Tin Dog Podcast
- Description:
- tin-dog@hotmail.co.uk The Tin Dog welcomes you to sit back and listen to his rants and ramblings about all that is best in modern SF and Television. Via the gift of the new fangled Podcast over the tinterweb. As you can probably guess Tin Dog mostly talks about Doctor Who, Torchwood and Sarah Jane Smith but that wont stop him talking about any other subject you suggest. Hailing from a non specific part of the northeast of England, Tin Dog is male and in his mid 30s. A life long fan of almost all TV SF. His semi-autistic tendencies combined with his total lack of social skills have helped him find a place in the heart of British SF Fandom. Even as a child the Tin Dogs mother told him that she can trace his love of SF TV back to his rhythmic kicking, while still in the womb, along to the beat of the Avengers theme music. From Gabriel Chase to Totters Lane, from the Bad Wolf Satellite to the back streets of the Cardiff, Tin Dog will give you his thoughts on the wonderful Whoniverse. Daleks and Cybermen and TARDIS ES Oh My If you enjoy these Tin Dog Podcasts please remember to tell your friends and leave an email tin-dog@hotmail.co.uk
Homepage: http://tin-dog.co.uk
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- Episodes:
- 2805
- Average Episode Duration:
- 0:0:09:56
- Longest Episode Duration:
- 0:2:09:15
- Total Duration of all Episodes:
- 19 days, 8 hours, 22 minutes and 56 seconds
- Earliest Episode:
- 1 May 2007 (6:54pm GMT)
- Latest Episode:
- 10 April 2024 (6:23am GMT)
- Average Time Between Episodes:
- 2 days, 4 hours, 56 minutes and 58 seconds
Tin Dog Podcast Episodes
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17TH NOVEMBER WHOSTROLOGY
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 1 minutes and 22 seconds#WHOSTROLOGY #DOCTORWHO #TinDogPodcast #COMEDY #ASTROLOGY #Podcast www.whostrology.com #DrWho 17TH NOVEMBER WHOSTROLOGY
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TDP 430: Zygon Hunt 4th Doctor 3.8
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 34 seconds#doctorwho @bigfinish #tindogpodcast RELEASED AUGUST PRICES CD £10.99 Download £8.99 Synopsis On the jungle planet Garros, Earth Forces Knight Commander-in-Chief Greg Saraton and his team are hunting gigantic beasts, for sport. When the Doctor and Leela arrive, they are caught up in a web of intrigue where there is no clear friend or foe. What is Saraton’s vital connection with Earth’s Solar System’s Defence Shield? Why are the giant reptilian birds of Garros attacking? What terrible secret lurks deep within the trees? Before the truth can be revealed, a heavy price will be extracted and loyalties will be tested to the limit. Written By: Nicholas BriggsDirected By: Nicholas Briggs Cast Tom Baker (The Doctor), Louise Jameson (Leela), Michael Maloney (Gregor Saraton), Gillian Kearney (Mina Challis), James George (Knight Commander Elunas), Steven Alexander (Knight Commander Ollerie), Nicholas Briggs(Baragor/Zygons/Knights)
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16TH NOVEMBER WHOSTROLOGY
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 1 minutes and 34 seconds#WHOSTROLOGY #DOCTORWHO #TinDogPodcast #COMEDY #ASTROLOGY #Podcast www.whostrology.com #DrWho 16TH NOVEMBER WHOSTROLOGY
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15TH NOVEMBER WHOSTROLOGY
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 1 minutes and 48 seconds#WHOSTROLOGY #DOCTORWHO #TinDogPodcast #COMEDY #ASTROLOGY #Podcast www.whostrology.com #DrWho 15TH NOVEMBER WHOSTROLOGY
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14TH NOVEMBER WHOSTROLOGY
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 1 minutes and 35 seconds#WHOSTROLOGY #DOCTORWHO #TinDogPodcast #COMEDY #ASTROLOGY #Podcast www.whostrology.com #DrWho 14TH NOVEMBER WHOSTROLOGY
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13TH NOVEMBER WHOSTROLOGY
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 1 minutes and 35 seconds#WHOSTROLOGY #DOCTORWHO #TinDogPodcast #COMEDY #ASTROLOGY #Podcast www.whostrology.com #DrWho 13TH NOVEMBER WHOSTROLOGY
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12TH NOVEMBER WHOSTROLOGY
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 1 minutes and 31 seconds#WHOSTROLOGY #DOCTORWHO #TinDogPodcast #COMEDY #ASTROLOGY #Podcast www.whostrology.com #DrWho 12TH NOVEMBER WHOSTROLOGY
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11TH NOVEMBER WHOSTROLOGY
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 1 minutes and 38 seconds#WHOSTROLOGY #DOCTORWHO #TinDogPodcast #COMEDY #ASTROLOGY #Podcast www.whostrology.com #DrWho 11TH NOVEMBER WHOSTROLOGY
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10TH NOVEMBER WHOSTROLOGY
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 1 minutes and 19 seconds#WHOSTROLOGY #DOCTORWHO #TinDogPodcast #COMEDY #ASTROLOGY #Podcast www.whostrology.com #DrWho 10TH NOVEMBER WHOSTROLOGY
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TDP 429: Death in Heaven
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 17 minutes and 12 seconds#doctorwho #drwho #tindogpodcast #deathinheaven "Death in Heaven" is the twelfth and final episode of the eighth series of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who. It is the second episode of a two-part story involving the return of the Cybermen and the Master in the form of the 'Mistress', the first part being "Dark Water", written bySteven Moffat and directed by Rachel Talalay.[4] The episode stars Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Samuel Anderson, Michelle Gomez, Chris Addison,Jemma Redgrave and Ingrid Oliver.[1]
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9th NOVEMBER WHOSTROLOGY
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 1 minutes and 29 seconds#WHOSTROLOGY #DOCTORWHO #TinDogPodcast #COMEDY #ASTROLOGY #Podcast www.whostrology.com #DrWho 9th NOVEMBER WHOSTROLOGY
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8th NOVEMBER WHOSTROLOGY
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 1 minutes and 40 seconds#WHOSTROLOGY #DOCTORWHO #TinDogPodcast #COMEDY #ASTROLOGY #Podcast www.whostrology.com #DrWho 8th NOVEMBER WHOSTROLOGY
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7th NOVEMBER WHOSTROLOGY
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 1 minutes and 22 seconds#WHOSTROLOGY #DOCTORWHO #TinDogPodcast #COMEDY #ASTROLOGY #Podcast www.whostrology.com #DrWho7th NOVEMBER WHOSTROLOGY
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6th NOVEMBER WHOSTROLOGY
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 1 minutes and 23 seconds#WHOSTROLOGY #DOCTORWHO #TinDogPodcast #COMEDY #ASTROLOGY #Podcast www.whostrology.com #DrWho 6th NOVEMBER WHOSTROLOGY
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5th NOVEMBER WHOSTROLOGY
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 1 minutes and 35 seconds#WHOSTROLOGY #DOCTORWHO #TinDogPodcast #COMEDY #ASTROLOGY #Podcast www.whostrology.com #DrWho 5th NOVEMBER WHOSTROLOGY
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4th NOVEMBER WHOSTROLOGY
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 1 minutes and 35 seconds#WHOSTROLOGY #DOCTORWHO #TinDogPodcast #COMEDY #ASTROLOGY #Podcast www.whostrology.com #DrWho 4th NOVEMBER WHOSTROLOGY
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TDP 428: Dark Water
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 22 minutes and 3 seconds#TinDogPodcast #DarkWater #DoctorWho #Podcast #Review reprinted from wiki Dark Water" is the eleventh episode of the eighth series of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who. The episode was written byshowrunner and head writer Steven Moffat and is the first of a two-part story; the concluding episode is "Death in Heaven", the finale of the eighth series. It was first broadcast on BBC One on 1 November 2014. In the episode, Danny Pink (Samuel Anderson) is killed, and finds himself in the Nethersphere. As the Doctor (Peter Capaldi) and his companion Clara Oswald (Jenna Coleman) try to find Danny, they find themselves in a facility that accommodates Cybermen, run by recurring character Missy (Michelle Gomez). In the episode's climax, Missy reveals her true identity as the Master. Contents [hide] 1 Plot 1.1 Continuity 2 Production 3 Broadcast and reception 3.1 Preview release 3.2 Reception 4 References 5 External links Plot[edit] Clara is talking over her phone to Danny, fully ready to admit she has been travelling with the Doctor and that she loves Danny, when the other end goes silent. A stranger picks up and sadly informs Clara that Danny got hit by a passing car and has died. She struggles with his death for days, refusing to let her emotions go and decides to call on the Doctor to make him change the past. Without telling him her plans, she suggests they go to an active volcano, and then secretly collects all seven of the TARDIS keys and after the TARDIS is in motion, strikes him with a sleep-inducing patch. When they land and the Doctor wakes up, she throws the keys one by one into the lava - the only way to destroy them - unless the Doctor takes her back to save Danny, despite knowing it would create a time paradox. The Doctor soon reveals this was just a dream state - the patch not working on him and instead had used it on Clara - to learn why she was upset, and to see how far she was willing to go. He offers, as a friend, to see if they can find Danny in the afterlife, and has Clara use the telepathic interface of the TARDIS to centre on Danny. They land in a strange mausoleum which holds several tanks of human skeletons under water. They are greeted by Missy, who introduces herself as an android receptionist, and are taken to Dr Chang, one of the scientists in the facility. The Doctor asks about the oddness of the skeletons not drifting apart, and Dr Chang reveals that they are submerged in a substance called dark water, which only allows organic material to be seen, and that the bodies are encased in a support exoskeleton. The Doctor remains curious about the facility, and Dr Chang explains how it was based on the discovery of the voices of the recently deceased in the white noise in broadcast signals; the Doctor remains doubtful of this. At the same time, Danny has regained consciousness in a spartan office and greeted by Seb, who reveals he is in the Nethersphere - a giant city enclosed within a sphere. Seb explains Danny has died, and helps him to get used to the new space, noting that he is still tied to the state of his body - likely being kept in a refrigerated morgue as he constantly feels cold. As part of this, Seb has arranged a meeting between Danny and a young boy that he had accidentally killed while he was a soldier, and while Danny tearfully tries to offer his apologies, the boy refuses and runs off. As Seb and Danny are talking, Seb then receives a notice that Clara is trying to contact Danny, who does not know that Clara has travelled to the Nethersphere. The Doctor leaves with Dr. Chang to investigate the facility further while Clara takes the call, asking a number of questions to try to assure that she is really speaking to Danny. Clara says she will do anything to be with him, and, wanting her to live out her life while believing that he is dead, Danny presses Clara to end the call. Seb then offers him the option to delete all his emotions. Meanwhile, as the Doctor and Dr Chang return to the tanks, Missy has instructed the skeletons inside to rise and starts the process to drain the tanks. She is caught as the Doctor and Dr Chang enter, and Dr Chang reveals that Missy is the supervisor of the place, rather than a receptionist. Disappointed with Chang, Missy then kills him with a handheld device. As the tanks start to drain, the skeletons are revealed to be those of Cybermen. Missy points to a spherical device situated in the middle of the area and names that as the Nethersphere, revealed to be a Gallifreyan memory storage system knownMatrix. Missy explains that the consciousness of the deceased are stored and held to be inserted into new Cybermen soldiers after having their emotions deleted. The Doctor frantically questions Missy's identity, coming to realise she is aTime Lady possessing two hearts, which he had first recognized when they had come into contact earlier. As the tanks finally drain and open, the Doctor races out of the facility, only to discover that it is situated in the middle of contemporary London, inside St Paul's Cathedral. The Doctor tries to warn away civilians but Missy calls out the Doctor's actions as the ravings of a lunatic. The Doctor begs her to tell him who she is; she reveals that "Missy" is short for "the Mistress", as, in her current form, she could not call herself the Master. The episode ends as the Cybermen begin to march on London, Clara trapped in Dr Chang's lab with another Cyberman, and Danny about to activate the deletion of his emotions when he sees the young boy he killed in the reflection. Continuity[edit] The episode identifies the series-long theme involving Missy, typically who has only been shown at the ends of past episodes and interacting with characters that have just died and arriving in the Nethersphere, such as the Half-Face Man from "Deep Breath"; this is the first episode where the Doctor, Clara, and Missy interact directly. Production[edit] The read through for "Dark Water" took place on 12 June 2014. Filming began soon afterwards, on 16 June 2014. Locations for the episode included Cardiff, Pontypool and St. Paul's Cathedral.[1] When filming the episode's climax, Capaldi and Gomez mouthed their lines—recorded later using automated dialogue replacement—to hide the reveal from all spectators of the filming.[2] Broadcast and reception[edit] Preview release[edit] "Dark Water" has scenes removed from the DVD previews that were sent to reviewers, and a media blackout has been imposed on any plot details that were not released by the BBC or Steven Moffat. One notable scene removed by the BBC is the revelation of Missy's identity.[3] Reception[edit] Overnight viewing figures were estimated at 5.27 million.[4] The episode received highly positive reviews from critics. Michael Hogan of The Telegraph gave it five stars out of five and called it a "bone-rattling and suitably spooky fare". He praised the source of everyday fears such as death for the horror and was praised the performances of Capaldi, Coleman, Anderson and Gomez.[5] Neela Debnath of The Independent said that the episode was "sad, funny, scary, romantic" and "is everything you could ask for from a Doctor Who finale the day after Halloween."[6] Richard Edwards of SFX gave the episode four and a half stars out of five, claiming "...in a series of great Capaldi performances, this is one of the best". He praised the opening premise and the big reveal at the end and also commented on its allusions to Second Doctor stories, The Tomb of the Cybermen and The Invasion.[7] Matt Risley on IGN praised the episode for its "tense and traumatic dose of Who", but was critical of the lack of action, which usually went hand-in-hand with the Cybermen. Overall, he rated the first part of the finale an 8.4.[8] Alaisdair Wilkins on the AV Club gave the episode a B rating, claiming that "Dark Water could be a good episode, or it could be a terrible one", indicating that it was only the first half of the story.[9]
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3rd NOVEMBER WHOSTROLOGY
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 1 minutes and 22 seconds#WHOSTROLOGY #DOCTORWHO #TinDogPodcast #COMEDY #ASTROLOGY #Podcast www.whostrology.com #DrWho3rd NOVEMBER WHOSTROLOGY
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2nd NOVEMBER WHOSTROLOGY
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 1 minutes and 25 seconds#WHOSTROLOGY #DOCTORWHO #TinDogPodcast #COMEDY #ASTROLOGY #Podcast www.whostrology.com #DrWho 2nd NOVEMBER WHOSTROLOGY
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1st NOVEMBER WHOSTROLOGY
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 1 minutes and 44 seconds#WHOSTROLOGY #DOCTORWHO #TinDogPodcast #COMEDY #ASTROLOGY #Podcast www.whostrology.com #DrWho1st NOVEMBER WHOSTROLOGY
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31ST OCTOBER WHOSTROLOGY
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 1 minutes and 21 seconds#WHOSTROLOGY #DOCTORWHO #TinDogPodcast #COMEDY #ASTROLOGY #Podcast www.whostrology.com #DrWho 31ST OCTOBER WHOSTROLOGY
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30TH OCTOBER WHOSTROLOGY
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 1 minutes and 32 seconds#WHOSTROLOGY #DOCTORWHO #TinDogPodcast #COMEDY #ASTROLOGY #Podcast www.whostrology.com #DrWho 30TH OCTOBER WHOSTROLOGY
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29TH NOVEMBER WHOSTROLOGY
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 1 minutes and 34 seconds#WHOSTROLOGY #DOCTORWHO #TinDogPodcast #COMEDY #ASTROLOGY #Podcast www.whostrology.com #DrWho 29TH NOVEMBER WHOSTROLOGY
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29TH OCTOBER WHOSTROLOGY
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 1 minutes and 36 seconds#WHOSTROLOGY #DOCTORWHO #TinDogPodcast #COMEDY #ASTROLOGY #Podcast www.whostrology.com #DrWho 29TH OCTOBER WHOSTROLOGY
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28TH OCTOBER WHOSTROLOGY
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 1 minutes and 49 seconds#WHOSTROLOGY #DOCTORWHO #TinDogPodcast #COMEDY #ASTROLOGY #Podcast www.whostrology.com #DrWho 28TH OCTOBER WHOSTROLOGY
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27TH OCTOBER WHOSTROLOGY
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 1 minutes and 32 seconds#WHOSTROLOGY #DOCTORWHO #TinDogPodcast #COMEDY #ASTROLOGY #Podcast www.whostrology.com #DrWho 27TH OCTOBER WHOSTROLOGY
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TDP 426: Into the Forest of the Night
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 19 minutes and 0 seconds#drwho #doctorwho #forestofnight #podcast #tindogpodcast "In the Forest of the Night" is the tenth episode of the eighth series of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who, written by Frank Cottrell Boyce, and directed by Sheree Folkson.[3] The episode stars Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, and Samuel Anderson.[1]
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26TH OCTOBER WHOSTROLOGY
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 1 minutes and 31 seconds#WHOSTROLOGY #DOCTORWHO #TinDogPodcast #COMEDY #ASTROLOGY #Podcast www.whostrology.com #DrWho 26TH OCTOBER WHOSTROLOGY
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25th OCTOBER WHOSTROLOGY
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 1 minutes and 41 seconds#WHOSTROLOGY #DOCTORWHO #TinDogPodcast #COMEDY #ASTROLOGY #Podcast www.whostrology.com #DrWho 25th OCTOBER WHOSTROLOGY
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24th OCTOBER WHOSTROLOGY
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 1 minutes and 22 seconds#WHOSTROLOGY #DOCTORWHO #TinDogPodcast #COMEDY #ASTROLOGY #Podcast www.whostrology.com #DrWho 24th OCTOBER WHOSTROLOGY
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TDP 425: The_Abandoned BF 4th Doctor_3.7
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 40 seconds@bigfinish #doctorwho #tindogpodcast #podcast #review RELEASED JULY PRICES CD £10.99 Download £8.99 Synopsis The Point of Stillness. A place the Time Lords are forbidden to go. It cannot be drawn, it cannot be whispered, it cannot be thought. And yet somebody is very keen to reach it. Deep within the TARDIS, something unusual is happening. One of the ship's oldest secrets is about to be revealed, and once it is, nothing will ever be the same again. As danger materialises deep within the ship, spectral strangers lurk in the corridors and bizarre events flood the rooms, someone long-forgotten is ready to reappear. The Doctor and Leela are soon to discover that their home isn't quite the safe stronghold they thought. Written By: Nigel Fairs and Louise JamesonDirected By: Ken Bentley Cast Tom Baker (The Doctor), Louise Jameson (Leela), Stephanie Cole (Marianna),Mandi Symonds (One), Andy Snowball (Two), Nigel Fairs (Three)
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23rd OCTOBER NEW STAR SIGN WYRN WHOSTROLOGY
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 1 minutes and 24 seconds#WHOSTROLOGY #DOCTORWHO #TinDogPodcast #COMEDY #ASTROLOGY #Podcast www.whostrology.com #DrWho 23rd OCTOBER NEW STAR SIGN WYRN WHOSTROLOGY
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23rd OCTOBER WHOSTROLOGY
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 1 minutes and 26 seconds#WHOSTROLOGY #DOCTORWHO #TinDogPodcast #COMEDY #ASTROLOGY #Podcast www.whostrology.com #DrWho 23rd OCTOBER WHOSTROLOGY
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22nd OCTOBER WHOSTROLOGY
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 1 minutes and 37 seconds#WHOSTROLOGY #DOCTORWHO #TinDogPodcast #COMEDY #ASTROLOGY #Podcast www.whostrology.com #DrWho 22nd OCTOBER WHOSTROLOGY
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TDP 424: Bob Baker DWPA/Whooverville Interview
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 30 minutes and 1 second@Whoovers @Stephen_Hatcher Whooverville is the East Midland's biggest annual get-together for fans of the BBC TV series Doctor Who. Organised by Derby's Doctor Who group, The Whoovers, one of the most popular fan groups in the UK. Whooverville is a day of fun for all ages. Special guests include: Peter Davison, Fifth Doctor Deborah Watling, former Second Doctor companion Terry Molloy, Davros Michael Troughton, actor and son of Second Doctor Patrick Troughton Derrick Sherwin, former Script Editor, Writer and Producer during the Patrick Troughton era of Doctor Who. Bob Baker, Writer (with Dave Martin) of The Claws Of Axos, The Three Doctors and The Sontaran Experiment plus many more. Probably his greatest success is as the writer of Aardman’s Wallace And Gromit.
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21st OCTOBER WHOSTROLOGY
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 1 minutes and 32 seconds#WHOSTROLOGY #DOCTORWHO #TinDogPodcast #COMEDY #ASTROLOGY #Podcast www.whostrology.com #DrWho 21st OCTOBER WHOSTROLOGY
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20th OCTOBER WHOSTROLOGY
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 1 minutes and 27 seconds#WHOSTROLOGY #DOCTORWHO #TinDogPodcast #COMEDY #ASTROLOGY #Podcast www.whostrology.com #DrWho 20th OCTOBER WHOSTROLOGY
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TDP 423: Flatline
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 12 minutes and 30 seconds#doctorwho #flatline #tindogpodcast #podcast "Flatline" is the ninth episode of the eighth series of the British science fictiontelevision programme Doctor Who, written by Jamie Mathieson, and directed byDouglas Mackinnon.[3] The episode stars Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman, with Christopher Fairbank guest starring.[1] more notes to follow
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Flatland - Free Epub book
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 seconds#doctorwho #flatline #epub reprinted from wiki Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is an 1884 satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott. Writing pseudonymously as "A Square",[1] the book used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to comment on the hierarchy of Victorian culture, but the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions.[2] Several films have been made from the story, including the feature film Flatland(2007). Other efforts have been short or experimental films, including one narrated by Dudley Moore and the short films Flatland: The Movie (2007) andFlatland 2: Sphereland starring Martin Sheen and Kristen Bell.[3] Contents [hide] 1 Plot 2 Social elements 3 As a social satire 4 Critical reception 5 Editions in print 6 Adaptations and parodies 6.1 In film 6.2 In literature 6.3 In television 7 See also 8 References 9 External links 9.1 Online and downloadable versions of the text 10 See also Plot[edit] Illustration of a simple house in Flatland. The story describes a two-dimensional world occupied by geometric figures, whereof women are simple line-segments, while men are polygons with various numbers of sides. The narrator is a square, a member of the caste of gentlemen and professionals, who guides the readers through some of the implications of life in two dimensions. The Square dreams about a visit to a one-dimensional world (Lineland) inhabited by "lustrous points", and attempts to convince the realm's monarch of a second dimension; but is unable to do so. He is himself visited by a three-dimensional sphere, which he cannot comprehend until he sees Spaceland (a tridimensional world) for himself. This Sphere visits Flatland at the turn of each millennium to introduce a new apostle to the idea of a third dimension in the hopes of eventually educating the population of Flatland. From the safety of Spaceland, they are able to observe the leaders of Flatland secretly acknowledging the existence of the sphere and prescribing the silencing of anyone found preaching the truth of Spaceland and the third dimension. After this proclamation is made, many witnesses are massacred or imprisoned (according to caste). After the Square's mind is opened to new dimensions, he tries to convince the Sphere of the theoretical possibility of the existence of a fourth (and fifth, and sixth ...) spatial dimension; but the Sphere returns his student to Flatland in disgrace. The Square then has a dream in which the Sphere visits him again, this time to introduce him to Pointland, whereof the point (sole inhabitant, monarch, and universe in one) perceives any communication as a thought originating in his own mind (cf.Solipsism): 'You see,' said my Teacher, 'how little your words have done. So far as the Monarch understands them at all, he accepts them as his own – for he cannot conceive of any other except himself – and plumes himself upon the variety of Its Thought as an instance of creative Power. Let us leave this God of Pointland to the ignorant fruition of his omnipresence and omniscience: nothing that you or I can do can rescue him from his self-satisfaction.'[4] — the Sphere The Square recognizes the identity of the ignorance of the monarchs of Pointland and Lineland with his own (and the Sphere's) previous ignorance of the existence of higher dimensions. Once returned to Flatland, the Square cannot convince anyone of Spaceland's existence, especially after official decrees are announced that anyone preaching the existence of three dimensions will be imprisoned (or executed, depending on caste). Eventually the Square himself is imprisoned for just this reason. Social elements[edit] Men are portrayed as polygons whose social status is determined by their regularity and the number of their sides, with a Circle considered the "perfect" shape. On the other hand, females consist only of lines and are required by law to sound a "peace-cry" as they walk, lest she be mistaken face-to-face for a point. The Square evinces accounts of cases where women have accidentally or deliberately stabbed men to death, as evidence of the need for separate doors for women and men in buildings. In the world of Flatland, classes are distinguished by the "Art of Hearing", the "Art of Feeling", and the "Art of Sight Recognition". Classes can be distinguished by the sound of one's voice, but the lower classes have more developed vocal organs, enabling them to feign the voice of a polygon or even a circle. Feeling, practised by the lower classes and women, determines the configuration of a person by feeling one of its angles. The "Art of Sight Recognition", practised by the upper classes, is aided by "Fog", which allows an observer to determine the depth of an object. With this, polygons with sharp angles relative to the observer will fade more rapidly than polygons with more gradual angles. Colour of any kind is banned in Flatland after Isosceles workers painted themselves to impersonate noble Polygons. The Square describes these events, and the ensuing class war at length. The population of Flatland can "evolve" through the "Law of Nature", which states: "a male child shall have one more side than his father, so that each generation shall rise (as a rule) one step in the scale of development and nobility. Thus the son of a Square is a Pentagon, the son of a Pentagon, a Hexagon; and so on". This rule is not the case when dealing with isosceles triangles (Soldiers and Workmen) with only two congruent sides. The smallest angle of an isosceles triangle gains thirty arc minutes (half a degree) each generation. Additionally, the rule does not seem to apply to many-sided polygons. For example, the sons of several hundred-sided polygons will often develop fifty or more sides more than their parents. Furthermore, the angle of an isosceles triangle or the number of sides of a (regular) polygon may be altered during life by deeds or surgical adjustments. An equilateral Triangle is a member of the craftsman class. Squares and Pentagons are the "gentlemen" class, as doctors, lawyers, and other professions. Hexagons are the lowest rank of nobility, all the way up to (near) circles, who make up the priest class. The higher-order polygons have much less of a chance of producing sons, preventing Flatland from being overcrowded with noblemen. Regular polygons were considered in isolation until chapter seven of the book when the issue of irregularity, or physical deformity, became considered. In a two dimensional world a regular polygon can be identified by a single angle and/or vertex. In order to maintain social cohesion, irregularity is to be abhorred, with moral irregularity and criminality cited, "by some" (in the book), as inevitable additional deformities, a sentiment with which the Square concurs. If the error of deviation is above a stated amount, the irregular polygon faces euthanasia; if below, he becomes the lowest rank of civil servant. An irregular polygon is not destroyed at birth, but allowed to develop to see if the irregularity can be “cured” or reduced. If the deformity remains, the irregular is “painlessly and mercifully consumed”.[5] As a social satire[edit] In Flatland Abbott describes a society rigidly divided into classes. Social ascent is the main aspiration of its inhabitants, apparently granted to everyone but strictly controlled by the top of the hierarchy. Freedom is despised and the laws are cruel. Innovators are imprisoned or suppressed. Members of lower classes who are intellectually valuable, and potential leaders of riots, are either killed, or promoted to the higher classes. Every attempt for change is considered dangerous and harmful. This world, as ours, is not prepared to receive 'Revelations from another world'. The satirical part is mainly concentrated in the first part of the book, 'This World', which describes Flatland. The main points of interest are the Victorian concept on women's roles in the society and in the class-based hierarchy of men.[6] Abbott has been accused of misogyny due to his portrait of women in 'Flatland'. In his Preface to the Second and Revised Edition, 1884, he answers such critics by stating that the Square: was writing as a Historian, he has identified himself (perhaps too closely) with the views generally adopted by Flatland and (as he has been informed) even by Spaceland, Historians; in whose pages (until very recent times) the destinies of Women and of the masses of mankind have seldom been deemed worthy of mention and never of careful consideration. —the Editor Critical reception[edit] Although Flatland was not ignored when it was published,[7] it did not obtain a great success. In the entry on Edwin Abbott in the Dictionary of National Biography, Flatland is not even mentioned.[2] The book was discovered again after Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity was published, which introduced the concept of a fourth dimension. Flatland was mentioned in a letter entitled "Euclid, Newton and Einstein" published in Nature on February 12, 1920. In this letter Abbott is depicted, in a sense, as a prophet due to his intuition of the importance of time to explain certain phenomena:[2][8] Some thirty or more years ago a little jeu d'esprit was written by Dr. Edwin Abbott entitled Flatland. At the time of its publication it did not attract as much attention as it deserved... If there is motion of our three-dimensional space relative to the fourth dimension, all the changes we experience and assign to the flow of time will be due simply to this movement, the whole of the future as well as the past always existing in the fourth dimension. —from a "Letter to the Editor" by William Garnett. in Nature on February 12, 1920. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography now contains a reference to Flatland. Editions in print[edit] Flatland (5th edition, 1963), 1983 reprint with foreword by Isaac Asimov, HarperCollins, ISBN 0-06-463573-2 bound together back-to-back with Dionys Burger's Sphereland (1994), HarperCollins, ISBN 0-06-273276-5 The Annotated Flatland (2002), coauthor Ian Stewart, Perseus Publishing, ISBN 0-7382-0541-9 Signet Classics edition (2005), ISBN 0-451-52976-6 Oxford University Press (2006), ISBN 0-19-280598-3 Dover Publications thrift edition (2007), ISBN 0-486-27263-X CreateSpace edition (2008), ISBN 1-4404-1778-4 Adaptations and parodies[edit] Numerous imitations or sequels to Flatland have been written, and multiple other works have alluded to it. Examples include: In film[edit] Flatland (1965), an animated short film based on the novella, was directed by Eric Martin and based on an idea by John Hubley.[9][10][11] Flatland (2007), a 98-minute animated independent feature film version directed by Ladd Ehlinger Jr,[12] updates the satire from Victorian England to the modern-day United States.[12] Flatland: The Movie (2007), by Dano Johnson and Jeffrey Travis,[13] is a 34-minute animated educational film voice acted byMartin Sheen, Kristen Bell, Michael York, and Tony Hale.[14] Its sequel was Flatland 2: Sphereland (2012), inspired by the novel Sphereland by Dionys Burger and starring Kristen Bell, Danny Pudi, Michael York, Tony Hale, Danica McKellar, andKate Mulgrew.[15][16][17] In literature[edit] An Episode on Flatland: Or How a Plain Folk Discovered the Third Dimension by Charles Howard Hinton (1907), Spherelandby Dionys Burger (1965), The Planiverse by A. K. Dewdney (1984), Flatterland by Ian Stewart (2001), and Spaceland by Rudy Rucker (2002). Short stories inspired by Flatland include "The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics" by Norton Juster (1963), "The Incredible Umbrella" by Marvin Kaye (1980), and "Message Found in a Copy of Flatland" by Rudy Rucker (1983) Physicists and science popularizers Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking have both commented on and postulated about the effects of Flatland. Sagan recreates the thought experiment as a set-up to discussing the possibilities of higher dimensions of the physical universe in both the book and television series Cosmos,[18] whereas Dr. Hawking notes the impossibility of life in two-dimensional space, as any inhabitants would necessarily be unable to digest their own food.[19] In television[edit] Flatland features prominently in The Big Bang Theory episode "The Psychic Vortex",[20] when Sheldon Cooper declares it one of his favorite imaginary places to visit.[21] It also features in the Futurama episode "2-D Blacktop", when Professor Farnsworth's adventures in drag racing lead to a foray of drifting in and out of inter-dimensional spaces.[22] See also[edit] Animal Farm (1945), novella by George Orwell Blind men and an elephant, Indian parable Fourth dimension in literature Dimension Sphere-world Triangle and Robert (1999-2007 webcomic) The Dot and the Line (1963 book) "—And He Built a Crooked House—" (1941 short story) Dimension-bending video games: Super Paper Mario (2007) Fez (2012) The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds (2013)
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19th OCTOBER WHOSTROLOGY
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18th OCTOBER WHOSTROLOGY
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17th OCTOBER WHOSTROLOGY
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TDP_422_Philip_Hinchiffe_Presents
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 10 minutes and 1 second@bigfinish #doctorwho #tindogpodcast #podcast PHILIP HINCHCLIFFE PRESENTS BOX SET RELEASED SEPTEMBER PRICES CD £55.00 Download £45.00 Synopsis Philip Hinchcliffe, acclaimed producer of Doctor Who (1975-77) returns to tell new stories for the Fourth Doctor and Leela. "The starting point was there were a few basic ideas that were kicking around for another series, had we made it," says Philip. "I thought this project would be fun to be involved with, and I've tried to and tell stories that are in the same spirit as the ones Robert Holmes and I were telling." The Ghosts of Gralstead (Six episodes) The Doctor and Leela return to Victorian London, in the year 1860. At St Clarence’s Hospital, respected surgeon Sir Edward Scrivener requires the bodies of the dead… At Doctor McDivett’s Exhibition of Living Wonders and Curiosities, miracles are afoot… And in Gralstead House, the ghost will walk again. Mordrega has come to Earth… The Devil's Armada (Four episodes) The TARDIS lands in Sissenden Village in the sixteenth century. Catholic priests are hunted, so-called witches are drowned in the ducking stool, and in the shadows the Vituperon are watching… and waiting… (Note that untypically for a Big Finish release, the extras disc is separately available as a Supplementary Download in a purchaser's account, in order to reduce memory issues with opening the downloaded zip file) Written By: Philip Hinchcliffe, adapted by Marc PlattDirected By: Ken Bentley Cast Tom Baker (The Doctor), Louise Jameson (Leela) The Ghosts of GralsteadCarolyn Seymour (Mordrega), Gethin Anthony (Sir Edward Scrivener), Martin Hutson (Professor Cedric Scrivener), Emerald O'Hanrahan (Clementine Scrivener),Alan Cox (Dr Gideon McDivett), Ivanno Jeremiah (Abasi), Andy Secombe (Jonas Bulmer), Sean Carlsen (Ned Davey), Mandi Symonds (Mrs Targate), Andrew French(Obingo) The Devil's ArmadaJamie Newall (William Redcliffe), Nigel Carrington (Sir Robert Harney), Alix Dunmore (Anne Harney), Joe Jameson (Nicholas Harney), Beth Chalmers(Mistress Pincham/Lady Jane Mountville), Philip Bretherton (Vituperon), Ben Porter(Father D'Arcy), Tim Bentinck (Ned Bones/Lord Burghley) Producer David RichardsonScript Editor John DorneyExecutive Producers Jason Haigh-Ellery and Nicholas Briggs
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16th OCTOBER WHOSTROLOGY
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TDP 421: DWPA/Whooverville Interview 3
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 36 minutes and 23 seconds@Whoovers @Stephen_Hatcher Whooverville is the East Midland's biggest annual get-together for fans of the BBC TV series Doctor Who. Organised by Derby's Doctor Who group, The Whoovers, one of the most popular fan groups in the UK. Whooverville is a day of fun for all ages. Special guests include: Peter Davison, Fifth Doctor Deborah Watling, former Second Doctor companion Terry Molloy, Davros Michael Troughton, actor and son of Second Doctor Patrick Troughton Derrick Sherwin, former Script Editor, Writer and Producer during the Patrick Troughton era of Doctor Who. Bob Baker, Writer (with Dave Martin) of The Claws Of Axos, The Three Doctors and The Sontaran Experiment plus many more. Probably his greatest success is as the writer of Aardman’s Wallace And Gromit.
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15th OCTOBER WHOSTROLOGY
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14th OCTOBER WHOSTROLOGY
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TDP 420: Mummy on the Orient Express
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 17 minutes and 49 seconds#doctorwho #podcast #tindogpodcast Reprinted from wiki Following from Clara's admission that she does not want to see the Doctor again after the events of "Kill the Moon", several weeks have passed, and she realizes that she doesn't hate the Doctor as she allows him to take her on one "last hurrah". He takes her via the TARDIS to a space-bound recreation of the Orient Express with passengers dressed in period pieces, all controlled by the computerized operator, Gus. Aboard the train, they find that an elderly woman, Mrs. Pitt, had recently died, claiming that she was attacked by a mummy that no one else could see. They retire to separate cabins for the evening, where Clara calls Danny in her present and gets advice how to properly end her relationship with the Doctor. She later encounters Maisie, Mrs. Pitt's granddaughter, who is distraught over the death and frustrated with the inability to see her body. The two get trapped in the luggage car, where a mummy's sarcophagus sits, and the two talk and bond while waiting for help. Meanwhile, the Doctor, claiming he is a mystery shopper, starts to investigate the murder with the help of the train's engineer Perkins who is also curious about the death as well as the nature of the train. The Doctor speaks to Professor Moorhouse to talk about the myth of the Foretold, a supernatural being who claims its victim 66 seconds after the lights flicker, which they are able to confirm when the train's chef dies in a similar manner as Mrs. Pitt. The Doctor discovers Clara's situation but when he tries to rescue her, the lights flicker and the sarcophagus opens; before he can save her, Captain Quell and his men arrest him for falsifying his credentials. When the 66 seconds are up, they find that one of the Captain's men has died. The Captain, realizing the Doctor was right, releases him. The Doctor begins to question what is really happening on the train, recognizing that most of the passengers are scientific experts and demands to know why. The train suddenly stops in space, and the illusion of the original Orient Express and several of the passengers disperses, revealing they are in a laboratory. Gus tells them they are now to study the attacks of the force behind the attacks so that they can reverse engineer whatever power it has; Professor Moorhouse soon is the next victim, and he stammers out a few details of the Foretold before he dies. The Doctor contacts Clara, who has discovered that the sarcophagus is meant as a containment unit for whatever the force is, and that this is not the first attempt by whomever is controlling events to discover the nature of the force, having gone through and lost ships and crews previously, in some cases, purposely killing them due to poor performance. Gus forces the Doctor to end the call and return to work when it expels the air from the kitchen car, killing the kitchen staff and threatening to kill more. The Doctor and Perkins discover that the past victims were all suffering from various medical conditions and the Foretold is targeting the weakest. Captain Quell reveals he suffers from wartime post-traumatic stress disorder and soon sees the mummy; providing enough information to the others before he dies. The Doctor and Perkins identify that Foretold drains the victim's energy through phase shifting, a process that takes just over a minute to complete. Perkins identifies the next likely victim to be Maisie, due to her trauma over losing her grandmother, and the Doctor tells Clara to bring her to the lab, having Gus unlock the storage door. On the way there, Clara sees that the TARDIS is protected by a force field, and when she talks to the Doctor about this, she realizes that Gus must know about the Doctor and his Time Lord nature to create the field. The Doctor is forced to admit that Gus had been trying to bring him here to help for some time, and Clara accuses the Doctor of taking her into a dangerous situation again. At this point, Maisie sees the Foretold, and the Doctor absorbs some of her memories as to be able to trick the mummy into thinking he is the intended victim. Within the 66 seconds, the Doctor is able to realize the Foretold is a former soldier from a war thousands of centuries ago, having been modified with phase-shifting camouflage to be an assassin. The Doctor offers their surrender to the Foretold, halting its attack and appearing before everyone before saluting the Doctor and then disintegrates into dust with only its phase-shifting device remaining. Gus congratulates the passengers on their success and then begins to evacuate all the air aboard the train, their services no longer necessary. The Doctor takes the device and rewires it as a short-range teleporter, rescuing all the remaining passengers on the train to his TARDIS before the train blows up when the Doctor made an attempt to hack Gus to find out who is behind all of this. On a nearby planet, regaining consciousness while told what occurred, Clara has a brief discussion on the nature of her relationship to the Doctor. On the TARDIS, the Doctor offers Perkins a job to maintain the time machine, but he politely refuses. Clara takes a call from Danny, who is expecting that she will finally end her trips with the Doctor, but when she ends the call, has reconsidered her earlier decision and wants to continue her travels with the Doctor. Continuity[edit] The question "Are you my mummy?" is a reference to the Ninth Doctor episodes "The Empty Child"/"The Doctor Dances". The Tenth Doctor repeats the question in "The Poison Sky".[1] The Doctor confesses to Clara that the mysterious force which enticed him to the Orient Express "even phoned the TARDIS once", recalling the last line from "The Big Bang", when the Eleventh Doctor, answering the TARDIS phone, replies "an Egyptian goddess loose on the Orient Express, in space?"[1] The Twelfth Doctor is shown offering jelly babies to Professor Moorhouse, a tradition associated with past Doctors, particularly Tom Baker's Fourth Doctor.[1] Danny Pink reminds Clara that the Doctor is "not your boyfriend." This is what the Doctor himself tells her at the end of "Deep Breath".[2] Production[edit] Filming[edit] The read through for Mummy on the Orient Express took place on 1 May 2014. Shooting started on 20 May and finished on 10 June. The episode was primarily studio-based in filming, however the scene with the Doctor and Clara on the planet was shot in Limpert Bay in the Vale of Glamorgan.[1] Casting[edit] Christopher Villers previously appeared in the classic serial The King's Demons, and Janet Henfrey previously appeared in The Curse of Fenric. Frank Skinner considers himself a die-hard Who fan, and previously had appeared in the special The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot.[1] Broadcast and reception[edit] Overnight ratings show that this episode was seen by 5.08 million, a 22.1% share of the available audience and third for the night.[3] Critical reception[edit] "Mummy on the Orient Express" received very positive reviews. Guardian columnist Dan Martin was positive towards the episode and praised the Mummy, saying, "At last, a proper new scary monster to get us behind the sofa," something he felt had been lacking so far in the current series. He called it "a triumph of production design matched with imagination," and praised first time writer for the show Jamie Matheson for blending "cool monsters" and "awkward Tardis dynamics." He did however feel that the reveal of the monster's true nature was "underwhelming."[4] Ben Lawrence of The Telegraph was positive toward the episode and awarded it four stars out of five. He praised the style of the episode and its ability to make the viewer a part of it: "as a viewer you felt hemmed in by the train’s narrow corridors, stalked by an invisible creature that could strike at any moment." He believed that Skinner "started well," but more impressive was David Bamber, describing his performance as "poignant," and praised the development of the relationship between the Doctor and Clara.[5] Morgan Jeffrey of Digital Spy praised the episode, giving it four stars out of five. He praised the chemistry of the two leads: "Capaldi and Coleman remain an utterly magnetic coupling on-screen," citing the final Tardis scene and the beach scene as "magic." He felt that the main problem of the episode was the decision to keep the two apart. He was positive towards Frank Skinner's "genuine love for Doctor Who", which meant he was "practically beaming throughout," and called him "an endearing replacement" for Clara in the episode. He thought that the episode, like the previous one, had a Hinchcliffe vibe to, and that "'Mummy' is a joy, with excellent production design and a roster of perfectly-pitched performances all adding up to create an enchanting atmosphere," and believed it had a "wonderful mood," which felt like "vintage Doctor Who."[6] Tim Liew, writing for Metro, was positive towards "Mummy", calling it "another strong standalone story. ... [The] period costumes helped create a distinctive look and feel, the mummified Foretold was well realised and the repeated use of the 66-second countdown clock injected a real sense of pace and jeopardy."[7] Neela Debnath of The Independent praised the guest stars, Foxes and Skinner, saying Skinner "acts his socks off." She remained critical of Clara, arguing that "her poorly conceived and written character fails to charm," despite praising Coleman's acting. Overall she felt that the episode was "a delightful outer-space romp."[8] Forbes gave a positive review. They praised the "fantastic core principle" to the plot. However, they were disappointed with the run time, believing it would've benefited from another five minutes, citing some areas that could've been explored further, particularly the escape from the train. They praised the cast and the lead, reflecting that "The Doctor infects Capaldi’s performance. Drawing on his love for the series I could see the influences of many of the previous actors to take on the role," and praised the development of the Doctor and Clara's relationship. They called Mathieson's script "an impressive debut."[9] The A.V. Club also heavily praised the episode, awarding it another perfect "A" grade. They said, "When the time comes to write the final accounting of the 12th Doctor—and hopefully we won’t need to do that for a little while yet—'Mummy On The Orient Express' will loom large. This episode is a triumph for Peter Capaldi." They added that it was "the latest superb episode in a strong season" and that "Peter Capaldi’s performance is enough by itself to elevate this story to classic status, but Jamie Mathieson’s script provides him excellent support".[10]
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13th OCTOBER WHOSTROLOGY
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