The Mausoleum Club Forum

I think the new team were just trying to find a way round the 12 regenerations problem if/when they had to recast. However in The Five Doctors the master said that the Time Lords had got his co-operation by promising him a "New regeneration cycle" so wither they were lying or the new idea didn't ha...

I'd prefer not to be preached to regarding the issues of the day (plastic; environment;sexism etc) but I've realised the issue is the Doctor and (too many) companions - the acting just seems to leave much to be desired and it's often very obvious because of the calibre of the supporting actors. When...

They did show the previous Doctors ( How ever many there are now!). I meant ones we didn't know about - there was Ruth and the production team from Morbius as photos but if they didn't have the wiped matrix there should have been loads there - all of the 'murdered' kids for a start and then however...

The biggest fuss over it seems to be about the so called re-write of the show's history, but it's obvious The Doctor isn't the Timeless child. No one seems to have mentioned the scene in the Matrix, when it all goes blank and The Master says he can't access the information because it's corrupted an...

Well that was a bit rubbish although it looked good. The core cyberman story was a bit weak, especially split across two episodes - re-animated cybermen work with Master to conquer the universe and then don't. However, it was the Timeless nonsense which was just an add on and didn't really need to b...

Wasn't there a bit of the misogynist getting his comeuppance. It was a better story but I'm just not convinced the main cast are capable actors - it really stands out when you get good guests, as has been the case on a few occasions.

I think the logic of shoving her in between 2 and 3 is because it's the only regeneration we never saw, albeit Pertwee did stagger out in Troughton's clothes, and Troughton did have a screwdriver. However, I think it'll be more complicated and less problematic than that - in the brief flashbacks to ...

Wasn't it good, after years of leaks, set-pics and rumours, to watch an episode when you thought WTF! The core story was very much join the dots, but a bit like Spyfall, this acted to cover big reveals. Whether they are resolved properly later in the series is always an issue, or the concepts upset ...

Legend!

I enjoyed "His Dark Materials", which I know is adapted from the book (which I hadn't read) and it was an expensive co-production, but the writing was miles ahead, although the last episode was somewhat anti climactic. I think the ending had to draw a line for the next series. The first series wasn...

I'm not sure of your logic re: Star Trek - Discovery is about 14 40 min episodes per year and I think Picard will be 10 episodes, so pretty much the same as DW. Discovery can certainly be a bit hit and miss like DW, and give the choice I'd go for The Orville over both of them.

Too lazy to go and check but how did the Doctor wipe Donna's memory?

I think it's time to get over the issue of the actor being a woman - she'll be gone sooner rather than later as 3 years seems tops nowadays (even the end of this season chronologically). I'm just not keen on her portrayal of the role and with hindsight wonder what it would have been like with Phoebe...

It was way too long, with the uplifting bit (what there was of it) crammed in at the end. It should be a story to make you feel good at the end, not depressed. So many pointless changes (e.g. character names); key people missing and 21st century ideas crow-barred in. I don't think it'll be reappeari...

Has anyone watched the Series 12 episode yet? I ask as I haven't. (And that shows how low the show has fallen for me...) If anyone has seen it, is it just More Of The Same? Thank you. It looks very good and is a two parter - the second part is next Sunday, so I'm being careful what I say plot-wise....

I saw that they are going to have every surviving episode of DW from January, including the animated stories, so I wonder whether they'll be funding new animations to provide 'original' content?

I dont think I'm defending anyone, but you're the expert who seems to have read a book and then come to all sorts of conclusions about someone I can't remember being criticised by his collegues, and who obviously doesn't have the right of reply. I'm sure that Talons is shown on various global channe...

So you've read a book and decided that he was a sexual predator (although that got shot down pretty quickly), was unpleasant to someone he was getting divorced from, and now that he had mental health issues - I'm going to take a stab in the dark and guess that you're not medically qualified to make ...

I wonder what people made of the Mission to the Unknown recreation that the University of Central Lancashire made? For those who haven't seen it, it is on the official Dr Who youtube channel - they actually broadcast it at the same date and time that it actually went out (albeit 54 years later) but ...

I think it is aways a bit sad when favourite, dependable actors with long CV's end up in a miserable hell hole soap like Emmerdale or Brookside spitting out dross. I recall him as Sweeney Todd and loads of other good turns including The Avengers I guess that if you still want to be working at over ...

'Familiar', yes but tired in the sense of OB for exteriors and a general lack of 'Energy' that the original had' Also Mavis doesn't seem as wavey anymore! I'm surprised (but delighted) that Clarke's quirky style of writing is still popular, as I didn't think today's audiences would 'Get it', but th...

I saw the article on the BBC News site and was also puzzled that it wasn't available on IPlayer, but was able to dig out my copy to watch last night.

You mean a bit like "Lost in Austen"?

Mirror reporting:

Captain Mainwaring: Kevin McNally
Private Godfrey: Bernard Cribbins
Sergeant Wilson: Robert Bathurst
Private Pike: Tom Rosenthal
Lance Corporal Jones: Kevin Eldon
Private Walker: Mathew Horne
Private Frazer: David Hayman

Well the Special didn't work for me, and what about all of the soap opera padding in the middle? There have been three or four good episodes (the historicals plus the Amazon one), but after a promising start just became a bit tedious. I didn't like the UNIT bit, and the solution with the microwave a...

Surely a time to celebrate a wonderful life but I'm not sure if it's dreadful news or a massive blow when a much loved actress dies peacefully after a hugely successful career at 93 - more for a person taken way too soon.

We all know there is only ONE story without him - I think you've been looking at too many TABLOID news pages! At the time he was quite popular as he brought the 'tough man' element to a non-physical Doctor. Variety aside (one screaming woman replaced by another), he was in about 20 stories compared ...

I think they tried to get Mark Kermode at one stage but he wasn't interested - that might have given it a lift and brought along the 5 Live audience.

I think it's all been cut up and scanned - the issue of taking this experimental approach was that it had to be done before it was totally lost to decay. The process is to put all of the bits in chronological order and then try and make them watchable - apparently the clean up will be much harder th...

Episode 2 came from Jos like the DW episodes if I remember correctly.