{"id":256,"date":"2011-08-31T21:35:26","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T04:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/?p=256"},"modified":"2011-08-31T21:36:30","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T04:36:30","slug":"doctor-who-and-the-curse-of-the-fatal-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/31\/doctor-who-and-the-curse-of-the-fatal-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Who and the Curse of the Fatal Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the many things I admire about British television is its ability to do a little good. Case in point: the comedy versions of shows done as part of charity events. You <em>never<\/em> see these in American TV.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s one of my favorites:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Do-wDPoC6GM\">Doctor Who and the Curse of the Fatal Death<\/a> (YouTube, with an ad in front)<\/p>\n<p>Rowan Atkinson as The Doctor, Jonathan Pryce as The Master. Written by Steven Moffat, who is the current producer of Dr Who.<\/p>\n<p>Footnote: Now that you&#8217;ve seen &#8220;Let&#8217;s Kill Hitler&#8221;, watch this again and see how the distinguished Mr Moffatt stole <em>from himself<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the many things I admire about British television is its ability to do a little good. Case in point: the comedy versions of shows done as part of charity events. You never see these in American TV. Here&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/31\/doctor-who-and-the-curse-of-the-fatal-death\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0},"categories":[32],"tags":[31,29,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271,"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions\/271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.patrickconnors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}