‘Doctor Who’: ‘The Robots of Death’ (Special Edition) DVD review
Sometimes watching Doctor Who, one can feel an uneasy anxiety, waiting for the next arch performance or line of clunky dialogue to break the spell.
Posted
Filed under
Sometimes watching Doctor Who, one can feel an uneasy anxiety, waiting for the next arch performance or line of clunky dialogue to break the spell.
With the Who machine cranking up again imminently to begin shooting Series 7, we count down River Song’s top 10 moments songs.
When The Tomb of the Cybermen was discovered in Hong Kong in 1991, it felt like a remarkable feat of resurrection for a story which is itself.
The new series of Doctor Who will begin filming on Monday 20th February, the show’s official website has announced.
Investigative journalist Sarah Jane Smith and her young sidekicks are back in the final ever series of The Sarah Jane Adventures, available on BBC DVD and Blu-ray from Monday 6th February, with exclusive new footage. > Read our DVD review. To celebrate, we’ve got copies of the DVD box set to give away to three … >
We’ve been asking you to send in photos of your Doctor Who-related snowmen and we’ll be giving away a Revisitations 3 classic Doctor Who box set (out next week) to the creator of our favourite! Here are some of our favourites: Chris Knowles (@goooweth) sent us this snow Dalek, while James (@jamesgrayh) proves that “Snow … >
» ‘The party’s arrived…’ Advertising slots during the Super Bowl are the most highly-prized (and expensive) on American TV. This year, a couple of the companies investing in commercials to be shown during the match between the New England Patriots and the New York Giants have produced ads with a cult theme – including Audi, with this slightly dated but funny Twilight parody.
» ‘Oh, good morning, Dean!’ Memes involving a re-voiced Darth Vader rarely fail to amuse. This week, it’s the turn of Kenneth Williams to don the mask, breathe heavily and ask Imperial commanders about the possibilities of gender realignment.
» ‘I’m coming… all the time…’ If you haven’t experienced Cassetteboy’s cutups of Stephen Fry reading JK Rowling’s Harry Potter novels, you’re missing out. Go and search for them in a couple of minutes – but first, enjoy their riotous video edit, ‘Harry Potter and the X-Rated Trailer’…
» ‘Now please stop buggering me!’ For high-quality Doctor Who mash-up magic, Farmergeddon has been the go-to guy since the days when editing videos together was a matter of hooking up two VCRs and pressing pause at the right time. His take on The Five Doctors is indisputably a work of comedy genius.
» ‘The dog is funnier than the Vader kid.’ Back to Super Bowl XLVI for the last of this week’s selections. Volkswagen’s kid-activates-car-with-the-Force ad became a worldwide hit after airing during the 2011 final, and this year, the full-length version of the company’s game day promo contains a coda set in a familiar cantina….
The fifth and final series of The Sarah Jane Adventures, though a bittersweet experience, is the last great reminder of why generations have fallen for the feisty reporter.
Matt Smith’s Eleventh Doctor has been a revelation since the very beginning, and as filming begins on his third series, we look back at some of his finest moments so far…
Based on the trilogy of novels by John Christopher, The Tripods was set in a dystopian yet quaintly rural future, where the human race is enslaved by giant, three-legged robots from outer space.