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[hivemind]

Originally Posted by iank

I'd rather watch The Armaggeddon Factor than 90% of New Who.

I haven't seen Time-Flight for 5 yrs. Maybe a reconsideration is in order, in light of present circumstances.

[Susan Foreman]

People have always complained that the show 'wasn't as good as it used to be'!

[Susan Foreman]

November 15th: Today in WHO-story

Births
1905 - Francis Chagrin (music composer on The Dalek Invasion of Earth)

1910 - Geoffrey Toone (Hepesh in The Curse of Peladon and Tenmosus in the movie Dr. Who and the Daleks)

1926 - Richard Steele (Commandant Gorton in The War Games, Sergeant Hart in Doctor Who and the Silurians and a Guard in The Mark of the Rani)

1933 - Donald Pickering (Eyesen in The Keys of Marinus, Blade in The Faceless Ones and Beyus in Time and the Rani)

1943 - Ellis Jones (Technician & Doctor Lomax in Spearhead from Space)

1951 - Billy McColl (Humker in The Trial of a Time Lord: The Mysterious Planet)

1962 - Maggie O'Neill (Lysandra Aristedes [Seventh Doctor's companion - Big Finish Productions' audio adventures])

1970 - Danny Sapani (Colonel Manton in A Good Man Goes to War)

Deaths
2006 - Elaine Ives-Cameron (Martha in The Stones of Blood and Estella in the Big Finish audio The Stones of Venice) aged 67

2016 - Ken Grieve (director of Destiny of the Daleks) aged 74

2017 - Keith Barron (Captain Striker in Enlightenment; Big Finish actor - Isaac Barclay in Plague of the Daleks and Lord Tulip in The Bad Penny) aged 83

Episodes
1975 - Pyramids of Mars, Part Four: 11.7 million viewers
1980 - Full Circle, Part Four: 5.5 million viewers
1986 - The Curse of Fenric, Part Four: 4.2 million viewers
2009 - The Waters of Mars: 10.32 million viewers
2010 - The Sarah Jane Adventures: Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith, Part One (CBBC): 0.81 million viewers

Documentaries
2009 - Doctor Who Confidential: Is There Life on Mars? (BBC Three)
2013 - Greatest Monsters and Villains: Night One (BBC Three)

Releases
1979 - Issue 6 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel) [NOTE - This was the first issue to feature someone other than Tom Baker as The Doctor]

1984 - Brain Teasers and Mind Benders (Target Books)

2006 - Issue 17 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines)
2007 - Issue 389 of Doctor Who Magazine (Panini Comics UK)
2010 - Iris: Abroad (Obverse Books)

2012 - Issue 295 of Doctor Who Adventures (Immediate Media Co.); issue 454 of Doctor Who Magazine (Panini)
2013 - The Beginning, Lords of the Red Planet and 1963: The Assassination Games (Big Finish)
2016 - Torchwood: Outbreak (Big Finish)
2017 - The Middle (Big Finish); issue 9 of Twelfth Doctor Year Three (Titan Comics)

Behind-the-Scenes
1988 - 3001 Space Adventure exhibition, also known as World of Doctor Who Exhibition, opened in Tooley street, London

2005 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Something Inside took place
2011 - Recording of the fourth series of Big Finish's Doctor Who spin-off Gallifrey took place
2012 - Recording of Big Finish's audio adaptation of the unmade TV story The Mega took place
2017 - Recording of Big Finish's Torchwood story The Last Beacon took place

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

A Pyrovile from 2008's The Fires of Pompeii

[Susan Foreman]

November 16th: Today in WHO-story

Births
1931 - Kenneth Watson (Bill Duggan in The Wheel in Space and Jack Craddock in the movie Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150AD)

1956 - Karl Zwicky (director of the K9 stories The Korven, Fear Itself, Curse of Anubis, Alien Avatar and Aeolin)
1965 - Mark Benton (Clive Finch in Rose; Big Finish Productions actor - Ellis in Invaders from Mars and Jack Coulson in Energy of the Daleks)

1967 - Eva Pope (Nia Brusk in the Big Finish audio Army of Death)

1980 - Alexa Havins (Esther Drummond in the Torchwood story Miracle Day)

Episodes
1968 - The Invasion, Episode Three: 7.1 million viewers
1987 - Delta and the Bannermen, Part Three: 5.4 million viewers
1988 - The Happiness Patrol, Part Three: 5.3 million viewers
2007 - Time Crash (BBC One - BBC Children in Need special)

2010 - The Sarah Jane Adventures: Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith, Part Two (CBBC): 0.82 million viewers

2012 - The Great Detective (BBC One - Children in Need special)

Documentaries
2013 - Doctor Who Greatest Monsters and Villains: Night Two (BBC Three)

Departures
2010 - Conclusion to the fourth series of the Doctor Who spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures

Releases
1995 - The Also People and The Empire of Glass (Virgin Books)
1996 - Blacklight (Virgin Books)

1998 - Beltempest, The Infinity Doctors and Doctor Who From A to Z (BBC Books)

2000 - Issue 298 of Doctor Who Magazine (Panini Comics UK)
2006 - Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition: In Their Own Words 1970-1976 (Panini Comics)

2015 - Shield of the Jotuun (Big Finish)
2016 - Supremacy of the Cybermen, Part Five (Titan Comics)
2017 - Issue 519 of Doctor Who Magazine (Panini Comics)

Behind-the-Scenes
1963 - Doctor Who's first-ever trailer was transmitted
2001 - Recording of Big Finish's Bernice Summerfield story The Plague Herds of Excelis took place
2004 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Unregenerate! took place

2005 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Time Works took place
2011 - Recording of the fourth series of Big Finish's Doctor Who spin-off Gallifrey took place
2012 - Recording of Big Finish's audio adaptation of the unmade TV story The Mega took place

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

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

A robot guard from The Ghost Monument (2018)

[Demoncrat]

Originally Posted by hivemind

I haven't seen Time-Flight for 5 yrs. Maybe a reconsideration is in order, in light of present circumstances.

I will only say it is what it is. Still. The novel I love . As I have a larger budget in ma heid than the Beeb ... .

[Susan Foreman]

2018 Children In Need

[Susan Foreman]

November 17th: Today in WHO-story

Births
1929 - Trevor Martin (Time Lord in The War Games, the alternative Fourth Doctor in the stage show/Big Finish audio Seven Keys to Doomsday, Kaido, Guard, Ungar, Custodian of the Data Store & Jenhegger in the BBC Radio 5 live story The Paradise of Death and Professor Capra in the Big Finish audio Flip-Flop)

1940 - William Simons (Mandrel in The Sun Makers)

1947 - James Warwick (Lieutenant Scott in Earthshock)

1983 - Harry Lloyd (Jeremy Baines & Son of Mine in Human Nature/The Family of Blood; great-great-great-grandson of Charles Dickens)

Deaths
1997 - Roma Woodnutt (Nola in The Underwater Menace) aged 72

2000 - Victor Lucas (Andor in The Face of Evil) aged 81

Episodes
1979 - The Creature from the Pit, Part Four: 9.6 million viewers
2008 - The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith, Part One (CBBC): 1.18 million viewers
2013 - Strax Field Report: Queen Elizabeth (webcast)

Documentaries
2013 - Doctor Who Greatest Monsters and Villains: Night Three (BBC Three)

Releases
1977 - Early Man, Prehistoric Animals and Space Travel (Target Books - Doctor Who Discovers)

1988 - 25 Glorious Years (W. H. Allen & Co)

1994 - Falls the Shadow, The Crystal Bucephalus and The First Doctor Handbook (Virgin Books); The Crusade (Titan Comics)

2005 - Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition: In Their Own Words 1963-1969 (Panini Comics UK)

2008 - Doctor Who Official Soundtracks: Series Four (Silva Screen Records)
2011 - Issue 244 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines); issue 441 of Doctor Who Magazine (Panini Comics)
2014 - Dark Eyes 3 and Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 73 (Big Finish Productions); The Complete Eighth Series (DVD and Blu-ray - region 2)

2015 - The Black Hole (Big Finish)
2016 - Issue 506 of Doctor Who Magazine (Panini Comics)

Behind-the-Scenes
2004 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Unregenerate! took place
2005 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Time Works took place

2014 - Recording of the Big Finish audio The Triumph of Sutekh took place

[Susan Foreman]

Roger Delgado as journalist Hugh Conrad in the original 1955 television version of 'Quatermass II'

In the 1957 Hammer film, the character was renamed Jimmy Hall, and the role was played by Sid James

Imagine how different 'Doctor Who' wold have been if Sid had been cast as The Master!