The next 44 weeks of 2012

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44 reviews of 2011

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Doctor Who: The Prequel to The Doctor, The Widow and The Wardrobe review

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The Prequel to The Doctor, The Widow and The WardrobeThe Prequel review

The Doctor: Only three flaws in this plan…

Doctor Who Season: S33.
Story Number: n/a, though prequel to 225.

Amazing…

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Doctor Who 2.13: Doomsday review

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The Doctor: And I suppose… if it’s my last chance to say it…

Production Code: 2.13.
Doctor Who Season: S28 (Ep13).
Story Number: 177b.

A spectacular finale…

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Doctor Who 2.12: Army of Ghosts review

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Army of GhostsArmy of Ghosts review

Jackie: You’re always doing this, reducing it to science. Why can’t it be real?

Production Code: 2.12.
Doctor Who Season: S28 (Ep12).
Story Number: 177a.

The most epic story so far…

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Doctor Who 2.11: Fear Her review

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Huw Edwards: It’s more than a flame now, Bob. It’s more than heat and light. It’s hope. And it’s courage. And it’s love.

Production Code: 2.11.
Doctor Who Season: S28 (Ep11).
Story Number: 176.

A common criticism that has been levelled against Russell T’s resurrection of Doctor Who is that the stories never stray too far from Earth and that there is little travelling to alien planets…

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Doctor Who 2.10: Love & Monsters review

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Elton: And if you think that was the most exciting day of my life, wait till you hear the rest.

Production Code: 2.10.
Doctor Who Season: S28 (Ep10).
Story Number: 175.

Whoa. This one positively defies you to write anything about it…

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Doctor Who 2.13: The Wedding of River Song review

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The Wedding of River SongThe Wedding of River Song review

The Doctor: It’s time.

Production Code: 2.13.
Doctor Who Season: S32 (Ep13). (Footnote [1]).
Story Number: 224.

Wow. Plot discussed obviously with this review…

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Doctor Who: The Prequel to The Wedding of River Song review

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The Prequel to the Wedding of River SongThe Prequel review

Voiceover: Tick tock goes the clock…

Doctor Who Season: S32.
Story Number: n/a, though prequel to 224.

The last of this season’s prequels…

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Doctor Who 2.12: Closing Time review

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The Doctor: I think it’s fair to say, in the language of your age, that I lived my dream. I owned the stage. Gave it a hundred and ten percent. I hope you have as much fun as I did, Alfie.

Production Code: 2.12.
Doctor Who Season: S32 (Ep12).
Story Number: 223. (Footnote [1]).

The end?

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Doctor Who 2.11: The God Complex review

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The God ComplexGod Complex review

Rory: I’d forgotten. Not all victories are about saving the universe.

Production Code: 2.11.
Doctor Who Season: S32 (Ep11, Footnote [1]).
Story Number: 222.

Another corker of a story after the previous one…

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Doctor Who 2.10: The Girl Who Waited review

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The Girl Who WaitedThe Girl Who Waited review

The Doctor: If anyone can defeat predestiny… it’s your wife.

Production Code: 2.10.
Doctor Who Season: S32 (Ep10).
Story Number: 221. (Footnote [1]).

A modern classic for the programme…

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Doctor Who 2.9: Night Terrors review

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The Doctor: And one thing I can tell you, Alex – monsters are real.

Production Code: 2.4. (Footnote [1]).
Doctor Who Season: S32 (Ep9).
Story Number: 220.

Kitchen sink Doctor Who, but for now Amy and Rory have a cuppa in the console room…

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Doctor Who 2.8: Let’s Kill Hitler review

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Let’s Kill HitlerLet's Kill Hitler review

The Doctor: Never knowingly be serious — rule 27. You might want to write these down.

Production Code: 2.8.
Doctor Who Season: S32 (Ep8).
Story Number: 219. (Footnote [1]).

It begins in a cornfield…

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Doctor Who: Prequel to Let’s Kill Hitler review

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Prequel to Let’s Kill HitlerThe Prequel review

Amy: Doctor…

Doctor Who Season: S32.
Story Number: n/a, though prequel to 219.

Something a bit different for this prequel…

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Doctor Who 2.9: The Satan Pit review

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The Satan PitThe Satan Pit review

Rose: Doctor? … Doctor, can you hear me? Doctor? Ida? Are you there?

Production Code: 2.9.
Doctor Who Season: S28 (Ep9).
Story Number: 174b.

Rules. We all live by them, whether they are our own rules or someone else’s…

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Doctor Who 2.8: The Impossible Planet review

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The Impossible PlanetThe Impossible Planet review

Ida: Well, we’ve come this far, there’s no turning back.
The Doctor: Oh come on! Did you have to? “No turning back,” that’s almost as bad as “Nothing could possibly go wrong,” or “This is gonna be the best Christmas Walford’s ever had!”

Production Code: 2.8.
Doctor Who Season: S28 (Ep8).
Story Number: 174a.

The roots of many Classic Doctor Who stories are in Horror and Science Fiction films, from The Daleks to Pyramids of Mars and beyond…

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Doctor Who 2.7: The Idiot’s Lantern review

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The Idiot’s LanternThe Idiot's Lantern review

The Doctor: “It’s never too late”, as a wise person once said. Kylie I think.

Production Code: 2.7.
Doctor Who Season: S28 (Ep7).
Story Number: 173.

A curious one this…

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Doctor Who 2.6: The Age of Steel review

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The Age of SteelThe Age of Steel review

Cyberman: We think the same. We are uniform.
John Lumic: But you think of what?
Cyberman: We think of the humans. We think of their difference and their pain. They suffer in their skin. They must be upgraded.
John Lumic: Excellent!

Production Code: 2.6.
Doctor Who Season: S28 (Ep6).
Story Number: 172b.

After a rather abrupt resolution to the cliffhanger…

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Doctor Who 2.5: Rise of the Cybermen review

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Rise of the CybermenRise of the Cybermen review

Rose Tyler: They’re people?
The Doctor: They were. Now they’ve had all their humanity taken away.

Production Code: 2.5.
Doctor Who Season: S28 (Ep5).
Story Number: 172a.

In 2005 “Series One” – in re-establishing Doctor Who as one of the nation’s favourite Saturday primetime TV entertainments – also re-established the Daleks, spotlighted as they were in a story halfway through the season and the finale story…

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