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Children in Need

curated: a sneak peek at the 2016 Doctor Who Christmas special

Sat, Nov 19, 2016
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Oh, Doctor Who, I wish I could quit you.

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Doctor Who thing: Children in Need clip from “The Day of the Doctor”

Sat, Nov 16, 2013
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Bonus Saturday Doctor Who thing!

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London photo of the day: Pudsey as Patsy

Fri, Nov 15, 2013
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Dressed by Joanna Lumley as her character from Absolutely Fabulous, for charity.

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Doctor Who thing of the day: so many Doctors at Children in Need 1985

Tue, Jan 22, 2013
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Look at everyone who showed up at Children in Need in 1985…

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Doctor Who thing of the day: “The Great Detective,” Christmas prequel minisode (plus a trailer)

Mon, Nov 19, 2012
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Apparently the Doctor has retired to become a Dickens villain…

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Doctor Who thing of the day: Matt Smith gets naked for Children in Need…

Mon, Nov 21, 2011
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…and teases us with a trailer for the Christmas special…

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Doctor Who thing of the day: Guinness World Record for a Dalek collection

Thu, Sep 15, 2011
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Rob Hull of Doncaster has 571 Daleks. Not exactly an invasion force, but impressive, I suppose…

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‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “The Pandorica Opens”

Sun, Jun 20, 2010
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Made of spoilers. Don’t read until you’ve seen the episode.

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watch it: “Children in Need 2009: Doctor Who: The End Of Time preview”

Mon, Nov 23, 2009
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Spoilers for David Tennant’s upcoming finale episodes, and — in my commentary below — for “The Waters of Mars”: It looks like the Doctor has taken a little time to recover from the nightmare of “Waters of Mars” (I’ll write about that soon; tomorrow, I hope) by going to someplace and getting lei’d. And laid, … more…

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