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Sunday, July 14, 2019

Single-Line Pitches: The Tenth Doctor (Doctor Who)


Returning to this periodic feature that probably isn’t all that informative or helpful, but I’m still fond of it. Little tidbits of what make the Tenth Doctor era what it is! A few referenced spoilers between series 2 and “The End of Time.”

“The Christmas Invasion” – in which the Doctor saves the world in his jimjams

“New Earth” – in which the Doctor and Rose are menaced by cat nuns

“Tooth and Claw” – in which the Doctor licks a library door

“School Reunion” – in which the Doctor sees an old friend and her tin dog

“The Girl in the Fireplace” – in which the Doctor invents the banana daiquiri a few centuries early

“Rise of the Cybermen” – in which Mickey meets his parallel self

“The Age of Steel” – in which hot dogs are the Cybermen of food

“The Idiot’s Lantern” – in which the Doctor and Rose get their 1950s on

“The Impossible Planet” – in which the Doctor and Rose stare into a black hole

“The Satan Pit” – in which the Doctor ponders the urge to jump and the urge to fall

“Love & Monsters” – in which the Doctor and Rose go on a Scooby-Doo-style chase

“Fear Her” – in which the Doctor enjoys edible ball-bearings

“Army of Ghosts” – in which the Doctor illustrates cracks in the walls of the universe

“Doomsday” – in which 3-D glasses help save the day

“The Runaway Bride” – in which the TARDIS flies along the highway

“Smith and Jones” – in which an alien menaces victims with their little straw

“The Shakespeare Code” – in which William Shakespeare flirts with Martha and the Doctor

“Gridlock” – in which the Doctor hitches a ride from a cat

“Daleks in Manhattan” – in which the Doctor makes a DNA scanner out of a radio

“Evolution of the Daleks” – in which Martha hijacks a lightning strike

“The Lazarus Project” – in which the Doctor reverses the polarity of the neutron flow

“42” – in which the Doctor quotes the Beatles

“Human Nature” – in which Martha handles things on her own

“The Family of Blood” – in which the Doctor performs ventriloquism of the nose

“Blink” – in which the Doctor reads from a transcript of a conversation he’s still having

“Utopia” – in which Jack flirts with everything that moves

“The Sound of Drums” – in which the Master rocks out to the end of the world

“The Last of the Time Lords” – in which the Doctor is kept in a birdcage

“Voyage of the Damned” – in which Kylie Minogue gets her temporary-companion on

“Partners in Crime” – in which the Doctor and Donna have a completely-mimed conversation

“The Fires of Pompeii” – in which Latin sounds like Welsh

“Planet of the Ood” – in which Simpsons references survive into the 42nd century

“The Sontaran Stratagem” – in which an old friend calls the Doctor back to Earth

“The Poison Sky” – in which a clone is so obvious they might as well be wearing a “CLONE” T-shirt

“The Doctor’s Daughter” – in which Super-Temp saves the day

“The Unicorn and the Wasp” – in which an alien wasp murders the colonel in the library with the lead pipe

“Silence in the Library” – in which the Doctor has never met River

“Forest of the Dead” – in which cold chicken is used to identify shadow pirranhas

“Midnight” – in which the Doctor’s gift of the gab is used against him

“Turn Left” – in which Donna’s It’s a Wonderful Life moment takes a way harder left turn than these things usually do

“The Stolen Earth” – in which we have the nerdiest video conference call ever

“Journey’s End” – in which the TARDIS is finally flown as it’s intended

“The Next Doctor” – in which there’s more than one way to make a screwdriver sonic

“Planet of the Dead” – in which a London double-decker bus goes on an adventure

“The Waters of Mars” – in which the Doctor meets a woman with starlight in her eyes

“The End of Time:  Part 1” – in which the Master rips apart a turkey carcass with his bare hands

“The End of Time:  Part 2” – in which the Doctor rages against the dying of the light

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