The Doctor Who Thread

[platostotal]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Me too. I've longed for this ever since reading the old Target novel.

It comes across as a pure horror story. I'd love to have it animated even though it would lack the chilling atmosphere i suspect the televised episodes had.

Well the advantages of being an old git I well remember Fury as one the last Who shows I saw as an 8 year old back in 68 before the family moved to the U.S., This one and Web of Fear stayed with me all these years, the seaweed monster trying to breakout of a pipe/tube was proper scary for a rugrat like me, real 'behind the sofa'stuff as the cast realized they couldn't stop it and as for that foam, never had soap suds been so menacing and unlike the modern incarnation there was no deep emotional/philosophical tear jerking finale that most 8 year olds would go "Huh?" at, just the Doctor kicking arse and then popping back in the Tardis for the next adventure...

( it does not escape me that I'm probably the only member here that has any memory of it at all, thanks to the BBC wiping it, ******s)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by platostotal

Well the advantages of being an old git I well remember Fury as one the last Who shows I saw as an 8 year old back in 68 before the family moved to the U.S., This one and Web of Fear stayed with me all these years, the seaweed monster trying to breakout of a pipe/tube was proper scary for a rugrat like me, real 'behind the sofa'stuff as the cast realized they couldn't stop it and as for that foam, never had soap suds been so menacing and unlike the modern incarnation there was no deep emotional/philosophical tear jerking finale that most 8 year olds would go "Huh?" at, just the Doctor kicking arse and then popping back in the Tardis for the next adventure...

( it does not escape me that I'm probably the only member here that has any memory of it at all, thanks to the BBC wiping it, ******s)

Nice reminisces, Plato.

[Susan Foreman]

April 16th: Today in WHO-story

Births
1907 - Martin Boddey (Walker in The Sea Devils)
1931 - Godfrey James (Tarn in Underworld)
1936 - Derrick Sherwin (Script Editor [1968-1969]; Producer [1969-1970]); writer of The Mind Robber [episode one only, uncredited] and The Invasion; creator of UNIT; extra in Spearhead from Space)

1954 - Antony Root (Script Editor of Four to Doomsday, The Visitation and Earthshock; assistant floor manager on Destiny of the Daleks [uncredited])

1960 - Ricco Ross (Ringmaster in The Greatest Show in the Galaxy)
1990 - Lily Loveless (Ellie Faber in the Sarah Jane Adventures story The Curse of Clyde Langer)
1992 - Anton Thompson McCormick (Carl in the Sarah Jane Adventures story Revenge of the Slitheen)

Deaths
1994 - Frank Wylie (Ruther in Castrovalva) aged 58

Episodes
1966 - The Celestial Toymaker, Episode Three ('The Dancing Floor'): 9.4 million viewers
2005 - Aliens of London: 7.63 million viewers

Documentaries
2005 - Doctor Who Confidential: I Get a Side-Kick Out of You

Introductions
2005 - First appearance of the Slitheen, Penelope Wilton as Harriet Jones, Naoko Mori as Torchwood regular Toshiko Sato and Lachele Carl as Trinity Welles

Releases
1992 - Cat's Cradle: Warhead (Virgin Books); issue 186 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)

2007 - Survival (DVD - region 2)

2008 - Issue 3 of Agent Provocateur (IDW Publishing)
2009 - Judgement of the Judoon, The Slitheen Excursion and Prisoner of the Daleks (BBC Books); issue 111 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines)
2012 - Energy of the Daleks (Big Finish Productions)
2013 - Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 12 (Big Finish)
2015 - Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition: The Art of Doctor Who (Panini UK); Death Match (Big Finish)

Behind-the-Scenes
2005 - The BBC confirmed that David Tennant was to play the Tenth Doctor
2007 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Valhalla took place. This was to be Michelle Gomez's first Doctor Who production, seven years before she played Missy (the female incarnation of the Master)

2008 - Recording of the Big Finish audio The Boy that Time Forgot

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Love this photo. Long hard stares.

[Demoncrat]

How post modern

Staring 'daggers' you might say ....

One to extinguish the physical life ....
One to extinguish the demon within ...

etc.

Ahem.
Just my little joke tee hee ...

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) and the villainous Morgaine (Jean Marsh) square up in Battlefield (1989)

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Love this photo. Long hard stares.

For those who don't understand this

[Susan Foreman]

April 17th: Today in WHO-story

Births
1920 - Arnold Yarrow (Bellal in Death to the Daleks)
1924 - Kevin Lindsay (Sontaran actor - Linx in The Time Warrior and Styre & the Marshal in The Sontaran Experiment; 'Cho-Je' incarnation of K'Anpo in Planet of the Spiders); Clyde Pollitt (Time Lord actor - Time Lord in The War Games and the Chancellor in The Three Doctors [two characters are possibly the same character])
1929 - Eve Pearce (Estelle Cole in the Torchwood story Small Worlds)
1941 - Brian Miller (Dalek voices [1984-1988]; Dugdale in Snakedance, Barney in Deep Breath and Harry Sowersby in the Sarah Jane Adventures story The Mad Woman in the Attic; Big Finish Productions actor - Abbotly in the Sarah Jane Smith story Ghost Town and Rexus in the Gallifrey story Reborn; husband to Sarah Jane Smith actress Elisabeth Sladen and father to fellow Big Finish actor Sadie Miller)

1942 - David Bradley (First Doctor [The Doctor Falls, Twice Upon a Time and Big Finish audios]; Solomon in Dinosaurs on a Spaceship, voice of the Shansheeth in the Sarah Jane Adventures story Death of the Doctor and William Hartnell in the 50th anniversary docudrama An Adventure in Space and Time)

1944 - Diane Fletcher (Autumn Wit in Big Finish's Bernice Summerfield story The Tub Full of Cats)
1950 - Peter Mantle (Kaled Guard in Genesis of the Daleks)
1963 - Terry Weaver (Props master on the TV Movie)

Deaths
2001 - Terry Scully (Fewsham in The Seeds of Death) aged 68
2002 - James Copeland (Selris in The Krotons) aged 83
2017 - Michael Ladkin (RAF Pilot in The Faceless Ones) aged 72

Episodes
1965 - The Crusade, Episode Four ('The Warlords'): 9.5 million viewers
1971 - Colony in Space, Episode Two: 8.5 million viewers
2010 - Victory of the Daleks: 8.2 million viewers

Documentaries
2010 - Doctor Who Confidential: End Games

Releases
1980 - Issue 28 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)

1997 - The Well-Mannered War (Virgin Books)
2008 - Issue 60 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines)
2012 - The Emerald Tiger (Big Finish)
2013 - Prisoners of Time (IDW Publishing)
2014 - Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 57 (Big Finish); Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition: The Official Guide to the 2013 series (Panini)
2015 - Tony Hadoke's Who's Round 116 (Big Finish)

Behind-the-Scenes
2007 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Valhalla took place
2009 - Big Finish announced that it was bringing the book version of Short Trips range was coming to an end. It would later continue in audio range

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Patrick Troughton as the megalomaniac Salamander in 1967's The Enemy of the World.

[Susan Foreman]

Summer's coming

A Dalek's Death Ray Iced Lolly from 1975