I'm writing an essay on classics in popular culture for university and I've decided to use Doctor Who as an example. Can anyone reccommend episodes/serials featuring classical history or mythology?

The ones I know of are The Fires of Pompeii, The Romans, The Trojans, The Horns of Nimon and Four to Doomsday. Doesn't need to be a whole episode set in ( Read more... )

I wanted to do something to mark today, and this seemed fitting.  Remembering my grandfather, Alf Sisson, who was at the Normandy Landings.  Miss you always, Grandpa. <3


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 Spoilers for Shakespeare Code and End of Time
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There have been many people who ask me what I do at work. Just what is this Social Network Analysis you guys do. Does it have something to do with Facebook? No - it has nothing to do with Facebook. For the most part our program is used for analyzing networks. Namely terrorist networks, tracking down creators & planters of IEDs, and looking into ( Read more... )

Props to Canton Everett Delaware III. You go, boy. :) (And many thanks for continuing a cheeky inclusion of diversity in the Whoniverse!)

( This made me cackle for an hour... )

Fact check for the ending of The Impossible Astronaut (not that facts mean much on Doctor Who, but....) on my blog.  Spoilers, of course.

Day 13 - Favourite Era Visited By The Doctor & Co. over here attype40tardis 

I don't usually pimp my fics out on here, mostly because although I've had this account for a while, I'm only just managing to work out how to use it xD ( Read more... )

So a friend just posed this question to me on Facebook (I have no idea why, but it's interesting):

Do you know of any specific televised instances where the Doctor (from any season) has met with Genghis Khan? I need to find four...I don't know why four, but he seems pretty certain that there are four instances total. Since I've only seen New!Who ( Read more... )