Doctor Who 2008: Sontarans cometh, RTD Ood 'ave 'im etc.

lawl agnes dean.

Do these people who keep linking Lily Allen to further TV work appreciate that she has the worst fucking speaking voice in the world?

oh my agyness deyn as sidekick and even I'd watch this trash

It would make a change to root for the monsters, yes.

There was a post on a recent FT thread calling for the return of the "take me home you bastard!" companion, which would at least be a nice change.

xpost. I liked Party Animals a lot but that's not the point - I just mean that the cast's subsequent strike rate is remarkable given the show's ratings. I was told that a lot of TV insiders loved the show so that might explain it.

They've just picked those companion casting suggestions out of a flick through London Lite, haven't they? My money's on Samantha Ronson.

xp Bruno Garcia? Lovely.

SOMEONE TERRIBLY EXCITING LIKE BILLIE PIPER

I think The Doctor should go back for Cribbins.

Georgina Baillie

haha I don't think Agy can act.

perhaps he could have a MALE companion omg.

I don't know who he is and I don't like the look of him

that's okay, you don't watch this show

it is pony to be fair.

I'd quite like an old-fashioned two or three-companion entourage, possibly with a robot or an alien in there.

BRING BACK KAMELION

I'd quite like an old-fashioned two or three-companion entourage

yes altho this is probably harder to make work when most episodes are standalone and not split into more parts like with the old series

Actually, school prefect dr with a Cribbins companion would be awesome.

^ Yeah it would be great :(

why would you want Cribbins? great at bulldog-spirit moralising and but useless in 'run away very quickly' situations.

Agyness is like the Katy Perry of fashion.

why would you want Cribbins? great at bulldog-spirit moralising and but useless in 'run away very quickly' situations.

Slightly fewer "run away very quickly" situations would be great, no?

(Well, not when there would be even more "new unmentioned use of sonic screwdriver saves the day" / "oh, look at this thing I had in my pocket all along which will inexplicably make all the enemies fall over" situations instead, no. But hoping for less of all three with Moffatt.)

I hope we get a non-contemporary-Earth companion for once. Or they should go back to Tom Baker's ideas for companions, which were:

1. a mad old nearly blind woman who has no idea that everyone she meets is a dangerous alien, and who beats people up with an umbrella, and
2. an intelligent talking cabbage which sits on the Doctor's shoulder and gives him advice.

Davison had the celery...

Slightly fewer "run away very quickly" situations would be great, no?

true, but slightly fewer would still be too many for the old giffer

he could do some excellent cowering though

Or he could just buy a supercharged segway.

One can't make decent puns of a name like Matt Smith.

Or he could just buy a supercharged segway.

Don't you mean a Sonic Segway?

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^ Trying to hurt me.

does the OG series get repeated in the Britains or does the new generation of viewers only know the Dr as a young, active spunk with mad URST?

Original series never gets repeated although DVDs are easy to come by in mainstream shops.

I always thought Tilda Swinton would make a fantastic Doctor.

She's already done the time travel / regeneration thing in Orlando, and she's clearly not quite human.

Hadn't thought of that - nice one! She has a chilling thousand-yard stare, which would work well in the role.

the DVDs are mad expensive here but I think pay TV has rights - at least they had the tapes when we did a one-off beginning-to-end repeat* five years back, and took them back afterwards

*bar Daleks once it hit Pertwee, cos of the Nation estate trubs - even meant War Games couldn't be included

Aye, that was ridiculous. Every single serial except all the Dalek ones. The Dalek ones are shit so fair enough, but The War Games is top five ever and I don't remember ever seeing the Colin Baker Dalek one.

There was a brief gold age about a year and half ago when the beeb hadn't yet cottoned on to the fact that every single Doctor Who ever had been uploaded to YouTube. I watched pretty much everything (surviving) from Docs 1 through 3 that way.

Yeah almost all of the old episodes I've watched have been via youtube.

Fucking impossible to find streams of old Who now.

www . t h e b o x . bz

I don't remember ever seeing the Colin Baker Dalek one.

I am one of the biggest Colin apologists in the world but you aren't really missing all that much here.

Now I want to like Matt Smith out of spite, because all of really annoying DW people online hate him so much. So shine on, you crazyhaired sparklepire.

Didn't they all hate Catherine Tate, too?

i look at the digital spy doctor who board now and then but it's dreadful

xpost - you can usually find DVDs of vintage who on eBay for a reasonable price, if you can view UK format discs.

Yeah, if you are at all interested in maintaining a shred of goodwill towards the human race, never ever ever look at a Doctor Who messageboard.

the smug 'ahh at least i am not them' high only lasts a few seconds.

Whenever I've dipped into them it seems to be all interminable rows about cannonicity.