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Last spring the BBC website for Doctor Who hid messages in the Fourth Dimension section of the episode pages. The messages stopped after the Rebel Flesh; however, they have started up again. Here is the collection of messages:

The Impossible Astronaut: All the secrets you seek can be found here on the Webb.

Day of the Moon: We found your message, your alive, but what secrets d'you mean my friend?

Curse of the Black Spot: I mean I glimpsed him! and May the gods help him or perhaps you can!

The Doctor’s Wife: To see what I saw click the beyond the Doctor's home planet. (The video “Analysis Lessons” can also be found by clicking on the period after the word Gallifrey.)

The Rebel Flesh: Message interrupted.

The Almost People: (no message)

A Good Man Goes to War: (no message)

Let’s Kill Hitler: When reason slept, when mothers wept, when soldiers crept, the monsters came.

Night Terrors: (no message)

The Girl Who Waited: Late Friday afternoon.

I am aware of the previous discussion about these messages posted on this board a few months ago, but I thought I would start a fresh discussion here.MasterIII 22:09, August 28, 2011 (UTC)

The BBC revealed that the messages in the first half of the season were advertisement for a Doctor Who Live stage show for children. (See http://www.combom.co.uk/2011/06/doctor-who-fourth-dimension-mystery.html for the details.)

Of course it's always possible that's a red herring; the messages could still be a clue to something, and the BBC took the opportunity to advertise the stage show and also widen awareness of the clues at the same time. And either way, it's possible that the new messages are different. The new line, I'm imagining Amy saying it as a voiceover at the start of Night Terrors, more than anything related to the big arc stories, but I could be way off. --173.228.85.35 22:19, August 28, 2011 (UTC)

and what's on late friday afternoons (or at least before yesterday)? torchwood. any references to it do u think?

First, please sign your posts with the tildes.

Anyway, what country do you live in? Torchwood: Miracle Day was on late night, nowhere near the afternoon, in both the US and UK, and it was on Thursdays, not Fridays, in the UK. --173.228.85.35 23:52, September 10, 2011 (UTC)

Well it was on Friday's in the US, and it is an American show now, but 10:00 is hardly late afternoon.Icecreamdif 20:34, September 11, 2011 (UTC)

late afternoon/night. same difference. Imamadmad 21:57, September 11, 2011 (UTC)

It's a pretty big difference. The whole point of Torchwood is that it's an "after-the-watershed" spinoff. (I'm sure America doesn't have the exact same "watershed" rules as the BBC, but they must make a distinction in what's appropriate for late afternoon and late night.) --173.228.85.35 02:23, September 12, 2011 (UTC)

Also the BBC website that these messages come from is intended for citizens of the UK, not for the states. We have the BBC America site (which is a terrible site BTW). My guess is that it is not a reference to Torchwood. We should probably be watching the website this Friday afternoon (UK time not states time) to see what gets announced then.MasterIII 14:17, September 12, 2011 (UTC)

Even if the website did refer to American times, and even if 10:00 at night could somehow be considered late afternoon, it still can't be Torchwood, since the season just ended.Icecreamdif 15:51, September 12, 2011 (UTC)