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It’s interesting, wishing an episode would just end 20 minutes early. Then it goes on, and still goes on, is entirely about forgetting, and then proceeds to forget some of what it set up. Directed by Alex Pillai, I shouldn’t have to…

So if “73 Yards” was vague, I think “Wish World” was written by George RR Martin and edited by the corpse of JRR Tolkien as puppeteered by Hideo Kojima. This episode was directed by the Christmas Special episode, “Joy to the World”…

It was never the same without a slightly and progressively more drunk/catty Terry Wogan. This episode was directed by War of the Worlds season 2 director Ben A Williams. Williams is probably “best” known for his series of short films released on…

Do I need to explain to the Whites here Anansi/Ananse? Directed by Apple Tree House and Queenie director, Makalla McPherson, this is the first of her episodes helming Doctor Who. It’s also the first episode for Nigerian-born British poet and writer, Inua…

Why do we need a conventionally attractive Clive? It’s about now that I’d have made myself look stupid, assuming Pete McTighe is also Australian, which is easy to understand given his writing credits. Alongside writing the 6000th episode of Neighbours, McTighe would…

Well, in another life we did indeed say “The Midnight sky’s the road I’m takin’,” but that’s enough about an episode with Merlin in it. Written by Russell T Davies, and importantly, there is a use of an ampersand between him &…

Oh my, King James suddenly got a lot less gay and became a lot more colorful. Written by showrunner Russell T Davies, it certainly is something of his that I can tell he’s had bubbling for a while. As Australian writer and…

The Doctor and a woman of color who works in a hospital? That’ll never work! Written by showrunner Russell T. Davies, you might have heard of him for doing some work on ChuckleVision, Children’s Ward, Coronation Street: Viva Las Vegas!, The Second…

For some reason, I thought Joel Fry had already been in an episode of Doctor Who. Now I’m right. Directed by Alex Pillai, Pillai is probably best known for that Sabrina everyone was talking about, and I’m not talking about Melissa Joan…