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[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Just been looking at these animation images again. The people look fine but those Yeti. WTF?

Did they run out of money and use images of Captain Caveman instead?

[Susan Foreman]

Amazon UK has a listing for The Abominable Snowmen with a release date of September 5th

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

Amazon UK has a listing for The Abominable Snowmen with a release date of September 5th

That'll be a dvd purchase. Don't need HD to watch that animation.

A bootleg fifth gen vhs would be the preferable option.

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #838a

Name: Christopher Ryan [1950 - ]
Year(s): 1986 / 2008 / 2008 / 2010
Stories: The Trial Of A Time Lord part 5: Mindwarp part 1 – The Trial Of A Time Lord part 8: Mindwarp Part 4 / The Sontaran Stratagem / The Poison Sky / The Pandorica Opens
Character(s): Lord Kiv / General Staal / Commander Stark

Note(s):

• Appeared as Kiv in the 2019 Reeltime Direct-to-DVD release 'Sil and the Devil Seeds of Arodor'

Appeared in a number of Big Finish Audio releases:

• In the 'Ravenous' story 'How to Make a Killing in Time Travel'
• In the 'Classic Doctors, New Monsters' story 'The Sontaran Ordeal'
• In the 'Paternoster Gang' stories 'A Photograph to Remember' / 'Truth and Bone'
• In the 'Lady Christina' stories 'Portrait of a Lady' / 'Death on the Mile'
• Provided the Audio Reading for the 'BBC New Series Adventures' story 'The Taking of Chelsea 426'

Before Who:
Films: The Tempest, Act IV (1984), Santa Claus: The Movie (1985)
Television: Target: A Good and Faithful Woman (1978) / Angels [3 episodes as Harry (1979)] / Premiere: Deasey (1979) / Fox: Stick or Twist (1980) / BBC2 Playhouse: Days at the Beach (1981) / Play for Today: A Turn for the Worse (1981) / The Olympian Way: Slim Chance (1981) / The Young Ones* [12 episodes as Mike (1982-1984)] / Inside Out [3 episodes as Tommy (1985)] / Summer Season: Rachel and the Roarettes (1985) / Happy Families: Cassie (1985)

After Who:
Films: The fairy queen (1989), Dirty Weekend (1993), Requiem Apache (1994), Blue Juice (1995), Alice in Wonderland* (1999), Dead Man Running (2009), City Slacker (2012), Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie (2016)

Television: Up Line [3 episodes as Leon Trotsky (1987)] / A Small Problem [6 episodes as Howard (1987)] / Only Fools and Horses: Little Problems (1989) / One Foot in the Grave: The Valley of Fear* (1990) / Bottom [5 episodes as Dave Hedgehog (1991-1995)] / The New Statesman: Speaking in Tongues (1992) / Absolutely Fabulous [11 episodes as Marshall (1992-2012)] / Maigret: Maigret and the Maid (1993) / Newman and Baddiel in Pieces; Guilty (1993) / Mr. Bean: Back to School Mr. Bean (1994) / French and Saunders: French and Saunders Christmas Carol (1994) / One Foot in the Grave: Hole in the Sky (1995) Health and Efficiency: The Old Dope Peddler (1995) / Melissa [5 episodes as Les Maurice (1997)] / Mike & Angelo: Out of the Wardrobe (1998) / My Family [2 episodes, different characters (2001-2003)] / The Green Green Grass [3 episodes as Tony Driscoll (2005-2009)] / SpongeBob SquarePants: Chimps Ahoy / Ghost Host [voice only] (2006) / Saxondale (2007) / The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle [2 episodes as Miriam (2007)] / It's Kevin (2013) / Tracey Breaks the News (2018)

Music Video: Cliff And The Young Ones (1986): Living Doll [as Mike]

Who: Before And After #838b

Name: Alibe Parsons [1945 - ]
Year(s): 1986
Stories: The Trial Of A Time Lord part 5: Mindwarp part 1 – The Trial Of A Time Lord part 8: Mindwarp Part 4
Character(s): Matrona Kani
Note(s): Would later provide the voice of Nora in the 2021 Big Finish 'Fifth Doctor Adventures' audio story 'The Lost Resort'

Before Who:
Films: Treasure Island (1972), Tarzan in King Solomon's Mines (1973), La noche de la furia (1974), A Long Return (1975), Bloodbath (1975), Game for Vultures (1979), The Bitch* (1979), The Sender (1982), Singles ( (1983), Biggles (1986), Aliens* (1986)

Television: Gangsters* [12 episodes as Sarah Gant (1976-1978)] / Space - 1999 [3 episodes as Alibe (1977)] / Hazell: Hazell Works for Nothing (1978) / Love Is Old, Love Is New [2 episodes as the Midwife (1982)] / Bergerac: The Moonlight Girls (1983) / Jemima Shore Investigates: A Chamber of Horrors (1983) / Danger - Marmalade at Work: Shame (1984) / The First Olympics - Athens 1896 [2 episodes as Myra (1984)] / The Brief: And Then Where Do You Go? (1984) / Fox Mystery Theater: Mark of the Devil (1984) / Cold Warrior; Dead Wrong (1984) / Grange Hill (1985) / Lovejoy: Death and Venice (1986)

After Who:
Films: Pirate Prince (1991), The Only Boy for Me (2006), Inside the Twin Towers (2006), The Killing Gene (2007), Incendiary (2008), Boxing Day (2021)
Television: Dogfood Dan and the Carmarthen Cowboy (1988) / Laura and Disorder: The Squat (1989) / Winners and Losers [3 episodes (1989)] / Casualty [4 episodes, different characters (1990-2011)] / The Gift: The Warning (1990) / Spatz: The Poster (1991) / Full Stretch: Headlines (1993) / Runaway Bay: Radio Daze (1993) / Coronation Street [5 episodes as Kath Nelson (1993)] / Melissa (1997) / Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased): Painkillers (2001) / Doctors: Home Sweet Home (2002) / The Bill [2 episodes, different characters (2003-2008)] / Holby City: A Tear in My Eye (2003) / Waking the Dead: In Sight of the Lord (2004) / The Crouches: While the Cat's Away (2005) / Imagine: Toni Morrison Remembers (2015) / Catastrophe (2019) / The Emily Atack Show [2 episodes (2021)] / The Beaker Girls [5 episodes as Flo (2021)] / Stay Close [4 episodes as Frances Shaw (2021)]

[Susan Foreman]

In memory of Bernard Cribbins (1928 - 2022)

he appeared as PC Tom Campbell in the 1966 film 'Daleks Invasion Earth 2150AD'...

...and as Donna Nobel's grandfather Wilfred Mott in Nu-Who

He also provided the voice of Arnold Korns in the 2007 Big Finish audio story 'Horror of Glam Rock'

He was one of the actors who was considered for the role of the Fourth Doctor, but was turned down after making a statement saying he wanted to bring violence into Doctor Who!

His long-maintained association with the show is surpassed only by those of Carole Ann Ford [Susan Foreman], William Russell [Ian Chesterton] and Nicholas Courtney [The Brigadier] and he is one of only a handful of actors who have appeared in both the TV series and one of the 1960s movies where he is the only person to have played a companion in both!

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Very sorry to hear of Bernard's death this morning. I won't deny i'm not his biggest fan in general, he always was a bit OTT for my tastes in things like The Railway Children and even parts of Daleks Invasion Earth 2150 AD but when he appeared in the new series along with David and Catherine he pitched it perfectly.

His performance in Turn Left (2008) is simply sublime.

I'm delighted he managed to film scenes with David and Catherine for the upcoming 60th special episodes. It will be a fitting tribute to him.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

In a change from the intended image here's an emotional Wilf (Bernard Cribbens), distraught at how things turn out during Turn Left (2008)

[Susan Foreman]

'The Abominable Snowmen'

DVD synopsis:

"In the 17th century, an old Tibetan friend of the Doctor’s reached out and touched the mind of an alien disembodied energy, known only as the Great Intelligence, giving it a conduit to Earth.

300 years later, the Doctor revisits the Himalayas because he wants to return the Holy Ghanta, an ancient relic he was given many centuries ago by the grateful monks and their Master, Padmasambhava, at Det-Sen Monastery. On arriving however, the Doctor is treated as a villain – blamed for a series of brutal murders in the area. Jamie and Victoria meanwhile discover the true culprits – the previously peaceful Yeti that live in seclusion on the mountainside have apparently turned violent.

The Doctor must convince the monks that not only is he not their enemy, but the real foe – and the power controlling the Yeti – is living amongst them.

Most of the original 1967 master recordings of the six-part adventure ‘The Abominable Snowmen’ were lost soon after the programme’s original transmission. However, audio-only recordings of all the episodes have survived and have been used here to create six brand new fully animated presentations of this lost classic, as well as the one surviving segment, Episode Two."

Extra features:

• Episodes 1-6 (Animated Black & White)
• Episodes 1-6 (Animated Colour)
• Restored Surviving Original Episode 2
• Photographic Reconstructions of Episodes 1, 3, 4, 5 & 6
• Making-of Documentary
• Audio Commentaries
• 8mm Home Movie Footage
• Archive interview with writer Mervyn Haisman
• Photo Gallery
• Teaser Trailer
• PDF ROM Content

Cover artwork

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

This will definitely be a watch in black and white first. I think the Yeti will look more authentic and less, well, shit.

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #839

Name: Patrick Rycart [1952 - ]
Year(s): 1986
Stories: The Trial Of A Time Lord part 5: Mindwarp part 1 – The Trial Of A Time Lord part 8: Mindwarp Part 4
Character(s): Crozier
Note(s): Had previously been considered for the roles of Scobie, Bilton and Sheard in the 1982 story 'Time-Flight' and the role of Eirak in the 1983 story 'Terminus'

Before Who:
Films: The Dame of Sark (1976), A Bridge Too Far (1977), Silver Dream Racer (1980), Arthur the King* (1983), Pericles, Prince of Tyre (1984), Camille (1984), Lace II (1985), Silas Marner (1985)

Television: The Goodies: Movies (1975) / The Cedar Tree [4 episodes as Klaus Von Heynig (1976-1977)] / The Many Wives of Patrick [20 episodes as David Woodford (1976-1978)] / Lillie: Let Them Say (1978) / The BBC Television Shakespeare: Romeo & Juliet* (1978) / My Son, My Son [6 episodes as Oliver Essex (1979)] / The Talisman [9 episodes as Kenneth (1980-1981)] / Dick Turpin: Dick Turpin's Greatest Adventure [4 episodes as Fytton (1981)] / The Professionals: Spy Probe (1982) / Jenny's War [4 episodes as Steinhardt (1985)]

After Who:
Films: Tai-Pan (1986), Casanova (1987), Goldeneye (1989), Twenty-One (1991), Prisoner of Honor (1991), A Chance to Dance (1993), Heart of Darkness (1993), The Mystery of Dr Martinu (1993), Clair de Lune (1985), Hotel Shanghai (1997), Parting Shots (1998), The Lavender List (2006), The King's Speech* (2010), Showreel (2011), Candle to Water (2012), The Contract (2016)

Television: Nancy Wake [2 episodes as the Farmer (1987)] / South of the Border (1988) / Rockliffe's Folly; The Greenhorn (1988) / The Bretts: The Golden Dustman (1988) / Minder: The Last Video Show (1989) / Theatre Night: Arms and the Man (1989) / Trainer [13 episodes as Hugo Latimer (1991-1992)] / A Perfect Hero [4 episodes as Tim Holland (1991)] / The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: Austria, March 1917 (1992) / Rumpole of the Bailey: Rumpole and the Family Pride (1992) / The Mixer [2 episodes as Nelson Hemmings (1992)] / Glückliche Reise: Neuseeland (1993) / Blankenese [2 episodes as Juan Pereira (1994)] / Lovejoy: The Last of the Uzkoks (1994) / The High Life [7 episodes as Captain Hilary Duff (1994-1995)] / Tales of Mystery and Imagination; The Oval Portrait (1995) / Poirot* [2 episodes, different characters (1996-2013)] / Dalziel and Pascoe; Ruling Passion (1997) / Rag Nymph [3 episodes as Mr. Crane-Bolder (1997)] / Coming Home [2 episodes as Tommy Mortimer (1998)] / Nancherrow [2 episodes as Tommy Mortimer (1999)] / Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased): A Blast from the Past (2000) / Holby City: The Road Less Travelled (2001) /Believe Nothing: Just a Minute (2002) / Doctors and Nurses: Go West (2004) / Jericho: A Pair of Ragged Claws (2005) / ShakespeaRe-Told: Much Ado About Nothing (2005) / Egypt: The Mystery of the Rosetta Stone (2005) / Hustle: And This Little Piggy Had Money (2010) / Midsomer Murders: The Night of the Stag (2011) / The Escape Artist [2 episodes as Gavin De Souza, QC (2013)] / Poldark [5 episodes as Sir Hugh Bodregun (2015-2016)] / The Crown [6 episodes as the Duke of Norfolk (2016-2019)]