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My name is Austin and I’m the Whovian, and these are my sons Corbin and Tripp and we’re the noobs!

This is the podcast that introduces a whole new generation to Doctor Who by watching an episode each week and discussing it from the perspective of a dad who’s seen it before, and two sons who haven’t. 

Welcome to Episode 112 covering the 50th anniversary special: The Day of The Doctor

This is the one where the Doctor and Clara and the Doctor and Queen Elizabeth and the Doctor and Billie Piper having an identity crisis all team up to NOT actually destroy all the Time Lords, but actually destroy all the Daleks, except for the thousands and millions that we already know actually survived. But don’t worry, we won’t remember any of this later, it’s all very timey-wimey.

Production notes

* Story # 240* Originally aired November 23 to everyone. Just, every single person.* Actually, there were 12.8 million live viewers on BBC and 3.2 million iPlayer requests. BUT! It was almost shown live in over 1,500 movie theaters in 94 countries, shattering viewership records all over the globe!* You’ll remember that Adventure in Space and Time was like 2.71 million viewers just 2 days before* Written by: Steven Moffat* Directed by: Nick Hurran

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Misc Trivia 

* This was the first episode of Who to be shot in 3D. It was released in 3D in some theaters.* Also the first episode to use an old version of the intro.* At one point, the only actor under contractual obligation to appear for the 50th Anniversary Special was Jenna Coleman. Just in case, Moffat started on a script called… The No Doctors.* A 2014 Doctor Who Magazine poll named Day of the Doctor as the readers’ favorite episode of the first 50 years!

Checklist

* Name of the episode spoken in dialogue?* nope* Creature of the week* Zygons – shapeshifting creatures that take on a LOT about their duplicates, not just looks.* Bow ties are cool* Amy’s reading glasses* Eleven popped them on, Ten popped on some specs. * How did we NOT get a “SNAP!” here?!* Hats* Return of the fez!* The wiki points out this is the last televised appearance of Eleven in a fez…* Well* Well, you’ve certainly come to the right place (to find the Doctor)* Allons-y!* We got one!* Two!* Geronimo* Before jumping into the time fissure* Before freezing Gallifrey* Running count – 15* Stuff the Doctor loves* Jiggery Pokery* Sonic* Same software, different case* TARDIS * That shot of Clara riding the bike into the TARDIS was AMAZING* Wait, Clara closed the doors with a snap?!* To which one of the Noobs said “So I guess she like Clara now?”* You’ve let this place go a bit. Ah, it’s his grunge phase. * Oh, the round things! I love the round things! What are the round things? No idea…* Oh, you’ve redecorated. I don’t like it.* Psychic paper* Random* Time Lord art, bigger on the inside. A slice of time, frozen.* It’s a machine that goes ding, lights up in the presence of shapeshifting DNA. Also can microwave a dinner from 20 feet away and download comics from the future. I never know when to stop!* They’re like a cup-o-soup, except you add time if you can imagine that. No, no one can imagine that, forget I said “cup-o-soups.

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My name is Austin and I’m the Whovian, and these are my sons Corbin and Tripp and we’re the noobs!

This is the podcast that introduces a whole new generation to Doctor Who by watching an episode each week and discussing it from the perspective of a dad who’s seen it before, and two sons who haven’t. 

Welcome to Episode 111 covering the Series 7 episode 13: The Name of the Doctor .

This is the one where the Doctor and Clara and River and Jenny and Vastra and Strax finally figure out what the deal is with Clara and the souffles!

Production notes

* Story # 239* Originally aired May 18, 2013 to 7.45 million viewers which made it the 3rd most watched thing that weekend.* Written by: Steven Moffat* Directed by: Saul Metzstein

Misc Trivia

* This is the only NuWho season finale (up until Chibnall’s/Thirteen’s time) that isn’t immediately followed by a Christmas Special. In this case, they 50th anniversary special came in between. In Series 11, there was a New Year’s special called Resolutions, instead of a Christmas special. It seems that will be what’s happening after Series 12 as well… 

Cast

* The Doctor – John Hurt* Kane in Alien, and then “John Hurt” in Spaceballs* Ollivander in Harry Potter* Professor Oxley/Ox in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull* We know him best as the voice of the Dragon in Merlin* He also played two roles I found interesting. He plays Winston Smith in 1984, but he also played Adam Sutler in V for Vendetta.

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Checklist

* Name of the episode spoken in dialogue?* What I did, I did in the name of peace and sanity. But NOT in the name of the Doctor!* Creature of the week* Dr. Simeon* The Whispering men* CGI* Simeon’s face tearing off was pretty awesome* Jiggery Pokery* Sonic* TARDIS * He jacked Clara into the navigation circuits because she saw the coordinates in the conference call* She fought against going to Trenzalore, hard.* He broke one of her windows!* When a TARDIS dies sometimes the dimensional dams start breaking down. They used to call it a size leak. The bigger on the inside starts leaking to the outside.* The Question/Doctor Who?* The doors to his tomb require a key that is a word. * Of course, River knew it and said it for him* The name you choose, it’s like a promise you make. He’s the one who broke the promise.

Other stuff we noticed

* In the babble of the world there are whispers if you know how to listen* Time travel has always been possible in dreams

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Who’s Who?

* Who is Jenny?* She got murdered* Who is Strax?* This place is surrounded. Give up your women and intellectuals!* Unhand me, ridiculous reptile!* Who is River Song?* Clara never realized she was a woman based on the Doctor’s mentions of her and having never seen her before* Strax, having both heard of her AND seen her, never realized she was a woman because he’s a loveable idiot* Strax also didn’t realize that her hair is not, in fact, her head* She knows the Doctor’s name.

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Welcome to Episode 110 covering the 50th Anniversary dramatization, An Adventure in Space and Time.

This is the one where Doctor Who becomes a show! It takes a lot of time and struggles but eventually they get the cast together and start the adventure in space and time. Also, they recreated Ten’s death scene. 

Production notes

* Originally aired November 21, 2013 to 2.71 million views* Written by: Mark Gatiss* Directed by: Terry McDonough

Misc Trivia

* There’s a bit of poetic license with the Dalek catchphrase. We see kids the day after the second serial aired saying “exterminate!” but they never said it in that first serial. That came later.* The final scene with Matt Smith flipping switches was a call-back to that actual regeneration scene where the switches flipped themselves inexplicably.

Cast

* William Hartnell – David Bradley* Played in the episode Dinosaurs on a spaceship* Argus Filch in Harry Potter* Peter Hawkins  – Nicholas Briggs, the voice of the Daleks in NuWho* Verity Lambert – Jessica Raine* Played Emma Grayling in Hide

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Checklist

* Name of the episode spoken in dialogue?* yup* Doctor Who?* William Hartnell said it himself at dinner with Verity and Waris.* Jiggery Pokery* Sonic* TARDIS * The landing noise was a key rubbing piano strings* Psychic paper* Random* Jibberty Jabberty* Hartnell was complaining about the “words” from the get-go

Other stuff we noticed

* At the very beginning, the police officer told Hartnell “You need to move along now, sir. You’re in the way.”* No tin robots or bug-eyed monsters* The Daleks were both

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Who’s Who?

* Who is The Doctor? * He’s something like 600 years old* Tough, and wiry like an old turkey. It’s what you do so well, Mr. Hartnell: stern and scary, but with a twinkle.* CS Lewis meets HG Wells meets Father Christmas – that’s the Doctor.* Hartnell’s granddaughter said, “The Doctor? Does he make people better?’* I don’t want to go

Classic Who Connection

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Overall impressions

* Overall rating out of 10 – * Austin – 👍* Corbin – 👍* Tripp – 👍

The Game Plan 

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Welcome to Episode 109 covering Classic Who Season 22 episodes 7-9: The Two Doctors.

This is the one where the Sixth Doctor and the Second Doctor join up to form the ultimate team of jerkwad good guys and stop the Androgum and Sontarans from achieving time travel.

Production notes

* Story # 140* Originally aired February 16 – March 2, 1985 to 6.6, 6 and 6.9 million viewers* Written by: Robert Holmes* Directed by: Peter Moffatt

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Checklist 

* Creature of the week* Sontarans – man they didn’t look as good as the modern Sontarans. Even more potatoey* Androgum* Jiggery Pokery* Sonic* TARDIS* Uh, is Two’s TARDIS black?* So there’s some kind of symbiotic relationship between the Doctor and the TARDIS?* It has to primed by the Rassilon Imprimatur. A symbiotic print within the physiology of a Time Lord. * Random

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Other stuff we noticed

* It seems bizarre that the episode/serial starts with Two instead of Six* Peri: Perhaps you should see a doctor. Six: Are you trying to be funny?* Violence is alien to the Time Lord nature.* Really?! Apparently they’ve changed!* Banana in the pocket!* So, the mind-slip caused Six to seek out the help of a doctor, Dastari, which is exactly where Two was on the other end of the mind-slip.* But if I were dead then and here now, it means I’m at the epicenter of the engulfing chaos.* If anything happens to myself as a result of it, I’ll never forgive himself!* Two referred to Stike as a nurse! “Tea-time already, nurse?”* Was Shockeye supposed to have been bending steel restraints?* That’s not why it’s called shepherds pie!* So, when coronic acid comes into contact with Sontaran skin, it turns into seaweed?* The scene with Two and Shockeye discussing food was just bizarre * Oscar’s death was bizarre as well. I thought he was overreacting, but then he was actually dead!

Who’s Who?

* Who is Jamie?* The butcher called him Tellurian.* Apparently, Tellus is a Latin synonym for Terra, meaning earth* Two said his companion isn’t for sale.* How long was that unsheathed knife up against his skin in his boot?* Who is the Second Doctor?* According to the subtitles, the Second Doctor is Doctor 1 and the Sixth Doctor is Doctor 2* One meal a day is quite sufficient* SNAP!* Had Two met Six before? Two met One through Five, I know. How’d he recognize Six?* Who is the Sixth Doctor?* Somehow I can’t imagine the Doctor sitting around for hours waiting on a fish to bite* He knows a computer when he talks to one. He knows an Androgum when he sees one.* I closed off my respiratory passages. How did you breathe? With great difficulty.* I am interested in everything. * He straight up murdered Shockeye!

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Welcome to Episode 108 covering the Series 7 episode 12: Nightmare in Silver

This is the one where the Doctor and Clara take two innocent children to a creepy, abandoned theme park so they can be taken over by Cybermen.

Production notes

* Story # 238* Originally aired  May 11 2013 to 6.64 million viewers * Written by: Neil Gaiman* Directed by: Stephen Woolfenden

Misc Trivia

* Neil Gaiman confirmed, outside of this episode itself, that this episode was 250,000 years in the future* We’ve mentioned this before – this is not the first time an actor has portrayed both the Doctor and another character in the same episode. In fact, this not only marks the eleventh time, but pulls Matt Smith into the lead with three occurrences. * Of these eleven occurrences, it’s also the fourth time that the actor played the main villain as well as the Doctor.* This is Matt Smith/Eleven’s third series, all three of which have featured the Cybermen in the penultimate (or second-to-last) episode.

Cast

* Porridge – Warwick Davis* So many things!* Willow* Leprechaun* Nikabrik in Chronicles of Narnia* Professor Flitwick in Harry Potter* Griphook in Harry Potter* Wicket the Ewok in Return of the Jedi* Weazel in Solo* Rukh in Rebels* Wodibin in The Last Jedi* Weeteef Cyubee in Rogue One* Wollivan in Force Awakens* Wald / Pod race spectator / Mos Espa Citizen in The Phantom Menace* Wicket W. Warrick in Rise of Skywalker

Checklist

* Name of the episode spoken in dialogue?* Creature of the week* Cybermen* Cybermites!* Cyberplanner/Mr. Clever* I have to win a chess game and you have to die pointlessly far from home.* Geronimo* Running count – 13* But we got an allons-y!

* Clara deaths* Sorta?* Running count – 3

Other stuff we noticed

* In order to defeat the Cybermen, humanity had to wipe out the entire Tiberian Spiral Galaxy. Instead of mourning a billion trillion people, Porridge feels bad for the bloke that had to push the button.* The army had an ice picnic where the polar bears came a did a dance for them* See you next Wednesday. Yes, well a Wednesday, last Wednesday. One of the Wednesdays.

Who’s Who? 

* Who is Clara Oswald?* I trust the Doctor. You think he knows what he’s doing? I wouldn’t go that far.* Do you think I’m pretty? No, you’re too short, bossy, and your nose is all funny.* The impossible girl – a mystery wrapped in an enigma squeezed into a skirt that just a bit too tight.* Who is The Doctor?* He’s officially starting a funny insect collection* He calls the Cybermite beautiful, as usual* I’m going to get Angie, find Artie, and collect funny insects. Stay alive, and don’t blow up the planet!* The Cyberplanner/Mr. Clever remarks on the Doctors binary vascular system, hyper-conductive nervous system and remarkable brain processing power* He could regenerate and burn out all the cyberwidgets, but if I use up this me, who knows what comes next?

This is the one where Jared gets us all prepped to watch our Classic Who Rewind featuring the Sixth Doctor!

* Only  two seasons. He started at the end of the season in 1984 with The Twin Dilemma* Final appearance The Trial of a Time Lord: The Ultimate Foe* His first season (season 22) was typical, but season 23 was one long story where he was on trial by the Time Lord Council * His catch phrase would either be Aha! Or saying the same thing three times in a row getting progressively louder and more forceful. For example Malfunctioning? Malfunctioning? Malfunctioning?, or Carrot juice? Carrot Juice? Carrot Juice?* Most of his time is spent with Peri Brown (A botany student from California), but towards the end she gave way to Mel, a computer programmer.* How do we describe the Sixth Doctor? He’s a jerk. Start with the strongest arrogance from the First Doctor, take the harsher side of the Fifth Doctor multiply that by 100 and remove all the love and compassion, add in the indifference of the Fourth Doctor and put it all in a clown suit and you get the Sixth Doctor* He is very brilliant (like all the Doctors) and a little more prone to aggressive actions, not so worried about saving every creature or giving them a chance to change.* He had two companions during his time. Peri Brown and Melanie (Mel) Bush. Mel was a computer programmer. Much like River Song he met her before she met him, and their timelines were rather wibbly wobbly. The Doctor is on trial for meddling with time (more on that later) and Melanie is summoned to testify. To her, these events have already happened, but because the Time Lords are trying the Doctor for events that will happen in the future, he has not yet met her. When he does meet her, he must pretend he doesn’t know her. After the trial, the Doctor takes future Mel back and presumably meets past Mel and begins travelling with her, but this is never seen on screen because Colin Baker was fired, and the subsequent stories never came to fruition. This makes Mel the first companion to meet the Doctor before he met her and the other way around.* Season 23 was one line story where the Doctor is on Trial by the Time Lord Council. The trial is made up of stories pulled from the matrix (a sort of records archive) that are both from the past from the current time and from the future. The Doctor is being prosecuted by the Valeyard who is a personification of the Doctor’s own inner evil that manifested between his twelfth and final regeneration. While the Doctor does put up a compelling defense the trial breaks down with the discovery of the Valeyard’s identity, the intervening of the Master, and the unearthing of evidence that the Gallifry High Council was working with the Valeyard to falsify evidence in order to steal the Doctor’s remaining regenerations. 

* At the end of season 23 there was an 18-month hiatus for the show as they changed production seasons. In that time Colin Baker was fired so the regeneration was built into the start of season 24. At the start of the episode the TARDIS is attacked and Mel is knocked unconscious, but the Doctor is mortally wounded so he regenerates. How this happened is never fully explained.

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Welcome to Episode 107 covering the Series 7 episode 11: The Crimson Horror.

This is the one where the Doctor and Clara meet up with their old pals, Vastra, Jenny, and Strax to defeat a repulsive creature of untold horror, and the cute little red leech that rides on her chest.

Production notes

* Story # 237* Originally aired May 4 2013  7.37 million* Written by: Mark Gatiss* Directed by: Saul Metzstein

Misc Trivia

* This is the 100th episode of NuWho!* The repulsive red leech that Vastra mentioned is a nod to The Repulsive Case of the Red Leech which was a Sherlock Holmes case that was never written by Doyle. It’s referenced by Watson in another store, The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez.

Cast

* Mrs. Gillyflower – Dame Diana Rigg* Olenna Tyrell from Game of Thrones

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Checklist 

* Name of the episode spoken in dialogue?* Uh, yeah, like every other scene* Creature of the week* Mr. Sweet – a repulsive red leech* The wikia pointed out that in this episode, the only extraterrestrials were the Doctor and Strax!* CGI* The rocket* Hats* Bowler hat!* Geronimo* Running count – 13* Jiggery Pokery* Sonic* The sonic reversed the venom?

* Strax’s armory* Scissor grenades, limbo vapor, and triple blast brain-splitters* We could lay magnetic cluster mines and dig trenches and fill them with acid!* Jammie Dodger sighting* Running count – 4* Adventures in closed captioning* Triple-blast brain spitters* MRS. GILLYFLOWER THUDDING

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Other stuff we noticed

* Getting directions from young Thomas Thomas was a (somewhat dated) reference to TomTom satnav systems.* Gillyflower offers the Doctor a seed cake, or some amontillado, to which he replies, “No thanks, we’ve had enough of that.” He was chained up in a hidden room, much like the victim in The Cask of Amontillado.* Corbin had a theory early on that Mr. Sweet was going to turn out to be The Great Intelligence.

Who’s Who? 

* Who is The Doctor?* To find the Doctor, Jenny only need ignore every “Keep Out” sign, go through every locked door and run towards any form of danger that presents itself* I’m the Doctor, you’re nuts, and I’m here to stop you* Who is Vastra?* Her front door is TARDIS blue!* Does her vale have a perception filter on it or something?!* Who is Jenny?* She’s freakin awesome!

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Welcome to Episode 106 covering the Series 7 episode 10: Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS.

This is the one where the Doctor and Clara have to get to the centre, er center of the TARDIS to stop it from blowing up only to find out it already blew so they have to stop it before it starts using a big friendly button.

Production notes

* Story # 236* Originally aired April 27 2013 to 7.69 million viewers-ish* Written by: Steve Thompson* Directed by: Mat King

Misc Trivia

* This is the first TV episode to have the word “TARDIS” in the title. * How is this possible?!

Checklist 

* Name of the episode spoken in dialogue?* almost…* Short cut: to the centre of the TARDIS* Creature of the week* The Time Zombies – two of the Van Baalen brothers and Clara are… burned by the star? And die, but live? It’s unclear.* CGI* The exploded TARDIS center in the white room* Bow ties are cool* Amy’s reading glasses* Hats* Geronimo* Just before the jump over the snarl* Running count – 13* Stuff the Doctor loves* Jiggery Pokery* Sonic* TARDIS * Again, she and Clara aren’t getting along. The Doctor tries to let Clara fly her for a little bit to get to know her.* She has her own gravity* He manually cut on the extractor fans, why didn’t he just holler it from the doorway like before.* It has a self-destruct?!* There’s a room with the Doctor/Melody/River’s crib and Amy’s craft-paper TARDIS* The telescope from Tooth and Claw* The pool from Midnight?* The Eye of Harmony that we talked about last week!* Architectural reconfiguration system – reconfigures particles into anything you need* Library with A History of the Time War* Who in the world wrote The History of the Great Time War?!* A lot in this episode reiterating that the TARDIS is sentient, including Tricky picking up on it* Eleven describes it as infinite. I wonder if this is the first time this is explicitly stated* Psychic paper* Random

* Needless sacrificial death* Clara deaths* Sorta?* Running count – 3* The Question/Doctor Who?* While reading the History of the Time War, “so that’s who…”* You call yourself the Doctor, why? You have a name, I’ve seen it in a tiny corner.* Strax’s armory* Termy-wermy* Jammie Dodger sighting* Running count – 4* Existential Horror* Tricky’s brothers decided to pretend he was an android?!

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Other stuff we noticed

* The Encyclopedia Gallifreya apparently transmits knowledge in liquid form

Who’s Who? 

* Who is Clara Oswald?* A girl about so high, feisty* She died again… sorta* He finally confronts Clara. What are you?! A trick?! A trap?!* She has a freakout moment when he does this, but is calmed down when he saves her from falling.* The Doctor erases all of this by rewriting the whole adventure* You ran away with a spaceman in a box, anything could happen. I’m counting on it.* Who is The Doctor?* Don’t get into a spaceship with a madman,

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Welcome to episode 105, our Timey Wimey #12 – Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey 

This is the one where two idiots get help creating a future utopia by literally conquering Death, having a symbiotic Martian create robot versions of themselves, and learning to play guitar.

STATION!

Cast

* Death – William Sadler* Lots of stuff throughout the years including President Ellis in Iron Man 3 and Agents of SHIELD* He also played the random British guy watching TV, “My word!”* We’ll be seeing him again* Missy – Amy Stoch* She’s back and now she’s married to Ted’s dad

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Random stuff we noticed

* Some great jibberty jabberty – statiophonic oxygenetic-amplifiagraphiphonideliverberator* Is this air guitar!?!?!* Title spoken in dialogue?* Well, Bill referenced their most Excellent Adventure* How’s it hanging, Death?* Dude, this is a totally deep hole! Now what?! I dunno. AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!* You’re silky boys. Silk comes from the butts of Chinese worms* Granny S. Preston, Esquire* That was non non non non heinous!* Ok…. I have a problem here…* I love that they challenge him to board games* Btw, how bad must the feet of Death smell?* I think they spent their Heaven set budget on the animatronic Easter bunny* Corbin said Ted dunked on Bill, literally.

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Time travel details

Method

* A totally-not-ripped-off time-traveling phone booth traveling through the circuits of history

Rules

* The clock in San Dimas is always running.* Apparently, not in this movie cuz they run off for a 16-month guitar intensive and almost literally land on themselves when they return.* What did this rule even actually mean?! Cuz in the last movie they also violated the “rule.”* Can you change the past?* De Nomolos went back to try to change the past.* For that matter, the whole first movie is based on the idea that the past could be changed, except it couldn’t – bootstrap paradox.* So, did De Nomolos succeed?

Did they follow their own rules?

Things they got Right

* The idea that only the winner could go back to arrange things makes sense. But it seemed for a minute like just saying “when I win I’ll back and change things” determined who won, but then TWIST! It was B&T all along. So, how did we determine the winner in the first place?

Paradoxes

* Paradoxes abound here!

Was it good?

Was it a good story? 

* Tripp – thumbs up* Corbin – thumbs up* Austin – thumbs up

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Welcome to Episode 104 covering Series 7 episode 9: Hide.

This is the one where the Doctor and Clara discover there’s no such thing as ghosts except when there is but really it’s aliens, well, two aliens and one time-traveling human that’s the great great great great great great great great great granddaughter of the couple that haven’t gotten together yet. It’s a love story!

Production notes

* Story # 235* Originally aired April 20, 2013 to 5 million live viewers, 1.61 time-shifted viewers, and 1.53 million online viewers in the month* Written by: Neil Cross* Directed by: Jamie Payne – his first Doctor Who. He’ll be back for the upcoming Christmas special, The Time of the Doctor

Cast

* Emma Grayling – Jessica Raine* Plays Verity Lambert in the upcoming An Adventure in Space in Time

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Checklist 

* Name of the episode spoken in dialogue?* That’s what you do, you hide.* Creature of the week* The Crooked Man* Bow ties are cool* He used the bowtie to tie off the door* Hats* The suit from The Waters of Mars* Geronimo* Just before jumping into the pocket universe* Running count – 12* Stuff the Doctor loves* Toggles – good noun, excellent verb* Carrier pigeons* Jiggery Pokery* Sonic* He smacked it and blew on it like a Nintendo cartridge* TARDIS * She’s like a cat, a bit slow at first, but you’ll get there in the end.* He rode on the TARDIS’ outside like Jack, but not through the Time Vortex* We heard the cloister bells ringing for quite a while* Psychic paper* Seriously quicker-than-usual flash

* The Question/Doctor Who?* Doctor what?* Termy-wermy* I dare you, no taksie-backsies

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Other stuff we noticed

* Because I don’t know and ignorance is… what’s the opposite of bliss? Carlisle. Yes, ignorance is Carlisle* Time travel is impossible, the paradoxes…* Resolve themselves for the most part…

Who’s Who? 

* Who is Clara Oswald?* She’s a bit weirded out by getting the whole spectrum of Earth’s history* To you, I’m like a ghost* She had a show-down with the TARDIS* The Doctor specifically went there to ask Emma about Clara* Who is The Doctor?* Emma said not to trust him cuz there’s a sliver of ice in his heart* You are the only mystery worth solving* I am the Doctor, and I am afraid

Classic Who Connection

* The Eye of Harmony (AKA Rassilon’s Star) is the heart of a black hole that Rassilon (one of the original Time Lords) acquired originally. He simply suspended time over a forming black hole and harnessed ...