All told, that sounded like ... well, it had to be at least eight or nine episodes in all. More than that, if they were still showing them as half hour serials, the way they had when he was young. But, unfortunately, that wasn't a question that he could post to Miss Pond. She likely wouldn't have the first clue, since she'd only just learned that there was a telly program about the Doctor at all.
"Van Gogh, eh?" Severus said with a chuckle, shaking his head. "One ear or two?" Of course, that question was facetiously rhetorical, so he followed it up with a real one a second later. "What was Churchill like?"