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Post by matthewsee on Nov 5, 2020 4:47:08 GMT -5
Finished the first season of Staged starring David Tennant and his Good Omens co-star Michael Sheen as fictionalised versions of themselves. Also featuring Tennant’s real-life wife Georgia Tennant as a fictionalised version of herself. A reminder that Tennant was the Tenth Doctor came in the first episode Cachu Hwch when the TARDIS can be seen in his garden when he was there.
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Post by matthewsee on Nov 8, 2020 9:36:10 GMT -5
The Sydney Sunday Telegraph's The Binge Guide of November 8-14 2020 has a picture of my wife Karen Gillan for its TV Crossword. It is a promotional picture of her when she was announced as the Doctor Who companion, yet to be named Amy Pond and she is the subject of question 25 Across: "Played Amy Pond in Doctor Who (Karen......)"
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Post by matthewsee on Nov 16, 2020 0:59:55 GMT -5
Started the 2020 series of Dracula by Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat and the first episode The Rules of the Beast had Jonathan Harker reading a letter from fiancee Mina and she makes reference to a adorable barmaid working at The Rose and Crown. This is in reference to Doctor Who companion Clara or more specifically Victorian Clara created by none other than Moffat when as Doctor Who showrunner. Victorian Clara working in The Rose and Crown was seen in the Doctor Who 2012 Christmas Special The Snowmen written by Moffat himself.
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Post by matthewsee on Nov 26, 2020 0:09:41 GMT -5
Recently saw an episode of the ABC (Australia) factual TV series Back Roads, Penguin, Tas, in which host Heather Ewart visit the said town of Penguin in Tasmania. What is curious about this is that it has the TARDIS in it with the playing of the Doctor Who theme as Ewart used the TARDIS to travel there!
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Post by matthewsee on Dec 17, 2020 11:54:00 GMT -5
The Sydney Sunday Telegraph The Binge Guide of December 6-12 2020 looks at Doctor Who's debut on BritBox. Under "From The Vault" and with a picture of Tom as the Fourth Doctor, it says: "Here's what you need to know, The Doctor is an alien who travels through space and time in a blue box righting wrongs, making wise cracks and friends (and enemies) everywhere. New streaming service BritBox is the only place to watch the entire collection of classic and contemporary Doctor Who from 1963-2019. You can start at the beginning with the first Doctor, William Hartnell, right through to Jodie Whittaker including Tom Baker (pictured), David Tennant and Sylvester McCoy."
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Post by matthewsee on Dec 27, 2020 12:34:45 GMT -5
The Sydney Sunday Telegraph The Binge Guide December 27 2020-January 2 2021 has an interview with Rove McManus by Lisa Woolford. This is primarily about him hosting New Year's Eve: Early Night Show on the ABC but this crops up: "He's a much bigger fan of New Year's Day - or 'Doctor Who Day' as he dubs it, when the annual special drops, with McManus eagerly anticipating the return of the Daleks and the current Time Lord Jodie Whittaker [in Revolution of the Daleks]." Later on it reflects what he did in 2020 "from another season of The [sic] Whovians on ABC." Elsewhere on this Binge Guide has From The Vault looking at Red Dwarf on BritBox. Like the Rove piece this was also written by Woolford in which she says that Red Dwarf "can be described as the bizarre love child of Mystery Science Theater and Doctor Who."
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Post by matthewsee on Dec 30, 2020 13:58:12 GMT -5
Call The Midwife 2020 Christmas Special has a special guest star in Fifth Doctor Peter Davison.
If the presence of Davison, an actor who had played the Doctor wasn't enough, it also has a Doctor Who reference with Sister Frances saying to Nurse Trixie, "Sister Monica Joan went straight to the parlour after chapel. She's waiting for Doctor Who to start".
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Post by matthewsee on Jan 23, 2021 2:13:14 GMT -5
Started Truth Seekers created and stars Nick Frost and Simon Pegg. The first episode The Haunting of Connelly's Nook has a Dalek cameo with Helen (Susan Wokoma) dressing up as one. Started Truth Seekers created and stars Nick Frost and Simon Pegg. The first episode The Haunting of Connelly's Nook guest stars Patricia Brake as Miss Connelly one of the said Connellys. It also has a Dalek cameo with Helen (Susan Wokoma) dressing up as one.
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Post by matthewsee on Jan 29, 2021 9:00:30 GMT -5
Read from TV Week (Australia) of January 23-29 that Around The World In 80 Days starring David Tennant will be on Channel Seven sometime this year 2021 and refer to Tennant as the Doctor Who and Broadchurch star.
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Post by matthewsee on Feb 13, 2021 10:44:52 GMT -5
The Sydney Sunday Telegraph's The Binge Guide of January 31-February 7 2020 has a picture of Jodie Whittaker for its TV Crossword. It is a picture of her as the Doctor in Orphan 55 with what she wore on her nose and she is the subject of question 1 Across: "First female Doctor"
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Post by matthewsee on Feb 18, 2021 2:17:18 GMT -5
Truth Seekers 1.4 The Incident at CovColCosCon featured a Dalek as it had entered a cosplay competition. In this episode Gus (series co-creator Nick Frost) says that this Dalek looked better than the actual Daleks. Gus says the Daleks' appearance had changed in Jon Pertwee's manifestation as the Doctor and that Tom Baker was his guy. The Dalek was travelling in a van which also had Gus' father-in-law Richard as a passenger. In the Doctor Who-Star Trek spectrum of things Richard is played by Malcolm McDowell and he had played the villain Soran in Star Trek: Generations. The Truth Seekers episode marked the first appearance in the series by Taj Atwal. Continuing with the topic of Nick Frost and Daleks, I saw the Truth Seekers episode just before rewatching Frost as Santa Claus in Doctor Who: Last Christmas. Last Christmas also marked Samuel Anderson's swansong as Danny Pink and on this day I had a bookend of his appearances as Danny as I had earlier rewatched him in his debut Into The Dalek. Despite Into The Dalek having Daleks in it as indicated in the title, Danny ironically didn't meet the Daleks not just in this episode but in his entire time in Doctor Who.
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Post by matthewsee on Feb 20, 2021 11:46:18 GMT -5
The antepenultimate episode of WandaVision, Breaking the Fourth Wall has Agnes (Kathryn Hahn) revealing that her true identity is that of Agatha Harkness. John Barrowman revealed in 2006 that his Doctor Who/Torchwood character Captain Jack Harkness was named after Agatha Harkness Also WandaVision featured S.W.O.R.D. ( Sentient Weapon Observation Response Division) which in many ways is not unlike Torchwood.
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Post by matthewsee on Mar 18, 2021 9:33:40 GMT -5
The Flash 7.3 Mother had Ralph in a special suit and a special helmet.
With this helmet he spoke through a voice modulator.
This led to Chester to say that Ralph in speaking through this voice modular sounds like a Dalek!
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Post by matthewsee on Mar 24, 2021 9:40:49 GMT -5
The Flash 7.4 Central City Strong has Team Flash learning that Abra Kadabra (David Dastmalchian) is back in town having travelled from the far future in the 64th century. Chester (Brandon McKnight) who is new to Team Flash gets excited about Abra Kadabra being a time traveller and wonders whether a TARDIS is involved! This is the second episode in a row to have a Doctor Who reference and both made by Chester. In the previous episode Mother, Chester made a Dalek reference.
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Post by matthewsee on Apr 29, 2021 3:22:13 GMT -5
Staged 2.3 The Dirty Mochyns has David and Michael having a zoom meeting with Nick Frost and Simon Pegg. This is the case of having the Doctor and Scotty together when Pegg shows his Star Trek mug and reference made of him having played Scotty in the Star Trek movies and Frost calling David Doctor Who. Curiously enough Michael, Frost and Pegg all had guest stints in Doctor Who but each with a different Doctor who wasn’t David. Pegg was The Editor in the Chris Eccleston episode The Long Game, Michael voiced House in the Matt Smith episode The Doctor’s Wife and Frost was Santa Claus first briefly at the end of the Peter Capaldi episode Death In Heaven and then fully in the next Capaldi episode Last Christmas.
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