Well wasn't Series 3 great? Yes it sure WAS - well, until the very end in the "Last Of The Time Lords" nonsense. ah, I'm not going to say more about THAT here - I said all that was needed in my Doctor Who Series 3 blog which you can see if you click here.
But on we go to look forward to Series 4 which will be with us in full in spring 2008. BUT before THAT we have plenty of goodies to look forward to.
CHILDREN IN NEED DR WHO SPECIAL
This very weekend we have a special Children In Need 7-minute special entitled "Time Crash".
According to Wikipedia, it has been written by Steven Moffatt and the director is Graeme Harper. In this we will witness the (brief) return of Peter Davison as the fifth Doctor together with good ol' David Tennant. You can see it on Friday 16th November during the Children In Need charity special. There is little information on what the story will be.
If you remember, the BBC did a similar thing on the regeneration changeover from Christopher Eccleston to our man David two years ago. Well, seven minutes isn't much! Will it be a link to the Christmas Special? Hard to see how if Peter Davison is involved. And furthermore, if you DO miss it, your Christmas Day will not be ruined! So if you happen to catch it in between your serial donations, then good for you!
DOCTOR WHO CHRISTMAS SPECIAL 2007
Ohhhh it just won't be the same without Rose, Jackie and Mickey this year! In fact, no parental involvement of any kind and no companions that we will recognise. So who do we get instead?
Ah, but the divine Kylie Minogue will be there to lighten our Christmas spirit and put a smile on our faces! Having denied that she was to be involved for a long time, Russell T Davies finally admitted she WAS and IS to star alongside David Tennant near the end of Series 3. She will play the part of Astrid Peth who is right in the thick of it on board the legendary Titanic. The story is that an alien being has infiltrated the launch party of the Titanic in 1912. That is about all we know at this stage - except that Geoffrey Palmer will play the Captain of the ill-fated ship and Bernard Cribbins will also feature.
The Titanic was mentioned way back in Series 1 Episode 1 (Rose) by Christopher Eccleston as the ninth Doctor, and before him by nutty conspiracy theorist and Doctor-follower Clive (Mark Benton). Clive had a picture of the Doctor at the Southampton docks with the family who he advised not to sail that day. Then in Episode 2 (End Of The World) the Doctor himself mentioned that he HAD been on "the unsinkable" and had ended up clinging to an iceberg. The name Titanic was not mentioned, but it was fairly clear WHAT he had been referring to.
So does this mean the Doctor WAS or WAS NOT on the ship when it sank? These two seem to contradict each other because he was on the docks with the family and yet in the next instant he was in the water! Ah, but that is what the Tardis is for of course!
Anyway, it's nice to see that once again storyline threads mentioned are being used. Personally I CAN'T WAIT! I'm not much of a Kylie fan though.
Some interesting videos exist of sneak "previews" of this Christmas Special 2007. Well, sneak previews really means the usual mix of a few real shots spliced together with other stuff. Just for fun, here are a few of them:-
This one is one of those spliced together youtube videos using bits of and the end of Series 3 scenes and bits of Hollywood:
And how about this one. Just a few photos from the set:
So we know what the bad guy looks like then! See you next time!
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