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One For The Dr Who Geeks...Or Film Buffs...

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(Daisy or RB will get this in a heartbeat...)

A couple of days ago, we had occasion to re-watch one of my favorites of the high production quality, hour long version Dr. Who episodes:

"Victory of the Daleks"
The TARDIS takes The Doctor and Amy to war-torn Britain in the middle of World War Two. Not only do they meet Winston Churchill himself, but the Doctor comes face to face once again with his greatest enemy of all.

In this episode the code names "Broad Sword" and "Danny Boy" are used....

For $10,000 dollars and the car...

From which late 60s era WW II movie were those two code names lifted?

(And as always, no Googling)
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I love that episode... boy am I missing The Ponds already!

Bracewell's Ironsides ... I'm sure there is nothing more terrifying than being offered a cup of tea by a Dalek.

And of course the reference, without googling, I think was from Where Eagles Dare.

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I think was from Where Eagles Dare.
Right-o Daze...

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One of my all time favorite WW II flicks...one plot twist after another...and of course, the essential element for any good WW II film... lots of machine-gunned Nazis...(Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood...who would have thought they would make a great team?)

As Clint once wryly observed about the flick:

“Richard Burton and I killed so many Nazis in two hours, it made me wonder why the war took so long.”
- Clint Eastwood





unfortunately, I was fibbing about the 10K and the car....
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unfortunately, I was fibbing about the 10K and the car....
Tough ... I'm sending in the bailiffs!

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Daisy wrote:I love that episode... boy am I missing The Ponds already!

The ponds?
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”

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Amy Pond and Rory Williams.

Tut ... Don't you know anything Gob :)

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Apparently not, as I'm none the fucking wiser. :D
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This is what you've been missing Gob...

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Ooh a tasty ginge, nice!
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I'm definitely an Amy fan,(I'm sorry Karen Gillian decided to leave the show; I thought that she and Smith had great chemistry) but as far as Rory is concerned, he always just seemed like a third wheel to me...

I don't think the show would have lost much if they had killed him off, or dropped him in a parallel universe....
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They tried that, several times... that was the running joke. He was like Southpark's Kenny ... even the weeping angels just let him live to death.

FWIW I loved Rory a lot. He grounded Amy and made The Doctor think about what he was doing.

Big year this year with the 50th Anniversary series, I'm excited for it!

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