Doctor Who - Discussions on Season 5 onwards

I disagee with saturdaymorning's "no" attitude in this instance.

In practical terms, the festive one-off specials aren't part of any "series/season" of Doctor Who, by virtue of their transmission being, er, one-offs!

If you want to regard the festive episode as being "technically part of a particular series/season", you could either judge on the basis of...

A: which production block the episode is produced during, as Neil Green has done. (Which would therefore make the festive episodes count as "episode 0" of the following calendar year's series/season).

Or B: which calendar year the episode is broadcast during, as saturdaymorning has done. (Which would therefore make the festive episodes count as "episode 14" of that same calendar year's full season).

Both viewpoints are sort-of "correct", in different ways. I personally would say that the former argument seems to be the more favourable logic, but the main point is... it doesn't actually matter !

Sometimes I'm glad I'm not a Dr Who geek, but just a watcher... Calm down saturdaymorning!

Ooh. I'm so scared of a 14 year old who can write in capitals

As an additional point, production code is always episode X for the Christmas special.

e.g. Runaway Bride - series 3 / episode X

OK,maybe it doesn't matter.

I'll just ignore Ronnie.

Seems the Ood are coming back this series:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/news/cult/news/drwho/2007/07/25/47491.shtml

Cool! I'd like to see them bring back the Slitheen.There should,in theory,be thousands of them.

And hasn't that egg from Boom Town hatched yet?They should do a story where the Doctor put the egg in one of the rooms of the Tardis and one companion finds it and they watch it hatch.

They wont bring them back in doctor who when they are coming back in SJA.

I can't wait for Donna to meet the ood.

Wow, it also looks like the Doctor will finally be going to an alien planet!

And Satmorn, why the hell do you want the Slitheen to come back? It was not long ago you were saying "bring back all old monsters because the new ones are rubbish 'smile smile'"

Are they?That sounds good!

I'm hoping for plotting aliens.Maybe they could change the zip thing to just shapeshifting.Say they got mutated in an experiment or something.

Sorry to bring this one back up, but a couple of things were mentioned in yesterdays Daily (Not-always-acurate-but-we-are-sometimes) Star there were two things rumoured about the future of Doctor Who:

1) First off apparently James Nesbitt's name is currently the one tipped for the replacement of David Tennant once he decides to depart, what do others think of this, personally I could see it work, would be interesting to have an alternative accent to the South England one we have mainly had in the past

2) Apparently RTD is thinking of just doing a couple of "movie style" (Think Christmas episodes) adventures as he is getting a bit tired of doing a full 13 episode series. Personally I hope this doesn't happen as look at the mess it created when they started fiddling around with the series in the 80's

As I say this is the Daily Star so it could be b*ll*cks but you never know, probably won't hear anyhting till after the Christmas special or Series 4 Episode 1

The christmas episodes are bolted on as the 1st episode on the dvd sets so to me that means there the 1st episode of the season and episodes 2-14 follow on in April.


Well for my own obessive series collecting (having to have every single episode of a show) Christmas specials are a b**ch and it varies from show to show, but for my own collection purposes I usually bolt them onto the end or the start of one of the series either side of it. However sometimes I have them seperate. Eg Little Briitain, Still Game and The Thick Of It. Ive got all the specials as seperate stand-alone disc, But ive got 'The Return Of Allo Allo' speical bolted onto the second disc of Series 9. Even tho theres like 10 years between them..... Some american shows I collect are even more compicated