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It’s not often that television steals away my very breath. Perhaps I’ve become too cynical. But tonight, after watching the first episode of Dr Who, series (gasp!) 28, which in itself was mostly brilliant and set the new Doctor into the storyline very well, I went over to BBC Three for the background story. Spoilers follow

At the very end of the ‘making of…’ documentary, David Tennant walks on to screen and says ‘hello, Sarah-Jane.’ And she turned around and it was Sarah-Jane Smith (or more correctly Elisabeth Sladen), albeit a tad older. Nothing much really. But ‘my’ Doctor was Jon Pertwee, and Sarah-Jane was ‘my’ Doctor’s sidekick. Immediately, I was washed over with empathic memory which indeed, literally, took my breath away. I guess the important things of childhood have that hook into the psyche that more grown up experiences never manage. I can’t wait… 🙂
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