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Happy Birthday, Doctor!

Today is Doctor Who’s forty-sixth birthday. Yes, forty-six years ago the world got it’s first glance at what would become a sci-fi legend. Check out the great article about it over at Wired.
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The Doctor’s Rules For Martha…

Remember in last year’s Human Nature/Family of Blood the Doctor gave Martha a set of rules to follow? Twenty-three specifically. Well we only get to hear a few, then Martha fast-forwards to the end. What were the other rules? Find out below…

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What year does Doctor Who take place?

This may be a little reminiscent of the little dating controversy with the UNIT stories (did they take place in the 70s or 80s?). I was just reading up on the past episodes this season on the Doctor Who Wiki. Something that they keep bringing up, and they did this in SFX Magazine as well, […]

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Midnight Discussion…

The Doctor and Donna decide to take a nice relaxing holiday on the planet Midnight, a planet made of diamonds. The Doctor wants to go check out the Sapphire Waterfalls but Donna just wants to work on her tan. So the Doctor goes without her. When told to be careful the Doctor remarks, “What […]

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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

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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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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Little Known Fact.

In the first of a series of little known (to most) Who trivia is a tidbit about the greatest band of all time, the Beatles. According to the Doctor Who BBC site, the Fab Four were originally slated to make an appearance in the first Doctor serial ‘The Chase’ playing themselves as old men. […]

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