REVIEW:
Blu-ray review: Doctor Who – The Complete Fourth Series
(BBC/Roadshow Entertainment, PG)
Last Christmas Peter Capaldi became the latest actor to play the Doctor.
His few seconds in the role at the end of The Time of the Doctor will have been watched and rewatched by fans the world over who are curious to know what he will make of the job.
While we will have to wait until August to see the new Doctor join Clara Oswald (Jenna Coleman) on her adventures in time and space a less than subtle clue to Capaldi’s abilities appear in the fourth series of Doctor Who episode The Fires of Pompeii recently released on high definition Blu-ray for the first time.
Back in 2008 David Tennant was the tenth Doctor, Catherine Tate his third companion Donna Noble, and Capaldi the Roman trader whose home the Tardis ended up in ahead of the eruption of Mt Vesuvius in 79 AD.
The Fires of Pompeii was a fan favourite long before Capaldi was cast as the Doctor, for all its intrigue and drama, but now you have to wonder whether show runner will find some way of working Fires of Pompeii into the new Doctor’s back story.
