Starring Peter Davison, Janet Fielding & Sarah Sutton. Written by Jonathan Morris & Directed by Jamie Anderson. Reunited with the Doctor and Nyssa, Tegan joins them on a trip to Amsterdam's Rijkmuseum to see a new exhibition of the work of Rembrandt van Rijn, featuring his drawings of “Vessels of the Stars”. The Doctor is astonished to discover that they are designs for spaceships that would actually work, and decides to pop back to the Dutch Golden Age for a quiet word with Rembrandt – but the world-weary artist is no mood to help. Meanwhile, strange forces are swirling in the canals, creatures from ancient myth, the watery, goblin-like Nix. What is their connection to the mysterious Countess Mach-Teldak – and to the events of Tegan’s life during her year away from the Doctor? After a good five years with one fixed TARDIS team for the fifth Doctor, The Waters Of Amsterdam sees a nice soft-reboot for the fifth Doctor era. And, of course, when you want to try and ...
The pointless witterings of a student as he stumbles through life, involving music, Doctor Who and general musings on life