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Steven and Erika finish off the Barry Letts era and vibe with the Doctor and Harry. Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky.
A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Join Joe, Andrew, Jon & Luke as we tackle the worst Doctor Who book of all time as voted by readers of DWM. Gangsters, ghosts & catamites - oh my!
A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Joe, Dave, Daniel & Lucy; 'I'm going for a walk...it'll probably rain!' For a a long time the only slice of this story that existed, much to Barry Letts' shame. Turns out it is a bit of a comic gem...
A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Joe, Lucy, Daniel & Dave; 'It might cost you your life!' Double trouble as Patrick Troughton takes on the role of the villain and Barry Letts imagines he is directing a Bond movie for one week.
Moonbase 3 - "Departure and Arrival" September 9, 1973 A new administrator for Moonbase 3 finds himself tasked with learning who is at fault for the death of his predecessor. Podcaster John S. Drew and writer/editor Jim Beard join forces once again to become the masters of time and space as they watch and review every single episode of the Classic Doctor Who series. In this episode, they discuss the premiere episode of Moonbase 3, a series produced by then Doctor Who producers Barry Letts and Terrence Dicks. They talk about the characters introduced, the model work of the ships and moon vehicles, and the pacing of the overall story. Please make sure you are subscribed to our podcast via any of the major popular podcasting apps. You can write and comment or ask questions of us via email at thedoctorsbeardpodcast@gmail.com or by joining our Facebook community. Join our Patreon community where your sponsorship earns you early access to new episodes as well as exclusive content. Click on the link here to take you to the Patreon page.
A tear, Sarah Jane? The Third Doctor on his deathbed forbids it! We (and tear-friendly Fifteen) may look askance these days at the end of Planet of the Spiders, but the bigger question is: has any of the preceding story aged well? Join us as we examine a Frankenstein's spider with too many legs: Pertwee stunts, far-future colonists, “Flowers for Algernon,” ambiguous Mike Yates, arachnophobia, crystallography, tantric Buddhism, one clairvoyant, one exotic dancer, and a little something called reincarnation — whoops, we mean regeneration. Give your own rating for Planet of the Spiders on Spotify! Subscribe to our YouTube Channel and become a True Companion of the podcast to get new episodes before everyone else! Subscribe to our newsletter at pulltoopen.net for extended notes on Planet of the Spiders. Support the podcast by becoming a patron of Pull To Open on Patreon. Please review Pull To Open on Apple Podcasts. Timeline: Intro 00:00:00 Previously… 00:01:31 Whomoji Challenge 00:07:24 POLL To Open 00:14:28 TL;DW 00:23:30 Commentary: Planet of the Spiders 00:28:07 Four Questions to Doomsday 01:16:53 What If the Evil Plot Had Succeeded? 01:18:57 Where Is the Clara Splinter? 01:24:11 Final Judgment 01:30:47 Randomizer! 01:38:27 Follow us on: TikTok! @pulltoopen Instagram: @pulltoopen63 Facebook: @pulltoopen63 X: @pulltoopen63 Threads: @pulltoopen63 Bluesky: @pulltoopen Play Pull To Open Bingo (NEW upgraded card!) Story Essentials Season 11, Serial 5 Story number: 73, per the The Pull To Open Codex Writer: Robert Sloman, Barry Letts (uncredited) Director: Barry Letts Script Editor: Terrance Dicks Showrunner: Barry Letts Aired 4 May 1974–8 June 1974 Pull To Open: Planet of the Spiders Season 5 Episode 33 Hosts: Pete Pachal and Chris Taylor Music: Martin West/Thinking Fish ©️AnyWho Media LLC 2024 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pull-to-open/support
Too Hot For TV's journey through the spin offs of other franchises continues with Blakes 7. The time Dylan is joined by David Gillespie-Pratt to look at the two BBC radio plays 'The Seven Fold Crown' and The Syndeton Experiment by Barry Letts. And always answer the burning questions: Who hates Felicity Kendal?Who is obsessed boobs? What would an AI Blakes 7 be like? The Sitcom StudyWelcome to the Sitcom Study, where we contemplate the TV shows we grew up with and...Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify The Sitcom StudyWelcome to the Sitcom Study, where we contemplate the TV shows we grew up with and...Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify
Tread Perilously returns to Doctor Who as Erik and Justin celebrate 90 years of Tom Baker. First up: Tom's debut story, "Robot." As The Doctor comes to grips with his new incarnation, a string of curious thefts activates UNIT to investigate. But, somehow, the Fourth Doctor already knows the break-ins will allow nefarious individuals to make a disintegrator gun. Meanwhile, Sarah Jane Smith's visit to an advanced scientific think tank leads her to believe the group may have disturbing intentions. Are the two things related? And will The Doctor figure himself out in time to assist UNIT in stopping a giant robot? Justin and Erik witness as Tom Baker portrays The Doctor at his most "Tom Baker-ish." They also discuss the circumstances that led to The Doctor's regeneration. Tom in a UNIT story leaves Justin perplexed. The fascy antagonists, though, are quite clear to him. Erik discusses producer Barry Letts' place in Doctor Who history and why "Robot" serves as an epilogue to his era. Ian Marter's first appearance as Harry Sullivan gets examined. Hairstyles of Doctor Who and Star Wars are also discussed. Professor Kettlewell proves to be a memorable guest character for several reasons and Justin identifies a commonality between the Fourth Doctor and Bugs Bunny.
A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Joe, Frazer & Si; 'Concentrate!' A biggie...the end of the Jon Pertwee's time on Doctor Who, the culmination of the work of Barry Letts & Terrance Dicks and bloody great spiders too! What will the intrepid trio think of this meditative opening episode?
After two weeks celebrating "The Gunfighters", we now spend a week tolerating, or at least giving a curt head nod to, "The Time Monster". Why was this one of the last Pertwee stories to be novelized? If the TV scripts were co-written by Barry Letts, why does Terrance Dicks appear to have so little patience for it? Check out Si's Library of Impossible Things podcast. If you enjoyed this episode, please follow, subscribe, and rate us! Watch this episode and all previous episodes on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@drwhonovels "Doctor Who – The Time Monster" features cover art by Andrew Skilleter. Doctor Who Literature is a member of the Direction Point Doctor Who podcast network. Please e-mail the pod at DrWhoLiterature@gmail.com. You can catch all past episodes at https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/doctorwholit --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/doctorwholit/message
In final episode of 2023, Dylan is joined by Conrad Westmaas to take a look at the 1977 Doctor Who Weetabix promotion. They also look at the 1996 BBC audio play ‘The Ghosts of N-Space' by Barry Letts and starring Jon Pertwee, Elizabeth Sladen and Nicholas Courtney. And as always answer the burning questions:Which fiend is entering Sandra Dickinson?Who is getting speared by Blor? Are brit-pop, boys and Prozac better than ‘The Ghosts of N-Space' ?
In which we dig into the series that Terrance Dicks and Barry Letts made back when their time on Doctor Who was coming to an end, and ask whether it was really worth it This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold Dylan Rees Jim Cameron Mark Donaldson
The year is 2003 and Earth's intrepid humans have managed to set-up several bases on the moon. There they face the implacable enemy that is the silence and darkness of space - a serious and apparently underestimated threat to the mental wellbeing of moonbase personnel... Created by Doctor Who's Barry Letts and Terrance DIcks this 6-part series from 1973 starred Donald Houston, Ralph Bates and Fiona Gaunt and had scripts from John Brason, John Lucarotti and Arden Winch. Moonbase 3 lacks Doctor Who's monsters and excitement and instead delights in technical details and psychological concerns. As such it is something of a hard SF curio which is widely regarded to be a misfire, even by Letts and Dicks themselves. The big question is what will Andy & Martin make of it from the vantage point of 2023, some 20 years after its characters, with their very 70's attitudes, were meant to be surviving on the moon? N.B. Having completed the first half of our second A to Z series, we are taking a mid-season break but will return in a few months with a drama beginning with the letter N...
This episode, the Watchers have all been replaced by doppelgangers as we tackle The Android Invasion! With a script written by everyone's favourite hack, Terry Nation, it's a chance for everyone to play one of the most fun games around – Terry Nation Bingo! We also say goodbye to a much-loved character, as well as to another one that's loved by everyone except Julie. You can't win ‘em all! Along the way, Reilly can't help but think of the Conspiracies episode of Community, Anthony gets frustrated over Barry Letts' overuse of CSO (yes, again), Julie draws unfortunate parallels with The Dominators, and Don thinks he found a reference to Tom Lehrer. The entire team tries to figure out a way to make the whole thing with Crayford's missing-but-not-missing eye work. If you would like to watch along with us, this entire season is available for streaming at both Britbox US (https://www.britbox.com) and Britbox UK (https://www.britbox.co.uk). For those who prefer to watch using physical media, this one can be bought on DVD as a standalone release from Amazon US (https://amzn.to/3ZrQwjY) or as part of the UNIT Files box set from Amazon UK (https://amzn.to/3IOMNY4). Other media mentioned in this episode: The Avengers – Complete Collection (TV show) (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3B828eR | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3B0ChoS) Space: 1999: The Complete Series (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3pbTv08 | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3p7W43u) Blackadder: The Ultimate Edition (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/30sMUnN | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3BU2WoN) Men in Black (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3PP6lMk | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3vr3VeP) The League of Gentlemen: The Complete Collection (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3wT1WxW | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3rhSra3) The Prisoner (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3vcfd4A | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/2Snqy3i) The Six Million Dollar Man: The Complete Series (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3XrNQRJ | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3QBQJwU) Community – The Complete Series (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/2ZczFaG | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3C1UTpM) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3G6YCoH | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3m0qOSc) Tom Lehrer – We'll All Go Together When We Go (YouTube: https://youtu.be/frAEmhqdLFs) Finally, you can also follow us and interact with us on various forms of social media - Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. You can also e-mail us at watchers4d@gmail.com. If you're enjoying this podcast, please subscribe to the show, and leave us a rating or review.
This week we're up to October 1974 and the first book of Target's last double-release month. The first of those two books is the novelization of "The Daemons", the Season 8 finale, and is written by the episode's producer and co-writer, Barry Letts. It's one of the longest novelizations Target will ever put out, and in the first half of this episode, we'll take a deep dive into just what Barry is able to do with all that extra space. For the second half of the episode, we're joined by Simon Hart (@Si_Hart), a very prolific and very funny podcaster, who talks about how he first encountered this novelization, and how well it holds up today. This week's outro music features two different versions of "Heart" from the Broadway musical "Damn Yankees", including selections from the 1958 movie adaptation and a 1969 episode of the Ed Sullivan Show.
For a brief five or so years, the BBC broadcast an omnibus version of Doctor Who in the middle of the Christmas week holiday, usually on 27 December. We talk about how Barry Letts got this viewing tradition underway and ruminate on why by the time Graham Williams became producer that the omnibus specials had ceased to be. We then discuss the relevance of omnibus repeats for audiences in the 21st century in a television landscape dominated by streaming and in-home video. Opening music is from The Sea Devils, composed by Malcolm Clarke. Closing music is from Genesis of the Daleks, composed by Dudley Simpson and recreated by Benji Clifford. We recorded this episode on 23 December 2021.
In a very special seasonal episode, Ben and Mark welcome writer and director Joy Wilkinson to the podcast to discuss writing The Witchfinders, the mechanics of the S11 writer's room, British history and folklore as well as her own love of The Daemons. What other stories from S11 did Joy want to write? Was the Doctor's gender the impetus or a happy accident? What the hell is going on with the Bury Man? We chat all this and more. ALSO: Dick Strawbridge shoots heroin, a fiendish new round of Degsey's Ding-Dong Ping-Pong and that most British of malevolent forces - mud. Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/onthetimelash)
Chapter 5 of Doctor Who: Flux, Survivors of the Flux, contained a voice cameo hearkening back to UNIT's glory days, as well as a surprising if somewhat illogical revelation about that voice's military track record. Join us for a bonus episode looking back to November 2003's Past Doctor Adventure novel, "Deadly Reunion", Doctor Who's 40th anniversary story, and something of an autobiography for its co-author, one Barry Letts.
A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Joe & Steven; menaced by the fire by a maggot! We talk domestic scenes in Doctor Who, Gruntleigh the Ogron, the inevitability's of having a recurring cast, ‘the one with the Giant Maggots' myth and whether Barry Letts was far more interested in the sexes than we thought.
This week we've got more mystery clues for you to peruse, Big Finish art and releases to amuse and a clikbait article about possible future showrunners that will at best bemuse. There's also talk of current showrunner Chris Chibnall's message in the latest Doctor Who Magazine, the impaled Cyberman figure you never knew you needed from Hero Collector, and Part Two of our Classic Series Commentary for “State of Decay”! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! The Timelash BBC America Series 13 Press Release Doctor Who /mystery clues so far Doctor Who Loot Crate Screenrant Show Runner list Doctor Who Magazine 568 Big Finish Lost Warriors, next for the Ninth Doctor Big Finish Third Doctor Adventures volume 8, due October Big Finish The Year of Martha Jones welcomes Marina Sirtis Big Finish The Early Adventures After the Daleks available Big Finish The Early Adventures The Secrets of Det-Sen available Big Finish The God of Phantoms by Philip Hinchcliffe available Titan Comics brings around the Eighth and Eleventh Doctors Who & Me by Barry Letts expanded edition due this month Vworp Vworp issue 4 due September Upcoming Hero Collector figurines including an impaled Cyberman Commentary: The State of Decay, Part Two
A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Joe & Matt; looking at that great spider! Barry Letts as a director comes under the microscope, we adore Ruebish, discuss Holmes' skilful talent with exposition and memorable, quotable dialogue, and collective hardons for a story this irreverent and relaxed.
In about a week we'll either learn absolutely nothing or possibly slightly more than that as Doctor Who holds a panel at SDCC@Home featuring Jodie Whittaker, Chris Chibnall, Mandip Gill, new companion John Bishop and a “special guest” (possibly the ghost of Richard Hurndall?) and RFS will be there, at home, in a slightly delayed fashion to cover it. But here in the present there's audiobooks, a new version of the Doctor Who Role Playing Game, and more catching our attention, along with the final part of our Barry Letts directorial Miniscope, covering “Carnival of Monsters”, “Planet of the Spiders”, and “The Android Invasion”! What are you waiting for, Lett's CSGo! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! The Timelash SDCC@Home Doctor Who panel July 25, 10am SDCC@Home Titan Comics panel July 23, 1pm Neve McIntosh at Chicago TARDIS Billie Piper at MegaCon Orlando Time Fracture has flooding issues, cancellations Brian Hodgson's memoir Big Finish Dalek Universe 2 released Time and the Rani audio CD Timelash audio CD Face of Evil audio CD Reign of Terror audio CD Android Invasion audio CD Keys of Marinus audio CD Nightmare of Eden audio CD Sarah Jane Adventures added to UK BritBox Upcoming Abominable Snowmen action dollie set? TARDIS console lava lamp Cubicle7 Doctor Who RPG second edition coming soon Pip Madelay's YouTube channel Miniscope: Barry Letts Carnival of Monsters Planet of the Spiders The Android Invasion
It's the return of the Miniscope! Barry Letts has both written and directed for Doctor Who (on top of his tenure as producer from 1970-74) but he finally has his day in our segment analyzing the work of behind-the-scenes notables here for his directing on “The Enemy of the World” and “Terror of the Autons”. We also talk about the upcoming Comic-Con at Home Doctor Who panel on July 25, a bevy of Big Finish releases, and look back at some notable, non-broadcast related dates in history in The Timelash! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! The Timelash Doctor Who Comic-Con at Home panel happening July 25 BBC Studios earnings down 17% due to COVID shutdowns John Barrowman a guest at Calgary Expo 2021 Big Finish's The Diary of River Song: New Recruit in October 2021 Missy and the Monk coming from Big Finish in September 2021 Doctor Who: The War Doctor Begins – Warbringer coming to Big Finish December 2021 Big Finish dedicates an upcoming Early Adventures release to Jackie Lane Missy #4 from Titan Comics out July 14 Doctor Who TVM Producer Philip Segal's model building Toby Hadoke begins a guest stint on Coronation Street
A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Joe & Mark (and the special appearance of the pussy of Rassilon). What is the Barry Letts balance? What is Omega Eleganza? What is the Timeless Cat? Who is Mark Raw? Where is Liz Shaw? Have You Been Ollised? What happened to Orville?
A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast
Joe & Mark; fire at will! Is the third Doctor a prick? Are birthday jellies a less than credible threat? Does the title sequence look vaginal? Can the B7 teleport theme be sung? Mark's love affair with Barry Letts is celebrated. The Time Lords are watching us podcast.
In this episode Dylan and Jack look at two Doctors the podcast has yet to cover. First up it's the third Doctor, Sarah Jane and the Brigadier in BBC radio play 'The Paradise of Death' written by Barry Letts. Then it's the second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe in the DWM comic strip 'Land of the Blind' by Scott Grey.
Let’s get all sliggy hoo and drink ourselves blatt! Actually, let’s just get reasonably drunk and discuss Barry Letts’ adaptation of his own 1993 radio play THE PARADISE OF DEATH – and if you don’t feel like you’re in some sort of virtual reality by the end of this one, there’s no helping you. Our three-person panel of Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, and Dalton Hughes discuss what may be the second most-reviled DOCTOR WHO release of the 1990s. (No need to name the first one here, since you already know what it is, but it starts with “Ch” and ends with “ildren in Need”…) If you like what you hear, please come visit our Patreon page! It's at https://www.patreon.com/DWTargetBC. If you decide to support us in our ongoing effort to discuss all of the DOCTOR WHO novelizations, you'll be able to choose a gift, whether it be a shout-out by our panel, a card signed by all of us, or a BBC Book of your choosing! Contributing at any level gets you our extras! Visit the site for more details! We also have a book discussion group of our very own on Goodreads! It can be found at https://tinyurl.com/y7kmaspr. If you want to have your question, discussion, or review of a given book read aloud by us, simply join the group, post your response to the group by the given deadline, and we will see it! If you really like us or feel the exact opposite, feel free to comment on our Facebook page, follow us on Twitter (we’re @DWTARGETBC), or subscribe to us via the podcast provider of your choice (we can be found on iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher, and TuneIn, amongst many others)! You can also email us at emperordalek@gmail.com with the phrase “Target Book Club” in the subject line! Thanks to Ron Schiding for our podcast logo and artwork! Our new theme by Aaron S. on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q5PWOYZkPg&list=WL&index=127&t=33s Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DoctorWhoTargetBookClubPodcast/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/doctor-who-target-book-club-podcast/id1195364046?mt=2 SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/doctorwhotargetbookclubpodcast Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/doctor-who-target-book-club-podcast TuneIn: http://tunein.com/radio/Doctor-Who-Target-Book-Club-Podcast-p957128/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DWTARGETBC Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/710804-doctor-who-target-book-club-podcast
This month (from quarantine, of course) Joy and Kyle discuss the final story of season 8, "The Daemons." Here we have the first of the stories written by Robert Sloman and Barry Letts (under the name Guy Leopold) and it's a supremely odd mixture of sci-fi and the occult. Plus, we get Reverend Magister, so that's fun too. Satanism, white witches, folk horror, and Quatermass pastiches abound! But, is it, like, good?
This week, we start looking at a new series: The 1973 BBC science fiction series Moonbase 3 by Barry Letts and Terrance Dicks. John and Eugene discuss. Since this program is not readily available on DVD or streaming, at time of publication you can watch the episodes on this YouTube Playlist – Moonbase 3 Episode … Continue reading 440 – Moonbase 3 – Departure and Arrival
This month, the Barry Letts era begins! Just one story in, the Jon Pertwee years of Doctor Who change drastically. Luckily, they change in a great story! Joy and Kyle discuss "Doctor Who and the Silurians," a very important story in the annals of the show. Not only are Silurians a fascinating and complicated race, they also have weird third eyes! Much to talk about regarding morality, panic, and various withering glances.
This week we pay our respects to Terrance Dicks, the script editor and writer, who made such an enormous impact on Doctor Who and, in turn, our lives. From Target novelisations, to script editing, to original stories, Terrance Dicks was the quintessential professional who lent credibility to every Who-related project he was associated with. Also please donate to Save the Children, in memory of Terrance. Opening this episode is Dicks describing the Doctor's character from the 1993 documentary "Thirty Years in the TARDIS". Closing music is "Eye of Orion" composed by Peter Howell for "The Five Doctors" and followed by former producer Barry Letts asking Dicks how he'd would like to be remembered from "Terrance Dicks: Fact & Fiction" and a brief riff from Dudley Simpson from "Carnival of Monsters".
The world of Doctor Who was thrown aback this week with news that beloved television writer and novelist Terrance Dicks passed away at the age of 84. Dicks’ contribution to the show and indeed many of our childhoods can’t be overestimated, from his time working with Barry Letts during the 1970s to his prodigious run on the Target novelizations, “The Five Doctors”, the New Adventures…the mind reels. We also continue our Series 11 commentary series with a look at “The Ghost Monument”, featuring Deeper Cuts host and Head Over Feels Tony Stark consulting expert Shannon Dohar! Links: – Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – Gallifrey One 2020 tickets still available – Terrance Dicks died – Robert Shearman writes about Terrance Dicks – Season 26 announced for Blu-Ray release – Season 26 Blu-Ray trailer, by Pete McTighe – Season 26 Blu-Ray clean artwork – BFI Curse of Fenric screening – Season 23 Blu-Ray UK release pushed back 2 weeks – Series 11 nominated for 4 Welsh BAFTAs – NYCC exclusive Tzim Sha Funko Pop – Quiz of Rassilon, with RFS contribution Commentary: – The Ghost Monument – Shannon Dohar
Is science really magic? Is religion really science? And how much does the Third Doctor actually hate Jo Grant? Our panel (Tony Whitt, Alyson Fitch-Safreed, and Dalton Hughes, joined by special guest Jennifer Picker) address those questions and more, during our discussion of Barry Letts’ novelization of THE DAEMONS. (That’s “DEE-mons,” by the way – the book even says so! What, did you fail Latin as well as English, you useless sack?) If you’d like to hear more of this sort of quality content, please come visit our Patreon page! It's at https://www.patreon.com/DWTargetBC. If you decide to support us in our ongoing effort to discuss all of the DOCTOR WHO novelizations, you'll be able to choose a gift, whether it be a shout-out by our panel, a card signed by all of us, or a BBC Book of your choosing! Contributing at any level gets you our extras! Visit the site for more details! We also have a book discussion group of our very own on Goodreads! It can be found at https://tinyurl.com/y7kmaspr. If you want to have your question, discussion, or review of a given book read aloud by us, simply join the group, post your response to the group by the given deadline, and we will see it! If you really like us or feel the exact opposite, feel free to comment on our Facebook page or our Subreddit, follow us on Twitter (we’re @DWTARGETBC), or subscribe to us via the podcast provider of your choice (we can be found on iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher, and TuneIn, amongst many others)! Videos to accompany our first ten episodes can still be found on YouTube! You can also email us at DWTARGETBC@gmail.com. Our new theme by Aaron S. on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q5PWOYZkPg&list=WL&index=127&t=33s Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DoctorWhoTargetBookClubPodcast/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/DWTargetBC/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/doctor-who-target-book-club-podcast/id1195364046?mt=2 SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/doctorwhotargetbookclubpodcast Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/doctor-who-target-book-club-podcast TuneIn: http://tunein.com/radio/Doctor-Who-Target-Book-Club-Podcast-p957128/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DWTARGETBC Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/710804-doctor-who-target-book-club-podcast
NEW TO WHO and THE ARK IN SPACEAt a time in the far-off future, Earth has become uninhabitable. A selection of Humanity is placed, deep-frozen, in a fully-automated space station, to await the day of their return to Earth…Thousands of years later, New To Who return. Col, Dan, and Steven find things going suspiciously wrong, and the station under attack from the giant WIRRN, deadly creatures who, in their lust for power, now threaten the future of the whole Human Race…New To Who are back with a look at THE ARK IN SPACE, the first story proper of the vaunted Hinchcliffe and Holmes era of Classic Who (Seasons 12 to 14).The story is written by Robert Holmes, rewriting John Lucarotti’s original script, while Philip Hinchcliffe takes the reins from Barry Letts as producer for the first time – at the ripe old age of 29! It boasts some beautiful set designs by Roger Murray-Leach complemented by gorgeous direction by Rodney Bennett and a haunting score from Australia’s own Dudley Simpson, while Tom Baker, Elisabeth Sladen, and Ian Marter are wonderful as one of the all-time very best TARDIS teams.With echoes of 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick from 1968 and foreshadowing Ridley Scott’s Alien of 1979, THE ARK IN SPACE combines existential and body horror genres to tell the story of cryogenically frozen human colony that revives only to find themselves in the midst of an insectoid alien horror that feeds on their bodies and souls!The cover of the original imprint of the 1976 Target novelisation for THE ARK IN SPACE is used with the kind permission of Chris Achilleos. The novelisation is written by Ian Marter himself, and the audiobook is ready by none other than Tom Baker.Theme by Our Colin (2019). Much love and thanks, Col! ❤︎Special thanks to Sarah Tout at Voice Box Media Training.You can now find New To Who on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and PlayerFM.NEW TO WHO WILL RETURN
We're beginning our 7&7 dive into season 7 -- the 3rd Doctor's first season! We already covered "Spearhead from Space" back in ep 116, so it's time for some Silurians. Join Erika, Katrina, and Lizbeth as we talk about Jon Pertwee's Doctor; Liz Shaw's clothing; the relationships between the Doc, Liz, and the Brig; and the ethics of destroying a bunch of sleeping reptiles. What are your thoughts on this story? And do you know where to find any clothing like Liz Shaw's? Let us know in the comments! ^E Happy things: Liz WROTE A THING THAT EXISTS AND YOU CAN BUY from Big Finish: The Astrea Conspiracy! Kat celebrates the 100-episode mark for Doctor Who's Line, is it? ... Anyway! Erika completed many episodes of Lazy Doctor Who and celebrated with a trip to Variant Edition for some comics and the obligatory picture-in-front-of-the-TARDIS! Who & Me: A Memoir by Barry Letts, Producer of Doctor Who from 1969-1974 Support Verity! on Patreon
NEW TO WHO meet CHRISTOPHER H BIDMEADIt is with great pleasure that we give Our #SweetDorks an interview with the Script Editor of Doctor Who during the Season 18 and writer of Logopolis, Christopher H Bidmead.Dan, Steven, and Col are joined by Christopher, who relates the story of how he became a writer, actor, and script editor of Doctor Who.Over the course of our chat, we hear Christopher talk about what it was like to inherit the show from his predecessor, Douglas Adams, what it was like to work with Tom Baker, and what parts John Nathan-Turner and Barry Letts played in the shaping of the vision of Season 18, the last of the Fourth Doctor and the first of the 1980s.Great thanks go to Christopher H Bidmead for appearing on New To Who!
“There’s your monster maker… Caught in the act.” And lo… Barry Letts did advance upon him, spitting tacks and brandishing a rubber T-Rex, with insertion on his mind. Yes, this is yer actual Invasion of the Dinosaurs – a tale of double talk, double-crosses and double denim. The Doctor drives stuff, Sarah discovers stuff and Yates says “Stuff you!” to his UNIT family (and to everyone outside the central London elite bubble). Have the cast been selectively aged and rejuvenated by Whitaker’s time experiments? Is the science as shaky as the Whitehall walls? And is it worth gambling your house on? Will Lis Sladen ever get the underwear she doesn’t need? And where will Jim and Martin place the story on a scale of Jurassic Park to The Goodies? To find out the answers to some or none of these questions, listen here.
In episode 87 of the Doctor Who: Alhambra Podcast, Brett, Liam, and Humphrey look into two eras of Doctor Who, as we compare the show runner for most all of Jon Pertwee's Doctor, Barry Letts, and Philip Hinchcliffe, the producer that replaced Letts, and working with probably the most iconic Doctor in the classic series, in Tom Baker. Stay tuned to the very end of the podcast, were I've included an off-air discussion about canon. Stay tuned for future podcasts that focus on the New Series of Doctor Who, Big Finish audio releases, as well as further era discussions. Episode 88: Doctor Who & Big Finish news, with November Big Finish reviews, as well as the reviews for some of October Big Finish releases. Episode ??: Liam's Trip to Whooverville Please give the show some feedback through tweets & email. Please email the show at: alhambraaudio@gmail.com Tweet the show: @AlhambraPodcast Tweet the hosts: Liam @djNezumi or Brett @Mavic_Chen Visit our website: AlhambraPodcast.weebly.com
Toby Hadoke finds another new interviewee to talk about their time on TV Doctor Who, all as part of his challenge to speak to someone involved in every Doctor Who story in the show's first 53 years!
Episode 83 of the Doctor Who: Alhambra Podcast, with Brett, Liam, and Humphrey, where we discuss the latest Doctor Who and Big Finish news. When we get into the reviews, we discuss July's Torchwood One: Machines; BF Originals - Jeremiah Bourne in Time;The First Doctor Adventures Vol. 2; & Callan Vol. 1. August's releases we discuss and review: MR #241 Red Planets; Bernice Summerfield: Treasury; Torchwood: Deadbeat Escape; Spin-Off series Lady Christina & Class Volume 1 and 2. A long discussion regarding why Class went off the air, and Liam praising it saying it's not that bad. Stay tuned for our next podcasts: Episode 83: The Barry Letts era vs The Philip Hinchcliffe era Episode 84: Doctor Who news & August Big Finish Reviews Please give the show some feedback through tweets & email. Please email the show at: alhambraaudio@gmail.com Tweet the show: @AlhambraPodcast Tweet the hosts: Liam @djNezumi or Brett @Mavic_Chen Visit our website: AlhambraPodcast.weebly.com
In episode 82 of the Doctor Who: Alhambra Podcast, Brett, Liam, and Humphrey listen to some of the "best of" SDCC Doctor Who panel. Brett and Liam have some concerns regarding one of actors. Our discussion moves on the actors that have portrayed previous Doctors and companions that revel their roles, as well as those who looked at the series as a means to collect a paycheck. We end the podcast looking at good or odd Doctor/Companion mash-ups. Stay tuned for our next podcasts: Episode 83: The Barry Letts era vs The Philip Hinchcliffe era Episode 84: Doctor Who news & August Big Finish Reviews Please give the show some feedback through tweets & email. Please email the show at: alhambraaudio@gmail.com Tweet the show: @AlhambraPodcast Tweet the hosts: Liam @djNezumi or Brett @Mavic_Chen Visit our website: AlhambraPodcast.weebly.com
In episode 81 of the Doctor Who: Alhambra Podcast, Brett, Liam, and Humphrey take a look at two of Doctor Who's most controversial show runners, John Nathan-Turner and Steven Moffat. We discuss each eras Doctors, Sonic Screw Drivers, companions that each show runner introduced, villains they both show runners used in their eras, and finally Anniversary/Multi-Doctor story comparisons. Stay tuned for our next podcasts: Episode 82: The Barry Letts era vs The Philip Hinchcliffe era Episode XX: Audio Focus of The Doctor's Daughter Episode XX: Doctor Who news & August Big Finish Reviews Please give the show some feedback through tweets & email. Please email the show at: alhambraaudio@gmail.com Tweet the show: @AlhambraPodcast Tweet the hosts: Liam @djNezumi or Brett @Mavic_Chen Visit our website: AlhambraPodcast.weebly.com
Deemed by the guys a little too niche for a regular episode, in this Doctor Who Show Presents... Dave takes Rob on a short trip through the Virgin New Adventures (1991-1997), and to a lesser extent, the Virgin Missing Adentures (1994-1997), with a mention of the Featuring Bernice Summerfield line of books (1997-1999). A future episode will see Rob taking Dave through the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (1997-2005) and the BBC Past Doctor Adventures (1997-2005). Stay tuned for that in the months ahead. Timewyrm: Genesys, Timewyrm: Exodus, Timewyrm: Apocalypse, Timewyrm: Revelation, Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible, Cat's Cradle: Warhead, Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark, Nightshade, Love and War, Transit, The Highest Science, The Pit, Deceit, Lucifer Rising, White Darkness, Shadowmind, Birthright, Iceberg, Blood Heat, The Dimension Riders, The Left-Handed Hummingbird, Conundrum, No Future, Tragedy Day, Legacy, Theatre of War, All-Consuming Fire, Blood Harvest, Strange England, First Frontier, St Anthony's Fire, Falls the Shadow, Parasite, Warlock, Set Piece, Infinite Requiem, Sanctuary, Human Nature, Original Sin, Sky Pirates!, Zamper, Toy Soldiers, Head Games, The Also People, Shakedown, Just War, Warchild, Sleepy, Death and Diplomacy, Happy Endings, GodEngine, Christmas on a Rational Planet, Return of the Living Dad, The Death of Art, Damaged Goods, So Vile a Sin, Bad Therapy, Eternity Weeps, The Room With No Doors, Lungbarrow, The Dying Days Goth Opera, Evolution, Venusian Lullaby, The Crystal Bucephalus, State of Change, The Romance of Crime, The Ghosts of N-Space, Time of Your Life, Dancing the Code, The Menagerie, System Shock, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Invasion of the Cat-People, Managra, Millennial Rites, The Empire of Glass, Lords of the Storm, Downtime, The Man in the Velvet Mask, The English Way of Death, The Eye of the Giant, The Sands of Time, Killing Ground, The Scales of Injustice, The Shadow of Weng-Chiang, Twilight of the Gods, Speed of Flight, The Plotters, Cold Fusion, Burning Heart, A Device of Death, The Dark Path, The Well-Mannered War Andrew Cartmel, Andrew Hunt, Andy Lane, Barry Letts, Ben Aaronovitch, Christopher Bulis, Craig Hinton, Daniel Blythe, Daniel O'Mahony, Dave Stone, David A. McIntee, David Banks, Gareth Roberts, Gary Russell, Jim Mortimore, John Peel, Justin Richards, Kate Orman, Lance Parkin, Lawrence Miles, Marc Platt, Mark Gatiss, Martin Day, Matthew Jones, Neil Penswick, Nigel Robinson, Paul Cornell, Paul Leonard, Peter Darvill-Evans, Russell T. Davies, Simon Bucher-Jones, Simon Messingham, Stephen Marley, Steve Lyons, Terrance Dicks
In this episode of the Doctor Who: Alhambra Podcast, Brett focuses on the two audio commentaries on episode 1 of Sea Devils (classic Doctor Who) release #62. The focus is the DVD Sea Devil commentary, featuring former crew for the 3rd Doctor: producer - Barry Letts; script editor - Terrance Dicks; Sea Devils director - Michael E. Bryant, as well as the free Fantom Publishing gift from last Christmas featuring the talented Toby Hadoke as the moderator & Katy Manning who played Jo Grant. Here is the link to the Fantom Publishing Soundcloud commentary, which is a great gift to all Doctor Who fans. https://soundcloud.com/fantompublishing/who-talk-free-festive-download-the-sea-devils-with-katy-manning Please give the show some feedback through tweets & email. Subscribe to the show on Stitcher http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/doctor-who-alhambra-podcast TuneIn http://tunein.com/radio/Doctor-Who-Alhambra-Podcast-p891406/ Poddirectory http://poddirectory.com/podcast/17156/doctor-who-the-alhambra-podcast Please email the show at: alhambraaudio@gmail.com Tweet the show: @AlhambraPodcast Tweet the hosts: Liam @djNezumi or Brett @Mavic_Chen Visit our website: AlhambraPodcast.weebly.com
Today, we dive into the incredible and singular run of the Third Doctor, Jon Pertwee, with the wild, wacky, and wonderful 1971 serial “The Daemons,” by Barry Letts and Robert Sloman (writing under the joint pseudonym “Guy Leopold”). The last serial in the season that introduced Roger Delgado's iconic Master, and featured him in every one of the year's stories, “The Daemons” closes Season 8 on an action-packed high note, with one of the most thrilling, creative, and straight-up entertaining stories Doctor Who would ever tell. And it features the entire Third Doctor gang, including companion Jo Grant (Katy Manning), Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (Nicholas Courtney), and UNIT soldiers Sergeant Benton (John Levene) and Captain Mike Yates (Richard Frankling). In addition to “The Daemons,” we also talk about the entire Third Doctor era up to that point, and all the ways it distinguishes itself from other periods in the show's history. If you haven't been following along yet, this is a great place to start. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel! Subscribe for free to 'The Weekly Stuff' in iTunes! Follow Jonathan Lack on Twitter! Follow Sean Chapman on Twitter!
Toby Hadoke provides today's free download and podcast, tracking down another person involved in Doctor Who's 54 years of TV history!
"Who de 'eck arr you?" New-to-Who Ed joins Colin, Daniel, and Steven for THE TERROR OF THE AUTONS , where the Third Doctor meets his companion, Jo Grant, for the first time while we are introduced to the Master, who plans to take over the world with the aid of an army of plastic men! This is the story where the formula for what Doctor Who is today can be traced back to, and is written by Robert Holmes for the Barry Letts and Terrance Dicks production team. The cover painting for the original imprint of the Doctor Who Target novelisation, THE TERROR OF THE AUTONS by Terrance Dicks, is by Peter Brookes. © all original music copyright New To Who 2016
He's back! And it's about Time ! Toby Hadoke seeks out a fresh interviewee to kick off a new run of podcasts focusing on the many heroes both in front and behind the camera on the first 53 years of Doctor Who...
It's Friday, and it's time for a brand new free podcast and download from Toby Hadoke, who has sought out the actor behind a couple of notable Doctor Who villains for a conversation today...
0:00:00 Theme tune & Doctor Who chat with Rob @theDWshow and David @DkWedgetail – David's finished his New Adventures collection, leading to a discussion of the NAs, Target novels, the cost of postage from the UK, Doctor Who Magazine and collecting in general. – Rob's watched Tom Baker in The Hound of the Baskervilles from 1982, also featuring Barry Letts as Producer, Terrance Dicks as Script Editor and Caroline John as Laura Lyons. – The rise and rise of Madman Entertainment. – David's watched some episode of THE DALEK MASTERPLAN and has some thoughts for fans on sitting back and just enjoying a good story. – Star Trek is 50 years old and David's wondering what the world would be like if there were missing episodes of the original era of Star Trek, in the same way Doctor Who is still missing episodes. – Class. David digs up some new information on the show and even tunes into a repeat of a live stream Q&A that reveals quite a bit of news about the forthcoming series, including Peter Capaldi's role. – Steven Moffat denies John Barrowman claim he's blocking the return of Torchwood to television. Is there a backlash against Barrowman, and is there a difference in attitudes depending on the country? – POWER OF THE DALEKS. What did we get right and wrong from Episode 8? Is it in colour? Has the omnirumour taken a battering over it? – Karen Gillan's costume in Jumanji starts a controversy. Is it sexist? How is it different to Lara Croft's? What is the context in the film, anyway? Even the Rock has to get involved. – Listener email from John Hole. Discussion of which Australian locations and actors would be appropriate for Doctor Who. – Listener question from Rob at 42 to Doomsday. “Name the encounter with a Doctor Who actor/production member that still gives you the happiest memories and why.” Rob tells a Katy Manning anecdote and David relates a story about Sophie Aldred. Plus more memories. 0:42:18 The Doctor Who A-Z – Part 8 ‘H' by Iain @theIainMartin 0:53:36 The Letter Lords – Jim @KrynoidPodCast & Bob @BoFleming discuss letters, texts and tweets sent to Doctor Who Magazine as well as the wider magazine itself 1:28:55 Outro to the show by Rob @theDWshow 1:31:25 End Credits. Write to us at hello@theDWshow.net
A new month, but Toby Hadoke keeps on relentless tracking down people from Doctor Who's first 52 years on TV to talk to for free downloads and podcasts...
A new month, a new Friday, and a new free download and podcast from Toby Hadoke, as he interviews another guest involved in the first 52 years of Doctor Who on television...
The Blue Box Podcast - Episode 211: Barry Letts and Terence Dicks Brought to you every Saturday by Starburst Columnist - JR Southall, Lee Rawlings, Mark Cockram and Simon Brett.
Comedian, actor and TV encyclopaedia Toby Hadoke provides another free podcast & download, where he talks to a new guest about their work on Doctor Who, and their career beyond it...
Here's the latest free podcast and download from Toby Hadoke, as he tracks down another figure from the first 50 years of televisual Doctor Who, and gets a view on their part in the show, as well as their career as a whole...
Actor, comedian and TV raconteur Toby Hadoke spent 2013 travelling the country to track down people associated with the first 50 TV years of Doctor Who. Each resulting interview is presented here as a free podcast or download, with this one being one of the very last of his 2013 mission...
Here's the latest free podcast from Toby Hadoke - a man tasked with a year-long journey to track down and talk to someone associated with every single Doctor Who story from the show's first 50 years...
Toby's guests in his quest across 50 years of Doctor Who's television history come from a wide variety of roles both in front and behind the camera, giving us their time for these free podcasts...
In over fifty years of televised Doctor Who, a huge number of talented people have worked both in front of and behind cameras. Comedian, actor and TV aficionado Toby Hadoke is working on tracking down people associated with every story and turning each conversation into a free podcast:
Toby Hadoke tracks down a familiar name from Doctor Who credits of a certain period, in his journey to speak to someone involved with every Doctor Who story of the show's first 50 years...
Syndrome was a pretty good villain. Oh wait we’re talking Daleks. This week Kiyan and Dylan begin the end of the beginning eras of Doctor Who. If that makes sense. Well basically they’re coming to the end of the Third Doctor’s era, and it’s pretty clearly running down. Terrance Dicks, Barry Letts, and Jon PertweeContinue reading →
Interesting that dor and taur sound similar but are spelled differently. This week Kiyan and Dylan work towards a new more witty episode…. No totally kidding, they just watched a witty serial. Said witty serial happened to be The Time Monster, written by Robert Sloman (with uncredited additions by Barry Letts), which aired in May andContinue reading →
Join actor, comedian and Toby Hadoke on the next part of his mission to interview someone involved with every single one of the stories from Doctor Who's first 50 years on television!
The Enemy of the World is the fourth of the of the British series , which originally aired in six weekly parts from 23 December 1967 to 27 January 1968. The story is a break from the monsters and "bases under siege" of season five, highlighted by a dual role for lead actor . Believed to be mostly lost for decades, with only Episode 3 surviving destruction, the recovery of the remaining episodes was announced by the on 11 October 2013, with the complete serial released to iTunes at midnight the same day, alongside , which had also been recovered save for one episode. Contents [] Plot[] This article's plot summary may be or. Please by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. (October 2010) The , and are enjoying themselves on a beach in Australia in 2018 when the Doctor is subject to an assassination attempt. The controller of the would-be assassins, an agent named Astrid Ferrier, rescues them by helicopter. She takes them to her boss Giles Kent. It seems the Doctor is the physical double of Salamander, a ruthless megalomaniac who is dominating the United Zones Organisation. Salamander has ascended to power via exploiting new technology to yield more food, concentrating and harnessing the sun's rays to generate more crops, but is set on increasing his power. When Kent, who was once Deputy Security Leader for North Africa and Europe, crossed Salamander, the dictator ruined him and removed his various allies. The only remaining Kent ally with any authority is Alexander Denes in Central Europe. The Doctor is persuaded to impersonate Salamander as a way of gathering more information on his designs. His first test comes when Kent's home is surrounded by security troops and their leader, Security Chief Donald Bruce, arrives. Bruce is a bully who intimidates those in his path, but the Doctor's impersonation is strong enough to persuade him that he is Salamander – even though the real Salamander is supposed to be at a conference in the Central European Zone. Bruce leaves, albeit with suspicion, while the Doctor turns on Kent, realising he called Bruce there himself to test the impersonation. The Doctor is not yet convinced Salamander is a villain, but Kent presses ahead with a plan. Jamie, Victoria, and Astrid are to infiltrate Salamander's retinue while he's still in the Central European zone, via Denes' support, and gather evidence on Salamander. Meanwhile, Kent and the Doctor will travel to Salamander's research station in Kanowa to gather intelligence there. The real Salamander, in the Central European Zone, warns that a dormant volcano range in Hungary is about to explode. Denes does not believe this is possible and resist the calls to send pre-emptive relief. Jamie, Victoria, and Astrid have by now reached the Central European Zone. Jamie is to try to infiltrate Leader Salamander's retinue, while Astrid contacts Denes for a meeting. Jamie manages to get himself promoted to Salamander's personal staff by preventing a bogus attempt on the Leader's life, and also ensures Victoria is given a position as assistant to Salamander's personal chef. When Astrid meets Denes she tells him of the two spies who have entered the Leader's staff. Salamander now works on Denes' deputy, Fedorin, to turn him against Denes. Fedorin is a weak man and gives in to Salamander's blackmail easily, but is scared when he hears the prediction that Denes will soon be killed and Salamander will be asked to take over the Zone following the imminent natural disaster. On cue an earthquake begins as the promised volcanic eruption starts. Donald Bruce arrives but is unable to mention the Salamander in Australia issue before Denes returns to the palace too, blaming Salamander for somehow engineering the volcano. Salamander responds by saying Denes failed to heed his warnings on the volcanoes and is thus negligent and must be removed from office. Denes is arrested and Salamander now tells Fedorin to poison him before he can be brought to trial and repeat his allegations. When Fedorin fails to do so, Salamander uses the poison on him instead. Donald Bruce has meanwhile started to have serious suspicions about the situation. He evidently does not trust Salamander, and tries unsuccessfully to get Jamie to explain the Australia incident. Another man with suspicions is Theodore Benik, Salamander's unpleasant deputy, who has heard from Bruce that Salamander was supposed to be in two places at one time. He visits and intimidates Giles Kent, but the Doctor stays hidden while the unsolicited visitor is there destroying Kent's property. Jamie and Victoria meanwhile use their new roles in the palace to get close to Fariah, Salamander's food taster, hoping to gather information on the Leader's intentions. Jamie also causes a diversion to try to facilitate a rescue attempt on Denes by Astrid. However, things fall apart and Denes is shot dead. Though Astrid escapes, Jamie and Victoria are arrested. This prompts Bruce to ask Salamander in private about his relationship with Jamie and his presence with him and Kent in Australia – which prompts Salamander to decide to return to Kanowa immediately and unmask the impersonator. Astrid returns to Australia too and contacts the Doctor and Kent to tell them of the outcome of the botched rescue attempt. Fariah has followed Astrid and makes contact with her, Kent and the Doctor, telling them that Jamie and Victoria have been brought as prisoners to the Kanowa Research Centre. Fariah also hands over the file made by Salamander to blackmail Fedorin - which finally convinces the Doctor of Salamander's evil. However, before they can act, the building is raided by Benik and his troops and Fariah is killed and the file recovered. The others escape. Salamander, Benik and Bruce meet at the Centre and realise the severity of the situation. When he is alone, Salamander dons a radiation suit and enters a secret lift, which transports him to a secret bunker below the Centre. In the bunker are scientists who believe Salamander has just ventured to the surface of the allegedly irradiated planet to look for food. He claims to have found a safe new food stock to sustain them after their five years below ground. He also urges them to continue fighting the war against the surface by using technology to create natural disasters. Most of the scientists accept this but one, Colin, urges Salamander to take him to the surface the next time, even though no one who has accompanied Salamander there has ever returned. When the Doctor and his friends return to Kent's caravan they are soon discovered by Donald Bruce, who has traced their car. Bruce affirms he is a servant of the world government, not Salamander, and shows he can be persuaded by the case that the Leader is, in Astrid's words, a traitor, blackmailer and murderer. The Doctor and Bruce reach a deal: they will travel to the Research Centre where the Doctor will impersonate Salamander to gain more evidence, while Kent and Astrid are kept under guard; but if no evidence is found they will all be arrested for conspiracy. Bruce and the Doctor leave and shortly afterward Kent and Astrid escape their captor by means of a ruse. In the shelter the promised new food has arrived and the scientists unpack it. However, one of them, Swann, finds a stray newspaper clipping and realises there is normal life on the surface rather than the continuing nuclear war they had all been told. He confronts Salamander, who agrees to take him to the surface to show him the world is now full of hideous, depraved mutants and their actions in causing natural disasters are helping to wipe them out. Swann is unmoved but agrees to go the surface without revealing his concerns. This incenses Colin, another scientist who had been told he might get to the surface soon. Above ground Benik has begun interrogating Jamie and Victoria. He gets menacing and is only stopped when Bruce and the fake Salamander arrive, sending Benik away. While the travellers are reunited, deepening Bruce's trust of the Doctor, Benik discovers from a guard that Salamander does not seem to have returned from the records room. The Doctor now obtains evidence that the food supplies for the Research Centre vastly exceed the expected amount of supplies needed. He heads off alone and accesses the Records Room, where he impersonates Salamander. A visitor soon arrives – Giles Kent – who has a key to the secret room and knows much more of Salamander's plans than he ever let on. In the grounds of the research centre Astrid finds Swann. He has been bludgeoned by Salamander and is close to death but manages to tell her of the bunker below before he passes away. She now uses the secret lift to access the bunker and with some difficulty explains the truth to the scientists. Colin is the first to believe her and he and Mary join Astrid in the small lift for its journey to the surface. When they reach the Records Room, they encounter the Doctor and Kent – and the latter is denounced as the person who took them all below ground in the first place. It seems that Kent and Salamander were allies all along, and the Doctor reveals he had been slow to support Kent because he feared all along he was being used just to topple Salamander for Kent to take over. Kent manages to flee into the cave system beyond the Records Room. Donald Bruce has meanwhile asserted his authority and taken over the Research Centre, arresting Benik in the process. The Doctor contacts Bruce and tells him of the situation, after which the Doctor himself heads into the tunnels to seek out Kent and Salamander. The two felons have met, with Salamander fatally wounding his one-time ally, who seeks revenge by blowing up the cave system. Astrid co-ordinates the relief effort to get the other scientists out of the shelter The Doctor, who has emerged unscathed from the tunnels, arrives on the beach with the . Jamie and Victoria are waiting for him there and he pleads exhaustion when they enter the ship, asking Jamie to pilot it for him instead. Jamie's suspicions are proved true when the real Doctor arrives and denounces Salamander's impersonation of him. The dictator responds by activating the dematerialisation control and the TARDIS heads away from Earth with its doors still open. Salamander is sucked out into the vortex while the others cling onto the TARDIS console for dear life. Continuity[] In Episode 2, the Doctor says, 'disused Yeti?' after mishearing Astrid's comment about a disused jetty. This refers to his experience with the Yeti in .[] A single shot of Jamie from this story is used when the character is seen, along with a number of other companions, as the Daleks attempt to scan the 's mind in .[] Production[] Serial details by episode EpisodeBroadcast dateRun timeViewers(in millions)Archive "Episode 1" 23 December 1967 23:45 6.8 16mm t/r "Episode 2" 30 December 1967 23:48 7.6 16mm t/r "Episode 3" 6 January 1968 23:05 7.1 16mm t/r "Episode 4" 13 January 1968 23:46 7.8 16mm t/r "Episode 5" 20 January 1968 24:22 6.9 16mm t/r "Episode 6" 27 January 1968 21:41 8.3 16mm t/r This was the last story to be produced under the aegis of Doctor Who creator , who left his position as at the BBC upon the expiration of his contract at the end of 1967. The four key production roles for this story were all taken by men heavily involved in the development of Doctor Who. Author had been the show's first Script Editor; , directing the show for the first time, later became the show's producer (for the majority of the era), executive producer, and occasional script writer; Script Editor became the show's producer from the next story; was the show's current producer, but left after this story. Much like the serial , this serial was influenced by the lead actor's desire to play roles other than the Doctor. Initially, it was planned that Troughton's two characters would meet more than once, but due to the technical complexity, there was eventually only the one confrontation scene, at the story's climax (utilising editing and a split-screen technique). Barry Letts planned six shots. He called for a to mask half of the camera lens, having read about the technique used for old films. The film was rewound after the first take and Troughton was then filmed in his other costume. However, after the first such shot, the camera jammed, and no more split-screen takes were filmed. Later, Letts mentioned this to, director of the , who brought Letts up to date with the contemporary technology of filming normally then using an to combine the material. British television's shift from 405-line technology to 625-line, in preparation for colour transmissions, went into effect for Doctor Who as of Episode 1 of this serial. Originally, Episode 3 was the only episode of this story to survive in the BBC archives, while Episode 4 was one of the few Doctor Who for which, for unknown reasons, no were taken. On 11 October 2013, the announced that the remaining five episodes had been recovered from a in following search efforts, making the serial complete in the BBC television archives for the first time since the mass junkings of Doctor Who episodes between 1972 and 1978. It was subsequently released on iTunes at midnight. Cast notes[] This section does not any . Please help improve this section by. Unsourced material may be challenged and .(November 2013) Frazer Hines and Deborah Watling did not appear in episode 4, as they were on holiday. Milton Johns later appeared as Guy Crayford in , and Castellan Kelner in . Colin Douglas later played Reuben in . George Pravda later played Jaeger in and Castellan Spandrell in . Troughton's son makes his first Doctor Who appearance as an uncredited extra. His later appearances in the series would be as Private Moore, as King Peladon and finally as Professor Hobbes in the revived series. Christopher Burgess (Swann) also appeared as Professor George Philips in Terror of the Autons and Barnes in Planet of the Spiders. Andrew Staines (Sergeant to Benik) also appeared in Terror of the Autons (as Goodge), Carnival of Monsters (as the Captain) and Planet of the Spiders (as Keaver). Commercial releases[] In print[] book Doctor Who and the Enemy of the World Series Release number 24 Writer Publisher Cover artist ISBN Release date 17 April 1981 A novelisation of this serial, written by , was published by in March 1981, entitled Doctor Who and the Enemy of the World. David Whitaker had been working on his own version of the novelisation at the time of his death. Home media[] Episode 3 was released on in The Troughton Years. A restored and version was released on in 2004, as part of the boxset. In 2002, a remastered CD version of the audio was released with linking narration by Frazer Hines. See . Following the October 2013 recovery of the remaining episodes, the complete serial was released on iTunes on 11 October 2013. Following its release it shared the top two spots on the iTunes download chart for TV serials with following and also newly recovered serial The Web of Fear, above and . A DVD was released on 25 November 2013. Unlike previous Doctor Who DVDs, this release contained no commentaries, information text or other special features, merely the restored episodes and a "Coming Next" trailer for The Web of Fear. The Region 4 release does not feature the coming soon trailer. References[] ^ Berriman, Ian (11 October 2013). . SFX. Bath: Future Publishing Limited. Retrieved 11 October 2013. ^ . Doctor Who TV. 11 October 2013. Retrieved 11 October 2013. . Doctor Who Reference Guide. Retrieved 2008-08-30. Sullivan, Shannon (2005-05-10). . A Brief History of Time Travel. Retrieved 2008-08-30. ^ Barry Letts, Who and Me[] , "Season 5, In Production: Heroes and Villains," Special Edition #4, 4 June 2003 (The Complete Second Doctor), , p. 37, col. 2. . 2013-10-11. Retrieved 2013-11-18. . Seenit.co.uk. London: MayorWatch Publications Limited. 11 October 2013. Retrieved 2013-10-22. 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As we turn the corner into October in this 50th anniversary year of Doctor Who, the Three Who Rule reach the halfway point in their odyssey of covering the eras of each producer of the classic series in the Miniscope. This week, the Barry Letts epoch is the focus, a five year stretch of classic episodes that vaulted Doctor Who from a Saturday tea-time tradition to a British television institution. A lifelong fan of the era, Gary Russell, who has been involved with the show in many ways since the early 1980s, joins us to discuss the many strengths of Lett's time on the show. Steven, Warren, and Chris also reunite to discuss the news of the week, including details of a worldwide simulcast of The Day of the Doctor, which were announced earlier this week. Fun and exciting! Check out the show notes at http://www.radiofreeskaro.com
During a storm that whips through the village of Devil's End in , a dog gets away from its owner. He pursues it into a graveyard, only to encounter something unseen and die. The local doctor says that it was a , but Olive Hawthorne, the local , insists that the man died of fright. She has cast the runes, and there is evil afoot. Near the village, an archaeological dig is excavating the infamous Devil's Hump, a . The dig is being covered by Three. The interviewer, Alistair Fergus, speaks to the cantankerous Professor Horner, who claims that the Hump holds the treasure and tomb of a warrior chieftain, and that he plans to open the tomb at the stroke of midnight on April 30, the festival of . The television coverage is being watched by the and at . While the Doctor scoffs at Jo's notions of the coming of the and the , he feels that something is wrong with the dig. On the television, they see Olive go to the dig to protest, warning of great evil and the coming of the horned one, but she is dismissed as a crank. The Doctor tells Jo that Olive Hawthorne is right — the dig must be stopped, and they start off to Devil's End. Olive returns to the village, and a strong wind whips up out of nowhere. She raises her hands to dismiss it, not knowing that the local , PC Groom, has gone into a trance behind her and is about to strike her with a stone. The wind dies down as she chants, and PC Groom regains his senses before he lands the blow. Olive then goes to see the , but he has been mysteriously replaced with a new one, Rev. Magister. Magister — actually — tries to assure her that her fears are unfounded, but his fails to overcome Olive's will, and she says she will find someone who will believe her. The Doctor and Jo, driving to Devil's End, get lost when a wind spins a signpost and points them in the wrong direction. Over at the Hump, tempers start to flare for no reason. When the Doctor and Jo stop by the village to get directions, one of the villagers goes and informs the Master of the Doctor's presence. The Master tells him to get dressed for the ceremony. On the way to the Hump, the Doctor's car, Bessie, is blocked by a fallen tree. Unable to budge it, the Doctor and Jo rush to the mound on foot. The Master, dressed in ceremonial robes and with a coven of thirteen acolytes, starts a summoning ritual in the church catacombs. As his chanting grows more frenzied, the Doctor and Jo reach the mound and the Doctor rushes inside to stop Horner, but it is too late. The tomb door opens and icy gusts of wind rush out and the ground begins to shake, toppling the camera crew and even the coven in the catacombs. The Master laughs triumphantly and calls the entity's name — , and the eyes of a , , flare with a reddish glow. Jo enters the mound to find Horner and the Doctor motionless, covered with frost. Horner is dead, and the Doctor seems dead as well. The Master uses a knife to indicate a stone covered in ritual markings as the "appointed place", dismissing the coven. Back at UNIT, and were watching the end of the broadcast as it went dead. They try to find out what's going on while attempting to contact the , who had earlier gone for a night at the opera. Meanwhile, the village doctor discovers that the Doctor may not be entirely dead after all, but is puzzled when he hears the beating of two hearts. Jo telephones Yates, who tells her he will be there by helicopter in the morning, just as the line is cut off from the outside. The Master prays in the church as Jo watches over the still unconscious Doctor in the pub. At the dig, the ground shakes and the constable on duty sees something gigantic with heavy footsteps, and falls. In the morning, Yates and Benton fly by to Devil's End, and see burn marks on the fields before the village that resemble enormous footprints. Once in Devil's End, Benton decides to look around the village while Yates finally manages to contact the Brigadier, who is not pleased that Yates has commandeered his helicopter, and calls for a car. Benton, looking around in the church, finds Olive trapped in a cupboard, where the Master's , Garvin, had locked her. Down in the cellar to hide from Garvin, she tells Benton about Magister. Garvin comes down with a , and Benton tries to disarm him. In the ensuing fight, Benton falls on the marked stone and seizes up. Garvin holds both of them at gunpoint and moves them outside, just as the ground starts to shake. Garvin fires up at something gigantic, but is engulfed in a fireball. The heat wave extends even into the village, knocking Jo and Yates down, just as the Doctor awakens with a start. Olive and Benton make their way back to the pub, and the Doctor discusses the incident with Olive, who says that she saw the , 30 feet high and with horns. The Doctor is told of the new vicar, and realises who is behind this, as "Magister" is for "Master". The Brigadier finds himself unable to enter the village, as there is a barrier surrounding it that causes anything trying to enter to heat up and burst into flame. He contacts Yates and is briefed on the situation while the Doctor and Jo return to the dig, an act the Master seems to be able to sense. They find the constable dead and a small in the mound the same shape as the Hump. Jo tries to lift it but cannot, as the Doctor explains that it weighs 750 tons. Suddenly, Bok leaps into the tent covering the entrance to the tomb, about to attack. The Doctor wards him off with some words in a strange language and an iron trowel. The Doctor explains to Jo that it was actually the words of a lullaby — it was the gargoyle's own superstition that drove it back. The Master, in the meantime, hypnotises the , Winstanley, as Olive and the Doctor debate about whether it is magic or science that is at work here. The Brigadier discovers that the heat shield is dome shaped, centred on the church, with a radius of ten miles out and one mile high. The Doctor shows the others pictures of various and from Olive's occult and history book collection, and explains that the creature Olive saw was an , one of the Dæmons from the planet Dæmos, 60,000 away, who came to one hundred thousand years before. The small spaceship's actual size is 200 feet long and 30 feet across, and the heat and cold waves they have been experiencing are the result of the energy displaced when the ship shrinks or grows. The Doctor further explains that the Dæmons have influenced Earth throughout its history, becoming part of human , and see the planet as a giant experiment. The Master has called the Dæmon up once, and right now, it is so small as to be invisible. The third summoning, however, could signal the end of the experiment, and the world. The Brigadier contacts Yates and says he is about to try attacking the heat shield from the air. The Doctor warns him not to, saying that it would only strengthen it, and suggests they use a diathermic energy exchanger. When UNIT technician Osgood fails to understand what the Doctor is getting at, he says he will come out and explain. When he does so, Tom Girton, one the villagers working with Master, hijacks the UNIT helicopter and uses it to attack the Doctor. The Doctor manages to swerve Bessie out of the way and the helicopter explodes against the heat shield. As the Doctor relates his instructions to Osgood, who protests that it goes against the laws of physics, the Master summons Azal again. A heat wave and an once again sweeps through the village as Azal curses the Master for daring to summon him again. The Master tries to dismiss Azal with an iron candlestick holder, but it does not seem to work. He demands that Azal give him the power that is his right, but Azal warns him that he is not the Master's servant. Azal also senses the presence of another like the Master, and wants to speak to the Doctor to see if he is worthy to take over the world. Azal says on his third appearance, he will decide if Earth deserves to continue existing. If so, he will give it to the Master. Azal then vanishes in another heat wave. After explaining the process of creating the exchanger to Osgood, the Doctor returns to the village. However, the Master's agents are at work, and he is soon captured by a mob of villagers and tied up to a , about to be burned alive. Olive goes to the mob and tells them that the Doctor is a mighty , and with some help from Benton's and a remote controlled Bessie, convinces the mob that the Doctor does indeed have magical powers. Jo and Mike, meanwhile, have returned to the church cellar and watch, hidden, as the Master gathers his coven to summon Azal one last time. Jo tries to interrupt the ritual, but it is too late. With another rush of heat, Azal manifests himself and Jo and Yates are taken prisoner. Outside, the Doctor explains that to the now calmer villagers that his "magic" was due to science, and so is the Master's trickery. The rituals are merely used to focus the psychokinetic energy of humans that the Master needs to summon the Dæmons. As Jo is prepared as a sacrifice to Azal, the exchanger finally works and UNIT forces go through the gap created in the heat shield, but the gap only lasts a few minutes and the exchanger soon overloads. Mike manages to escape and tell the Doctor about Jo, but Bok is guarding the entrance to the catacombs. The use of the exchanger momentarily weakens Bok and Azal, and the Doctor manages to rush by the gargoyle. He makes it down to the cellar, where the Master is expecting him. Outside, UNIT troops start firing at Bok, who can disintegrate objects and people with a wave of his hand, but he is also bulletproof. Even a does not work, as the pieces of the gargoyle reform almost instantly. Inside the church, the Master makes his case to the Dæmon that he will rule the Earth experiment's people for their own good. The Doctor argues that Man should be given a chance to grow up. Azal finally decides to give his power to the Master, and fires at the Doctor to kill him. However, Jo, steps in front of the Doctor, asking Azal to kill her instead. This act of self-sacrifice does not make sense to Azal, and the confusion sends him into an agony. He shouts for all of them to leave as he is dying. Bok reverts to his stone form, and as everyone runs out of the church, it blows up. The Master tries to escape in Bessie, but the Doctor's remote control brings the car back, and the Master is taken into custody, to be put in maximum security. Olive Hawthorne hears the sound of bird songs and the smell of flowers once again, as the Earth is reborn each . Olive takes Benton to dance around the with the rest of the townsfolk, while Yates and the Brigadier go off to the pub for a drink. The Doctor and Jo join the dance, as the May Day celebrations continue and the Doctor remarks to Jo that perhaps there is magic in the world after all. Continuity The television news programme filmed at Devil's End was depicted as broadcast on a fictional channel called BBC Three. Since 2003, has been an actual digital BBC channel. The Doctor uses the words of a Venusian lullaby to ward off Bok. He uses the lullaby again in & , singing the words to a tune which is actually the "". is the title of a 1994 novel by featuring the . In the 2007 episode "", two sound clips from this story ("Destroy him!" & "Then you will give your power to me!") were used when professor Yana prepares to open his . Fan myths associated with this story include the rumour that there was a sixth episode where the Master escaped from UNIT, recalled Azal, and killed everyone in Devil's End including the Doctor. This was actually an joke in the fan magazine . Guy Leopold, who is credited with writing the story, is a pseudonym for Robert Sloman and Barry Letts. Production Serial details by episode EpisodeBroadcast dateRun timeViewership (in millions)Archive "Episode One" 22 May 1971 25:05 9.2 PAL D3 colour restoration "Episode Two" 29 May 1971 24:20 8.0 PAL D3 colour restoration "Episode Three" 5 June 1971 24:27 8.1 PAL D3 colour restoration "Episode Four" 12 June 1971 24:25 8.1 PAL 2" colour videotape "Episode Five" 19 June 1971 24:04 8.3 PAL D3 colour restoration Working titles for this story included The Demons. Much of the serial was filmed on location in , . The last episode of the story contains footage of a model church being blown up, the scene was realistic enough to lead many viewers to believe that the BBC had actually blown up a church as part of the filming. The BBC received a number of letters complaining about this. Cast notes Features an appearance by television presenter and puppeteer, . See also . Outside references The clip of the Brigadier's helicopter blowing up as it crashes into the heat shield is borrowed from the James Bond film . Many have noted the similarities between this story's plot and that of the 1958 BBC serial and 1967 film . Both involve the unearthing of an extraterrestrial spaceship, an alien race that has interfered with human evolution and is the basis for legends of devils, demons and witchcraft, and places with "devilish" names - Devil's End in this case, and in Pit. The Master actually (and possibly deliberately) misquotes the occultist at one point saying "To do my will shall be the whole of the law". Crowley is famous for the similar "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law." The incantation that uses in summoning Azal is actually the nursery rhyme "" said backwards. The Doctor is briefly given the alias of "the Great Wizard Qui Quae Quod." This is actually the masculine, feminine, and neuter forms of the relative pronoun "who", in . At one point the Doctor refers to the laws of aerodynamics proving that bumble bees should be incapable of flight, which is an urban legend. Broadcast and reception The story was repeated on BBC One as a condensed omnibus edition over Christmas 1971 (28/12/71 at 4.20pm). The omnibus's opening credits gave the title as Doctor Who and the Dæmons. The closing credits used were for those of episode 5, necessitating the BBC1 continuity announcer naming the cast and crew from earlier episodes. Of the original 625-line colour videotapes as an example of 1970s Doctor Who, all except Episode Four were wiped for reuse. However, a converted 525-line colour version recorded off-air from an broadcast was made available to the BBC. This version was abridged and unsuitable for transmission as it was not of broadcast standard (the original US recordings were made on a domestic Betamax VCR). In 1992 the colour signal from the NTSC tapes was used as the basis for restoring the colour to the of episodes one, two, three and five. These versions were subsequently repeated on on consecutive Fridays in November/December 1992 (20/11/92 to 18/12/92 at 7.15pm). Jon Pertwee stated numerous times over the years that this was his favourite Doctor Who serial. In 1993, Pertwee, along with several members of the cast and crew including , , and director returned to Aldbourne for the reunion documentary Return to Devil's End. Nicholas Courtney titled his 1998 volume of Five Rounds Rapid after a line from this story: “ Jenkins. Chap with the wings there. Five rounds rapid. ” Reviewing its DVD release, Ian Berriman of was more critical of the serial, giving it three and a half out of five stars. He derided it for being an "awful mess" with a plot that "doesn't make a shred of sense". Despite praising the "magnificent" characters of Hawthorne, Horner, and Fergus, he thought that other characters including the Doctor and the Master were "continually acting in a completely absurd way". In print book Doctor Who and the Dæmons Series Release number 15 Writer Publisher Cover artist ISBN Release date 17 October 1974 Preceded by ' Followed by ' A novelisation of this serial, written by , was published by in October 1974. There have been and editions. An unabridged reading of the novelisation by author Barry Letts was released on CD in August 2008 by BBC Audiobooks. VHS and DVD releases The final episode of this story was also issued as a b/w film recording on the VHS release The Pertwee Years, along with the final episodes of and In 1993, the episodes with restored colour (see "Broadcast and reception", above) were released on . A DVD of the serial was released on the 19th March 2012. References ; (1998). . Doctor Who: The Television Companion. London: . p. 211. . . Outpost Gallifrey. 2007-03-31. Archived from on 2008-05-18. Retrieved 2008-08-31. . Doctor Who Reference Guide. Retrieved 2008-08-31. Sullivan, Shannon (2008-08-31). . A Brief History of Time Travel. Retrieved 2008-08-31. ^ p196, Peter Haining, Doctor Who - A Celebration, W.H. Allen, 1983 . Doctor Who Classic Episode Guide. BBC. Retrieved 22 October 2009. John H. McMasters (March/April 1989). "The flight of the bumblebee and related myths of entomological engineering". 77: 146–169. cited in Jay Ingram (2001). The Barmaid's Brain. . pp. 91–92. . See also . Doctor Who: The Daemons (2012). BBC Warner DVD. ASIN: B0072BNJGC Berriman, Ian (17 March 2012). . SFX. Retrieved 6 April 2012. External links Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: at at at the Reviews reviews at reviews at
Reprinted from wikipedia with thanks and respect The Three Doctors is the first of the of the British series , first broadcast in four weekly parts from 30 December 1972 to 20 January 1973. The serial opened the tenth anniversary year of the series. Synopsis The of the is under siege, by an unknown force that by all accounts should not even exist. The only person who can help them is , but even he will need assistance – from his previous selves. [] Plot A signal is sent to , carrying with it an unusual energy blob that seems intent on capturing the . In the meantime, the homeworld of the is under siege, with all the power sustaining it being drained through a . Trapped and desperate, the Time Lords do the unthinkable and break the First Law of Time, allowing the Doctor to aid himself by summoning his two previous from the past. Unfortunately, the is trapped in a time eddy, unable to fully materialize, and can only communicate via viewscreen, but the joins the Third in investigating the origins of the creature and the black hole, while headquarters faces an attack by the gel-like alien creatures. The First Doctor deduces the black hole is a bridge between universes, and the other two Doctors allow the TARDIS to be swallowed up by the energy creature, which transports them, Dr Tyler, , and into an universe created by the legendary Time Lord . Omega was a solar engineer who created the that powers Time Lord civilization, but was considered killed in the explosion. In actuality, he had been transported to the antimatter universe, where his will and thought turned the formless matter into physicality. Trapped, due to the fact that his will is the only thing maintaining reality, he vowed revenge on the Time Lords who left him stranded. It is clear that the exile has made Omega quite insane. Along with his revenge, he has summoned the Doctors here to take over the mental maintenance of the antimatter universe so he can escape. However, the Doctors discover that years of exposure to the corrosive effects of the black hole's have destroyed Omega's physical body – he is trapped forever. Driven over the edge by this discovery, Omega now demands that the Doctors share his exile. The Doctors escape briefly, and offer Omega a proposition. They will give him his freedom if they send the others back to the positive matter universe. Omega agrees, and when that is done, the Doctors offer Omega a force field generator containing the Second Doctor's recorder, which had fallen in it prior to the transport through the black hole. Omega knocks the generator over in a rage and the unconverted positive matter recorder falls out of the force field. When the recorder comes into contact with the antimatter universe, it annihilates everything in a flash, returning the Doctors in the TARDIS to the positive matter universe. The Third Doctor explains that death was the only freedom anyone could offer Omega. With the power now restored to the Time Lords, they are able to send the First and Second Doctors back to their respective time periods. As a reward, the Time Lords give the Third Doctor a new dematerialization circuit for the TARDIS and restore his knowledge of how to travel through . [] Continuity Omega would return in the serial, (1983), the , the novel and the gamebook . The Chancellor is portrayed by Clyde Pollitt who had also played one of the Time Lords who tried and exiled the Second Doctor. Barry Letts states in the DVD commentary that this was intentional as he meant for this to be the same character. Similarly, Graham Leaman reappears as a Time Lord having been seen in the role in , discussing 's activities and their use of the exiled Doctor as an agent. The Brigadier refers to the (), the () and the (). The novel states that the First Doctor is taken out of time between the stories and but immediately before the novel. [] Production Serial details by episode EpisodeBroadcast dateRun timeViewership (in millions)Archive "Episode One" 30 December 1972 24:39 9.6 PAL 2" colour videotape "Episode Two" 6 January 1973 24:18 10.8 PAL 2" colour videotape "Episode Three" 13 January 1973 24:22 8.8 PAL 2" colour videotape "Episode Four" 20 January 1973 25:07 11.9 PAL 2" colour videotape Working titles for this story included The Black Hole. The script was originally supposed to feature all three Doctors equally, but William Hartnell was too ill to be able to play the full role as envisioned. He was, therefore, reduced to a pre-recorded , appearing only on the TARDIS's scanner and the space-time viewer of the Time Lords. It would be the last time he played the Doctor and his last acting role before his death in 1975. Hartnell's scenes were filmed at BBC's Ealing Studios and not in a garage or a garden shed as fan myth would have it. The serial's promotional photo shoot was the only time the three actors were shown together. The production team also planned for to reprise his role of alongside the Second Doctor; however, Hines was not available, due to his work on the soap opera . Much of the role originally intended for Jamie was reassigned to Sergeant Benton. [] Outside references Jo references The ' song "". [] In print A novelisation of this serial, written by , was published by in November 1975. The novelisation provides a rationale for Omega's realm to be a : over the millennia, Omega has become weary of the mental effort required to generate a verdant landscape and now makes do with rock and soil. The Second Doctor is referred to throughout as Doctor Two. In the book, Mr Ollis is renamed Mr Hollis. book The Three Doctors Series Release number 64 Writer Publisher Cover artist ISBN Release date 20 November 1975 Preceded by ' Followed by ' [] Broadcast, VHS and DVD releases The serial was repeated on BBC2 in November 1981, daily (Monday-Thursday) (23 November 1981 to 26 November 1981) at 5.40pm as part of "The Five Faces of Doctor Who". This story was released twice on , first in August 1991 and thereafter remastered and re-released in 2002 as part of the 's The Time Lord Collection boxed set. This story was released on in the UK in November 2003 as part of the Doctor Who 40th Anniversary Celebration releases, representing the Jon Pertwee years. Some copies came in a box set housing a limited edition model of , the Third Doctor's vintage roadster. A special edition of the DVD, with new bonus features, is to be released in the uk on 13 February 2012 in the third of the ongoing Revisitations DVD box sets. [] References Shaun Lyon et al. (2007-03-31). . Outpost Gallifrey. Archived from on 2008-05-18. Retrieved 2008-08-30. . Doctor Who Reference Guide. Retrieved 2008-08-30. Sullivan, Shannon (2007-08-07). . A Brief History of Time Travel. Retrieved 2008-08-30. ; ; (1995). . Doctor Who: The Discontinuity Guide. London: . p. 141. . Retrieved 2010-09-03. [] External links Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: at at at the Reviews reviews at reviews at Target novelisation reviews at
Taken from wikipedia with thanks and respect ay of the Daleks is a in the series , which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 1 January to 22 January 1972. Contents [] [] Synopsis Rebels from a future conquered by the travel to the 20th Century to prevent that from happening. But will their actions prevent that future, or make it inevitable? [] Plot This article's plot summary may be or . Please by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. (June 2011) Sir Reginald Styles, a British diplomat trying to organise a peace conference to avert , is in his study at the government-owned Auderly House when a soldier dressed in grey camouflage and wielding a futuristic looking bursts in and holds him at gunpoint. However, before the can fire, he vanishes, leaving Styles to shakily tell his secretary he has been visited by a . As the conference is of vital international importance, is called in. The have pulled out of the conference and Styles will be flying to to try to persuade them to rejoin, and nothing must interfere with the conference's success. However, when the , and the go over to Auderly House, Styles denies ever seeing the "ghost", even though the Doctor notes the presence of muddy footprints in the study. The guerrilla reappears on the grounds in a -like effect, but he is intercepted by two huge humanoid aliens, , who attack him and leave him for dead. UNIT soldiers discover the severely injured guerrilla and take him to the hospital while the Doctor examines his weapon and a small black box that was found in a nearby tunnel system. Styles leaves for Peking, while the Doctor discovers that the pistol, which is an disintegrator, is made of Earth materials, not alien, and that the box is a crude , complete with a miniature dematerialisation circuit. As he tries to activate it, the vortex effect appears again and the guerrilla vanishes from the . The temporal feedback circuit on the time machine also overloads — as the Doctor explains to the Brigadier, it has blown a . Since everything seems to be centred on Auderly House, the Doctor decides to spend the evening there. The night passes without incident, but in the day, three guerrillas appear from the time vortex — Anat, a woman who is in command of the mission, along with two men, Boaz and Shura. They come across a UNIT patrol and disintegrate the two soldiers while making their way to the house. In the study, the Doctor tries to reactivate the time machine, causing an alert to be sounded in the 22nd Century. Shura enters the house, but the Doctor subdues him with some . Shura begs the Doctor to turn off the box, as in the future, a human Controller reports to the that the machine has been activated. The Daleks command that once the coordinates of the box are confirmed, whoever is using that device must be exterminated. In the present, Anat and Boaz enter with Jo as their prisoner and demand that the machine be deactivated. The Doctor complies, and the conversation makes it apparent that the guerrillas believe that he is Styles, whom they are apparently here to . The Doctor shows them a to convince them otherwise, and Anat demands to know who the Doctor is. When and enter the house to search for the missing patrol, the guerrillas usher the Doctor and Jo into the cellar where they tie them up. Finding the Doctor and Jo gone, Yates contacts the Brigadier, who tells them to search the grounds again. In the future, the Daleks order the Controller to send troops to the frequency they detected earlier, and activate a time vortex magnetron, so that anyone travelling between the two time zones will be drawn to the Controller's headquarters. In the past, Anat sends Shura to contact the future for more orders, but Shura only manages to retrieve a from near the tunnel before being attacked by Ogrons. He is wounded, but manages to stumble away. In the cellar, Jo asks the Doctor why, if the guerrillas wanted to kill Styles, they do not just travel back to the previous day to try again, and the Doctor says that this is due to the "". Before he can explain further, they are ushered back up to the study — the Brigadier is calling on the house phone. The Doctor is forced to pretend over the telephone that everything is fine at Auderly House. The Brigadier tells the Doctor that Styles has convinced the Chinese to rejoin the conference and that the delegates will arrive the next day. The Brigadier asks for reassurance that everything is all right, and the Doctor tells him it is, but the Brigadier gets suspicious when the Doctor asks him to also " to the ." The Brigadier decides to go to the house and see for himself. Jo frees herself from her bonds and threatens to destroy the box the first guerrilla used, but Anat and Boaz tell her that it only worked for that person. Suddenly, the time vortex effect activates and Jo vanishes into the future, appearing in the Controller's headquarters due to the vortex magnetron. There, the Controller ingratiates himself with Jo, who tells him everything, including the exact time and location where she came from. The Daleks use this information and send a Dalek supported by Ogrons to the present, where they attack the house. Anat and Boaz fire back, and flee towards the tunnels. The Brigadier arrives just in time to gun down an Ogron, and the Doctor commandeers his jeep in pursuit of the two guerrillas. In the tunnels he meets a Dalek, and runs away, finding Anat and Boaz just as they activate their time machines, and is swept up in the same vortex. In the 22nd Century version of the tunnels, the Doctor and the guerrillas are separated when Ogrons pursue them. The Doctor climbs out of the tunnels onto the surface, where he sees a Dalek order Ogrons to exterminate some rebels. When the Controller informs the Daleks that Jo mentioned a "Doctor", the Daleks react violently, declaring that the Doctor is an enemy of the Daleks and must be exterminated. The Doctor stumbles into what appears to be a factory, and sees humans being used as , guarded by other humans. He is captured by an Ogron, and is being interrogated when the factory manager comes in and persuades the interrogator to let him speak to the Doctor. When they are alone, the manager asks the Doctor which guerrilla group he comes from, but the Doctor says he is not part of any group. Before any further conversation can take place, the Controller arrives, and takes the Doctor to see Jo. The manager contacts the guerrillas, who have made it back to their base with their leader, a man named Monia. The manager tells them of the Doctor, but he is discovered by an Ogron and killed. Monia decides that they must rescue the Doctor, because he seems to be the only man the Daleks are afraid of. After an abortive escape attempt, the Doctor is strapped down to a Dalek mind analysis device, where images of the and confirm to the Daleks that he is indeed their sworn enemy. The Controller bursts in, saying that using the mind analysis device will kill the Doctor. They should keep the Doctor alive for information on the rebels, and he will question the Doctor personally. The Daleks gloat to the Doctor that they have discovered , invaded Earth , and changed the course of history. The Doctor calls the Controller a traitor, and the Controller explains that at the end of the 20th Century, a hundred years of devastating worldwide wars began, killing 7/8ths of the population and forcing the rest to live in little more than holes in the ground. It was during this period that the Daleks invaded, conquering the world and using it for raw materials to fuel the expansion of their . Some humans cooperated — the Controller's family have been officials for three generations. The Doctor calls them a family of . The rebel guerrillas attack the Controller's base and rescue the Doctor. Monia is about to shoot the Controller but the Doctor tells him not to — the Daleks would have used somebody else in any case. The rebels take the Doctor back to their hideout and tell him the rest of the story. Styles organised the peace conference, and when Auderly House was blown up, everyone was killed. The rebels believe that Styles engineered the whole thing, and caused the century of war that followed. That was why they used Dalek-derived time travel technology to travel to the past, to kill Styles before he could destroy the peace conference. They used the tunnels because that is the only common location shared by the two time zones. The Doctor is sceptical, believing Styles to be stubborn but basically a good man. When the Doctor finds out that the rebels brought a bomb made of with them, a powerful and unstable that will affect even Dalek casings, he realises that the rebels are caught in a . They will cause the very explosion they went back in time to prevent, and create their own history. Indeed, back in the 20th Century, Shura has found his way into Auderly House and plants the bomb in the cellar. The Doctor and Jo make their way back to the tunnels so they can travel back and stop Shura, only to run into an ambush the Controller has set up. The Doctor convinces the Controller that he has the means to stop the Daleks even before they have begun, and the Controller lets him go, only to be betrayed by the interrogator and exterminated by the Daleks. The Daleks send a strike force to the 20th Century to ensure their version of the future is preserved, and attack as the delegates arrive at the house. In the ensuing battle between the Daleks, Ogrons and UNIT, the Brigadier evacuates the delegates. The Doctor, back in the present, makes his way down to the cellar to try to convince Shura not to activate the bomb; Auderly House is empty, it will all have been for nothing. However, once Shura hears that the Daleks are entering the house, he tells the Doctor and Jo to leave — he will take care of the Daleks. The Brigadier tells his men to fall back to the main road as the Daleks search the house for delegates. Shura detonates the bomb, destroying the house and everything in it. The Doctor tells Styles that it is now up to him to make the conference a success. Styles assures the Doctor it will be, because they know what will happen if they fail. The Doctor, nodding at Jo, says that they know too. [] Continuity The is never explicitly laid out, but cites it as a means to explain why a time traveller cannot redo his own actions. Dalekanium is presented in this serial as an unstable explosive in the alternate future. In , Dortmun also calls the material that Dalek casings are made of dalekanium. This is continued in "". To explain the return of the Daleks after their "final end" (as stated by the in ), lines were scripted to reveal that the humanised Daleks had lost the civil war seen in Evil, placing this story after Evil in the Daleks' own chronology. However, this scene was ultimately not filmed. The Doctor, in an unusual instance, is seen to both hold and use a gun to eliminate an enemy, in this case an Ogron, near the end of episode 2. [] Production Serial details by episode EpisodeBroadcast dateRun timeViewership (in millions)Archive "Episode One" 1 January 1972 23:36 9.8 PAL 2" colour videotape "Episode Two" 8 January 1972 23:52 10.4 PAL 2" colour videotape "Episode Three" 15 January 1972 24:18 9.1 PAL 2" colour videotape "Episode Four" 22 January 1972 24:17 9.1 PAL 2" colour videotape Working titles for this story included The Ghost Hunters and Years of Doom. The production team only had three Dalek props available for use during the production of this serial, so only three Daleks appear on screen at any one time. One of the Daleks is painted gold so only two regular casings are seen in shot. Film editing is used to attempt the illusion of more than three Daleks. As originally written, the serial revolved around the Ogrons instead of the Daleks. It was planned to bring the Daleks back at the end of the season, in a serial called The Daleks in London by Robert Sloman. This plan was dropped when the production staff realised that the show would not have a hook to entice viewers (after the Third Doctor's introduction in Season 7 and that of the in Season 8), and Sloman's serial was allegedly shaping up to be too similar to . Instead, writer was asked to alter his serial to include the Daleks. Early in the first episode, there is a scene where the Doctor and Jo are working on the TARDIS console in the Doctor's lab. A mistake by the Doctor causes another Doctor and Jo to briefly appear at the entrance to the lab. Originally the serial was to end with a scene where the Doctor and Jo went back to the lab, and saw their earlier selves working at the TARDIS console. However, the last episode was overrunning and director Paul Bernard decided to cut the scene, which he personally disliked. Script Editor Terrance Dicks tried to persuade Bernard to put it back in, but Bernard refused and producer Barry Letts agreed that it should be cut. Dicks would later restore the scene in his novelisation of the story. It should be noted that this story features the TARDIS console once more outside of the TARDIS itself, as in The Ambassadors of Death and Inferno. was originally proposed as the setting and location for Day of the Daleks. The name was changed to Auderly in the finished programme, and renamed Austerly in the novelisation. , who penned the first story in 1963, was given an on-screen credit at the end of all four episodes of this story as having originated them. [] Cast notes Scott Fredericks later played Max Stael in . [] In print The novelisation of this serial, by Dicks, was published by in April 1974. There have been , , , and editions. A edition, separate from the Portuguese version, was published with the title Doutor Who e a Mudança da História (Doctor Who and the Change in History). book Doctor Who and the Day of the Daleks Series Release number 18 Writer Publisher Cover artist ISBN Release date April 1974 [] VHS, Laserdisc and DVD release The story was first released on and in an omnibus format in 1986 (with the story mistitled as The Day of the Daleks on the VHS box art) and re-released in episodic format in 1994. The previous omnibus edition VHS remained as the release for the United States and Canada. This story was released on twice, first in an omnibus format in the in 1992, and later in episodic format in the UK in 1996. A DVD release has been confirmed for 12 September 2011. [] References Shaun Lyon et al. (31 March 2007). . Outpost Gallifrey. Archived from on 18 May 2008. Retrieved 31 August 2008. . Doctor Who Reference Guide. Retrieved 31 August 2008. ^ Sullivan, Shannon (17 May 2005). . 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6 days until Torchwood: Immortal Sins Torchwood: Outside the government. Beyond the police. In today's Cutaway Eric, Josh, Cat, and Julian delve into the not so latest ep of Torchwood The Categories of Life. Marvel as we skillfully compare Miracle Day to the Barry Letts era of Doctor Who. Mostly Harmless thanks to Erika (@_HollyGoDarkly_), Mark (@MarkCockram) Nick (@sputuk), Elizabeth (@lizaanne42), and The Naked Scarf (@NakedScarf) for the twitter feedback. "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first ask Rory's permission to invent the Universe." -@OzzyBaxter WARNING: This discussion contains miscellaneous Torchwood, NüWHO, and Classic SPOILERS pertaining to Doctor Who. If you are 100% spoilerphobic to New & Classic epsiodes not yet seen, do not complain to us. This episode is MOSTLY HARMLESS & contains EXPLICIT terms and as always expect strokes of innuendo throughout. LINKS: MHC #?4 Gally 22 What's Worse than the Power of Kroll? guidetothewhoverse.libsyn.com/mhc-4-gally-22-what-s-better-than-the-power-of-kroll- Erik (@sjcaustenite) & The Doctor Who Book Club Podcast (@dwbcpodcast): dwbcpodcast.blogspot.com Welch's: welchs.com Rory Williams Facts: rorywilliamsfacts.tumblr.com Arthur Darvill is @RattyBurvill! Burn Notice: usanetwork.com/series/burnnotice DISCLAIMER: Forrest of the Dudd... -@dubbayoo COMING SOON: Immortal Sins DON'T PANIC Host/Producer: Eric Email: EscoWHO ~at~ gmail ~dot~comTwitter: @Bullitt33 + @BullittWHOBlog: bullitt33tvblog.wordpress.com Co-host: Josh Zimon Email: whomeJZ ~at~ yahoo ~dot~comTwitter: @whomeJZ Coverart/Sketch Artist: Louis BlairEmail: samwisewise ~at~ gmail ~dot~comTwitter: @LB_ToschedeviantART: type40productions.deviantart.comHitchikersCutaway: mostlyharmless.freevar.comThe 2am Show: twoamshow.libsyn.com Co-hostess: CatEmail: fancyfembot ~at~ gmail ~dot~comTwitter: @fancyfembotFacebook: facebook.com/fancyfembotSci-Fi Party Line: scifipartyline.comSci-Fi Party Line News Network: scifipartyline.net Mostly Harmless CutawayEmail: guidetothewhoverse ~at~ gmail ~dot~comWebsite: guidetothewhoverse.libsyn.com Twitter: @DoctorWhoMHCTumblr: doctorwhomhc.tumblr.com Facebook: Doctor Who: Mostly Harmless Cutaway MHC Theme created by E.A. EscamillaAnonymous cold open by Emily K. (@emilyooo)
Elisabeth Claira Heath Sladen (1 February 1946 – 19 April 2011) was an actress best known for her role as in the television series . She appeared as a regular from 1973 to 1976, opposite both and , and reprised the role many times in subsequent decades, both on Doctor Who and its spin-off . Contents [] [] Early life Sladen was the only child of Tom Sladen, who fought in and served in the during .[] Her mother Gladys' maiden name was , which is a Northern Irish name commonly seen in Liverpool.[] Sladen developed an interest in performing at an early age, beginning dance lessons when she was five, and dancing in one production with the . She was a primary school contemporary of future politician (née Cohen), appearing in at least one school production with her; and a contemporary of , the future Attorney-General, when both attended Quarry Bank School (now ). [] Career [] Early career After attending drama school for two years, Sladen began work at the repertory company as an assistant stage manager. Her first stage appearance was as a corpse. However, she was scolded for giggling on stage, thanks to a young actor, , whispering the words, "Respiration nil, two" in her ear while he was playing a doctor. Sladen was so good as an assistant stage manager that she did not get many acting roles, a problem she solved by deliberately making mistakes on several occasions.[] This got her told off again, but she started to get more on-stage roles. Sladen made her first, uncredited, screen appearance in 1965 in the film as an extra. Sladen eventually moved into weekly repertory work, travelling around to various locations in England. Sladen and Miller, now married, moved to , spending three years there. She appeared in numerous roles, most notably as in , her first appearance as a leading lady. She also got the odd part on and , eventually appearing as a barmaid in 1970 in six episodes of the long-running soap opera . In 1971, Sladen was in two episodes of . Then, in 1972, she was appearing in a play that moved down to , and they had to move along with it. Her first television role in London was as a terrorist in an episode of . This was followed by guest roles in (again), , and . [] Sarah Jane Smith In 1973, Doctor Who actress , who was playing the 's assistant opposite , was leaving the series. Producer was growing increasingly desperate in his search for a replacement, when Z-Cars producer gave Sladen an enthusiastic recommendation. Sladen arrived at the audition not knowing it was for the new role, and was amazed at Letts's thoroughness. She was introduced to Pertwee, whom she found intimidating at the time. As she chatted with Letts and Pertwee, each time she turned to look at one of them the other would signal a thumbs-up. She was offered and accepted the part of investigative journalist . She stayed on Doctor Who for three and a half seasons, alongside Pertwee as the Third Doctor and as the , receiving both popular and critical acclaim for her role as Sarah Jane. When she left the series, in the 1976 serial , it made front page news,[] where previously only a change of Doctors had received such attention. In October, 2009, Sladen paid tribute to her boss and friend, Barry Letts, after he died. She said Letts was her closest friend on Doctor Who. Sladen returned to the character of Sarah Jane Smith on numerous occasions. In 1981, new Doctor Who producer asked her to return to the series to ease the transition between Tom Baker and new Doctor . She declined but accepted his second offer of doing a pilot for a spin-off series called , co-starring , the popular from Doctor Who. However, the pilot was not picked up for a series. Two years later Sladen appeared in the 20th anniversary special . She reprised the role in the 1993 special , and in the 1995 independently produced video alongside former co-star as and as Victoria Waterfield. This was her last on-screen appearance as Sarah Jane Smith for some time. Sladen played Sarah Jane in several . Two of them were produced for , (, 1993), and (, 1996), together with Jon Pertwee and Nicholas Courtney. has also produced two series of audio adventures set in the present day, released in 2002 and 2006. Her daughter Sadie has also appeared in the audios. In later years, Sladen had also participated re-visiting a few classic Doctor Who serials on DVD in doing audio commentaries and interviews (in the stories she starred in), but as of 2008 she stated in an interview that she was no longer doing them due to "contractual reasons with ". Following the successful revival of Doctor Who in 2005, Sladen guest starred as Sarah Jane in "", an episode of the , along with , who returned as the voice of the robot dog , and as the . Sladen was ever faithful to the character and worked a lot of the characterisation herself, in the lead-up to the broadcast of "School Reunion" she was quoted in as saying: "Sarah Jane used to be a bit of a cardboard cut-out. Each week it used to be, 'Yes Doctor, no Doctor', and you had to flesh your character out in your mind — because if you didn't, no one else would." She also spoke favourably of the characterisation in the new series. Following her successful appearance in the series, Sladen later starred in , a Doctor Who spin-off focusing on Sarah Jane, produced by for and created by . A aired on New Year's Day 2007, with a 10-episode series commencing broadcast in September 2007. The programme was nominated for a prestigious award and was recommissioned for a second 12-episode series which was broadcast in late 2008. The third series was broadcast in Autumn 2009, and again achieved audience ratings well in excess of the usual average figures for the time slot (sometimes even double). A fourth season began airing in October 2010. Sladen also read two original audio stories for The Sarah Jane Adventures, which were released in November 2007 on : The Glittering Storm by and The Thirteenth Stone by . This was the first time that BBC Audiobooks have commissioned new content for exclusive release on audio. Two new audio stories ("Ghost House" and "Time Capsule") were released in November 2008, both read again by Sladen. Sladen appeared in the final two episodes of Doctor Who's 2008 series (season 4) finale "" and "" and was credited in the title sequence of both episodes. Her final appearance in Doctor Who was a cameo in the concluding part of "", Tennant's last episode as the Doctor. [] Other work After Doctor Who, Sladen returned to Liverpool with her husband and performed in a series of plays. This included a two-hander with Miller in . Notable appearances following that include a two-year stint as a presenter for the children's programme , a lead role with Miller playing her husband in ITV drama , a BBC , a role as a stand-up comic's spouse in , and a small part in the movie as a bank secretary in 1980, only her second motion picture appearance. In 1981, former Doctor Who producer cast her as the female lead in the BBC Classics production of . She continued to appear in various advertisements and in another Letts production, (playing the Dormouse), as well as attending conventions in the . After the birth of her daughter in 1985, Sladen went into semi-retirement, placing her family first, but finding time for the occasional television appearance. In 1995, she played Dr Pat Hewer in 4 episodes of . In 1996, she played Sophie in , and appeared in 15 episodes of the BBC schools programme , which was repeated annually for around ten years. This was her last television acting appearance until the 2006 Doctor Who episode "". In 1991, she starred as Alexa opposite in audio adventure The Last Mission for Audio. Sladen also appeared in a audio drama, 's . In 2008–09, Sladen appeared in a production of at the , playing Mrs. Darling and a beautiful . [] Personal life Sladen married actor in 1968 in Liverpool; the marriage lasted until her death. Their daughter, , appeared with her in the range of Sarah Jane Smith audio plays by . As a child, Sadie appeared alongside Sladen in the 1996 documentary, Thirty Years in the TARDIS, wearing a replica of the overalls Sladen wore in . Sladen died early on 19 April 2011, after having cancer for several months. The first episode of series six of the revived version of Doctor Who "" aired on the Saturday following Sladen's death. The episode started with a screen announcing that it was dedicated to the memory of Elisabeth Sladen. Straight after 'Doctor Who', a special tribute called 'My Sarah Jane: A Tribute to Elisabeth Sladen' was aired on . Sladen had also been interested in being involved in the Doctor Who Fourth Doctor Big Finish series. [] References
his article is about the 1972 Doctor Who serial. For other uses, see . 063 – The Mutants serial A mutated Solonian on the planet . Cast () () Others — The Marshal — Jaeger — Stubbs — Cotton — Varan — Varan's Son — Ky — Sondergaard — Administrator — Investigator — Warrior Guard , , — Guards — Old Man — Mutt Production Writer and Director Script editor Producer Executive producer(s) None Production code NNN Series Length 6 episodes, 25 minutes each Originally broadcast April 8–May 13, 1972 Chronology ← Preceded by Followed by → The Mutants is a in the series , which was first broadcast in six weekly parts from April 8 to May 13, 1972. The Mutants is also the title used by the production team for the series' second serial, which introduced the . To distinguish between the two, the earlier serial is usually referred to as . Sometimes both stories are referred to as The Mutants, further distinguished by the production codes — (B) for the former and (NNN) for the latter. Contents [] [] Synopsis It is the 30th century, near the end of the Earth Empire. On the colony world of Solos, something is transforming the human population, turning them into hideous mutants. But as the and find out, that is only the beginning. [] Plot In the 30th century, the Earth Empire is contracting and plans are being made to decolonise the colony world of Solos. The militaristic Marshal and other human soldiers, known as Overlords, rule it from Skybase One. The Marshal opposes the decolonisation plans outlined to him by Administrator sent from Earth, and is also obsessed with eradicating the Mutants or Mutts that have sprung up on the planet below. The Solonians themselves are a tribal people, split between those who actively oppose the occupation, such as Ky, and those like Varan who collaborate with the imperialists. Indeed, the Marshal and Varan ensure the Administrator is murdered before he can confirm to Ky and other tribal chiefs that the Earth Empire is indeed withdrawing from Solos. The and arrive on Skybase One, their having been transported there by the . They have with them a message box which will only open for an intended recipient – and that is not the Marshal or his entourage – but seems to be for Ky, who has been framed for the murder of the Administrator. Jo and Ky flee to the surface of Solos, which seems to be poisonous to humans during daylight hours, and this affects Jo quite soon. Ky saves her with a stolen oxygen mask. The Doctor learns from the Marshal and his chief scientist Jaeger that they are involved in an experiment using rocket barrages to terraform Solos, making the air breathable to humans, regardless of the cost to indigenous life. They continue to bombard the surface with ever more deadly rockets. Varan by now has discovered the Marshal's treachery and events make him an outlaw on Skybase. The Doctor makes contact and together they persuade Stubbs and Cotton, the most senior soldiers to the Marshal, that much is wrong on Skybase. He then flees to Solos with Varan, and at the thaesium mine where Ky and Jo are hiding he encounters many Mutts, who are not as hostile as they first appeared. The Doctor passes the message box to Ky, and it opens to reveal ancient tablets and etchings which are written in the language of the Old Ones of the planet. Help in avoiding poisonous gas released by the Marshal is provided by a fugitive human scientist, Sondergaard, who lives in the caves and knows much about Solonian anthropology. Sondergaard explains he tried to inform Earth Control about the Marshal's evil, but he was prevented and forced to flee to the caves, where the radiation seems to have affected him. He interprets the contents of the box as a “lost Solos Book of Genesis”, and the Doctor then calculates a Solonian year to be equivalent to two thousand human years, with natural changes in the population every five hundred years within the cycle. Investigating a more radioactive part of the caves, the Doctor thus deduces the Mutant phase is a natural part of the Solonian racial life-cycle. Varan has by now become a Mutt himself, the transformation beginning with his hand. He hides this and leads a Solonian attack on the Skybase which results in his death and those of many of his warriors. On Skybase Jo, Ky, Stubbs and Cotton are captured by the Marshal, and Stubbs is killed in a failed escape attempt. The Doctor meanwhile has returned to the Skybase – without Sondergaard, who seems too weak following the radiation contamination. He instead returns to the caves to communicate with the Mutants and explain to them the changes in their metabolisms are natural and not to be feared. The Doctor is now back on Skybase and surmises the Marshal to be mad. It becomes clear that the Earth Government has now dispatched an Investigator to look into the strange events on Solos. The Marshal's rocket attacks have not terraformed the planet, but they have left a hideous environmental impact and he knows he must clean this up or face problems when the Investigator arrives. Under duress the Doctor uses Jaeger's technology to conduct a rapid decontamination of the planet's surface. The Investigator arrives and demands answers, but is given more lies by the Marshal, supported by the Doctor, who fears Jo will be killed if he does not co-operate. Luckily Jo, Ky and Cotton have escaped their detention and arrive in time to help the Investigator see the truth of the situation on Solos and the crimes of the Marshal and Jaeger. The Doctor accuses them of "the most brutal and callous series of crimes against a defenseless people it's ever been my misfortunate to encounter." Sondergaard now reaches the Skybase with some Mutants, one of whom scares the Investigator enough that he accepts the Marshal's analysis that the creatures should be killed. Ky now begins a process of mutation, but it is accelerated beyond the Mutant phase so that he emerges as a radiant angel-like super-being. He communicates with thought transference, can float and can move through whole walls. Dispensing justice, Ky eradicates the Marshal. Jaeger has been killed too and the Investigator now makes sense of the situation. Sondergaard and Cotton elect to stay on Solos to see the other Solonians go through the mutation process, while Jo and the Doctor slip away, their mission from the Time Lords complete. [] Continuity A Mutt appears in the beginning of . The Doctor describes it as being one of a mutant insect species that is widely established in the Nebula of Cyclops. Whether this is the location of Solos is not stated. [] Production Serial details by episode Episode Broadcast date Run time Viewership (in millions) Archive "Episode One" 8 April 1972 (1972-04-08) 24:25 9.1 PAL colour conversion "Episode Two" 15 April 1972 (1972-04-15) 24:24 7.8 PAL colour conversion "Episode Three" 22 April 1972 (1972-04-22) 24:32 7.9 PAL 2" colour videotape "Episode Four" 29 April 1972 (1972-04-29) 24:00 7.5 PAL 2" colour videotape "Episode Five" 6 May 1972 (1972-05-06) 24:37 7.9 PAL 2" colour videotape "Episode Six" 13 May 1972 (1972-05-13) 23:43 6.5 PAL 2" colour videotape Working titles for this story included Independence and The Emergents. The opening shot of the story features a bedraggled, hermit-like bearded figure (Sidney Johnson) shambling out of the mist towards the camera. Both fans and Jon Pertwee alike have compared the scene to the at the start of most episodes of . [] Outside references This serial is mentioned in 's controversial novel , where it is criticised for alleged attitudes. Writers Bob Baker and Dave Martin, as well as producer Barry Letts, actually intended for the story to have an anti-racist message. So powerful was this story's condemnation of the policy of Apartheid in South Africa, many polytechnic student unions renamed buildings "Bob Baker and Dave Martin House", in honour of its writing team.[] [] In print book Doctor Who and the Mutants Series Release number 44 Writer Publisher Cover artist ISBN Release date 29 September 1977 Preceded by Followed by A novelisation of this serial, written by , was published by in September 1977. This was the only book to feature the abbreviation "Dr Who" on the spine. [] Broadcast and commercial releases This story came out on in February 2003. This story is due for release in 2011 and will have an audio commentary by Katy Manning, Garrick Hagon, Bob Baker, Jeremy Bear, Brian Hodgson, Terrance Dicks and Christopher Barry moderated by Nick Pegg. The music from this serial was released as part of in 2003.
Doctor Who: Podshock - Episode 165 Running Time: 1:47:35 Our thoughts on the passing of Barry Letts, News and we review Logopolis, Tom Baker as the 4th Doctor last Doctor Who story, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Whoverse #5, Jarrod Cooper updates us on Hurricane Who. Hosted by Louis Trapani and Ken Deep with David Hooie. Brought to you by the Gallifreyan Embassy and is a production of Art Trap Productions. Do you want the Enhanced Podcast AAC file format? Get our Enhanced Podcast version of this episode using our feed at http://www.gallifreyanembassy.org/podshock/podshock.xml.
Doctor Who: Podshock - Episode 165 Running Time: 1:47:35 Our thoughts on the passing of Barry Letts, News and we review Logopolis, Tom Baker as the 4th Doctor last Doctor Who story, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Whoverse #5, Jarrod Cooper updates us on Hurricane Who. Hosted by Louis Trapani and Ken Deep with David Hooie. Brought to you by the Gallifreyan Embassy and is a production of Art Trap Productions. Do you need the MP3 file format? Get our MP3 version of this episode using our MP3 dedicated feed at http://www.gallifreyanembassy.org/podshock/podshockmp3.xml.
The Doctor Who world lost one of its indisputable titans on October 9, 2009, when Barry Letts passed away at the age of 84. Letts was a director, writer, executive producer, and, most notably, producer of Doctor Who from 1970-1974. He was also one of the greatest ambassadors that the programme has ever known. In this episode, actor/comedian and noted fan and unofficial historian of Doctor Who, Toby Hadoke, was kind enough to join us to help us celebrate the legacy of the great Barry Letts. Check out the show notes at http://www.radiofreeskaro.com.
Black Orchid (Doctor Who) 121 – Black Orchid Doctor Who serial Ann Talbot, who bears a remarkable similarity to Nyssa Cast Doctor Peter Davison (Fifth Doctor) Companions Matthew Waterhouse (Adric) Sarah Sutton (Nyssa) Janet Fielding (Tegan Jovanka) Production Writer Terence Dudley Director Ron Jones Script editor Eric Saward Producer John Nathan-Turner Executive producer(s) None Production code 6A Series Season 19 Length 2 episodes, 25 mins each Originally broadcast March 1–March 2, 1982 Chronology ? Preceded by Followed by → The Visitation Earthshock Black Orchid is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in two parts on March 1 and March 2, 1982. This story was the first purely historical adventure for the Doctor — featuring no science fiction elements save for the TARDIS — since The Highlanders. Synopsis The Doctor, Nyssa, Tegan and Adric arrive in England of 1925. At a masked ball at Cranleigh Hall a series of murders begins, and Ann Talbot, who is the spitting image of Nyssa, is abducted. The Doctor must uncover the secret the Cranleigh family is hiding from the world. [edit] Plot In an English country house two figures are seen struggling before one of them, a servant, falls dead. A young woman is seen sleeping as a figure enters her room. The figure is then seen tied to the bed guarded by an Indian with a large ring distending his lower lip. It is June 11, 1925, and as a train departs Cranleigh Halt railway station, the TARDIS materialises. The crew disembark before receiving an explanation of the basics of the steam train from the Doctor. He says that he has always wanted to drive one. Leaving the station, they encounter the chauffeur of Charles, Lord Cranleigh, who has apparently been expecting the arrival of "the Doctor". He stares at Nyssa as if he recognises her. They are driven to a cricket match where Lord Cranleigh's team is batting but not faring very well. Lord Cranleigh greets them and seeing Nyssa exclaims the she is exactly like his fiancée in appearance. They discuss cricket, the Doctor says that he is a fast bowler. The Doctor goes into bat and scores a plethora of runs. When Nyssa is introduced to his mother Lady Cranleigh, she also exclaims how extraordinary a resemblance between her and Ann, but is surprised that she is not a "Worcestershire Talbot" Nyssa proudly declares that she is from the Empire of Traken. The Doctor takes a turn at bowling and proves equally prodigious managing to get several players out. Lord Cranleigh congratulates him on a ripping performance and invites him home to meet his mother. When introduced, Lady Cranleigh asks "Doctor who?" but Lord Cranleigh says he deserves to remain incognito after his fine cricketing performance. Sir Robert Muir, the chief constable of the county, also congratulates the Doctor, saying that his performance was "worthy of the Master". The Doctor looks momentarily alarmed until he explains that he is referring to "the other Doctor", W. G. Grace. Lord Cranleigh asks if they would mind staying to the annual ball - a fancy dress party - on behalf of sick children. Tegan says that they have no costumes, to which Sir Robert comments that he was thinking how charming their outfits were. Lord Cranleigh has a selection costumes that they can use. They are introduced to Ann Talbot, Lord Cranleigh's fiancée, and she looks identical to Nyssa. Ann also enquires if Nyssa is from Worcester, and when Nyssa says that she is from Traken, Sir Robert says that he believes it is somewhere near Esher. Ann wonders if there could be Talbots from Esher. Lady Cranleigh thinks not as the "hunt is not good enough". When Lord Craneligh offers them a drink, the Doctor asks for lemonade. Tegan asks for a screwdriver, but when Nyssa asks for "the same" the Doctor coughs in disapproval, so instead Lord Cranleigh offers her orange juice. Nyssa tells Ann that she doesn't know where Esher is, to which Lady Cranleigh comments this demonstrates great taste, and that she should stop probing into Nyssa's background. When Tegan admires a curious black flower in the study, Lady Cranleigh explains that it is a Black Orchid and that it was found on the Orinoco by her eldest son George. Tegan recognises the name immediately as George Cranleigh, a famous botanist and explorer. Lady Cranleigh goes on to say that George never returned from his last expedition into the Brazilian forests. Ann had been engaged to George before his disappearance. Meanwhile, the bound figure struggles against his bonds. The Indian goes to the secret room to inspect the figure, but he sees the untied ropes before he is hit on the head from behind. The Doctor picks a Harlequin outfit to wear to the ball. When he tells Lord Cranleigh that Adric is from Alzarius, Lord Cranleigh says that he could never remember all those Baltic bits. Tegan and Nyssa discuss the Charleston, with Tegan giving a demonstration. Nyssa says that dancing on Traken is much more formalised and that she learnt how to dance as part of her training. Ann comes to their room, and presents Nyssa with a dress identical to her own, so that the ball attendees will not be able to tell them apart. Ann reveals the only difference between them is that she has a mole on her left shoulder. As the Doctor gets himself ready for the ball, a figure enters his room from a secret passage. On hearing a noise, the Doctor returns to the room but sees no one, only the newly revealed opening. He enters the opening and finds the secret passage, but the panel slams closed behind him, trapping him. The figure reenters the Doctor's room and with his deformed hands takes away the Harlequin mask and costume. In the gardens, the ball has now started and the guests have arrived. Nyssa asks Adric to dance with her, to his consternation, while Tegan dances with Sir Robert, who is amused by some of her colloquialisms. Lord Cranleigh is dancing with Ann. Nyssa and Ann run inside the building and emerge — now nobody knows which of them is which. They resume dancing with their partners, but Adric stops dancing saying he would rather eat. Lady Cranleigh spots the Indian and goes aside to talk to him. He informs her that his "friend" has escaped. Tegan gets to show her Charleston. When one of Ann and Nyssa starts dancing, Adric turns to the other believing it must be Nyssa as Nyssa would not know how to do that dance. She confounds him by joining in. The figure wearing the Harlequin costume arrives at the party and begins to dance with the girl that it thinks is Ann. The Doctor finally finds his way out of the passage and finds a room full of botany textbooks. Trying to ascertain his whereabouts, he finds a staircase and ascending them he finds the secret room where the figure had been bound. Searching it, he finds a book written in Portuguese. When he leaves the room, he wanders down the corridor, examining the cupboards, and in one of them he discovers a corpse. Meanwhile the Harlequin figure enters the building with Ann. Ann tells it that they should return to the party, but when it rasps at her and she queries who it is, it grabs her by the wrist and will not let her go. Ann screams for help and a butler rushes to her assistance. The Harlequin grabs him by the throat and starts to throttle and kill him, causing Ann to faint as the Harlequin lurches over her prostrate body… The Doctor returns to the secret room and finds, to his surprise, Lady Cranleigh and the Indian, who she introduces as Latoni — an old friend from Brazil. The Doctor informs them that he has found a dead body and when he shows it to her, she identifies it as one of the servants. She requests that he does not alarm the other guests by informing them. The figure is seen returning the Harlequin costume to the Doctor's room. It goes to a room where Ann is lying, and a hideously deformed face is revealed. Ann awakes and seeing the figure flees outside the room where Lady Cranleigh and Latoni are waiting. Latoni enters the room and gathering some rope advances on the deformed figure. At the party Adric is berated by Nyssa for eating so much food. The servants inform Lord Cranleigh of events inside the house. He finds the body of the dead butler, and Ann's discarded mask. The Doctor arrives now wearing the Harlequin costume, but when Ann also arrives, she points him out as the man who attacked her. Ann implores Sir Robert to arrest the Doctor, and Sir Robert assumes control of events. He asks Lord Cranleigh to tell the remaining guests to go home. The Doctor insists on his innocence, and suggests that someone else has an identical costume. However, as Ann was in charge of the costumes, she knows that there was only one Harlequin. He looks to Lady Cranleigh to provide an alibi but she stays silent. Sir Robert questions the Doctor as to his true identity, which he replies would be rather difficult to explain. He says he is a Time Lord and that he travels in time and space, in a time machine, like that from the works of H. G. Wells. Again looking to Lady Cranleigh he mentions the other body, but she denies seeing it. Showing Sir Robert the cupboard, the body has vanished and has been replaced by a doll. Lord Cranleigh receives a telephone call from his friend "Smutty" Thomas who he thinks sent the Doctor to the cricket game, and he realises it is not the right man. Lord Cranleigh informs Sir Robert that the Doctor is an impostor, and that the real doctor missed his train. The Doctor is arrested on suspicion of murder, and his companions are accused of being accessories. They are driven off to the police station. The Doctor asks the police sergeant to divert to the railway station to show Sir Robert the TARDIS, but to his dismay it is no longer on the platform. However, when they arrive at the police station, they find that the TARDIS has been brought there. Back at the house Lady Cranleigh tells Lord Cranleigh about the other body, that of Digby the servant. Realising that the Doctor must be innocent, he argues with her. When Ann approaches them he informs her that there is something she must know. In the secret room, the bound figure once again slips his ropes, and attacks and kills Latoni, but not before he hides the room key between the floor boards. Not able to find the key, the figure starts stuffing newspapers under the door, and then sets them on fire. The Doctor unlocks the TARDIS and allows Sir Robert and the police sergeant to enter. Sir Robert is astounded by what he sees and offers the Doctor an apology, but he is still concerned about the murder. Lord Cranleigh telephones the police station and informs them of the second body. The Doctor uses the TARDIS to get them all back to Cranleigh Hall as quickly as possible. After furiously denouncing her parents, Ann runs out of the house and throws her arms around Sir Robert. The secret room is now ablaze with the fire started by the deformed figure, who breaks out, and goes to the main hall where Lord and Lady Cranleigh are talking. He backs away from them, but the Doctor's group arrive from behind. The figure grabs hold of Nyssa and throttling her, drags her upstairs. The Doctor cannot follow him due to the fire which has now spread to the corridors. Sir Robert demands to know what the deformed figure is, and Lady Cranleigh reveals that it is her eldest son George, which the Doctor had already worked out from seeing the Black Orchid and Latoni. She insists that George would not harm Ann, but the Doctor points out that he has the wrong girl. Running outside, they see George carrying Nyssa out onto the roof. The Doctor asks Lord Cranleigh to hold George's attention, whilst he tries to find a way through the house to their position. Lady Cranleigh confesses the truth to Sir Robert: George's hideous injuries were caused by the Kojabe Indians, who also cut out his tongue because they held the Black Orchid sacred. Losing his mind, he was rescued by another tribe of Indians, of which Latoni was a member. She admits that George killed Digby. Lord Cranleigh climbs onto the roof to confront George, and the Doctor has also reached the roof. The Doctor implores him to release Nyssa, telling him to look down and see Ann on the ground. Seeing it to be true, he releases Nyssa. Charles approaches his brother to thank him. George recoils, but he is too close to the edge. He trips and falls, and is killed. After the funeral, the Doctor departs. Ann has given Tegan and Nyssa their costumes as a present, and Lady Cranleigh presents the Doctor with a copy of George's book: Black Orchid. Cast * The Doctor — Peter Davison * Adric — Matthew Waterhouse * Nyssa / Ann Talbot — Sarah Sutton * Tegan — Janet Fielding * Lord Cranleigh — Michael Cochrane * Lady Cranleigh — Barbara Murray * The Unknown / George Cranleigh — Gareth Milne * Sir Robert Muir — Moray Watson * Sergeant Markham — Ivor Salter * Constable Cummings — Andrew Tourell * Latoni — Ahmed Khalil * Brewster — Brian Hawksley * Tanner — Timothy Block Cast notes * Michael Cochrane, who plays Lord Cranleigh, also appears in the 1989 Seventh Doctor serial Ghost Light. * To avoid giving away the plot surprise, Gareth Milne was credited as "The Unknown" for Part One and in Radio Times, and as "George Cranleigh" for Part Two. Continuity * The character of Ann Talbot reappears in the spin-off novel The Sands of Time by Justin Richards as Lady Ann Cranleigh. * This story was the first two-part serial since The Sontaran Experiment (1975); each Peter Davison season would include at least one two-parter. * This was the first purely historical serial (with no science fiction elements beyond the Doctor and his TARDIS) since The Highlanders in 1966-67; unlike previous ones, it does not revolve around a well-known historical event. To date, it is also the last purely historical story. The next televised story taking place within the Doctor Who universe to contain no science fiction or supernatural elements at all is Countrycide, an episode of the spin-off series, Torchwood, broadcast in 2006 and taking place in the present day. Production * The working title for this story was The Beast. * Producer John Nathan-Turner had originally considered directing this story himself, thus become the first producer to do so since Barry Letts during the early 1970s. However, due to time constraints, Nathan-Turner abandoned the idea and hired Ron Jones to direct. In print Doctor Who book Book cover Black Orchid Series Target novelisations Release number 113 Writer Terence Dudley Publisher Target Books Cover artist Tony Masero ISBN Release date September 1986 (Hardback) 19th February 1987 (Paperback) Preceded by The Seeds of Death Followed by The Ark A novelisation of this serial, written by Terence Dudley, was published by Target Books in September 1986. It was the final Fifth Doctor story to be novelised, but did not complete the Fifth Doctor's era - Resurrection of the Daleks has to date not been novelised due to disputes with the estate of Terry Nation. Broadcast, VHS and DVD release * This story was released in a twin VHS set with The Visitation in July of 1994. * Black Orchid will be released on DVD on April 14th 2008 with; Now & Then special feature of filming locations • 4 Deleted scenes • an Easter Egg • a Blue Peter item • Stripped for Action a feature on comics of the Fifth Doctor • Poinst of View • a Coming Soon Trailer for the The Invasion of Time DVD.
Davros Awakes! Destiny Of The Daleks and Davros Boxset for November. Destiny of the Daleks, starring Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor and Lalla Ward as a newly regenerated Romana, is set to be released on DVD by 2Entertain. When the Doctor and Romana arrive on Skaro, they find themselves caught in the middle of in an interplanetary war between the Daleks and the robotic Movellans. Can Davros, creator of the Daleks, give the Doctor's greatest enemies the edge they need? The single-disc (not double, as previously reported) contains all four episodes plus the following extras: Commentary - With actors Lalla Ward and David Gooderson, director Ken Grieve.Terror Nation - documentary about writer Terry Nation, creator of the Daleks, and his work on Doctor Who. With contributions from producers Barry Letts and Philip Hinchcliffe, script editor Terrance Dicks, director Richard Martin and Dalek voice artiste Nicholas Briggs.Directing Who - director Ken Grieve recalls his time on this story.CGI Effects – providing the option to watch the story with seventeen of the original video effects sequences replaced by CGI versions.Trails and Continuity - BBC One trails and continuity announcements from the story's transmission, including the specially shot trailer heralding the return of the Daleks.Photo Gallery - production, design and publicity photos. Prime Computer Adverts - Australian TV adverts for Prime Computers, starring the Doctor and Romana.Coming Soon - trail for forthcoming DVD boxset release of Doctor Who and the Silurians, The Sea Devils and Warriors of the Deep.Easter Egg Destiny Of The Daleks will be available from 26 November. The story will also form part of a special Davros boxset, collecting all the other adventures featuring the evil genius, plus extra material. More on these extras soon!
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