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As someone who did German at university, I just wish Whithouse’s German actually sounded any good!

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Aiui Whithouse’s wife is German, and they’re raising their kids dual lingual. So it’s household conversational German rather than anything learned formally, I believe.

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A couple of years after this Star Trek: Discovery did a previously on which was a recap of the (originally) unbroadcast Star Trek pilot, which is about as close to the 709 episodes earlier thing as anything else could get...

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Coronation Street could do it with Ken Barlow, I suppose.

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“Previously on Doctor Who... 709 episodes ago” - no, no, no. That's up there with "Introducing John Hurt as The Doctor." It was bad enough when Tom Baker broke the fourth wall without the on-screen titles joining in.

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literally all those things are brilliant

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No, Jonn, no, no, no. It's Doctor Who, not Moonlighting or House of Cards or bloody Miranda. I blame that First Doctor. One minute you're wishing a happy Christmas to all of you at home and next thing the Pandorica opens. Outrageous.

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No, Jonn, no, no, no. It's Doctor Who, not Moonlighting or House of Cards or bloody Miranda. I blame that First Doctor. One minute you're wishing a happy Christmas to all of you at home and next thing the Pandorica opens. Outrageous.

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Maybe I'm a dunce. But I DIDN'T see the Lethbridge-Stewart thing coming a mile off.

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Have to say, I got it months before it was even on, when MG was announced as playing an unarmed WW1 military officer. Seemed inevitable!

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