The Doctor Who Thread

[Demoncrat]

Ach, I've always wanted to see more of the Kraal personally

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

A Dalek burns in 1974's Death to the Daleks.

[Demoncrat]

Poor Liz looks absolutely frozen at the start of Death ....

[Susan Foreman]

August 6th: Today in WHO-story

Births
1926 - Frank Finlay (Old Jacob in Big Finish Productions' audio anthology 100)
1937 - Barbara Windsor (BBC EastEnders' Peggy Mitchell in Army of Ghosts)
1945 - Ron Jones (director of Black Orchid, Time-Flight, Arc of Infinity, Frontios, Vengeance on Varos and episodes 5-8 of The Trial of a Time Lord)

1952 - James Murray (Camper in The Stones of Blood)
1958 - Keith Barnfather (Producer & director of Reeltime Pictures' Doctor Who spin-offs)

1970 - Alan Cox (Big Finish actor - John Matthews in The Roof of the World, Mark Seven in The Destroyers, Oscar Wild in the Jago & Litefoot story Beautiful Things, Grenville & Diggery in The Auntie Matter, Gideon McDivett in The Ghosts of Gralstead, Death in Death and the Queen, and Fanshawe in the New Counter-Measures story Who Killed Toby Kinsella?)

Deaths
1976 - William Mervyn (Sir Charles Summer in The War Machines; father of 'revived era' production designer Michael Pickwoad) aged 63

1980 - Barry Justice (King Charles IX in The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve) aged 39
2002 - Katherine Schofield (Sabetha in The Keys of Marinus) aged 63

2013 - Ian Rawnsley (designer on Robot)
2014 - Dave Baumber (sound recorder on the first series of the Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood)

Releases
1992 - Issue 190 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)

2001 - Dark Progeny and Bullet Time (BBC Books)
2002 - The Tomb of the Cybermen (DVD - region 1)

2007 - Time-Flight and Arc of Infinity (DVD - region 2)
2009 - Issue 127 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines); Delta and the Bannermen (DVD - region 4)
2015 - Iris Wildthyme: Wildthyme Reloaded (Big Finish)

Behind-the-Scenes
1966 - The BBC announced that William Hartnell was to leave Doctor Who. Patrick Troughton was contracted to appear in at least 22 episodes as the Second Doctor
1998 - Recording of Big Finish's Bernice Summerfield story Beyond the Sun took place

2000 - Recording of the Big Finish audio The Holy Terror took place
2004 - Recording of Big Finish's UNIT story Snake Head took place
2010 - Recording of the Big Finish audio anthology The Demons of Red Lodge and Other Stories took place
2015 - Recording of Big Finish's Jago & Litefoot & Strax story The Haunting took place

[Susan Foreman]

Mondas is returning!

Mysterious ‘rogue’ planet discovered outside solar system | Metro

"Scientists have found evidence of the first ever planetary-mass object beyond our solar system.

And it’s huge.

Probably a dozen times bigger than Jupiter, according to the researchers at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.

They’re calling it a ‘rogue’ planet because it appears to be travelling through space without any kind of orbit around a parent star."

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Mondasian Cybermen on the march from World Enough and Time (2017)

[Susan Foreman]

Big Finish news

"The Fourth Doctor continues...

Another two audio series featuring the enigmatic time-travelling bohemian have been confirmed today, due for release in 2020 and 2021. And we also have some old friends to re-acquaint ourselves with…

In series nine of The Fourth Doctor Adventures, Tom Baker’s Doctor is reunited with Time-Lady Romanadvoratrelundar II (Romana to us humans), played by Lalla Ward.

And joining them will be Adric, played by Matthew Waterhouse, in his first adventures back with Tom since his regeneration in 1981. John Leeson also reprises K9, the Doctor’s faithful robo-canine companion.

These stories are set in the beginning of Tom Baker’s last television series as the Doctor, season 18, in between the stories State of Decay and Warrior’s Gate. Trapped in E-Space, a pocket universe next to our own (N-Space), the Doctor acquires a new companion Adric, a 15 year old mathematical genius, who begins to travel with the Doctor and Romana.

So hold on tight for four more adventures in E-Space! Volume 1 of Series 9 of The Fourth Doctor Adventures is out for release in January 2020:

9.1 Purgatory 12 by Marc Platt
9.2 Chase the Night by Jonathan Morris

And Volume 2 of Series 9 follows in February 2020:

9.3 The Planet of Witches by Alan Barnes
9.4 The Quest of the Engineer by Andrew Smith"

[Susan Foreman]

August 7th: Today in WHO-story:

Births
1924 - Kenneth Kendall (Himself in The War Machines); Dudley Foster (Caven in The Space Pirates)

1942 - Chloe Ashcroft (Professor Laird in Resurrection of the Daleks)

1952 - Alexei Sayle (DJ in Revelation of the Daleks)
1955 - Wayne Knight (Brian Friedkin in the Torchwood story Miracle Day)
1958 - Julian Wadham (Big Finish Productions actor - Augustus Scullop in The Fourth Wall, Joseph Holman in The Darkness of Glass and Doctor Holman in The Crowmarsh Experiment)

1967 - Cathy Murphy (Mum in The Christmas Invasion)
1974 - Eugene Washington (Mr. Wagner in School Reunion)

Deaths
1980 - Norman Atkyns (Guardian in Colony in Space and the Rear Admiral in The Sea Devils) aged 74
1995 - Dursley McLinden (Mike Smith in Remembrance of the Daleks) aged 30

2014 - Michael Kerrigan (director of Battlefield and the Sarah Jane Adventures stories The Day of the Clown and Secret of the Stars) aged 61

Releases
1995 - Frontier in Space and K9 & Company (VHS)

2000 - The Burning and Imperial Moon (BBC Books)
2008 - Issue 76 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Books)

2015 - Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 132 (Big Finish)

Behind-the-Scenes
1998 - Recording of Big Finish's Bernice Summerfield story Beyond the Sun took place
2004 - Recording of Big Finish's UNIT story Time Heals took place

2012 - Recording of the Big Finish audio anthology 1001 Nights took place
2017 - Recording of Big Finish's Torchwood story Believe took place

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Kiv (Christopher Ryan) in the 1986 story Mindwarp.

[Susan Foreman]

He still looks like Mike from 'The Young Ones'!