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The Doctor Makes A House Call

Don’t wave goodbye to the 10th Doctor just yet.  Doctor Who Magazine is reporting that David Tennant will be making a full appearance in a two-part episode of ‘The Sarah Jane Adventures’.  While the show has so far been pretty Doctor-free, the writers felt a last visit with Tennant was warranted.  Said Russell T. Davies, […]

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When In Rome…

While a frequently seen face on the British stage and television, actress Lindsay Duncan has yet to tackle Britain’s greatest TV hero, The Doctor.  Until now.  Later in 2009, she will star as Adelaide, the Doctor’s assistant (and maybe future companion?) in the second of this year’s Doctor Who specials, following this Easter’s ‘Planet of […]

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The Real ‘Journey’s End’

It was officially announced recently on the BBC website that after the 2009 special episodes of ‘Doctor Who’ David Tennant will officially step down as Doctor Who, paving the way for 11th Doctor.
Seemingly the departure doesn’t come as the result of any job dissatisfaction. Said Tennant, “I’ve had the most brilliant, bewildering and […]

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The Doctor on the Silver Screen?

While a guest at the 2008 Edinburgh TV festival new Doctor Who show-runner Steven Moffat said not to rule out a possible big screen Doctor adventure. As long as it doesn’t interfere with the show.
“As long as it was great and fantastic then yeah. But a film is on [for] 90 minutes […]

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Classic Who Comes To The Modern Age

Following shortly on the heels of the release of the new ‘Doctor Who’ show on iTunes comes even better news. You can now bring the glory of yesteryear to your iPod with classic episodes of Who. Amongst the available serials are the Sixth Doctor in ‘Mark of the Rani’, the Fourth Doctor in […]

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The Coolest Library Around

As we all eagerly await ‘Silence In the Library’ a bit of coolness pops up. On the BBC ad page for the episode on their site, obscured behind The Doctor and Alex Kingston are several particularly interesting books including the Doctor’s ‘Journal of Impossible Things’ from ‘The Family of Blood’/’Human Nature’ episodes, The Hitchiker’s […]

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Companionship Has It’s Priveleges

It would seem that traveling with the Doctor (especially the most recent one) has it’s perks. In addition to Billie Piper’s recent wedding there is other good news for the Doctor’s girls.
According to the BBC, current Companion Catherine Tate will be appearing on stage this summer in London’s West End in the […]

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Playing Doctor

It was recently reported at dsfanboy.com that Britain will be getting a Doctor Who video game! On the odd side, it is an adaptation of the Doctor Who special edition of the popular English card game Top Trumps (which recently hit the X-Box Live Arcade In It’s Original Form), though the game will reportedly […]

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Trailer Park

Just a quick piece of fun news. Over at the official Doctor Who BBC site Who-Philes can now make their own Doctor Who trailers with Trailer Maker. With an interface similar to IMovie (but with somewhat less precision), you can access the BBC of Who clips and make your own trailers. If […]

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Classic DVD Onslaught

The next several months will be like Christmas for American Dr. Who fans, as Amazon.com reports the release of several interesting DVDs and sets to American Audiences including:
Beneath The Surface- The Silurians, The Sea Devils and Warriors of the Deep (Featuring Third and Fifth Doctor Adventures, releasing June 3rd)
The Black Orchid (Fifth Doctor, August 5th)
The […]

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Companionship

Ah, lists. The favorite past time of geeks everywhere. The best, the worst, the top, the bottom, we like listing it all. So as a Dr. Who fan it was neat to see that British sci-fi magazine SFX conducted a poll asking readers to rank the top Companions in the history of […]

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Commerce of the Daleks

Oh the joys that E-Bay can bring to the Dr. Who fan. A Who fan in the US (in my native Virginia actually) recently dished out a whopping £3200 (about $6500 American) for a replica Dalek costume. A small run of these original costumes were produced shortly after the series began in 1963 […]

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Did I Mention That He Cried?

Two icons of British society were spot cohabitating recently as fans gathered the filming of the Doctor Who Christmas special in College Green in the UK spotted not only The Doctor (David Tennant) but former Smiths singer Morrissey. According to the Winsford Guardian, the set, and indeed Morrissey himself, were decked out in full […]

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That’s Not What I Meant!

Although the writers of Doctor Who have given us years of great stuff to watch sometimes they write stuff that is unintentionally funny. With that in mind I bring you the first Doctor Who Top 20 List. Granted, there is so much Who out there that there is bound to be many, […]

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No Disintegrations

An odd bit of Who Trivia coming your way tonight. Just as Christopher Lee was lucky enough to be in both the Star Wars saga and the Lord of the Rings saga and Ian McKellan was lucky enough to be in both the X-Men and Lord of the Rings sagas, apparently Boba Fett himself, […]

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