How The Curse of Fatal Death Pre-Empted the Moffat Era of 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.

Cast your mind back to 1999. There was no new Doctor Who on TV, save four sketches: three by Mark Gatiss as part of a Doctor Who night on BBC2 and a fourth by Steven Moffat for Comic Relief, starring Rowan Atkinson, Jonathan Pryce, Hugh Grant, Richard E Grant, Jim Broadbent, Joanna Lumley and Julie Sawalha.

These four amusing, affectionate and memorable sketches are thr subject of our podKast this week, as Christian Cawley and Brian A. Terranova uncover some remarkable similarities between The Curse of Fatal Death and Steven Moffat’s era of Doctor Who…

Kasterborous PodKast Series 5 Episode 18 Shownotes

Ka-pow!

Dean Wilkinson CultCast
Swearlot Holmes
Star Wars characters at Ka-Pow!
The TARDIS on Teesside
Kasterborous magazines postcard (feel free to scan QR code)


The Curse of Fatal Death
The Web of Caves
The Kidnappers
The Pitch of Fear
Doctor Who Unbound:  Sympathy for the Devil, Full Fathom Five, Exile, Masters of War
Recommendations: Doctor Who Magazine, Fringe 

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