The Doctor Who Thread

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

I listened to the Marc Platt Big Finish story The Silver Turk this afternoon.

It features two Mondasian Cybermen in various states of disrepair in 19th century Vienna. It's totally engrossing, brilliantly performed and very, very creepy. The two Cybermen come across as almost tragic yet extremely chilling as the story explores Cyberman beginnings and body horror.

It's not difficult to write a gripping Doctor Who story. Big Finish employ writers all the time who pull it off without the luxury of images so why can't the BBC?

[Gothmogxx]

I have yet to listen to Big Finish but in the absence of current good quality Doctor Who I may have to give some of them a bash.

[Susan Foreman]

December 16th: Today in WHO-story

Births
1929 - Nicholas Courtney (Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart [semi-regular]; Bret Vyon in The Daleks' Master Plan, the Brigade Leader in Inferno, extra in Silver Nemesis and Packard in Magic Bullet Productions' Doctor Who spin-off Kaldor City; Big Finish Productions actor - the TARDIS in Zagreus and Wolsey in the Bernice Summerfield story Oh No It Isn't!)

1930 - Ronald Allen (Rago in The Dominators and Ralph Cornish in The Ambassadors of Death)

1946 - Richard Ireson (Clockwork Soldier & Minotaur in The Mind Robber and Axus in The Krotons); Christopher Ellison (Morian in the Big Finish audio The Game)

1948 - Christopher Biggins (Banto Zame in the Big Finish audio The One Doctor)

1971 - Ashley Way (director of The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood, the Tardisode mini-episodes, the Torchwood episodes Captain Jack Harkness to Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, Something Borrowed and Exit Wounds and the Sarah Jane Adventures stories Death of the Doctor and The Empty Planet); Duncan Wibsey (regular Big Finish actor)

Deaths
1995 - Tony Then (Lee in The Talons of Weng-Chiang) aged 51

2003 - Alfred Lynch (Commander Millington in The Curse of Fenric) aged 72

Episodes
1967 - The Ice Warriors, Episode Six: 7.5 million viewers
1978 - The Androids of Tara, Part Four: 9.0 million viewers

Releases
1976 - The Doctor Who Dinosaur Book (Target Books)

1989 - Slimmer! (Marvel's The Incredible Hulk Presents)

1999 - Issue 286 of Doctor Who Magazine (Panini Comics UK)

2010 - Issue 197 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines); issue 429 of Doctor Who Magazine (Panini Comics)
2012 - Houdini and the Space Cuckoos, Part Two (online short story)
2014 - An Ordinary Life and Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 94 (Big Finish)
2015 - You Are the Doctor and Other Stories (Big Finish); The Fountains of Forever (Titan Comics)

2016 - Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 198 (Big Finish)

Behind-the-Scenes
1974 - The first performance of the stage show Seven Keys to Doomsday took place at The Adelphi Theatre

2009 - Recording of the first series of Big Finish's Doctor Who spin-off Jago & Litefoot took place
2011 - Recording of the Big Finish audio UNIT Dominion took place
2015 - Recording of the Big Finish box set The Second Doctor: Volume One took place

[iank]

No Who revelations at this weekend's Missing Believed Wiped event, but some other missing TV reveals from Philip Morris, and some hints that there will be other reveals, possibly including Who, next year. And definite confirmation that they are now actively in the process of revealing the stuff he's found on his 10+year search, but are intentionally spacing them out to gain maximum publicity for each set of returns.

So fingers crossed for 2019...

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by iank

No Who revelations at this weekend's Missing Believed Wiped event, but some other missing TV reveals from Philip Morris, and some hints that there will be other reveals, possibly including Who, next year. And definite confirmation that they are now actively in the process of revealing the stuff he's found on his 10+year search, but are intentionally spacing them out to gain maximum publicity for each set of returns.

So fingers crossed for 2019...

So it's obviously Morris who's holding onto them. If there is newly found Doctor Who it could take him five years to reveal it and by that time the home video market might be dead in the water and not worth releasing anything onto.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Shoal of the Winter Harmony return in the 2016 Christmas special The Return of Doctor Mysterio.

[trebor8273]

Watched four too doomsday yesterday ( you can have a story with frogs and not make it laughable ) and continuing season 19 with Kinda.

[iank]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

So it's obviously Morris who's holding onto them. If there is newly found Doctor Who it could take him five years to reveal it and by that time the home video market might be dead in the water and not worth releasing anything onto.

Well they do have to be restored as well.
I understand your cynicism, but the BFI's Dick Fiddy also seemed to be saying that there was more to come and that this is now the official start of a lot of returns.
I really don't see the home video market going anywhere anytime soon. That's just silly. Blu ray sales are on the up and DVDs are as popular as ever. Don't believe the paranoia.

[Gothmogxx]

I don't know about you guys but I would seriously erase all 10 episodes of Series 11 just to return 10 episodes of old Who.

Lets say... All 7 from Marco Polo, Daleks Master Plan 12, Tenth Planet 4 and Evil of the Daleks 7. That would be great.

[iank]

Sounds like a fair trade to me. I'd swap it all for one missing episode...