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My apologies - my memory of Clara is fastidiously dim, and getting dimmer all the time. Did she give him a bollocking I've somehow erased?

My favourite place on a Saturday evening during the WHO season. Fantasy, nostalgia, escapism, wish-fulfillment... limitless creativity.

Apologies for my ignorance - never been to Dallas - of course there must be a museum, but it had never occurred to me that it was right there. It's such as huge moment in recent American history, that being aware of the President's actual memorial (which is Arlington, right?) and cashing in on...

(1) Apparently not, because it didn't - I was watching carefully. (2) I suspect the writer(s) are entitled to plead the "real science says" defence -e.g. bumble bees can be aerodynamically proven to be incapable of achieving flight - but this is OK because bees don't bother to read scientific...

I'm the generation who knew exactly where we were when we heard John Lennon was dead - but I'd still rather go the the Cavern next time I'm west of the Pennines - to celebrate his life and give Chapman f*** all attention, beacuse that's why he pulled the trigger.

Sadly I've still never seen the original and only know of it from Ed Wood. It must be due for a re-release, surely? I'd pay top dollar for Eddie Izzard and Grayson Perry's commentaries on it over half a century after it was made!

Colour me polarised, then, don't see why people have a problem! I think it's a hoot. :emoji_yum:

Hi Doc, Just for once I wish there were an alternative to click on, something on the lines of "hmm, interesting" - just "like" seems wrong for this under the circumstances. I suppose that in England the places where many kings were murdered, killed in battle or otherwise disappeared in dubious...

Not surprised! Presumably (unlike the Tower) not at all touristy, but simply still there?

Yes, I get that now - YOUR edit would be well worth seeing and comparing! Twice over (I mean both trilogies) I've thought that the extended versions were spot on for their interpretations, because I felt short-changed by what the studios wanted to release in cinemas - Fellowship of the Ring...

Oh I wish I remembered it from the first time round - but you've all happily reminded me of the glorious 50th and Mark Gatiss's An Adventure in Time and Space instead!

Who was insulted? - no one who enjoyed themselves three times over as the newly-evolved version of the story unfolded. What was insulted - your intelligence? Certainly not Professor T. - he's long gone. The titles of the films were BIG clues that what was on offer wasn't: First Third of the...

I think perhaps YOU suffered from not getting the Hobbit films you really wanted (which is a shame for you, obviously). I don't have my books to hand, but I bet I could find you plenty of "silly" in Lord of the Rings, that didn't make it to the screen, but there's plenty that did - for me it's...

True, but I'm not sure I can think of any Hollywood film kids who aren't (E.T., Hook, the 20 minutes of Phantom Menace I actually saw...all very annoying). OK quick retract - I like the kid in Jurassic Park, or maybe just the way Spielberg destruct-tests the little twerp at every opportunity.

Thanks everyone for clearing up the zit reference - NOW it makes sense (and, sadly, is true, true.)

Hope she's feeling better today?

Such memories of seeing this the first time - no words for how sad, how sweet, how shocking...does it come in a Korean translation yet? Might not be a bad idea.

Oi, Mustang! I'd be howling at the moon for a couple of those if I wasn't already full of yesterday's beef/reed wine stew I finished off today - but tell me, please, where does the sawn-off log fit in? - That's way too much roughage for me!

Hi Bux, Thanks for suggestions to expand the repertoire - when I lived in Birmingham, there were a couple of cinemas which specialised in showing arrivals from Bollywood, etc, and having a Punjabi flatmate helped there; but now it's not so much a case of overlooking Asian cinema more generally...

OK (just nipped away to check some vital background facts) . Acclaimed, clearly, because it features twice in the Whoverse (still not too sure I like that abbreviation, but it'll do). City of Death (Tom Baker's Doctor in 1979) and Sarah Jane's Revenge of the Mona Lisa in 2009. Oh, the actual...