Unearthly Times

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Doctor Who Greatest Moments was originally broadcast between Children of Earth and Series Three of The Sarah Jane Adventures. …


Nov
23
2023

David Tennant's time in the TARDIS played witness to some of Doctor Who's most emotional moments …


Nov
05
2023
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Bigger, louder and more bombastic seemed to have been RTD's guiding principle towards each of his twenty-first century Doctor Who finales …


Nov
04
2023

Do the Viperox 'decimate every world they encounter' or do 'they kill everything'? …


Oct
29
2023
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201

You might think that choosing to watch The Waters of Mars with my daughter shortly before running her a bath was not the brightest parenting idea I've ever had …


Oct
28
2023

Almost yer classic game of two halves is series three of The Sarah Jane Adventures  …


Oct
22
2023
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Just looking at the rash that flares up on anyone who gets infected by the Rakweed's spores in The Gift is enough to make you itchy …


Oct
21
2023
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This week's memory blind spot saw me completely forgetting Suranne Jones had been in The Sarah Jane Adventures …


Oct
15
2023
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I barely remembered anything of The Eternity Trap …


Oct
14
2023

I'm cheating a bit here …


Oct
08
2023
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It's a story with "… of Sarah Jane Smith" in the title, which means the Trickster is up to his usual, ahem, tricks again …


Oct
07
2023
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14

Those who've come to The Mad Woman in the Attic looking for a huge overarching feminist re-reading of the whole of The Sarah Jane Adventures' oeuvre might feel they've been misled …


Oct
01
2023
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13

Much of the fun in Prisoner of the Judoon comes from titular intergalactic space copper Captain Tybo's literal interpretation of human security signage …


Sep
30
2023
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It hardly seems fair to give the series-spanning Children of Earth a single blog post when the first two series of Torchwood yielded months' worth of my inane ramblings …


Sep
23
2023

Strictly speaking untitled, but generally referred to as "Tonight's the Night", this mini-episode is just a bit of fun, of course …


Sep
03
2023
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200

I've been re-reading The Stand recently, so I was acutely aware of Planet of the Dead's obvious use of the Magical Negro trope …


Sep
02
2023

To my shame, it took more than one attempt to get past the quiz area on the Series Two DVD disc to access The Sarah Jane Adventures' Comic Relief mini-episode From Raxacoricofallapatorius with Love …


Aug
27
2023
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I was out of the UK for the Christmas of 2008/09, so spoilers – and a certain Doctor Who Confidential announcement in the New Year – meant I knew David Morrissey was not the next doctor by the time I sat down to watch, ahem, The Next Doctor. …


Aug
26
2023

Series Two of The Sarah Jane Adventures provides us with another tweak to the format and another strong series of adventures for Sarah Jane and the gang …


Aug
21
2023
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If The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith explored what it was like for our heroine to have lost her parents, Enemy of the Bane explores what it means to Sarah Jane to be a parent …


Aug
20
2023
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