News came forth from Mount Moffat today that (Dame) Diana Rigg will be appearing in an episode in the back half of Season 7. At the risk of using words like 'nerd-gasm' this is a callback to long, long ago days when everything British in terms of entertainment was fascinating and absorbing. For this fan the 'gateway drug' into these Bundles from Britain was not Doctor Who but rather The Avengers.
As anyone reading these pages should already know, Rigg appeared as the luminous Emma Peel from 1965-67 during the high-water for this series, or perhaps any British series ever (hyperbole intended) bringing effortless style, charm, and sex appeal all at the same time.
Dame Diana will be appearing alongside her daughter Rachael Stirling and acting together for the first time. It's probably not an accident that they are a package deal but who cares! Now if they could find a way to get Patrick McGoohan to appear in the series (which would be quite a trick considering he's dead) then my fan-life would be complete.
Matt Smith's choice of head gear to the left…. probably not an accident.
Maybe, maybe, is the story had been allowed to breathe into a fourth episode (a now common Tour complaint for McCoy 3-parters) it could've worked. As it is it's a jumble, one which hopefully rambles along fast enough to keep the unwary at bay. Tonally it tries to be more 
The Tour Executive Council had a different story planned as this weeks cap addition, but the passing of Caroline John forced an abrupt course change. 
With seven episodes to cap 
Word filtered down today June 21st that Caroline John, Jon Pertwee's first companion, died earlier this month on June 5th. The sad reality of course is that many of the beloved people on both sides of the camera who were responsible for so much of this show we adore are getting up there in age. Only three Doctors have died to date, but it at least seems that, just as we are doing today, we're having remembrances of 
Regular readers of the Tour know that we hold the seventh season back in 1970 in very high esteem. And as different as 
For fans "of a certain age" who were weened on Tom Baker on PBS oh so many years ago, 
As with previous weeks cap additions, those for 
Out and about on daily travels it suddenly hit the THT Executroids like an anvil. Today, June 13, is Valeyard Day. Back in misty remembrances of the interwebs there was a site called 6:13 dedicated to pictures of 
It's all to easy to remember that the interactions between the characters only consisted of shouting at each other across a BBC stage, but one of the coolest parts of the Trial season, including the opening effects sequence in episode 1, was the revelation, and it was Robert Holmes' last significant contribution to Doctor Who, that the Valeyard was an amalgamation of the Doctor's darker self, somewhere between his 12th and 13th (actually 11th and 12th to be fine about it) regeneration.