The Doctor Who Thread

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Big Finish have a sale on the Doctor Who main range, but just numbers 51-100.

All discs are just £3

These stories are on a first come first serve basis and once they are gone they won't be available on cd anymore.

https://www.bigfinish.com/offers/v/fiftyone

You'll be asked for a code to access the sale - WOLFGANG

Sale ends 23:59 (UK time) on 06/08/2018 so don’t miss out!

I've just ordered five from them - Medicinal Purposes, The Gathering, The Reaping, Frozen Time and Son of the Dragon

Postage came to £4 in total.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

A Zygon from The Day of the Doctor (2013)

[Demoncrat]

Noted D. Cheers again!!

[Gothmogxx]

Oh. I see Wheel in Space is on Amazon. Good news on the horizon perhaps or am I getting too hopeful?

https://www.amazon.com/Doctor-Who-Wh...J8L&ref=plSrch

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Gothmogxx

Oh. I see Wheel in Space is on Amazon. Good news on the horizon perhaps or am I getting too hopeful?

https://www.amazon.com/Doctor-Who-Wh...J8L&ref=plSrch

It's just a US release of the surviving episodes together with a telesnap reconstruction.

[Susan Foreman]

"Filming for the Thirteenth Doctor's debut series is now complete and is now in post-production and editing stages ready for the Autumn launch."

[Susan Foreman]

August 4th: Today in WHO-story:

Births
1941 - Martin Jarvis (Hilio in The Web Planet, Butler in Invasion of the Dinosaurs, the Governor in Vengeance on Varos, Nigel Rochester in the Big Finish audio Jubilee and Fitzroy in BBC Radio 4's Torchwood story The Devil and Miss Carew); John Atterbury (White Robot in The Mind Robber and an Alien Guard in The War Games)

1943 - Georgina Hale (Daisy K in The Happiness Patrol)

1948 - Ian Liston (Hero in The Armageddon Factor)
1949 - Russ Karel (assistant floor manager on The Ark in Space, The Sontaran Experiment and Revenge of the Cybermen)
1971 - Fenella Woolgar (Agatha Christie in The Unicorn and the Wasp; Big Finish Productions actress - Commander Hellen Fernor in the audio anthology The Company of Friends, Morella Wendigo in Nevermore and Leanne in Ghost Walk)

Obituaries
1989 - Maurice Colbourn (Lytton in Resurrection of the Daleks and Attack of the Cybermen) aged 49

1997 - Dick Bush (film cameraman on The Rescue and The Romans) aged 66

2006 - John Alderson (Wyatt Earp in The Gunfighters) aged 90

Releases
1994 - Issue 216 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)

2003 - Timeless (BBC Books)
2005 - Spiral Scratch (BBC Books)

2011 - Torchwood: Long Time Dead (BBC Books); issue 229 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines)

Behind-the-Scenes
2010 - Recording of the Big Finish audio anthology The Demons of Red Lodge and Other Stories took place
2011 - Recording of the Big Finish audio The Anachronauts took place
2013 - Peter Capaldi was confirmed as the Twelfth Doctor in the live show Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor

2015 - Recording of Big Finish's Jago & Litefoot & Strax story The Haunting took place

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Sarah Android from the 1975 story The Android Invasion.

[Susan Foreman]

August 5th: Today in WHO-story:

Births
1933 - Jeffry Wickham (Webster in The Reign of Terror)

1935 - Wanda Ventham (Jean Rock in The Faceless Ones, Thea Ransome in Image of the Fendahl and Faroon in Time and the Rani)

1938 - Tim Preece (Codal in Planet of the Daleks and the President in the Big Finish audio He Jests at Scars)
1942 - Derek Keller (Kaufman in Remembrance of the Daleks)
1948 - Barbara Flynn (Sister Chalice in the Big Finish audio The Skull of Sobek)
1968 - Matt Jones (writer of The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit, the Torchwood episode Dead Man Walking, the Virgin novels Bad Therapy and Beyond the Sun [later adapted as a Big Finish audio adventure] and the short stories The Nine-Day Queen [published in Decalog 2: Consequences], Mother's Little Helper [published in Short Trips] and Step Back in Time [published in The Dead Men Diaries])

1978 - Brian Minchin (executive producer [2013-2017]; producer on the Doctor Who spin-offs Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures; Torchwood's script editor; executive producer on Class; writer of the BBC novel The Forgotten Army and Torchwood comic strips and audio adventures)

1980 - Sophie Winkleman (Big Finish Productions actress - Kelly Westwood in the Big Finish audio The Eight Truths/Worldwide Web and Rachel Allen in the Torchwood story Before the Fall)

Deaths
1981 - James Murray (Camper in The Stones of Blood) died the day before his 29th birthday

Episodes
2011 - Torchwood: Miracle Day, Episode Five ('The Categories of Life'): 5.17 million viewers

Releases
1991 - The Three Doctors and The Masque of Mandragora (VHS)

1993 - Issue 203 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)

2002 - Camera Obscura and The Suns of Caresh (BBC Books)
2004 - The Green Death (DVD - region 4)
2008 - The Time Meddler and Black Orchid (DVD - region 1)

2010 - The Ring of Steel and The Lost TV Episodes: Collection One (BBC Audio); issue 178 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines)
2013 - The Green Death (DVD - region 1)
2016 - Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 179 (Big Finish)

Behind-the-Scenes
1966 - Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150AD was released in UK cinemas

2000 - Recording of the Big Finish audio The Holy Terror took place

[Gothmogxx]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

The Sarah Android from the 1975 story The Android Invasion.

I kind of had a revelation with that one, cause for years after first seeing it I really hated it. And okay yeah in that Season it is the weakest Story but Episode 1 is one of the best the series had ever done by that point. Episode 2 continued to be good, Episode 3 was a bit weaker and the ending was a let down. But I enjoyed it. Its only because its right in the middle of Zygons, Planet, Pyramids, Morbius and Seeds, which many fans name as their favourite Stories, that it gets a bad rep. It was certainly better than almost all of Season 15.