Tomorrow is the 57th anniversary of the first Doctor Who episode. To commemorate the occasion, I've updated my list of all the times Belgium is mentioned on Doctor Who on TV (plus the Sarah Jane Adventures) and compiled them for you, in historical order.

I've also made an even fuller list of all of the references I felt worth including to Belgium ( Read more... )

Having praised both the Sarah Jane Adventures on television and the associated audiobooks, I thought I should try the 11 novelisations - the pilot, the five stories of the first season, the first two from the second season, one from the third and two from the fourth. Apparently the first ones sold rather poorly, so the decision was made to adapt ( Read more... )

Having wrapped up Torchwood a few weeks back, I've now reached the end of The Sarah Jane Adventures in my New Who rewatch. I had previously seen only the first two and a half of the five series, plus the Matt Smith episode, so a fair bit of it was new to me. I strongly recommend them all; in a previous discussion the view was expressed that there ( Read more... )

Gita: It can't be any worse than *our* honeymoon. Total disaster!
Haresh: Um, I *enjoyed* it!
Gita: Brussels. There's nothing there!

(At 23:00 into here.)

So, I reach the first full season of the Sarah Jane Adventures. Absolutely excellent stuff, and if you haven't watched it you should. The episodes are 30 minutes long, which again is a bit awkward for my commute (two 20-25 minute trains with 5-10 mins between them); I also found I tended to want to watch the good bits again, and there are quite a ( Read more... )

Continuing the New Who rewatch with the rest of Torchwood's first season and a couple of other Whoniverse stories first shown around the same time.

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I noted recently that there were only two Sarah Jane audiobooks which I had not yet listened to, so went out and gt them; and then through some brainstorm actually loaded the MP3 player with one I had already heard rather than either of the new ones.

February Books 5) The Time Capsule, by Peter Anghelides

I noted in September 2009 that this is ( Read more... )

Sadly the very last of the SJA audiobooks, read by Anjli "Rani" Molhindra, about the kidnapping and trial of Sarah Jane by an alien race with an unhealthy devotion to the truth. It's a decent tale, well read by Malhotra, which actually probes at Sarah's own motives and actions and the slightly ambiguous moral basis for them, a bit more deeply and ( Read more... )

I've spent the last week or so listening to Caroline John's reading of Elisabeth Sladen's autobiography, billed as being unabridged (and at over 13 hours of talk time I can believe it). I liked it very much; Sladen comes across as a modest person, driven by her instinctive desire to be an actor, prepared to tell of her own bad experiences as well ( Read more... )

The second of the final pair of Sarah Jane Adventures audio books, like all of them read by the much-missed Lis Sladen as the title character. It's a decent tale of monsters from a series of books a la Tolkien / Rowling / Pratchett becoming real through mysterious means, with some cheerful playing with the fourth wall and a few lines about death ( Read more... )