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New Street branch in Brum had both - cheers MAnga.  The Dredd one is the better of the two, but if theyd just swapped out Mean Team for Ace Trucking, they could ahve made something of the 2000AD one... though I cant fault it given it does include the time machine future shock!  There was also  an art of commando or War/battle book that looked interesting, but then I sae James May had done the intro and couldnt bring myself to investigate further.

Presumably this was the episode that Tharg appeared in? Shame it wasnt an interview with him on the DVD!

Drokk! Zombie Chukwalla!

The names arent that daft if you consider it as a sensible way of assigning each potential dead GI his preferred slot.  They are trained to specialise in using the features of each bit of kit.  They probably operate in 4 man teams, with a spare or "rogue" 4th member who can fit into any role for flexibility.

You can see the genies now giving out the names half jokingly, half practically as each new clone popped.

Brendan - why does it matter so much its  success?  Why should we worship RTD if what we watch is ultimately dissatisfying for us as an individual viewer?  I am a big fan of Who as a kid, but do I want it back in any shape - would I want it back in name only, but successful, so I can finally say " I told you Dr Who was good", and have the viewing figures to back it up?

TV has changed, and RTD was certainly canny in how he approached new Who... but I still maintain theres an audience hungry for something not mainstream, and its an audience that I think Moffatt is playing slightly more towards.  For example, my brother was/is not a sci-fi fan in the way I am, but he finds RTD Who and Moffatt Who unpalatable as much as he finds soaps unpalatable.  If the show was more like it was, I suspect he'd be more likely to actually watch it - I think mainstream is an odd concept really.  Theres different streams, and some are probably bigger than others, but one isnt more valid than another.  I think Who that was 50% more like old Who than RTD, or 50% less like old Who than RTD would both find an audience, if they were handled well.  Moffatt has lost fans, and he has gained fans - such is the way of Dr Who!  It took real neglect to kill it off before, and I suspect it will take the same again. Dr Who, with the support and funding of the BBC, and decent people with their own vision in charge, will always find an audience.  It would perhaps change whether you were discussing the programme with the hot chick from Accounts or the spod from IT possibly, but I can't find it in myself to support the reverse snobbery of "if this doesnt appear in Heat, we are doomed"

Brendan1  - I can only repeat what others have said.. If theres any "fascism of opinion" with regards the merits of RTD Dr Who within "superfandom", then its wholly positive as far as I can see.   

From Ian Levine to Jonathon Blum to superfans like Moffatt, Gatiss and Roberts, (who could be forgiven for their bias!), they've all sold the line that the naysayers are just hard sci-fi snobs who want Bidmead to bring back mathematics over emotions.

If anything, fans have embraced the new series success at all costs, and it seems to be returning or casual viewers who are more suspect of the whole thing.. after all, the superfan can watch McCoy, so a bit of RTD is childs play!  Its probably more likely to be fair weather fans like myself (stopped after Tom) who are giving it stick.  Though admittedly theres no stats to prove it either way!

Well, I thought we had it difficult as parents nowadays, with designer gear and i-phones the only way to ensure the love and respect of our offspring - now it seems even that isnt enough.

Todays child will accept nothing more than the reversal of physical / mechanical augmentation by an alien race purely through your will to see/hear them screaming for more much deserved attention.

We can all draw our own conclusions about the security guard, staff and shoppers, who clearly really didnt care that much for their families - being turned into Cybermen is only poetic justice, the heartless bastards.

I thought it was woeful, though I suppose Karma dictated that after 2 episodes that were really good, we ahd to go back to the power of love that force from up above.

Hitler one was only good for the sake of wrapping up a lot more tedious River stuff than I imagined it would...

Girl who waited and God Complex i enjoyed more than most new Whos.... what was the other one this half season?

What Cthulhious said - Lets Kill Hitler pretty much laid a lot of the river Song stuff to bed (though we still have that pic of Amy and baby from episode 2?). Thank God, because River Song is the thing that irritates me most about Moffat Who

I'd rather have complicated and kind of makes sense if you think about it over simple but makes no sense if you think about it, like we had under the previous bunch...

There's another one with a fandango dancing couple on the cover if i recall corerctly?

Is that original prog 2 artwork chopped up and resized?

It is indeed.  My understanding is that  the 2000AD editorial codged that up as an example of how the strip would work, and the paper were impressed enough to want to run it.  Why they didnt get the mighty Ronster to redraw it I don't know... well, I suppose I do know, as it was a freebie for them, but kinda weird way to start the strip from the readers point of view!

I believe the sunday Telegraph is an Australian/ New Zealandy rag that also printed the Daily Star Dredd - this being kindly copied for me many years back.

So technically, this one wouldnt have appeared at the end of the August 1981, but I'm assuming its the same thing!

..give or take a day

This is the beginning of the end. Expect Dr Who to be back in audio book format within a few years, because this TV incarnation is doomed.

Unless RTD deigns to come back, and brings with him Rose, Tennant or Ecclestone and some enjoyable peak-time sci-fi fun.

RIP.

Thing is Brendan, I thought the same about RTD Who - I couldnt imagine the audience would put up with the same old garbled smug nonsense week in week out.  Yet strangely, they did.  All evidence suggests that the same is happening here.  I was wrong about RTD destroying the audience, and I suspect you are wrong here. 

Thats not to say I think the show is great under Moffatt - it is often too pleased by its own cleverness.  But I find that more acceptable than RTDs pleased at its own stupidity version.

The one good thing about this episode is that it wrapped up a lot of River Song stuff (hopefully!).  Though as a season opener, it really felt like part 3 - could have done with a basic adventure just to get the viewers back in before this really, and remind them of a few of the plot threads that were going to get revisited here.

materially, the state will put a roof over your head and give you enough to pay your bills.  Probably as much as the guy next door who actually works

When I stop dying of laughter, will you tell us another one?

Seriously Exile,  i see the figures on this everyday.  Maybe not cash in your hand, but add in housing benefit, council tax rebates, free prescriptions and school meals etc, and the gap is less than you think, even before you add in premiums and additional benefits that some can claim.

OK, if you could get a job near the average (or median) wage, you'd stand to benefit (perhaps!), but if you ahve no skills and are going to be on or around minimum wage?

Then theres the cost of getting into work (bus car train), child care costs, clothing for that job, and the cost of your time. I don't blame anyone for doing the maths and realising its not worth their time.  Working tax credits and such have gone some way to addressing this, but are the first things to face the cutbacks, with rates already reduced.