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[trebor8273]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

So they actually sent out faulty discs to replace faulty discs?

season 19 will turn out to be a completely different season and doctor!

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Dalek Caan as seen in The Stolen Earth / Journey's End two parter from 2008

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Patrick Troughton as Jason King in the episode That Isn't Me, It's Somebody Else (1972)

Next week. Sylvester McCoy is Simon Templar.

[Susan Foreman]

August 25th: Today in WHO-story:

Births
1931 - Peter Gilmore (Brazen in Frontios); Bryan Mosley (Malpha & Prop Man in The Daleks' Master Plan and an extra in The Smugglers)

1940 - John J. Carney (Bloodaxe in The Time Warrior)

1962 - Jessica Martin (Mags in The Greatest Show in the Galaxy; Big Finish Productions actress - Janet Green in Signs and Wonders, and Deputy Surveyor Sutton in Last of the Colophon)

1989 - Keegan Joyce (Starkey in the Australian K-9 series)

Deaths
2001 - Inigo Jackson (Zentos in The Ark) aged 68
2013 - Christopher Burgess (Swann in The Enemy of the World, Professor George Philips in Terror of the Autons and Barnes in Planet of the Spiders) aged 76

2014 - John Brandon (American Sergeant in The Tenth Planet) aged 85
2016 - Michael Bangerter (Curt in Planet of Fire) aged 80

Releases
2008 - The War Machines (DVD - region 2)

2011 - Issue 232 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines); issue 438 of Doctor Who Magazine (Panini Comics UK)
2016 - Issue 503 of Doctor Who Magazine (Panini)

Behind-the-Scenes
1975 - In-character as the Fourth Doctor, Tom Baker appeared in an edition of Disney Time

1986 - Colin Baker and Lynda Bellingham (oh, and a Mandrel) appeared in an edition of Wogan to promote The Trial of a Time Lord
2001 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Primeval took place
2004 - Recording of the Big Finish audio The Next Life took place
2006 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Horror of Glam Rock took place

[trebor8273]

Ordered season 19 from zoom. With code signup10 was £35.99 a lot cheaper than anyplace else.

https://www.zoom.co.uk/product/docto...dition_blu_ray

Also bought these two audio books.

https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Doctor-...1K4YJC01HW8R1&


https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Doctor-...Z1ZEMNSRBERVN&

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Gel Guards from 1973's The Three Doctors.

[Susan Foreman]

August 26th: Today in WHO-story:

Births
1915 - Humphrey Searle (music composer on The Myth Makers)

1944 - Stephen Grief (Gurney in the Totally Doctor Who special The Infinite Quest; Big Finish Productions - Kwundaar in Primeval, Sabaoth in Ghost Walk, Sir Donald Wakefield in the second series of Sarah Jane Smith and Ken Temple in the Counter-Measures story The Pelage Project); Adam Verney (Colin in The Enemy of the World)
1970 - Phil Collinson (Producer [2005-2008])

1984 - Jennifer Highman (Sararti in the Big Finish audio Immortal Beloved)

Deaths
1969 - Martin Miller (Kublai Khan in Marco Polo) aged 69

1994 - Tariq Yunus (Cass in The Robots of Death) aged 47
2013 - Gerard Murphy (Richard in Silver Nemesis) aged 64

2014 - George Ballantine (Hawker in Snakedance and an extra in The Mind of Evil, The Time Warrior, The Android Invasion, The Masque of Mandragora, The Sun Makers, Logopolis and Castrovalva) aged 95
2017 - Nicolas Chagrin (Quillam in Vengeance on Varos; son of The Dalek Invasion of Earth's music composer Francis Chagrin) aged 71

Episodes
1991 - An Unearthly Child, Episode One ('An Unearthly Child' - 'Pilot Episode' version) (BBC Two)
2011 - Torchwood: Miracle Day, Episode Eight ('End of the World') (STARZ)

Releases
1996 - Classic Who: The Harper Classics (Boxtree)

1999 - Issue 282 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)

2010 - Issue 181 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines)
2013 - Issue 1 of Doctor Who Figurine Collection (Eaglemoss Publications Limited); The Ice Warriors (DVD - region 1)

2014 - Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 67 (Big Finish)
2015 - Four Doctors, Part Three (Titan Comics)
2016 - Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 182 (Big Finish)
2017 - Erimem: Three Faces of Helena (Thebes Publishing)

Behind-the-Scenes
1991 - 28 years after it was recorded, the previously-untransmitted 'Pilot Episode' version of the first episode of An Unearthly Child was transmitted as part of a series of programmes commemorating the closure of Lime Grove Studios, where many of the early Doctor Who episodes from the 1960s were recorded

2000 - Recording of Big Finish's Bernice Summerfield story The Secret of Cassandra took place
2003 - Recording of Big Finish's 40th anniversary Doctor Who story Zagreus took place
2006 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Human Resources took place

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Daleks discover the TARDIS in The Chase (1965)

[Susan Foreman]

Hmmm

September 23rd - that's a Sunday

[Susan Foreman]

August 27th: Today in WHO-story:

Births
1918 - Norman Mitchell (Policeman in The Daleks' Master Plan)
1946 - Peter Craze (Dako in The Space Museum, Du Pont in The War Games and Costa in Nightmare of Eden; brother of Ben Jackson actor Michael Craze)

1969 - Reece Shearsmith (Gagan Rassmussen in Sleep No More and Patrick Troughton in the 50th anniversary docudrama An Adventure in Space and Time; BBV actor - Andrew Powell in the PROBE story The Devil of Winterbourne and Ghosts of Winterbourne, and Doctor Daniel Matthews in Auton)

Episodes
1993 - The Paradise of Death, Episode One (BBC Radio 5 live)
2011 - Let's Kill Hitler: 6.2 million viewers
2012 - Pond Life, Part One ('April')

Documentaries
2009 - Doctor Who Greatest Moments: The Companions
2011 - Doctor Who Confidential: River Runs Wild

Releases
1992 - The Masters of Luxor (Titan BooKs)

1998 - Issue 269 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)

2009 - The Art of War (BBC Children's Books); issue 130 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines)
2014 - Issue 2 of Tenth Doctor (Titan Comics)

Behind-the-Scenes
1969 - Tailor Arthur Davey made the Third Doctor's costumes based on Christine Dawlins' designs
2000 - Recording of Big Finish Productions' Bernice Summerfield story The Stone's Lament took place