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Classic Planet of the Month: Planet Argolis

AS VISITED BY THE DOCTOR

The Fourth Doctor: 2290. [The Leisure Hive, C18.1.]

LOCATION

Universe: Normal space.
Galaxy: Milky Way. [probably, as in 2290 there are frequent tourists from Earth.]
System: Orbiting Argolis’s sun.
Human Colony: No. There are many human tourists though.

2007 episode 3.12

WOAH! Planet Gallifrey. Long time no see! (About twenty five years.) This season is extraordinary.

2007 episode 3.11

ASTOUNDING. Planet Malcassairo will appear later on this blog, as it appears we have a three-parter. TOTALLY ASTOUNDING.

More bad news for fans of Pluto

Oh dear – this story from the BBC.

(via Kottke)

Never mind, according to television’s Doctor Who, Pluto is still the ninth planet!

(Refer to Doctor Who – The Official Annual 2007 for more.)

2007 episode 3.10

 Blink was great, and so was the Doctor Who Confidential that followed it. Nice to see “Planet Zog” getting a mention in the Confidential from Russell!

New Earth? Well, second Earth maybe

After the announcement of a “second Earth” found by scientists earlier this year, here is a follow up story from The Guardian.

2007 episodes 3.8 and 3.9

 Brilliant. Just brilliant.

(And yes. He is canon now.)

The 2007 Season episodes 3.1 to 3.7

 ”I was scuba diving.”

After the Auton invasion (N1.1), an alien ship demolishing Big Ben (N1.4&5), the craggy alien ship shot down over London (N2.X), and the ghosts/metal monsters invading the whole world (N2.12&13), we have another would-be invasion – with a sinister Christmas decoration hovering over London.  Catherine Tate has a great line in The Runaway Bride, N3.X, about scuba-diving which flippantly tries to gloss over the strangeness of recent times (there is a similar discussion in Remembrance of the Daleks, C25.1).  The spin-off Torchwood has been tackling similar ideas across its episodes (presumably the world-changing events of T1.13 End of Days occur just after the time of The Runaway Bride.  Would Donna notice those?  Unless those events were “re-set”.)

The 2006 Season

 ”Merry Christmas!”

After the enjoyable Pudsey Cutaway (N2.PC), The Christmas Invasion (N2.X) was a great beginning to Tennant’s era.

With the first normal episode, the argument for introducing more “Planet Zogs” to the programme is weakened as the worst episode of Nu-Who so far – the incoherent New Earth – features one: the planet New Earth.

Planet Krop Tor

AS VISITED BY THE DOCTOR

The Tenth Doctor: 42nd Century. [refer to ADDITIONAL NOTES for more on this date] [N2.8&9, The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit]

LOCATION

Universe: Normal Space.
Galaxy: Milky Way [probably].
System: Orbiting black hole K37 Gem 5. [Refer to ADDITIONAL NOTES]
Human Colony: Yes, there is a small Sanctuary Base on the planet.

Planet Earth-2.5

AS VISITED BY THE DOCTOR

The Tenth Doctor: 2007. [N2.5&6, Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel]

LOCATION

Universe: Parallel Universe-2.5.
Galaxy: Milky Way-2.5.
System: Third planet from the sun.
Human Colony: No.  Not a colony as such, though it is populated by parallel-universe humans.

Planet New Earth

AS VISITED BY THE DOCTOR

The Tenth Doctor: The year 5 billion and 23. [N2.1, New Earth.]

                                         The year 5 billion and 53. [N3.3, Gridlock.]

LOCATION

Universe: Normal space.
Galaxy: M87.
System: Orbiting New Earth’s sun.
Human Colony: Yes.