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Because the Doctor used the Butterfly Compensation switch in episode 1 - which he'd forgotten to used before Ruby had stepped on the butterfly.

Hah! Glad I'm not the only one thinking that!

The latest season will be starting on BBC on Tuesday the 21st May. And Patrick has released a book.

Growing up, we only had a small library in my town. Kids books on one side, adults on the other. But once we were 12 or 13, the librarian used to let us take one book from the adult side each time we went in. Of course, I'm pretty sure that if we'd picked anything *too* adult, she would have refused to check it out for us. The perils of living in a small town where the librarian knew everybody!

Okay, can the next Star Trek spinoff be something like 'The Young Jett Reno Chronicles' where we get to find out more about her pre-Starfleet history? Loved the lines Adira "Wow you really got around" (beat) "Not like that!" Jett "Yes like that!"

I think there were too many civilians around for them to get a clear shot.

I would presume that Sydney is being at least partly funded by an Australian production company, given that it's filming in Australia with Australian actors.

Call the midwife also has the youngest looking babies on TV - probably because they have the system in place to hire baby babies rather than the six month olds that pass for newborns on most other shows. https://www.bordbia.ie/whats-in-season/vegetables/swedes/ This is a swede, although in Ireland we'd usually refer to it as a turnip.

Oh yes, pumpkins weren't a big thing in Ireland in the 70s/80s, so we used carve up a turnip or swede for the jack-o-lanterns. Bloody difficult though!

The cynic in me is wondering if they deliberately delayed the official announcement so that they could have the cast help promote the 1000 episodes deal without it being overshadowed.

She didn't and it wasn't. Michael put something into the locket so that when Moll and L'ak scanned it, they'd see that it came from their universe and not the mirror one and would think that it was the actual clue. The real clue was the one that the pair had found in sickbay. So I guess this episode with their backstory is meant to make us feel sorry for the poor little star crossed lovers who are just trying to get the big bad Breen off their back. Feck that, I don't want half an episode in the final season devoted to the big bad of the season. I'd much rather an episode showing Owosekun and Detmer bringing the ISS Enterprise back to base. (and if that is just an excuse to have them not appear in the next few episodes, I'm going to really annoyed)

The only thing I'd add to @Notabug summary is that Mae was originally in line to be adopted by a Chinese family in the UK, but one of the prospective parents was taken ill and Mae was going to be left in the orphanage indefinitely with no guarantee that the placement would ever happen. (in real life, apparently the reason Mae was added to the Turner family was so that the actress playing Angela would have somebody her own age on set to spend time with)

I'm pretty sure that Doc Clara was intended to be high as a kite on whatever painkillers she'd been given after the surgery. Just the way she was speaking, her voice a fraction too loud for the room. She was flying!

Well done show. You had me feeling sorry for Angela when I thought she was going to die (and leave her cat behind). Well played.

I thought that Nina was a bit overly dismissive of Scola's concerns - which to me, weren't all that unreasonable. Yes, they are both in dangerous jobs, and yes, either of them could get killed on the job. But the odds of both of them dying on the same day on the job are a lot less than say them both dying in the same plane crash. Unless of course they're working together undercover. It's all about reducing the risks that their kid will be orphaned, not about getting rid of them altogether.

I'm sorry it's been cancelled, but so far season 3 has been such a disappointment, I'm not as sorry as I would have been a year ago. I just hope they haven't left it on another cliffhanger.

Question though. Was dry drowning a widely recognized medical condition back in the 60s? I got the impression from the episode that Timothy only knew about it because of a case he'd seen in the hospital during his training. As a General Practitioner and a trained Midwife, it's not exactly something that Patrick or Shelagh would necessarily have come across.

Have you never heard of a Black Russian before? 😀

Maybe they'll have Beckett recognize the signs and be the one to save her.

They went and spoke to the widow of the previous accountant who had been killed in a hit and run. She was able to tell them that pictures of the incident existed at the 'centre' so Colter knew that he had to go there.

The redhead? Do you mean Tilly? Why would that require any suspension of disbelief?

I presume Maggie has some sort of child care in place while she's working - I would guess she kept on her friends's nanny.

Mine was 30 years ago this year and I only remember the exact year because it was as a result an injury that happened a few weeks before my niece was born.

This is why you need to have a Plan, and not just leave things to chance 😜

Speaking as somebody who learned to drive on a stick shift, having a bit of a heel on your shoe is actually a big help while driving. Having a heel allows you to keep in contact with the floor while raising and lowering the pedals which gives you more control than if you have to 'hover' your feet. (IIRC, Mythbusters did a sequence on it and said that high heels weren't necessarily an impairment)