Released November 2022 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW Like Doctor Who, Torchwood is often at its best when it can find a story linked to real-world events or phenomena, and writers Lauren Mooney and Stewart Pringle delve into the mysterious world of number stations in ‘The Lincolnshire Poacher.’ Number stations, of course, are shortwave radio stations that […]
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Released November 2022 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW A year after leaving the Eighth Doctor’s company, Liv Chenka accompanies Tania Bell on a furniture-shopping excursion to pass a Sunday by in John Dorney’s ‘Flatpack.’ Just as the two cannot agree on how long this store has been present, though, the Doctor with a new face suddenly re-enters […]
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Released November 2022 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW In 1864 Germany, housekeeper to Alfred Nobel, Bertha Kinzky, is appalled to find patrons of the Bad Homburg Spa fighting rather than relaxing. With her mother insistent on finding her a royal match, Bertha soon finds herself in the middle of an audacious alien plot, turning to her mysterious […]
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Released November 2022 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW On Saturn’s moon of Titan, an outpost trading in hydrocarbons that have long since fallen out of favour and that Earth has all but forgotten as a result struggles to carry on despite increasing odds. With a mysterious illness ravaging the remaining humans as the Doctor joins two explorers […]
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Aired 03 – 04 October 2011 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW To open the sadly curtailed fifth and final run of episodes of The Sarah Jane Adventures following the tragic death of Elisabeth Sladen, writer Phil Ford revisits the dynamic that initially made the series so successful after Sarah Jane finds an abandoned baby on her doorstep […]
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Aired 15 – 16 November 2010 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW Concluding a fourth series that has increasingly dealt with the very adult themes of accepting loss and change following the departures of Luke and K9 as well as confronting the possibility of the Doctor himself being dead, ‘Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith’ by Gareth Roberts and Clayton […]
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Aired 08 – 09 November 2010 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW With no time wasted after Sarah Jane, Clyde, and Rani begin to investigate an antiques shop to open Rupert Laight’s ‘Lost in Time,’ the mysterious shopkeeper there separates and thrusts the trio into three distinct eras of Earth’s past to find pieces of a metal forged […]
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Released November 2022 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW The Vulpreen continue their advance in Objective: Earth, the third of four sets in UNIT’s Nemesis saga, and Kate and Osgood face some of their greatest challenges yet as unexpected enemies and technology alike complicate any plans of defence. In Andrew Smith’s opener ‘The Vulpreen Encounter,’ a forty-mile-long asteroid […]
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Aired 01 – 02 November 2010 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW With a test on Great Expectations looming in the morning, Clyde and Rani return to their homes to study after Sarah Jane and Mr Smith pick up an alien trace that disappears a second later to open ‘The Empty World’ by Gareth Roberts. The young pair […]
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Aired 25 – 26 October 2010 SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW With The Sarah Jane Adventures much more closely aligning with Doctor Who than Torchwood ever considered given the recurring foes and themes that present a welcome sense of nostalgia even while it treads its own bold path forward, it was only a matter of time until […]
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One of my favourite historicals. Well acted.
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I don't get the affection for Hebe at all, I find her very irritating. Apart from the slightly worrying moral…
