The Doctor Who Thread

[Demoncrat]

The Sweeney (S2, Ep 7 "Hit And Run")

I mention this one here because Patrick Troughton is the main tearaway here, with Micheal Sheard in a supporting role ... as a teacher!!
Pat's a right nasty bleeder in this an' all ... and his sheepskin jacket is de riguer for the period

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Ghosts reveal themselves in the 2006 story Army of Ghosts.

[Susan Foreman]

August 20th: Today in WHO-story:

Births
1909 - André Morell (Marshal Tavannes in The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve)

1916 - Bernard Archard (Bragen in The Power of the Daleks and Marcus Scarman in Pyramids of Mars)

1918 - Michael Godfrey (Captain Pike in The Smugglers)
1921 - Roy Godfrey (Tramp in The War Machines)
1932 - Anthony Ainley (The Master [1981-1989]; Tremas in The Keeper of Traken)

1943 - Sylvester McCoy (Seventh Doctor; Himself in the 50th anniversary spoof The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot, Walton Winkie in the Big Finish audio Zagreus, the Foot Doctor in Do You Have a Licence to Save This Planet? and Doctor Colin Dove in the PROBE story The Zero Imperative)

1955 - Hilary Ryan (Rodan in The Invasion of Time)
1962 - Sophie Aldred (Ace [Seventh Doctor companion]; Big Finish Productions actress - Captain Duck in Zagreus, Miranda in the Bernice Summerfield story Beyond the Sun, Dave Stone in the Bernice Summerfield story Many Happy Returns and Lady Bow'n in the Iris Wildthyme story Iris at the Oche; Mari in Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans and the P.R.O. in the PROBE story The Zero Imperative); James Marsters (Captain John Hart [Torchwood villain])

1968 - Matthew Chambers (Hal Korwin in 42)
1969 - Barnaby Edwards (Dalek [2005-TBC]; writer, director & actor of Doctor Who audio adventures from Big Finish and the Adventure Games series)
1970 - Adrian Bower (Steffan in the Big Finish audio Survival of the Fittest)
1971 - David Walliams (Gibbis in The God Complex and Quincy Flowers & Ned Cotton in the Big Finish audio Phantasmagoria)
1983 - Andrew Garfield (Frank in Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks)

Deaths
1991 - Betty Bowden (Meg Seeley in Spearhead from Space) aged 86
1993 - Sydney Arnold (Perkins in The Highlanders) aged 93
1997 - Bill Mitchell (Newsreader in Frontier in Space and Zor in the Argo Records story Doctor Who and the Pescatons) aged 62
2010 - Robert Rowland (extra in The Dalek Invasion of Earth)

Documentaries
2009 - Doctor Who Greatest Moments: The Doctor (BBC Three)
2011 - Best of the Companions and Best of the Monsters (BBC America)

Releases
1992 - Nightshade (Virgin Books)

1998 - Another Girl, Another Planet (Virgin Books)
2009 - Issue 129 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines); issue 412 of Doctor Who Magazine (Panini Comics UK)
2012 - Planet of Giants (DVD - region 2)
2015 - Issue 490 of Doctor Who Magazine (Panini)
2016 - Erimem: Buccaneer (Thebes Publishing)

Behind-the-Scenes
1963 - Work began on the first Doctor Who title sequence
2007 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Sisters of the Flame took place
2009 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Deimos/The Resurrection of Mars took place
2015 - Recording of Big Finish's Torchwood story Uncanny Valley took place

[Susan Foreman]

No further info at the moment, but I have had the following message from one of my FB chums:

"Having a not very good Monday, and then get lovely news about an upcoming Doctor Who release

Season 19 blu-ray set. Its not been officially announced yet but early copies of DWM have the announcement and a pack shot"

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Yeah it's odd that DWM arrived on a Monday morning. It's usually Thursday.

Season 19 has a couple of really good stories in Earthshock and The Visitation and possibly Kinda depending on my mood but the rest are all merely okay except for Timeflight which is pretty poor.

If they wanted a fifth Doctor season i would have gone for season 21.

[Rob4]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Yeah it's odd that DWM arrived on a Monday morning. It's usually Thursday.

Season 19 has a couple of really good stories in Earthshock and The Visitation and possibly Kinda depending on my mood but the rest are all merely okay except for Timeflight which is pretty poor.

If they wanted a fifth Doctor season i would have gone for season 21.

i'm not a fan of cgi enhancement but if they do something with the papier mache snake in Kinda i wouldn't disapprove

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by Rob4

i'm not a fan of cgi enhancement but if they do something with the papier mache snake in Kinda i wouldn't disapprove

The DVD release in the 'Mara Tales' boxset comes with the option of either watching the story with the original effects, or watching the story with new CGI effects

[JAMIOUSE]

Yeah not the best Davidson season but it has some okay stories, I should probably give more love to Davidsons era as he was my first Doctor. I wonder if the plan is to put out every Doctors first season before returning to their next one, are Colin and Sylvester next?

[Andra Jai]

This is the season that helped me make up my mind on buying the blu-ray releases.

The 5th Doctor has always been my favourite with only one story (Snakedance) that I didn't like. Having already got every Doctor Who dvd release I knew I would be unable to resist buying his seasons on blu-ray especially with the added documentaries.

As a huge fan 80s DW, I hope they continue the range with a few more seasons from this time period as it's these that I watch more than anything else.

[iank]

I haven't bought the (error-riddled) first one yet.