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#8291
8th July 2018, 04:57 AM
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#8292
9th July 2018, 03:57 AM
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July 9th: Today in WHO-story Births 1920 - Hazel Adair (Writer of the unmade TV story-turned-Big Finish audio Hexagora)  1936 - Richard Wilson (Doctor Constantine in The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances) 1937 - Barry Howard (Oliver Barnes in The End of Time) Deaths 1993 - Ron Jones (director of Black Orchid, Time-Flight, Arc of Infinity, Frontios, Vengeance on Varos and episodes 5-8 of The Trial of a Time Lord) aged 47  2002 - Gerald Champion (Wilkin in the untransmitted story Shada) aged 81 2007 - Peter Tuddenham (voices of the Nerva System in The Ark in Space, Mandragora in The Masque of Mandragora and the Brain in Time and the Rani; Time Lord in the unofficial fan production Devious and Strecker in Magic Bullet Productions' Kaldor City stories Occam's Razor and Death's Head) aged 88  2017 - Clare Douglas (film editor on The Masque of Mandragora) died Episodes 1966 - The War Machines, Episode Three: 5.3 million viewers 1994 - Whatever Happened to Susan Foreman? (BBC Radio 4) 2009 - Torchwood: Children of Earth, Episode Four ('Day Four'): 6.76 million viewers Departures 2009 - Gareth David-Lloyd's final regular appearance as Ianto Jones  Releases 1981 - Issue 55 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)  1984 - The Brain of Morbius (VHS - omnibus edition)  1987 - Issue 127 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel) 1990 - The Brain of Morbius and The Five Doctors (VHS - original transmission edits)   1992 - Issue 189 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel) 2000 - The Sun Makers (VHS) 2007 - Timelash (DVD - region 2) 2009 - Issue 123 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines) 2015 - We Are the Daleks (Big Finish Productions) 
__________________ People try to put us down Just because we get around Golly, Gee! it's wrong to be so guilty |
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#8293
9th July 2018, 11:04 AM
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| Pic of the Day # 535
The Supreme Dalek from Planet of the Daleks (1973)  |
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#8294
10th July 2018, 04:16 AM
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July 10th: Today in WHO-story Births 1925 - David Nettheim (Fedorin in The Enemy of the World; uncle of K9 and Peter Capaldi-era director Daniel Nettheim) 1941 - Jackie Lane (Dodo Chaplet [First Doctor companion])  1970 - John Simm (The Master [2007-2017])  1978 - Bryan Dick (Adam Smith in the Torchwood episode Adam and the Exec in the Big Finish audio Theatre of War) 1980 - Lucky Gaskell (Kathy Nightingale in Blink; wife of The Rebel Flesh/The Almost People and Big Finish actor Mark Bonnar) Deaths 2014 - Zohra Sehgal (Sheyra in The Crusade and an extra in Marco Polo) aged 102  Episodes 1965 - The Time Meddler, Episode Two ('The Meddling Monk'): 8.8 million viewers 2009 - Torchwood: Children of Earth, Episode Five ('Day Five'): 6.58 million viewers Departures 2009 - Conclusion to the third series of the Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood Releases 1980 - Issue 40 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)  1986 - Issue 115 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)  2003 - Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition: The Complete Eighth Doctor (Panini Comics UK); The Cabinet of Light (Telos Publishing) 2008 - Issue 72 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines) 2012 - Counter-Measures, Series One (Big Finish Productions) 2013 - Persuasion, Mastermind and Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 22 (Big Finish) 2015 - Counter-Measures, Series Four, and Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 128 (Big Finish) Behind-the-Scenes 1965 - As William Hartnell was on holiday during filming of episode two of The Time Meddler, the First Doctor's appearance in the episode was represented by a recap from the previous episode's cliffhanger and a pre-recorded voice-over 2012 - Recording of the Big Finish audio The Alchemists took place 
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#8295
10th July 2018, 02:14 PM
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| Pic of the Day # 536 The Master (Anthony Ainley) appears at the Doctor's trial in The Ultimate Foe (1986)  |
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#8296
10th July 2018, 10:24 PM
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Philip Hinchcliffe took over Doctor Who, ditched the old and brought in his own stamp on the show. He was a good producer. He made Doctor Who a lot more adult and frightening. And there was a lot less CSO, too, which was good. Yeah he's be missed. At least he went out on a high. The Talons of Weng Chiang, as I see it, is a last stand against the bat-£$£$ crazy Mary Whitehouse's of the day. The woman was truly out of order and I don't say that about a lot of people. Aside from ranting about Doctor Who her worst crime is the damage she caused in the 80's with innocent people getting arrested over the video nasties: She and her pal Thatcher have a lot to answer for (the later for countless other reasons as well)... Anyway Graeme Williams is coming in due to Whitehouse and her mad raving and its all getting toned down. But not before Talons flips her one final middle finger. We get it all here. Enter the Dragon was massive in the 70's but it wasn't exactly easy for kids to watch: Enter the Dragon was an X-certificate film. The Talons of Weng-Chiang went out at 6.30pm. With nunchakus and everything! Tom isn't quite as vicious as Bruce Lee, but he still kicks ass. Axes flying into policeman, Magnus Greel draining the life out of young women, Li H’sen Chang getting his leg ripped off by giant rats (before going off his head on drugs in his final moments), an autopsy: even when you can’t see anything, your mind fills in all the blanks, people taking pills to commit suicide... As a Story its undeniably great on many levels ("that" racism issue aside of course). It’s a cracking setting for a DW story, and has bags of atmosphere. Its got a great story which moves forward at a great pace. It’s populated by great characters, and has two of the very best the show has ever had to offer in Jago and Litefoot. It has villains who genuinely do come off as totally evil: both Greel and Mr Sin are very creepy, as is Chang before he decides to redeem himself. The connection between Tom and Louise really sparks, whether that is down to the problems they had at the time or just great acting, who knows? Probably a bit of the two. I love Leela in this, she fights very well and her diving out the window in Episode 3 is one of her great character moments. Sarah Jane or Jo as good as they are wouldn't have done that. It’s a wonderful production, maybe one of the very best (the rat isn't that bad and its mostly in the dark anyway) and it’s brilliantly directed by a director who is at the top of his game. David Maloney really was great wasn’t he? So was Hinchcliffe, but at least he went out swinging with this cracker. |
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#8297
10th July 2018, 10:30 PM
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Season 14. Not my favourite overall but still very, very good. Rankings. 1. Robots of Death. 2. The Talons of Weng Chiang 3. The Hand of Fear 4. The Face of Evil 5. The Masque of Mandragora 6. The Deadly Assassin Overall out of Hinchcliffe and his Seasons I'd rank them as such- 1. Season 13 2. Season 14 3. Season 12 |
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#8298
10th July 2018, 11:03 PM
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I decided to rank the Hinchcliffe era. A few of them could still change depending on my mood but... 1. The Seeds of Doom 2. The Robots of Death 3. Genesis of the Daleks (would be number 1 but the last 10-15 minutes are a cop out) 4. The Brain of Morbius 5. Pyramids of Mars 6. The Talons of Weng Chiang 7. Revenge of the Cybermen 8. Terror of the Zygons 9. Planet of Evil 10. The Hand of Fear 11. The Face of Evil 12. Robot 13. The Android Invasion 14. The Ark in Space 15. The Masque of Mandragora 16. The Sontaran Experiment 17. The Deadly Assassin |
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#8299
11th July 2018, 04:30 AM
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July 11th: Today in WHO-story Births 1925 - David Graham (Dalek voices [1963-1966]; Mechanoid voices in The Chase, Charlie in The Gunfighters and Professor Kerensky in City of Death; Big Finish Productions actor - Shedgerton in The Defectors and Percy Gill in Static)  1939 - Martin Lisemore (production assistant on The Enemy of the World) 1945 - Michael Pickwoad (Doctor Who's production assistant; son of The War Machines guest actor William Mervyn)  1949 - Eden Phillips (Crewman in Nightmare of Eden) Deaths 1984 - Hugh Morton (Sir James Gregson in The Seeds of Death) aged 81  2009 - John Breslin (Captain Munro in Spearhead from Space) aged 80 2012 - Trevor Lawrence (Lodge in Invasion of the Dinosaurs) aged 67 2014 - Ray Lonnen (Gardiner in Frontier in Space; husband to Warriors of the Deep guest actress Tara Ward) aged 74 Episodes 1964 - The Sensorites, Episode Three ('Hidden Danger'): 7.4 million viewers 2011 - Torchwood: The Devil and Miss Carew (BBC Radio 4) Releases 1985 - Issue 103 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)  1991 - Issue 176 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)  2005 - Revelation of the Daleks (DVD - region 2) 2011 - Series 6, Part 2 (DVD and Blu-ray - region 2) 2013 - Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition: The Missing Episodes - The Second Doctor, Volume Two (Panini Comics UK)  2014 - Breaking Bubbles and Other Stories (Big Finish) 2017 - The High Price of Parking (Big Finish) Behind-the-Scenes 2011 - Recording of the second series of Big Finish's Doctor Who spin-off Graceless took place 2013 - Recording of the eighth series of Big Finish's Doctor Who spin-off Jago & Litefoot took place
__________________ People try to put us down Just because we get around Golly, Gee! it's wrong to be so guilty |
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#8300
11th July 2018, 12:24 PM
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| Pic of the Day # 537 The Sontarans invade Gallifrey in The Invasion of Time (1978)  |
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