Past Lives

The Time War. The Doctor has been injured and brought to a Time Lord field hospital. His body glows with energy, but this is no regeneration into a future form – instead, the Doctor’s past faces begin to appear as he flits haphazardly between incarnations…

Staggering to his TARDIS, the Doctor sets out to solve the mystery of his ‘degeneration’. Who has done this to him? How? And why? From the Earth to the stars, across an array of familiar times and places, he follows clues to retrace his steps, encountering old friends and enemies along the way. Tumbling through his lives, the Doctor must stop his degeneration before he loses himself completely…

Settling as his Fourth incarnation, the Doctor goes in search of the Monk, with a vague memory that he had something to do with his ‘degeneration’.

On Earth, the Monk is meddling, bringing Sarah Jane Smith to the future UNIT HQ to steal a device for an alien race. The Doctor must help Kate Stewart and Osgood foil an invasion before he can confront the Monk about what he knows…

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Moments of Who: When the Doctor first took notice of Humanity

Over the decades this show has evolved, it’s mythos is a patchwork built by generations of writers, actors and directors, each adding on to what came before. Things that we consider fundamental to Doctor Who now didn’t even exist back at the very beginning. Time Lords, telepathic circuits, even the sonic screwdriver didn’t come into being until well into Patrick Troughton’s run. What were, originally, one-off throwaway lines have now become universe shaking facts. To take a recent example, the basis for the Timeless Child reveal comes from one scene in a Tom Baker episode way back when. I can’t think of any other show that uses continuity to this extent and that brings to me the subject of today’s discussion.

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The Hunting Season

Duberry Hall is under siege, as aliens maraud through the estate. It’s a frightful business, and as Lord Hawthorn battles the Fleshkin, the Doctor finds new friends below stairs. Can he convince the household to unite to save itself?

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