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The Renaissance Man for £2.99!

Philip Bates is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

For 48 hours only, you can download the Fourth Doctor adventure, The Renaissance Man, for just £2.99.

As part of their Big Finish-mas, the audio company are offering numerous titles at discounted prices until Twelfth Night. Each download is only available at a special price for 48 hours… meaning you’ll have to get The Renaissance Man - starring Tom Baker as the Doctor, Louise Jameson as Leela and Ian McNiece as Harcourt – by tonight!

Here’s the synopsis:

To continue Leela’s education, the Doctor promises to take her to the famous Morovanian Museum. But the TARDIS lands instead in a quiet English village, where they meet the enigmatic collector Harcourt and his family.

 

When people start to die, reality doesn’t appear quite what it was. There’s something sinister going on within the walls of Harcourt’s manor, and the stakes are higher than they can imagine.

 

The Doctor is about to discover that a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing.

Written By Justin Richards and directed by Ken Bentley, you can buy a physical copy for £10.99 – and don’t forget to read our review!

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PodKast Reviews The Time of the Doctor

Christian Cawley is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

Well, it had to be done – the Kasterborous podKast team of Christian Cawley, Brian Terranova and James McLean got together at the weekend to discuss The Time of the Doctor and offer their thoughts on whether Matt Smith’s Doctor Who finale was a hit or a miss.

Our decision? Well, it’s not quite Time and the Rani, but it would seem that we weren’t as happy with it as we might have hoped to be…

Before the main event, however, there is plenty to get through, such as our Doctor Who-themed Christmas presents and editor Christian Cawley’s appearance on BBC radio documentary The TARDIS on Teesside.

Ready? Click play below, or download using your preferred podcast management system.

Kasterborous PodKast Series 3 Episode 47 Shownotes

Doctor Who: The Vault
Eleventh Doctor Remote Control Sonic Screwdriver
Matt Smith gets replica Sonic Screwdriver
The TARDIS on Teesside
The Time of the Doctor regeneration

Listen to the PodKast

There are several ways to listen. In addition to the usual player above, we’re pleased to announce that you can also stream the podKast using Stitcher, an award-winning, free mobile app available for Android and iPhone/iPad. This pretty much means that you can listen to us anywhere without downloading – pretty neat, we think you’ll agree! (Note that it can take a few hours after a new podKast is published to “catch up”.)

What’s more, you can now listen and subscribe to the podKast via our Audioboo channel! Head to http://audioboo.fm/channel/doctorwhopodkast and click play to start listening. You can also comment and record your own boos in response to our discussions!

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Series 8 Goes Into a “Raw, Different Direction”

Philip Bates is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

We all know that Series 8, which is due to screen in Autumn 2014, will be a bit different – but we might be surprised by how much.

Steven Moffat recently said that the direction of the next run will be something new… but it’ll still be business as usual:

“It changes all the time, and it’s keeping ahead of the audience in a way. All shows age and they all age sort of in the same way. You learn how to do it, you get really slick at it, and then you think you’re really, really slick at it and everyone’s started to yawn. And you think ‘oh God, we’re really slick at this but everyone knows what we’re going to do’… So now we’ve got to actually get a bit raw at it and do it in a different direction. It happens on every show – you get good at it and ‘good at it’ is the enemy in the end.”

Series 8, which starts filming next month, is the debut of the Twelfth Doctor, Peter Capaldi, who was introduced in Christmas Day’s The Time of the Doctor, so this will obviously have an effect on the tone of Doctor Who. But does this mean darker? Or funnier? Or more diverse? Or simply, more multi-parters?

You’ll notice a wonderful shift between Series 4 (plus the Specials) and Series 5, as Moffat took over the reins from Russell T. Davies, but Moffat also told Nerd³:

“If Russell had stayed on, [Doctor Who] would still have changed. I remember when we had our handover chat, he was saying, ‘so what are you going to do? Are you going to change that?’ And I said, ‘well, what would you change?’ and we both agreed, ‘it’s time to kick a lot of stuff out’. And, actually, it is time again to do that.”

Autumn is a long way away, huh?

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Reviewed: Figurine Collection – Part 3 Cyber Controller

James Whittington is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

The Cybermen, such an integral part of the Classic series and (apparently) everyone’s second favourite baddie, makes it to the figurine collection. Now, their first few adventures from the new run of Doctor Who haven’t really been kind to the Cybermen, these upgraded versions from the mind of evil genius John Lumic lack the deadly darkness the originals had and therefore lack impact. Saying that, their design was smart, chunky and powerful complete with a stomping sound effect that made them more akin to Robocop than cricket pad wearing monsters. The best part was the Cyber Controller and this is the figure that comes with this issue.

The Magazine

The Figurine – Here we check out the redesign of the Cyber costume, why the chest unit was removed, the more skull-like face and, as in the case of the Cyber Controller, an exposed brain which is a nice throwback to the 1967 original design. It also charts the way different designs have handled the costume and what they brought to the Cybermen legacy.

50 Years Of Doctor Who – The timeline continues in 1964, a pivotal year in many ways for the first pieces of merchandise were released, Dalekmania was on the verge of happening and Christopher Eccleston was born.

A Moment In Time – As you may have guessed The Age Of Steel is not my favourite Doctor Who adventure but this look at the story itself justifies RTD’s logic for wanting to bring something different to the Cybermen mythos. The views of the concept art shows some radical re-designs which I hope will filter through in adventures to come.

Doctor Who Universe – This is a brief history of Time Lords and looks at the various members of this elite race including The War Chief, Omega and of course the Master. It’s concise and well researched and a must for anyone new to the series as it really does examine the show’s past perfectly.

Myths And Mysteries – The section that dares ask the questions continues with such important enquiries such as, “Why did Russell T Davies recreate the Cybermen?” and “Is there another John Lumic in ‘our ‘universe?”

Who People – Douglas Adams may have only been with Doctor Who for a short time but he was around when the show was rocking the ratings and the more reliance on humour exposed it to more than just kids. Here we celebrate his Who input.

Figurine

This figure is simply superb. Set in an aggressive stance with fists clenched and brain exposed it emanates the power this metal monster possess. The paintwork has just enough metallic tint to it and the piece itself is a good solid weight.

So then, a good issue but still no sign of a classic figure as the next one is a Weeping Angel.

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The Lost Eighth Doctor Series

Drew Boynton is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

Paul McGann is hot in the world of Doctor Who right now. His Night of the Doctor was a smash hit internet sensation that paved the way for The Day of the Doctor and he continues to do new Eighth Doctor adventures for Big Finish Productions.

Back in 1996, the situation was a little different.

When McGann’s TV movie debuted in May on FOX, it got buried under the season finale of Roseanne, which was at the height of its popularity. The TV movie was a hit in the UK with over 9 million viewers, but with the ratings collapse in America, it didn’t matter. Among other things, the rights issues were so complicated that even if the BBC would’ve wanted to do more Eighth Doctor episodes, the legal issues were almost impossible to clear up… and would remain that way for several years.

The TV movie, sometimes subtitled The Enemy Within, was the pet project of producer Philip Segal, an American who had grown up in the UK. Segal had inquired about acquiring the rights to Doctor Who as far back as 1989, which actually may have had a hand in the show’s cancellation during the Seventh Doctor’s era. He was able to eventually secure the rights in the early 1990s from the BBC. Segal worked for Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment, but when Amblin folded to become part of the new DreamWorks in 1994, the producer was allowed take Doctor Who elsewhere. This eventually led to an uneasy and complex alliance between Universal, FOX, and the BBC. With Segal stuck in the middle, they put together and financed the TV movie.

The scripts basically came in three stages. The first was by John Leekley, whose credits included Miami Vice and a Knight Rider TV movie at that time. His script was based on his own series bible – a detailed rundown of the characters, motivations, settings, and storylines. Leekley’s bible was made while the project was still at Amblin, and they went so far as to fully illustrate it and bind it into an expensive leather volume, which makes it pretty obvious that someone thought the show would go to series.

Leekley’s bible and script were the first phase, followed by a re-write by a scriptwriter named Robert DeLaurentis, followed by a complete re-do draft by Matthew Jacobs. All in the space of a year or two. Leekley and DeLaurentis’s versions are considered to be reboots of Doctor Who. Jacobs’ is considered (especially now!) to be a continuation of the original show.

This writer would like to focus on the original Leekley bible and it’s reboot ideas, because even though Jacobs’ script was quite different and turned into what we now know as the TV movie, it still contains some of Leekley’s original plan. The most infamous of these is: “I’m half-human on my mother’s side.” The production also stuck very close to the illustrations and Jules Verne-like designs in Leekley’s leather book.

Leekley’s main aim was to set up conflicts and add a quest for the hero (sound familiar?). His ideas are a strange mish-mash of years of Who history with his own additions, and just seem bizarre, especially in light of how successful and true-to-form the show is today.

So, here we go: Leekley sets up that President/Cardinal Borusa (or Barusa as he sometimes misspells) is the Doctor’s stuffy old Time Lord grandfather. Borusa’s son—the Doctor’s father—is a rebellious man known as Ulysses the Explorer. While exploring the universe, Ulysses had two sons. One son was with a beautiful Earth lady named Annalisse, and that son, of course, was the Doctor. The other son was with a dark-haired Time Lady, and he was… The Master.

So, yes, the Doctor and the Master are half-brothers. And because they are both Borusa’s grandsons, they both have claims to the Throne of Gallifrey and its Domed City. Nowadays, this all sounds very similar to the Thor-Loki relationship in the Marvel movies.

Anyway, the evil Master takes the throne when Borusa dies. Wanting to eliminate the other heir to the Presidency, the Master sends out his henchmen, the scary spider-like metal and alien creations called the Daleks (!), to hunt down the Doctor. The Doctor flees Gallifrey to escape his crazy half-brother and his Dalek army.

The Doctor steals an old Type 40 TARDIS, whose crystalline power source (Superman, anyone?) has become possessed by the ghost of his grandfather Borusa. So now, the Doctor can actually talk to the TARDIS – his granddad. The Doctor’s aim is to find his father, Ulysses, and reunite the family. His quest will take him on many adventures, including clashes with a race known as the Cybs, who are a humanoid race that resemble American Indians, but with metal and cybernetic parts. Delete, indeed.

The next version of the script was by Robert DeLaurentis, best known for writing several episodes of the ‘80s reboot of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. He took the Leekley script and bible and made some changes, not all for the better (although sometimes it’s hard to tell). DeLaurentis killed off both Borusa and Ulysses early in the story… and added a dog. In fact, DeLaurentis’s main contribution seems to be adding a cute, funny little doggie to the story. If K-9 himself ever heard of this, he’d shoot it down faster than a hungry Krillitane.

The third and final version was what we now know as the TV movie. Written in what sounds to be an extreme time crunch, Matthew Jacobs’ script is thankfully a continuation of the classic show – complete with the Seventh Doctor (although the BBC reportedly wanted Tom Baker) and a regeneration. Some of Leekley’s reboot elements did survive, including the Verne-esque themes and TARDIS design, the Master’s central involvement in the story, and yes, the Doctor’s being half-human.

The Eighth Doctor adventures continued in DWM

If the TV movie had been a success, though, the question remains just how many of Leekley’s ideas would have been revisited and incorporated into the storylines. A partly human Doctor being hunted by spider Daleks while searching for his ne’er-do-well father while talking to his dead grandfather-TARDIS doesn’t seem especially appealing. But hey, maybe a cute dog would’ve made it better?

… Nah.

If the McGann TV movie had been a success in the US in 1996, and had been picked up as a FOX series and run for the usual 5-ish year lifespan of US shows, would Russell T. Davies still have had the chance to bring back the original British show in 2005? If so, it’s possible that this “American reboot/re-do” Doctor Who series – even with its appearance by Sylvester McCoy in the pilot – might today be ignored as non-UK-canon and Paul McGann relegated to Peter Cushing status. On the other hand, it’s also possible that the US show’s storylines and events could have been adapted and retooled by Russell Davies and folded into the 2005 show. (And McGann regenerating into Eccleston?)

Another question is whether a big network like FOX would have allowed McGann to regenerate and be replaced by another actor. It’s one thing in the US to replace actors on ensemble shows like CSI and Law & Order, but a sole lead actor is a different matter. The most recent example would have to be Charlie Sheen being replaced by Ashton Kutcher on Two and a Half Men. But that is a half-hour sitcom and not a huge, big-budget hour-long drama like Doctor Who would have been. Paul McGann probably would have been locked in for five years and the Doctor probably would have defeated the Master or been lost in time in the final episode.

Perhaps in some alternate universe, there was a successful show called Doctor Who that starred Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor and stayed true to the classic show’s origins. The odds are that it probably wouldn’t have been made by the BBC and probably didn’t last for more than six or seven seasons. That’s not to say that it couldn’t be brought back some time in the future…

If you want to learn more about the tempestuous behind-the-scenes struggles of the TV Movie, check out the 2000 book, Regeneration: The story of the revival of a TV legend, by Philip Segal and Gary Russell.

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The 50th Anniversary – in a Parallel Universe!

Alex Skerratt is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

It’s a dystopian parallel world in which no time traveller ever wants to find themselves – Celebrity Wrestling is ITV’s flagship show, every piece of 1960s television is no longer missing but destroyed, the end, and Doctor Who never returned in 2005. Yes, the 50th anniversary celebrations have been starved of Eccleston’s northern soul, Tennant’s sand shoes, Matt Smith’s bow tie and John Hurt’s gravelly tones. The Ood are still languishing in the back of Russell T’s brain, and the Moff is having to content himself with the comedic briefness of The Curse of Fatal Death.

It’s hard to imagine what the 50th anniversary would have looked like had the series not returned in 2005, although I think the 40th anniversary ‘shindig’ gave us a chilling glimpse into this hellish alternate reality (The Dark Dimension, if you will…).

For a start, there would have been no ‘new Who‘ to speak of. Not in any acceptable sense. If , in 2013, Aunty Beeb were still refusing to commit to a brand new series of adventures, then I really think it would be goodnight, Vienetta. There’s no way they’d have funded a special 50th anniversary episode, unless the Dimensions in Time team were gagging for another slice of the action. My best guess is that Peter Davison, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy would have been wheeled out on The One Show to perform a specially-written skit by Paul Cornell, with the Plasmatons and a rather wobbly-looking Dalek invading the BBC parking lot. And we fans, like gluttons for punishment, would have swarmed the Twittersphere to debate its canonicity, before speculating whether this was an indication of a new series from the BBC.

The main television presence would have been in the form of piecemeal shows such as Doctor Who Mastermind and Strictly Come Doctor Who Dancing featuring Nicholas Briggs and Ian Levine, with Bonnie Langford presenting. There would have been a few Dalek-shaped idents on BBC Three, just so the BBC could show that it ‘cared’ about its cultural heritage, although, in reality, we fans would have been weeping into our Loose Cannon DVDs.

And despite the fact that every black and white episode is missing in this terrifying alternate reality I’ve created, I still think Philip Morris would have achieved the impossible by recovering The Enemy of the World and The Web of Fear. Although there would have been no press conferences, no global conspiracies – just a small exclusive in the Christmas edition of the Radio Times, with a couple of grainy clips on the official Doctor Who website.

On the plus side, I think Big Finish would have been really flying the flag for the show, and we starved Whovians would have been able to enjoy their 50th anniversary audios such as The Light at the End whilst gradually coming to the realisation that this is the only form of ‘new Who‘ we were ever likely to get. And given the increasing popularity of YouTube, fans would have created special cartoon versions of these episodes using the Big Finish soundtracks, with animation that would make Scream of the Shalka look like James Cameron’s Avatar.

So thank goodness Doctor Who returned in 2005! We’re incredibly lucky. I know it’s frustrating with the curtailed episode counts and split seasons and missing episode politics but, really, we’ve never had it so good. The alternative is so much worse, and doesn’t bear thinking about – a universe where the laws of physics have been devised by the mind of a mad man! No thank you.

Let’s raise a glass to the BBC and the good Doctor, and be ever-thankful that Peter Capaldi is on his way, and that Gallifrey Falls No More.

To be continued…

…in November 2063!

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Adventure in Space and Time Soundtrack in 2014

Philip Bates is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

The music from the 50th anniversary docudrama, An Adventure in Space and Time, will be released in 2014.

The 90-minute special charted the origins of Doctor Who, following Verity Lambert (played by Hide’s Jessica Raine) and then David Bradley as First Doctor, William Hartnell. After near-universally positive reviews, writer, Mark Gatiss (The Unquiet Dead; Cold War) said:

“As many of you reading this may know, An Adventure in Space and Time has been the summation of a long-held dream of mine to tell the story of the birth-pangs of Doctor Who.

 

Making Adventure was a wonderful experience. The whole team were absolutely dedicated to the project, going the extra mile (or parsec) to create that smoggy early 60s world where so much seemed (and was) suddenly possible. And none more so than Edmund Butt whose gorgeous score is one of the highlights of the film.

 

I’ve been completely overwhelmed by the response to the film. It was a very special project from the outset and I know Ed’s soundtrack will continue to thrill and delight for, well, the rest of space and time…”

Edmund Butt has previously composed music for Sea of Souls, Murphy’s Law, and Mistresses, but perhaps most notably for Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes, so has plenty of experience capturing the essence of any given era.

Here’s the tracklisting:

Main Title – An Adventure In Space And Time (0:38)

The Right Man (1:17)

The First Woman Producer (1:21)

I’ve Got An Idea… (1:34)

The Daleks (2:52)

Kill Dr. Who (1:48)

What Dimension? (1:24)

This Is My Show (1:50)

Autograph Hunting (2:31)

Sydney Newman (1:00)

Scarlett O’hara (1:03)

Piss & Vinegar (1:24)

Dressing Room (1:18)

JFK Assassinated (1:48)

The Tardis (0:57)

Goodbye Susan (2:37)

10 Million Viewers (0:57)

The Fans (0:41)

I’m So Sorry Bill (2:45)

Kiss Goodbye (1:05)

My Successor (1:06)

Isop Galaxy (0:50)

Irreplaceable (1:19)

The New Doctor (3:55)

Time’s Up… (1:15)

The soundtrack, released by Silva Screen, is expected to be released in early 2014 (we’re nearly there, folks!) and should be available at all good retailers.

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Men (and Women) of Action!

Drew Boynton is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

Who does the Doctor call on when he needs someone to do the “dirty work” that he can’t – or just doesn’t want – to do? Well, as we’ve seen over the years, the Doctor often relies on his friends to play the action hero role for him. And in many instances over the last half-century, they even get the Time Lord himself out of trouble from time to time.

Here is our top ten list of the Doctor’s Men (and Women) of Action:

10. Mickey Smith.

Rose’s on-and-off-again boyfriend went from being the unfortunate victim of a trash bin (Rose) to hunting down Cybermen in an alternate Earth (Age of Steel). And then he ran off with Martha Jones to fight Sontarans.

9. Strax.

The 12-year-old (ancient for a battle-loving clone!) Sontaran soldier is always ready to unleash acid grenades and laser monkeys at the hint of any trouble. It’s too bad he can’t remember where he put the Memory Worm.

8. Ian Chesterton.

The teacher with many talents often had to do the things that the older First Doctor could not. Ian showed that he could ride horses, use a Vulcan-style nerve pinch (The Aztecs), or even have a swordfight (The Romans).

7. Steven Taylor.

Like Ian, this space pilot from the future had to fight many battles for the First Doctor. The tall and athletic Steven wasn’t afraid to fight the Daleks (The Chase; The Daleks’ Masterplan) or get involved in the legendary Gunfight at the OK Corral (The Gunfighters).

6. Harry Sullivan.

The Royal Navy surgeon showed an amazing ability to jump rope with the Fourth Doctor (Robot) and took a bullet in the head trying to defeat the Zygons (Terror of the Zygons). Harry could be both brave and bumbling (especially around Sarah Jane), but apparently went on to be much more James Bond-like after leaving the Doctor.

5. Leela.

No one – not even Xena the Warrior Princess – would want to get into a scrape with this knife-wielding warrior of the Sevateem tribe. The Fourth Doctor was just glad that she was on his side!

4. Jamie McCrimmon.

This former Highlander piper (no, not the Billie kind) would fight all of the King’s men through time and space if he had to (The Highlanders; The War Games). If the Second Doctor was in danger, Jamie was always there to protect him. Fewer companions were so loyal, and even fewer wore kilts.

3. Ace.

She’s probably the closest thing the Doctor has ever had to a personal bodyguard. Ace will destroy a legion of Cybermen with nothing but some old coins and a slingshot (Silver Nemesis) and will take on Daleks with nothing but a baseball bat (Remembrance of the Daleks)… and be “Wicked!”-ly happy to do so.

2. Captain Jack Harkness.

Captain Jack isn’t choosy. He’ll ride a bomb to save WW2-era London (The Doctor Dances), blow up several robotic TV hosts (Bad Wolf), or fight the Daleks down to his last bullet (The Parting of the Ways), even if it means losing his life. Well, until he wakes up again.

1. Brigadier Alastair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart.

The Brig is just as comfortable ordering Yates and Benton to put “Five Rounds, Rapid” into any menacing threat as he is helping the Third Doctor to rapidly put five knuckles into the face of The Master (The Five Doctors). If there’s trouble, he’ll have UNIT there (with some grenades and guns) on the double!

Well, that’s that… Surely there’s someone I missed! Who did I leave off of this list, Kasterborites? Who are the unsung men and women of action?

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Baldy and Baldy Say Goodbye to Doctor Who

Christian Cawley is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

It was indeed a most wig-tastic moment when newly-shorn Karen Gillan turned up on the TARDIS set to bid farewell to Matt Smith, whose natural hairstyle at the time wasn’t all that longer than that of his former co-star.

We refer, of course, to the nicely kept secret return of Gillan as the regenerative hallucinatory ghost of Amy Pond – interestingly, the first time in the revived series that we see a regeneration with some “trippy” aspects.

At least he didn’t call out “ADRIC!”

Says Moffat:

They’re very good wigs but they’re both wigs. Though in Karen’s case that’s her own hair.

That wig is made of her own hair, it’s just detachable now. When they cut her hair they made a wig of her own hair. Doesn’t she look lovely?

So, with wig makers kept in employment for another month, what did you think? While Matt Smith’s 50th anniversary celebratory trailer hairpiece might have looked a bit… well, like a hairpiece, the floppy locks on offer in The Time of the Doctor seemed to fare better. Meanwhile, Karen’s wig looked stunning – or did it?

Tell us!

(Coming next on Kasterborous: Fashion tips!)

(NB: that was a joke.)

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The Doctor Is Regenerating!!!! [VIDEO]

Christian Cawley is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

It is time to relive the moment, the last minute of the Eleventh Doctor’s life, when the dying Time Lord declared that “I will always remember when the Doctor was me.”

The moment was of course prepared for… goodbye, Matt Smith.

Hello, Peter Capaldi!

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