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[Susan Foreman]

A dog, minding his own business, comes across some robotic Yeti in Covent Gardens during the filming of 'The Web Of Fear' in 1967

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Shakri from the 2012 story The Power of Three.

[Susan Foreman]

Oh lordy lordy!!

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[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

It would appear that Mark Tonderai, who directed the films 'Hush' and 'House At The End Of The Street', is apparently going to be directing some episodes in the upcoming series

Doctor Who series 11: it looks as if a new director has been revealed, block two filming

There is evidence to suggest they have been joined in South Africa by cinematographer Dan Mindel (Star Trek / The Force Awakens).

[Susan Foreman]

January 18th: Today is WHO-story

Births
1913 - Rosemary Johnson (Hilda Rowse in Planet of Giants)
1932 - Giles Phibbs (Second Human in The Sensorites)
1939 - Paul Grist (Bill Filer in The Claws of Axos)
1940 - Tony Holland (Third Assistant in The Savages)
1941 - Christopher H. Bidmead (script editor [1980-1981]; writer of Logopolis, Castrovalva, Frontios and the Big Finish audios The Hollows of Time and Renaissance of the Daleks)
1943 - Paul Freeman (Jalnik in the Big Finish audio The Foe from the Future)
1946 - Andrew Tourell (Constable Cummings in Black Orchid)
1982 - Rik Makarem (Doctor Rupesh Patanjali in the Torchwood story Children of Earth)

Deaths
1977 - Nancie Jackson (Doris Squire in Doctor Who and the Silurians) aged 55
2009 - Henry Stamper (Anton in The Enemy of the World) aged 71
2013 - Reg Pritchard (Ben Daheer in The Crusade and the Man in a Mackintosh in The Daleks' Master Plan) aged 88

Episodes
1964 - The Daleks, Episode Five ('The Expedition'): 9.9 million viewers
1969 - The Krotons, Episode Four: 7.1 million viewers
1975 - Robot, Part Four: 9.0 million viewers
1982 - Four to Doomsday, Part One: 8.4 million viewers
1983 - Snakedance, Part One: 6.7 million viewers

Releases
1996 - Just War and Downtime (Virgin Books); issue 235 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)
2010 - Peladon Tales (DVD box set - region 2)

2016 - Erimem: Into the Unknown (Thebes Publishing); Torchwood: Uncanny Valley and Tony Hadoke's Who's Round 154 (Big Finish Productions)
2017 - Issue 9 of Ninth Doctor Ongoing (Titan Comics)

Behind-the-Scenes
2001 - Recording of the Big Finish audio The Chimes of Midnight took place
2006 - The read-through for The Idiot's Lantern took place
2011 - Recording of the fourth series of Big Finish's Doctor Who spin-off Jago & Litefoot took place
2012 - Recording of the Big Finish audio The Jupiter Conjunction
2015 - Recording of Big Finish's Doctor Who spin-off Iris Wildthyme box set Wildthyme Reloaded took place

[Susan Foreman]

Peter Wyngarde as Timanov in 'Planet of Fire'

Peter O'Toole meets Vincent Price

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The stretched out skin of Lady Cassandra from 2005's The End of the World.

[Susan Foreman]

January 19th: Today in WHO-story

Births
1933 - Nik Zaran (Lieutenant Sorba in The Space Pirates)
1938 - Michael J. Jackson (Sir Geoffrey de Lacy in The King's Demons)
1957 - Roger Ashton-Griffiths (Quayle in Robots of Sherwood and Mr. Garret in the Torchwood episode Random Shoes)

Deaths
2006 - Gary Downie (assistant floor manager on Underworld; choreographer on Black Orchid; production manager on The Two Doctors, Silver Nemesis and the BBC Children in Need special Dimensions in Time; writer of The Doctor Who Cookbook; partner to 1980's Doctor Who producer John Nathan-Turner) aged 65
2016 - Rita Davies (Big Finish Productions actress - Janneus in Primeval and Tashek in the I, Davros story Innocence) aged 82

Episodes
1974 - Invasion of the Dinosaurs, Part Two: 10.1 million viewers
1982 - Four to Doomsday, Part Two: 8.8 million viewers
1983 - Snakedance, Part Two: 7.7 million viewers
1984 - The Awakening, Part One: 7.9 million viewers
1985 - Vengeance on Varos, Part One: 7.2 million viewers

Introductions
1985 - First appearance of Nabil Shaban as Sil

Releases
1978 - The Face of Evil (Target Books)
1989 - The Doctor Who File (W.H. Allen - paperback edition)
1995 - Warlock and The Romance of Crime (Virgin Books); issue 222 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)
2004 - The Visitation (DVD - region 2)
2009 - The Next Doctor (DVD - region 2)
2012 - Issue 252 of Doctor Who Adventures (Immediate Media Co.)
2017 - Torchwood One: Before the Fall (Big Finish)

Behind-the-Scenes
2001 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Seasons of Fear took place
2003 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Project: Lazarus took place
2004 - Recording of the Big Finish audio The Roof of the World took place
2006 - Rewrites to The Idiot's Lantern and Fear Her took place
2009 - Rumours circulated that former BBC EastEnders star Michelle Ryan and actor & comedian Lee Evans had been cast in Planet of the Dead. The rumours were confirmed to be true
2010 - The US media stated that plans were made for an American version of the Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood. The rumours were partly confirmed to be true in 2011 for a British-American co-production as a ten-part story called Miracle Day

2012 - Recording of the Big Finish audio The Butcher of Brisbane took place
2006 - Recording of the Big Finish audios A Full Life and The Ingenious Gentleman Adric of Alzarius took place

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Boneless from the 2014 episode Flatline.

[Demoncrat]

The Deadly Assassin.
What a story. Terrified me as an 8 year old ...

Ordering the Revelations set with Robots Of Death SP ED next ...