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A diabolical race of alien Mr. Potato Heads, inspired by Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, hires an evil clone of Google founder Sergey Brin to sabotage every car on Earth with homicidal wacko environmentalist computers and the only person who can stop them is a guy in a blue police box.

Can there be any doubt that this is a new episode of Doctor Who?

“This is your final destination.”

“Getting a bit too close to the Nineteen-Eighties!”

“Doctor, it’s Martha… and I’m bringing you back to Earth!”

“Technically speaking you’re still on staff. You never resigned.”

“We’ve got massive funding from the United Nations, all in the name of homeworld security.”

“It’s all right for you. You can just come and go but some of us have got to stay behind.”

“You need to be careful, because you know the Doctor. He’s wonderful, he’s brilliant! But he’s

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“The file is irrelevant, sir. Have a nice day.”

“Now that’s what I call a spaceship. You’ve got a box and he’s got a Ferrari!”

“We’re so not married. Never ever.”

“D’oh!”

“Who do you think made your clothes?”

“I spent all that time looking for you Doctor, because I thought it was so wonderful out here. I want to go home.”

“It’s a revolution.”

“Please have a drink, sir.”

“Being with you, I can’t tell what’s right and what’s wrong anymore.”

“Every song must end.”

Friday night on the Sci-Fi Channel saw the start of Season 4 (or Season 30 depending on how one chooses to reckon it) of Doctor Who here in the States, beginning with 2007’s Christmas special “Voyage of the Damned”. This was my first time seeing it and to be honest, I didn’t care too much for that one. Even by Doctor Who standards, “Voyage ...

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With the new season of Doctor Who now airing on the BBC (and very soon here in America on the Sci-Fi Channel, thanks for the tip Geoff!) a lot of fans are celebrating the return of the Doctor. Here’s what one clever chap did: mashing up footage of both Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant as the Doctor from the revived series, with Waylon Jennings’ classic theme song from The Dukes of Hazzard…

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“Me no speak Celtic.”

“We’re in Pompeii… and it’s Volcano Day!”

“I am… Spartacus.”

“You fought her off, with a water pistol! I bloody love you!”

“Because that’s how I see the universe. Every waking second I can see what is, what was, what could be, what must not. It’s the burden of the Time Lord, Donna. And I’m the only one left.”

“We’d better hurry. Rocky IV’s right behind us.”

“I can never go back. I can’t! I just can’t!”

Season 4 (or is it 30?) of Doctor Who had the premiere of it second episode on the BBC this past weekend. So like usual I nabbed a high-quality bootleg off the ‘net. ‘Cuz I’m a big enough Doctor Who fan to not want to wait for when Sci-Fi Channel begins running it later this summer.

I raved last week about the season opener “Partners in Crime”. This ...

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“Don’t you ever change?!”

“Just like old times!”

“That’s him! That’s him! YEEEEEHAAAAA!! That’s him!”

I didn’t get to see much of Season 3 (or Season 29, depending on how we’re counting it) of Doctor Who, apart from its premiere episode, and the ending triptych of episodes that saw the return of the Master. Catching-up is on my short list of things to do, especially the three-part story about the Daleks. Meanwhile, Season 4 of the revived Doctor Who series began this past weekend. Many thanks to our Brittish brethren across the pond for putting it on the torrents for download…

So I just got finished watching “Partners in Crime” and if this is any indication then Season 4 is bound for greatness, because this was the absolutely best season premiere yet of Doctor Who‘s new run. “Partners in Crime” has the Doctor (David Tennant) investigating Adipose ...

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Unlike the past two years, I haven’t been downloading all of the new season’s episodes of Doctor Who after they aired in the United Kingdom. But the two that I have seen were remarkably good. Still don’t know if anything this season can compare to last year’s “The Girl in the Fireplace”: without a doubt one of the most beautiful and haunting stories that I’ve ever seen told in the television medium.

(Let’s look on the bright side: there’s no indication that there’s any episode this new season that will be as absolutely atrocious as last year’s “Love & Monsters”, either. Yegads… what the HELL was the BBC thinking when they let that one go into production?!?)

Anyway, tonight at 8 p.m. the Sci-Fi Channel will start the American run of Doctor Who Season 3 (or Season 29 if we’re counting the original series… as we should) with the ...

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After swearing that I’d never do it again, I fell off the wagon tonight.

Dear lord, will this madness ever stop?

I couldn’t help myself. It just happened.

We were flicking through the high-def channels and I wound up on UNC-TV, the state’s PBS system. And they were doing their annual “Festival” pledge drive. The moment I saw that 800 number, my lips quivered and my hands started shaking.

Lisa couldn’t stop me. I ran to the phone, and I… did it.

After all these years, I still can’t stop doing it.

I picked up the phone and dialed the toll-free number. A nice lady answered and asked would I like to make a pledge to support public broadcasting. I told her “yes”.

Then I told her that I would like to pledge $10,000…

…but only if PBS brought back the old Doctor Who reruns.

Then I hung up.

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