The Doctor Who Thread

[Susan Foreman]

October 29, 1966. An incredibly important day in the programs history.

At approximately 6.13pm, 30 seconds of the most innovative, groundbreaking and game changing television was broadcast



The day Doctor Who changed face – and transformed TV for ever | The Guardian

[hivemind]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

The artist is Colin Howard, who has a long standing history with Doctor Who, designing many of the covers for the original VHS releases, the missing adventures and features for Marvel comics

I was always a fan of Colin Howard's terrific artwork, even had the pleasure of meeting him. His artwork on the later BBC video Dr Who series starting back in 1994 was exceptional indeed. He did a superb range of VHS covers for the VHS/Doctor Who range which included The Seeds of Doom, Frontios/ The Awakening, The Monster of Peladon, Survival and Kinda, plus many others besides. Then I think in 1997, BBC Worldwide took the decision to replace hand drawn artwork for computer generated sleeves. I think the first of these was The War Machines. And they looked shit. Nothing can truly compare to hand drawn artwork. Whoever took that decision at the time at BBC Worldwide needed to be sent to outer edges of space and dumped on the nearest asteroid. Idiots!

[hivemind]

Then we have the shit VHS sleeves done on computer. I absolutely hated them with a passion, and BBC Worldwide continued using computer designed sleeves for the DVD range. Crazy. It looks so bloody tacky and lazy. Original artwork wins out every time.

More of sleeves can be found http://www.videocollector.co.uk/videos/search/dr+who I think the site has nearly all of them.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

I don't mind some of those later ones actually. Any of them were better than the early photo vhs covers.

[hivemind]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

I don't mind some of those later ones actually. Any of them were better than the early photo vhs covers.

True, but the BBC should of stuck with original artwork all the way through, bar the early VHS releases. I seem to remember that after the Doctor TV Movie, BBC Worldwide and Steve Cole, who was put in charge of the Doctor Who range for the BBC 1997, and wanted to overhaul the Dr Who logo to keep the Doctor Who range in sync with the new TV movie, and obviously made the decision to move away from original artwork to this computer generated muck for the VHS releases.

[Susan Foreman]

Something had just occurred to me about the events of 50 years ago

When we first met The Doctor in 'An Unearthly Child', he was depicted as being a crotchety and unsympathetic character, who had little time for people and showed no qualms in placing Ian and Barbara in danger.

In fact, the early characterisation could be described as being 'emotionless'!

Of course, this changed throughout the Hartnell years, and he has became a lovable character, who cared for his companions and friends and showed them compassion

In 'The Tenth Planet', we first met The Cybermen, who used to be creatures that were like us, but after undergoing the cybernetic process, they lost the ability to feel emotion

So, on one hand, we had a character who, over time, learned how to show emotion and feelings, and become human, and on the other hand, we have characters that have lost their emotions and feelings and become less than human

[iank]

The Master kills Rose's dad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBil...=RDa6XFcPsbfDA

[Susan Foreman]

David J. Howe has started a Indiegogo fundraiser thing to get money to create a Doctor Who Merchandise Museum. He is hoping to raise £30,000

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/t...ndise-museum#/

[iank]

Newsnight feature on missing television, recoveries, and the Power animation:

https://youtu.be/ZGxRBOjfZCc

[Susan Foreman]

Children in Need To Debut The Return of Doctor Mysterio Clip | Doctor Who TV