The Doctor Who Thread

[gag]

To me some of the best from the new Dr who series are , the empty child and don't blink they are dark , atmospheric, scary (kind of but you get my drift) new creatures, everything about them are exactly how Dr who should be, why can't we have more stories like these.

[Susan Foreman]

November 8th: Today in WHO-story

Births
1927 - Lennie Mayne (director of The Curse of Peladon, The Three Doctors, The Monster of Peladon and The Hand of Fear); Ken Dodd (Tollmaster in Delta and the Bannermen)

1937 - Malcolm Taylor (Walters in The Ice Warriors)

1941 - Nerys Hughes (Todd in Kinda, Brenda Williams in the Torchwood story Something Borrowed and Big Finish Productions' Torchwood story Visiting Hours and Deidre in the AudioGO story Serpent's Crest; Big Finish actress - Eris in Phobos and Mrs. Wilson in the War Master story The Heavenly Paradigm)

1956 - Richard Curtis (writer of Vincent and the Doctor; executive producer of Comic Relief's Doctor Who spoof The Curse of Fatal Death)

1958 - John Gillett (Gravis in Frontios)

Episodes
1975 - Pyramids of Mars, Part Three: 9.4 million viewers
1980 - Full Circle, Part Three: 5.9 million viewers
1986 - The Trial of a Time Lord, Part Ten [Terror Of The Vervoids, Part Two]: 4.6 million viewers
1989 - The Curse of Fenric, Part Three: 4.0 million viewers
2010 - The Sarah Jane Adventures: Lost in Time, Part One (CBBC): 0.98 million viewers
2014 - Death in Heaven: 7.60 million viewers

Departures
2014 - Conclusion to the eighth series of Nu-Who

Releases
1979 - Issue 5 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)

1984 - Issue 95 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)

2005 - The Claws of Axos (DVD - region 1)

2007 - Issue 42 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines)

2010 - The Complete Fifth Series (DVD and Blu-ray box set - region 2)
2012 - Issue 294 of Doctor Who Adventures (Immediate Media Co.)

Behind-the-Scenes
2005 - Rewrites to The Christmas Invasion were made; recording of the Big Finish audio Night Thoughts took place
2011 - Recording of the Big Finish audio The Emerald Tiger took place
2017 - Recording of the Big Finish audio The Lure of the Nomad took place

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Barbara (Jacqueline Hill) discovers what might be a giant fly in the 1964 story Planet of Giants.

[iank]

Saw Attack of the Cybermen again last night. Still love this story! Gritty and dark but with some wonderful characters and actors and cracking dialogue. It is - oh God I'm old - 30 years since I first saw this on an off-air recording. Loved it then, love it now.

[Susan Foreman]

November 9th: Today in WHO-story

Births
1929 - Eric Thompson (Gaston in The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve)

1938 - Tim Goodman (Guard in The Savages)

1974 - Ian Hallard (Alan-a-Dale in Robot of Sherwood, Richard Martin in the 50th anniversary docudrama An Adventure in Space and Time and Gary Talbot in the spoof documentary Global Conspiracy?; Big Finish Productions actor - Sabian in Primeval, Mouse & Winkler in Invaders from Mars, Matrix in Neverland, Captain Cannibal, Suit & John Polidori in The Company of Friends, Zeuro in A Storm of Angels, Wynter in the Gallifrey stories Lies and Pandora, Joseph Banks in The Transit of Venus, Chessman in the second series of the Doctor Who spin-off Cyberman, Duncan in An Earthly Child, Comtech Bron Kell in Dark Eyes 2, Davent & Infinite Warrior in Destroy the Infinite and Brian Bonamy, Inspector Greenock & Slot in the Iris Wildthyme anthology Wildthyme Reloaded; husband to Doctor Who writer and actor Mark Gatiss)

Deaths
1965 - Lionel Gadsden (extra in The Aztecs) aged 86

1993 - Stanley Myers (music composer on The Reign of Terror) aged 63

1994 - Ralph Michael (Balaton in The Pirate Planet) aged 87

Episodes
1968 - The Invasion, Episode Two: 7.1 million viewers
1987 - Delta and the Bannermen, Part One: 5.1 million viewers
1988 - The Happiness Patrol, Part One: 4.6 million viewers
2010 - The Sarah Jane Adventures: Lost in Time, Part Two (CBBC): 0.68 million viewers

Introductions
1968 - First full appearance of UNIT

Releases
1989 - Issue 155 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)

1998 - The Ice Warriors Collection (VHS box set)

2006 - Issue 376 of Doctor Who Magazine (Panini Comics UK)
2010 - Doctor Who Official Soundtracks: Series Five (Silva Screen Records)
2015 - UNIT: Extinction (Big Finish)
2016 - Order of the Daleks (Big Finish)

Behind-the-Scenes
2004 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Dreamtime took place

2005 - Rewrites to the interactive game Attack of the Graske and Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel were made; recording of the Big Finish audio The Settling took place
2011 - Recording of the Big Finish audio The Emerald Tiger took place
2015 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Vampire of the Mind took place

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

A publicity still of Colin and Nicola with the Tracker Robot from the first story of the Trial of a Time Lord season - The Mysterious Planet (1986)

[hivemind]

Originally Posted by iank

Saw Attack of the Cybermen again last night. Still love this story! Gritty and dark but with some wonderful characters and actors and cracking dialogue. It is - oh God I'm old - 30 years since I first saw this on an off-air recording. Loved it then, love it now.

Revelation and Attack. Plus one of my guilty pleasures, Vengeance on Varos. Both Brian Glover and Maurice Colbourne certainly made Attack special. I'll have to give those two a watch tonight. Actually, I might watch Attack whilst parody Who is on BBC1 this coming Sunday. When Doctor Who was worth watching.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

I watched the first two episodes of The Mysterious Planet last night.

Whilst it's not the greatest slice of Doctor Who ever it's still far and away superior to anything in series 11.

Plus the way the Doctor and Peri interact is beautiful. We first see them in a long sequence, arm in arm, walking through a wood huddled under the same umbrella. Taken out of context if you saw them in the street you'd definitely think they were romantically involved. In fact the only time i've seen anything like it in Doctor Who would be Tennant and Rose.

Colin and Nicola had definite chemistry by this stage.

[hivemind]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

I watched the first two episodes of The Mysterious Planet last night.

Whilst it's not the greatest slice of Doctor Who ever it's still far and away superior to anything in series 11.

Plus the way the Doctor and Peri interact is beautiful. We first see them in a long sequence, arm in arm, walking through a wood huddled under the same umbrella. Taken out of context if you saw them in the street you'd definitely think they were romantically involved. In fact the only time i've seen anything like it in Doctor Who would be Tennant and Rose.

Colin and Nicola had definite chemistry by this stage.

What's that song. Love is in the Air?

I just feel somewhat sorry for poor Colin and that blinking coat of many colors. Any enemy could see him coming 30 miles away, even in the mist.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by hivemind

What's that song. Love is in the Air?

I just feel somewhat sorry for poor Colin and that blinking coat of many colors. Any enemy could see him coming 30 miles away, even in the mist.

It's not the worst get up i've seen a Doctor wear though. There's this imposter at the moment who looks like Andy Pandy.