The Doctor Who Thread

[nosferatu42]

You need to get some ice warriors in the mix Dem.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by nosferatu42

You need to get some ice warriors in the mix Dem.

I just have the one and it looks like a plastic figure. I do think the Daleks and Cybermen look slightly realistic.... just slightly.

[Susan Foreman]

William Hartnell has his wig fitted...

...while Nicholas Courtney and Ian Marter retire to the pool

[Susan Foreman]

March 1st: Today in WHO-story

Births
1908 - Terence de Marney (Joseph Longfoot in The Smugglers)
1918 - Roger Delgado (the Master [1971-1973])

1931 - Neville Barber (Doctor Cook in The Time Monster and Howard Baker in the one-off Doctor Who spin-off K9 & Company)
1933 - Johnny Barrs (Fuller in The Mind of Evil)
1964 - Sean Gilder (Sycorax Leader in The Christmas Invasion)

Deaths
1989 - Geoffrey Morris (Sabor in Planet of the Spiders) died aged 87
1994 - Ernest Jennings (First Man in Market in The Romans and an extra in The Highlanders, Shada, State of Decay and The Trial of a Time Lord) died aged 88
2015 - Jack Edwards (Dancer in The Masque of Mandragora) died aged 77

Episodes
1969 - The Seeds of Death, Episode Six: 7.7 million viewers
1975 - The Sontaran Experiment, Part Two: 10.5 million viewers
1982 - Black Orchid, Part One: 9.9 million viewers

1983 - Enlightenment, Part One: 6.6 million viewers
1984 - Planet of Fire, Part Three: 7.4 million viewers
2002 - Death Comes to Time, Episode Two ('Planet of Blood' - third installment)

Releases
1999 - More Short Trips, Demontage and Deep Blue (BBC Books); Dead Romance (Virgin Books); The Keys of Marinus (VHS)
2004 - Pyramids of Mars (DVD - region 2)

2005 - The Green Death and The Visitation (DVD - region 1)
2007 - Made of Steel (BBC Books); issue 380 of Doctor Who Magazine (Panini UK - includes free CD from Big Finish Productions)
2010 - The Space Museum and The Chase (DVD box set - region 2)

2012 - Issue 258 of Doctor Who Adventures (Immediate Media Co.)
2013 - Vengeance of the Stones (Big Finish and AudioGO); Toby Hadoe's Who's Round 8 (Big Finish)
2016 - Rose, The Massacre, The Ambassador of Death and Dark Water/Death in Heaven (Obverse Books)
2017 - Issue 10 of Ninth Doctor and Issue 3 of Eleventh Doctor Year 3 (Titan Comics); Scream of the Shalka (Obverse Books)

Behind-the-Scenes
1986 - BBC One controller Bill Cotton announced that Doctor Who would return from his 18-month hiatus in the autumn of that year, returning to its original 25-minute per-episode format

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Yeti from the 1967 story The Abominable Snowmen.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The er' Tomb of the Daleks. (And an unconvincing bonus for nos42.)

[Demoncrat]

Well those redwoods fooled me

[Susan Foreman]

Hmm!

Apparently there is going to be a new DVD release, announced in DWM soon. At the same time, this tweet appears:

Presumably it refers to 'The Web Of Fear', but does it mean that the missing 3rd episode has been found, or does it just mean a new 'special edition' release is coming?

[Susan Foreman]

March 2nd: Today in WHO-story

Births
1925 - Bernard Price (extra in The Talons of Weng-Chiang)
1934 - Roy Pearce (Solos Guard in The Mutants; extra in The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve, The Tenth Planet, The Faceless Ones, Fury from the Deep, The Invasion, The War Games, Doctor Who and the Silurians, The Dæmons, The Sea Devils, Invasion of the Dinosaurs, Death to the Daleks, Planet of the Spiders, Robot, The Android Invasion, The Masque of Mandragora and Image of the Fendahl)
1937 - Henry Stamper (Anton in The Enemy of the World)
1939 - Hugh Walters (William Shakespeare in The Chase, Runcible in The Deadly Assassin, Vogel in Revelation of the Daleks and Roderick Allingham in the Big Finish audio The Fearmonger)

1940 - Sean Barry-Weaske (extra in Silver Nemesis)
1943 - George Layton (Technician Penn in The Space Pirates; Big Finish Productions actor - Louis Markell & Human Guard in The Havocs of Empire and Stefan Lehne in the Counter-Measures story Unto the Breach)
1966 - Alan Stevens (producer & director of Magic Bullet Productions' Doctor Who audio spin-off series Kaldor City)
1979 - Jocelyn Jee Esein (Carla Langer in the Sarah Jane Adventures stories The Mark of the Berserker, The Empty Planet and The Curse of Clyde Langer)

Deaths
1989 - John Bryans (Torvin in The Creature from the Pit)
1992 - Anthony Lang (extra in The Daleks' Master Plan, The Highlanders, The Faceless Ones, The Ambassadors of Death, The Three Doctors and Genesis of the Daleks)

Episodes
1968 - The Web of Fear, Episode Five: 8.0 million viewers
1974 - Death to the Daleks, Part Two: 9.5 million viewers
1982 - Black Orchid, Part Two: 10.1 million viewers
1983 - Enlightenment, Part Two: 7.2 million viewers
1984 - Planet of Fire, Part Four: 7.0 million viewers
1985 - The Two Doctors, Part Three: 6.9 million viewers

Departures
1984 - Mark Strickson's final performance as Turlough; final appearance of Kamelion

1985 - Patrick Troughton's final performance as the Second Doctor

Releases
1992 - Logopolis, Castrovalva and The Pertwee Years (VHS)
1998 - Short Trips, Longest Day and The Night Witches (BBC Books); Oblivion (Virgin Books)
2004 - The Seeds of Death and The Three Doctors (DVD - region 1)
2006 - The Beginning (DVD box set - regions 1 & 4); issue 367 of Doctor Who Magazine (Panini UK); The Veiled Leopard (Big Finish)
2010 - Dalek Wars and Remembrance of the Daleks (DVD - region 1)
2015 - Dark Eyes 4 (Big Finish)
2017 - Issue 22 of Doctor Who Adventures (Panini); The Lost Planet and Four to Doomsday (BBC Audio)

Behind-the-Scenes
2011 - Recording of the Big Finish audios The Doomsday Quatrain took place

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

Hmm!

Apparently there is going to be a new DVD release, announced in DWM soon. At the same time, this tweet appears:

Presumably it refers to 'The Web Of Fear', but does it mean that the missing 3rd episode has been found, or does it just mean a new 'special edition' release is coming?

You should have read his comments.

Vanezis says it's nothing to do with Doctor Who. He says the tin is empty at the moment but he got it to house some Blakes 7 inserts.

You and your fake news, Susan.