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[Demoncrat]

RIP Emberg then.


Watching Seeds Of Doom. What would Percy Thrower have made of all this??

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Doctor menaced by a robotic Cleaner in 1987's Paradise Towers.

[Susan Foreman]

January 14th: Today in WHO-story

Births
1929 - Peter Barkworth (Leader Clent in The Ice Warriors)
1934 - Richard Briers (Chief Caretaker in Paradise Towers and Henry Parker in the Torchwood episode A Day in the Death)
1938 - Spencer Chapman (designer on The Dalek Invasion of Earth and The Space Museum)
1957 - Suzanne Danielle (Agella in Destiny of the Daleks): Stephen Aintree (D.C.I. Turnball in the Big Finish Productions audio The Condemned)
1963 - Adjoa Andoh (Francine Jones [2007-2008]; Sister Jatt in New Earth and Nurse Albertine in the Big Finish audio Year of the Pig)
1965 - Jemma Redgrave (Kate Lethbridge-Stewart [2012-present]; Lana Merrion in the Big Finish audio Mistfall)

Deaths
1974 - Paul Whitsun-Jones (Squire in The Smugglers and the Marshal in The Mutants) aged 50
1990 - Jack Witty (Computer voice in The Seeds of Death) aged 74
2005 - Jack Kine (visual effects designer on The Mind Robber; "the Leader" in Inferno) aged 83
2010 - Mark Jones (Arnold Keeler & Krynoid voice in The Seeds of Doom) aged 70
2014 - Joe Grieg (Sensorite in The Sensorites) aged 91
2016 - Robert Banks Stewart (writer of Terror of the Zygons, The Seeds of Doom and the unmade TV story/Big Finish audio The Foe from the Future; creator of the Zygons and the Krynoids) aged 84

Episodes
1967 - The Underwater Menace, Episode One: 8.3 million viewers
1978 - Underworld, Part Two: 9.1 million viewers
2007 - Horror of Glam Rock (BBC7)

Releases
1982 - State of Decay (Target Books); issue 61 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)
1988 - Issue 133 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)
1999 - Issue 174 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)
2002 - The Tomb of the Cybermen (DVD); Planet of Giants (VHS)
2008 - Beneath the Surface (DVD box set)
2010 - Issue 149 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines); The Writer's Tale - The Final Chapter (BBC Books)
2011 - The Christmas Trap (Nintendo)
2013 - The Wrong Doctors and The Auntie Matter (Big Finish)
2014 - Prisoners of Time: The Complete Series (IDW Publishing); Antidote to Oblivion (Big Finish)
2015 - Mistfall (Big Finish)
2016 - The Churchill Years (Big Finish)

Behind-the-scenes
2009 - Read-through for Planet of the Dead took place
2013 - It was announced that Doctor Who: Worlds in Time would be discontinued from 3rd March
2015 - Daniel O'Hara confirmed to direct Under the Lake/Before the Flood
2016 - Recording of Big Finish's Iris Wildthyme box set Wildthyme Reloaded took place

[Demoncrat]

Ambassadors came yesterday so am watching it now. Looks nicer than the vhs. Will order from Music Magpie again!!

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The unmasked Magnus Greel from the 1977 story The Talons of Weng-Chiang.

[Demoncrat]

A great reveal. Biased I'm not mind

[iank]

Picked up the Blu ray of the new part-animated Shada last week and watched it last night. I was a little wary, as I love the 'original' Tom-narrated Shada from the early-90s and feared I might not like this version as much. However, for the most part, that didn't happen. There are a few quibbles, like the 'old Tom' ending, which seems pretty random and WTH, and the decision to present it as a movie when there seems zero reason not to present it in the intended episodic format is also fairly bizarre. The new version is obviously quite a lot longer, which makes the pace inevitably not quite as zippy as the narrated version... and yet, for that and my minor quibbles, I still absolutely loved it. Shada is a lovely story no matter how it's presented, and still one of my favourites. I also enjoyed the animation more than Power - whether it's actually better, or just easier to take when mixed with live-action, or better in colour or more suited to this style of story is debatable, but I still did. I would very much like to see more like this - how about animating some BFs like the Tom/Lalla Romance of Crime, or a 'Lost Story' like The Nightmare Fair?

Very happy with this, though.

[Susan Foreman]

Filming in Cape Town, South Africa

[Susan Foreman]

January 15: Today in WHO-story

Births
1936 - Richard Franklin (Captain Mike Yates [semi-regular]; Big Finish Productions actor - Romolo Nusek in the Bernice Summerfield story Dragons' Wrath and Colonel Nasgard in the I, Davros story Innocence; writer of the spin-off novel The Killing Stone; writer & director of the spin-off stage show Recall UNIT; cousin of The Wedding of River Song guest actress Emma Campbell-Jones)

1948 - David Warwick (Kimus in The Pirate Planet and a Police Commissioner in Army of Ghosts; Big Finish actor - David Garnier in The Harvest, Matthew Dysart in Power Play, Erich in the Gallifrey story A Blind Eye and Willem van der Heever in the Bernice Summerfield story Missing Persons)
1953 - Gareth Hale (Len in Survival)

Deaths
2011 - Susannah York (Registry & Our Mother in the Big Finish audio Valhalla) died aged 76
2014 - Roger Lloyd-Pack (John Lumic in Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel) died aged 69

Episodes
1966 - The Daleks' Master Plan, Episode Ten ('Escape Switch'): 9.5 million viewers
1972 - Day of the Daleks, Episode Three: 9.1 million viewers
1977 - The Face of Evil, Part Three: 11.3 million viewers

Releases
1981 - The Creature from the Pit (Target Books)

1987 - Slipback (Target Books)
1998 - Issue 261 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)
2004 - Short Trips: Steel Skies (Big Finish)
2009 - Issue 98 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines)
2014 - Issue 337 of Doctor Who Adventures (Immediate Media Co.); The King of Sontar (Big Finish)
2015 - The Crawling Terror and Full Circle (BBC Audio); The Exxilons (Big Finish)

Behind-the-Scenes
1996 - Location filming began on the TV Movie
2010 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Solitaire took place
2015 - Recording of Big Finish's The Young Lions and the Iris Wildthyme box set Wildthyme Reloaded took place

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The mutated Professor Lazarus from 2007's The Lazarus Experiment.