Doctor Who "The Star Beast"

The Doctor (David Tennant) returns to Earth with his 'new old' face and bumps into a woman carrying packages.  What are the odds she would turn out to be none other than Donna Noble (Catherine Tate).  He replaces the package back he was helping with as he recalls, as do we, that if she ever remembers him again she will die.  Then she tells him to take them back since he was helping her.  As he hears her call out to Rose (Yasmin Finney).  No not that Rose.  She's sending her packages to Abu Dhabi and she has her own small business.  As she takes the packages a starship crashes, which Donna misses even after Rose tells her to look.  Taking it's a starship with a pinch of salt.  

The Doctor rushes to the crash and takes a taxi.  Surprise, surprise, it turns out to be Donna's husband, small world.  Her husband, Shaun Temple (Karl Collins) asks him how he knows her and the Doctor name drops Nerys.  She didn't take his last name cos then she'd have been known as Donna Noble Temple.  The Doctor also asks why she gave away her lottery winnings, £166 MILLION.  She gave it to charity but they only bought the house.  As you recall he returned the pound to Wilf and the lottery ticket she had on her wedding day.  The Doctor recalls that Donna saved him by absorbing all his memories, this would have destroyed her mind, but the Doctor saved her by wiping out her memory of him.  However as she tells Sylvia (Jacqueline King) she has a feeling something is missing in her life.  

As he heads to the crash site, UNIT is already there and so is Shirley Bingham (Ruth Madeley).  He tells her about Donna and why he's hiding out.  Apparently the ship carries a creature, a cuddly type that hides out in the ally by Donna's house, again, small world.  As Rose heads to where the pod landed, following her neighbour, but it's empty.  As she returns she finds the creature, an alien known as Meep the Beep.  She takes him back as he says the others are after him.  They killed his species for his fur.  Also he's similar to some of the cuddly toys Rose makes.  Donna returns to the shed and he's rumbled.  UNIT opens the ship and the soldiers are overtaken by something causing their eyes to illuminate and trance-like as they head to Donna's house.

Donna and Sylvia talk about Rose and her gender change when the boys from school call her out on the street and call her Jason.  She's proud of her daughter as she tells Sylvia.  The Doctor of course heads there too and wants to be let in, but Sylvia refuses.  He uses the sonic and she doesn't want Donna to see him.  She hits him and he says she's done that to him before.  The Meep enters as soldiers have a shoot out and two insect-like creatures appear, known as the Wrarth, to take him away.  The Doctor constructs a forcefield barricade using his Sonic and they head to the attic.  Crossing though the attic of five houses they find Shaun's taxi and make their exit.  But not before the Doctor checks out the soldier's pulse.

Heading back to the steel factory they are chased by the soldiers and the Doctor says maybe the creatures aren't after Meep but are here to protect him, or not.  He uses a Shadow Proclamation to cease hostilities until he otherwise permits and finds out Meep is actually the bad one.  He recalls sun psychosis which affects the eyes.  His race ate the Wrarth.  Meep kills off the Wrarth and the Doctor gets hit over the head, in what seems like such an easy way to get him and the others are taken back to the steelworks.  The Doctor can also draw maps with his Sonic now.  

They make their escape as Shirley helps them by firing darts from her wheelchair and the Doctor comments they have those now.  No, they had them all the time.  The Doctor needs to stop the ship from launching as the drag drive will destruct London killing nine million people.  As he tells the Noble's to leave, Donna goes with him and he needed her help too.  He makes her remember as they recite words in a countdown sequence.  She says she's a nobody and no one will miss her but she has to save Rose and the other nine million.  He says she's somebody to him.  They countdown to "binary binary..." and then she pushes buttons averting the ship from taking off and does succumb to her death.

However, she doesn't die as Rose was also helping.  Donna managed to half the effect of the energy she absorped and is saved.  Rose took on his memories too and she even named herself.  They head off on another adventure and Donna wants to go on one last trip.  If only to unveil the inside of the newly revamped TARDIS.  All clean and steely looking, "chrome" as she calls it.  He even has a coffee machine, mistake, as that's what got her fired from her job, she spilled coffee in the computer.  As she does here.  Making the TARDIS go haywire and they disappear somewhere.

Fast paced scenes and dialogue including a scene where the Meep refers to gender pronouns and says  "My chosen pronoun is the definite article – I am always ‘the’ Meep."  The Doctor replies, "I do that."   Talking of what the Doctor’s pronouns are and surmising that they’re just "the".  This ep was a story based on the 1980 comic book Doctor Who and the Star Beast.  The Doctor also realizes that Wilf is in  a home and isn't dead as he thought.  A nice touch for not having to go through Wilf not really being around.  Good to see Doctor Ten return, one of my faves after Eleven, and another two eps to go.

Ghost Adventures "Orcutt Ranch"

West Hills, California, in the woods with secrets on the grounds leading to a haunting.  William Orcutt built a ranch with an alter in the basement with secret society ceremonies.  Workers see a boy they call an identity disguising himself and Zak asks if it's connected to a double murder homicide next door in 1922.  Zak thinks that if the trees have eyes that they're being watched.  Lots of energy around.  Aaron likes the real bamboo.  In the orchard Aaron goes fruit picking when they're not meant to pick the fruit.  Billy even eats the orange.  Zak says it could be a bad omen to picking it.  Shown by what happened to Billy later, perhaps.  The Orcutts moved to the ranch in 1921.  In 1922 the neighbours were killed and could someone working for the Orcutts could have done it.  He's not saying they specifically did it but it's coincidental.  The killer wasn't caught.  The lights flicker inside and wonders if this could be a warning from the spirits there or the fire that covered up the double murder.  Aaron says it could be the curse of the orange.

Oil pioneer Orcutt built his ranch in 1921 known as Orcutt rancho sombre del oble.  Land once belonged to Shumash Tongvay tribe.  In the 1960's the remaining estate was taken over by LA City.  Need to find the source of the energy holding onto the land.  Christine says the house has spirits and entities.  The forest has a dark energy and they feel watched.  In the forest she says she saw the spirit of a little boy and he watched her and her daughter and then he vanished.  No documented deaths of children and Zak believes it was a malevolent entity posing as a child.  The land has darkness.  Jay and Zak see a solid shadow walking there where the boy was seen.  Zak sees two anomalies.  A strange chair is there and he is drawn towards the chair and sits in it.  "Constant name children" comes through on the Ovilus.  Could it be referring to the boy spirit.  As he gets up "Form thirteen" comes through.  Thirteen is part of occultism and refers to a ritual.  

The Paranormal Housewives wait outside as they enter for the first time.  Cold air greets them inside.  Billy feels warm air around him.  In the basement they got pushed and they're not liked as they're women.  A sacred place for men.  They think thirteen people are in a circle harking back to the Ovilus response.  In the basement they walk into a secret place.  Something was conjured here.  Zak reads from a book of incantations and one of them feels there's something next to her, a portal like a black hole.  They're hot and cold.  Smell perfume and cigars.  In the room with the pink paint they got some EVPs.  Zak thinks the incantation opened a door to the other side.  An EVP is caught.  Two circles of light behind Billy and he felt heat around him.  Same thing Zak saw on his thermal.  There's a third ball on the painting isn't there.  

But that voice "now that I'm older and in control...I have an intention for a hanging."  Zak says the spirit has been carrying out dark deeds.  He thinks the neighbour's killer was caught in the basement.  

In the basement again with the XLS.  At the bottom of the stairs a black anomaly appears.  A male voice is heard in the basement.  I heard that and I thought it was Aaron!! Ha.  Sounds like "it did."  As Aaron sits down a figure appears in front of the door.  It then appears by Aaron and grabs his head and arm. 

Aaron then says he saw a snake on his leg or it could have been an arm.  Billy's heart rate increases erratically.  Was that cos of the orange he ate.  A ball of light appears behind Zak.  As soon as he says Orcutt and asks for the motion balls to be lit up if he wants them to leave.  Aaron stays and the door closes by itself.  

The guesthouse is above the basement.  In the bathroom a noise is heard.  The Ovilus says "Show The Living."  The shower door is heard.  An anomaly leaves the bathroom.  In the main house from the device says "hey."  The lights come on.  A voice says "I did it."  Billy says Aaron touched him, why would he.  One of the crystals on the chandelier moves.  A sound is heard.  A light anomaly is also seen and Billy sees it too.  He says Aaron touched him again.  A white mist appears in front of him again.  In the forest a mist is caught and then a smallish black shadow figure on the throne chair.  Could that be the boy spirit.  Zak says there are compelling paranormal happenings in the house with intelligent responses and mists, anomalies, Poltergeist activity and a figure with Aaron.  Zak suggests that the secrets want to be told.