From Newsgroup: rec.arts.drwho.moderated
From Address: nospam_nov03@jhall.co.uk
Subject: Re: jphalt's Doctor Who reviews

In article
<0a273f41-88cb-446e-bedc-dc7371169e44@k28g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>,
 "jphalt@aol.com"  writes:
>THE SARAH JANE ADVENTURES: DEATH OF THE DOCTOR

>
>At a brisk 52 minutes total, all of it in the company of characters
>who are effortlessly likable, this is definitely a worthwhile
>addition, both to The Sarah Jane Adventures and to Doctor Who.

I agree with that summary. What really made it memorable for me was the
marvellous performance by Katy Manning. I think that both she and Lis
Sladen were better actors by then than they had been some forty years
earlier, which I suppose is only to be expected. (I understand that
nowadays one isn't supposed to call them "actresses". :)

>
>
>Rating: 7/10.
>

I'd probably give it 8.

I know that some people turn their noses up at the SJA series, and I'm
glad that you aren't among them. I must confess that I rather turned my
nose up at it myself before I started watching it, thinking that it
would be "kid's stuff". But when I overcame my prejudice and began
watching, I found that it was very engaging, and sometimes incorporated
some more imaginative story-lines than most of those in "Doctor Who"
proper.
-- 
John Hall
             "The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism
              by those who have not got it."
                                              George Bernard Shaw

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