The Doctor Who Thread

[Susan Foreman]

December 6th, 1989 - 32 years ago today...

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

If only anything from the last three series had been anywhere near as good as Survival.

Not a single episode comes even remotely close.

[hivemind]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

If only anything from the last three series had been anywhere near as good as Survival.

Not a single episode comes even remotely close.

Don't think any Dr Who from 1963-89 comes anywhere close to the s××t fest over the last number of years.

[hivemind]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

What I meant is...I have not had access to a television set after the Sontaran one, not that the story was so bad I have not been able to returned to it!

I thought an early Xmas miracle had happend Susan. Too good to be true.

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #607

Name: Jonathan Newth [1939 - ]
Year(s): 1978
Stories: Underworld part 1 – Underworld part 4
Character(s): Orfe

Before Who:
Films: Carry on Spying (1964), Far from the Madding Crowd (1967), The Gunpowder Plot (1968), Yellow Dog (1973)
Television: Sergeant Cork: The Case of the Cynical Traitor (1964) / Emergency-Ward 10 [39 episodes as Charles Booth (1964-1965)] / ITV Sunday Night Drama: Four Triumphant - St Andrew (1966) / Conflict: Doctor Faustus (1967) / Coronation Street [2 episodes as The Reverend Bryan Hesketh (1967)] / Virgin of the Secret Service: Russian Roundabout (1968) / The Revenue Men: I'd Rather Be in Philadelphia (1968) / The Man in the Iron Mask [3 episodes as Raoul, Vicomte de Bragelonne (1968)] / Crime Buster: Howzat (1968) / Softly Softly: An Old Song (1968) / The Tenant of Wildfell Hall [2 episodes as Walter Hargrave (1969)] / The Wednesday Play: Smoke Screen (1969) / Honey Lane (1969) / The Elusive Pimpernel [5 episodes as Lord Hastings (1969)] / Hadleigh: Safety of the Realm (1969) / ITV Playhouse: The Plastic People (1970) / The Six Wives of Henry VIII: Anne Boleyn* (1970) / Mystery and Imagination: The Suicide Club (1970) / Crime of Passion: Alain (1970) / Codename: Come Home to Paradise (1970) / Husbands and Lovers (1970) / The Expert: Where Are You Going? (1971) / Ace of Wands: Nightmare Gas (1971) / The Troubleshooters: A Touch of the Nelsons (1971) / Suspicion: The Resting Place (1972) / Z Cars: Retirement (1972) / Callan: That'll Be the Day (1972) / Pretenders [8 episodes as Monmouth / Mr. Morton (1972)] / Man at the Top: Living Like a Lord (1972) / Van der Valk: Destroying Angel (1972) / Softly Softly - Task Force: Bank Rate (1972) / The Adventures of Black Beauty: Day of Reckoning (1972) / New Scotland Yard: Crossfire (1973) / The Brothers [17 episodes as Nicholas Fox (1973-1974)] / Shoulder to Shoulder: Lady Constance Lytton (1974) / Crown Court: Falling Stars (1974) / Napoleon and Love: The End of Love (1974) / Notorious Woman [4 episodes as Hippolyte Chatiron (1974)] / You're on Your Own: No Questions Asked (1975) / Poldark [5 episodes as Capt. Blamey (1975)] / Couples [9 episodes as Sam Roland (1976)] / Wings: Business as Usual (1977) / The Velvet Glove: Beyond This Life (1977) / Seven Faces of Woman: She - Carol (1977) / Emmerdale Farm [30 episodes as the Rev. William Hockley (1977)]

After Who:
Films: A Question of Faith (1979), North Sea Hijack (1980), Danger on Dartmoor (1980), A Voyage Round My Father (1982), Spider's Web (1982), Accounts (1983), Champions (1984), Pope John Paul II (1984), The Case of Marcel Duchamp (1984), The Fools on the Hill (1986), Incognito (1997), The Affair of the Necklace (2001)
Television: An Englishman's Castle (1978) / Secret Army: Not According to Plan (1978) / The Lively Arts: Henrik Ibsen (1979) / Play for Today: No Defence (1980) / The Squad [2 episodes as Insp. Williams (1980)] / The Professionals: It's Only a Beautiful Picture... (1980) / The Walls of Jericho: [2 episodes as Henry Fawcett (1981)] / The Nightmare Man* [4 episodes as Colonel Howard (1981)] / Tenko [8 episodes as Brigadier Clifford Jefferson (1981-1984)] / The Day of the Triffids* [2 episodes as Dr Soames (1981)] / Triangle [13 episodes as Roger Powell (1982)] / Bloomfield [2 episodes as Tony (1983)] / Angels (1983) / Partners in Crime: The Case of the Missing Lady (1984) / The Fainthearted Feminist [5 episodes as Josh (1984)] / Missing from Home [3 episodes as Tony Walters (1984)] / Sharing Time: For Business Reasons (1984) / Fox Mystery Theater: Tennis Court (1984) / Juliet Bravo: Chasing the Dragon (1985) / Ladies in Charge; A Public Mischief (1986) / Rockliffe's Babies: Go for It (1988) / The Return of Sherlock Holmes: The Bruce Partington Plans (1988) / After Henry [38 episodes as Russell Bryant (1988-1992)] / Great Expectations (1989) / Boon: Tales from the River Bank (1990) / Crown Prosecutor (1995) / Casualty [4 episodes, different characters (1996-2016)] / Poirot: Dumb Witness (1996) / The Bill: Eye of the Beholder (1997) / Bugs: The Price of Peace (1997) / Strange But True?: The Curse of Tutankhamun (1997) / EastEnders (2000) / Peak Practice: Lonely Hearts (2000) / Heartbeat: Mixed Messages (2008) / Holby City: A Failure to Communicate (2010) / The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies [2 episodes as Geoffrey (2014)] / The Crown [7 episodes as Buckingham Palace Page (2016-2017)] / Maigret: Night at the Crossroads (2017) / Doctors: Truly Madly Deeply (2019)

[gag]

Originally Posted by hivemind

Don't think any Dr Who from 1963-89 comes anywhere close to the s××t fest over the last number of years.

I like watching doctor who but wouldn’t say I’m a huge fan like some ppl,
But in all honesty there only been a few that have been excellent since it come back, some good ones but also a lot that are just meh and watchable, it just doesn’t have the charm and appeal as the old doctor who, me personally I think it started to go downhill around Matt smith.
But one of my personal favourites is the empty child.

[hivemind]

Originally Posted by gag

I like watching doctor who but wouldn’t say I’m a huge fan like some ppl,
But in all honesty there only been a few that have been excellent since it come back, some good ones but also a lot that are just meh and watchable, it just doesn’t have the charm and appeal as the old doctor who, me personally I think it started to go downhill around Matt smith.
But one of my personal favourites is the empty child.

That's a brilliant two-parter that I throughly enjoyed. I was always partial to The Christmas Invasion, probably the best Xmas Who story from the RTD series, though I didn't mind The Snowman from the Matt Smith era. Probably my favourite story from the final Doctor's adventures with Capaldi was Flatline. The story felt like it could've been a Seventh Doctor story back in the late 1980's. Capaldi was given some total tosh toward the end, but I've always liked Capaldi. I'm glad that he won't participate in Dr Who's 60th. The show is a complete and utter joke.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

A publicity image for The Return of Doctor Mysterio (2016) featuring Matt Lucas as Nardole, Peter Capaldi as the Doctor, Justin Chatwin as the Ghost and Charity Wakefield as Lucy.

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #608

Name: Godfrey James [1931 - 2019]
Year(s): 1978
Stories: Underworld part 2 – Underworld part 4
Character(s): Tarn

Before Who:
Films: The Amorous Mr. Prawn (1962), Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964), Witchfinder General (1968), The Oblong Box (1969), Cry of the Banshee* (1970), Vertigo for a Killer (1970), The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970), The Blood on Satan's Claw* [as Angel's father] (1971), Villain (1971), Hide and Seek (1972), The Land That Time Forgot (1974), The Hostages (1975), Under Western Eyes (1975), At the Earth's Core (1976)

Television: A Life of Bliss [2 episodes, different characters (1961)] / The Avengers: The Frighteners* (1961) / Out of This World: Cold Equations (1962) / Harpers West One (1962) / Dixon of Dock Green [11 episodes, different characters (1964-1972)] / The Wednesday Play: Stand Up, Nigel Barton (1965) / Hereward the Wake: Forfeit for Eternity (1965) / Comedy Playhouse: Room at the Bottom (1966) / Theatre 625: The Melody Suit (1966) / The Three Musketeers [3 episodes as Mousqueton (1966-1967)] / The Forsyte Saga [2 episodes as Riggs (1967)] / The Gamblers: The Bridge (1967) / A Man of our Times [2 episodes as Ken Bartlett (1968)] / Half Hour Story: Mr Universe and the Well Known Prisoner (1968) / You and the World (1969) / The Mind of Mr. J.G. Reeder: The Green Mamba (1969) / Wink to Me Only: The Lost Chord (1969) / Strange Report: Report 5055 - Cult - Murder Shrieks Out (1969) / Softly Softly: General Post (1969) / Department S: The Man from 'X'* (1969) / The Wednesday Play: The Cellar and the Almond Tree (1970) / Crime of Passion: Celine (1970) / Big Brother: There's Always a First Time (1970) / Thirty-Minute Theatre: Tribunal (1970) / Biography: I Measured the Skies (1970) / UFO: The Square Triangle (1970) / Paul Temple: Sea Burial (1971) / The Expert: Go Somewhere Else (1971) / ITV Sunday Night Theatre: Hari-Kari and Sally (1971) / Television Club: Roy and the Danelli Job (1971) / Cousin Bette [2 episodes as Chardin (1971)] / Owen, M.D.: The Long Days of Summer (1971) / Trial [9 episodes as Harry Crawford (1971)] / The Shadow of the Tower: The Man Who Never Was (1972) / Z Cars [3 episodes, different characters (1972-1975)] / Pretenders: Prince of Avalon (1972) / Follyfoot: The Innocents (1972) / The Onedin Line [3 episodes as Jessop (1972)] / The Visitors [4 episodes as Vladek (1972)] / BBC Play of the Month: Trelawny of the Wells (1972) / The Frighteners: You Remind Me of Someone (1972) / Softly Softly - Task Force: Needle (1972) / The Adventures of Black Beauty: The Horse Healer (1973) / Menace: Judas Goat (1973) / Away from It All: The Safe House (1973) / Two Women [2 episodes as Filippo (1973)] / The Lotus Eaters [6 episodes as Nicholson (1973)] / The Terracotta Horse [6 episodes as Bob Jackson (1973)] / Special Branch: Something About a Soldier (1974) / New Scotland Yard: The Trojan Horse (1974) / The Carnforth Practice [3 episodes as Wally Scott (1974)] / Marked Personal [2 episodes as Straker (1974)] / 2nd House: 45 Minutes Each Way (1974) / Melissa (1974) / The Boy with Two Heads [7 episodes as the Cafe Proprietor (1974)] / The Sweeney: Big Spender (1975) / Six Days of Justice: The Good Samaritan (1975) / Moody and Pegg [2 episodes as Mr. Smith (1975)] / Life and Death of Penelope [3 episodes as Det. Chief Insp. Horsfall (1976)] / Hunter's Walk: Interference (1976) / Space: 1999: The Rules of Luton (1976) / Chimpmates [5 episodes as Mr. Graham (1976)] / Raffles: The First Step (1977) / Follow Me [7 episodes as Southways (1977)]

After Who:
Films: The Adventures of Little Lord Fauntleroy (1982), Doubting Thomas (1983), Hungry Times (1983), Journey into the Shadows: Portrait of Gwen John 1876-1939 (1984), Camille (1984), Out of Order (1987), Trauma (1991), Piccolo grande amore (1993), Leapin' Leprechauns! (1995), Magic in the Mirror (1996), Spellbreaker: Secret of the Leprechauns (1996), In the Shadow of the Sandcastle (1996), Magic in the Mirror: Fowl Play (1997)
Television: Hawkmoor [4 episodes as Shanco (1978)] / The Standard: Two Birds, One Stone (1978) / Born and Bred: Napooh... Toodle-oo (1978) / Return of the Saint: The Imprudent Professor (1978) / Kidnapped: The Stranger (1978) / The Aphrodite Inheritance [7 episodes as Inspector Dimas (1979)] / Turtle's Progress [2 episodes as Percy Bullit (1979-1980)] / The Legend of King Arthur [7 episodes as Bors (1979)] / Armchair Thriller: The Victim (1980) / The Enigma Files: Fit Up (1980) / Minder [2 episodes, different characters (1980-1991)] / The Greeks - A Journey in Space and Time: The Minds of Men (1980) / Tales of the Unexpected: Parson's Pleasure (1980) / Fanny by Gaslight [3 episodes as Mr. Box Chunks (1981)] / Seconds Out: Round 8 (1981) / Gulliver in Lilliput [4 episodes as Bolgolam (1982)] / Union Castle (1982) / Into the Labyrinth: Lazlo (1982) / In Loving Memory: To Billy a Son (1982) / Play for Today: Another Flip for Dominick (1982) / Bloomfield: The Art of Finding Edina (1983) / Emmerdale Farm [51 episodes as Harry Mowlam (1983-986)] / The Professionals: No Stone (1983) / Live from Pebble Mill: The Battle of Waterloo (1983) / The Cleopatras: 80 BC (1983) / Spooky: The Danny Roberts Show (1983) / The Dark Side of the Sun: A Time Out of Mind (1983) / Bergerac: A Hole in the Bucket (1983) / Cockles: Davy Jones's Locker (1984) / Hart to Hart: Death Dig (1984) / I Thought You'd Gone (1984) / Cold Warrior: A Message from Trebizond (1984) / Dempsey and Makepeace: Hors de Combat (1985) / Bulman: Another Part of the Jungle (1985) / The Tripods [2 episodes as Commander Goetz (1985)] / Mussolini: The Untold Story (1985) / Oliver Twist [7 episodes as Mr. Bumble (1985)] / Y.E.S.: Bad Luck Man (1987) / Crossbow [2 episodes as the Prison Warden (1987)] / Truckers [2 episodes as Alf Murray (1987)] / Gems [3 episodes as Harry Scott (1988)] / A Very Peculiar Practice: May the Force Be with You (1988) / The Return of the Antelope [2 episodes as Silas Elmwood (1988)] / Wish Me Luck [3 episodes as Sylvestre (1989)] / Shadow of the Noose; An Alien Shore (1989) / The Labours of Erica: Wheels on Fire (1989) / Poirot: Peril at End House (1990) / About Face: This for the Half Darling (1991) / Maigret: Maigret Goes to School (1992) / El C.I.D.: The Lone Stranger (1992) / The Good Guys [3 episodes as Ernie Baldock (1993)] / The Darling Buds of May: Cast Not Your Pearls Before Swine (1993) / Just a Gigolo (1993) / The Bill: Cutting Edge (1993) / Chris Cross: Moby Duck (1993) / Crime Traveller: The Broken Crystal (1997) / Coronation Street (1997) / Highlander: Justice (1997) / The Infinite Worlds of H.G. Wells [6 episodes as the Old Removals Man (2001)]

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

A publicity still of Paul McGann as the Doctor for Doctor Who 1996