The idea of premonitory dreams foretelling the titular End of Time has undoubted spine-chilling potential, but not when the dreamer of them is Bernard Cribbins. Five years later, having propelled the show to cosmic ratings and boosted its international profile, he's bowing out with 'The End of Time', which finds the earth a day away from annihilation, thanks to the return of The Master (John Simm, pictured below).īut the more portentous Davies' plots become, the more they burst the seams of the show's eccentric structure. Tennant's first full-length outing as the Doc was in 'The Christmas Invasion', on Christmas Day 2005. In Christmas Day's first half of David Tennant's swansong as the Doctor, we even found such grizzled old lags of British light entertainment as Bernard Cribbins and June Whitfield.

Although the cardboard scenery and risible special effects that used to lend Doctor Who much of its jerry-built charm have been digitally upgraded, the series is still a hard-to-define mix of soft sci-fi and a kind of slapstick Carry On-style Britishness.

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