The Hour. A show praised as much for its ability to make operating a typewriter while smoking and wearing houndstooth look cool as for the talent of the actors who were actually doing it. But what of its music?
Many of you will have been expecting answers from The Returned‘s finale. Some of you will have surmised in advance that the show is too inscrutable to give up its secrets.
Do you remember Varnax? Or the Doctor’s best friend Gonjii? How about the battle with Scratchman or the time he stopped Mandrake’s audacious plan to gain a new regeneration cycle? What about the genocidal androids of Krikkit or the time that Amelia Earhart travelled in the TARDIS?
‘The Leisure Hive’ opened Tom Baker’s final season and was the first full Doctor Who story of the 1980s.
July brings us to the Seventh Doctor in this series of anniversary audios and ‘Shockwave’ delivers the TARDIS to a planet on the literal edge of destruction.
The 23rd of November 1963 holds particular significance for Doctor Who fans as the date of its first transmission. The previous day is etched into history, far more significantly, by the assassination of American President John F. Kennedy and this globally resonant event frequently comes up when discussing the start of the show.
When a film like Upstream Colour comes along it’s kinda pointless assigning it a star rating. It is not going for bums on seats, mass appeal, sequel/remake-bait.
Idris Elba has said he would like to see a John Luther movie one day – possibly an origins story. This would not just befit a character who is more superhero than sleuth, but also seems like the only conceivable way of telling a fresh story.
If Daniel Radcliffe’s face had not been emblazoned throughout the playhouse, I wouldn’t have recognized him as the eponymous handicap in The Cripple of Inishmaan; his performance was a clear step from out from under the overhanging shadow of Harry Potter.
Like a Kryptonian prison ship on the horizon, you can spot a Hans Zimmer track a mile off. Or rather, hear it a mile off.