Doctor Who, “Resolution”
New Year’s Special 2019
Written by Chris Chibnall
Directed by Wayne Yip
Starring Jodie Whittaker, Tosin Cole, Mandip Gill, and Bradley Walsh
Guest Starring Daniel Adegboyega, Nicholas Briggs, Nikesh Patel, and Charlotte Ritchie
Original Broadcast 1 January 2019 (60 minutes)
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In keeping with my habit of wondering about people I never see or talk to (and may not know at all), I decided to see how some of them are doing in the crisis.
Standing Rock, December 2016. Photo by John Griswold.
LaDonna…
Nicholas Vreeland is what passes for American royalty. He is the grandson of Diana Vreeland, the famous Editor-in-Chief of Vogue, and related to George Washington and Francis Scott Key. His father, “Freck,” was a longtime CIA officer and diplomat, and Nicky, as his family calls him, was born in…
Doctor Who, “The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos”
Series 11, Episode 10
Written by Chris Chibnall
Directed by Jamie Childs
Starring Jodie Whittaker, Tosin Cole, Mandip Gill, and Bradley Walsh
Guest Starring Mark Addy, Percelle Ascott, Phyllis Logan, and Samuel Oatley
Original Broadcast 9 December 2018 (49 minutes)
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If the Fleeting World is but a long dream,
It does not matter whether one is young or old.
But ever since the day that my friend left my side
And has lived an exile in the City of Chiang-ling,
There is one wish…
Doctor Who, “It Takes You Away”
Series 11, Episode 9
Written by Ed Himes
Directed by Jamie Childs
Starring Jodie Whittaker, Tosin Cole, Mandip Gill, and Bradley Walsh
Guest Starring Sharon D. Clarke, Kevin Eldon, Christian Rubeck, Lisa Stokke, and Eleanor Wallworks
Original Broadcast 2 December 2018 (49 minutes)
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Doctor Who, “The Witchfinders”
Series 11, Episode 8
Written by Joy Wilkinson
Directed by Sally Aprahamian
Starring Jodie Whittaker, Tosin Cole, Mandip Gill, and Bradley Walsh
Guest Starring Alan Cumming, Siobhan Finneran, Tricia Kelly, and Tilly Steele
Original Broadcast 25 November 2018 (49 minutes)
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I have been thinking about relative dangers, recently, since everything now seems like a calculus of risk. I also want to be able to give my children perspective, as their isolation continues, a graduation has been canceled, and their futures teeter. Those who have been shocked at the sudden…
Doctor Who, “Kerblam!”
Series 11, Episode 7
Written by Pete McTighe
Directed by Jennifer Perrott
Starring Jodie Whittaker, Tosin Cole, Mandip Gill, and Bradley Walsh
Guest Starring Julie Hesmondhalgh, Leo Flanagan, Claudia Jessie, and Lee Mack
Original Broadcast 18 November 2018 (50 minutes)
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Because my overseas tour in the army was in the Republic of Panama, I was pleased to find a book, after I got home, called The Isthmus of Panama, and What I Saw There (1852), by Chauncey D. Griswold (no known relation).
Chauncey Griswold was a surgeon for the…