The new Dr who

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Originally Posted by ScottSF

I also love how the doc can say so much with a single look or facial expression and not saying a single word.

The skill of the actor, dahling, with the encouragement of a quality director.

The last season has had some terrific writing and goes some way towards offering hope for the future of the series - rumours aside of RTD's deathwish for the franchise after he's done with it (I don't think I started the rumour with the last sentence, I'm sure I heard someone else saying it before).

Doctor Who is still an excellent format and a fascinating premise. With good writing, stories like Blink and the one where the Doctor hid in his watch (the title will come to me, but you know the one I mean), it can challenge anything currently on the telly and win. With bad handling - anything by RTD - it can be risible.

[harryfielder]

I've been watching WHO from day one (over forty years).
Now I watch it with my grandkids....

Aitch,

[Redtail]

I love the new series, it takes me back to my childhood, only this time round Ive got no lounge to hide behind when the scary bits come on!!!

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BBC is re-running Shada on Mon, Tue, Wed nights - and, of course, Listen Again.

This is the Douglas Adams story, abandonned due to a technicians strike, reconstituted for Paul McGann and Lala Ward, with James Fox among the co-stars. Anyone who has read Adams' Dirk Gently will recognise Professor Chronotis.

INTRUDER ALERT - Harry Enfield to play Dirk Gently in new BBC series???

O-kaaaaay.

[Kostmayer]

Just listening to Shada now - I love radio plays

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Better than telly these days!