'Death Of The Doctor' pre- reviews, Sarah Jane ratings, Seeds of Death Revisited, plus more news and reviews

Last Broadcast has The Sarah Jane Adventures: Death Of The Doctor, bit of an odd one this. Half the audience will be overly excited at the prospect of Matt Smith’s Doctor dropping in on Sarah Jane and the gang, but there will also be a group that will be positively foaming at the mouth at the return of Jo Grant, a former companion of The Doctor, 37 years since she was last seen in Doctor Who (this reviewer was born during her final episode). Within moments, it’s like she’s never been away.

Den of Geek has The Sarah Jane Adventures series 4 episodes 5 & 6 review: Death Of The Doctor, Matt Smith gatecrashes The Sarah Jane Adventures, and meets another old companion as he does so. Here's our spoiler-filled review of Death Of The Doctor...

Total Sci Fi has The Sarah Jane Adventures: Death of the Doctor Part 1 (Series 4, Episode 5), UNIT informs Sarah Jane and co that the Doctor has died.

The Doctor Who News Page has...

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  Sarah Jane Ratings, ..topped the weekly ratings for CBBC with both parts of the series opener getting a confirmed rating of over half a million viewers according to figures released by BARB, The Nightmare Man Part Two topped the charts with 0.67 million viewers with Part One getting 0.59 million watching.


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  DVD News - Seeds of Death Revisited, 2|entertain have confirmed that the third story in the Revisitations 2 Box Set will be the Second Doctor Story The Seeds of Death.
  

BBC Doctor Who has Matt, Karen and Arthur Light Up Cardiff, if you love a bit of early festive cheer and can't wait until Christmas to see Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill back in action, then make a note of November 10th in your diary! That's the evening when the crew of the TARDIS will be materialising in Cardiff's Civic Centre to switch on the city's famous Christmas lights.

TARDIS Scanner - Who Tube has Spotty the Dalek on Blue Peter Doctor Who 40th Anniversary.

Hecklerspray has Top 15 Sexiest Doctor Who Companions, "and for those of you who thought the hottest creatures in the universe to follow the Doctor around before Billie Piper was the Daleks, we have some good news – the 953-year-old has been grooming young hotties for years."

The Ultimate Doctor Who Site has Doctor Who DVD Files - Issue 47, the cover and info on this fornight's edition.

Rich's ComixBlog has Outrage of the Zygons - 18, back at Starlight Mansion, Mel stops Jerrica and the Holograms from calling the police, hesitant to tell them why. Jerrica convinces her to trust them and so she spills about the Doctor being an alien and that they're time/space travellors. The Holograms fall silent.

WHOGold has Index, "we've shared clips from many UK Gold broadcasts since we started back in February 2010, so here for completeness is a list of them in chronological order. Do you have any old recordings in your collection? We'd love to see them, so leave a comment if you fancy contributing!"

Who Fix has Amblin, supplied by Simon Guerrier.

The Ood Castoon 2 – Cunning Ploy of the Daleks.

Comfy Chair has The Cranky Yank in Doctor Who Land: Jelly Babies, "I read Tim Richardson’s Sweets: A History of Candy before I found Steve Almond’s Candyfreak and therefore introduced myself to British concepts I had never heard of before: rock, rhubarb and custard, pear drops, barley sugars."

Adventures in Primetime has DVD Review: Doctor Who – The Seeds of Doom, the Avengers meets Quatermass in this latest Doctor Who DVD release, a rollicking adventure which takes us from the Antarctic to the English countryside as the Doctor interrupts diabolical deeds in the greenhouse.

Total Sci Fi has Doctor Who: The Seeds of Doom, the Thing meets The Day of the Triffids in this great six-parter.

HeroPress has Moorcock's Who - Initial Thoughts..., if you commission Michael Moorcock to write a book, you are going to get a Michael Moorcock book. It's as simple as that and the BBC must have realised this when they asked Britain's foremost science-fantasy author to pen an adventure for The Doctor.

An Enterprise Of Geeks has Review - DVD: Doctor Who - Revistations 1, the latest Doctor Who boxed set is something of a curiousity. Featuring special editions of three rather special Doctor Who stories, some people who have been collecting the DVD's since their inception may be irked at the fact they are being rereleased - particularly The Talons Of Weng-Chiang which was a double disc DVD the first time round.

Doc Oho's Big Finish audios reviews has Medicinal Purposes written by Rupert Ross and directed by Gary Russell, Edinburgh, 1827. The infamous body snatchers William Burke and William Hare are at large. The local prostitutes dull their fear with cheap whisky.

Tin Dog Podcast has TDP 144: Project Destiny and A Death in the Family, 1999: Leaving her infant son behind, a young mother named Cassandra Schofield departs Bolton, seeking a better life amid the lights of London.2004: Despite the best efforts of the time-travelling Doctor, 'Cassie' Schofield dies on Dartmoor, a vampirised victim of the sinister organisation called The Forge.2021: All grown up, and a nurse at St Gart's Hospital, Thomas Hector Schofield – known as 'Hex' – meets, and becomes a companion to, that time-travelling Doctor… but remains unaware that his alien friend knew his mother, and watched her die.1854: In the Crimean War, Hex takes a bullet, and is seriously injured.

The Edwardian Adventurer has 006 – The Survivors, in which our heroes are captured by The Daleks, get a history lesson, and begin to succumb to radiation sickness.

Doctor Who Spoilers has Another bit of casting news for Series Six opener, Emilio Acqunio will be making his television debut appearing as a Busboy in the first episode of in the Moffatt penned two-part opening story....