Doctor Who
Ep. |
Title |
Air/Pub'l |
Grade |
Author |
| 4-1 Mondo Extra |
The Queen Lived
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2008.08.01
2008.08.01 |
A+ | Jacob |
| 3-1 Extra |
You Are Not AloneSeason 3 - One last breeze through the TARDIS before the shops close up for the year, goodbye to the season that nearly broke us all, and the rest was just fantastic. |
2007.10.05
2007.10.05 |
A+ | Jacob |
| 2-13 Recap |
Hold The Line With MeDoomsday (2) - Rose dies. The Doctor dies. Everything ends. It's all true. |
2006.12.23
2006.12.30 |
A+ | Jacob |
| 2-12 Recap |
Et In Arcadia EgoArmy Of Ghosts (1) - The oldest enemy returns once more, life and death clash and fray, etc. Torchwood finally gets hold of the Doctor and the TARDIS, and accidentally facilitates the invasion of Earth by the Cybermen from the Age of Steel. Oh, and then there are Daleks. |
2006.12.22
2006.12.29 |
A- | Jacob |
| 2-11 Recap |
Yeah, Pencil Me InFear Her - The worst episode of the entire series to date rolls forward without even asking how your day went. A little girl gets possessed and draws some pictures, and the Olympics are involved, and it's not really even worth talking about. |
2006.12.15
2006.12.20 |
D | Jacob |
| 2-10 Recap |
I ♥ Doctor WhoLove & Monsters - Meet Elton Pope, Jacob's arch-nemesis, in the adventures of those that Time and Rose forgot. |
2006.12.08
2006.12.13 |
B+ | Jacob |
| 2-9 Recap |
The Narrow Fellow In The GrassThe Satan Pit (2) - The Devil says a bunch of true stuff, tactlessly enough, but everybody ignores it because they! Are! So! Awesome! |
2006.11.31
2006.12.04 |
A+ | Jacob |
| 2-8 Recap |
When You Were YoungThe Impossible Planet (1) - The Doctor and Rose land on an eponymous anomaly. The TARDIS is lost. The Devil shows up. |
2006.11.17
2006.11.17 |
A | Jacob |
| 2-7 Recap |
The Dutch TiltThe Idiot's Lantern - The Doctor and Rose hit the right year, but the wrong continent, and get engrossed in a televisual nightmare as the viewing audience of Elizabeth's Coronation is threatened with facelessness. |
2006.11.10
2006.11.13 |
A | Jacob |
| 2-6 Recap |
Solving For PiThe Age Of Steel (2) - The gang takes the first step in freeing the world of Steel from Lumic's Cyber Control, and leave Mickey behind to clean up the rest of the pieces. Forever. |
2006.11.03
2006.11.08 |
C | Jacob |
| 2-5 Recap |
Victoria's WorldRise Of The Cybermen (1) - The gang finds itself stuck in an alternate-world London for twenty-four hours, but you know them: that's like twenty-three hours and fifteen minutes more than they need to screw this place up, too. Pete Tyler's alive yet again, Rose's mom is even more bizarre, and the Cybermen attack! Really slowly! |
2006.10.27
2006.11.01 |
C | Jacob |
| 2-4 Recap |
Let Them Eat AwesomeThe Girl In The Fireplace - Louis XV's head lady shows the rest of the aristocracy -- including the queens -- how it's done, and blows the Doctor's mind in the process. Most awesomely, Rose gets it. ...Or does she? |
2006.10.20
2006.10.25 |
A+ | Jacob |
| 2-3 Recap |
The Other End Of The TelescopeSchool Reunion - The Doctor comes up against yet more incontrovertible evidence that he tends to ruin lives everywhere he goes, but he makes up for it. Old friends and others attend a reunion almost exactly thirty years in the making. |
2006.10.13
2006.10.17 |
A+ | Jacob |
| 2-2 Recap |
The Breaking Of AlbionTooth And Claw - The Doctor and Rose kind of destroy two hundred years' worth of culture and inspire the Torchwood Institute after a ninja/werewolf adventure with Queen Victoria treads a little too close to home |
2006.10.06
2006.10.09 |
B+ | Jacob |
| 2-1 Recap |
Still My Happening, Still Freaks Me OutNew Earth - The Doctor and Rose have a body-swapping good time in the world after the End of the World. |
2006.09.29
2006.10.04 |
B | Jacob |
| Extra | What's Past Is PrologueThe Christmas Invasion - Harriet Jones, Prime Minister, gets a tongue-lashing and a vote of no confidence after the new Doctor finds her tactics a bit too much. In other news, the previously hot Doctor has been replaced by a differently hot Doctor; nobody really minds. |
2006.09.29
2006.10.03 |
A+ | Jacob |
| 1-15 Extra |
The Book Of JudasThe Second Coming, Part II - Jude writes the Third Testament on Judgment Day. Everything changes. |
2003.02.09
2006.07.31 |
A+ | Jacob |
| 1-14 Extra |
Reach Out And Touch CrazyThe Second Coming, Part I - Christ returns to Manchester and has to deal with a withholding girlfriend, his loser married friends, possessed barflies and government agencies, and a seriously screwed-up business plan. |
2003.02.09
2006.07.26 |
A | Jacob |
| 1-13 Recap |
All The Umbrellas In LondonThe Parting Of The Ways (2) - The season ends. Captain Jack dies. Leto the God Emperor of Suck spectacularly dies. The Doctor dies. Rose...doesn't. Bad Wolf is revealed. The first and last enemy is defeated. Plans are made for Barcelona. |
2006.06.09
2006.06.14 |
A+ | Jacob |
| 1-12 Recap |
Your Viewing Numbers Hate CliffhangersBad Wolf (1) - The crew comes back to Satellite Five, where the learn they screwed up majorly thinking it would right itself -- and who was really behind the "long game" all along. Oh, and Rose totally bites it. |
2006.06.02
2006.06.11 |
A | Jacob |
| 1-11 Recap |
Truth Like GlassBoom Town - The Doctor gets an object lesson in mercy when an old enemy shows up in Cardiff as the new Mayor, and threatens to take Wales, the TARDIS, and Earth with her. |
2006.05.19
2006.05.24 |
B | Jacob |
| 1-10 Recap |
The Spirit Of The BlitzThe Doctor Dances (2) - The Doctor finally finds redemption, and Captain Jack and Nancy find grace in unexpected places, as the story of the Gas Masks comes to a close. |
2006.05.12
2006.05.17 |
A+ | Jacob |
| 1-9 Recap |
Jack Attack!The Empty Child (1) - Meet Captain Jack Harkness. And the world of fan fiction did tremble. |
2006.05.05
2006.05.10 |
A- | Jacob |
| 1-8 Recap |
I Am Trying To Break Your HeartFather's Day - Rose and the Doctor travel back to the day her father died, and she saves him. |
2006.04.28
2006.05.03 |
A+ | Jacob |
| 1-7 Recap |
The Re-Animated Corpse Of Anderson CooperThe Long Game - Playing hide and seek with Shaun Of The Dead proves deadly for at least one adorable sleeper terrorist in the gigantic Murdochian FOX complex the day after tomorrow, and the Doctor and Rose destroy yet another faulty culture. |
2006.04.21
2006.04.26 |
A- | Jacob |
| 1-6 Recap |
Explicate! Elucidate! Exposit...ate!Dalek - One of the best stories so far strains under the weight of its own anvils, but as usual, the acting sells the story better than the plot can. The eponymous monster meets the Doctor in Utah 2012, and hardly anybody survives. |
2006.04.14
2006.04.19 |
B+ | Jacob |
| 1-5 Recap |
World War Three (2)World War Three (2) - Fewer farting aliens, more amateurish commentary on the U.S. political situation, and a slice of real-life emotional processing back home attend the second start of Rose's life with the Doctor. |
2006.04.07
2006.04.12 |
B+ | Jacob |
| 1-4 Recap |
Did Gyre And Gimble In The SuckAliens Of London (1) - Aliens use a fake UFO to distract the public and lead the world's most famous alien experts -- including the Doctor and Rose -- into slaughter. Nothing much actually happens, but Part II should be good. |
2006.03.31
2006.04.03 |
C | Jacob |
| 1-3 Recap |
Zombie Grandma Is Way Cooler Than All Other ZombiesThe Unquiet Dead - Rose and the Doctor meet up with Charles Dickens in Cardiff, and narrowly miss becoming zombies after an ill-advised séance goes wrong. |
2006.03.24
2006.03.29 |
B- | Jacob |
| 1-2 Recap |
This Is My Happening And It Freaks Me OutThe End Of The World - The Myra Breckenridge of alien bitches fails to do anything of import beyond being really, really irritating. Rose and the Doctor come to an emotional détente after a bunch of back-and-forth about what constitutes aliens, people, and home. |
2006.03.17
2006.03.23 |
A | Jacob |
| 1-1 Recap |
Things To Do In London When You're BoredRose - Rose meets the Doctor, and sheds her screeching mum, stupid job, and boring boyfriend on a fantastic plastic gymnastic adventure. |
2006.03.17
2006.03.22 |
A | Jacob |
Doctor Who Season 4 - The Rise & Rise of Donna Noble, Chiswick, London, UK, Earth, Solar System. We look back at the entire season 4. Spoilers ahead for those who haven't watched.
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