Doctor Who

• Title: Doctor Who – Pyramids of Mars
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Throwback Tuesday takes us back to a classic adventure through space and time with the Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker). Set in 1911, the adventure begins with the the opening of an Egyptian artifact on the spot U.N.I.T. will be constructed on decades later. Arriving after being thrown off-course by an entity powerful enough to project itself into the TARDIS, The Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen) encounter a scarred butler (Michael Bilton) who soon meets his demise, an irate English physician (Peter Copley), a walking mummy, and the murderous Egyptian Ibrahim Namin (Peter Mayock) spouting about destiny and fate as he works to summon a Servant of Sutekh to Earth.

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• Title: Doctor Who – Dot and Bubble
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“Dot and Bubble” is problematic. An episode that focuses more on its guest-stars rather than The Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) and his companion Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson) can work, and work spectacularly in “Blink,” but it does require those guest-roles to be strong enough to carry the episode. Unfortunately the thinly-veiled sermon against overuse of social media, presented with the subtlety of a sledgehammer, centers around a twat. And the rest of her planet turn out to be no better. Thankfully the tension in the episode works, despite the odd setup, and there’s enough interesting visuals to carry us through events eventually offering a hard lesson to the new Doctor.

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• Title: Doctor Who – Space Babies
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After introducing us to the Fifteenth Doctor‘s (Ncuti Gatwa) new companion Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson) on Christmas, the new series of Doctor Who kicks off with “Space Babies” in which The Doctor takes Ruby 150 million years into the past for a quick joke about chaos theory before jumping 19,000 years into the future and landing on a space station baby farm run by space babies who mistake the travelers for their missing parents. The only adult on the station is an accountant (Golda Rosheuvel) who has been hiding behind the scenes pretending to be a robotic nanny after the other crew left when the station was ordered to shut down.

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