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Please let us have your views on this weekend's episode 'Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS' - as always, all comments are welcome, short or long. This week we have a copy of the new 'Destiny of the Doctor' CD 'Smoke and Mirrors'. This features the 5th Doctor and is read by Janet Fielding. We will pick a winner at random from all comments received by 5pm Tuesday.

For it's BBC1 debut, 'Cold War' added 1.65 million additional viewers to finish with an overall figure of 7.34 million, being those who watched at the time of broadcast, and those who watched it later. This does not include the viewers for the BBC3 repeat, nor the BBC iPlayer downloads.

The overnight ratings for 'Hide' on BBC1 yesterday show the episode achieved 5 million viewers. This is the lowest for for the 2012/3 series so far though is still a good figure. It represents 24.5% of the audience. Doctor Who was in 4th place for the day. The more accurate consolidated figures will be available in just over a week.

Sometimes Doctor Who merchandise zooms past the Toybox, and in the show's 50th year there is certainly a lot of merchandise about. However the detail on this one is incredible - whereas a lesser one might skimp on a few individual stripes, Lovarzi has made sure they’ve created an exact facsimile. I think it's a great addition to the DWAS ToyBox.

We have heard from The Little Theatre Cinema in Bath who tells us

"Peter Cushing stars as the eccentric Time Lord in Flemyng’s second Who adventure. A befuddled bobby (Cribbins) stumbles into the Tardis and discovers the Doctor, his granddaughter Susan (Tovey) and his niece Louise (Curzon).

DWAS recently inherited a Doctor Who merchandise collection from the family of a fan who sadly died from cancer. This is now being auctioned at eBay to raise funds for Leukaemia research.

You can see what is available at http://www.dwasonline.co.uk/charity_auction

The consolidated ratings for the BBC1 broadcast of 'The Rings of Akhaten' show that the episode added 2 million viewers, once those who recorded it to watch later are taken into account. The total figure for the episode is now 7.45 million.

There is more at Doctor Who News: http://www.doctorwhonews.net/search/label/Ratings

The initial overnight ratings for 'Cold War' on BBC1 yesterday show the programme achieved an initial audience of 5.7 million, representing 26.7% of the TV watching audience. The show was again 3rd in the chart for the day.

Further details and analysis for both 'Cold War' and previous episodes are available at Doctor Who News, and you can reach the articles via this link:

How appropriate is it that, in the same week that Lady Thatcher died, Doctor Who has an episode entitled 'The Cold War'?

The official ratings for 'The Bells of St John' on BBC1 have been released. These include people who recorded the show and watched it later. The actual audience for the episode was 8.44 million, which is very good and the highest since 'The Impossible Astronaut', adding 2.3 million to the overnight figure.

Further information is available at Doctor Who News here: