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[Susan Foreman]

September 19th: Today in WHO-story

Births
1925 - Dallas Cavell (Road Works Overseer in The Reign of Terror, Bors in The Daleks' Master Plan, Trask in The Highlanders, Sir James Quinlan in The Ambassadors of Death and the Head of Security in Castrovalva); Kenneth Thornett (Detective Inspector in The Daleks' Master Plan)

1939 - Charles Pemberton (Cyberman in The Tomb of the Cybermen and the Alien Technician in The War Games; Big Finish Productions actor - Butler in Three's a Crowd and Gerber in the Gallifrey story Fragments)

1940 - Caroline John (Liz Shaw [Third Doctor companion]; Madame Salvadori in the Big Finish audio Dust Breeding)

1954 - David Bamber (Captain Quell in Mummy on the Orient Express; Big Finish actor - Emperor Constantine in The Council of Nicaea and Colonel Ulrik & Whitmore in The Four Doctors)

Deaths
1977 - Michael Godfrey (Captain Samuel Pike in The Smugglers) aged 59

1997 - Jack May (General Nikolai Hermack in The Space Pirates) aged 75

Episodes
2015 - The Magician's Apprentice (BBC One): 6.54 million viewers

Introductions
2015 - Launch of the ninth series of Nu-Who

Releases
1985 - The Doctor Who Illustrated A-Z [Hardback] (W. H. Allen)

1996 - The Death of Art and Twilight of the Gods (Virgin Books)
2002 - Issue 322 of Doctor Who Magazine (Panini Comics UK)

2012 - Gods and Monsters, The Burning Prince, Project: Nirvana and The Rosemariners (Big Finish)
2013 - Issue 465 of Doctor Who Magazine (Panini)

Behind-the-Scenes
1963 - Doctor Who's first filming session took place: the final scene of the first episode of An Unearthly Child, where the shadow of Kal approaches the TARDIS

2011 - Episode two of The Underwater Menace was recovered
2012 - Recording of the sixth series of Big Finish's Doctor Who spin-off Gallifrey took place
2017 - Recording of Big Finish's Torchwood story Machines took place

[Susan Foreman]

Coming soon from Big Finish - a new Doctor Who audio spin-off series featuring Missy, the female incarnation of the Master, - detailing her adventures away from her association with the Twelfth Doctor. Instead, she will be teaming up with another renegade Time Lord - the Meddling Monk.

Starring Michelle Gomez as Missy and Rufus Hound as the Monk, the first box set is due for release in February 2019

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

September 19th: Today in WHO-story


Releases
1985 - The Doctor Who Illustrated A-Z [Hardback] (W. H. Allen)

Never heard of this. It's one i would definitely have wanted for Christmas at the time.

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

September 19th: Today in WHO-story

Releases
1985 - The Doctor Who Illustrated A-Z [Hardback] (W. H. Allen)

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Never heard of this. It's one i would definitely have wanted for Christmas at the time.

Must admit that it passed me by as well! Amazon UK has a few listings for it on Marketplace, with prices ranging from £0:01p (+P&P) for a used hardback copy, up to £96.37 (+P&P) for a 'new' hardback copy!

W H Allen was the company that owned Target Books, so it would have been a well known brand, and it's releases would have been easy to find. It was later purchased by the Virgin Group, and became Virgin Publishing.

The only book with a similar title that I can think of, is 'Doctor Who: From A-Z', written by Garry Gillatt and published in 1998

[gag]

Damn I didn't look back to notice Susan had put it a few post earlier

Ah well never mind




Doctor Who's Missy is getting her own spin-off series from Big Finish



Doctor Who's Missy is getting her own spin-off from Big Finish
Not dead. Back. Big surprise. Never mind.



Michelle Gomez is reprising her role of Doctor Who villainess Missy in a new spin-off.

Big Finish – producers of Doctor Who audio plays since 1999 – previously had Gomez play Missy again in a new boxset starring Alex Kingston as River Song.

Now, though, the latest incarnation of the Master is getting her own series, to be released in February 2019.

Missy: The Audio Adventures is available for pre-order now – at £23 on CD or £20 on download – from bigfinish.com.


"I was very excited to return to Missy's world via the medium of audio because along the way I've always had a lot of fun with Missy; her voices and her rhythms," Gomez said.


"I absolutely love capturing it and distilling it down to the word on the page.

"I'm absolutely delighted! She's such a ridiculously brilliant character, and hopefully that earns her that moment in the spotlight. To find myself centre stage with these Missy adventures is thrilling – I'm very grateful."

Though the Doctor will be absent, Missy will encounter another enemy of her 'boyfriend' as she crosses paths with the Meddling Monk (played by Rufus Hound).


Related: Big Finish announces huge Doctor Who team-up to mark 20 years of audio plays

"Missy's own series is just like the Time Lady herself – anarchic, funny, unpredictable and wildly imaginative," said producer David Richardson. "It's absolutely glorious to have Michelle returning to the character at Big Finish, and our recording days have been filled with so much laughter.

"Michelle's busy filming the new Sabrina series in Vancouver for Netflix and so we've been pairing studios down the line; Michelle thousands of miles away while we're in London synched up with her. It's been a joy to make. And just wait until you hear the collaboration of Missy and the Meddling Monk!"

Last year, Gomez suggested that she wouldn't return to the part of Missy on television, insisting she'd depart Doctor Who alongside co-star Peter Capaldi and showrunner Steven Moffat.

"My guys, my lads, Missy's men – they're all moving on!" Gomez said. "Steven writes so amazingly for me – it's like he's got my voice in his head, and I don't know how that would be, moving forward.

"I'm probably just shooting myself in the foot here. This time next year, I'll be like, 'Why did I say that?! I'll work for anybody!' – but I don't know how I'd feel about being The Master to any other Doctor, because I feel like I'm part of Peter's time."

[Susan Foreman]

September 20th: Today in WHO-story

Births
1921 - Jack Kine (visual effects designer on The Mind Robber; extra in Inferno)

1925 - John Wiles (Producer [1965-1966]); Christopher Barry (director of The Daleks, The Rescue, The Romans, The Savages, The Power of the Daleks, The Daemons, The Mutants, Robot, The Brain of Morbius, The Creature from the Pit and Reeltime Pictures' Doctor Who spin-off Downtime; extra in The Brain of Morbius)

1955 - David Haig (Pangol in The Leisure Hive)

1969 - Mina Anwar (Goodthing in Smile and Gita Chandra in the Doctor Who spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures)

Deaths
1986 - Dennis Spooner (Script editor [1965]; writer of The Reign of Terror, The Romans, The Time Meddler, episodes 6 & 8-12 of The Daleks' Master Plan and uncredited rewrites to The Power of the Daleks) aged 53

1993 - Salvin Stewart (Morok Guard & Messenger in The Space Museum) aged 69
1997 - Roy Pattison (Draconian Space Pilot in Frontier in Space and Zazzka in The Hand of Fear) aged 70
2000 - Mary Ridge (director of Terminus) aged 75

2009 - Kenneth Seeger (Cyberman in The Tomb of the Cybermen) aged 78

Episodes
1975 - Terror of the Zygons, Part Four: 7.2 million viewers
1980 - The Leisure Hive, Part Four: 4.5 million viewers
1986 - The Trial of a Time Lord, Part Three [The Mysterious Planet, Part Three]: 3.9 million viewers
1989 - Battlefield, Part Three: 3.6 million viewers
2014 - Time Heist: 6.99 million viewers

Departures
1975 - Last regular appearance of both Nicholas Courtney (The Brigadier) and Ian Marter (Harry Sullivan)

Releases
1984 - The Key to Time: A Year by Year Record [Hardback. Also limited deluxe edition] (W. H. Allen)

2001 - Issue 309 of Doctor Who Magazine (Panini Comics UK)

2004 - Ghost Light (DVD - region 2)
2007 - Issue 387 of Doctor Who Magazine (Panini)
2012 - Issue 287 of Doctor Who Adventures (Immediate Media Co.); issue 352 of Doctor Who Magazine (Panini)

Behind-the-Scenes
1963 - Along with producer Verity Lambert, the first four Doctor Who regulars (William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill and Carole Ann Ford) met for the first time
2006 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Return of the Daleks took place
2012 - Recording of the sixth series of Big Finish Productions' Doctor Who spin-off Gallifrey took place
2015 - Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman and two Daleks participated in an Abbey Road photoshoot inspired by The Beatles

2017 - Recording of Big Finish's Torchwood story Machines took place

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

A Dalek and Cyberman imprisoned in the Cloisters on Gallifrey in Hell Bent (2015)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

New trailer



Trailer looks okay. Nice and cinematic.

Music horrendous!

I've never once not thought of watching the new series but if it's full of Rn'b i really won't last very long. Here's hoping it's used solely in the trailers.

[Susan Foreman]

Is Doctor Who series 11, episode 1 going to be missing the new titles and theme music?

"The next series of Doctor Who is all about the new – new Doctor, new companions, new showrunner... and a new title sequence and remix of the theme tune.

However, series boss Chris Chibnall has now hinted that episode one of the new series, 'The Woman Who Fell to Earth', might not open with the revamped titles and music.

"You'll have to wait till episode two to see [the new titles and theme] in situ," Chibnall says in the latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine.

"Episode one starts a little differently...""

[Demoncrat]

.... with the Orbital version???


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