Doctor Who

The first season of The Lone Ranger was 51 episodes. They took a week off for Christmas.

Generally less than 10 unless it's a soap or a gameshow or something.

Rooting through IMDB's most popular UK, per series/season: Sherlock (3 or 4 but fairly long), Black Mirror (3 before Netflix got it), Peaky Blinders (6), Downton Abbey (7-9), The IT Crowd (6), Top Gear (6-ish plus specials), Bake-Off (10), Poldark (8/9), Midsummer Murders (8/9). Soaps are the notable exception: there are several which are on at least once a week and have been for decades, either not bothering with series numbers at all or just starting the next one without a break. Coronation Street is past 9000, Emmerdale 8000, Eastenders 5000 and Hollyoaks 4000.

Edited by FerrousMaelstom on Sep 15th 2018 at 2:49:52 PM

I did specify fiction, which tends to go for six—sometimes, but rarely, as long as seven or eight. But yeah, soaps are an exception.

It's worth pointing out that if you break down a season of Sherlock into the hour-long blocks most dramas get, it comes out to four and a half episodes a season.

Edited by Wackd on Sep 15th 2018 at 11:06:02 AM

Is the tenth doctor's hair like that because he puts gel in it or is it like that because he's an alien?

He's an alien that puts gel in his hair.

But DOES HE. Because, when he's grown from a hand and is absolutely nuddy, his hair is sticky uppy?

I ask because it's a relevant precedent for the question of if 13 is wearing wake up/bleached hair, or if she's just an alien who looks like that.

I mean, all the actors portraying the Doctor wear make up on screen, but like, that's stage make up we as viewers are asked to pretend we can't see.

Well given that their clothes regenerate with them and they come out of their regenerations with their hair I think the easiest answer is that what we see is what they naturally look like.

It is true that sometimes clothes regenerate with them. And the general did regenerate eye liner in Hell Bent.

Moffat admitted he was tempted to explain the clothes shifting in the first regeneration during Twice Upon A Time.

What a nerd. I wouldn't be surprised if he tired to explain in universe why the show was in black and white.

He did. Dropped a line about Hartnell and Troughton's Doctors being colorblind in his Day of the Doctor novelization.

Such a nerd! Personally I would have alluded to a time monster stealing all colour from creation who was defeated of screen after war games.

At this point, I can't recall if the thing I read about the TARDIS's photography hobby being in a monochrome phase for the first two Doctors (as evidenced by the montage of companions in the Meanwhile in the TARDIS short where Amy learns she's not the first) was mentioned on the show, in a fanfic, or just conjecture outside of narrative.

Obviously the Doctor's eyes are the TARDIS' camera.

I feel that Who Shot JFK? should mean something important in the Whoniverse. Out of universe the very first episode was released the day after the assassination, so making it significant would have some meta significance.

In the 1963 Big Finish miniseries, the events of the space program themed story are interrupted by the Kennedy assassination and the Doctor idly comments that he's always meant to drop in and find out what really happened there. I thought that it was foreshadowing the next story, The Assassination Games, but that was about a series of fictional assassinations designed to move the right political pawns into place.

Actually, now that you mention it...

I've mentioned this on a few other threads just now, and I brought it up previously in this thread, but this weekend, David Tennant, Matt Smith and John Barrowman all come to the Edmonton Comic and Entertainment Expo.

I've got my questions all set (and joke about how Skynet finally triumphed when it co-opted the Doctor), and it's gonna be a big three days for me. I look forward to letting you guys know how it goes down.

The second episode of the new season is called "The Ghost Monument"

Also, Missy is getting a Big Finish spin-off

Another Series 11 Trailer.

Cautiously excited!

I'm not a fan of having an actual song on the trailer. The music has frequently been my favorite part of Doctor Who trailers and using a proper song was a Moment Killer for me

Love the accents.

If it wasn't for the song, I would have really liked the trailer. I hope this isn't something that carries into the show itself.