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#7711
25th March 2018, 09:41 PM
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Saw Black Orchid again last night, for the umpteemth time. Always loved this one, still do. Such a simple story, but so well done.  trebor8273 and nosferatu42 like this.  |
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#7712
26th March 2018, 03:47 AM
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March 26th: Today in WHO-story Births 1925 - Barry Letts (Doctor Who Producer [1970-1975]; Executive Producer [1980-1981]; uncredited co-writer of The Dæmons [under the pseudonym Guy Leopold], The Time Monster, The Green Death and Planet of the Spiders; director of The Enemy of the World, Inferno [uncredited], Terror of the Autons, Carnival of Monsters, Planet of the Spiders and The Android Invasion; script consultant on Reeltime Pictures' Doctor Who spin-off Dæmos Rising; writer of several Doctor Who-related books and audio adventures)  1927 - Geoffrey Cheshire (Viking Leader in The Time Meddler, Garge in The Daleks' Master Plan, Tracy in The Invasion and a Roboman in the movie Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150AD) 1931 - George Raistrick (Guard at Work Centre in Day of the Daleks) 1934 - Kenneth Ives (Toba in The Dominators) 1941 - Richard Dawkins (Himself in The Stolen Earth/Journey's End; husband of Romana actress Lalla Ward) Deaths 2002 - Michael Wolf (Nils in The Moonbase) died aged 67 2013 - Rashid Karapiet (Rita's Father in The God Complex) died aged 84 Episodes 1966 - The Ark, Episode Four ('The Bomb'): 7.3 million viewers 1977 - The Talons of Weng-Chiang, Part Five: 10.1 million viewers 2005 - Rose: 10.5 million viewers Introductions 2005 - 16 years after the last series of Doctor Who, and 9 years since the last official episode, Doctor Who returned to the TV screens. As well as the Autons and the Nestene Consciousness returning to TV Doctor Who for the first time since 1971, this also introduced Christopher Eccleston as the Ninth Doctor, Billie Piper and noel Clarke as new companions Rose Tyler and Jackie Tyler and Camille Coduri as semi-regular Jackie Tyler. This was also the first transmitted episode featuring life-long fan Russell T. Davies as the show's lead writer and executive producer; launch of the documentary series Doctor Who Confidential  Documentaries 2005 - A New Dimension; Doctor Who Confidential: Bringing Back the Doctor Releases 2007 - Torchwood: Series 1: Part 3 (DVD - region 2) 2009 - The Depths of Despair (BBC Children's Books); issue 108 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines) 2014 - Issue 342 of Doctor Who Adventures (Immediate Media Co.)  2017 - The Jago & Litefoot Revival, Act One (Big Finish Productions) Behind-the-Scenes 1964 - David Whitaker defended himself and Terry Nation when Robert Gould accused them of stealing his idea regarding living vegetation for the third episode of The Keys of Marinus ('The Screaming Jungle'). David reassured that this was not intentional and was purely coincidental 2002 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Spare Parts took place 2008 - Final correspondence between Russell T. Davies and Doctor Who Magazine's Benjamin Cook took place via email regarding the production of the fourth series of the 'revived era' of Doctor Who. Many of these email exchanges featured in Russell's book The Writer's Tale 2009 - Recording of the Big Finish audio The Drowned World took place
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#7713
26th March 2018, 08:32 AM
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You're doing a great job Susan.  Just a little mistake here though.  "Billie Piper and noel Clarke as new companions Rose Tyler and Jackie Tyler" Susan Foreman and trebor8273 like this.
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#7714
26th March 2018, 10:16 AM
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| Pic of the Day # 431
The witch like Carrionites from 2007's The Shakespeare Code.  trebor8273 likes this. |
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#7716
26th March 2018, 12:32 PM
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 Noel Clarke, of course, played Mickey Smith nosferatu42 likes this.
__________________ People try to put us down Just because we get around Golly, Gee! it's wrong to be so guilty |
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#7717
26th March 2018, 01:34 PM
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When Carol Anne Ford left Doctor Who in 1964, she wrote a thank you letter to Sidney Newman. This was the reply she received 
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#7718
26th March 2018, 06:19 PM
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Philip Morris talks about finding the missing Doctor Who episodes, 'The Enemy of the World' and 'The Web of Fear' in an excerpt from one of the special features on the upcoming 'The Enemy of the World' special edition DVD Demoncrat and trebor8273 like this.
__________________ People try to put us down Just because we get around Golly, Gee! it's wrong to be so guilty |
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#7719
27th March 2018, 04:48 AM
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March 27th: Today in WHO-story Births 1906 - Henry McCarthy (Doctor Beavis in Spearhead from Space) 1920 - Bernard Wilkie (visual effects designer on An Unearthly Child [uncredited], The Ice Warriors, The Mind Robber, Colony in Space, The Curse of Peladon, Frontier in Space and Planet of the Spiders)  1931 - Tony Calvin (Dexeter in Full Circle) 1932 - Patrick Newell (Colonel Faraday in The Android Invasion) 1935 - Julian Glover (King Richard the Lionheart in The Crusade, Scaroth in City of Death and Upuat in Magic Bullet Productions' Doctor Who audio spin-off The True History of Faction Paradox) 1937 - Tony Imi (film cameraman on The Faceless Ones) 1958 - Adrian Rawlins (Ryder in Planet of the Ood and Frederick Abberline in Big Finish Productions' Jago & Litefoot story The Wax Princess) 1964 - Clive Rowe (Morvin Van Hoff in Voyage of the Damned) 1976 - Jasmine Breaks (Girl in Remembrance of the Daleks and Zala in Magic Bullets' Kaldor City stories Hidden Persuaders and Taren Capel) Deaths 1984 - Derek Francis (Nero in The Romans) aged 60 2004 - 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) aged 74 2013 - Brett Forrest (Guard in The Face of Evil) aged 69 2014 - Derek Martinus (director of Galaxy 4, Mission to the Unknown, The Tenth Planet, The Evil of the Daleks, The Ice Warriors and Spearhead from Space) aged 82  2017 - Richard Beale (Refusian voice in The Ark, Bat Masterson in The Gunfighters, Broadcast voice in The Macra Terror and the Minister of Ecology in The Green Death) aged 96 Episodes 1965 - The Crusade, Episode One ('The Lion'): 10.5 million viewers 1971 - The Claws of Axos, Episode Three: 6.4 million viewers Releases 1974 - Colony in Space and Day of the Daleks (Target Books) 1980 - Issue 25 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel - then known as Doctor Who Weekly)  1986 - Search for the Doctor and Crisis in Space (Severn House) 2014 - Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 52 (Big Finsh) 2015 - Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 113 (Big Finish) Behind-the-Scenes 2002 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Spare Parts took place 2006 - Recording of the Big Finish audios The Nowhere Place and Year of the Pig took place bizarre_eye@Cult Labs and trebor8273 like this.
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#7720
27th March 2018, 12:17 PM
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| Pic of the Day # 432
A Ganger from the 2011 two parter The Rebel Flesh / The Almost People.  nosferatu42 likes this. |
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