[QUOTE=Mojo;592844]So - do we have here a sneaky plot to destroy humans using plastic and delivered by killer Autons? No - this week’s evil mastermind is... a disgruntled employee.
Jesus wept, I’ve given up on this shitshow of a series and instead am happily working my way through the season 12 BluRay box set. In fact, I’ve just finished watching ‘Genesis Of The Daleks’. Now THAT’S Doctor Who.[/QUOTE

Autons, an evil computer controlling all the robots or ANYTHING that wasn't the janitor :lol::lol: would have been better.

I'm also watching much better Doctor Who: The Brig is about to return when I watch Mawdryn Undead for the first time tomorrow. And Five Doctors isn't very far away after that...

November 23rd: Today in WHO-story

Births
1914 - Roger Avon (Saphadin in The Crusade, Daxtar in The Daleks' Master Plan and Wells in the movie Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150AD)

1916 - Michael Gough (Toymaker in The Celestial Toymaker and Hedin in Arc of Infinity; former husband to Polly Wright actress Anneke Wills)

1943 - Roger Nott (Prisoner in The Twin Dilemma and the Prisoner in the interactive game Attack of the Graske)

1963 - Joe Ahearne (director of Dalek, Father's Day, Boom Town and Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways)

1966 - Michelle Gomez ('Missy' incarnation of the Master [2014-2017 and upcoming audio adventures from Big Finish Productions]; Jevvan in the Big Finish audio Valhalla)

1978 - Kayvan Novak (Handles in The Time of the Doctor)

Deaths
1982 - Raymond Westwell (Prison Governor in The Mind of Evil) aged 63

1990 - Mostyn Evans (Dai Evans in The Green Death, the High Priest in Death to the Daleks and an extra in Doctor Who and the Silurians) aged 67

2003 - Bill Strutton (writer of The Web Planet and the unmade TV story-turned-Big Finish audio The Mega) aged 85

2010 - Ingrid Pitt (Queen Galleia in The Time Monster, Doctor Solow in Warriors of the Deep and writer of the unmade TV story-turned-Big Finish audio The Macro Men [retitled The Macros]) aged 73

2016 - Andrew Sachs (the Doctor's Scarf in the AudioGO story Serpent Crest; Big Finish actor - Skagra in Shada, an older, alternative version of Adric in The Boy That Time Forgot and Crassostrea in Orbis) aged 86

Episodes
1963 - An Unearthly Child, Episode One ('An Unearthly Child'): 4.4 million viewers

1968 - The Invasion, Episode Four: 6.4 million viewers
1983 - The Five Doctors (PBS)
1987 - Dragonfire, Part One: 5.5 million viewers
1988 - Silver Nemesis, Part One: 6.1 million viewers
2013 - The Day of the Doctor; The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot (BBC Red Button service): 12.8 million viewers

Documentaries
2003 - Doctor Who @ 40 Weekend (UK Gold Channel - second and final day of repeats and mini-documentaries commemorating Doctor Who's 40th anniversary)
2013 - Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty (BBC Three)

Introductions
1963 - Launch of the very-first series of Doctor Who; first appearance of William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill and Carole Ann Ford as the First Doctor, Ian Chesterton, Barbara Wright and Susan Foreman respectively

1987 - Sophie Aldred's debut as Ace

2013 - John Hurt's first full debut as the War Doctor; Ingrid Oliver's debut as Osgood

Releases
1987 - Encyclopedia of the Worlds of Doctor Who: A-D (Piccadilly Press)

1995 - Issue 233 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)
2000 - Howe's Transcendental Toybox (Telos Publishing)

2001 - Time and Relative (Telos Publishing)
2002 - Foreign Devils (Telos Publishing)
2016 - UNIT: Silenced (Big Finish)
2017 - The Tenth Doctor Adventures: Volume Two and Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 277 (Big Finish)

Behind-the-Scenes
1989 - Sylvester McCoy recorded the closing monologue to Survival. This would be the final major recording session on Doctor Who until 1996
2005 - Recording of Big Finish's Sarah Jane Smith story Fatal Consequences took place

2006 - The read-through for Human Nature/The Family of Blood took place
2010 - Recording of Big Finish's audio adaptation of the unmade TV story The Elite took place
2012 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Moonflesh took place

November 23rd, 2018

Jan 24th

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Pic of the Day # 668
 

The Daleks - Planet of the Daleks (1973)

New from Big Finish next summer.

Seventh Doctor Sylvester McCoy is joined by Jessica Martin reprising her role of Mags for a new series of audio adventures from Big Finish.

In this trilogy of tales the punk werewolf circus performer, first seen in 1988’s Doctor Who story The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, joins the Seventh Doctor to embark on a positively gothic series of adventures. They’ll encounter werewolves, vampiric creatures and angry mobs of villagers, ticking every hammer-horror convention with a Doctor Who twist.

The Monsters of Gokroth by Matt Fitton will be released in April 2019. An Alien Werewolf in London by Alan Barnes will be released in May 2019, and The Moons of Vulpana by Emma Reeves will follow in June 2019.

Big Finish has several monster titles on offer for Black Friday. Mainly Dalek stories.

I just ordered Masters of Earth, where Six and Peri land in Scotland a year before One ends the Dalek invasion of Earth, realising they can't change the time line they are powerless to prevent mass slaughter of the human population.

November 24th: Today in WHO-story

Births
1904 - John Wyse (Doctor Percival in The Time Monster)

1922 - Richard Leech (Gatherer Hade in The Sun Makers)

1925 - Stephen Hancock (First Mate in the Big Finish audio Here There Be Monsters)

1940 - Alan Lake (Herrick in Underworld)

1965 - Shirley Henderson (Ursula Blake in Love & Monsters)

1971 - James Redmond (Jan Rydd in the Big Finish audio Love and War)

1983 - Gwilyn Lee (Big Finish Productions actor - Rolf Wittenmeier in The Silver Turk, Djahn & Lord Edgar Foster in The Emerald Tiger, Pretty Swanson in Spaceport Fear and Jack Hodges in Phantoms of the Deep)

Deaths
1999 - Hilary Minster (Marat in Planet of the Daleks and a Thal Soldier in Genesis of the Daleks) aged 55

2002 - Peter Whitaker (Inspector Gascoigne in The Faceless Ones and an extra in The Seeds of Death, The Mutants, Genesis of the Daleks, The Pirate Planet, Logopolis and Remembrance of the Daleks) aged 81

Episodes
1979 - Nightmare of Eden, Part One: 8.7 million viewers
2008 - The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith, Part Two (CBBC): 1.39 million viewers

Releases
1994 - Issue 220 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)

1997 - Alien Bodies and The Roundheads (BBC Books)

2003 - The Reign of Terror (VHS box set); The Three Doctors (DVD - region 2)

2011 - Issue 245 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines)
2014 - Toby Hadoke's Who's Round (Big Finish)

Behind-the-Scenes
2005 - Recording of Big Finish's Sarah Jane Smith story Dreamland took place
2008 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Enemy of the Daleks took place
2012 - Recording of the Big Finish/AudioGO story Babblesphere took place

Pic of the Day # 669
 

Cherub Weeping Angels from The Angels Take Manhattan (2012)

November 25th: Today in WHO-story

Births
1934 - Ann Davies (Jenny in The Dalek Invasion of Earth)

1944 - Paul Copley (Clem McDonald in the Torchwood story Children of Earth; Big Finish Productions actor - Mr. Hartley in Spare Parts, Dennis on the Graceless story The Edge and Jimmy Deel in the Bernice Summerfield story Missing Persons)

1946 - Brian Hibbard (Keillor in Delta and the Bannermen)

1961 - Simon Fisher-Becker (Dorium Maldovar in The Pandorica Opens, A Good Man Goes to War, The Wedding of River Song and A Good Man Goes to War prequel; Big Finish actor - Kavil in the fifth series of the Doctor Who spin-off Gallifrey and Lift in the Iris Wildthyme story A Lift in Time)

1965 - Dougray Scott (Alec Palmer in Hide); Anastasia Hille (Orla'ath in the Class story Nightvisiting)

1990 - Sophie Hopkins (April in the Doctor Who spin-off Class)

Deaths
2012 - Dinah Sheridan (Flavia in The Five Doctors) aged 92

Episodes
1967 - The Ice Warriors, Episode Three: 7.4 million viewers
1978 - The Androids of Tara, Part One: 8.5 million viewers
1983 - The Five Doctors [Note - This was screened during the BBC Children in Need programme]: 7.7 million viewers

Releases
1989 - Who's That Girl!, Part One (Marvel's The Incredible Hulk Presents)

1993 - Issue 207 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)

2010 - Issue 194 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines); The Nightmare Man and Death of the Doctor (Penguin Character Books)
2016 - Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 195 (Big Finish)
2017 - Faction Paradox: Spinning Jenny (Obverse Books)

Behind-the-Scenes
2005 - The online feed for the Children in Need special was removed ; rewrites to Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel were made
2008 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Enemy of the Daleks took place

2009 - Recording of the Big Finish audio The Guardian of the Solar System took place