: blue;">Yes. I decided not to.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Full Circle</i> (1980)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The 4th Doctor:<span style="color: blue;"> Knowing is easy; everyone does that ad nauseam. I just sort of hope.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>State of Decay</i> (1980)</span><br />
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K-9: <span style="color: blue;">Prognostication impossible in matters concerning the Doctor.</span><br />
<i>The Invasion of Time </i>(1978)<br />
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The Countess: <span style="color: blue;">My dear, I don't think he's as stupid as he seems.</span><br />
The Count: <span style="color: blue;">My dear, nobody could be as stupid as he seems.</span><br />
<i>City of Death</i> (1979)<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you have a favourite quote from or about the Fourth Doctor, please share it with us all below in the comments box ... </span><br />
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We have used the letters of "<b style="color: red;">HAPPY NEW YEAR</b>" to spell out the names of supporting characters from the New Series of Doctor Who. All you have to do is to name the actor who played that character.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>H</b></span>arriett Jones </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>A</b></span>nne Droid </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>P</b></span>ete Tyler </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>P</b></span>rofessor River Song </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>Y</b></span>vonne Hartman </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>N</b></span>asreen Chaudry </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>E</b></span>dwin Bracewell </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>W</b></span>inston Churchill </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>Y</b></span>oung Amelia Pond </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>E</b></span>lton Pope </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>A</b></span>bigail Pettigrew </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>R</b></span>osita Farisi </span><br />
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Harriett Jones [played by <b>Penelope Wilton</b>]<br />
Anne Droid [<b>Anne Robinson</b>]<br />
Pete Tyler [<b>Shaun Dingwall</b>]<br />
Professor River Song [<b>Alex Kingston</b>]<br />
Yvonne Hartman [<b>Tracy-Ann Oberman</b>]<br />
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Nasreen Chaudry [<b>Meera Syal</b>]<br />
Edwin Bracewell [<b>Bill Paterson</b>]<br />
Winston Churchill <b>[Ian McNeice</b>]<br />
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Young Amelia Pond [<b>Caitlin Blackwood</b>]<br />
Elton Pope [<b>Marc Warren</b>]<br />
Abigail Pettigrew [<b>Katherine Jenkins</b>]<br />
Rosita Farisi [<b>Velile Tshabalala</b>]<br />
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No prizes if you got all twelve answers right, but there is a prize quiz - to win a signed copy of <b><a href="http://www.blue-eyed-books.co.uk/doctor-who-quotes-book" target="new">The Quotable Doctor Who: Volume One</a></b> - in our <b><a href="http://dr-who-quotes-quotable-doctor-who.blogspot.com/p/dr-who-quiz-puzzle-iq-tests.html" target="new">Quotable Dr Who Quiz</a></b> on our 'Quiz and Puzzle' page (ends Jan 10th 2011). <br />
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We hope you had fun with this seasonal quiz and look forward to entertaining you some more in 2011 ... <br />
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<div style="color: red; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>HAPPY NEW YEAR </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>from us all at </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.blue-eyed-books.co.uk/doctor-who-quotes-book" target="new">The Quotable Doctor Who</a>. </b></span></div><br />
<span style="color: white;">.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6435674566286343511.post-91187361981468886772010-12-29T11:14:00.000-08:002011-01-02T12:38:51.666-08:00Doctor Who Christmas Special - Top Ten Requirements of a Dr Who Xmas show<h1 style="color: red; text-align: center;"><b>TOP TEN REQUIREMENTS OF A<br />
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<i>DR WHO CHRISTMAS SPECIAL</i></b></h1><h3 style="text-align: center;"><b>Did this year's <i>Dr Who Xmas Special</i> tick all the boxes?<br />
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<span style="color: red;">Part One</span></b></h3><br />
Ever since 2005, <i>Doctor Who Christmas Specials</i> have been as much a part of the BBC's Christmas Day festive schedule as <i>EastEnders</i>, <i>The Royle Family</i>, <i>Strictly Come Dancing</i> and <i>The Queen's Speech</i>. It is regarded by the Beeb as one of their <b>BIG </b>Xmas presents as they lavish a lot of money, time and publicity on the one hour spectacular. <br />
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So what is the recipe for the perfect Dr Who Xmas Epic? Like a perfect Christmas Cake or Pudding, there are some key ingredients that prevent the resulting concoction from falling flat or leaving a nasty taste in your mouth. <br />
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I have identified ten key ingredients in making a <i>Doctor Who Christmas Special</i> ... and the 2010 edition <i>A Christmas Carol</i> certainly met all ten requirements that make up a perfect Xmas treat. <br />
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<b>1. CHRISTMAS</b><br />
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</tbody></table>This one is first and foremost a deal breaker ... and the simplest to understand. A <i>Doctor Who Christmas Special</i> has to be about Christmas, be set at Christmastime and revolve around all things Christmas with Christmas Carols, Christmas Trees and Christmas Lights. <br />
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Matt Smith himself made the point perfectly, <span style="color: blue;">"It's as Christmassy as it comes in <i>Doctor Who</i> land. It's loosely based on A Christmas Carol with a time-travelling twist. Steven Moffat has managed to reinvent it. I think those two things marry quite well together - <i>Doctor Who</i> and Christmas."</span><br />
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As The Doctor, Matt also utters the unforgettable festive line, <span style="color: blue;">"Father Christmas. Santa Claus. Or, as I've always known him, Jeff." </span><br />
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In fact, <i>A Christmas Carol</i> is by far and away the most Xmassy of all six Who Xmas Specials. To be fair, the previous five could have as easily been set in the summer since their Christmas content appeared to be tacked on like a fancy bow wrapped around a Christmas present. <br />
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<b>2. NEW 'COMPANIONS' </b><br />
Christmas Specials are a time to experiment with the <i>Who </i>formula and tweak a few basic tenets. Since the Doctor cannot change, the Xmas show's variation has to come from his companions (or usually the lack of them). Previous specials have dispensed entirely with 'returning' companions and have introduced one-off characters to fill the void such as Astrid Peth and Jackson Lake. This explains the perilous back seat that Amy and Rory take in this Special, while The Doctor roams time, space and an assortment of Christmas Eves with a new set of willing cohorts. <br />
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The 2010 Special companions Kazran (through the ages) and Abigail Pettigrew may enjoy their trips with The Doctor but they are fated to being temporary passengers on the TARDIS. Christmas companions should never return, yes Donna Noble we are talking to you. <br />
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<b>3. NON-CONTIGUOUS </b><br />
In order to appeal to the widest demographic and not alienate (which is difficult for a sci-fi TV series that relies heavily on alien-based life-forms) a larger than usual family audience, an Xmas Special should have a standalone storyline. <br />
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The narrative must be able to exist wholly within the parameters of its sixty minute running time. Christmas evening is not the time or place to have millions of non-Who fans asking for clarification of obscure plot points, interlinking back stories and trivia references that are a staple of a die-hard Whovian's diet. <br />
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Apart from the Amy / Rory honeymoon running gag (which is neatly disposed of within the script), <i>Christmas Carol</i> is as outstanding an example of a one-off episode as you could hope to bump into on a cold Christmas night. No loose ends, no need for any exposition ... sixty minutes of pure family entertainment. <br />
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<b>4. NEW MONSTER / CREATURES </b><br />
A <i>Dr Who Xmas Special</i> requires a ferocious new monster (not old foes like the Cybermen) and - to keep the kids happy and calm at Yuletide - a fluffy cuddly creature to offset the terror of the 'ferocious new monster.'<br />
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Those galactic guppies - the Fog Fish - may not have been fluffy or cuddly but they were certainly cute in the same vein as those adorable Adipose. I, for one, was glad that these peace-loving Pisces did not suddenly transform into something more sinister and evil and dangerous.<br />
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The scary remit was left to a fearsomely fanged shark, although I was a little upset that there only appeared to be the one Great White patrolling the misty skies. And quite why this Shark growled (yes it did! Listen the next time you watch it) I do not know - unless it was a steroidal dogfish off its leash. <br />
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<b>The Doctor</b>: <span style="color: blue;">"I bet I get some very interesting readings off my sonic screwdriver when I get it back from the shark in your bedroom."</span><br />
<b>Young Kazran</b>: <span style="color: blue;">"There's a shark in my bedroom?!"</span><br />
<b>The Doctor</b>: <span style="color: blue;">"Oh fine! Focus on that point."</span><br />
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A third new 'monster' introduced in the Special was the Face Spiders. This unseen menace probably gave over-attentive tots the heebie-jeebies and had them checking their bedroom cupboards and mattresses when they went to bed. <br />
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<b>5. HOMAGE </b><br />
There are two parts to a Christmas Special - the 'Christmas' bit and the 'Special' bit. And for me, the 'Special' bit means spotting the obvious and sometimes more obscure references to other TV shows and films. <br />
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2010 provided us with a bumper crop of popular culture references to pick over. Writer / producer Steven Moffat produced a unique take on Charles Dickens' classic that only Doctor Who could achieve. <br />
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In interviews before the press screening, Moffat had promised,<span style="color: blue;"> "It's all your favourite Christmas movies at once, in an hour, with monsters. And the Doctor. And a honeymoon."</span> So heaven's only knows how many references he threw in for good measure. With the obvious Xmas Movie 'mentions' from <i>It's A Wonderful Life</i> to quite probably <i>Bad Santa</i>, Moffat did not let us down with a Christmas list of homagiography. <br />
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Right from the James Bondesque high-octane pre-credits action sequence with a <i>Star Trek</i> flair (or should that be flare) the show was filled to the gunnels with knowing nods and clever touches. <br />
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The giant shark gliding silently through the sinister fog must have reminded every adult viewer of Spielberg's <i>Jaws</i>. So much so that I half expected Moffat to provide a few suitable throwaway lines of chummy dialogue, <span style="color: blue;">"You're gonna need a bigger TARDIS!"</span> or <span style="color: blue;">"That was no Time Travelling accident!"</span> <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kazran or Arthur Dent? </td></tr>
</tbody></table><span style="color: blue;">"Christmas is Cancelled!"</span> is ripped heart and soul from Alan Rickman's Sheriff of Nottingham in <i>Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves</i>. For a few scenes Michael Gambon even played the evil Kazran like a bare-faced pastiche of the cruel-hearted Sheriff and chewed the scenery for all his Rickmansworth. <br />
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Moffat must have loved playing tribute to former <i>Who </i>writer and story editor Douglas Adams. Having young Kazran cavort around time and space wearing his dressing gown and PJs just like the equally befuddled Arthur Dent in Adam's classic <i>A Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy</i> was a masterstroke.<br />
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Another nice touch was mimicking the romantic buggy ride (albeit without shark propulsion) from <i>Oklahoma!</i> Although with the mad Doctor at the reins it was more a case of 'a Surrey with a lunatic fringe on top.' <br />
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I wasn't sure if outfitting the planet's population in Roy 'Chubby' Brown goggles and headgear was a literal 'tip of the cap' to the stand up comedian or a nasty coincidence. <br />
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<div style="color: red; text-align: center;"><b>End Of Part One </b></div><br />
Keep posted for Part Two of the <i>Top Ten Requirements of a Doctor Who Christmas Special</i>. <br />
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<b>Posted by <a href="http://www.blue-eyed-books.co.uk/" target="new">Colin M Jarman </a></b><br />
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<div style="color: #999999;">Photos copyright BBC TV</div><span style="color: white;">.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6435674566286343511.post-79881942805656560282010-12-29T06:44:00.000-08:002011-03-13T11:05:20.088-07:00Dr Who Quotes: Matt Smith - Top Ten Quotations on the Eleventh Doctor<div style="color: red; text-align: center;"><h1><b>Doctor Who - Matt Smith </b></h1></div><div style="color: red; text-align: center;"><h3><b>Look Back in Hunger: <br />
Revisiting his Dazzling Debut Season in Series Five of Dr Who<br />
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</tbody></table>When Matt Smith was first announced as the successor to the seemingly irreplaceable David Tennant, as The Doctor, the earliest critical responses were " Who?" and "Far Too Young!"<br />
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In fact, he was deemed so young that Jan Etherington in <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/4109406/I-like-Matt-Smith-as-the-new-Doctor-Who-he-looks-like-an-alien.html" target="new"><i>The Telegraph</i></a> was moved to write, <span style="color: blue;">"I've got jars of chutney that have been around longer than the new Doctor Who."</span> <br />
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As it turned out, a mature jar of pickled vegetable matter is a marvellous metaphor for Matt's take on The Doctor: an idiosyncratic blend of different textures and subtle sensations, sweet yet acidic, fruity yet spicy, hot yet soothing, smooth and chunky, potent and wildly invigorating, dark and deeply mysterious, aged and yet so fresh ... but not to everyone's taste.<br />
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So, has the 'Branstons of Time Lords' lived up to the legends of his ten predecessors?<br />
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Matt not only took over the mantle of The Doctor and ran with it ... but already has been glowingly referenced in direct comparison to all ten previous ten incarnations - from Hartnell to Tennant - of the world's favourite Time Lord.<br />
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Not only has Matt been positively likened to the earlier Doctors but he has been compared to a mindblowing myriad of multi-faceted memes: an adventure-seeking archaeologist, a 1930s Hollywood comedian, a scholarly TV quiz geek, a tropical island tourist attraction, a proto-gothic anti-hero, a foppish English thespian, a diaper-wearing children's cartoon character, a desert-dwelling rodent, a young know-it-all TV doctor and a blusteringly belligerent TV chef - making Matt the perfect popular culture chutney. And quite possibly, the best all round Doctor yet. <br />
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To celebrate Matt's fabulous first year and first season as The Doctor, here are some of our favourite quotations and reviews about him from Series Five. <br />
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<div style="color: blue;">"The Tenth Doctor's first action in defence of the Earth was to pick up a sword. The Eleventh doesn't look like he could even lift a sword."</div><b>Stuart Ian Burns on <a href="http://www.behindthesofa.org.uk/2010/04/the-girl-in-the-spotty-nightgown-and-red-cardigan.html" target="new"><i>BehindTheSofa.org.uk</i></a> </b><br />
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<div style="color: blue;">"Both Chris and David were quite cool Doctors, and while Matt certainly isn't short on cool, he has an amazing clumsiness. He's halfway between Indiana Jones and Stan Laurel."</div><b><a href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/2945851/Doctor-Who-Matt-Smith-is-cross-between-Indiana-Jones-and-Stan-Laurel.html" target="new">Steven Moffat</a> </b><br />
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<div style="color: blue;">"The previous Doctor, David Tennant, smouldered his way across the space-time continuum. Smith is more of a geek-chic Time Lord. Floppy-haired and bright-eyed, he looks as if he has wandered onto the set by mistake on his way to appear for one of the more crusty colleges in <i>University Challenge</i>. Reading physics, of course." </div><b>Roland White in <a href="http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article7086916.ece" target="new"><i>The Times</i></a> </b><br />
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<div style="color: blue;">"Early signs suggest that Doctor 11 might be special. Tall and gangling, with a weirdly handsome face - he looks like an Easter Island statue at the NME style awards - Smith appears to possess the requisite eccentricity, and the ability to suggest an ancient mind inside a youthful body, that the role requires." </div><b>Paul Whitelaw in <a href="http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scotsmanmagazine/TV-Preview-Doctor-Who-.6202863.jp" target="new"><i>The Scotsman</i></a> </b><br />
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<div style="color: blue;">"With his long, ascetic face, rather like Mervyn Peake's sketches of Steerpike in his <i>Gormenghast </i>novels, the 27-year-old Matt Smith has all the makings of an interesting Time Lord."</div><b>Gerard Gilbert in <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/doctor-who-has-age-withered-this-time-lord-1923533.html" target="new"><i>The Independent</i></a> </b><br />
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<div style="color: blue;">"There is much of both Davison and Troughton's Doctors in Smith's performance, with some lovely, quiet moments. However, when this Doctor gets angry, there's more than a hint of McCoy coming through, and that's not really a good thing." </div><b>Brian J. Robb on <a href="http://totalscifionline.com/reviews/4888-doctor-who-victory-of-the-daleks" target="new"><i>TotalSciFiOnline.com</i></a> </b><br />
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<div style="color: blue;">"Whether you see him as an old head on young shoulders, or simply a bent shoe coincidentally on the same coat hanger as a tweed jacket, the Eleventh incarnation is an exhilarating bundle of energy and floppy fringes. The Time Lord equivalent of Hugh Grant crossed with a Rugrat."</div><b>Chris Alpha on <a href="http://theoodcast.com/tag/matt-smith/" target="new"><i>TheOodcast.com</i></a> </b><br />
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"Smith seems a perfect piece of casting: he looks like a boy who might grow up into William Hartnell." <br />
<b><span style="color: black;">Matthew Sweet in <i><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/just-what-the-doctor-ordered-how-david-tennants-time-lord-saved-auntie-1842753.html" target="new">The Independent</a> </i> </span></b><br />
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</div><div style="color: blue;">"Matt Smith is right for the part, isn't he? Look at him. He's got Patrick Troughton's hair and Jon Pertwee's nose and Tom Baker's eyes. He's also got a wonderful meerkat perkiness, a way of moving that's just a tiny bit out of sync with everyone else."</div><b>Mark Smith on <a href="http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/film-tv-features/does-doctor-who-lack-some-woo-hoo-1.1020067" target="new"><i>HeraldScotland.com</i></a> </b><br />
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<div style="color: blue;">"He's kind of like the Doogie Hauser of Time Lords."</div><b>Lisa Fary on <a href="http://www.pinkraygun.com/2009/01/04/the-11th-doctor-matt-smith/" target="new"><i>PinkRayGun.com</i></a> </b><br />
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<div style="color: blue;">"Is it the sherry talking, or is Matt Smith looking more and more like a stretch version of Gordon Ramsay?"</div><b>Phil Hogan in <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2010/dec/26/doctor-who-hogan-tv-review" target="new"><i>The Observer</i></a> </b><br />
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These dozen quotations about Matt Smith form a very small part of the 2000 quotes about Dr Who to be found in <b><a href="http://www.blue-eyed-books.co.uk/doctor-who-quotes-book" target="new">The Quotable Doctor Who book - Volume One</a></b> from <a href="http://www.blue-eyed-books.co.uk/" target="new">Blue Eyed Books</a><br />
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<span style="color: white;">.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6435674566286343511.post-32603764498087410032010-12-27T11:24:00.000-08:002010-12-28T05:07:29.435-08:00Doctor Who: "A Christmas Carol" review round up from tea with the Cybermen to Amy Pond's legs.<div style="color: red; text-align: center;"><h1><b><i>A CHRISTMAS CAROL</i> <br />
TV Review Round Up <br />
of the 2010 <i>Dr Who Xmas Special</i></b></h1></div><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-size: small;">"One of the single most superb and deeply moving Christmas episodes in television history."</span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Robert William Berg on </b><a href="http://www.robwillreview.com/?p=6765" target="new"><i><b>RobWillReview.com</b></i></a></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">"By far the best Christmas special to be seen on TV this year."</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Ken Tucker on <a href="http://watching-tv.ew.com/2010/12/25/doctor-who-a-christmas-carol-harry-potter/" target="new"><i>EntertainmentWeekly.com</i></a> </b> </span><br />
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<div style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: small;">"Another seasonal adventure for the time-traveller (who does seem to land on 25 December a lot)."</span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Richard Vine on <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2010/dec/20/tv-highlights-christmas-day" target="new"><i>Guardian.co.uk </i></a></b></span><br />
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<div style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: small;">"This is a different, almost introspective Christmas special where a sense of the epic is merely the background to a personal story about one man's relationship to his father and where even the gifts offered by the Father Christmas of time and space can bring their own disappointments and consequences."</span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Frank Collins on <a href="http://cathoderaytube.blogspot.com/2010/12/doctor-who-christmas-carol-review.html" target="new"><i>CathodeRayTube.blogspot.com </i></a></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">"Thanks to Michael Gambon's performance and Steven Moffat's more than usually focused writing, Kazran Sardick becomes one of the more memorable characters in <i>Doctor Who</i>'s history, without ever departing from the Scrooge model."</span><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Charlie Jane Anders on <a href="http://io9.com/5718094/a-christmas-carol-moffats-doctor-who-in-its-most-perfect-form" target="new"><i>io9.com </i></a></b></span><br />
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<div style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: small;">"Matt Smith’s mannered gabbling is becoming smug and rather grating. Amy Pond was - again - parked on the sidelines. But her legs were as great as ever."</span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Jim Shelley on <i><a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/columnists/jim-shelley/2010/12/27/doctor-who-christmas-special-was-nicely-demented-115875-22809952/#ixzz19KQayy4v" target="new">Mirror.co.uk</a></i> </b></span><br />
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<div style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: small;">"No marks for originality as the unimaginative BBC served us the TARDIS take on <i>A Christmas Carol</i>. What a novel idea. Nevertheless ... the most festive <i>Doctor Who</i> ever."</span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Kevin O'Sullivan on <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/columnists/kevin-osullivan/2010/12/26/doctor-who-xmas-spectacular-was-no-novel-idea-115875-22808352/#ixzz19Ks3tbZI" target="new"><i>Mirror.co.uk</i></a> </b></span><br />
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<div style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: small;">"Matt Smith is brilliantly demented from start to finish. And the story itself manages to lean heavily on the original <i>Christmas Carol</i> concept, while using all The Doctor's tricks."</span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Gerard McGarry on <a href="http://unrealityshout.com/blogs/doctor-who-christmas-special-a-christmas-carol-episode-review" target="new"><i>UnrealityShout.com</i></a> </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">"<i>A Christmas Carol</i> is so audacious that if it wasn't done so well it might amount to blasphemy." </span><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Dan Martin on <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2010/dec/25/doctor-who-christmas-special-2010" target="new"><i>Guardian.co.uk</i></a></b></span><br />
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<div style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: small;">"I like my sharks cold-blooded, predatory, dangerous. I know it’s Christmas but what next? A cup of tea with the Cybermen? Spa day with the Daleks?" </span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Chris Harvey on <i><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/doctor-who/8224302/Doctor-Who-Christmas-Special-BBC-One-review.html" target="new">Telegraph.co.uk</a></i> </b></span><br />
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<div style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: small;">"If you can manipulate time, then delivering Christmas Past, Present and Future is a doddle, though it must have been a little trickier for Steven Moffat to get his cog-work to align quite so neatly."</span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Tom Sutcliffe on <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/reviews/upstairs-downstairs--boxing-day-bbc1-br-doctor-who--christmas-day-bbc1br-come-fly-with-me--christmas-day-bbc1-2169716.html" target="new"><i>Independent.co.uk </i></a></b></span><br />
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<div style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: small;">"Cue the Doctor, who comes plummeting down Kazran’s chimney like a version of Santa in the latter stages of some kind of terminal wasting disease that makes your face look like a melted cliff." </span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><b>LadyRibenaBeret on <a href="http://watchwithmothers.net/2010/12/27/doctor-who-a-christmas-classic/" target="new"><i>WatchWithMothers.net</i></a> </b></span><br />
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<div style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: small;">"The Doctor was down the Michael Gambon's chimney before you could say chocolate brazils, though it was more Dick van Dyke than Santa, what with the clouds of soot and long-legged capering."</span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Phil Hogan in <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2010/dec/26/doctor-who-hogan-tv-review" target="new"><i>The Observer</i></a></b></span><br />
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<div style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: small;">"Steven Moffat was clearly ding dong merrily high on something when he came up with this beguiling Christmas whimsy."</span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Dave Golder on <a href="http://www.sfx.co.uk/2010/12/25/doctor-who-a-christmas-carol%e2%80%9d-revie/#ixzz19Kv8A6sO" target="new"><i>SFX.co.uk</i></a> </b></span><br />
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<div style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: small;">"The genius of <i>Doctor Who</i>'s <i>A Christmas Carol</i> is how much further it deviates from Dickens' tale of miserly redemption than the trailers might have indicated."</span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Martin Anderson on <a href="http://www.shadowlocked.com/201012251187/reviews/doctor-who-a-christmas-carol-review.html" target="new"><i>ShadowLocked.com </i></a></b></span><br />
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<div style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: small;">"What The Grand Moff has done with <i>A Christmas Carol</i> is basically succeed in blending a serious threat with a true and meaningful Christmas tale that mixes the old timey-wimey nature of Moffat’s <i>Doctor Who</i> with a recognised parable."</span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Christian Cawley on <a href="http://www.kasterborous.com/2010/12/26/a-christmas-carol/" target="new"><i>Kasterborous.com </i></a></b></span><br />
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<div style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: small;">"<i>A Christmas Carol</i> is, ultimately, a fitting end to one of <i>Doctor Who</i>’s very strongest years."</span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Simon Brew on <a href="http://www.denofgeek.com/television/705504/doctor_who_a_christmas_carol_review.html" target="new"><i>DenOfGeek.com </i></a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b style="color: red;">COMING SOON</b>: Our own review of <i>A Christmas Carol</i> - as we examine the top ten requirements for a <i>Doctor Who Christmas Special</i>. Check back to see if the 2010 Special ticked all the boxes. </span><br />
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CHRISTMAS CAROLS</b></h1></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO3JOt8VvjMiFuoW-u5VGd3n5AqeAvbd8bT0F3VUcfY9LpPFn9S8THIc64WP95Mp8_TAurlMQjdp53RUQsIChixea9ZU9OKo1q7tKDKfjAVAynqz25SN4mzQOA7-EJP26u5ZbQ3DuG0FxR/s1600/Matt-Smith-Xmas.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO3JOt8VvjMiFuoW-u5VGd3n5AqeAvbd8bT0F3VUcfY9LpPFn9S8THIc64WP95Mp8_TAurlMQjdp53RUQsIChixea9ZU9OKo1q7tKDKfjAVAynqz25SN4mzQOA7-EJP26u5ZbQ3DuG0FxR/s1600/Matt-Smith-Xmas.gif" /></a></div><br />
<div style="color: #274e13; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Unto Us An Empty Child is Born </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO4vvzwCM2-uRzEBwcPjSDY9qKqAa0otTPphPtEcOKFLrD41QoA7ijVC9ltnTbHb_VX_Y50Q8XquK4hl9QLw70jTirR9EzBmsF1kUEXsi5tUQCLhUx85ZWpYR0AWOoKK2x7OUx2HTLlyQ/s1600/holly-berry.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="40" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO4vvzwCM2-uRzEBwcPjSDY9qKqAa0otTPphPtEcOKFLrD41QoA7ijVC9ltnTbHb_VX_Y50Q8XquK4hl9QLw70jTirR9EzBmsF1kUEXsi5tUQCLhUx85ZWpYR0AWOoKK2x7OUx2HTLlyQ/s200/holly-berry.gif" width="200" /></a></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">It Came Upon a Planet Midnight Clear </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO4vvzwCM2-uRzEBwcPjSDY9qKqAa0otTPphPtEcOKFLrD41QoA7ijVC9ltnTbHb_VX_Y50Q8XquK4hl9QLw70jTirR9EzBmsF1kUEXsi5tUQCLhUx85ZWpYR0AWOoKK2x7OUx2HTLlyQ/s1600/holly-berry.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="40" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO4vvzwCM2-uRzEBwcPjSDY9qKqAa0otTPphPtEcOKFLrD41QoA7ijVC9ltnTbHb_VX_Y50Q8XquK4hl9QLw70jTirR9EzBmsF1kUEXsi5tUQCLhUx85ZWpYR0AWOoKK2x7OUx2HTLlyQ/s200/holly-berry.gif" width="200" /></a></b></div><div style="color: #274e13; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Ood King Wenceslas </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO4vvzwCM2-uRzEBwcPjSDY9qKqAa0otTPphPtEcOKFLrD41QoA7ijVC9ltnTbHb_VX_Y50Q8XquK4hl9QLw70jTirR9EzBmsF1kUEXsi5tUQCLhUx85ZWpYR0AWOoKK2x7OUx2HTLlyQ/s1600/holly-berry.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="40" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO4vvzwCM2-uRzEBwcPjSDY9qKqAa0otTPphPtEcOKFLrD41QoA7ijVC9ltnTbHb_VX_Y50Q8XquK4hl9QLw70jTirR9EzBmsF1kUEXsi5tUQCLhUx85ZWpYR0AWOoKK2x7OUx2HTLlyQ/s200/holly-berry.gif" width="200" /></a></b></div><div style="color: red; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Hark the Weeping Angels Sing </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO4vvzwCM2-uRzEBwcPjSDY9qKqAa0otTPphPtEcOKFLrD41QoA7ijVC9ltnTbHb_VX_Y50Q8XquK4hl9QLw70jTirR9EzBmsF1kUEXsi5tUQCLhUx85ZWpYR0AWOoKK2x7OUx2HTLlyQ/s1600/holly-berry.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="40" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO4vvzwCM2-uRzEBwcPjSDY9qKqAa0otTPphPtEcOKFLrD41QoA7ijVC9ltnTbHb_VX_Y50Q8XquK4hl9QLw70jTirR9EzBmsF1kUEXsi5tUQCLhUx85ZWpYR0AWOoKK2x7OUx2HTLlyQ/s200/holly-berry.gif" width="200" /></a></b></div><div style="color: #274e13; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">God Rest Ye Merry Cybermen </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO4vvzwCM2-uRzEBwcPjSDY9qKqAa0otTPphPtEcOKFLrD41QoA7ijVC9ltnTbHb_VX_Y50Q8XquK4hl9QLw70jTirR9EzBmsF1kUEXsi5tUQCLhUx85ZWpYR0AWOoKK2x7OUx2HTLlyQ/s1600/holly-berry.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="40" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO4vvzwCM2-uRzEBwcPjSDY9qKqAa0otTPphPtEcOKFLrD41QoA7ijVC9ltnTbHb_VX_Y50Q8XquK4hl9QLw70jTirR9EzBmsF1kUEXsi5tUQCLhUx85ZWpYR0AWOoKK2x7OUx2HTLlyQ/s200/holly-berry.gif" width="200" /></a></b></div><div style="color: red; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">In the Blink Midwinter</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO4vvzwCM2-uRzEBwcPjSDY9qKqAa0otTPphPtEcOKFLrD41QoA7ijVC9ltnTbHb_VX_Y50Q8XquK4hl9QLw70jTirR9EzBmsF1kUEXsi5tUQCLhUx85ZWpYR0AWOoKK2x7OUx2HTLlyQ/s1600/holly-berry.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="40" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO4vvzwCM2-uRzEBwcPjSDY9qKqAa0otTPphPtEcOKFLrD41QoA7ijVC9ltnTbHb_VX_Y50Q8XquK4hl9QLw70jTirR9EzBmsF1kUEXsi5tUQCLhUx85ZWpYR0AWOoKK2x7OUx2HTLlyQ/s200/holly-berry.gif" width="200" /></a></b></div><div style="color: #274e13; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Sontaran is Coming To Town </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO4vvzwCM2-uRzEBwcPjSDY9qKqAa0otTPphPtEcOKFLrD41QoA7ijVC9ltnTbHb_VX_Y50Q8XquK4hl9QLw70jTirR9EzBmsF1kUEXsi5tUQCLhUx85ZWpYR0AWOoKK2x7OUx2HTLlyQ/s1600/holly-berry.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="40" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO4vvzwCM2-uRzEBwcPjSDY9qKqAa0otTPphPtEcOKFLrD41QoA7ijVC9ltnTbHb_VX_Y50Q8XquK4hl9QLw70jTirR9EzBmsF1kUEXsi5tUQCLhUx85ZWpYR0AWOoKK2x7OUx2HTLlyQ/s200/holly-berry.gif" width="200" /></a></b></div><div style="color: red; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Ding Donna Merrily on High</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO4vvzwCM2-uRzEBwcPjSDY9qKqAa0otTPphPtEcOKFLrD41QoA7ijVC9ltnTbHb_VX_Y50Q8XquK4hl9QLw70jTirR9EzBmsF1kUEXsi5tUQCLhUx85ZWpYR0AWOoKK2x7OUx2HTLlyQ/s1600/holly-berry.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="40" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO4vvzwCM2-uRzEBwcPjSDY9qKqAa0otTPphPtEcOKFLrD41QoA7ijVC9ltnTbHb_VX_Y50Q8XquK4hl9QLw70jTirR9EzBmsF1kUEXsi5tUQCLhUx85ZWpYR0AWOoKK2x7OUx2HTLlyQ/s200/holly-berry.gif" width="200" /></a></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #274e13;">O Christmas Tree of Cheem </span> </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO4vvzwCM2-uRzEBwcPjSDY9qKqAa0otTPphPtEcOKFLrD41QoA7ijVC9ltnTbHb_VX_Y50Q8XquK4hl9QLw70jTirR9EzBmsF1kUEXsi5tUQCLhUx85ZWpYR0AWOoKK2x7OUx2HTLlyQ/s1600/holly-berry.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="40" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO4vvzwCM2-uRzEBwcPjSDY9qKqAa0otTPphPtEcOKFLrD41QoA7ijVC9ltnTbHb_VX_Y50Q8XquK4hl9QLw70jTirR9EzBmsF1kUEXsi5tUQCLhUx85ZWpYR0AWOoKK2x7OUx2HTLlyQ/s200/holly-berry.gif" width="200" /></a></b></div><div style="color: red; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">I Saw Three Dalek Attack Ships Come Sailing In</span></b></div><br />
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If you can think of any other Doctor Who Xmas Carols please add them in the comments box below. The above Carols are all based on New Series themes so there is a host of fun possibilities from Classic Who.<br />
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