I seem to have got through a fair bit of Doctor Who recently, partly courtesy of a free trial from Sofa Cinema, although not helped by the post being weekly and a week behind. Although it must be improving - I've had post twice this week and one was a credit card bill which was on time. Although wrong. The saga seems never-ending.

I bought Planet of Evil from amazon and to make it up to free delivery I ended up also getting Ark in Space and Genesis of the Daleks, so I have every Harry DVD. I watched the first two episodes of Ark in Space to remind myself how Harry talks. Although by watched I mean listened. I'm fine with the green bubble-wrap monster slithering along the floor, it's the fly-like thing (which they put on the cover!) and the bloke with the green arm I just can't cope with. There was a bit I ended up winding back and then turning subtitles on for because Harry says he once got his nose caught in a sliding door in Pompey Barracks! I never knew that. But now I do. A lot of his postings aren't mentioned in canon, but it does make sense he was at Portsmouth - it's the only naval base in this country I can name for a start.

I watched some Two and Six as well. First, there was The Mind Robber. I thought from the first episode it was going to be quite a scary thing with no real alien menace revealed. Which I was quite excited about, but then it turned out to be like The Celestial Toymaker. I enjoyed it, it just wasn't quite what I was expecting based on the first episode. I did get quite excited by the quote from Little Women, which I recognised. Zoe annoyed me at first - at the end of episode 1 she points out to Jamie that the Doctor seems to be flying away from them when the TARDIS explodes. Then she pauses and then screams. It seems like she's perfectly normal and rational and then decides that actually, she'll scream. After that, though, she settled down and annoyed me less. Although she works out the pattern for the maze that bears no relation to the picture of the maze we're shown on screen...

'recommended' Mark of the Rani to me. I liked the Rani in it. The only other story I've seen her in is the Seventh Doctor's first and she spends a fair bit of that time pretending to be Mel. So this was my first chance to really see what she was like, and I really liked her. More than I like the Master. They were quite funny bickering and competing, but ultimately, the Master was a bit pointless in this story. Although what the actual story was I'm really not sure, but it was quite entertaining.

I listened to the two SJA audios. I preferred the yellow one (The Glittering Storm) to the pink one (The Thirteenth Stone), but I listened at work and was interrupted a lot during the pink one, so that probably didn't help. Although I also didn't like the premise of Sarah accompanying a school trip, so I was slightly against it from the start. It was definitely interesting in places but the alien aspect took a long time to show up. I felt that The Glittering Storm was in there much quicker. Mostly it was nice to listen to them as it made up for not watching SJA this week (or next, since I'm in London, but then I do get two in a row and that'll be the end of the series!).

I was terribly excited to discover one of the Companion Chronicles was Steven & Dodo and read by Peter Purves. I much prefer his narrations to any of the others. I liked this one - I liked the story, the setting and his impersonation of the Doctor. Most interesting was the interview at the end. Although the trailer at the end for the next one read by Frazer Hines was amusing because it sounded awfully like he'd forgotten how to do anything that sounded vaguely like a Scottish accent...

For some reason, until I heard an interview with Peter Purves a while back, I hadn't connected him with the Blue Peter presenter at all. I'd heard of him, everyone has, but I hadn't realised the actor and presenter were the same person at all. In my defence, he was a bit before my time - he stopped a year before I was born. John Leslie is the one I remember well and I hated Diane-Louise Jordan. I think it was because she replaced someone else and I felt like she dressed not like an adult (I don't think I'd grasped the idea of fashion).