Of suidice pacts and Doctor Who

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Mumbles finally received the pages about my great grandmother's 'Room 667 tragedy' from the Daily Mirror archives today. Here are some of the stories. It is so strange to find things like this in the family tree, but interesting all the same.

Hmmm. The rumours still abound about Neil Gaiman writing an episode of Doctor Who. And wouldn't you just know that it would be to do with the 'Voyage of the Damned' episode? You know, Astrid (the Kylie character), who was turned into stardust? Get it? *sigh* Check this out, nicked from Life, Doctor Who and Combom:

60X The End of Time - 2009 Christmas Special
203. 251209 By Russell T Davies
At the end of the 2009 Christmas special the 10th Doctor catches a cold and it causes a temporary regeneration. He turns into a woman!

601. About Time
030410 By Steven Moffat
A darker, edgier season with a Doctor suffering from his loneliness. Two new assistants join him and together they investigate time bleeding and other strange goings on in parks around London.

602. The Dust of Stars
100410 by Neil Gaiman
Kylie Minogue is back as Astrid! Somehow she's found a way to merge with an obsolete TARDIS and, being symbiotically linked with it, she's able to trace the Doctor. She needs to warn him about an impending disaster from the center of the galaxy.

603. Scherzo
170410 by Rob Shearman
Time continues to splinter throughout the universe and the Doctor and companions fall through a crack into another universe with different rules.

604. Family Reunion
240410 by Stephen Greenhorn
Doctor-lite episode. The Doctors daughter discovers a world shifted out of phase with the rest of the universe. She finds that her symbiotic nucleii allows her access and discovers Time Lords frozen in time. She finds a way of tracing active Tardii but it leads her to discover other problems.

605. Time of the Zygons
606. Loch Ness Monsters
010510 by Helen Raynor
080510
The Zygons have taken control of a black hole in the center of the galaxy. They have been experimenting with time travel and discover how to grow almost anything in a fraction of the time. In minutes they have a Zygon army, ready to take over the galaxy with the help of a zetronic beam.

606. Fractured Time
607. Merlin
150510 by Steven Moffat
220510
Jack is back. But he's not the Jack we know. People from the Doctor's past return to haunt him. The unstable black hole is causing ruptures in space time, allowing universes to bleed through from alternative realities. There is a real risk of the Doctor being sucked into one permanently.

608. Ice Time
290510 by Ben Aaronovitch
The Doctor is trapped in a field of frozen time in an alternate reality. It's up to the Brigadier and UNIT to rescue him, with the help of a few friends.

All sounds very intriguing, but the Neil Gaiman thing seems to be stretching my suspension of disbelief. I would like to be proved wrong, but it just sounds a little too cheesy!