The new series five Doctor Who box sets are coming soon, and they’re going to include some mini-episodes specially written by Steven Moffat and set in between the TV stories. Here’s two of them – enjoy!
Meanwhile in the TARDIS 1
Meanwhile in the TARDIS 2
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It’s Sitting Tennant time and what could possibly be going on here in Erin C’s picture, I wonder? I leave it to you to decide, but I’m guessing that these two naughty boys have drugged these two lovely ladies, hoping they’ll lead them in their dreamlike state to the entrance to the Great Blonde Elevator. Oh, if only it were that easy to find.
Sorry, that was a bit dark, wasn’t it? Let’s move along quickly before anyone analyses it too closely…
It was a bit quiet over in caption land, with only three people of advanced skillsets feeling able to caption a picture of David Tennant with a giant man-duck. Nevertheless, Joe B produced a triumph of a caption so he gets the 10 points. Thanks to everyone for captioning and good luck this week.
Got a picture of David Tennant sitting, lying down or in some indeterminate state in between? Then leave a link to it below or email me and if it’s judged suitable, it will appear in the “Sitting Tennant” gallery. Don’t forget to include your name in the filename so I don’t get mixed up about who sent it to me.
The best pic in the stash each week will appear on Tuesday and get ten points; the runners up will appear on Friday (one per person who sends one in) and get five points.
You can also enter the witty and amusing captions league table by commenting on Tuesday’s Sitting Tennant photo, the best caption getting 10 points, everyone who contributes getting five points.
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When I did “Liz Shaw’s Best Bits“, an in-depth look at the highlights of best Doctor Who companion ever Liz Shaw’s reign on the show (and beyond), I thought I was done. Five parts, four on her season seven stories, one on what happened after that, and that was Liz done, I thought. A shame, but that’s all there was.
But you can’t keep a good companion down, particularly when fanboy Russell T Davies is in town and he’s pissed off with all those New Adventures writers who gave companions unhappy endings. As you may recall from part five of Liz Shaw’s Best Bits, David McIntee Jim Mortimore was the man who decided to kill off Liz Shaw in the novel, Eternity Weeps, having her die in 2003 from a virus she contracted on the moon.
However, Russell T Davies, who recently returned Liz Shaw’s successor, Jo Grant, to the world of Doctor Who in the The Sarah Jane Adventures story The Death of the Doctor, also took time out in the story to let us know what happened to Liz Shaw:
Yes, boys and girls, Liz Shaw is alive and well and helping to save the world from aliens from up on UNIT’s base on the moon. It can’t be mere coincide that Rusty chose to tell us she was up there: that was a man saying “No! Enough is enough!” to Eternity Weeps. So Liz probably took a Lemsip and got over McIntee’s Mortimore’s virus, before going back to work the next day.
That’s Liz for you.
UPDATE: Thanks to @thejimsmith for pointing out I can’t even read book covers right and it was actually Jim Mortimore who wrote Eternity Weeps. Will I never be free of this name-mixing affliction?
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