The Doctor Who Thread

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

The Space Pig from 2005's Aliens of London.

Played by Jimmy Vee.

He has become quite a regular in Nu-Who, appearing in 'The End of the World' (as the Moxx of Balhoon), 'Attack of the Graske' (as the Graske), 'Voyage of the Damned' (as Bannakaffalatta) and 'The Caretaker' (as the Skovox Blitzer).

He was also in a number of The Sarah-Jane Adventures and took over from Kenny Baker as R2-D2 in 'The Force Awakens' and 'The Last Jedi'

[Susan Foreman]

Class to return: Doctor Who spin-off gets new Big Finish series - Radio Times

Oh dear! Hope it's better than the television version

"Six new stories will pick up the tale of the Coal School Academy and the group of students – Charlie (Greg Austin), Ram (Fady Elsayed), April (Sophie Hopkins), Tanya (Vivian Oparah), Jordan Renzo (Matteusz) – who protect the earth from a host of alien monsters, with help from their badass teacher Miss Quill (Katherine Kelly)"

Mind you, there's a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel:

"And not only are the original cast returning to voice their characters but, as confirmed by Doctor Who magazine, they’ll cross paths with Seventh Doctor companion Ace (Sophie Aldred) and the dreaded Daleks."

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

I was reading about this earlier. So a bunch of school kids are going to defeat the Daleks?

Right load of crap.

[iank]

Dear God. BF are beyond parody at this point.

[Susan Foreman]

May 30th: Today in WHO-story

Births
1935 - Derek Chafer (Cyberman in The Invasion; extra in The Time Meddler, The Myth Makers, The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve, The Gunfighters, The Moonbase, Fury from the Deep, The Seeds of Death, The Space Pirates, Doctor Who and the Silurians, The Ambassadors of Death, The Mind of Evil, Colony in Space, The Curse of Peladon, The Mutants, Death to the Daleks, The Monster of Peladon, The Masque of Mandragora, The Ribos Operation, The Androids of Tara, The Horns of Nimon, The Leisure Hive and Warriors' Gate)

1938 - Christopher Robbie (Karkus in The Mind Robber and the Cyberleader in Revenge of the Cybermen)
1955 - Philip Bretherton (Big Finish Productions - Suskind in Arrangements for War, Scrivener, Darcy, D'Urberville & Heathcliffe in Recorded Time and Other Stories, Vituperon in The Devil's Armada, Elliot Payne in the third series of Jago & Litefoot and Keith Kordel in the Counter-Measures story Rise and Shine)
1963 - Tracey Childs (Elizabeth Klein [Seventh Doctor's companion in the Big Finish audios]; Metella in The Fires of Pompeii; Big Finish actress - the Figurehead in Time Works, Tsheshra in the Bernice Summerfield story The Bone of Contention and Lady Fothergill & Nora in the Iris Wildthyme box set Wildthyme Reloaded)
1964 - Mark Sheppard (Canton Delaware III in The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon)
1977 - Rachael Stirling (Ada Gillyflower in The Crimson Horror; Big Finish actress - Demesne Furze in Trail of the White Worm, Adelaine Dutemps in Dark Eyes 4 and Jill Meadows & Silvi in Technophobia; narrator of the short story Little Rose Riding Hood; daughter of The Crimson Horror guest actress Diana Rigg)
1981 - Jamie Robertson - composer (music composer & sound designer for Big Finish's Doctor Who-related audio adventures)

Deaths
1999 - Don Harper (music composer on The Invasion) aged 78

Episodes
1964 - The Aztecs, Episode Two ('The Warriors of Death'): 7.4 million viewers
1970 - Inferno, Episode Four: 6.0 million viewers
2003 - Shada, Episode Five (webcast)

Releases
1985 - The TARDIS Inside Out (Piccadilly Press)

2002 - Issue 318 of Doctor Who Magazine (Panini Comics UK)

2013 - Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 20 (Big Finish); issue 465 of Doctor Who Magazine (Panini)
2017 - Falling (Big Finish)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Cybermats from the 1968 story The Wheel in Space.

[JAMIOUSE]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

The Cybermats from the 1968 story The Wheel in Space.

As much as Wheel is derided I would love to see it in all it's glory, the two episodes we have are among some of my favourites.

[Demoncrat]

I love Wheel too. Derided by whom? Timeflight fans??



What an odd sentence
Only on the internet ...

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demoncrat

I love Wheel too. Derided by whom? Timeflight fans??

I hold my hands up. It's tedious, even the Target novel is boring.

[hivemind]

Originally Posted by iank

Dear God. BF are beyond parody at this point.

Well, let's put it this way.

Someone's got to cash in on a pile of shit.