Doctor Who: Time Heist (1 episode, s08e05, 2014) Doctor Who goes Ocean’s Eleven with the Architect’s Four. The Doctor is trying to convince Clara to take another trip with him, tempting her with the Satanic Nebula and the Lagoon of Lost Stars. Unfortunately for him, she has a date planned with
Doctor Who: Listen (1 episode, s08e04, 2014) Are we ever truly alone? The Doctor meditates on top of the TARDIS in Earth’s orbit when he whispers the episode’s title. *ding* He later muses in the console room about the habit of talking to oneself when alone. Perhaps it is because
Doctor Who: Robot of Sherwood (1 episode, s08e03, 2014) Oo-de-lally? Whilst in the TARDIS, the Doctor writes some equations on a blackboard while offering Clara the opportunity to take them anywhere and any time. She gleefully chooses Robin Hood but the Doctor tells her that the legend is not real.
Doctor Who: Into the Dalek (1 episode, s08e02, 2014) A fantastic innerspace voyage. A pilot and her wounded co-pilot desperately fly away from an attacking Dalek ship. The pilot, Journey Blue, calls for help but her ship explodes around her. She awakens in the TARDIS console room and pulls a
Doctor Who: Deep Breath (1 episode, s08e01, 2014) The last chance for the Paternoster Gang to play Sherlock Holmes. A tyrannosaurus rex stomps through London as the Paternoster Gang responds to investigate. Madame Vastra assumes that the dinosaur traveled through time, a suspicion that is confirmed when she coughs up
Doctor Who: Series Seven, Specials, and Eleventh Doctor Summary The Eleventh’s senior showing was a good wrap to the run. For the purposes of the Timestamps Project, Series 7 and the specials that wrapped up Matt Smith’s era are treated as a single group, and among them were very few
Doctor Who: The Time of the Doctor (1 episode, Christmas Special, 2013) Death and birth in Christmas. A fleet of ships respond to a tri-tone signal echoing in the cosmos from a seemingly unimportant planet. The Doctor is among the respondents and transports aboard a Dalek ship. When they start
An Adventure in Space and Time (50th Anniversary Docudrama Special, 2013) Peering into the past. This docudrama was marketed as the story behind Doctor Who, but it ended up closer to a limited biopic focused on William Hartnell’s run from An Unearthly Child to The Tenth Planet. That’s the unfortunate side
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot (50th Anniversary Parody Special, 2013) Covert ops at the BBC. I love this “real-world” parody adventure focused on the remaining classic-era Doctors trying to be involved with the 50th-anniversary special. Peter Davison is simply obsessed with the quest (especially with his sons being so excited about
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor (1 episode, 50th Anniversary Special, 2013) The big event in a cup-a-soup. The Last Day A soldier opens his eyes to find someone standing over him. The soldier is part of the army on Gallifrey and has been fitted with a headcam. The
Doctor Who: Clara and the TARDIS Doctor Who: Rain Gods Doctor Who: The Inforarium (3 episodes, Blu-Ray Specials, 2013) Tying off loose threads before the anniversary party. Clara and the TARDIS Clara Oswald gets into an argument with the TARDIS. It seems that the TARDIS is playing practical jokes on
Doctor Who: The Name of the Doctor (1 episode, s07e13, 2013) The prophecy of Trenzalore comes to call. Clarence and the Whispermen Locked away in a jail, serial killer Clarence DeMarco shouts at whispering inhuman creatures. He insists that they are nothing more than voices in his head and asks
