The Doctor Who Thread

[Susan Foreman]

Amazon UK has a pre-order for 'Resolution', which is being released on February 18th, 2019, on both DVD (£12.99) and Blu-Ray (£17.01)

Presumably this means that the episode will not be included as part of the complete series 11 set

They did the same thing with 'Twice Upon A Time' - released it as a stand-alone episode instead of as part of Capaldi's final series

Money grabbing BBC!

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

I've noticed a lot of people moaning because Resolution isn't in the series 1 box set and has it's own stand alone release.

I'm delighted the NYD special isn't on the series 11 box set.

It means i can buy one (hopefully) good Dalek episode on it's own without having to fork out for what i consider a very disappointing series.

if it isn't a good Dalek episode or indeed a Dalek episode at all then i don't have to buy either.

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

Amazon UK has a pre-order for 'Resolution', which is being released on February 18th, 2019, on both DVD (£12.99) and Blu-Ray (£17.01)

Presumably this means that the episode will not be included as part of the complete series 11 set

They did the same thing with 'Twice Upon A Time' - released it as a stand-alone episode instead of as part of Capaldi's final series

Money grabbing BBC!

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Weeping Angels from the 2013 Christmas special The Time of the Doctor.

[Susan Foreman]

December 29th: Today in WHO-story

Births
1909 - Brian Langley (film cameraman on The Ice Warriors)
1921 - Robert Cawdron (Doctor Bruno Taltalian in The Ambassadors of Death)

1928 - Bernard Cribbins (Wilfred Mott [semi-regular]; Tom Campbell in the movie Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150AD and Arnold Korns in the Big Finish audio Horror of Glam Rock)

1946 - Colette Gleeson (Caris in Meglos)

1947 - Alan David (Mr. Sneed in The Unquiet Dead and Kanteer in the Big Finish audio Casualties of War)

1956 - Bernard Padden (Tylos in Full Circle)

1975 - Paul Spragg (Big Finish Productions' Production Assistant)

Deaths
1983 - Ronald Mansell (Council Member in The Dominators) aged 74

1993 - Robert Lankesheer (Chamberlain in The Crusade) aged 79

1995 - Peter Hill (Manager in Day of the Daleks) aged 63

2003 - Dinsdale Landen (Doctor Judson in The Curse of Fenric) aged 71

Episodes
1973 - The Time Warrior, Episode Three: 6.6 million viewers
1979 - The Horns of Nimon, Part Two: 8.8 million viewers

Releases
2011 - Issue 249 of Doctor Who Adventures (Immediate Media Co.)

2016 - Forever Fallen (Big Finish)
2017 - Landbound (Big Finish); Erimem: Auld Acquaintance (Thebes Publishing); Lethbridge-Stewart: What's Past Is Prologue (Candy Jar Books)

Behind-the-Scenes
1995 - Matthew Jacobs submitted a final draft script for the TV Movie
2009 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Cobwebs took place

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Doctor (Peter Capaldi) with Rusty the renegade Dalek in the 2017 Christmas special Twice Upon a Time.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Sarah Parish as the Empress of the Racnoss in the 2006 Christmas special The Runaway Bride.

[Susan Foreman]

RIP June Whitfield - Minnie Hooper in the 2009 Christmas / 2010 New Year's Day Specials 'The End of Time, Parts 1 & 2'

[Susan Foreman]

December 30th: Today in WHO-story

Births
1953 - Meredith Vieira (News Anchor in The Wedding of River Song)

1964 - Sophie Ward (Scheherazade in the AudioGO story Serpent Crest)

1970 - Saul Metzstein (director of Dinosaurs on a Spaceship, A Town Called Mercy, The Snowmen, The Crimson Horror, The Name of the Doctor and the mini-episodes Good as Gold, Pond Life and She Said, He Said: A Prequel)

1971 - Scott Rogers (set dresser on the 50th anniversary docudrama An Adventure in Space and Time)
1980 - Eliza Dushku (Holly Mokri in the Torchwood webcast Web of Lies)

1986 - Faye Marsay (Shona McCulloch in Last Christmas)

1996 - Vivian Oparah (Tanya in the Doctor Who spin-off Class)

Deaths
2002 - John Slavid (Officer in The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve and the Man in the Telephone Box in The War Machines) aged 71

Episodes
1967 - The Enemy of the World, Episode Two: 7.6 million viewers
1972 - The Three Doctors, Episode One: 9.6 million viewers
1978 - The Power of Kroll, Part Two: 12.4 million viewers

Documentaries
2003 - The Story of Doctor Who

Introductions
1972 - Launch of the tenth series of classic Who; Doctor Who's first multi-Doctor story (barring regeneration stories)

Releases
2009 - Issue 147 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines)

2010 - Issue 198 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines); Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition: The Eleventh Doctor - Volume Two (Panini Comics UK)

Behind-the-Scenes
1963 - The BBC filled an audience report on An Unearthly Child
2008 - Recording of the Big Finish audio The Three Companions took place
2009 - Recording of the Big Finish audio The Whispering Forest took place

2011 - David Tennant and Georgia Moffett got married

[Susan Foreman]

December 31st [New Years Eve] - Today in WHO-story

Births
1927 - Frank Gatliff (Ortron in The Monster of Peladon)

Deaths
2015 - Helen Blatch (Computer voice in The Deadly Assassin and Fabian in The Twin Dilemma) aged 82

Episodes
1966 - The Highlanders, Episode Three: 7.4 million viewers
2007 - Blood of the Daleks, Part One (BBC7)

Introductions
2007 - First appearance of Sheridan Smith as the Eighth Doctor's companion Lucie Miller

Releases
2013 - Issue 336 of Doctor Who Adventures (Immediate Media Co.)

**NOTE
This is the last entry for the 'Today in WHO-story' feature. After a years worth of postings, if I was to carry on into 2019, I feel that 95% of what I put will just be repeating what was done a year ago. Therefore I will take a break for the time being. Maybe it will return in a decade when there will be ten years worth of updates and new information to be posted - that is if a) the programme is still running in 2029; b) the forum is still running in 2029; and c) I am still running in 2029!

In hindsight, I should have made these entries in a separate thread for ease of reference, but I didn't. I should have included more pictures in the earlier posts, but again I didn't. I am also kicking myself for not taking more notice during the information text segments of the classic DVD releases, and taking notes of the dates when episodes were filmed because they would have fitted in perfectly with what I did achieve

No doubt there have been many omissions and errors included which will hopefully be rectified if I ever get round to doing an updated version

There were a couple of websites which were invaluable for my research. The TARDIS Wiki contains all the information (and more) that any fan of 'Doctor Who', 'Torchwood', 'The Sarah-Jane Adventures', 'K-9' and even 'Class' could ever want. So extensive is this site, that it is very easy to lose yourself for a couple of days just cross-referencing stories and features

Also very useful were the Movie-Dude 'Doctor Who' Character Identification pages, which covers the first 8 series - 'An Unearthly Child' to 'The Daemons' - and includes pictures of pretty much anyone who appears on screen, which was great when putting a face to a character named as 'third guard by the spaceship'! [Note - to use these pages, click on the above link, then chose the 'TV' tab at the top of the displayed page and just look for the 'Doctor Who' entry.] In a similar vein, the Aveleyman site is a handy pictorial database of people who have 'appeared on the silver screen'

[nosferatu42]

Well done Susan.