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Liz Shaw's Best Bits

Liz Shaw’s Best Bits: Spearhead from Space

Liz Shaw and the third Doctor

On Friday, we started a new, low-budget, four-part series that aims to show the best bits of premier Doctor Who companion Liz Shaw, who appeared during the first season of Jon Pertwee’s reign as the Doctor 40 years ago.

Last time, we did The Ambassadors of Death, her third story, purely because I think it’s the second-best Who story ever, but this week, we’re going to go back and do things chronologically and look at her – and Jon Pertwee’s – first story, Spearhead from Space.

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Thursday’s “party over” news

Film

  • Judd Apatow and Paul Reubens working on new Pee-wee Herman movie
  • Meryl Streep to play Margaret Thatcher, Jim Broadbent to play Denis?

Comics

Theatre

  • Lily Allen writing songs for Bridget Jones musical

British TV

US TV

  • Starz cancels Party Down and Gravity

Question of the week: what was your favourite Doctor Who story this series?

So – except for viewers in the US who have their own programmes – series 5/season 31/series 1/there’s no such thing as seasons* of Doctor Who has just finished. Time for a very obvious question of the week:

What was your favourite episode this series and why?

You can also, if you wish, suggest your least favourite and you can even say what you thought of the show this series, how it compared to the previous series, what you thought of Amy, the Doctor, Karen Gillan, Matt Smith, that spud Rory, the new-look Silurians or anything else that grabs you. It’s a basic Who-ey free-for-all.

If you need to remind yourself of the episodes, what I said and even what you said, here are links to the reviews on the blog:

  1. The Eleventh Hour
  2. The Beast Below
  3. Victory of the Daleks
  4. The Time of Angels
  5. Flesh and Stone
  6. The Vampires of Venice
  7. Amy’s Choice
  8. The Hungry Earth
  9. Cold Blood
  10. Vincent and the Doctor
  11. The Lodger
  12. The Pandorica Opens
  13. The Big Bang

PS Rest assured, readers of the blog who don’t really give a monkey’s about Doctor Who, it’s all going to be a bit less Who-ey round here for a while.

As always, leave a comment with your answer or a link to your answer on your own blog

* Delete according to your degree of mental illness

Wednesday’s “scripts better than plans” news

Doctor Who

  • Stevie Moffat’s plans for series 6 [minor spoilers]

Film

  • Jude Law, Ray Winstone and Christopher Lee among those joining Martin Scorsese’s Hugo Cabaret
  • Andy Serkis joins Rise of the Apes
  • Facebook app “Mafia Wars” to be turned into movie
  • Trailer for Paranormal Activity 2

Theatre

  • Peter Egan and Robert Daws to star in The Secret of Sherlock Holmes

British TV

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