THE HAT SQUAD: THE 2011 VIDEOS

I meant to share this on Saturday, being the last day of the year and usually the first day of the Inner Toob video weekend. But if you follow my blog on a regular basis, you know I was knee-deep in the "Who-pla" - writing like a madman to meet my deadlines for the 3rd annual "Who's On First" marathon.

But in a way, it's better that I'm late (but not the late Toby O'B!) because now that the first of the year frenzy is over, you should have time to savor these tributes to those we lost in 2011.

These are not restricted to people involved in the world of the Toob. TCM is rightfully focused on the people who enriched our movie-going experiences, but some of them - like James Arness and Peter Falk - also cross over to television. (And at least with those two examples, they made a bigger impact in Toobworld.)

CBS is all over the map with people who made a difference in all venues of entertainment plus the worlds of politics, technology, and those of just sheer personality.

As always, I kept my own list of those we lost who were connected to television and I hope to have that up later today.

Goodnight and may God bless.......

AS SEEN ON TV: CYRANO DE BERGERAC

The day after the "Who's On First" marathons, I never like to let my audience go cold turkey on 'Doctor Who' withdrawal.....

CYRANO DE BERGERAC

AS SEEN IN:
 'Doctor Who'

AS PLAYED BY:

 David Cannon

TV DIMENSION:

 The Land of Fiction

STATUS:

 Dream Creation

SOURCE MATERIAL:

 "Cyrano De Bergerac"

WRITTEN BY:
 Edmond Rostand

From Wikipedia:

 "Cyrano de Bergerac" is a play written in 1897 by Edmond Rostand. Although there was a real Cyrano de Bergerac, the play bears very scant resemblance to his life.
The entire play is written in verse, in rhyming couplets of 12 syllables per line, very close to the Alexandrine format, but the verses sometimes lack a caesura. It is also meticulously researched, down to the names of the members of the Académie française and the dames précieuses glimpsed before the performance in the first scene.

The play has been translated and performed many times, and is responsible for introducing the word "panache" into the English language.

Hercule Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac, a cadet (nobleman serving as a soldier) in the French Army, is a brash, strong-willed man of many talents. In addition to being a remarkable duelist, he is a gifted, joyful poet and is also shown to be a musician. However, he has an extremely large nose, which is the reason for his own self-doubt. This doubt prevents him from expressing his love for his distant cousin, the beautiful and intellectual heiress Roxane, as he believes that his ugliness denies him the "dream of being loved by even an ugly woman."

TELEVISION HISTORY:
The first English-language adaptation to be televised was made in 1938 by the BBC and starred Leslie Banks in one of the earliest live television broadcasts.

José Ferrer played Cyrano in two television productions, for 'The Philco Television Playhouse' in 1949 and 'Producers' Showcase' in 1953, winning Emmy Award nominations for both presentations.

Ferrer would go on to voice a highly truncated cartoon version of the play for an episode of The 'ABC Afterschool Special' in 1974.

In 1964, 'The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo' presented a cartoon adaptation of "Cyrano".
Peter Donat played Cyrano with Marsha Mason as Roxanne in a 1972 PBS telecast that was based on a successful American Conservatory Theatre production using the Hooker translation.

A 'Brady Bunch' Episode, 1972, Season 4, Episode 5: "Cyrano de Brady" Peter wants desperately to break the ice with his pretty classmate, Kerry, but nerves get in the way. Greg hides in a bush and tells him things to say. But Kerry has been studying "Cyrano de Bergerac" at school and concludes that Greg is the one in love with her.

An episode of the BBC series 'Blackadder the Third' parodies the balcony scene of "Cyrano", although the actual episode has nothing to do with the play plotwise.

The 'Seinfeld' episode "The Soul Mate" appears to parody the balcony scene of "Cyrano" as Kramer attempts to win over Jerry's girlfriend Pam with Newman supplying the poetry.

In the 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' episode "The Nth Degree", Dr. Crusher directs a version of this play with Lt. Barclay performing the lead role.

In addition, the 'Star Trek: Deep Space Nine' episode "Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places", is inspired by "Cyrano", but with a completely different ending.

In an installment of "Monsterpiece Theater" on the children's show 'Sesame Street', there is a character named "Cyranose", who substitutes a sword with, appropriately, his exaggeratedly long nose. He has a very hot temper and goes ballistic, swinging his nose in blind rage, every time someone says the word "nose", as he automatically believes they are ridiculing him.

In the 'Roseanne' episode titled "Communicable Theater", Jackie, while going through a phase of appreciation to fine arts, is assigned to be Roxanne's understudy while playing a minor character in the show, and then has to play Roxanne having not studied the lines when her performer catches the flu.

The January 1995 episode of 'Boy Meets World' entitled "Cyrano" takes the play as its plot and involves two characters winning a girl secretly for another boy.

On the PBS show 'Wishbone', it was the story featured in the episode "Cyranose".

In 'All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series', Itchy enlists Charlie to help him win over a pretty Cocker Spaniel named Bess (who ends up briefly thinking that Charlie's the one in love with her) in the episode "Cyrano de Barkinac".

In Season Seven of 'Sabrina, the Teenage Witch', when Sabrina had troubles saying she loved her boyfriend, Aaron, she conjured her own personal Cyrano, named Sarah. The episode was appropriately titled, "Getting to Nose You."

In the French anime show 'Code Lyoko' the Lyoko gang acts out part of this play at the beginning and end of the episode, "Temporary Insanity".

In 'Futurama', the popular animated series produced by Matt Groening, Fry, the main character, helps his alien friend, Dr. Zoidberg, seduce a beautiful girl of his species

'The Simpsons' episode, "My Big Fat Geek Wedding" (2004), alludes to the play when Homer, acting as a modern day Cyrano, attempts to help Principal Skinner gain back Ms. Krabappel's affections.

From the source material:
FIRST MARQUIS: Who is this Cyrano?
CUIGY: A fellow well skilled in all tricks of fence.
SECOND MARQUIS: Is he of noble birth?
CUIGY: Ay, noble enough. He is a cadet in the Guards. But 'tis his friend Le Bret, yonder, who can best tell you. Le Bret! Seek you for De Bergerac?
LE BRET: Ay, I am uneasy. . .
CUIGY: Is it not true that he is the strangest of men?
LE BRET: True, that he is the choicest of earthly beings!
RAGUENEAU: Poet!
CUIGY: Soldier!
BRISSAILLE: Philosopher!
LE BRET: Musician!
LIGNIERE: And of how fantastic a presence!
RAGENEAU: Marry, 'twould puzzle even our grim painter Philippe de Champaigne to portray him! Methinks, whimsical, wild, comical as he is, only Jacques Callot, now dead and gone, had succeeded better, and had made of him the maddest fighter of all his visored crew--with his triple-plumed beaver and six-pointed doublet--the sword-point sticking up 'neath his mantle like an insolent cocktail! He's prouder than all the fierce Artabans of whom Gascony has ever been and will ever be the prolific Alma Mater! Above his Toby ruff he carries a nose!--ah, good my lords, what a nose is his! When one sees it one is fain to cry aloud, 'Nay! 'tis too much! He plays a joke on us!' Then one laughs, says 'He will anon take it off.' But no! Monsieur de Bergerac always keeps it on.
LE BRET: He keeps it on--and cleaves in two any man who dares remark on it!

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FARE THEE WELL.....

And finally, for our last post in this 3rd annual "Who's On First" marathon, Inner Toob wants to tip its fez to two of the shining stars in the 'Doctor Who' cast of character......

.

This year we lost:
Lis Sladen, whose role of Sarah Jane Smith should be acknowledged as a pioneer in the portrayal of women on television,

and

Nicholas Courtney, as Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart he dealt with more incarnations of the Doctor than any other in the show's history.

Good night and may God bless.....

JELLY BABIES?

From the TV Tropes website:

Some form of Applied Phlebotinum results in one or more main characters regressing to an earlier age. It may be the result of a freak accident, a plot on the part of the bad guys to incapacitate our heroes, or done on purpose so the characters can relive their childhood (at least temporarily).

For some reason this plot is often used in Fan Fic, where it's called a De-Aging story.
When someone dies in his rejuvenated state, expect him to turn back old immediately.
It's common for characters to overdo it in stories involving this trope, often winding up as children, babies, or possibly even regressing out of existence entirely. This may or may not be permanent, but if the character in question was a bad guy, expect it to be permanent; well, at least, until they grow back up the old-fashioned way.

Here are the TV shows that have employed this concept:

'Star Trek: The Next Generation' - "Rascals"

'Kamen Rider Den-O'

'The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers'

'The Legend Of Dick And Dom'

'The Twilight Zone' - "Kick The Can" &

"A Short Drink From A Certain Fountain"

And even 'Doctor Who' dabbled in the concept of their regular characters turning into little kids within the story "Time Monster", although it didn't happen to the Doctor.

But since we've seen the Doctor aged by the Master, why can't the reverse be true......?

However the question arises - would a child Doctor look like the current incarnation of the Time Lord, or would he look more like a VERY young version of the First Doctor?

BCNU!

BOWLER-AMA

Here's how Wikipedia describes the Doctor's companion Harry Sullivan:

Doctor Sullivan is a commissioned Surgeon-Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, who is attached as medical officer to the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce, the military organisation to which the Doctor acts as scientific advisor. He is first mentioned (though not seen) in "Planet of the Spiders", when the Brigadier thinks the Third Doctor has gone into a coma. The Brigadier calls "Doctor Sullivan" and asks him to come to the Doctor's laboratory, but tells him not to bother when Sergeant Benton wakes the Doctor by offering him a cup of coffee. In the next serial, "Robot", after the Doctor's third regeneration, Sullivan is called in to attend him, and ends up travelling aboard the TARDIS with the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith (played by Elisabeth Sladen) for several subsequent adventures.

Harry is rather old-fashioned and stereotypically English in his attitudes. Somewhat accident-prone, he once claimed he was always trapping his nose in the doors of Portsmouth barracks. He often employs slightly archaic language — for example, referring to Sarah Jane affectionately as "old thing". He is nonetheless depicted as possessing great bravery and a "can-do" attitude, adapting well to the many strange situations in which he finds himself. He can, however, also be quite clumsy and unsubtle, leading the Doctor to once declare, in a moment of frustration, that "Harry Sullivan is an imbecile!" Nonetheless he is well liked by the Doctor and Sarah Jane, and has a slightly flirtatious relationship with the latter

The character was originally devised by the production team as a means of handling any action scenes required in episodes when they had envisioned that the new Doctor would be played by an older actor (Sarah Jane even jokingly compares Harry to James Bond at one point). When forty year-old Tom Baker was cast, however, this was no longer a concern and the decision was taken to write Harry out — something producer Philip Hinchcliffe later admitted was probably a mistake, as Harry was a likeable and popular character who worked well with both of his fellow leads.

Harry's last regular appearance is in the season thirteen opener "Terror of the Zygons", which had actually been made at the conclusion of the twelfth production block and held over to start the following season. At the conclusion of this story he chooses to return to London by train rather than by TARDIS with the Doctor and Sarah Jane, who continue their adventures without him. He does, however, reappear three stories later in "The Android Invasion", both as the original Harry and an android double. This is the character's final appearance in the programme.

A later production team gave some consideration to bringing Harry Sullivan back for a guest appearance in the 1983 story "Mawdryn Undead", part of the programme's twentieth anniversary season. Their first choice was the character of Ian Chesterton, but those plans fell through due to actor William Russell being unavailable. In the end, they decided to use the character of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (played by Nicholas Courtney) instead. Harry is mentioned in the story, however — the Brigadier tells the Fifth Doctor that he was "seconded to NATO" and was last heard of "doing something 'hush-hush' at Porton Down."

Just based on that picture above, I'd like to suggest that Harry had a mentor in learning about doing things 'Hush-Hush'.....

And it wouldn't have been the first time that John Steed, top professional, worked with a talented amateur who was also a doctor. When we first met Steed, he was teamed up with Dr. David Keel.....

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TROPHY HUNT

So why was the Sixth Doctor from "Over There" (the alternate dimension from 'Fringe') making an appearance on 'Top Gear'?

The theme for the weekly competition was to have space aliens race against each other. And it was all meant to be a spoof. These figures were not meant to be the real characters.

DARTH VADER - Piss-poor costume was a give-away. We're not meant to see his neck but if we did, it should have been horribly scarred. Besides, the real Darth Vader (aka Anakin Skywalker) died a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.

MING THE MERCILESS - Only a few years ago live-action TV finally got its own version of 'Flash Gordon', but I refuse to accept it as part of Earth Prime-Time. Or at the very least, it'll be part of the main Toobworld only until a version more in keeping with the look of the original movie serials comes along. This Ming looked the part, moreso than the surfer boy in velcro pajamas from the short-lived TV series, but it was obviously just a guy running around in a cape.

THE KLINGON - It was tempting to make the claim that this was a real Klingon, but it would go against the established canon's timeline (not that it's ever stopped me before!) to have a Klingon make contact with Earth so early. I'm going to side with the opinion that this was a Trekkie in costume.

THE DALEK - This was a pretty convincing model, but that's all it was. Had it been the real thing, then all of those people in the TV studio would have been dead.

THE CYBERMAN - This was the Doctor's target. And here's how I think it played out:

In that alternate Sixth Doctor's home dimension, John Lumic was just bringing his version of Cybermen to "life". There had to be a few test models before the Cybermen were ready to go into mass production.

The Cyberman on 'Top Gear' was one of those top models, not yet fully programmed to bring humanity to its knees. Its programmable engrams were still quite pliable, so when Jeremy Clarkson told it to race around the trick (thinking it to be just an actor in a suit), it did so.

How did it get to Earth Prime-Time? It may have been tagged along with the alternate Doctor, hitching a ride outside the TARDIS in much the same way as Jack Harkness did with the Doctor of the main Toobworld. But it wasn't traveling a great distance through Time, only through a dimensional vortex. However, just before the TARDIS arrived on the main Toobworld, the Cyberman fell off and landed a few years into the Past.

Giving chase, the Doctor got himself inserted into that mock competition in order to curtail the threat posed by the Cyberman without alarming the innocent people nearby.

The Doctor deliberately came in fourth, and more than likely used his sonic screwdriver to skew the results for the other contestants so that the Cyberman came out on top.

Also happening off-screen - the Doctor must have adjusted the "trophy" given to the Cyberman so that even though it didn't affect ordinary humans, the Cyberman's circuitry was deactivated as soon as it came into contact with the trophy.

After deleting the Cyberman's programming so that it was no more than a metal scarecrow, the alternate Sixth Doctor returned to 2006 at just the right moment to be "swapped" back to his rightful place in that alternate dimension.

BCnU!

THE DOCTOR GETS INTO GEAR

I can't remember how I stumbled across the info, but I learned that Colin Baker appeared on a second-season episode of 'Top Gear'... as the Doctor! (I don't watch "reality" programming on the whole, and I have zero interest in cars.)

I was worried that by the end he would be hailed as Colin Baker, but for the duration of the show he was the Doctor maintaining the illusion. In fact, he didn't even get "outed" in the credits; only the appearance by some super-model (Jamie Kedd, I think?) was credited. It's a situation that reminded me of an episode of 'I Love Lucy' which guest-starred George Reeves as Superman. Mention of Superman was made in the closing credits, but not of Reeves.

So I'm willing to accept this reality show episode as a bona fide crossover with 'Doctor Who'. And that's despite the fact that Baker looked so much older than he was at the time of regeneration.

Fictional characters have appeared in reality shows in the past, but those have been as seen within the fictional setting of the other shows - 'Cops' in 'The X-Files', the U.S. 'Big Brother' in 'Yes, Dear', 'American Gladiator' in 'Family Matters', the U.K. 'Big Brother' in 'Dead Set' (found only in Earth Prime-Time_Zombie, along with 'The Walking Dead' and "Steve Niles' Remains".)

The reverse scenario of the fictional in reality shows? The only other example that comes to mind is Jiminy Glick appearing for the full hour of 'The Larry King Show' on CNN. Unfortunately, near the end of the show they did a segment on how Martin Short gets into make-up to play the butterball celebrity interviewer.

So why did the Doctor show up on 'Top Gear'? And why did he look older than when he "died"?

Addressing the aging issue first will help set up the rest.....

This Sixth Incarnation of the Doctor was not the one from Earth Prime-Time. He's the Doctor from the alternate dimension in which John Lumic created the Terran tinmen dubbed the Cybermen. But as we've seen happen in 'Star Trek' ("Mirror, Mirror") and 'Smallville' ("Luther"), when a TV character enters a new dimension without following the proper protocols, their doppelganger replaces them in the dimension of origin.

So when the Tenth Doctor, along with Mickey and Rose, crossed over into the "Over There" dimension (Yes, it's Walternate's world from 'Fringe'!), the current Doctor of that world was snapped back to Earth Prime-Time in his TARDIS.

But it wasn't a twin of Ten; it was a silver-haired Six.

Apparently, the dangers faced by the Doctor in that dimension weren't as deadly as in Earth Prime-Time. But then they didn't get any Cyberman threat from their version of the planet Mondas - their Cybermen were home-grown only recently. (Just as the Doctor of the Main Toobworld arrived.)

So the Sixth Incarnation of the Doctor didn't have any need to regenerate at the same time he did back in Earth Prime-Time. Instead, he was allowed to age naturally.

Now, the 'Doctor Who' episodes about that Cybermen world took place in 2006, while the 'Top Gear' guest shot preceded it by three years. Not a problem when your a Time Lord with a TARDIS. While he was on Earth Prime-Time for the two days of the exchange, this alternate Sixth Doctor used the TARDIS to go back and take care of a threat to Earth Prime-Time from his own dimension.

And we'll have more on that next.....

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DOCTOR E (FOR "EEEEEEEEVILLLLL!)

So when the Third Incarnation of the Doctor accidentally phased himself into the "Evil Mirror" TV dimension, as seen in "Inferno", what happened to the evil Doctor who should have been there?

As I stated earlier, the Universe probably can only handle one Time Lord known as the Doctor in a particular dimension at a time. So when the Doctor of Earth Prime-Time crossed over, the evil Doctor must have been shunted over to the main Toobworld to keep a universal balance.

The only problem was... when the Doctor of Earth Prime-Time returned, the evil Doctor stayed put there as well. He probably had no choice - if he was also stuck with a stripped down console from the TARDIS, it could have malfunctioned and left him without any method to get back home. (He may not have had an Earth to go back to by the looks of how "Inferno" ended, but since the Evil Mirror dimension has appeared in later shows like 'Star Trek: Deep Space Nine' and 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer' and even 'Community' - its appearance on 'Hercules: The Legendary Journeys took place long before on the Toobworld timeline - then for Toobworld Central purposes I'm going to say that world survived. Only that particular area was destroyed by the cracks in the earth's crust.)

When the Doctor arrived in that evil TV dimension, he found himself basically in the same situation as the one he left (drilling through the earth's crust to obtain Stahlman's gas) albeit in an England which was a fascist republic. So the evil Doctor was probably also fixing the console of the TARDIS when he was phased through the vortex. (Since it is a living entity, could that TARDIS be evil - "EEEEEVILLLLL!" - as well?)

But he wasn't at the "Inferno" site, or else evil Liz Shaw and the Brigadier and Sgt. Benton would have seen him and interacted with him. Had he been there, the evil Brigadier and his Section Leader would have recognized the Doctor of Toobworld as their own.

Just a quick note to keep things straight - the Doctor of Earth Prime-Time will be referred to as Doctor-M (for "main"), while the other Doctor will be Doctor-E (for "eeeeeevillllll!")

Wherever he landed on Toobworld, Doctor-E never made it back to his own dimension - at least that's my way of thinking. Maybe his TARDIS console was destroyed in the crossover, or when he attempted the return voyage. And maybe it was because of its damage that Doctor-E was forced into regeneration, bringing a second version of the Fourth Incarnation of the Doctor to the main Toobworld.

This Doctor-E must have accepted his fate to be stranded on a world he never knew and decided to do the best he could to adapt... and since he was eeeeeevillll!, maybe he planned to profit from his brave new world.

How? By starting a new identity as a detective for Interpol.

Even though a detective from Interpol should be on the side of law & order (cha-chun!), Doctor-E sought a position with them because it would have been the logical thing to do. (Remember, the Doctor did visit the planet Vulcan - or at least one of its moons - and must have learned from the natives about the discipline of logic and the practice of the mind-meld, which he later used on Madame de Pompadour and Donna Noble. The visit to Vulcan must have been the same for Doctor-E as well.)

A position within a world renowned police and security bureau would give him access to information that could prove useful for getting him off that backwater planet and - if not back to his home dimension, then at least back to the Gallifrey of the main TV Universe. (And who knows what kind of hell he would have unleashed there?)

I don't know why he took the name "Anatole Blaylock" as his alias while in Interpol. I checked the TARDIS wiki but neither name came up during a search of their database. It could be that it was a name that supplied by his psychic paper and nothing more.

During that next decade, Doctor-M (who by that point had gone through two more regenerations, the last one just two months before we met Doctor-E as Agent Anatole Blaylock. Doctor-M and Doctor-E never crossed paths - at least as seen on TV. 

In that time "Anatole Blaylock" became obsessed with an international jewel thief known as "Le Renard" - "The Fox". Doctor-E was maniacally fixated on Le Renard as Ahab was on Moby Dick. (It probably stemmed from Doctor-E's belief - shared by many incarnations of Doctor-M - that humans were but children to a Time Lord. In other words - not as smart. And yet Le Renard kept besting Doctor-E, or rather Inspector Blaylock.

Le Renard

 We saw the story of "Anatole Blaylock" come to its conclusion in the 'Remington Steele' episode "Hounded Steele. The last we knew of him, he was in a padded cell, just saying "Le Renard, Le Renard" over and over again.

So is he there still?

I think he escaped, at least from incarceration.

He may have gone loopy, but he was still a Time Lord. Like Marvin the paranoid android (whom Doctor-E may have met in his home dimenson; it's almost certain Doctor-M had to at some point since he knew Arthur Dent), the Doctor had a brain the size of a planet.

But to escape, he'd have to "die" and regenerate.

With a new body and new personality, Doctor-E could have easily conned the orderlies into believing he was a visiting doctor (named John Smith?) who had his clothes stolen by Blaylock, and that he was locked into the cell by Blaylock. Why shouldn't he be believed? He looked totally different from the madman who previously occupied that cell and the only clothes to be found would be the prison uniform left behind by Blaylock.

While the prison/asylum went into lockdown as they searched for Blaylock, Doctor-E would have been given a change of clothes and escorted off the premises for his own safety.

As for where he is now, I'd like to think that his re-capture and forced return to his home dimension was engineered by the Eighth Incarnation of the Doctor during one of the many adventures he must have had off-screen....

BCnU!

ALT. DOCS: KNEE-DEEP IN THE WHO-PLA

At least twice in the (televised) history of 'Doctor Who', the Time Lord traveled to a parallel Earth. In the new run of episodes since 2005, the Doctor, Rose, and Mickey visited a 21st Century world of dirigibles, where a new version of Cybermen were created, with no connection to the planet Mondas. (This all took place in the two-parter "Rise Of The Cybermen" and "The Age Of Steel".) 
In the original series, the Third Incarnation of the Doctor accidentally phased himself into a parallel world which just might have been the legendary "Evil Mirror Universe" of 'Star Trek' fame. (This happened during the story "Inferno'.)

And in both of those dimensions, even though they met alternate versions of friends, there was no doppelganger of the Doctor around.

As stated in 'Lost', the Universe always has to course-correct itself, and this could be why the Doctor never met "Himself" when in an alternate dimension. The other TV dimensions probably couldn't handle more than one version of any particular Time Lord at a time.

So - just like in the 'Star Trek' episode "Mirror, Mirror" - as one Doctor crossed over into a different dimension, the doppelganger crossed over to the main Toobworld.

(As for when several Incarnations of the Doctor from Earth Prime-Time have met each other, it has always been under extenuating circumstances - problems with the TARDIS, anti-matter universes, pocket dimensions outside of Time.... Granted, I don't have any real splainin for what happened in "The Two Doctors".....)

But these kinds of Doctoral pairings shouldn't happen unless the circumstances are exact:

I've already posted earlier today about another time when the Doctor may have crossed over into another Dimension - that of the world without Holmes. I've got theories about what happened to those other two alternate Doctors when they arrived over in Earth Prime-Time, so I'll still need to figure out where that other Doctor ended up in the main Toobworld if I'm to keep the theory valid.

Stay tuned - the next three entries will be about the Doctors you only think you've never met!

BCnU!

NO JOY TO BE HAD

Okay, here's a Zonk from the episode of 'Doctor Who' that kicked off this latest season.......

When the Silent zapped Joy in the White House bathroom (That sounds so dirty!), she was reduced to flaky scraps that looked like charred newspaper. She was nothing more than a scattered pile of ashes on the bathroom floor.

Seconds later, we see that bathroom floor from a different angle - and now the floor is clean.

I don't think a cartoon cleaner bot came out of the wall and swept it all up to the strains of Raymond Scott's "Powerhouse". So what happened to Joy?

Were we watching this scene during one of the many temporal reboots to the Universe?

BCnU!