The conclusion of the E-Space Trilogy with my favorite Doctor, the 4th, Tom Baker is the most interesting with the bunch, this one dealing with time travelers, and getting them back into N-Space, as well as the fate of Romana (at least in her televised presence). A very very enjoyable adventure of the 4th doctor. Well worth checking out.

A slaver vessel, piloted by humans, and navigated through time and space by the lion like Tharil, who are also it’s slave cargo, has become trapped at the nexus between E-Space and N-Space, when it’s navigator named Biroc (David Weston) manages to flee from the ship. Biroc comes upon the Tardis, which has also become mired in the space between the two spaces. Biroc appears inside the Tardis, doing something with the controls, though he is out of phase with The Doctor (Tom Baker) Romana (Lalla Ward), Adric (Matthew Waterhouse) and K-9 (John Leeson). Biroc warns them that the people who follow should not be trusted, and then runs off. The Doctor sets off after him, with Romana and Adric left behind, worried about K-9 who has had his memory wafers damaged by the winds of time in this strange part of space.

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Part 2 of the E-Space Trilogy with Tom Baker as the 4th Doctor is more fun. And this one has fun miniatures, evil vampires, and location shooting and with K-9 and Matthew Waterhouse as Adric is another fun adventure of the Doctor. Not an amazing one, but certainly enjoyable and worth checking out. I love the campy fun of the original Doctor Who’s, and of course Tom Baker was my first Doctor, and you never forget your first Doctor. I mean I have even dressed as him at Halloween.

The Doctor (Tom Baker) and Romana (Lalla Ward) along with their robotic companion K-9 (John Leeson) try to find anything in E-Space, attempting to get back to normal N-Space. At a long range they find a planet, and head towards it. It seems to only have one civilization, so they head for it. It has a civilization in a feudal period, and the Doctor and Romana head out to investigate, leaving K-9 in the Tardis. Adric (Matthew Waterhouse) comes out of hiding, and is confronted by K-9, but he tricks him and manages to get out of the Tardis and follow the Doctor and Romana. The Feudal farmers of the village live to serve their 3 lords, and forced into Selections, where the best young people are taken to the castle, never to be seen again. Some are made guards, but nothing is known of what happens to the others. The leader of the Guards Habris (Iain Rattray) comes and makes the selection from the village headman Ivo (Clinton Greyn) and against his wishes his son is taken. The Doctor and Romana arrive and meet Ivo. They are then taken by two hooded figures and sneaked away. Adric shows up and Ivo’s wife Marta (Rhoda Lewis) takes him in, and wants him as his son, making him stay for the night, as it is dangerous out at night.

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Tom Baker to me is the Doctor, so of course I am excited to have all of his adventures, and this, the start of the 3 part E Space Trilogy which answers some things I have wanted to see, such as where did Adric come from, and where did Romana go! And I also really enjoy overarching story-lines, so the 3 part E-Space Trilogy is right up my alley, and Full Circle is a fun and enjoyable way to start it off. As a Tomb Baker adventure this is a must see. And his interaction with Romana is always fun to watch (You can see they had something going on in their relationship). Fun Fun Fun!

Galifrey is demanding Romana’s return, so The Doctor (Tom Baker) has set the course to return to his home planet, against the wishes of the brilliant Timelord Romana (Lalla Ward) who does not wish to Return home. The Doctor is excited to see how Leela and her husband, and the previous K-9 (John Leeson) are doing, but it is not to be, as the Tardis passes through a CVE or Charged Vacuum Enoitment which sends them out of N-Space into the smaller E-Space, a pocket universe. And even more strangely, the scanner on the Tardis shows they have arrived on Gallifrey, but they are in fact in a forrest on the planet Alzarius in E-Space. On Alzarius live a small group of Humanoids living by a starship called the Starliner, which crashed there, and the people are living off the land, while they attempt to repair it. The people are ruled by a 3 member council knows as the Deciders. A boy named Varsh (Richard Willis) have rejected the ways of the people, and do not believe in Mistfall, and period of cataclysmic change in the atmosphere of the planet, where the people must retreat into the starship. Varsh’s brother, the super intelligent Adric (Matthew Waterhouse) wants to join his brother, though he has been trained for great things, and goes to steal fruit for them, but is caught by the head of the Deciders council, Draith (Leonard Mguire) just as Mistfall hits, and the elder is dragged into the swamp. Adric runs through the forrest and finds the Tardis. The Doctor and Romana take him in and fix his leg wound, and then head off to investigate the planet. Adric goes out and ends up coming back to the Tardis with Varsh and his compatriots to hide out from Mistfall which legend says could kill them all since the Starliner has already been sealed, and they force their way past Romana at knife point.

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I got this one because of the rumor that the 11th Doctor, Matt Smith will be getting the re-appearance of an old villain, the Rani, a Timelord who first popped up here going against the 6th Doctor, and also dealing with the Master. Another timelord villain is certainly a good thing (and also hints more at the return of Gallifrey in the new series). As I have said I was not a fan of the sixth doctor, and his obvious feelings of superiority, but I am enjoying him more and more, the more I watch. Certainly not one of my top doctors, but he is still a Doctor after all, even if he did eventually get fired from the role. Still overall, this is an enjoyable historic doctor who, with 2 strong villains, and often the Doctor does seem to be in real danger.

In 19th Century England, in a town known as Killingsworth something is amiss. Miner from the local mine return to bath at the bathhouse of an old woman (Kate O’Mara), where she does something to them and they become strangely violent Luddites, with red marks on their necks. The Sixth Doctor (Colin Baker) and Perpigullium “Peri” Brown (Nicola Bryant) arrive, and stop some of the Luddites who attack a man brining some equipment to Lord Ravensworth (Terence Alexander), so they head out to see the Lord and see what is going on. Ravensworth is holding a gathering of scientific minds, led by the inventor George Stephenson (Gawn Grainger) who has his labs on the premises, and the Doctor and Peri go to talk to Ravensworth, but they are attacked by more Luddites, who have been befriended by the evil Timelord the Master (Anthony Ainley) who has convinced them that the Doctor is their main enemy. The Master has also found the source of the “Luddites” which is in fact the old woman, who is really the Rani, The Rani is another exiled Timelord, one specializing in chemicals, who is stealing a chemical from the brains of the miners (leaving the red marks, which are the mark of the Rani), to create a chemical she will use back on the planet she took over Miasmia Goria. It leaves the human’s unable to rest, and makes them easily suggestible, and she has been doing it for hundreds of years. The Master steals the chemical from the Rani to make her work with him in his plans to destroy the Doctor.

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I have never been a fan of the surly 6th Doctor, played by Colin Baker, but I have to say the more I watch him, the more I enjoy him, even if his blue outfit wouldn’t have clashed so bad (ha!). And his interaction with Peri (Nicola Bryant) does make for some interesting times, as the Doctor has never been quite so condescending, though she always does surprise him. And to add the Second Doctor in the mix certainly makes for some good fun. I love the crossovers with multiple doctors! I also love the whole Doctor becoming Andorgum thing, which makes for some great fun with not only Troughton, but also Baker. And this was the last appearance of Troughton and Hines, so that makes this even more interesting, as Troughton was still amazing as the second doctor! A very enjoyable adventure all the way around.

The Second Doctor (Patrick Troughton) and his companion the Scotsman Jamie McCrimmon (Frazer Hines) land in the Tardis on the space Station Camera in the Third Zone, having been sent by the Timelords. They need to talk to the station director Dastari (Laurence Payne). They arrive and meet the station cook Shockeye (John Stratton) who is an Androgum, a primitive and violent race, who tend to like to eat fresh flesh, be it whatever race they meet. Shockeye offers to buy Jamie from the Doctor for a meal, though the Doctor of course refuses, and goes to see Dastari, but as they go, they hear the Tardis dematerialize. This is seen by the augmented Adrogum Chessenne (Jacqueline Pearce) who has plans of her own involving poisoning the scientists on the station, as well as someone named Stike who will be arriving soon. The Second Doctor tells the Dastari that the Time Lords want the time experiments of Kartz and Reimer to be stopped. The Time Lords are officially neutral, so they have sent the Doctor to add deniability. Destari introduces the Doctor and Jamie to Chessene, but the Doctor is immediately worried that no changes can completely change her Androgum nature. Stike (Clinton Greyn) arrives, and he is a Sontaran, and arrives with 3 battle cruisers. Chessene knocks out the defenses and opens the docking bays. The Doctor warns Dastari that the time experiments are on the verge of threatening space and time, but Dastari accuses the Time Lords of not wanting another race to have the power of Time Travel. Dastari faints, and Energy weapons can be heard. The Doctor orders Jamie to run, and then a Sontaran aims his gun at the Doctor.

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A decent enough Doctor Who adventure, and honestly the first I have seen with Turlough as a companion, and also interesting in that the Doctor (Peter Davison) seems a bit more martial and devious than I have seen this doctor be before. Not amazing, but certainly enjoyable. I am liking the fifth Doctor more and more, too bad it seems I am about to catch up on all his adventures that have been released on DVD (much as I have done with my favorite, the Fourth Doctor, Tom Baker).

In 2084 on Earth there is another planetary sized cold war going on. One side runs underwater missile bases, which can launch the countries strategic nuclear missiles, one such base us Sea Base 4 which cannot be activated without a human operator to sync his mind with the computer, but the base operator has recently been killed, so the Commander Vorshak (Tom Adams) has put an apprentice Ensign Maddox (Martin Neil) into that position, as he is the only one who can sync, though he does not feel up for the job at all. The base notices something on it’s long range sensors. Outside there is a Silurian battleship led by Icthar (Norman Comer) who plan on taking Base 4, and also plan on reviving their warrior cast to do battle. In the Tardis, the Fifth Doctor (Peter Davison) has promised to take Tegan (Janet Fielding) to Earth’s future, and Turlough (Mark Strickson) is along for the ride. The Tardis ends up in orbit around the Earth, and is attacked by an automated defense robot, and has to make an emergency materialization aboard the Sea Base so the Doctor can affect repairs. The base computer initiates a missile run, which turns out to be a practice, but it is too much for Maddox and he faints, and he is taken to the bases medical officer Doctor Solow (Ingrid Pitt) and Nilson (Ian McCulloch) who are in fact enemy agents. They get the captain to ggive them a program disk, and use it to program Maddox to destroy the ships computer. Meanwhile the crew realize they have intruders, and the Doctor rigs the reactor to overload so they can escape, but it doesn’t work, and they are found (after the Doctor is almost killed) and brought to the Captain.

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I have literally been waiting years for this, and have had hopes of them making a movie (which it seems will never happen now), and maybe because of all the high hopes this is a bit of a disappointment. Sure it is great to have everyone back, and with the new effects, the stuff of Red Dwarf looks amazing. And I did really enjoy the opening, and the ending, but honestly the whole middle on Earth is a bit dragged out, and not as funny as it could be. And the fact that they have just skipped over a ninth series, but acted as it happened, has only served to make me long for more Dwarf instead of a 3 episode special that could have easily been 2 episodes. Lets have a whole new series or the much vaunted film which would be so funny! And I must say there was a little too much Blade Runner references in this to make it all together funny. Just watched the blu-ray, and it looks spectacular (who knew Red Dwarf could ever look so good, guess shooting on the RED really does make a different), and it includes 2 excellent docs on the making of, which are hysterical, and the actors really do seem to be enjoying themselves. Now if only they will do the feature, or at least series 11 (or I would be happy with series 9!)

9 years after Series VIII, the Dwarfers are still going alone on Red Dwarf, but much has happened (a missing series it seems). Dave Lister (Craig Charles) spends his time either playing pranks on Arnold Judas Rimmer (Chris Barrie) or mourning the death of his love Kristine Kochanski (Chloe Annett). The Cat (Danny John-Jules) spends time being the Cat, and the andriod Kryten (RObert Llewellyn) has been on vacation. They discover their is a problem with the only remaining water supply, it seems their is a giant squid monster in it. So Rimmer runs the controls, while Dave, Cat and Kryten go in a diving bell to fight the creature and are almost killed, but manage to just survive. Just then a new ships hologram arrives, this is Katerina Bartikovsky (Sophie Winkleman) a former science officer on the crew, who gives 24 hours to Rimmer before she will shut him off, and then plans on helping Lister repopulate the species. She uses the dimension hopping capabilities of the squid to open a portal back to Earth, though it claims that their dimension is fake, and they begin to get sucked into the portal.

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Continuing right where Time Flight left off, this is another really strong enjoyable series of the fifth Doctor. I am usually a fan of when the Doctor returns to his home planet of Galifrey, and this is another one that shows just how messed up the Time Lords are as well. A really enjoyable series all the way around, making for a really enjoyable season of the Fifth Doctor. A must see.

Two kids traveling in Amsterdam, Colin Frazer (Alastair Cummings) and Robin Stuart (Andrew Boxer) have lost their passports, so they go and stay in a crypt, but something happens to Colin, and Stuart has to take off. It seems a Timelord has turned traitor, and is working with a creature from theanti-matter dimension known as the Renegade (Ian Collier), and has helped it by stealing the Doctor’s bio-data and sending it, which is caught by a technician named Damon (Neil Daglish). Using the data, the Renegade invades the Tardis, and attempts to take over the Doctor, but does not manage it. The Doctor (Peter Davison) and his companion Nyssa (Sarah Sutton) realize the Renegade is hiding in a place called the Arc of Infinity which can shield anti-matter. The Timelord High Council, led by Lord President Borusa (Leonard Sachs) as well as Chancellor Thalia (Elspet Gray) and Cardinal Zorax (Max Harvey) and the Doctor’s old friend Councilor Hedin (Michael Gough) activate the recall switch on the Doctor’s Tardis to force him to come back, as they realize that to destroy the creature before he can destroy the universe, they must kill the Doctor., an

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At first I was not a fan of Peter Davison, the fifth Doctor, because he replaced my favorite doctor, Tom Baker the fourth, but after starting to watch more of Davison I have realized that I actually really like the quirky fifth doctor, and this was an enjoyable adventure. And one that added to the fun by adding in the then very high tech, and now defunct Concorde, and also featuring one of the Doctor’s best villains. This is an enjoyable adventure, and well worth checking out.

The Concorde Golf Victor Foxtrot is coming in for a landing at Heathrow, when it’s signal breaks up, and the plane disappears. On the TARDIS, the Doctor (Peter Davison), Nyssa (Sarah Sutton) and the reluctant Tegan (Janet Fielding) hit some turbulence, and end up being drawn to the spot where the Concorde disappeared, so they land at Heathrow, and go out to see what is going on. The authorities see the police box, and the Doctor has them call Unit, and is put in charge of the investigation. They get another Concrode, Gold Alpha Charlie, and have the Tardis loaded aboard and the Doctor and his companions go with Captain Stapley (RIchard Waston) to go find the other Concorde. They find the disturbance, and the Concorde passes through it, though it seems they are landing at Heathrow, in fact they have travelled back 140 million years into the past, and it is a form of psychokinetic energy that is making them see things, and when they manage to clear their heads they find the other Concorde, as well as a citadel, and the remains of an alien spacecraft that has crashed some time before. The Doctor of course sets out to investigate.

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An honestly very mediocre two parter starring Peter Davison as the fifth Doctor. This one is really a throw away, and not too enjoyable, except seeing Tegan dancing and having fun. Not much of a good episode, but it was followed by the excellent Earthshock. This is also only a 2 episode story, so it does seem like filler, and the unexplained woman who looks just like Nyssa is not very well used, and not at all very good. Pretty much just a waste.

In a house in the English countryside two people figtht, and a servant is killed. The killer goes into the room of a young woman. We then see the man tied to the bed, and guarded by an American Indian. The Fifth Doctor (Peter Davison) plans to take Tegan (Janet Fielding) and Nyssa (Sarah Sutton) and Adric (Matthew Waterhouse), but the Tardis takes them to Earth in 1925, they arrive at a train station, and when the step out a chaffuer walks up to them and tells them that Lord Carnleigh (Michael Cochrane) is expecting the Doctor. Intrigued they get in the car. They arrive at the estate, and Lord Cranleigh is blown away, because Nyssa looks just like his fiancée. Meanwhile they get the doctor into their Cricket game, and he proves both good at bowling and batting, and wins the game for them, so they take them up to the house for the nights events.

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A mediocre adventure of the Seventh Doctor Sylvester McCoy. There a lot of explosions, but the bad guys are pretty lame, with bad acting, and don’t seem to scary. I do like Ace (Sophie Aldred) as a companion, and I like how this ties her whole life together, than in fact she was a part of creating her own life, but overall this is not one of the best adventures. I watched this on Netflix, and it looked OK, though not very good.

During the second world war, two dinghies filled with Russian Communist soldiers head towards Maiden’s Point on the English coast, though one gets lost in the fog. The Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) and Ace (Sophie Aldred) dressed in period clothing arrive, and head intoa top secret Navy installation, and walk right in, and into the office of the wheelchair bound Dr. Judson (Dinsdale Landen) who is working on logic problems and a computer to translate german Ultra transmissions and both the Doctor and Ace impress him with their logic abilities, and the Doctor has forged a letter of authority which gives him access to the base. The Soviets meanwhile find the only survivor of the other dingy, who is wounded and delirious, the commander Captain Sorin (Tomek Bork) asks for their sealed orders, but gets no answer, though they are found with a picture of Judson, but the soldier is killed by something under the water. The Doctor and Ace go to a church of Reverend Wainwright (Nicholas Parsons) and see Judson who is trying to decipher some Viking inscriptions under the Church, and who plans to use the ULTIMA code machine to decipher them. Some girls from London, Jean (Joann Kenny) and Phyllis (Joane Bell) make friends with Ace, and make plans to go swimming. The Doctor and Ace discover the Soviets orders at Maiden’s point, he heads to the Church and warns Ace not to go in the water. The Doctor gets translations of the Viking inscriptions from Wainwright and takes it to Judson. Ace makes friends with one of the woman at the base, Kathleen Dudman (Cory Pulman) who plays chess, and has her baby Audrey (which Ace doesn’t like because it is the name of her hated mother) with her at the base. The Base leader Millington (Alfred Lynch) seems a little off, having his office made up like the Nazi intelligence office, and with a viking chess set, and he and Judson read the translation, while new runes appear in the crypt.

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An enjoyable tale of the 5th Doctor Peter Davison, which has quite a sad ending, and involves the Doctor’s nemesis the Cybermen. I like the tension between the Doctor and Adric, and how headstrong that Tegan is, and Davidson is really growing on me as a doctor. I will have to check out more of his episodes.

On a future Earth, a Lieutenant Scott (James Warwick) leads a military team with scanning gear with a Professor Kyle (Clare Clifford) to scan for lifeforms of missing members of the scientific team that were searching underground for dinosaur fossil remains. Kyle is the only member who made it out, and rest have disappeared. The team going underground is being stalked by two robotic figures. The Doctor (Peter Davison) is arguing with Adric (Matthew Waterhouse) who wants to go home, and is trying to plot a course, but the Doctor does not want to take him. Tegan (Janet Fielding) and Nyssa (Sarah Sutton) don’t like the tension. They take the Tardis to Earth, and end up in the same caves, and the Scanner detects them, especially the alienness of the Doctor. Scott’s teams are attacked, and the wounded people keep disappearing off the scanner as they are killed, and Scott assumes the Doctor must be killing them. The Doctor is fascinated by the dinosaur bones, and wants to go back and see how they became extinct from a great impact. Scott come across the Doctor, and want to kill them, but the Doctor helps them fight the androids that are fighting them, and the Doctor realizes they are defending something. The Andriods are working for the Cyberman, and realize that this must be the Doctor.

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I have to admit I stayed away from this because Jon Pertwee is not at all my favorite doctor, and I never did like the fact that he is trapped on Earth by the Timelords, so he is stuck working with the Brigadier and Unit. And I thought this would be like the Five Doctors, but it isn’t, as this actually does have the first three doctors, though Hartnell is barely in it, though Patrick Troughton has a major part, and I love seeing how the third and second doctors really but heads (plus Troughton is my friend Chris’s favorite Doctor, though I haven’t seen much of him, though I do like his quirkiness). This is enjoyable, and does get Pertwee off earth, which is always good, and also deals with the timelords, another bonus. A side note is I actually watched this with Netflix streaming on XBOX 360, and it looked pretty damn good, and a cool way to watch shows.

A Doctor Tyler (Rex Robison) is going out to get a special weather balloon that measures cosmic rays, the finder, a Mr. Ollis (Laurie Webb) disappears just as he arrives though, so Tyler heads to UNIT to see what they can do about it. Tyler arrives, and is shown to The Doctor’s (Jon Pertwee) lab, along with Jo Grant (Katy Manning) and Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (Nicholas Courtney). He shows his research on cosmic rays, and which shows a strange beam heading at faster than the speed of light to Earth. The Doctor and Jo go out, and Tyler looks for his results, finding a photo of Ollis in the Cosmic Rays, and then the case opens and something comes out, and sucks him in as well. When the Doctor and Jo return, they see the energy creature, which heads toward the Doctor, and ends up sucking up his car, as they run to the lab. The Doctor, Jo, the Brigadier and Sergeant Benton (John Levene) hide in the Tardis, as strange Aliens attack Unit, and surround the building. Meanwhile the Timelords are having troubles of their own, in fact they are losing all their power to a black hole, and the source of the strange beam, and their only hope is the Doctor, who is himself trapped. So the Timelords, break the first law of Time, and they allow the Doctor to cross his own time stream, and they send the second Doctor (Patrick Troughton) to save him, and also allow them to communicate with the first doctor (William Hartnell).

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This is the 3rd of four movies which bring back the cancelled Futurama, and this was the first one that felt as good as the original, and is absolutely hysterical. This is a parody of Dungeons and Dragons and Lord of the Rings, and is right on. Finally Futurama is back! And the Yellow Submarine addition to the opening is hysterical and perfect!

Dark Matter, the fuel that runs all the spaceships seems to be in short supply and is driving prices sky high, which makes Professor Farsnworth (Billy West) that the ship can only be used when he says, and swallows the keys, but Leela (Katey Sagal) has gotten angry at some guys at a truck stop, and steals the ship to enter their destruction derby, and wins, but the ship is almost destroyed. So Leela is given a shock collar when she thinks violent thoughts, lies or sexual thoughts. Bender (John DiMaggio) meanwhile has joined young Cubert (Kath Soucie) and Dwight playing Dungeons & Dargons, and can’t play because being a robot he has no imagination. Bender tries really hard and imagines himsel a knight named Titanius Anglesith, and starts to think his fantasy is real, so they end up having to send him to the robot loony bin.

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Tom Baker is of course my favorite doctor, so I have been collecting all of his episodes, because of course, you never forget your first Doctor. And I enjoyed this because it is Tom Baker and Elisabeth Sladen, but honestly it isn’t one of the better stories. The actresses who play the sisterhood freak me out, and have cheesy makeup, and this one just doesn’t come together too well for me.

The Doctor (Tom Baker) and Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen) find themselves on the Planet Karn, where the Doctor suspects the Timelords have sent him for some unknown reason, and he isn’t happy about it. He only comes out when Sarah screams after finding the body of an insect alien who has had it’s head cut off, and then a whole field of crashed spacecraft. The Alien was killed by a hook handed minion named Condo (Colin Fay) who works for the mad scientist Mehendri Solon (Philip Madoc). Solon is trying to find a head for some evil experiment he is working on. The Doctor and Sarah head to Solon’s castle, but are observed by Ohica (Gilly Brown) of the ancient Sisterhood of Karn and goes to report their presence to the high priestess Maren (Cynthia Grenville). Maren confides in Ohica that she believes that the Doctor has been sent by the Timelords to steal their Sacred Fire, which creates a liquid that gives eternal life, and is sometimes used by the Timelords, when regeneration is not possible, and now the flame is going out. She an the sisters then use their powers to steal the Tardis, as The Doctor goes to meet Soron, and of course Soron is fascinated by his head.

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Another Showtime series that I missed, and hadn’t really cared about seeing. I do remember Hugh Laurie on HOUSE saying something about watching it in fast forward with the sound turned off, but anyway for some reason I decided to start watching it, and really started to enjoy it. And not for the sexy lesbian kissing and sex, but instead for the characters and high melodrama that they all got themselves into. Sure it is way over the top, but the actors do a great job, and I really started to like these characters as if they were my friends. Maybe some of the reason I like it is the melodrama, hell I do like Chinese soap operas, and they couldn’t be more melodramatic.

Season 1 starts off with a just out of college want to be writer named Jenny Schecter (Mia Kirshner) moving in with her swim team instructor boyfriend Tim Haspel (Eric Mabius) in his house in LA. They live next door to a lesbian couple who have been together for seven years, this is Tina Kennard (Laurel Holloman) and the art museum running Bette Porter (Jennifer Beals). They couple has a part and invite Jenny and Tim, and Jenny ends up making out in the bathroom with a beautiful lesbian who runs the local lesbian coffee shop the planet, she is a french woman named Marina Ferrer (Karina Lombard) who likes writing, and changes things for young Jenny. We also meet Tina and Bette other closest friends, the lothario Shane McCutcheon (Katherine Moenning), a magazine writer named Alice Pieszecki (Liesha Hailey) who has a chart of lesbian sexual encounters, the not out of the closet tennis player Dana Fairbanks (Erin Daniels) and Bette’s sister Kit Porter (Pam Grier) an alocholic who does music and plays at the Planet.

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Not just a one of the greats, or even a classic, but an all time classic story which deals not only with intrigues on Gallifrey, but also with an almost unstoppable enemy, and the fourth doctor acting stranger than he every has before. Could he really be a traitor to the timelords? I doubt it. And this series ends Leela as the companion, which was sad because she was such a great contrast to the only uses his mind Doctor. THis one is really a classic, I love seeing Tom Baker strut around, and become President of Gallifrey. He is perfect as the Doctor here. And this story is also one of the best ever. Plus it is fun to see so much of the Tardis, and to see the Doctor getting a bit lost in his own Tardis. A must see series.

The Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) makes a deal and signs a contract with some unknown aliens, then heads to Galifrey with the warrior Leela (Louise Jameson) and K-9 Mark 1 (John Leeson), and the Doctor seems to be acting very strangely indeed. The Doctor is met by Commander Andred (Chris Tranchell) of the Chancellory Guard and he demands to be taken to Chancellor Borusa (John Arnatt) the Doctor’s old teacher who currently in charge of the Time Lords. The Doctor demands the position of the President of the Timelords, and do to some previous happenings, the request cannot be denied. The Doctor demands his Presidential chamber is decorated with lead lining, and shortly thereafter is sworn in, and given a staff, a thing that goes around his neck, a circlet that allows him to connect to the Matrix which is the sum of all TImelord Knowledge, and is supposed to get a key, but he isn’t given in. When he puts on the circlet, he collapses to the ground in pain. When he recovers he orders that Leela be expelled from the Citadel of the Timelords into the wastelands, then heads to his Tardis to work on a plan with K-9 to sabotage Galifrey’s defenses.

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A pilot for a Doctor Who spin off with Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen) that never made it, and it does explain how she got K-9 who didn’t join the show until after she left, and this was followed up in the current Doctor Who and the new Sarah Jane Adventures. It was an interesting concept, and it is too bad it didn’t become a show, though the opening credits were awful. And the show should honestly have been the Sarah Jane adventures, as she is the star and not K-9. Still I did enjoy this blast from the past into something that never was. Sure this is much more of a kids show, as the current Sarah Jane Adventures are, but it was still enjoyable.

Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen) is returning to England to visit her aunt Lavania (Mary Wimbush) who is mysteriously out of town, though she has left a large box for her. Sarah then gets a call from her aunts ward, Brendan Richards (Ian Sears) who is waiting at the train station for her. When they get back to the house, they open the crate, and find K-9 (John Leeson) a gift left by the Doctor. Brednan is enthralled, but Sarah wants to figure out about her aunts absence. Sarah heads into town to find out all she can about her aunt.

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An absolutely classic Doctor Who episode, and with my favorite Doctor, the great Tom Baker. And with Leela, one of the Doctor’s most interesting companions, as she is an absolute warrior who runs on instinct and not intellect, and this Episode also introduces the great K-9 who became such a stalwart companion to the Doctor. Not only is this one enjoyable, but how cool is getting to litterally travel into the mind of a time lord. Nice. One of the best, and the disc also includes the pilot to the ill fated K-9 and Company Show, where Sarah Jane Smith got K-9.

In the year 5000 humans have spread across the solar system, and s space shuttle ends up passing through a strange virus, and the virus takes over their minds, and they head to the ships destination, Titan Base. The crew starts taking over the base, but the station manager Lowe (Michael Sheard) manages to get off a distress call, which the Doctor (Tom Baker) and his companion Leela (Louise Jameson) hear the message, and go to help. The Doctor is infected by the Virus, though not completely taken over, but amazingly Leela is immune from infection. The Doctor is meant to be the Nucleaus of the Swarm, taken over by the infections central intelligence. The Nucleus wants Leela killed, and orders the Doctor to do it, but he breaks free, and allows Leela to get him in the Tardis and head to the nearest Medical Center, along with Lowe who has just been secretly infected.

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I picked this series up because Steven Moffatt was a writer on the new Doctor Who, having written some great episodes, and who and who is becoming the new show runner for Doctor Who. It is also rumored that once Tennat leaves the show, either after the next 4 specials, or the 5th season, that Moffatt will replace Tennat with James Nesbitt, so I wanted to get familiar with these two, in the year long wait for the 5th Season of Doctor Who. And I am glad I checked out this series, because it is incredibly well written and put together, and Nesbitt is fantastic in his dual roles here. This is an amazing series and a must see, though I do wish that the DVD had been compressed better. IT has some ugly consistent noise throughout the blacks in the whole show. Oh well, it is still a must see. See it on BBC America if you can, or rent the DVD’s, it is well worth it. A really cool modern look at the Jekyll and Hyde story, which is not so much a retelling as an update, that spans the original story and brings it into modern times, it is in fact described by it’s creators as a sequel instead of a telling.

Tom Jackman (James Nesbitt) is a prominent scientist making a good living, who has himself a major problem, and has become estranged from his family because of it. The shot starts with him interviewing a psychologist Katherine Reimer (Michelle Ryan who was recently in the US remake of the Million Dollar Woman) which he is hiring to work for him, and his strange alter ego. It seems that Jackman in fact changes from himself to a version of himself much like his id, who is also physically stronger and taller, and thinner, who goes about having sex, and roughing people up and drinking. In fact Jackman always had a headache, but what he doesn’t realize he is in fact always hungover. And the alter ego keeps showing up more often, and Jackman has a chair with straps to keep him locked up and punish him at times. Jackman finds that his estranged wife Claire (Gina Bellman) with who he has two child with, has hired a detective named Miranda Calendar (Meera Syal) and her pregnant girlfriend Min (Fenella Woolgar), who didn’t reveal his alter ego to his wife, but does reveal that the black van following Jackman is not from her. Finally Jackman’s alter ego meets an American named Benjamin Lennox (Paterson Joseph) who works for an organization called Klein & Utterson, and who names the later ego Hyde.

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The British sitcom that was the start of the brilliant careers of Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Edgar Wright, this hillarious comedy really must be seen. It took me a few episodes to really get into it, but it has so many funny little jokes throughout and such a twisted sense of humor, that this is really a must see show, and the only bad part is the whole show is only two series and a total of 14 episodes long. The newly released US DVD has a commentary with the cast, crew and some fans, with outtakes and a documentary as well as deleted scenes and more. For any fans of British Humor and who is around my age and a bit of a sci-fi geek, this show is an absolute must see.

Tim Bisley (Simon Pegg) is dumped by his 5 year girlfriend Sarah (Anna Wilson-Jones) who went with is best friend Duane Benzie (Peter Serrafinowicz), an this would be comic book artist, who works at a comic book store, must find a place to stay. His best friend is Mike Watt (Nick Frost) a war obsessed man, who used to be in the provincial army but got kicked out for stealing a tank, and trying to invade Paris, and couldn’t join the real army because of something Tim did as a kid. At a local coffee shop Tim meets aspiring writer Daisy Steiner (Jessica Hynes, previously Stevenson) and the two find an add for an inexpensive flat, that is only for a professional couple, so they pretend as a couple to get the 2 bedroom flat.

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Another sumptuous adaption of a story of betrayal an lust set in Victorian England from a novel by Sarah Waters. This too has some lesbian story elements, though they are not as front and center as those in Tipping the Velvet. This is a very enjoyable BBC series, with great cinematography and acting, and a story that will have you on the edge of your seat until the end, because their are more twists and turns here than you can shake a stick at. It is good that the BBC went for 180 minutes because this story would have suffered from being shorter. Certainly worth checking out.

This is the story of two girls whose lives will be intertwined, a young orphan named Sue Trinder (Sally Hawkins) who has been brought up by a group of fingersmiths (Thieves) led by Mrs Sucksby (Imedla Staunton) and Maud Lilly (Elaine Cassidy) the daughter of a woman who went mad, and was raised in a mad house, only to be taken in by her strict and strange uncle (Charles Dance) to become his secretary. A young charlatan involved with Mrs Sucksby named Richard Rivers (Rupert Evans) hatches a plot to get mary Maud, and get her $40,000 pound inheritance and then put her in a mad house, by using Sue as her maid (so Sue will get $3000 pounds). The plan seems simple, if diabolical enough, but things start to awry when Sue starts to develop feelings for Maud, and doesn’t want her to be taken in by Rivers.

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A sumptuous BBC adaption of the Sarah Waters novel about torrid lesbian romance in Victorian London. This is quite an enjoyable series, and I heard about it because Keeley Hawes who I recently saw in Ashes to Ashes the sequel to Life on Mars, and thought she was a great actress, and she was good in this, though the lead role played by Rachael Stirling is really the standout here. After this I am sure she will be huge. This is quite an enjoyable 3 episodes and I highly recommend checking this out. You have to love that the BBC shows nudity on TV, while we can show violence but not nudity, a part of everyday life. There is not a huge amount here, but enough to make this pretty sexy.

Nancy “Nan” Astley (Rachael Stirling) is a young girl living in Whilstable, England in the 1880′s working in an oyster cafe that her family owns and runs. She doesn’t really fit in, and never is too interested in the boy she dates. Then the man who courting her sister takes the whole family to the theater, and Nan is awestruck by a female impersonator named Kitty Butler (Keely Hawes), and she starts going to the show every night. Kitty ends her act by throwing a rose to a girl in the audience, and one night she goes over and hands a rose to Nan, and then has her taken backstage to her dressing room. The two hit it off, and Nan starts coming every day, and helping Kitty get dressed, but secretly wanting to be here lover. One day Kitty gets a job offer to move to London, and to headline a show, and she asks Nan to go with her, and Nan agrees, and goes to London, living with Kitty and sleeping in her bed with her. One day Nan tries on Kitty’s clothes, and when Kitty sees her, she decides they can do an act with the two of them. Nan goes by the name of Nan King. The first night, they do their act, which includes a kiss, and they are celebrating afterwards, but when Nan dances with a trumpeter, Kitty gets angry and storms out, but Nan follows, and in the carriage the two start kissing and when they get home they make love.

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At best a mediocre Doctor Who adventure, notable only for the first appearance of Elisabeth Sladen as Sarah Jane Smith and the debut of the Sontarans who have most recently returned in the last Season of the current Tenant Doctor Who.

In the Middle Ages the Kind known as Irongron (David Daker) and his right hand Bloodaxe (John J. Carney) discover a crashed spaceship and meet it’s occupant the Sontaran warrior Linx (Kevin Linday). Linx offers Irongron weapons in exchange for help in his repairing his craft, and an alliance if formed. Meanwhile in modern time, the Doctor (Jon Pertwee) and Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (Nicholas Courtney) are investigating the disappearances of a bunch of important scientists.A young journalist named Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen) sneaks into the complex and meets the doctor, and ends up sneaking into his TARDIS before he follows the disappearance fo a scientists named Rubeish (Donald Pelmear). The Tardis goes back to the middle ages, and Sarah sneaks out, and ends up getting captured by Irongron.

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The 5 Television Films which continued on the Alien Nation TV Series after the show was cancelled, letting them end the cliffhanger, and expand the story to a point where it could end and not leave too much hanging. These 5 movies, DARK HORIZON, BODY AND SOUL, MILLENNIUM, THE ENEMY WITHIN and THE UDARA LEGACY all seem slightly higher budget (Sikes now has a holster instead of keeping his gun in his jeans, and the cop cars seem better and they helicopters) and really do bring more to the story, and I am really glad and amazed that FOX did this instead of just ending the show where the season ended on a cliffhanger.

The story continues with Detectives Matthew Sikes (Gary Graham) and Newcomer George Francisco), and this time George’s wife and daughter Susan (Michele Scarabelli) and daughter Emily (Lauren Woodland) are poisoned by Purists, and the detectives have to figure things out to save them, and Matt’s Tenctonese girlfriend Cathy (Terri Treas) ends up getting help from a strange Tenctonese who helps her, but turns out to be a military Overseer, there to bring all the slaves back, and the humans with them.

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