Sarah Jane Comes To DVD

February sees the release of not one, but two DVD box sets from The Sarah Jane Adventures.

Both DVDs are scheduled for release on February 6th. The first is The Complete Fifth Series and covers the final adventures of Sarah Jane Smith.

All three two-part episodes from the fifth series of the ‘Doctor Who’ spin-off, created by the award-winning writer, Russell T. Davies.

The programme follows the adventures of one of the Doctor’s most famous former companions, investigative journalist Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen), as she faces all manner of alien life-forms and restores Earth’s cosmic balance with the help of her young assistants Clyde (Daniel Anthony), Luke (Tommy Knight) and Rani (Anjli Mohindra). Episodes are: ‘Sky’, ‘The Curse of Clyde Langer’ and ‘The Man Who Never Was’.





The second set due for release is the Complete Series 1-5 set

All two-part episodes from the first to fifth series of the ‘Doctor Who’ spin-off, created by the award-winning writer, Russell T. Davies. 13-year-old Maria Jackson (Yasmin Paige)’s life gets a lot more exciting when one of the Doctor’s most famous former companions, investigative journalist Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen), moves in next door. Soon the young girl is coming face-to-face with all manner of alien life-forms, as she helps her new neighbour restore Earth’s cosmic balance.

The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe Watchathon

This Wednesday, January 4th at 8pm GMT we will be holding our regular episode watchathon, looking back at and discussing the latest new episode of Doctor Who, and this time it is the turn of the 2011 Christmas Special, The Doctor The Widow and the Wardrobe.

We would love for you to come and join in with us in discussing the episode and sharing your thoughts, so pop on over this Wednesday to join in the fun. If you don't already have a posting account on the forum, registration takes just 2 minutes and as always is completely free.

We hope to see you there.

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Join The Infinite Quest - The Gunfighters

This week over on the forum, the featured story is The Gunfighters. Come on over and give us your thoughts and opinions on this classic First Doctor adventure from 1966.

Arriving in the town of Tombstone, the First Doctor finds himself involved with gunmen, out to kill Doc Holliday...

The Gunfighters was the eighth story of Season 3 of Doctor Who. Its final episode, "The O. K. Corral", was the last individually-titled episode until The Five Doctors, the ninety-minute 20th Anniversary special.

This story saw Doctor Who's take on the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. William Hartnell would later claim that the Wild West setting was his idea, a statement which was confirmed on the DVD bonus features. The director, Rex Tucker, was originally chosen to direct An Unearthly Child but filming interfered with a holiday he had booked. This was Tucker's only Who credit.

The Gunfighters was the only serial to have a song written especially for it until The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, decades later. "The Ballad of the Last Chance Saloon" was sung off screen by Lynda Baron who would later appear in Enlightenment and Closing Time.

The role of Johnny Ringo was offered to veteran actor Patrick Troughton, but he was too busy. Troughton would later be asked back, and won the role of the Second Doctor. The actor playing Doc Holliday, Anthony Jacobs, brought his son, Matthew Jacobs onto the set. Matthew would later write the telemovie.

The poor AI ratings received by The Gunfighters strengthened Donald Cotton's argument that historical stories should be axed. 

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Happy New Year

We would like to take the opportunity to wish all of our readers and followers a very happy new year and best wishes for 2012.

You may have noticed that over the last few months things have been a little quiet on our news page, Twitter feed and Facebook page. Unfortunately these things were unavoidable and we would like to apologise to everyone for not keeping you as updated as we would have liked, but things are back on track now so keep your eyes peeled for all the latest updates and developments from the worlds of Doctor Who.

Once again, a very happy new year to you all.

Prequel to The Doctor, the Widow & the Wardrobe

The BBC have released a prequel to the 2011 Christmas Special as part of their Doctor Who advent calendar & here it is for you all to enjoy:

The Doctor, the Widow & the Wardrobe will air on BBC One & BBC One HD at 7pm on Christmas Day.

Loads of new pics from the Christmas Special

The BBC have released a bumper load of pics from this year's Christmas Special. Enjoy!

Shada Novelisation

From the unique mind of Douglas Adams, the legendary ‘lost’ Doctor Who story completed at last!

The Doctor’s old friend and fellow Time Lord Professor Chronotis has retired to Cambridge University – where nobody will notice if he lives for centuries.

But now he needs help from the Doctor, Romana and K-9. When he left Gallifrey he took with him a few little souvenirs – most of them are harmless. But one of them is extremely dangerous.

The Worshipful and Ancient Law of Gallifrey isn’t a book for Time Tots. It is one of the Artefacts, dating from the dark days of Rassilon.

It must not be allowed to fall into the wrong hands. And the sinister Skagra most definitely has the wrong hands. He wants the book. He wants to discover the truth behind Shada. And he wants the Doctor’s mind…

Based on the scripts for the original television series by the legendary Douglas Adams, Shada retells an adventure that never made it to the screen.

Due 15th March 2012


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The Doctor Down Under?

Since the show returned to our screens in 2005, the production team behind Doctor Who has been known to occasionally venture beyond the UK borders for a spot of filming. Aside from last years filming for series 6 in Utah, United States, the show has also filmed in Italy, Dubai and Croatia over the last couple of years, but is the show about to take a trip to Australia?

According to Australias TV Tonight Blog, plans could be afoot to film parts of series 7 Down Under.

TV Tonight is hearing whispers from the UK that the long-running science-fiction series is considering a move to film multiple episodes in Australia in mid-2012.

This is of course news to us, and they don't appear to have a source for their information so it could all just be made up, but if true this could be potentially interesting news for the next series.

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Christmas Confidential Cancelled?

Despite the fact that we were promised one final Confidential to accompany this years Christmas Special, The Sun are reporting that the BBC have decided to scrap it, despite it already being made and paid for.

Series producer Gillane Seaborne claims "The biggest regret is the episode of Confidential we've filmed for this year's Doctor Who Christmas special which now won't be shown, So I guess in the fine traditions of Doctor Who, we now have our very own missing episode."

Industry experts put the cost of an episode of the show, which was presented by Alastair Sooke, at around £50,000 but possibly more.

Will be a shame if this is true? What do you think? Since its already been made should they just air it anyway or would you rather just see it as an extra on the DVD?

Thanks to Peri-Peri for the heads up.

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Christmas Special Transmission Times (UK & US)

The official DW Twitter feed yesterday confirmed that this years Christmas specia, The Doctor, The Widow & The Wardrobe, will be airing on BBC One on Christmas Day at 7pm and will run for an hour.

As well as this, the BBC America schedule has confirmed that this years special will once again on Christmas Day in the United States at 9pm EST (though other regions will vary so check your local listings.

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Christmas Has Come Early To The Forum

Step Inside This Christmas

Over on the forum we are so excited for the festive season and an all new Doctor Who adventure that we just can't wait any longer.

From today our special section dedicated to The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe will be open with all the latest news, spoilers, updates and pictures, which we will be adding to over the coming weeks in the lead up to Christmas Day.

On top of that, just like last year we will have lots of games, competitions, quizzes and prizes that will be running throughout December.

And as if that wasn't enough, the forum itself has even had a festive makeover!!!

So make sure you come and join us in the lead up to Christmas for your festive fix of Doctor Who and join in with all the fun and games at The Doctor In The TARDIS Forum.