Back in the day when I was young, one of my favourite TV shows was Danger Mouse. On a whim I looked it up on youtube last night and was surprised to find just how awesome it still is.
Here is one of the episodes – The Hickory Dickory Dock Dilemea – made even more awesome by a Doctor Who reference.
Just a few more videos of Doctor Who related material.
The first is a sketch from the 2007 Comic Relief featuring Catherine Tate and David Tennant. Its a bit meta in relation to Doctor Who, but the funnier for it. I must admit that when Catherine Tate was announced as being a companion of the 10th Doctor, I was a little sceptical at the time, but I must admit that that opinion changed during the course of her time on the show – and I was a little sad at the way her character departed the show.
And now for something completely different. No, not Monty Python – it is still Doctor Who related. The Doctor Who theme on electric violin. If anything sounds like a Chaos Noise Marine, then it is this.
With the airing of the second part of The End of Time, the curtain has been drawn on David Tennant’s time as the Tenth Doctor. Now it is the time of Matt Smith as the newest, Eleventh Doctor. It also marks the end of Russell Davies as being in charge of Doctor Who, and Stephen Moffat taking over. Given he is responsible for the best episodes of the New Who (Blink, The Girl in the Fireplace, The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances) this can only be a good thing.
The BBC have released a short trailer for the upcoming season on Doctor Who and it looks to be a lot of fun.
The Weeping Angels are back!
Of course, as with every other time the Doctor regenerated there are those complaining the show is ruined. Ruined! The Doctor changes – that has always been the way of it. I much preferred Eccleston’s 9th Doctor to Tennant’s 10th but it didn’t stop me watching and enjoying the show. And for those complaining that the preview shows The Doctor firing a gun and hitting someone and complaining that is is un-Who, go back and watch through the various Doctors. They’ve used guns and fought before. Despite the Tenth Doctor being a technical pacifist, the very first time we meet him he fought a sword duel and dropped an alien off the top of a spaceship to his death. Give Matt Smith a chance and remember – he won’t be the last Doctor either.
As I may have alluded to once or twice in the past, I’m a bit of a Doctor Who fan. Looking forward to the second part of the 10th Doctor’s last show and the beginning of the 11th Doctor’s show this year.
It is therefore something of a surprise that I hadn’t run across this video earlier – Time Crash, a short video featuring the 10th and 5th Doctors for the 2007 Children In Need Special. It took TvTropes to alert me to its existence.
The companion for the Eleventh Doctor in the next seasons of Doctor Who starting next year has been announced and it is…drumroll…Karen Gillian.
Who? I’d never heard of her, but she is a relative newcomer to the game, so that is hardly surprising.
Steven Moffat spoke highly of her in the BBC press release announcing her appointment though.
Seems they are going for a ‘younger’ look to the next Doctor – sort of reminds me of a clip from Stargate from episode 200 (though I doubt it will end up like that parody.)
A return to the musical interludes, and this one was brought about by a youtube video clip. Don’t ask me how they do it.
Yep, the familiar strains of the Doctor Who theme – but done via tesla coils and electrical arcs.
As you do, I went looking at links to related videos and found this one, which is a compilation of every Doctor Who over its forty years.
Then there was this small clip, which is of one of my favourite bits of music from the new Doctor Who series. The tune is called All the Strange, Strange Creatures. Kind of fitting for Dr Who.
I went looking for a full version of this one and came across a recording done at Doctor Who at the Proms. This was done in front of an audience, so you can hear them in bits, but it is certainly an awesome peace of music when played out loud.
The 11th Doctor has been announced and the new Doctor is…Matt Smith.
At 26 he is the youngest Doctor to appear in the 46 years Doctor Who has been running.
I will reserve my judgment, but so far he just doesn’t look like the Doctor. He looks a bit…metro. We will have to wait until 2010 to see how he goes though.
Mist and Shadows 