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This week, Phil and Paul cast their eye over The Forest of The Dead, the conclusion to River Song's opening story in Series 4 of Doctor Who. It's another enjoyable story for the reviewing pair but it's not long before they air their gripes about where it went wrong. During the course of their conversation this week, they go wildly off topic and start discussing Steven Moffats overall contribution to Doctor Who and whether his writing was better before he became show runner.

However, all of this is tempered by the news that we have lost another Doctor Who actor in the form of Caroline John and the lads take the opportunity to celebrate her character, Liz Shaw.

After a couple of poor stories (in their eyes anyway!), Phil and Paul ger their teeth into Silence In The Library in their ongoing retrospective of Series 4. This was a story they were both keen to revisit so this is a story they still like? Will they start to pick holes in it like they normally do or will they just like an episode for once in their lives?

And in this week news, another publicity photograph of Matt Smith and Jenn-Louise Coleman is released by the BBC, Jean Marsh gets an OBE and some DVD news. Now stay out of the shadows!

This week Phil and Paul take a look back at the Agatha Christie murder mystery romp The Unicorn And The Wasp. This is an episode that neither Paul nor Phil were particuarly interested in watching again even though fandom would tell them this is a good story. Has time changed their minds? Will the comedic aspects of the script cheer them up or will they remain their usual miserable selves? (Well, Phil is the miserable one really).

Meanwhile, in the news this week, there was a gathering of five Doctors, an official photo was released of the Doctor and his new companion, Bill Nighy reveals that he didn't want the role of the Doctor and a fan poll reveals their favourite Doctor Who monster EVER!!

In this weeks episode, the reviewing partnership of Phil & Paul take a look back at the....ahem...well regarded series 4 story The Doctors Daughter. Ok, I can't keep up the pretence any longer, it's probably one of the least well regarded stories in this series and Paul & Phil do little to change anyones opinion. But they go through the motions and try as they might, they can't be help but be nothing but critical of this story, so don't expect many laughs this week!! However, after much analysis, they reach the conclusion that the only thing that could have saved this story is....WILLIAM SHATNER!!

And in this weeks news, the first group of guests has been announced for Gallifrey 2013, series 7 production news and air date rumours and in what has become a regular feature, Phil & Paul promise to listen to some Big Finish audios!!

Dim the lights, close all the windows and dust down your DVD players as it's audio commentary time! This month, Paul, Tony and Phil are tackling the behemoth that is Warriors Of The Deep. They've tried this one before and failed miserably, so they've deployed all sorts of lucky tokens about their persons to make sure this one goes off without a hitch. Even then it was still touch and go.

Also, in this weeks news, Steven Moffat want to keep the Doctors new companion a complete secret, a little bit of DVD news and the lads get angry at certain 'fans' reactions to the airing this week of the Blue Peter Script to Screen winners story, Good As Gold. Now stop laughing at the Myrka, you know how fragile he is!

Phil & Paul continue their retrospective of Series 4 and this week they have a crack at The Poison Sky, the final story of the Sontaran two parter. This time they lament the lack of the Brigadier, Phil attempts to be clever with his limited knowledge of physics and Paul is astounded at a sonic screwdriver not being very sonic.

And in this weeks news, Doctor Who says goodbye to Upper Boat Studios (this should have been last weeks news but they forgot), the Doctor Who Experience gets an opening date in Cardiff and a release date for Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock. All this plus Phil tries to pronounce Pobol Y Cwm and fails abysmally while Paul laughs.

In this weeks episode, Phil and Paul continue with their Series 4 retrospective with a look back at The Sontaran Stratagem. The both try really hard this week to be positive and the most part they succeed. However, with a snivelling wretch of a boy genius, the Doctors new found dislike for U.N.I.T., it doesn't take them long to start getting a little picky.

But in this weeks news, the announcement that episode 1 of series 7 will be premiered in August and Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill have completed their final scenes, give the two of them plenty to discuss and go off topic about. Please be warned during the course of this weeks episode, the words "twunt" and "bukakke" are used with wanton abandon.

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Paul is back from his holidays feeling refreshed and gets straight back into the swing of things and joins Phil to look at The Planet Of The Ood. Phil finds this one a bit of a slog to review but livens things up for himself by doing a Sid James impression, while Paul concentrates on the plot and the the social messages that this episode was trying to convey.

Also, as a special treat, Tony joins Phil and Paul for the news section which was recorded in the pub while celebrating Pauls birthday. However, Tony being Tony, he gets easily distracted and goes hunting for alien lifeforms in a bowl of wasabi peanuts and Phil gets in another impression, this time the Kinder egg advert from the 1980's. Me scrooble now!

Whilst Paul is on his holidays, Phil enlists the help of new friend to the show Stephen Prescott from the rather excellent Mad Man With A Box Podcast to discuss The Fires of Pompeii. During the discussion, Stephen educates Phil on Latin textbooks and they both go wildly off tangent and delve into the merits of RTD versus The Moff and whether longstanding fans requests for classic monsters such as Ice Warriors and Zygons to return to the show would be a good thing.

Also in a very short news section, John Barrowman wants Captain Jack to return to Doctor Who and an actress who appeared in Doctor Who over 50 years ago reaches the grand age of 100. And because of that, we are claiming her as our own first Doctor Who centenarian. Join us!!

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Once again the reviewing duo of Phil and Paul embark on another retrospective and this time they turn their attentions to series 4 and Partners In Crime. What do they make it after all this time? Is it a great series opener or do they think it's a stinker of an episode? Well you might be surprised when you listen to this!!

Also, in this weeks news, a Big Finish sale, Steven Moffats opinons on the Doctors travelling arrangements and Phil and Paul get wistful when talking about the BBC Television Centre. Big Finish for a fiver!!