Trivia bit - Victoria wasn't originally supposed to be a companion character, just a one-off for "Evil of the Daleks." The previous story to that one - "The Faceless Ones" - wrote out Polly & Ben, and had the Doctor & Jamie team up with a brash LIverpudlian birdie named Samantha. The actress who played Samantha…

I haven't seen the newly rediscovered episodes yet, but i did watch the first episode as part of a DVD set of story "fragments" from various lost serials. At least on that DVD, something about the music in a particular scene (at the museum, as Prof. Travers explains to Anne his fears about the Yeti being reanimated)…

Why hasn't Darryl Hannah been on this show yet?

Why not the "To Serve Man" episode of "The Twilight Zone"? I know it's not a specifically Thanksgiving day episode, but it does have the general themes that the American Turkey day celebrates - two vastly different cultures coming together, when one group of people with superior technology arrives in ships on the…

Am I hoping for too much to think that when Zoe was looking out at the trick or treaters, and the car drove by with the guy in the skeleton suit - might that have been an allusion to one of my all-time favorite films "Black Orpheus"?
For those of you not into 50s era international art films, Black Orpheus is a modern…

Yeah, well…the less said about "Twin Dilemma" the better IMO. But thanks.

The Faceless Ones! Dammit, I thought I had got everyone! Oh well, add them to the list.

Here's a run-down of all the twin doubles of major characters that've shown up in DW stories over the years:
Princess of Jirol (twin double of Susan - unaired, partially produced serial "the Hidden Planet")
Dalek-constructed robot double (first Doctor double - the Chase)
Abbott of Ambrose (first Doctor twin - The…

The Exorcist III: Legion (written & directed by William Peter Blatty.) An execrable, stupid, sloppily done affair with one staggeringly brilliant "gotcha!!!" moment gobsmack in the middle of it: The Night Nurse scene! (http://www.youtube.com/watc…
For a lot of the truly "classic" scary horror movie scenes, I seemed to…

Slit throat or no, Emma Roberts is definitely not being written out this early in the game. My guess is that one quick stop to Rhiannon's Bayou Shack of Gold Dust Zombies, and she'll be back in action, ready to serve up some whup-ass to Lange's haggard butt.

I was always a little disappointed with how the killer was ultimately revealed. The scene with Leland murdering Maddie is brutally raw and intense. As a shock scene, there's no question that it worked. But IMO, it kind of ruined the show for the rest ot the run.
To me "Twin Peaks" the show was never so much about…

"From town to town, he drives around…he's Toonces the driving cat! — Toonces! The cat who could drive a car!"

Patrick totally cut the brakes. Recall that Victoria was speaking with him about her art collection when Conrad walked in the front door, and the car was out front. Victoria chided Conrad about driving, stating that the doctors expressly forbade him from driving. He told Victoria to f—- off (in slightly more…

Some questions that keep nagging me whenever I watch this show:

Does the episode nominated have to be from an on-going TV show?  Because for a ten year old in '79, nothing but nothing was ever as scary as the vampires from the TV mini-series "Salem's Lot."  Whether they were kids floating around in the fog outside a window, or sitting idly in a rocking chair at the house they'd…

One particular thing I always liked about Leela that I thought put her over most of the other classic companions is that she was the first one that I know of who actually asked WHY the TARDIS is bigger on the inside than the outside.

"Boucher named Leela after Leila Khaled, a Palestinian activist perhaps most well-known for taking hostages in an airline hijacking. Much later, Matt Groening named the cyclops star pilot in Futurama after Doctor Who’s Leela."

Planes, Trains & Automobiles: http://www.youtube.com/watc…

As an odd coincidence, when "Inferno" first aired in 1970, another low-budget, cult TV show in America (Dark Shadows) had its own volatile, quasi-human, extremely long-lived protagonist (Barnabas Collins) accidentally enter a Parrallel Timeline where he encountered very "off" versions of the people he knew (including…

That is not correct.  I watched reruns of the series that were mostly from its later years.  Avery is off-camera much of the time mainly because it was more of a work-place show rather than a family show.  But he was there in scattered episodes, or being talked about by Murphy, and aged farily realisitically.  I…