Season Four (2008) Pre-Season Chat - Assume SPOILERS

[PTeppic]

There's no official announcement yet, though we have been speculating here (and the Sylvester McCoy site, for one, has an alleged title).

Presumably the Radio Times will have a title by the Sunday before it's due...?

[Dave]

Originally Posted by PTeppic

Presumably the Radio Times will have a title by the Sunday before it's due...?

Those magazines are printed quite a long way in advance. They will need a title long before that. That's why you get all those different options when there may or may not be a Football match because of a play-off. Unless they print:

Dr Who
when RT went to Press the title was unavailable

otherwise someone will leak it.

[PTeppic]

The "Mid Season Trailer" is available from the BBC Doctor Who website.
BBC - Doctor Who - Videos - Series Four

There does seem to be a very short, half-armoured "Dalek" in a few shots, so spoilerage seems to be on the money. The trailer itself is pretty vague about actual plots, apart from reference to "darkness". Time to go back through every episode looking for alternate clues...

[PTeppic]

Given that I see that David Troughton is to be a player in the next episode, is this the new theme: get as many relatives of former incarnations to appear? Whose next: the obvious would be Sean Pertwee, but since half that family are in acting (Dariel, Bill, James et al) it could be one of the others... Saying that, given Sam Troughton's age and current career on the Beeb, I'd be surprised if he didn't also appear!

Incidentally, Hartnell's grand-daughter has done some acting for the Beeb, though not in over 15 years so I suspect she's not interested in returning, but you never know...