Big Finish have a sale on the Doctor Who main range, but just numbers 51-100.

All discs are just £3

These stories are on a first come first serve basis and once they are gone they won't be available on cd anymore.

https://www.bigfinish.com/offers/v/fiftyone

You'll be asked for a code to access the sale - WOLFGANG

Sale ends 23:59 (UK time) on 06/08/2018 so don’t miss out!

I've just ordered five from them - Medicinal Purposes, The Gathering, The Reaping, Frozen Time and Son of the Dragon

Postage came to £4 in total.

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A Zygon from The Day of the Doctor (2013)

Noted D. Cheers again!!:nod:

Oh. I see Wheel in Space is on Amazon. Good news on the horizon perhaps or am I getting too hopeful?

https://www.amazon.com/Doctor-Who-Wh...J8L&ref=plSrch

It's just a US release of the surviving episodes together with a telesnap reconstruction.

"Filming for the Thirteenth Doctor's debut series is now complete and is now in post-production and editing stages ready for the Autumn launch."

August 4th: Today in WHO-story:

Births
1941 - Martin Jarvis (Hilio in The Web Planet, Butler in Invasion of the Dinosaurs, the Governor in Vengeance on Varos, Nigel Rochester in the Big Finish audio Jubilee and Fitzroy in BBC Radio 4's Torchwood story The Devil and Miss Carew); John Atterbury (White Robot in The Mind Robber and an Alien Guard in The War Games)

1943 - Georgina Hale (Daisy K in The Happiness Patrol)

1948 - Ian Liston (Hero in The Armageddon Factor)
1949 - Russ Karel (assistant floor manager on The Ark in Space, The Sontaran Experiment and Revenge of the Cybermen)
1971 - Fenella Woolgar (Agatha Christie in The Unicorn and the Wasp; Big Finish Productions actress - Commander Hellen Fernor in the audio anthology The Company of Friends, Morella Wendigo in Nevermore and Leanne in Ghost Walk)

Obituaries
1989 - Maurice Colbourn (Lytton in Resurrection of the Daleks and Attack of the Cybermen) aged 49

1997 - Dick Bush (film cameraman on The Rescue and The Romans) aged 66

2006 - John Alderson (Wyatt Earp in The Gunfighters) aged 90

Releases
1994 - Issue 216 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)

2003 - Timeless (BBC Books)
2005 - Spiral Scratch (BBC Books)

2011 - Torchwood: Long Time Dead (BBC Books); issue 229 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines)

Behind-the-Scenes
2010 - Recording of the Big Finish audio anthology The Demons of Red Lodge and Other Stories took place
2011 - Recording of the Big Finish audio The Anachronauts took place
2013 - Peter Capaldi was confirmed as the Twelfth Doctor in the live show Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor

2015 - Recording of Big Finish's Jago & Litefoot & Strax story The Haunting took place

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The Sarah Android from the 1975 story The Android Invasion.

August 5th: Today in WHO-story:

Births
1933 - Jeffry Wickham (Webster in The Reign of Terror)

1935 - Wanda Ventham (Jean Rock in The Faceless Ones, Thea Ransome in Image of the Fendahl and Faroon in Time and the Rani)

1938 - Tim Preece (Codal in Planet of the Daleks and the President in the Big Finish audio He Jests at Scars)
1942 - Derek Keller (Kaufman in Remembrance of the Daleks)
1948 - Barbara Flynn (Sister Chalice in the Big Finish audio The Skull of Sobek)
1968 - Matt Jones (writer of The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit, the Torchwood episode Dead Man Walking, the Virgin novels Bad Therapy and Beyond the Sun [later adapted as a Big Finish audio adventure] and the short stories The Nine-Day Queen [published in Decalog 2: Consequences], Mother's Little Helper [published in Short Trips] and Step Back in Time [published in The Dead Men Diaries])

1978 - Brian Minchin (executive producer [2013-2017]; producer on the Doctor Who spin-offs Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures; Torchwood's script editor; executive producer on Class; writer of the BBC novel The Forgotten Army and Torchwood comic strips and audio adventures)

1980 - Sophie Winkleman (Big Finish Productions actress - Kelly Westwood in the Big Finish audio The Eight Truths/Worldwide Web and Rachel Allen in the Torchwood story Before the Fall)

Deaths
1981 - James Murray (Camper in The Stones of Blood) died the day before his 29th birthday

Episodes
2011 - Torchwood: Miracle Day, Episode Five ('The Categories of Life'): 5.17 million viewers

Releases
1991 - The Three Doctors and The Masque of Mandragora (VHS)

1993 - Issue 203 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)

2002 - Camera Obscura and The Suns of Caresh (BBC Books)
2004 - The Green Death (DVD - region 4)
2008 - The Time Meddler and Black Orchid (DVD - region 1)

2010 - The Ring of Steel and The Lost TV Episodes: Collection One (BBC Audio); issue 178 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines)
2013 - The Green Death (DVD - region 1)
2016 - Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 179 (Big Finish)

Behind-the-Scenes
1966 - Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150AD was released in UK cinemas

2000 - Recording of the Big Finish audio The Holy Terror took place

I kind of had a revelation with that one, cause for years after first seeing it I really hated it. And okay yeah in that Season it is the weakest Story but Episode 1 is one of the best the series had ever done by that point. Episode 2 continued to be good, Episode 3 was a bit weaker and the ending was a let down. But I enjoyed it. Its only because its right in the middle of Zygons, Planet, Pyramids, Morbius and Seeds, which many fans name as their favourite Stories, that it gets a bad rep. It was certainly better than almost all of Season 15.

Ach, I've always wanted to see more of the Kraal personally ;)

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A Dalek burns in 1974's Death to the Daleks.

Poor Liz looks absolutely frozen at the start of Death ....

August 6th: Today in WHO-story

Births
1926 - Frank Finlay (Old Jacob in Big Finish Productions' audio anthology 100)
1937 - Barbara Windsor (BBC EastEnders' Peggy Mitchell in Army of Ghosts)
1945 - Ron Jones (director of Black Orchid, Time-Flight, Arc of Infinity, Frontios, Vengeance on Varos and episodes 5-8 of The Trial of a Time Lord)

1952 - James Murray (Camper in The Stones of Blood)
1958 - Keith Barnfather (Producer & director of Reeltime Pictures' Doctor Who spin-offs)

1970 - Alan Cox (Big Finish actor - John Matthews in The Roof of the World, Mark Seven in The Destroyers, Oscar Wild in the Jago & Litefoot story Beautiful Things, Grenville & Diggery in The Auntie Matter, Gideon McDivett in The Ghosts of Gralstead, Death in Death and the Queen, and Fanshawe in the New Counter-Measures story Who Killed Toby Kinsella?)

Deaths
1976 - William Mervyn (Sir Charles Summer in The War Machines; father of 'revived era' production designer Michael Pickwoad) aged 63

1980 - Barry Justice (King Charles IX in The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve) aged 39
2002 - Katherine Schofield (Sabetha in The Keys of Marinus) aged 63

2013 - Ian Rawnsley (designer on Robot)
2014 - Dave Baumber (sound recorder on the first series of the Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood)

Releases
1992 - Issue 190 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)

2001 - Dark Progeny and Bullet Time (BBC Books)
2002 - The Tomb of the Cybermen (DVD - region 1)

2007 - Time-Flight and Arc of Infinity (DVD - region 2)
2009 - Issue 127 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines); Delta and the Bannermen (DVD - region 4)
2015 - Iris Wildthyme: Wildthyme Reloaded (Big Finish)

Behind-the-Scenes
1966 - The BBC announced that William Hartnell was to leave Doctor Who. Patrick Troughton was contracted to appear in at least 22 episodes as the Second Doctor
1998 - Recording of Big Finish's Bernice Summerfield story Beyond the Sun took place

2000 - Recording of the Big Finish audio The Holy Terror took place
2004 - Recording of Big Finish's UNIT story Snake Head took place
2010 - Recording of the Big Finish audio anthology The Demons of Red Lodge and Other Stories took place
2015 - Recording of Big Finish's Jago & Litefoot & Strax story The Haunting took place

Mondas is returning!

Mysterious ‘rogue’ planet discovered outside solar system | Metro

"Scientists have found evidence of the first ever planetary-mass object beyond our solar system.

And it’s huge.

Probably a dozen times bigger than Jupiter, according to the researchers at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.

They’re calling it a ‘rogue’ planet because it appears to be travelling through space without any kind of orbit around a parent star."

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The Mondasian Cybermen on the march from World Enough and Time (2017)

Big Finish news

"The Fourth Doctor continues...

Another two audio series featuring the enigmatic time-travelling bohemian have been confirmed today, due for release in 2020 and 2021. And we also have some old friends to re-acquaint ourselves with…

In series nine of The Fourth Doctor Adventures, Tom Baker’s Doctor is reunited with Time-Lady Romanadvoratrelundar II (Romana to us humans), played by Lalla Ward.

And joining them will be Adric, played by Matthew Waterhouse, in his first adventures back with Tom since his regeneration in 1981. John Leeson also reprises K9, the Doctor’s faithful robo-canine companion.

These stories are set in the beginning of Tom Baker’s last television series as the Doctor, season 18, in between the stories State of Decay and Warrior’s Gate. Trapped in E-Space, a pocket universe next to our own (N-Space), the Doctor acquires a new companion Adric, a 15 year old mathematical genius, who begins to travel with the Doctor and Romana.

So hold on tight for four more adventures in E-Space! Volume 1 of Series 9 of The Fourth Doctor Adventures is out for release in January 2020:

9.1 Purgatory 12 by Marc Platt
9.2 Chase the Night by Jonathan Morris

And Volume 2 of Series 9 follows in February 2020:

9.3 The Planet of Witches by Alan Barnes
9.4 The Quest of the Engineer by Andrew Smith"

August 7th: Today in WHO-story:

Births
1924 - Kenneth Kendall (Himself in The War Machines); Dudley Foster (Caven in The Space Pirates)

1942 - Chloe Ashcroft (Professor Laird in Resurrection of the Daleks)

1952 - Alexei Sayle (DJ in Revelation of the Daleks)
1955 - Wayne Knight (Brian Friedkin in the Torchwood story Miracle Day)
1958 - Julian Wadham (Big Finish Productions actor - Augustus Scullop in The Fourth Wall, Joseph Holman in The Darkness of Glass and Doctor Holman in The Crowmarsh Experiment)

1967 - Cathy Murphy (Mum in The Christmas Invasion)
1974 - Eugene Washington (Mr. Wagner in School Reunion)

Deaths
1980 - Norman Atkyns (Guardian in Colony in Space and the Rear Admiral in The Sea Devils) aged 74
1995 - Dursley McLinden (Mike Smith in Remembrance of the Daleks) aged 30

2014 - Michael Kerrigan (director of Battlefield and the Sarah Jane Adventures stories The Day of the Clown and Secret of the Stars) aged 61

Releases
1995 - Frontier in Space and K9 & Company (VHS)

2000 - The Burning and Imperial Moon (BBC Books)
2008 - Issue 76 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Books)

2015 - Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 132 (Big Finish)

Behind-the-Scenes
1998 - Recording of Big Finish's Bernice Summerfield story Beyond the Sun took place
2004 - Recording of Big Finish's UNIT story Time Heals took place

2012 - Recording of the Big Finish audio anthology 1001 Nights took place
2017 - Recording of Big Finish's Torchwood story Believe took place

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Kiv (Christopher Ryan) in the 1986 story Mindwarp.

He still looks like Mike from 'The Young Ones'!

Less so here.

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August 8th: Today in WHO-story:

Births
1907 - George Cormack (Dalios in The Time Monster and K'Anpo Rimpoche in Planet of the Spiders)

1917 - Earl Cameron (Glyn Williams in The Tenth Planet: [At time of writing, he is currently the oldest surviving actor to have appeared in Doctor Who]); John Baker (Time Lord in Colony in Space, Charles in The Visitation and an extra in Planet of the Spiders)

1928 - Rashid Karapiet (Rita's Father in The God Complex)
1930 - Terry Nation (writer of The Daleks, The Keys of Marinus, The Dalek Invasion of Earth, The Chase, Mission to the Unknown, The Daleks' Master Plan, Planet of the Daleks, Death to the Daleks, Genesis of the Daleks, The Android Invasion and Destiny of the Daleks; creator of the Daleks, Davros, Thals, Kaleds and Kraals)

1934 - Keith Barron (Captain Striker in Enlightenment and Isaac Barclay in the Big Finish audio Plague of the Daleks)
1979 - Rosanna Lavelle (Barbara Smith in the Sarah Jane Adventures story The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith); Pooja Shah (Miss Shah in the Class stories For Tonight We Might Die and Co-owner of a Lonely Heart)

Deaths
1980 - Simon Lack (Professor Kettering in The Mind of Evil and Zadek in The Androids of Tara) aged 66
2009 - Alan Chuntz (Chauffeur in The Seeds of Doom; extra & stuntman on The Invasion, The Seeds of Death, The Ambassadors of Death to The Mind of Evil, The Sea Devils, The Three Doctors, The Green Death, Planet of the Spiders, Genesis of the Daleks, Revenge of the Cybermen, The Face of Evil, The Talons of Weng-Chiang, State of Decay and The Visitation) aged 88

2012 - Christopher Whittingham (Carson in Earthshock) aged 63
2015 - Susan Sheridan (Simon & Mrs. Streeter in the Big Finish audio The Hollows of Time) aged 68

Episodes
1964 - The Reign of Terror, Episode One ('A Land of Fear'): 6.9 million viewers
1985 - Slipback, Episodes Five & Six (BBC Radio 4)

Releases
1985 - Issue 104 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)

1991 - Issue 177 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)

2013 - Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 28 (Big Finish Productions)
2015 - Torchwood: The Dying Room (Big Finish)

Behind-the-Scenes
2011 - Recording of the fifth series of Big Finish's Doctor Who spin-off Jago & Litefoot took place
2012 - Recording of the Big Finish audio anthology 1001 Nights took place

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Wicker Men ambassadors from The End of the World (2005)

August 9th: Today in WHO-story:

Births
1926 - Graham Leaman (Controller in The Macra Terror, Price in Fury from the Deep, Grand Marshall in The Seeds of Death and a Time Lord in Colony in Space and The Three Doctors)

1931 - Alethea Charlton (Hur in An Unearthly Child and Edith in The Time Meddler)

1932 - Denys Hawthorne (Rudge in The Trial of a Time Lord)
1940 - Bernard Holley (Peter Haydon in The Tomb of the Cybermen and the Big Finish audio Return to Telos and the Axon Man in The Claws of Axos and the Big Finish audio The Feast of Axos; Big Finish Productions actor - Brother Pheadrus in Love and War, Karswell in The Transcendence of Ephros ans Marvin Glass in the Bernice Summerfield story The Worst Thing in the World)
1953 - Roberta Tovey (Susan [Dalek movies])

1960 - Helen McIlveen-Wood (sound recordist on Closing Time)
1968 - Sanne Wohlenberg (Producer [2010-2011])

1974 - Nicola Stapleton (BBC EastEnders' Mandy Slater in the BBC Children in Need special Dimensions in Time)
1978 - Daniely Denby-Ashe (Mary in the Torchwood episode Greeks Bearing Gifts)

Episodes
2002 - Real Time, Episode Two (webcast)

Releases
1984 - Issue 92 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)

1990 - Issue 164 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)
1993 - The Curse of Peladon (VHS)

2010 - Revenge of the Cybermen and Silver Nemesis (DVD box set - region 2)
2012 - Issue 281 of Doctor Who Adventures (Immediate Media Co.)
2013 - Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 29 (Big Finish)
2016 - Fiesta of the Damned (Big Finish)

Behind-the-Scenes
2005 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Singularity took place

2010 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Quinnis took place
2011 - Recording of the fifth series of Big Finish's Doctor Who spin-off Jago & Litefoot took place

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The zombie like infected from New Earth (2006)

Nothing has been confirmed, but it's being suggested that this is the new look TARDIS interior

I know there's no lighting and it'll probably look better on the telly but that looks a bit cheap and nasty

Here's a version with light effects added

It looks like a toy.

August 10th: Today in WHO-story:

Births
1929 - Peter Diamond (Delos in The Romans, Morok Guard & Morok Technician in The Space Museum, Sailor in The Highlanders and Davis in The Ice Warriors; extra & stuntman on The Daleks, The Dalek Invasion of Earth, The Highlanders, The Enemy of the World, The War Games and The Dæmons; fight arranger on The Dalek Invasion of Earth, The Romans, The Space Museum, The Chase, The Highlanders, The Evil of the Daleks, The War Games and The Dæmons)

1939 - Kate O'Mara (The Rani in The Mark Of The Rani, The Time Of The Rani; Children In Need special Dimensions In Time; Big Finish audio The Rani Reaps The Whirlwind)

1965 - Claudia Christian (Janine Foster in the Big Finish audio The Reaping)

Deaths
1984 - Michael Mulcaster (extra in The Highlanders, Frontier in Space and The Masque of Mandragora; husband to The Deadly Assassin's co-costume designer Joan Ellacott) aged 72

1996 - Rex Tucker (director of The Gunfighters; co-author of The Ballad Of The Last Chance Saloon)
2002 - Colin Eggleston (film editor on The Smugglers) aged 60
2017 - Patrick O'Connell (Ashton in The Dalek Invasion of Earth) aged 83

Episodes
1968 - The Dominators, Episode One: 6.1 million viewers

Introductions
1968 - Launch of the sixth series of the 'classic era' of Doctor Who, the last series of the show's black-and-white era

Releases
1983 - The Doctor Who Quiz Book of Science (Magnet Books)

1989 - Issue 152 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)

2006 - Issue 10 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines); Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition: Series Two (Panini Comics UK)
2013 - The Official 50th Anniversary Annual (BBC Children's Books)

2016 - Casualties of Time (Big Finish Productions)
2017 - Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 212 (Big Finish)

Behind-the-Scenes
2005 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Singularity took place
2012 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Council of War took place

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Ronald Allen as Rago, one of The Dominators (1968)

That looks hideous.

Yep, let's hope it looks better in the show, cheap and tacky looking .

The new tardis, sonic screw driver and three companions hasn't filled me with much enthusiasm for the new series.

I can't wait to see Bradley Walsh.

I'm expecting him to be as good as Catherine Tate and Matt Lucas. Two others from the field of comedy / light entertainment, whom i thought were excellent following my reservations about them getting parts.

It's not the actors it's how many , three seems too many.

It worked fine in the past.

Ian, Barbara and Susan, Ian, Barbara and Vicki, Ben, Polly and Jamie, Tegan, Nyssa and Adric, Tegan, Nyssa and Turlough.

Chibnall is used to writing ensemble pieces, Broadchurch was a huge hit, so i've no problem with the number of characters.

August 11th: Today in WHO-story:

Births
1922 - Ron Grainer (composer of the Doctor Who theme music)

1925 - Brian Badcoe (Adam in Invasion of the Dinosaurs)
1929 - Tony Harwood (Cyberman in The Tomb of the Cybermen and The Wheelin Space [uncredited], Yeti in The Abominable Snowmen, Ice Warrior in The Ice Warriors [Rintan], The Seeds of Death and The War Games [uncredited] and Flynn in The Ambassadors of Death)
1932 - John Gorrie (director of The Keys of Marinus)

1937 - Anna Massey (Madeleine Fairweather in the Big Finish audio The Girl Who Never Was)
1939 - Ian Thompson (Hetra in The Web Planet and Malsan in The Chase)
1946 - Clive Doig (vision mixer on An Unearthly Child to The Edge of Destruction, The Sensorites and Planet of Giants; instrumental in the casting of Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor)

1949 - Mickey Edwards (visual effects designer on Four to Doomsday)
1968 - Gary O'Brien (Rickston Slade in Voyage of the Damned); Sophie Okonedo (Liz 10 in The Beast Below and The Pandorica Opens and the alternative Ninth Doctor's companion Alison Cheney in the webcast Scream of the Shalka)

Deaths
1994 - Peter Cushing (Dr. Who [Dalek movies]) aged 81

1998 - Derek Newark (Za in An Unearthly Child and Greg Sutton in Inferno) aged 65

2000 - Eddie Powell (stuntman on The Deadly Assassin and the movie Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150AD) aged 73

Releases
1983 - Issue 80 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)
1988 - Issue 140 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)

2011 - Issue 230 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines)
2012 - Do You Have a Licence to Save This Planet? (DVD)

2014 - Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 66 (Big Finish Productions)
2015 - Return to Telos (Big Finish)

Behind-the-Scenes
1969 - The Monsters (later renamed Doctor Who and the Silurians) was given an extra seventh episode; assistant script editor Trevor Ray submitted a revised version of the first episode of The Ambassadors of Death
2009 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Shadow of the Past took place
2017 - Recording of the Big Finish box set The Tenth Doctor Chronicles took place

Fake 'Doctor Who' cinema posters from the '60's

More fake posters from the '70's

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The Daleks advance in Into the Dalek (2014)