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Review: Doctor Who – The Zygon Who Fell to Earth

2 July 2008 Rob Buckley 2 Comments


The Zygon Who Fell To Earth

The Zygons are one of those Doctor Who monsters that are a firm fan favourite yet only ever appeared on-screen once.

Stars of the Tom Baker story The Terror of the Zygons, they scared, mainly thanks to the superb direction of blog god Douglas Camfield but also because of their shape-changing abilities, biological technology and weird lifestyle – they need to feed off the milk of the Loch Ness monster to survive.

They also amused, mainly because it was really hard to do convincing blue-screen work back in 1975. Still, who knows? Maybe the Loch Ness monster really does look like it’s made of rubber and has a very stiff jaw.

Since then, they’ve popped up in all manner of unofficial and official tie-ins: Tenth Doctor novels, comic strips, New Adventures and videos.

So it seems appropriate that Big Finish have brought them back for an Eighth Doctor and Lucie adventure that is both silly and creepy.

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Sitting Tennant

Today’s Sitting Tennant (from Rosby): The Unicorn and the Wasp

27 June 2008 Rob Buckley 8 Comments

David Tennant in the Doctor Who episode The Unicorn and the Wasp

Today’s Sitting Tennant is from Rosby again. It’s from the Doctor Who episode The Unicorn and the Wasp.

Rosby, who now leads the field with four entries in the gallery, writes:

…it’s obvious that he’s thinking about what it would be like to star in a series adapted from a book about Greek Gods in contemporary settings…

It would mean a move to the US though, if you’re thinking of the book I’m thinking of, Rosby, since Ben Stiller’s production company is busy adapting it. I’m not sure everyone would be happy about his relocation…

Witty or amusing captions please everyone, or perhaps you’d like to suggest the Greek god Mr Tennant would be best suited to playing and what accent he would use?

Got a picture of David Tennant sitting, lying down or in some indeterminate state in between? Then leave a link to it below and if it’s judged suitable, it will appear in the “Sitting Tennant” gallery in due course.