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[Demoncrat]

RIP

[Gothmogxx]

Two episodes into Resurrection of the Daleks. Christ you can tell PC wasn't even a thing back then: The infected crew are the single most disgusting and graphic thing in all of Doctor Who. Not even Condo getting shot or Lytton getting his hands crushed equal it. I dare New Who to show something half as graphic for even a second.

[Susan Foreman]

December 20th: Today in WHO-story

Births
1943 - Jacqueline Pearce (Chessene in The Two Doctors and Admiral Mettna in the webcast Death Comes to Time; Big Finish Productions - Cardinal Ollistra in The War Doctor series, The Eighth Doctor: The Time War series and Day of the Vashta Nerada, Sherilyn Harper in The Fearmonger, Zafira & Bev in Hexagora and the Keeper in the second series of the Doctor Who spin-off Sarah Jane Smith)

1952 - Jenny Agutter (Sekhmet in the Big Finish audio The Bride of Peladon)

1978 - Eddie Robson (writer of several Doctor Who-related audios, books and comic strips)

Deaths
1976 - Walter Fitzgerald (Senex in The Dominators) aged 80

1985 - Eric Hillyard (Doctor Reeves in The Daemons) aged 70

1987 - Neville Simons (Alien Ambassador & Frank Michaels in The Ambassadors of Death and an extra in The Space Pirates and The War Games) aged 51

2001 - Edward Evans (Ted Moss in Image of the Fendahl) aged 87

Releases
1979 - Issue 11 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)

2010 - Snowfall, Part Five (online short story)
2011 - Attack of the Snowmen, Part One (online short story); Doctor Who: Worlds in Time (online game - Beta version)

2012 - Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition: The Eleventh Doctor Volume Six (Panini Comics UK)
2014 - Behind You, Part Two (online short story)

Behind-the-Scenes
2010 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Heroes of Sontar took place

2012 - Recording of the seventh series of Big Finish's Doctor Who spin-off Jago & Litefoot took place

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Gothmogxx

Two episodes into Resurrection of the Daleks. Christ you can tell PC wasn't even a thing back then: The infected crew are the single most disgusting and graphic thing in all of Doctor Who. Not even Condo getting shot or Lytton getting his hands crushed equal it. I dare New Who to show something half as graphic for even a second.

So that's all of it.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Alien brains from The Return of Doctor Mysterio (2016)

[Gothmogxx]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

So that's all of it.

No. The DVD I have has it in 4 episodes, not like it originally was.

[iank]

It was made as 4 episodes, but broadcast as two because of the Olympics or something or other.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by iank

It was made as 4 episodes, but broadcast as two because of the Olympics or something or other.

I always watch it in two episode format as broadcast. The extra episode endings feel clunky to me.

It's a popular myth that the BBC were so impressed by this 45 minute format that they decided to make the whole of the following season this way.

In reality it was decided long before then.

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I watched Vengeance on Varos over the last two nights. A classic tale and one that completely goes against the grain that the Colin Baker years weren't very good.

[Susan Foreman]

December 21st: Today in WHO-story

Births
1915 - James Cairncross (Lemaitre in The Reign of Terror and Beta in The Krotons)

1937 - Sheila Reid (Etta in Vengeance on Varos, Clara's grandmother in The Time of the Doctor and Dark Water and Claire Summerfield in the Big Finish audio The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield)

1945 - Alibe Parsons (Matrona Kani in The Trial of a Time Lord)

1950 - Jane How (Rebec in Planet of the Daleks)

1968 - Catherine Cusack (Blue Kang Leader in Paradise Towers)

1972 - Chris Porter (voices of the Smilers and Winders in The Beast Below; Big Finish Productions actor - Selachian Leader in The Architects of History, Vincol in The Acheron Pulse, Degooer & Montain in Planet of the Rani, Jason Corey in The Destroyers, Prince Sayf Unteen & Valentin in Crime of the Century, Carna in Dark Eyes 2, Skaul & Freel in Casualties of War, Nardos in The Helm of Awe and Gormune in the Bernice Summerfield story Year Zero)

Deaths
1982 - Edmund Bailey (Madame Tassauds Attendant in Spearhead from Space and an extra in The Time Monster) aged 78

1989 - Edmund Warwick (Darrius in The Keys of Marinus, the Robot Doctor in The Chase and William Hartnell's stand-in in The Dalek Invasion of Earth) aged 82

1991 - Colin Douglas (Donald Bruce in The Enemy of the World and Reuben & Rutan voices in Horror of Fang Rock) aged 79

1998 - Roger Avon (Saphadin in The Crusade, Daxtar in The Daleks' Master Plan and Wells in the movie Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150AD) aged 84

1999 - Jack le White (extra in The Reign of Terror and The Daleks' Master Plan) aged 87; John Arnatt (Borusa in The Invasion of Time) aged 82

2000 - John Lee (Alydon in The Daleks) aged 72

2001 - Kevin Manser (Dalek [1963-1966]; Zarbi in The Web Planet) aged 72

2012 - Daphne Oxenford (Archivist in Dragonfire and the older Agatha Christie in the deleted scenes from The Unicorn and the Wasp) aged 93

Episodes
1963 - The Daleks, Episode One ('The Dead Planet'): 6.9 million viewers
1968 - The Invasion, Episode Eight: 7.0 million viewers
1988 - The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, Part Two: 5.3 million viewers
2012 - Songtaran Carols (online mini-episode)

Introductions
1963 - First-ever glimpse of a Dalek

Releases
1989 - The Greatest Show in the Galaxy (Target Books)

1995 - Issue 234 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)

2011 - Attack of the Snowmen, Part Two (online short story)
2014 - Behind You, Part Three (online short story); Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 98 (Big Finish)

2015 - Haunted, Part One (online short story)
2017 - Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 231 (Big Finish)

Behind-the-Scenes
1965 - First performance of the first-ever official Doctor Who-related stage show The Curse of the Daleks

2007 - Recording of the Big Finish audio The Dark Husband took place
2008 - Recording of Big Finish's Bernice Summerfield story Absence took place

2009 - Recording of the first series of Big Finish's Doctor Who spin-off Jago & Litefoot took place

[Susan Foreman]

The circus rap, from 'The Greatest Show In The Galaxy' Part Two, first broadcast 30 years ago today