Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Doctor Who

The second season (well, for Americans, anyway) of the new series premiers this Friday, Sept. 29th, at 8 p.m., on the Sci-Fi Channel.

10 comments:

Burntdisk said...

Should be interesting, seeing as how they lost both Doctor and companion. Let's see how they explain this one away.

Mark said...

Phhht! Plot holes are nothing to the Doctor.

Actually, we're a season behind the UK. Rose (Billy Piper) is still in it, but Christopher Eccleston (9th Doctor) has just been replaced by David Tennant (10th Doctor). I've been purposely avoiding blogs with spoilers since last spring. (Hard to believe I'm still single.)

Burntdisk said...

It figures that they'd lose Eccleston- he was the most Doctor-like Doctor since Tom Baker. Let's hope we don't see any rufugee from All Creatures Great and Small, or the guy who looked like Mr. Bean. Hope Piper does the thing with the Dalek like that other infamous companion...

Mark said...

Yeah, but Eccleston was evidently too expensive for the BBC.

I'm definitely ready now--just bought a 45 with the original theme song from 1964.

Burntdisk said...

Do you have the Timelords, AKA the Jam, tune "Doctorin' the Tardis? If not I MP3'd the sample disk, if you want 'em

Mark said...

That would be great! It's one of the few Jam releases I don't have. I'd offer to trade something, but all my stuff's on vinyl.

Mark said...

Actually, no thanks. When you said The Jam, I thought you meant P. Weller and co. This track is actually on several of the BBC DVD's.

Burntdisk said...

Yeah, well, kinda hooked on it. Question that you might know the answer to: Did they ever put out a CD of the performances from Buckaroo Banzai?

Mark said...

Short answer--No, with a "but". Long answer--Yes, with an "if".

http://www.fantasywriter.net/tabb/banzai/soundtracks1.html

Burntdisk said...

Thanks. Can't find reference to any of the three on any of the Usual Suspects, but I'll keep looking. It's a start.