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Send us a textRecorded in March 2025 Dylan and Liam traverse this season finale of Doctor Who and the future of the show and get it spectacularly right/wrong. They also look at two turning points in the show history first up its the TV Comic strip ‘The Night Walkers', then they look at the abandoned script for episode 14 of ‘The Trial of a Timelord' entitled ‘Time Incorporated' written by Eric Saward. And as always they answer the burning questions:Who is the bonny blue of Dr Who podcasting ? What is Dynasty on ice?Are we better off with Pip and Jane Baker? Be sure to check out Liams art work at https://www.instagram.com/artfullyliam/#
It's Paris, 1979! Something of a table wine, really. As we wait between seasons of NewNuWho, we revisited one of the old favorites...it's CITY BWOING OF DEATH!
There's no hiding the fact that John Nathan-Turner is one of the most controversial figures in the history of Doctor Who. As the show's producer from 1980-1989, he cast three Doctors, a host of companions, and became a fixture at conventions on both sides of the Atlantic. However, Richard Marson's biography revealed a darker side to John and his partner Gary Downie, as JNT suffered from an alcohol addiction in later life, when he struggled to find work. This struggle features in a play, Me and Him and Who, written by Stephen Wyatt - author of Paradise Towers and The Greatest Show in the Galaxy - which is being performed next week. Dave and Kenny discuss John and his legacy, and are joined by Stephen to talk about the John and Gary he knew. Find out more at https://www.fatsoma.com/e/7jir2f8n/me-and-him-and-who
In 2023 AUK studios released two CDs related to Doctor Who. Me & Him & Who is an audio drama that chronicles the life of John Nathan-Turner, written by Stephen Wyatt. And speaking of Stephen Wyatt, AUK also released a musical sequel to The Greatest Show in the Galaxy called Children of the Circus, which features a reunion of the entire cast including new roles for Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred. Creative Director for AUK, Barnaby Eaton-Jones, joins us to talk about these releases, as well as how he came to be invoved in audio production. He also talks about another passion project, Robin of Sherwood on audio, featuring actors from the original tv series. Find out more about Me & Him & Who here - https://auk.direct/product/me-him-who/ Find out more about Children of the Circus here - https://auk.direct/product/children-of-the-circus/ To find the audiobook version of Dwayne's recommended release, Tweaking the Tail by John Leeson, visit - https://www.fantompublishing.co.uk/product/tweaking-the-tail/ Thanks to Ian Kubiak and Stephen Noonan. Check out Cygnus Alpha Events - https://www.cygnusalpha.org/ Theme music by Joe Kraemer. Website - https://www.sirensofaudio.com/ Follow us on Instagram - https://instagram.com/audiosirens Follow us on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/audiosirens Follow us on X - https://x.com/audiosirens
If you grew up in the '60s, '70s, or '80s,you will love StarPodTrek!On this fantastic episode of StarPodLog, we consider the pop culture of 1984, while perusing the contents of Starlog magazine in issues 82, 83, and 84.Liz, Mike, Jim & Corbett from the Save for Half podcast reminisce about the role playing games of 1984. Subscribe to their awesome podcast!https://saveforhalf.com/Mike and Kyleigh Jones return to talk about Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom!We also discuss Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Doctor Who's John Nathan Turner, the music of 1984, and more on this episode of StarPodLog!Join us on Labor Day weekend at Dragon Con 2024!https://www.dragoncon.org/Theme music provided by Foot Pound Force. Find out more about the band here:https://footpoundforce.bandcamp.com/musichttps://m.facebook.com/100029411275345/Don't forget to join our Facebook group:https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=469912916856743&ref=content_filterLove Starlog magazine?Join the Facebook group:https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=303578380105395&ref=content_filter Subscribe to our YouTube Channel “StarPodLog and StarPodTrek”https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgE_kNBWqnvTPAQODKZA1UgFind us on Twitter and Instagram: @StarPodLog Reddit: u/StarPodTrek Visit us on Blogger at https://starpodlogpodcast.blogspot.com/ or iTunes or Spotify or wherever you listen to fine podcasts! If you cannot see the audio controls, listen/download the audio file here Download (right click, save as)
Jean-Marc Lofficier nous accorde cette semaine une interview d'anthologie! Vous apprendrez comment un fan français de Doctor Who a vu son travail de compilation devenir la bible de la production de John-Nathan Turner.
Ian and Nathan encounter the Cybermen in this classic Fifth Doctor story. Earthshock (1982). Directed by Peter Grimwade. Written by Eric Saward. Produced by John Nathan Turner. Starring Peter Davison, Matthew Waterhouse, Janet Feilding, Sarah Sutton and Beryl Reid.
Eddy and Chris are back to talk about classic Doctor Who. Also about controversial showrunner John Nathan-Turner, the change in fan communities, and how that shaped a serial like Earthshock. Episodes covered: S19E19-22: Earthshock pt 1-4
Target Book 100 was a special event for Doctor Who fans. A milestone novel, with a special introduction written by show producer John Nathan-Turner -- his only direct contribution to the Target books -- and with a gold-stamped foil logo and a unique flash above the logo. Is The Two Doctors -- Patrick Troughton's final live contribution to Doctor Who, filmed about two and a half years before his untimely passing -- as special a story as the novelization? We need three guests to break it down for us this week. Conrad, Frazer, and Jason Davis, all back for repeat appearances. Conrad co-stars in a brand-new Big Finish release with the Sontarans (and TV Sontaran Dan Starkey!). Buy it here! Musical inspiration for this episode comes from The Sundays. 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 Two Doctors" 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
This week, we're going overseas again as John Nathan-Turner forks out the budget for a trip to Amsterdam in 1983's Arc of Infinity.
Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 126: Making a Drama w/Me & Him & Who Whoever said real-life time travel is impossible? Thanks to the combined talents of a creative and industrious producer, two superb character actors and a writer with masses of drama credits to his name, listeners of the new audio play “Me & Him & Who” can be transported back a few decades in time! To one particular place and spend time with two men, who worked to bring our favourite series back to the screen, season after season. Through thick and thin during the 1980s… Regular host Dan, speaks to the team behind this original piece of drama on Type 40: A Doctor Who Podcast. Barnaby Eaton-Jones, Christopher Guard and Stephen Wyatt each bringing with them their insight into the lives of couple Gary Downie and John Nathan-Turner. As well as how they worked together to dramatize the tragic story of their final years together. John Nathan-Turner cast three incarnations of the Doctor and produced more of the classic series than anyone else. He's remained a divisive figure since his untimely passing in 2002. Maybe we'll understand him and long-time partner Downie a lot more in the wake of personal friend Stephen Wyatt's new tribute? Come and join the panel when you stream or download HERE: Stream or download HERE: Find Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast feed here at: • type40.podbean.com Listen to Type 40 on: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Play, iHeart Radio, Tune In and the Podbean App. • Or as part of FPNet Master Feed @Fpnet.podbean.com • Dan on Twitter and Instagram @The_spacebook Subscribe to The Spacebook YouTube channel for extended and extra Type 40: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh8T... • Order your copy of Me & Him & Who here: https://auk.direct/product/me-him-who/ Visit Christopher Guard's website: https://christopherguard.co.uk/ Visit Stephen Wyatt's website: http://www.stephenwyatt.co.uk/ If you would like to contact us directly you can: • Email: type40drwho@gmail.com • Twitter: @type40drwho • Instagram: @type40doctorwho • Facebook: Type 40 • A Doctor Who Fan Page • Join the Facebook group Type 40 • A Doctor Who Fan Group: http://bit.ly/type40_fbgroup • Subscribe to The Spacebook YouTube channel for extended editions of the show and video exclusive Type 40 EXTRA: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh8T5-mFYWblZo6lnakCSCw TeePublic Store: Help support the Fandom Podcast Network and wear some of their fantastic original designs and logos on t-shirts, mugs, hats and more from Tee Public Go to: https://www.teepublic.com/user/fandompodcastnetwork or just search Fandom Podcast Network to find our storefront. Please listen to our other formidable podcasts on the Fandom Podcast Network: Master Feed: https://fpnet.podbean.com/
Googly eyed aliens posing as human assassin tradesmen who dont care about the life and death of inhabitants of the hive do not make for a very leisurely experience. The Doctor grows a beard, Romana is relegated to assistant to time experiments, K9 is destroyed by the ocean, and Argolis is a planet steeped in political intrigue. But what do we actually think of this 1980 story, the first one of the John Nathan-Turner era? Listen to find out if it was a success.
THE DOCTOR JOINS WHO CORNER TO CORNER!You heard it right! In this show we're joined by none other than the SIXTH DOCTOR himself, COLIN BAKER!Chatting before The Power of The Doctor went out - we discovered (as you will!) that The Doctor does indeed lie... very well!In this episode:We talk about Colin's tour of Hound of the Baskervilles for Crime and Comedy Theatre running through November 2022. We chat about his time on Doctor Who, working with Nicola Bryant and Bonnie Langford and what some of his favourite memories of those times were, including his relationship with producer John Nathan-Turner.We find out which Big Finish companion permanently commandeered Colin's piano and what might be happening in the future for Sixie and friends on audio!We find out about Davros' iPad and Crocs and which part of Davros' anatomy Colin has at home!We talk about corpsing on stage and bad acting habits!We find out about his wife's reaction to his first day of filming Doctor Who and bringing him back to earth with it!PLUS we offer up our services to help make another Five(ish) Doctors Reboot for the 60th anniversary!Join us for one of our very best podcast chats in the company of a Doctor Who legend! Subscribe to Who Corner to Corner on your podcast app to make sure you don't miss an episode! Join the Doctor Who chat with us and other fans on Twitter and Facebook! Visit the Who Corner to Corner website and see our back catalogue of episodes! Who Corner to Corner: Great guests and 100% positive Doctor Who chat!
Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 103: Opening the JNT Diary with Richard Molesworth Everyone loves the 80's! Though when it comes to classic Doctor Who history, it's the period that divides opinion most. Nine seasons were made under enormous pressures, with only one constant presence other than a blue Police Box. And on this edition of Type 40 we look at the legacy of the shows producer, through that time: the late John Nathan-Turner. Regular hosts Simon and Dan welcome back friend of the show, the writer Richard Molesworth. In the very week his latest work “The John Nathan-Turner Doctor Who Production Diary 1979-1990” is released. Richard had access to an unprecedented volume of information to complete his project. Here he gives us the inside story on the how's, who's and why's! Back in the New Year we asked regular listeners what they'd like to hear on our Doctor Who podcast in 2022, through social media. A return visit from Richard was high on the list! So we're delighted to present a special show previewing this latest must-have book. Stream or download here: Find Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast feed here at: • type40.podbean.com Listen to Type 40 on: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Play, iHeart Radio, Tune In and the Podbean App. • Or as part of FPNet Master Feed @Fpnet.podbean.com If you would like to contact us directly you can: • Email: type40drwho@gmail.com • Twitter: @type40drwho • Instagram: @type40doctorwho • Facebook: Type 40 • A Doctor Who Fan Page • Join the Facebook group Type 40 • A Doctor Who Fan Group: http://bit.ly/type40_fbgroup • Order : The John Nathan-Turner Production Diary 1979-1990 direct from Telos Publishing here: https://telos.co.uk/shop/doctor-who/jnt-diary/ • Dan Hadley on Twitter and Instagram @The_spacebook Subscribe to The Spacebook YouTube channel for extended and extra Type 40: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh8T5-mFYWblZo6lnakCSCw • Find Simon Horton on Facebook in the Doctor Who: The Whonatics group TeePublic Store: Help support the Fandom Podcast Network and wear some of their fantastic original designs and logos on t-shirts, mugs, hats and more from Tee Public Go to: https://www.teepublic.com/user/fandompodcastnetwork or just search Fandom Podcast Network to find our storefront. Please listen to our other awesome podcasts on the Fandom Podcast Network: Master Feed: https://fpnet.podbean.com/
Episode 99 - Mark and Rob are (surprised) and delighted to welcome acclaimed Doctor Who researcher and writer Richard Molesworth on to the podcast to discuss his soon to be released book The John Nathan-Turner Production Diary 1979-1990. Richard gives us an in-depth view of writing the book, the new nuggets of information he uncovered while putting the book together and offers a candid assessment of JNTs time as producer. We also discuss Richard's other work, particularly Wiped! Doctor Who's Missing Episodes and his involvement as Project Manager on the Doctor Who Blu Ray range including the upcoming Season 22 Blu-ray set! The John Nathan-Turner Production Diary 1979-1990 is released 1 May 2022, but we urge all our listeners to pre-order directly from Telos Publishing here: https://telos.co.uk/shop/doctor-who/jnt-diary/
This week on Radio Free Skaro: Russell T Davies teases imminent production of Doctor Who, a historic anniversary, more speculation on BBC America's future with Doctor Who, a monumental day to look back at in The Timelash, and Emily Cook drops by to talk about Doctor Who Magazine 575! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon The Timelash Russell T Davies at Wolf Studios Doctor Who Magazine 575 Chicago TARDIS 2022 first guests Big Finish Stranded 4 due April Big Finish First Doctor Adventures – The Outlaws due April Big Finish UNIT: Nemesis – Agents of the Vulpreen released Totally Tasteless: The Life of John Nathan-Turner reprint due March 14 Disgusted, Mary Whitehouse Mary Whitehouse diaries Inside the Mary Whitehouse diaries Interview: Emily Cook
Former Doctor Who Magazine writer and long time Blue Peter editor Richard Marson (who has also written books on Doctor Who producers John Nathan-Turner and Verity Lambert) decided he'd rather chat to your host, Toby Hadoke, about his favourite things from Terror of the Autons. And it makes for a most illuminating chat that reveals much about the early days of fandom from someone at the coalface. Richard also takes us on a trip through the many highs of a story full of inventive death and teatime horror.
Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 73: K9 and Company at 40: A Girl’s Best Friend Review! There’s a special place in the hearts of all Doctor Who fans for the Doctor’s most diminutive of companions: the remarkable, electronic, robotic dog K9. The appeal of this character both at the Doctor’s feet and in his own right is undeniable and evergreen! So popular was he that long before Captain Jack bounded into the Torchwood hub, Class assembled or Sarah Jane moved to Bannerman Road? It was K9 who first secured a commission from the BBC for a spin-off to our favorite show back in 1981, pet project of producer John Nathan-Turner. Broadcasting over Christmas that year, thrilling and chilling generations of lucky British families. Or at least those who’s transmitter hadn’t gone down that evening! Regular hosts Dan and Simon are unapologetic in their adoration of K9 and jumped at the chance to celebrate the anniversary of that one-off, 50-minute pilot adventure! Calling in real life robot dog handler JT to sing a late Christmas chorus, review and speculate on what could’ve been… You can always find Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast at: • type40.podbean.com • Listen to Type 40 on: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Play, iHeart Radio, Tune In and the Podbean App. • Or as part of FPNet Master Feed @Fpnet.podbean.com If you would like to contact us directly you can: • Email: type40drwho@gmail.com • Twitter: @type40drwho • Instagram: @type40doctorwho • Facebook: Type 40 • A Doctor Who Fan Page • Join the Facebook group Type 40 • A Doctor Who Fan Group: http://bit.ly/type40_fbgroup • Simon Horton @The Whonatics on Facebook • Dan Hadley on Twitter and Instagram @The_spacebook TeePublic Store: Help support the Fandom Podcast Network and wear some of their fantastic original designs and logos on t-shirts, mugs, hats and more from Tee Public Go to: https://www.teepublic.com/user/fandompodcastnetwork or just search Fandom Podcast Network to find our storefront. Please listen to our other awesome podcasts on the Fandom Podcast Network: Master Feed: https://fpnet.podbean.com/
Godzilla vs. Kong, Batman vs. Superman, and Barrowman vs. Moffat. Will Earl presents 10 Behind The Scenes Bust-Ups...ENJOY!Follow us on Twitter:@YouSlyDawgYou@WhoCultureFor more awesome content, check out: whatculture.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
One of the key elements of our Shada month here at Kasterborous is the podKast (with a "K") in which we discuss the release of the new adaptation by Gareth Roberts, the original abandoned production, the attempts to remount with other Doctors, John Nathan-Turner's clever use of Tom Baker to narrate it in the mid 1990s and ultimate the audio version from 2003. We also try to get to the bottom of this fascinating question: if Shada had been completed, would we be thrilled by it as a classic? Frankly, for a TV serial that was never completed there is an awful lot to talk about!
It's the dawn of both Season 18 and the John Nathan Turner era, and there are few things that we don't see up-ended in the first story of 'the new order'.
TYPE 40: A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 55: The Showman’s Greatest with Chris Chapman The Doctor Who Blu Ray Collection is something we’ve always relished covering on Type 40. This time we go deeper than ever, with a close look at the feature length documentary “Showman: The Life of John Nathan-Turner”. Who better to get in for this discussion on the series longest standing producer, then they guy who’s made this definitive account of his life and career? Yes, director of this and so many superb special features Chris Chapman is our special guest on this edition of the show. Joining regular host Dan Hadley and Simon Horton to talk about how the project came to life; the challenges along the way right up to the film’s launch at the BFI earlier in 2020. As well as share some of his thoughts from inside the whole Blu ray range about what could be coming in the future. Don’t miss it this Type 40: A Doctor Who Podcast to stream direct or download here! Chris Chapman’s new Doctor Who adventure from Big Finish is Scorched Earth. Available here:https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-scorched-earth-2046 * Support Doctor Who Lockdown in raising money for the Covid-19 Film and TV Emergency Relief Fund, at this link: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/doctorwholockdown You can always find TYPE 40: A Doctor Who Podcast on: • The FPNet Master Feed @Fpnet.podbean.com • FPNet on Podbean app • Fandom Podcast Network on: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher & Google Play • Instagram: FandomPodcastNetwork & type40drwho • Facebook: TYPE 40: A Doctor Who Fandom Podcast: http://bit.ly/type40_fbgroup If you would like to contact us directly you can: • Email: type40drwho@gmail.com • Twitter: @type40drwho • Instagram: @type40drwho • Simon Horton @The Whonatics on Facebook • Dan Hadley on Twitter and Instagram @The_spacebook TeePublic Store: Help support the Fandom Podcast Network and wear some of their fantastic original designs and logos on t-shirts, mugs, hats and more from Tee Public Go to: https://www.teepublic.com/user/fandompodcastnetwork or just search Fandom Podcast Network to find our storefront. Apple Podcasts: Please search Fandom Podcast Network on Apple Podasts and leave us a review so new fans can find us easier. We LOVE 5 star reviews of course, but we love feedback in general! Please listen to our other awesome podcasts on the Fandom Podcast Network: Master Feed: https://fpnet.podbean.com/
The featured story for review this episode is Eldrad Must Die! by Marc Platt. However, Dwayne starts out with a little rant after having seen the documentary "Showman - The Life of John Nathan-Turner" on the Season 26 Blu-ray box set. The documentary included excerpts from the JNT Memoirs, released on Big Finish in 2002. Opinionated fandom about stories and storytelling styles is one thing, but when it gets personal against a show runner, is attacking an individual as a human being really an acceptable way to express your opinion? Our quick tip is The Lives of Captain Jack Volume 3, to be released later in March 2020. Intro & Outro music by Husky by the Geek. Website - sirensofaudio.com Email - sirensofaudio@gmail.com Twitter - @audiosirens All trailers, clips and cover art copyright to Big Finish & BBC and no infringement is intended. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sirensofaudio/message
Tread Perilously closes out Doctor Who month with the earliest story they've watched yet -- "The Edge of Destruction" aka "Inside the Spaceship." When The Doctor's attempt to steer "the ship" back to 20th Century Earth, they end up at the beginning of the universe -- or the Solar System if The Doctor is to be believed. The TARDIS knows it's in trouble, but it has a hard time conveying this message to its passengers. Meanwhile, Susan decides she needs to stab people with a dangerous pair of scissors, The Doctor becomes quite suspicious of his human captives, and Ian is reduced to a child-like state. Can Barbara interpret the TARDIS's message and save the day? Justin experiences what he calls "mezozoic" Doctor Who. He also finally meets Susan Foreman, The Doctor's granddaughter, and, of course, compares her to Zoe. They also discuss the new previous Doctor played by Jo Martin. It leads to a discussion of "The Other," and parts of the Cartmel Masterplan. Erik reveals his dislike of the genetic looms. Justin learns to dislike The Doctor's original mission statement. John Nathan-Turner comes up again and it turns out a young William Hartnell looked like Tom Hiddleston. The color-coded bandage becomes a favorite part of TARDIS tech and Hartnell's tendency to flub becomes an infectious spirit.
Doctor Who month brings Tread Perilously to "Earthshock," the infamous Fifth Doctor episode in which we learn who really killed the dinosaurs. When Adric and The Doctor have a fight about teenage angst, the TARDIS lands on 26th Century Earth, where the group encounters an army detachment investigating the recent deaths of paleontologists. Somehow, it all connects to a freighter light years away and crew worried about losing their bonuses. But is their cargo the real power behind these events? And will Adric chart his way home or will tragedy claim him? Justin's opinion of the Fifth Doctor remains unchanged. He also learns the truth about Tegan's accent. John Nathan-Turner's decision-making once again creates problems. Nyssa gets compared to Zoe. Her fashion choices also come into question. Erik defends Tegan and Peri as good characters. He also presents a new philosophy toward remakes. Justin is excited to see a quarry. The future guns and armor get positive remarks. The Room gets invoked to explain a point about directing. Justin comes to hate Adric and agrees with Steven Moffat's opinion of the character. Erik's "In the Year 2525" joke fails to land. He also learns about "insectivores." Fridge logic gets applied to certain aspects of the story and the Cybermen make a special appearance.
A special report from Colin Neal (@colin_neal), Pete Lambert (@Prof_Quiteamess), Simon Hart (@Si_Hart) and Steven Alexander (@stealexanderuk) at the BFI for the screening of The Curse of the Fenric and Showman: The Life of John Nathan-Turner.
Watch this space! Keep watching, as the BBC Doctor Who Twitter presence consistently teases us with a trailer or announcement or something or other, apparently coming on the show’s 56th anniversary of November 23, 2019. Now watch some more! Or just listen to the other news on hand, including Britbox launching in the UK, a BFI screening of the feature-length documentary about John Nathan Turner in the Series 26 Blu-Ray set, Sonic Screwdriver tat, and the resumption of the Doctor Who Series 11 Commentaries with “It Takes You Away” with Nicole Hill! Links: – Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! – #WhoForSchools initiative – Watch This Space – BritBox launches in the UK, Doctor Who absent until Boxing Day – Season 26 Blu-Ray Due March 24 in the US – Feature length JNT documentary from Season 26 Blu-Ray set to have BFI screening – Big Finish First Doctor Adventures Volume 4 – Sonic Screwdriver collection – An Unearthly Convention – Chicago TARDIS Commentary: – It Takes You Away – Nicole Hill
Toby Hadoke returns with the first instalment of a trilogy of Who's Rounds featuring a writer from the Sylvester McCoy era of Doctor Who.
Fifth Doctor May The co-hosts continue their monthly Doctor-focused episodes, following Richard Carrier's YouTube analysis (Fifth Doctor era clip - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_W6x64rxHc). Peter Davison and his TARDIS crew under the supervision of John Nathan-Turner ushered in a new era of "Doctor Who" for the 1980s. Was this the beginning of something new or the beginning of the end for the classic era? In their look into the TARDIS library, the couple re-visit the Tenth Doctor adventure "The Doctor's Daughter," with guest star Georgia Moffett, a.k.a. Peter Davison's daughter (and David Tennant's future wife!)
Fifth Doctor MayThe co-hosts continue their monthly Doctor-focused episodes, following Richard Carrier's YouTube analysis (Fifth Doctor era clip - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_W6x64rxHc). Peter Davison and his TARDIS crew under the supervision of John Nathan-Turner ushered in a new era of "Doctor Who" for the 1980s. Was this the beginning of something new or the beginning of the end for the classic era?In their look into the TARDIS library, the couple re-visit the Tenth Doctor adventure "The Doctor's Daughter," with guest star Georgia Moffett, a.k.a. Peter Davison's daughter (and David Tennant's future wife!)
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!
I have more questions than answers right now. This week we’re joined for our first crossover of the reboot. I think. I’m pretty sure. I’d check but I’m sure enough that I’m not going to. Just trust me on this one, I’m really certain of it. It’s The Doctor’s Wife, written by Neil Gaiman andContinue reading →
One could say that John Nathan Turner and crew really choked on this first outing for the 6th Doctor. If you watched the episode, you get the joke. If you didn't watch the episode, then you consider yourself lucky. This week we're talking about, The Twin Dilemma. Be sure to rate us on iTunes, Stitcher, Podbean and on Google Play! We want to hear from you! Find us at your favorite social media outlets: Facebook - facebook.com/wdwnpod Twitter - @wdwnpodWebsite - wdwnpod.com Or email us at wdwnpod@gmail.com Special Thanks to the Jackpot Golden Boys for our theme. Find more of their great work on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/user/jackpot Or on their website - http://www.jackpotgoldenboys.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
Or: The Caves of Andro-Zany Three men go to war against sobriety as Ben, Mark and Derek tackle "A Good Man Goes to War" and "The Caves of Androzani" in a special 61st episode, recorded live at the Edinburgh Geek and Nerd Festival's WhoFest weekend. Competing with both an incoming pub quiz and the hottest day of the year, they discuss hubris, consequences, toy boxes, glibness and "American Daytime Soap Opera shitness". ALSO: It's Saturday niiiiiiiiight! Ben and Mark compete with members of the audience in a very special "Degsey's Where Did It Come Game", Robert Holmes' bleak 1980s output, and a tribute to John Nathan-Turner.
Ahh the 1980s... Ben and David pick five cliffhangers each that are the best, or at least representative of the John Nathan-Turner era of Doctor Who. From continuity errors from being away at school to the pitiful telephone calls of a fanboy wondering when the Romana and K9 in E-Space series was going to start, the Metebelis 2 lads explore j'tangers. Opening music is an excerpt from the "Earthshock" score by Malcom Clarke and closing music is an excerpt from the "Frontios" score by Paddy Kingsland.
Back in 1981, then-Doctor Who producer John Nathan-Turner had a season of repeats called "The Five Faces of Doctor Who" that launched Peter Davison as fifth Doctor. So in this podcast, Ben and David suggest incoming showrunner Chris Chibnall have a summer season of the thirteen faces of Doctor Who to help launch Jodie Whittaker as the new Doctor, and being ever so helpful, they each have compiled a list of which thirteen stories to rebroadcast. Opening music is "The Axons Approach" by Brian Hodgson. Closing music is "The Mad Man in a Box" by Murray Gold.
It's time for another monthly bonus episode of The Weekly Stuff Podcast with Jonathan Lack & Sean Chapman, where we will be discussing serials from classic Doctor Who history. After two wonderful months spent chronicling the adventures of the Fourth Doctor, we jump ahead to the strange reign of the Fifth, played by Peter Davison, and the rocky tenure of producer John Nathan Turner. Kinda, the story we discuss here, is the Fifth Doctor's third-ever serial, and it is one of the weirdest, wildest, and most unique Doctor Who stories ever told, steeped in dream sequences, surreal imagery, and bizarre plotting that, at the very least, adds up to an extremely memorable story. Is there more than just wackiness on display here? What do we make of Davison's performance as the Fifth Doctor? And is Adric or Tegan a worse companion? We answer all these questions and more in our in-depth discussion of Kinda. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel! Subscribe for free to 'The Weekly Stuff' in iTunes! Follow Jonathan Lack on Twitter! Follow Sean Chapman on Twitter!
The trial continues...this time with a new companion that the Doctor hasn't met yet. Yes, defending himself in the court of his peers, an independent Time Lord inquiry, the Doctor unwittingly, yet quite characteristically, incriminates himself, if you will, by showing footage where he accidentally commits genocide. Yikes! Yes, this is one podcast with two serials to discuss! The Ultimate Foe. The meta arc series where not only is the Doctor on Trail by the Time Lords, but the show itself is being judged by the court of the BBC. Will cheap shots like bureaucracy wrapped in paperwork in the matrix help John Nathan Turner plead his case that the show must go on? What do you think about the Trial of a Time Lord series? What are your thoughts about the existence of the Valeyard? Since this is the last television experience of the Colin Baker Doctor, what are your thoughts about the era? E-mail us at prydonian.post@gmail.com www.wrightonnetwork.com Twitter @sogallifrey
Here's this week's brand new podcast and free download from man-with-a-mission Toby Hadoke...
One week on, and we still can't quite believe it. Has Bradley Walsh really been cast as a companion on #DoctorWho Series 11? Is the production in some sort of bizarre existential crisis? Or is it a sort of modern day take on John-Nathan Turner-esque stunt casting? Christian Cawley and James McLean chew the fat, and perhaps even come to a conclusion (which would be a first)...
Comedian, actor, and TV aficionado Toby Hadoke presents this latest free download and podcast of his journeys to track down and interview a host of people associated with the first 54 years of Doctor Who on television...
Unfortunately you all know it’s true. This week we’ve made the biggest mistake we’ve ever made. But even our biggest mistake (watching this special) can’t compare to how big of a mistake it was for the show to make Dimensions in Time. It was written by John Nathan-Turner and David Roden, and it was airedContinue reading →
Toby Hadoke provides today's free download and podcast, tracking down another person involved in Doctor Who's 54 years of TV history!
Apóyanos en Patreon y disfruta de sus ventajas ESTE MES REGALO DE CAMISETA DE LA CONSTANTE PARA TODOS LOS BARNEYS STINSON O MÁS patreon.com/laconstante - Noticias (min 4:32) Gemma Ayats nos habla sobre las declaraciones de Michelle Gómez sobre el nuev@ Doctor, un rumor sobre que el nuevo Doctor podría ser...un Stark de Invernalia! También nos traerá las audiencias definitivas de Oxygen 10x05. Y una teoría que indica una posible regeneración del Doctor en el capítulo 10x08! - La review sónica Doctor Who 10x06 "Extremis" (min 28:02) Emitido el sábado 20 de mayo en BBC One, con una audiencia de 4,16 millones de espectadores. Sin fecha de emisión prevista en España (¡Netflix daros caña!) - El vórtice temporal (min 82:25) Rafa Cassette nos transporta a tiempos de polémica, hablando del showrunner John Nathan-Turner. - Las torres de Darillium (min 89:02) David Mulé nos trae un tema musical de la BSO de Doctor Who. Hoy recordaremos a nuestra companion favorita, con su canción "Donna´s theme". Presentado por Carolina Fraile, con David Mulé y Gemma Ayats. ¿Quieres saber más? Pues adelante, pincha en play, y si te gusta dale a like y comparte. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/409564235905186/ o https://www.facebook.com/laconstante1/ Twitter: @laconstante1 Mail: laconstanteseries@gmail.com Web: www.laconstanteseries.com
Apóyanos en Patreon y disfruta de sus ventajas ESTE MES REGALO DE CAMISETA DE LA CONSTANTE PARA TODOS LOS BARNEYS STINSON O MÁS patreon.com/laconstante - Noticias (min 4:32) Gemma Ayats nos habla sobre las declaraciones de Michelle Gómez sobre el nuev@ Doctor, un rumor sobre que el nuevo Doctor podría ser...un Stark de Invernalia! También nos traerá las audiencias definitivas de Oxygen 10x05. Y una teoría que indica una posible regeneración del Doctor en el capítulo 10x08! - La review sónica Doctor Who 10x06 "Extremis" (min 28:02) Emitido el sábado 20 de mayo en BBC One, con una audiencia de 4,16 millones de espectadores. Sin fecha de emisión prevista en España (¡Netflix daros caña!) - El vórtice temporal (min 82:25) Rafa Cassette nos transporta a tiempos de polémica, hablando del showrunner John Nathan-Turner. - Las torres de Darillium (min 89:02) David Mulé nos trae un tema musical de la BSO de Doctor Who. Hoy recordaremos a nuestra companion favorita, con su canción "Donna´s theme". Presentado por Carolina Fraile, con David Mulé y Gemma Ayats. ¿Quieres saber más? Pues adelante, pincha en play, y si te gusta dale a like y comparte. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/409564235905186/ o https://www.facebook.com/laconstante1/ Twitter: @laconstante1 Mail: laconstanteseries@gmail.com Web: www.laconstanteseries.com
David Kitchen's back! Well, if you heard our '21 Replacements For 12' episode on February 1, you'd know that, but this is the first time in 2017 that Rob sits down to discuss Doctor Who with Dave on the flagship edition of the show. During today's episode, they cover: – Listener emails from John Hole and 'Kazza' which cover Children of the Dogstar; Chocky; casting a female Doctor; and whether Rob and Dave are 50th Anniversary deniers. - Errors Department: paper with the corners cut off to make it look futuristic is a Battlestar Galactica thing, not a Babylon 5 thing. Rob's mistake. - What Doctor Who music has stood out for you, and why? Nu Who or classic series, we want to hear it all from you. No pun intended. Email us -- hello@theDWshow.net -- or tell us on our Facebook or Twitter. - Doctor Who Series 10: we have a release date; Missy's return and will this be her final hurrah?; the Ice Warriors return with an all-new version but will this be a great or dodgy Gatiss episode; Dave's Pearl Mackie conspiracy theory. - Doctor Who Series 11: production has been pushed back, so we won't see it in April of 2018 as many had been expecting after we 'reset the clock' this year. - Doctor Who news: Vale, John Hurt; Big Finish sale perhaps prefaces the retirement of CDs 51 - 125 as physical media and Big Finish chat in general - what are Rob and Dave buying and why?; the essay book Hating to Love (which we interviewed JR Southall about on an earlier episode), has been released - and Dave and Rob each have a copy; future Watching Books releases. - Dave's adventures in the UK: meeting the Blue Box Podcast & Diddly Dum podcast crews; are podcasts replacing Doctor Who clubs in the modern day?; visiting Doctor Who locations in the UK. - Totally Tasteless: The Life of John Nathan-Turner by Richard Marson. - What are we watching beyond Doctor Who? Dave cites The Goldbergs and Riverdale while Rob opts for the Santa Clarita Diet. - Some more quick thoughts on Series 10 of Doctor Who before we go.
Warren is in Long Island, NY this week, enjoying the fourth iteration of the east coast nerd gathering known as LI Who, and has a report from the trenches for you dear listeners. Thanks to schedules, wifi, and probably rock monsters, Warren couldn’t watch Class in time for the show, but Steven and Chris are on the case to give you their take on Episode 5 of the Doctor Who spinoff. However, Warren is present for the commentary for the sentimental favourite (but not altogether good) Season 15 story “The Invisible Enemy”, recorded in the blissful, innocent time of October 2016. Remember that time? Remember…? Links: – Class Episode 5, “Brave-ish Heart” – Power of the Daleks iTunes preorder – Doctor Who Experience to close in 2017 – The Pirate Planet novelized by James Goss – Totally Tasteless: The Life of John Nathan-Turner, from Miwk Publishing – First look at Doctor Who Mr. Men – Kandles fan art by Robbie Bonham – Kandles fan art by Mike Rieger – Long Island Doctor Who Commentary: – The Invisible Enemy
Nick Briggs and Benji Clifford present all the latest news and listeners' emails from the audio world of Big Finish. Is their guest star the new, unannounced Doctor Who... or just Doctor Who Magazine Deputy Editor Peter Ware?
Toby Hadoke - comedian, actor and TV aficionado - offers a fresh new podcast and free download with someone connected with the first 52 years of Doctor Who on TV...
Welcome to the mid 1980’s, when music and colors were loud. Colin Baker was in his first full fledged season as The Doctor, with Nicola Bryant’s Peri by his side. Doctor Who producer John Nathan-Turner, aka JNT, was in full control of the show. This is when the show was at its most controversial times, … Continue reading Vengeance On Varos Part One Examined The post Vengeance On Varos Part One Examined first appeared on Geekville Radio.
One day in 2013, actor, comedian and TV expert Toby Hadoke was challenged to find someone to talk to about every Doctor Who story from the show's first 50 years on television. This ongoing quest has expanded and entertained, with today's free download and podcast being no exception...
Challenged to interview someone connected with every Doctor Who TV story in the show's first 50 years , Toby Hadoke continues to travel the land providing free download and podcasts. Today we offer his latest:
Toby Hadoke - comedian, actor and cult-TV expert - provides another brand new, free download/podcast in which he talks to a figure involved in the first 53 years of Doctor Who on television...
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...
Toby Hadoke takes us behind the cameras this week in his latest free download and podcast. Once again, he tracks down someone involved in the first 52 years of Doctor Who on TV, and invites them to discuss their work and career...
In 2013 actor, comedian and TV expert Toby Hadoke was set a challenge to interview someone associated with every televised Doctor Who story in just a year. His epic journey has resulted in an engrossing range of free downloads and podcasts, with the latest presented today:
Here's Shabcast 11, featuring myself in conversation with Phil Sandifer. This was recorded before Eruditorum Press went live, so events have overtaken it somewhat. We discuss Doctor Who (before the start of Series 9), Susan, Gareth Roberts, Thomas Ligotti, God, Alan Moore, H.P. Lovecraft, Jimmy Saville, Frank Miller, Vox Day (because Phil just can't help himself), Hegel, Marxism, technological determinism, the Situationists, Engels, evolution, revolution, the Anthropocene extinction, Jonathan Jones, and the existential terrors of the Right. But the main attractions of the podcast are our discussions of Hannibal (which had just ended when we taped), True Detective, and the life and crimes (artistic and otherwise) of John Nathan-Turner. Chatting about Hannibal, we coin the term 'hannibalism', decide how to do Buffalo Bill in 2015, and come to the conclusion that Hannibal himself is a Miltonic Lucifer in a gnostic universe created by a deistic god and, possibly, Hannibal himself. Be aware of spoilers and triggers (note the references above to Jimmy Saville and JN-T).
Toby Hadoke is a Doctor Who fan, as well as of a font of knowledge of TV in general - and he uses this to great effect in this series of informative interviews with people associated with the first 50 years of Doctor Who on TV...
Toby Hadoke has tracked down another person associated with one of the stories of Doctor Who's first 50 years on television - for another free podcast, just look below:
What have the Romans ever done for us? According to Boudica not much as Phil and Paul review the 4th Doctor Big Finish story The Wrath of The Iceni. In this story of ancient Britain and the rebellion against the empire (the Roman one that is), Phil and Paul have a little disagreement of their own as both have opposing views on this story and on the Doctor! So sit back and listen to two old gits who most likely had first hand experience of the Roman occupation. And in the news, Steven Moffat gets an OBE, a series 9 teaser trailer, San Diego Comic Con tat that didn't make it into Omega's Tat Corner and John Nathan Turner gets his own bus. And Phil now refers to you all as fans, not listeners as his ego runs rampant.
#doctorwho #tindogpodcast Midlands premiere convention for Doctor Who fans! Guests Photo Gallery Tickets About Whooverville Counting down to Whooverville 7! 5 September 2015 at QUAD, Derby. 0 7 3 Days 2 2 Hours 0 3 Minutes Guests More guests will be added as they are confirmed. Please remember all announced guests appear subject to work commitments. Colin Baker For the second successive year we are proud to be bringing a Doctor to Whooverville – and it's an old friend of our group and our convention. We are absolutely delighted to be able to announce that COLIN BAKER has agreed to return to Whooverville.Colin, the Sixth Doctor of course, needs no introduction. If you have yet to see him at a convention you are in for a treat. He is a fabulous guest and a genuinely nice guy.He was the main guest at the very first Whooverville, back in 2009 and we are really looking forward to showing him what we have done with our little convention, as well as to asking him about Big Finish, his part in the 50th Anniversary Celebrations, I'm A Celebrity… and so much more. Many thanks to Colin for agreeing to come back and see us again Guests Jenny T. Colgan Jenny published her first novel in 2000 and is one of the UK's most popular romantic novelists, winning the award for Romantic Novel of the Year in 2013 for Welcome to Rosie Hopkins' Sweetshop of Dreams. A life-long Who fan, who once won a competition to meet Peter Davison, Jenny's first Doctor Who novel, Dark Horizons was published in 2012. She is also a contributor to the recently published collection of Who novellas, originally published as e-books, Time Trips. Many thanks to our friends at BBC Books for helping to arrange Jenny's appearance at Whooverville. Richard Marson Richard is the author of two acclaimed biographies of Doctor Who producers. JNT: The Life and Scandalous Times of John Nathan Turner, published in 2013, confounded many people's expectations by being a serious, scholarly and above all sympathetic account of the life of the last producer of classic Doctor Who. He has followed this up his year, with his biography of the series' first producer, Drama and Delight: The Life of Verity Lambert, which is garnering rave reviews. Both books are published by Miwk Publishing, to whom our thanks go for facilitating Richard's appearance at Whooverville. Richard was for many years a contributor to Doctor Who Magazine and was editor of Blue Peter between 1998 and 2007. He also produced the fabulous 2012 documentary, Tales of Television Centre. We very much look forward to meeting him. Jeff Cummins Since winning a Magpie art competition with a portrait of George Best in 1969, Jeff has had a successful career as a graphic designer and artist. In the 1970s he worked with the legendary Hipgnosis, designers of album covers, working with artists such as Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, The Moody Blues and Peter Gabriel. His painting for the Paul and Linda McCartneyalbum ‘Wings Over America' propelled him into the international arena. of course he is well-known to Who fans as the designer of the covers of a number of Target books. More information on Jeff and his work can be found at Many thanks to Jeff for contacting us, we look forward to meeting him. Karen Louise Hollis Karen is an old friend and a member of our group, who is known for her two books relating her convention experiences Un-Conventional and The Other Side of The Table. She is the author of the forthcoming Anthony Ainley biography, The Man Behind The Master, to be published by Fantom Films. Michael Pickwoad Michael is the current Production Manager on Doctor Who, the man ultimately responsible for all art and design matters on the series. The son of War Machines actor William Mervyn, he has never done a convention before. Many thanks to our friend Tristan Peatfield for making the introductions. Dan Starkey Dan has become the go-to-guy for Sontarans both for televised Doctor Who and for Big Finish audios, since appearing in the 10th Doctor Story The Sontaran Strategem/The Poison Sky. He is probably best known as Commander Strax, a role which he first played in the Eleventh Doctor story A Good Man Goes To War and which he has reprised on several occasions since as part of the Paternoster Gang. After 3 seasons in prosthetics as Randal Moon in Wizards vs. Aliens, Dan finally got his face on-screen as Ian the elf in the Doctor Who Christmas Special Last Christmas, before covering himself in glory as part of the winning team in the Christmas 2014 series of University Challenge. Dan is a long-standing Doctor Who fan, which will make it particularly pleasing to welcome him to Whooverville. Terrance Dicks Terrance Dicks is a very old friend of our group, having twice previously visited us for Friday evening meetings, as well as for one of the 625 Lines events at QUAD that we co-organised. Terrance needs no introduction, he is simply the most important writer ever to contribute to Doctor Who and the biggest influence on the show of the last 40 years. Terrance is a great convention guest, a font of fascinating stories and memories, and a genuinely nice, approachable person. If you haven't met him yet, you are in for a treat. David Benson David Benson is perhaps best know to us as the voice of Panda in the Big Finish Iris Wildthyme audio range, for playing Orson Welles in ‘Invaders from Mars', also for Big Finish and (among others) Aleister Crowley in ‘The Scarifyers'. He is also known for his hit one-man show ‘Think No Evil Of Us', based on the life of Kenneth Williams as well as for his similar show based on Frankie Howerd and for playing Noel Cowerd in the BBC comedy show ‘Goodnight Sweetheart'. David made his television Doctor Who debut this year as the Master of Ceremonies of the Archery Contest in ‘Robot of Sherwood'. Matthew Waterhouse The son of a solicitor, Matthew was a great fan of Doctor Who in his younger days and went on to play Adric alongside the 4th and 5th Doctors. Matthew has recently returned to Doctor Who as Adric for Big Finish alongside Peter Davison as the 5th Doctor. Photo Gallery
A new free podcast from Toby Hadoke, as part of his epic ongoing mission to speak to someone involved with every single televised Doctor Who story from the show's first 50 years!
We promise, this is almost certainly the last time we jabber on about superhero movies...but that is in fact what happens at the start of this week's episode, until Chris lobs a well-deserved boot heel into the proceedings and gets the Other Two Who Rule back on track and talking about Doctor Who...in the form of comic books! Oh, sweet irony. Sweeter still are a couple of vintage interviews supplied by (and in one case featuring) composer Dominic Glynn and iconoclastic Doctor Who producer John Nathan Turner! Interspersed with those chats are some preview tracks from Glynn's new EP "The Ravolox Remixes", available on iTunes May 18! Check out the show notes at http://www.radiofreeskaro.com
Here's a new podcast, hot from the microphone of Toby Hadoke, as he travels the country speaking to people associated with every one of the stories from the first 50 years of Doctor Who on TV...
After much wrangling and consternation (mostly from Shag), the Who True Freaks gang is back to cover an episode featuring one of the most contentious actors to portray the Doctor, Colin Baker, the technicolor suited madman with a blue box and his incredibly fetching companion Peri. This time out Thomas Deja, Shawn Engel, The Irredeemable Shag, and first time Who True Freaks panelist Luke Jaconetti discuss the best show of the Colin Baker era, VENGEANCE ON VAROS. Yes it's evil corporations, creepy Jabba the Hutt/Salacious Crumb offspring, and commentary on reality televison long before Simon Cowell could be the ruination the the medium. Plus there's discussion of some of the other, perhaps better, works of Colin Baker put forth by Shag, who really wasn't too impressed by the show. But hey, when some of the other shows you have to pick from include Timelash and The Twin Dilemma, you really have nowhere to go but up. So what are you waiting for? Download the show and prepare to la-dal-la-dal-la-dal-love it (my horrible Sil impersonation.).Feedback for this show can be sent to: whotruefreaks@gmail.comTwo True Freaks! is a proud member of BOTH the Comics Podcast Network (http://www.comicspodcasts.com/) and the League of Comic Book Podcasts (http://www.comicbooknoise.com/league/)!! Follow the fun on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/113051642052970/ THANK YOU for listening to Two True Freaks!!
After much wrangling and consternation (mostly from Shag), the Who True Freaks gang is back to cover an episode featuring one of the most contentious actors to portray the Doctor, Colin Baker, the technicolor suited madman with a blue box and his incredibly fetching companion Peri. This time out Thomas Deja, Shawn Engel, The Irredeemable Shag, and first time Who True Freaks panelist Luke Jaconetti discuss the best show of the Colin Baker era, VENGEANCE ON VAROS. Yes it's evil corporations, creepy Jabba the Hutt/Salacious Crumb offspring, and commentary on reality televison long before Simon Cowell could be the ruination the the medium. Plus there's discussion of some of the other, perhaps better, works of Colin Baker put forth by Shag, who really wasn't too impressed by the show. But hey, when some of the other shows you have to pick from include Timelash and The Twin Dilemma, you really have nowhere to go but up. So what are you waiting for? Download the show and prepare to la-dal-la-dal-la-dal-love it (my horrible Sil impersonation.).Feedback for this show can be sent to: whotruefreaks@gmail.comTwo True Freaks! is a proud member of BOTH the Comics Podcast Network (http://www.comicspodcasts.com/) and the League of Comic Book Podcasts (http://www.comicbooknoise.com/league/)!! Follow the fun on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/113051642052970/ THANK YOU for listening to Two True Freaks!!
Happy post-10th Who birthday, everyone! What with Peter Capaldi visiting the Doctor Who Experience and entertaining children with birthday cakes and charm, it’s easy to forget that other things were happening in the world of Who this week, like Big Finish announcing they’ll be making their audio adventures until at least 2020, or a mad genius 3D printing a bust of the aforementioned Mr. Capaldi. All mere preamble though, as this week we bring you an interview with biographer Richard Marson, who is following up his excellent book on John Nathan-Turner with “Drama and Delight: The Life of Verity Lambert.” Intrigued? Then lend us the use of your aural cavities for an hour and change! Check out the show notes at http://www.radiofreeskaro.com
Episode 31 - Richard Marson is our special guest in this first part of our two part series looking at the biographies of Doctor Who stars in front and behind of the camera. Richard discusses the approach he took in documenting the life of Doctor Who's first producer, Verity Lambert as well as touching on his previous acclaimed book on John-Nathan Turner. We also ask Richard his thoughts on other biographies in the realm of Doctor Who. The book (and other Doctor Who related titiles) can be ordered directly from Miwk Publishing http://www.miwkpublishing.com/store/
Episode 31 - Richard Marson is our special guest in this first part of our two part series looking at the biographies of Doctor Who stars in front and behind of the camera. Richard discusses the approach he took in documenting the life of Doctor Who's first producer, Verity Lambert as well as touching on his previous acclaimed book on John-Nathan Turner. We also ask Richard his thoughts on other biographies in the realm of Doctor Who. The book (and other Doctor Who related titiles) can be ordered directly from Miwk Publishing http://www.miwkpublishing.com/store/
The tsunami of news (or, if you will, newsnami) continues this week, with tales of conventions, extras, tie-ins, and so, so much about An Adventure in Space and Time. All but mere pre-amble to the second part of the John Nathan-Turner miniscope, with special guest Steve O’Brien, who spares nothing in his analysis of the somewhat shaky years comprising the tail-end of JNT’s era as producer of Doctor Who. The Three Who Rule also give their thoughts on the latter half of the JNT era, rounding out a jam-packed episode of Radio Free Skaro sure to pale in comparison to the utter madness that is the final weeks before the 50th anniversary. Prepare yourselves! Check out the show notes at http://www.radiofreeskaro.com
It was one of the more exciting weeks in Doctor Who recently with global cinema screenings of "The Day of The Doctor" being announced around the world, and Big Finish's 50th anniversary story "The Light At The End" being given an early release, one month before the actual anniversary itself. The resulting chaos showed that no internet site knows the wrath of an impatient group of Doctor Who fans, but at the end of the day, thousands of fans will be watching the 50th Anniversary story in 3D together in cinemas (the Three Who Rule included!) on November 23 and 25. Once the furore of this died down on the podcast, the Skaro boys turn back the clock to delve into the first half of the John Nathan-Turner era in the Miniscope, with the wonderful Rob Shearman! Check out the show notes at http://www.radiofreeskaro.com
Matt West in conversation with Richard Marson, author of The Life and Scandalous Times of John Nathan-Turner. Part 2 of a two-part podcast http://miwkpublishing.com/uploads/MIWK_PC_05_RM2.mp3
Matt West in conversation with Richard Marson, author of The Life and Scandalous Times of John Nathan-Turner. Part 1 of a two-part podcast http://miwkpublishing.com/uploads/MIWK_PC_05_RM1.mp3
Now that new Doctor Who is no longer gracing our screens on a weekly basis, Verity! is back to our usual schedule. That means a "proper" episode every-other-week, but fear not! We'll have a little something for you in the off-weeks as well. This off-week it's more than little--it's an extra-long Extra! Join Deb, Erika, Kat, Lynne, and Tansy as we cover the departure of our beloved Matt Smith and then tackle Richard Marson's headline-making book JN-T: The Life and Scandalous Times of John Nathan-Turner. If you'd like to take Tansy's advice and search out more podcastey goodness covering the book, check out Radio Free Skaro's interview with Richard Marson. ^E
Britain's biggest selling daily newspaper, The Sun, has announced it will start charging for its website later this year. It's the latest paper to announce it's to put content behind a pay wall - the Telegraph made its plans known yesterday afternoon. Presenter Steve Hewlett discusses how The Sun is hoping to make money, what it's likely to be offering, and whether competitors like Mail Online could ever follow suit.As separate types of media - print, broadcast, online - increasingly merge together, questions are being asked about how to regulate content. A report out today from the House of Lords Communications Committee has looked into the issue. It believes the changes to the media are 'profound' and put strain on the present regulatory system. Steve asks the Chair of the Committee and report author, Lord Ingelwood, about the findings and hears concern from the founder of Mumsnet Justine Roberts about trying to regulate arenas like blogging.And Richard Marson, author of "The Life and Scandalous Times of John Nathan-Turner", responds to press reports of his book that focus on new abuse allegations at the BBC in the 1980s.The producer is Simon Tillotson.
The upcoming book "JN-T: The Life and Scandalous Times of John Nathan-Turner" is quite possibly the most controversial account of the behind-the-scenes world of Doctor Who ever published, delving into the, at times, seedy side of the life of the long time producer of Doctor Who. It also covers, with astonishing detail, the trials and tribulations that occurred during the making of the programme in the 1980s when the BBC were increasingly trying to kill it. We present an interview with the book's author, Richard Marson, who explains the amount of work that went into researching the biography, as well as discuss his own experiences and opinions on the man who was responsible for Doctor Who for an entire decade. But before that, Chris and Steven yammer about the news of the week, and look forward to new Doctor Who in less than a week's time! Check out the show notes at http://www.radiofreeskaro.com
Doctor Who Z-list celebrity, comedian, actor and writer Toby Hadoke takes control of the podcast for the first of many entirely trivial interviews with people from the world of Doctor Who.
We've been talking about doing this podKast for literally months, but thanks to the end of Series 7 we've finally got around to dedicating a podKast to arguably Doctor Who's most divisive producer, John Nathan-Turner! Starting with his first series in charge and making reference to his success as a production unit manager, we look at how Doctor Who changed during his stewardship, how the BBC changed and we also consider whether the series had really "had its day" as the BBC regularly indicated in the 1990s. Don't forget to look out for this week's "Previously on next week's podKast" sentence, in which a timey-wimey occurrence means that a stray phrase was captured and placed at the end of last week's podKast. Confused? You will be... Have fun, dear listener, and enjoy!
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: , For the United States Navy ship, see ; for the Arabic emphasis sign, see ; for the village in Azerbaijan, see . Shada Serial Shada, the prison planetoid of the Time Lords. Cast () () (Voice of ) Others — Skagra – – Chris Parsons – Clare Keightley – Wilkin – Dr Caldera – Police Constable – Passenger – Voice of the Ship – Voice of the Krargs , , , – Krargs Production Writer Director (original) Script editor Douglas Adams Producer (original) (video) Production code 5M Series Length Incomplete (original) 6 episodes, 25 minutes each (intended) Originally broadcast Unaired (original) 6 July 1992 (video release) Chronology ← Preceded by Followed by → Shada is an unaired serial of the series . It was intended to be the final serial of the 1979-80 season (Season 17), but was never completed due to a at the during filming. In 1992, its recorded footage was released on video using linking narration by , the Doctor to complete the story. The script, with adaptions, was later produced by as an , with animation and was made available on and the BBC website in 2003. This version saw take on the role of the Doctor, with reprising her role as , with an otherwise different cast. A novelisation of the story written by and returning the action to the Fourth Doctor and Romana was released in March 2012. Contents Synopsis The story revolves around the lost planet Shada, on which the built a prison for defeated would-be conquerors of the universe. Skagra, an up-and-coming would-be conqueror of the universe, needs the assistance of one of the prison's inmates, but finds that nobody knows where Shada is anymore except one aged Time Lord who has retired to , where he is masquerading as a professor at . Luckily for the fate of the universe, Skagra's attempt to force the information out of coincides with a visit by the professor's old friend, . Continuity In an unfilmed scene in Episode 5, a listing of prisoners kept on Shada included a , a , and a . Instead of these, aliens bearing resemblance to were seen. In 1983, clips from Shada were used in , the 20th-Anniversary special. , the fourth actor to play the Doctor, had declined to appear in the special, and the plot was reworked to explain the events in the clips. In the book, various references are made to past and future Doctor Who. In particular past rebellious Time Lords are mentioned including, , , the and . For the Big Finish version, Tom Baker was originally approached to reprise the role of the Doctor, but declined. The Eighth Doctor was then substituted and the story reworked accordingly. Although working from the original Adams script, portions of the Big Finish version were reworked by to make the story fit into Doctor Who continuity. This included a new introduction, and a new explanation for the Fourth Doctor and Romana being "taken out of time" during the events of The Five Doctors; the has come to collect Romana and K-9 because he has begun to have a feeling that there was something they should have done at that time. In addition to this – is referred to as Madam President by Skagra in Episode 5. In Episode 6 it is Romana, using her Presidential powers, who decides that Chronotis should be allowed to return to Cambridge. When the policeman enters Chronotis' room, the Doctor can be heard talking about a "terrible way to see in the New Year" in a possible reference to that Doctor's . Various other minor dialogue changes throughout, mostly relating to the Eighth Doctor reflecting that he has missed Romana and since they left him and how much he enjoyed their company in the past. When Skagra is investigating the Doctor, clips from three other Big Finish productions can be heard, exclusively on the CD version – , and . The original serial was to have used clips from , , , , , and . The webcast features outlines of the first eight Doctors' faces. Production Original television version The original story, as written by Adams, was scheduled to be 6 episodes. It is estimated that only about 50% of the story was filmed. Location filming in and the first of three studio sessions at were recorded as scheduled. The second studio block was affected by a long-running technicians' dispute. The strike was over by the time rehearsals began for the third recording session, but this was lost to higher-priority Christmas programming. Attempts were made by new producer John Nathan-Turner to remount the story, but for various reasons it never happened and the production was formally dropped in June 1980. Nathan-Turner was eventually able to complete the story (so far as was possible) by commissioning new effects shots, a score and having Tom Baker record linking material to cover the missing scenes to create six shortened episodes of between 14 and 22 minutes each. The result was released on video in 1992 as a 111 minute VHS tape, but has never been aired on television—making Shada the only Doctor Who television story never to be broadcast. Douglas Adams himself did not regard the story highly and was content for it remain permanently unseen in any form. He once claimed that when he had signed the contract allowing the 1992 release, it had been part of a pile of other papers presented to him by his agent to sign and he wasn't fully aware of what he was agreeing to. Levine animated version In 2010, decided to fund a project to complete the original Shada story using animation and the original voice actors, minus Tom Baker and David Brierley, to complete the parts of the story that were never filmed. John Leeson would replace Brierley as the voice of K9 and Paul Jones, impersonating Baker, would replace him as the Doctor. In October 2010, Dan Hall of confirmed that a DVD release of Shada was in production and intended to release it with another title. The completed story was finished in late 2011 and announced by Levine, via his Twitter account, on September 8, 2011. J. R. Southall, writer for the science fiction magazine , reviewed Levine's completed version and scored it 10 out of 10 in an article published on September 15, 2011. On October 26, 2011, 2 Entertain announced that only the Shada framgents would be released on DVD, along with the 1993 documentary 'Doctor Who': Thirty Years in the Tardis and other items, possibly sometime in 2012. Southall confirmed the news that same day writing that Dan Hall, 2 Entertain's comissioning editor, was not going to release Levine's completed version. Big Finish version (2003) Shada Series Release number II Featuring Writer , Director Producer(s) Gary Russell Set between and Length 150 Release date December 2003 The Cast The Doctor – () – – Skagra – – Chris Parsons – Clare Keightley – Wilkin – Dr Caldera – Motorist/Constable – The Ship – Think Tank Voice – Broadcast date: 10 December 2005 In 2003, the BBC commissioned to remake Shada as an audio play which was then webcast in six episodic segments, accompanied by limited animation, on the using illustrations provided by comic strip artist . The play starred as the and as . The audio play was also broadcast on digital radio station BBC 7, on 10 December 2005 (as a 21⁄2-hour omnibus), and was repeated in six parts as the opening story to the 's summer season which began on 16 July 2006. Lalla Ward (Romana) is the only actor to appear in both the original television version and the subsequent Big Finish remake. Outside references In Episode 2 of the webcast version, when Chris is in his lab showing Clare the book, a vending machine-like object in the background is labelled "Nutrimat", a reference to a similar device in Adams' . Two other references are a sequence where Skagra steals a and when images of Hitchhiker's Guide characters appear as inmates on Shada itself. In print book Doctor Who – Shada Writer Gareth Roberts Publisher Release date 15 March 2012 Preceded by ' Followed by ' book Doctor Who and Shada Writer & Jonathan Preddle Publisher (unofficial novelisation) Cover artist Alistair Hughes Release date March 1989 Preceded by ' Followed by ' Elements of the story were reused by Adams for his novel , in particular the character of Professor Chronotis who possesses a time machine. Adams did not allow Shada, or any of his other Doctor Who stories, to be novelised by . It is, therefore, one of only five serials from the 1963–1989 series not to be novelised by Target – along with Adams' other stories and , plus 's two stories ( and ). A six-part adaptation of the story by Jonathan V Way appeared in issues 13-18 of Cosmic Masque, the 's fiction magazine. Douglas Adams granted permission for the adaptation on condition that it was never published in collected form. A fan group in New Zealand published an unofficial adaptation in 1989, later republishing it as an online eBook titled Doctor Who and Shada. published a novelisation of this serial on 15 March 2012, written by . Roberts has drawn on the latest versions of the scripts available, as well as adding new material of his own to "fix" various plotholes and unanswered questions. VHS, Webcast and DVD releases VHS release: The original televsion version of Shada was released in 1992 on VHS and featured linking narration by Tom Baker and was accompanied by a facsimile of a version of 's script (except in North America). The release was discontinued in the UK in 1996. Webcast: The webcast version (originally broadcast via BBCi's "Red Button") remains available from the BBC Doctor Who "classic series" website, and an expanded audio-only version is available for purchase on CD from Big Finish. This expanded version was the one broadcast on BBC7. DVD: announced on 8 September 2011 that his personally-funded reconstruction of all six episodes of the serial, using animation and recently-recorded vocal tracks to fill in missing parts of the story, had now been completed. However, the animation was rejected by , and it has been announced that the shot footage for the story will be released in 2012 with assorted Doctor Who material, including the 1993 documentary More Than 30 Years In The TARDIS. References Sullivan, Shannon (September 23, 2008). . A Brief History of Time (Travel). Shannon Patrick Sullivan. Retrieved June 9, 2009. ^ Southall, J. R. (September 12, 2011). Jordan, Royce. ed. . (, ). . . Retrieved April 1, 2012. ^ (September 11, 2001). Doctor Who: The Five Doctors (DVD). London, England: . Event occurs at 12:45. . Ley, Shaun (December 12, 2009). . . . Retrieved April 1, 2012. (2005). Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams. Boston, Massachusetts , US: Justin, Charles & Co.. . . Wilson, Marcus (October 25, 2010). . The Doctor Who News Page. Doctor Who News. Archived from on December 1, 2010. Retrieved October 25, 2010. ^ Burk, Graeme (September 16, 2011). . Doctor Who Blog. Doctor Who Information Network. Retrieved April 1, 2012. 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Taken from http://www.nicolabryant.net Nicolas own site Nicola is probably best known to the public for her work in Television. Her first professional role was as the American companion Peri in Doctor Who opposite Peter Davison and Colin Baker. "I grew up in a small Surrey village just outside Guildford. My parents, Sheila and Denis had two daughters. I came along first and then three years later, my little sister Tracy arrived. Both sets of grandparents and many aunts and uncles all lived in the same village. It was a great way to grow up. It gave both my sister and I such freedom. Only once you reached your teens did the cosiness start to feel a little claustrophobic but that's all a part of growing up. I started dance classes at the age of 3 and piano a year later. When friends visited we would spend the day choreographing little shows that we would perform that evening for our long suffering parents. All I knew was that I wanted to be a dancer. I wanted to be on stage. I always wanted to go to ballet school and although at age 10 I auditioned and was accepted into several schools I couldn't go because I suffered so badly from asthma, which ran in the family. I was so upset by this that my mother got me involved in a local amateur dramatics company and I soon started to fall in love with acting. Once I had completed my formal education I auditioned for all the London drama schools eventually accepting a scholarship to the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. It was in my final year at Webber Douglas that a production of the American musical "" was staged. We all had to audition for the parts and I got the role of Nanette, much to everyone's surprise, including my own. Weeks later I had completed my diploma at Webber Douglas and I was out in the big wide world of professionals, searching for work. At that time of course there was the catch 22 situation that you needed to work to get your equity card but you couldn't get work without an equity card. To make matters worse there were very few jobs that would give you a card. Well, to cut a long story short, Terry Carney called me to audition for the part of "Peri" the new American companion in . I was incredibly lucky to get that chance and after 3 months of auditions in which the producer John Nathan-Turner saw literally hundreds of girls from the States and Canada, I finally got the part. It was a wonderful time, in which I made a lot of friends and worked with some amazing people. I then spent nine months in the West End with Patrick McNee at the Savoy Theatre in the thriller "" directed by Bryan Forbes. After a leading role in the West End and playing the companion in Doctor Who my career was well and truly launched. Since then I've been lucky enough to have had a very varied career, travelling the world and working with some wonderfully talented people in various mediums; stage, television, audio and film. This year I have made appearances in the soon to be released TV series 'Love in Hyde Park'; in the sit-com 'My Family'; and the controversial drama documentary on Princess Diana's inquest, 'There are Dark Forces'.
REPRINTED FROM WIKIPEDIA WITH THANKS AND RESPECT Paradise Towers is a in the series , which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from October 5 to October 26, 1987. Contents [] [] Plot The Doctor and , looking for a swimming pool, land in Paradise Towers, a luxurious 22nd century high rise apartment building now fallen into disrepair and chaos. The building is divided between roaming gangs of young girls called Kangs, grouped in colour theme, and the Doctor and Mel encounter the Red Kangs. They have just discovered the death of the last Yellow Kang and are plotting how to attack the Blue Kangs. Elsewhere in the Towers, one of the Caretakers - who act as '' style policemen – is hunted down and killed by a robotic cleaner, which appeals to the sadistic when he overhears the death. The Chief sends a squad of Caretakers to arrest the Red Kangs and in the ensuing confusion the Doctor is split from Mel and captured by the Caretakers. Mel meanwhile heads off to one of the still occupied apartments in which two elderly ladies ('rezzies') live. Tilda and Tabby explain that all the able bodied men left the Towers to fight a war, leaving behind only the children and the elderly. The only other man still loose in the Towers is Pex, a would-be hero, who appoints himself Mel's guardian. At the Caretaker control centre, the Doctor meets the Chief Caretaker, who greets him as the Great Architect, designer of Paradise Towers, and then promptly calls for him to be killed. The Doctor cites an imaginary rule from the Caretakers manual, confusing them enough to make his escape. Mel and Pex meanwhile have headed to the top of the building, and are captured by a party of Blue Kangs. Before the pair are freed the Kangs reveal to Mel that Pex survived by fleeing from the war. The Doctor finds the Great Architect is named Kroagnon, and is reunited with the Red Kangs. They explain that Kangs and Caretakers have been disappearing in ever greater numbers. While the Doctor is being interrogated, the Caretakers track him down to the Red Kang headquarters and attempt to break down the door to their headquarters. Elsewhere Mel has visited Tilda and Tabby again and soon finds herself under threat when it emerges they are cannibals and plan to eat her. The Doctor succeeds in holding off the Caretakers long enough for the Kangs to flee. Meanwhile Tabby and Tilda are delayed in their eating of Mel when they are disturbed by a noise in the waste disposal. It turns out to be a metal claw, which first drags Tabby to her death in the disposal system, and then Tilda. Pex arrives and somehow succeeds in saving Mel. Mel and Pex find a map of the Towers and decide to venture to the roof, where the luxury swimming pool is located. The Doctor is taken to the Caretakers HQ again, where he realises that the Chief Caretaker has been allowing the Cleaners to kill people in the Towers, but that the killing has now got out of hand and the Chief Caretaker is no longer in control. The creature the Chief keeps in the basement is demanding more sustenance and making its own hunting arrangements. When the Chief heads off to investigate the deaths of Tabby and Tilda, the Red Kangs attack the HQ and rescue the Doctor. He returns with them to their base, taking with him the Illustrated Prospectus for the Tower, which they all watch. It reminds the Doctor that Kroagnon, the Great Architect of Paradise Towers, also designed Miracle City, a cutting edge development which killed its occupants. It seems Kroagnon had an aversion to people actually populating his buildings. The Blue Kangs arrive suddenly, overpowering the Red ones, but it soon becomes clear their game is over and they must now work together. Mel and Pex finally find the swimming pool. When Mel takes a dip in the pool, she is attacked by a robotic killer crab. The Red Kangs know of the monstrosity in the basement, and guess it must be linked to the terror in the Towers. The Doctor heads off to investigate and finds the Chief has been herded by the Cleaners toward the mysterious intelligence, which turns out to be Kroagnon himself. The Doctor is soon spotted by the Cleaners too, and the robots start to attack. The Kangs rescue the Doctor in the nick of time while on the roof Pex fails to rescue Mel, who has to destroy the crab herself. When the Doctor and the Kangs arrive, the latter taunt Pex for his cowardice. The Doctor explains that Kroagnon felt human beings would ruin his creation and so placed multiple deathtraps throughout the Towers before he was killed and trapped in the machine in the basement. The remaining rezzies, led by a woman named Maddy, join them all at the swimming pool and pledge to work together with the Kangs to defeat the menace in the building. Pex pledges to help too. The Deputy Chief Caretaker and the surviving Caretakers, who have become convinced of the peril in the basement, soon join them. The Chief Caretaker has now been killed and his corpse animated by the artificial intelligence of Kroagnon. He now intends to use the Cleaners to kill everyone in the Towers and repair the damage the “filthy human parasites” have caused. However, the combined human forces are now fighting back against the machines. The Doctor and Pex devise a ruse to lure the Chief into a booby trapped room and thereby destroy Kroagnon, but when the plan goes wrong Pex sacrifices himself to drag the Chief into the trap. They are both killed, but the terror is over. After a period of reflection and Pex's funeral, the Doctor and Mel leave Paradise Towers, trusting the remaining Kangs, Rezzies, and Caretakers to build a better society. As the TARDIS dematerialises, a new piece of Kang is revealed - "Pex Lives". [] Production Serial details by episode EpisodeBroadcast dateRun timeViewership (in millions) "Part One" 5 October 1987 24:33 4.5 "Part Two" 12 October 1987 24:39 5.2 "Part Three" 19 October 1987 24:30 5.0 "Part Four" 26 October 1987 24:21 5.0 Working titles for this story included The Paradise Tower. Author based his story in part on the novel , which depicts a luxury apartment building which descends into savagery. The music track was originally meant to be provided by a member of the , but producer John Nathan-Turner had decided that the incidental music no longer needed to be produced in-house. Instead, freelance composer was hired to provide the score, but Nathan-Turner terminated the commission late in production as he was unsatisfied with the way the score was turning out. provided the final score at short notice. [] Cast notes , an uncredited extra playing one of the Red Kangs, later appeared in a more substantial speaking part as the Female Programmer in the 2005 two-part story "" and "". This made her the second performer to appear in both the classic and new series of Doctor Who. Julie Brennon, who played Fire Escape, was married at the time to , who had been the 's companion . Features a guest appearance by as the Chief Caretaker who also later appears in the episode as Henry Parker. See also . previously played Jim Callum in . [] In print A novelisation of this serial, written by Wyatt, was published by in December 1988. It reveals that the Blue Kang Leader is named Drinking Fountain. book Paradise Towers Series Release number 134 Writer Publisher Cover artist ISBN Release date 1 December 1988 [] VHS and DVD releases This story was released on in October 1995. A DVD release of Paradise Towers is due in 2011 [] References From the series overview, in issue 407 (pp26-29). , which counts the four segments of as four separate stories and also counts the unbroadcast serial , lists this story as number 149. DVD follow The Discontinuity Guide numbering system. Shaun Lyon et al. (2007-03-31). . Outpost Gallifrey. Archived from on 2008-05-02. 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. ^ at [] External links at at the [] Reviews reviews at reviews at [] Target novelisation
REPRINTED FROM WIKIPEDIA WITH THANKS AND RESPECT This story features a creature known as the , who is responsible for creating a time link between the year of 1984 and the events from the . must also face the villagers of Little Hodcombe, who have been influenced by the Malus, and save before she is burned as the ill-fated Queen of the May. [] Plot On 13 July , two forces came to the village of Little Hodcombe during the and destroyed each other. As the story begins, a group of are riding horses in the village of Little Hodcombe, with little regard to the villagers around them. Only it is not 1643, it is . A schoolteacher, Jane Hampden, is convinced that her fellow villagers, led by the town's leader, Sir George Hutchinson, have taken their re-enactment of a series of war games too far. Hutchinson attempts to assure her that the games are a harmless event, which are merely to celebrate the English Civil War. When Hampden asks him to stop the games, Hutchinson ignores her. Inside the TARDIS, the Doctor promises to take his companion, Tegan, to 1984 so she could spend some time with her grandfather, Andrew Verney. The Doctor sets the coordinates to Little Hodcombe, where Verney resides. However, the experiences some turbulence and arrives in what appears to be a structurally unstable church. The Doctor, Tegan and Turlough, while watching on the scanner, see a man in 17th Century clothing, fleeing from the church and the Doctor dashes out to help him. However, the man has now vanished. Tegan is convinced that they have landed in the wrong time zone. However, Turlough tells her that he had checked the TARDIS coordinates and they were in 1984. As the and his companions continue pursue the man, smoke starts to billow from a crack in the wall. Eventually, the three travellers are captured by Captain Joseph Willow and taken to Sir George Hutchinson. The Doctor and his companions are first brought before Hampden and Colonel Ben Woolsey, who apologizes for the poor treatment that they received. Hutchinson arrives and explains to the Doctor that the town is celebrating the anniversary of the Battle of Little Hodcombe and then he urges him to join the celebration. Tegan then explains that they have come to this village to see her grandfather, Andrew Verney. She is informed that her grandfather is missing, and runs outside the room, upset. The Doctor follows but loses her. Tegan, still upset, is crying when someone steals her purse. She tries to get it back and she runs into a barn where she finds the ghost of an old man. The Doctor returns to the church and meets a 17th Century peasant, Will Chandler, who emerges from a wall. He has been hidden in a and believes the year to be 1643. Turlough eventually rescues Tegan from the barn and they return to the TARDIS, where they see a sparkly projection on one of the walls. Meanwhile, the Doctor and Will investigate the church. Tegan and Turlough leave the TARDIS and they are re-captured. Turlough is locked in a building with Verney. Willow forces Tegan to change into a 17th century costume. He informs her that she is to become the Queen of the May. The Doctor and Will continue to investigate. Eventually they find a secret passage back to Ben Woolsey's living room under a slab marked with a picture of a creature that Will identifies as the Malus. Coming the other way through the passage, the Doctor and Will meet up with Hampden, who found the passage's other end by accident after being locked in Colonel Wolsey's office. They avoid Hutchinson, who has followed Jane down the passage, and the Doctor finds a small ball of metal. The Doctor identifies the metal as “tinclavic,” a metal “mined by the on the planet Raaga for the almost exclusive use of the people of Hakol,” a planet in the “star system Rifta,” where “psychic energy is a force to be harnessed.” Returning to the church, the Doctor and Hampden are astonished when a massive alien face pushes its way through the crack on the wall, roaring and spewing smoke. They manage to escape from the psychic projection of a cavalier, and head back to the house via the tunnel. The Doctor realises that the Malus in the church was discovered by Verney and Hutchinson. The latter tried to exploit the creature, but instead, the creature began to use him by organizing the war games. He deduces that the psychic energy released by the war games has fed the Malus. The Doctor and Jane again try to persuade Hutchinson to stop the games, as the final battle will be for real. He refuses and orders Woolsey to kill the Doctor. However, once Hutchinson leaves, Woolsey joins forces with the Doctor. The Queen of the May is taken in a horse-drawn cart towards the village green, where she is to be burned. When the cart arrives, Hutchinson suddenly noticed that the Queen is not Tegan, but a straw dummy that has been put in her place by Woolsey. Hutchinson becomes angry and he orders his men to kill Woolsey and the others. Will appears in the nick of time and uses a flame torch to cause a distraction, which allows the Doctor, Hampden, Woolsey and Tegan to escape and get back to the TARDIS. The Doctor locks the signal conversion unit on the frequency of the psychic energy feeding the Malus, hoping to be able to direct it. Willow and a trooper try in vain to break their way into the TARDIS, and Turlough and Verney knock them unconscious with lumps of masonry. The Doctor succeeds in blocking the energy, and the projection of the Malus in the TARDIS dies. The real Malus, in an act of desperation, attempts to drain as much psychic energy from the villagers as possible. He creates a corporeal projection of three roundheads who try to kill the Doctor, Woolsey, Tegan, Turlough, Hampden, Verney and Will. However, the dazed and confused trooper stumbles from the TARDIS and into the main church area, becomes surrounded by the roundheads, and they decapitate him then vanish. Hutchinson arrives and holds them all at gunpoint. When the Doctor tries to talk Hutchinson out of the thrall of the Malus, Willow attacks the group. In the scuffle, Will pushes Hutchinson into the mouth of the Malus, destroying the Malus's medium. Realizing it has failed, the Malus prepares to destroy itself and everything around it. Subsequently the church begins to collapse and the Doctor leads the others, including Willow, into the safety of the TARDIS. Inside the TARDIS, the Doctor's companions are surprised to see Will still among them. The Doctor explains that he must have been wrong in his assumption that Will was a psychic projection. He then says that the Malus must have created a temporal rift, which allowed Will to slip into the future. The Time Lord then says that he will take Will back to 1643. Tegan objects and ask the Doctor to allow her some time to visit her grandfather. The Doctor is initially disgruntled but he is persuaded to stay in Little Hodcombe for a while for a rest. [] Continuity No explanation is given for 's absence from this story. The Doctor mentions the Terileptils mining tinclavic on the planet Raaga. Eric Saward added this in the script to create a reference to his own story (1982). He had planned to write another story featuring the Terileptils, and wanted to make sure the audience remembered who they were. But as events worked out, Saward never wrote their planned return. This was the first story to feature alterations to the Fifth Doctor's costume. The Doctor wears a lighter-coloured frock coat, and a white "v-neck" cricketer's sweater with thick red and black piping around the "v" and the lower waist, as opposed to the costume he wore during the previous two seasons where the "v-neck" piping was thin and coloured red, white and black and there was no piping around the waist. The shirt is also altered with green lining on the collar and where the shirt is buttoned, instead of red. The Doctor disposed of his original costume in episode 2 of the previous story, Warriors of the Deep, in which he disguised himself in the uniform of a Sea Base 4 guard; it is possible he never retrieved his costume from the base before he left. The Fifth Doctor would wear the secondary version of his costume for the remainder of the season, save for most of (1984). The newly would also be seen wearing it during the first episode of his debut story, (1984). The encounters the other half of the Hakolian war machine that became the Malus in the novel . [] Production Serial details by episode EpisodeBroadcast dateRun timeViewership (in millions) "Part One" 19 January 1984 25:18 7.9 "Part Two" 20 January 1984 24:47 6.6 The working titles of this story were War Game and Poltergeist. Pringle had submitted this story in the mid-1970s to then-script editor as a four-part story entitled War Game. In the 1980s he resubmitted his story (as well as a different four-parter, The Darkness, possibly featuring the Daleks) to script editor . Realizing the story did not have enough impact for four episodes, it was later pared down to two, renamed Poltergeist and then finally The Awakening. The story featured extensive location shooting and studio work. Saward wanted to add a TARDIS sequence with Tegan and Kamelion, utilising the prop and played in chameleonic form by Peter Davison and Mark Strickson. However, this scene was cut from the transmitted episode for timing reasons. The recovery of an early edit of episode one on video (in the personal archive of late producer John Nathan Turner) means that this element, previously thought lost, may now be included on a release of the serial. A small part of the scene has appeared in the documentary Kamelion: Metal Man which featured on the DVD release of . The master tape for Part One was found to have some scratch damage when the 1984 compilation version was being mastered, no protection copy was made at that time so the original tx master continued to deteriorate, the tape was checked in the early 90's and the scratch damage found to be far more intrusive than it had been in 84, fortunately the original film sequences were kept and using these, the compilation copy and the reprise from part 2, in 1997 the were able to make a repaired master copy. This was used for the VHS release. The episode will probably have to be restored from scratch when, at some point, it is mastered for DVD. This was officially the final story of the series to consist of two 25-minute episodes. All two parters since then have been 45 minutes long per episode, including most of season 22 and several stories of the revived series. , the concluding segment of , is numbered on screen as Parts Thirteen and Fourteen of the latter title; furthermore, they share the same BBC production code, 7C, with the preceding four-part story arc, , even though they have their own separate novelisation and feature compilation. The production designer for this story, Barry Newbery, had worked on Doctor Who intermittently ever since its very first story. After completing "Awakening", Newbery took early retirement from the BBC, making this story his last professional effort. John Nathan-Turner liked the character of Will Chandler a great deal and seriously considered keeping him on as a companion. However, it was eventually concluded that Chandler's child-like character would quickly wear thin and lacked any clear path of development, so Nathan-Turner dropped the idea. [] In print book The Awakening Series Release number 95 Writer Publisher Cover artist ISBN Release date 13 June 1985 A novelisation of this serial, written by , was published by in February 1985. [] Broadcast and VHS release The story was repeated on BBC One in July 1984 as a 46min compilation (20/07/84) at 6.50pm. This story was released on a double set with in March 1997. It will be released in a box set named Earth Story along with on 20th June 2011. [] References From the series overview, in issue 407 (pp26-29). , which counts the unbroadcast serial , lists this as story number 132. DVD follow The Discontinuity Guide numbering system. Shaun Lyon et al. (2007-03-31). . Outpost Gallifrey. Archived from on 2008-07-31. Retrieved 2008-08-30. . Doctor Who Reference Guide. Retrieved 2008-08-30. 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Doctor * Peter Davison (Fifth Doctor)Companions * Matthew Waterhouse (Adric) * Sarah Sutton (Nyssa) * Janet Fielding (Tegan Jovanka)Others * Richard Todd — Sanders * Nerys Hughes — Todd * Simon Rouse — Hindle * Mary Morris — Panna * Sarah Prince — Karuna * Adrian Mills — Aris * Lee Cornes — Trickster * Jeff Stewart — Dukkha * Anna Wing — Anatta * Roger Milner — AnnicaProductionWriter Christopher BaileyDirector Peter GrimwadeScript editor Eric SawardProducer John Nathan-TurnerExecutive producer(s) NoneProduction code 5YSeries Season 19Length 4 episodes, 25 minutes eachOriginally broadcast February 1–February 9, 1982Chronology← Preceded by Followed by →Four to Doomsday The VisitationKinda is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four twice-weekly parts from February 1 to February 9, 1982.Contents[hide] * 1 Synopsis * 2 Plot * 3 Continuity * 4 Production * 5 Outside references * 6 In print * 7 Broadcast and VHS release * 8 References * 9 External links o 9.1 Reviews o 9.2 Target novelisation[edit] SynopsisAn idyllic paradise-like planet, Deva Loka, is not as it seems. Its inhabitants, the Kinda, are a gentle and seemingly primitive people. On the surface, a perfect place to colonise. But if it is so perfect, why are the colonisation team disappearing one by one? When Tegan sleeps near the Windchimes she is confronted by the true evil that threatens Deva Loka.[edit] PlotAn Earth colonisation survey expedition to the beautiful jungle planet Deva Loka is being depleted as members of the survey disappear one by one. Four have now gone, leaving the remainder in state of deep stress. The leader, Sanders, relies on bombast and rules; while his deputy, Hindle, is evidently close to breaking point. Only the scientific officer, Todd, seems to deal with the situation with equanimity. She does not see the native people, the Kinda, as a threat, but rather respects their culture and is intrigued by their power of telepathy. The social structure is also curious in that women seem dominant and are the only ones with the power of voice. The humans are holding two silent males hostage for "observation". Todd believes they are more advanced than they first appear, as they possess necklaces representative of the double helix of DNA, indicating a more advanced civilisation.Elsewhere in the jungle the TARDIS crew are also under stress, especially Nyssa of Traken, who has collapsed from exhaustion. The Fifth Doctor constructs a delta wave augmenter to enable her to rest in the TARDIS while he and Adric venture deeper into the jungle. They soon find an automated total survival suit (TSS) system which activates and marches them to the Dome, the colonists' base. Sanders is a welcoming but gruff presence, further undermining Hindle at regular intervals. At this point Sanders decides to venture out into the jungle in the TSS, leaving the highly strung Hindle in charge. His will is enforced by means of the two Kinda hostages, who have forged a telepathic link with him believing their souls to have been captured in his mirror. The Doctor, Todd and Adric are immediately placed under arrest as Hindle now evinces megalomania.Tegan faces a more metaphysical crisis. She has fallen asleep near the euphonious and soporific Windchimes, unaware of the danger of the dreaming of an unshared mind (one not engaged in telepathic activity with another humanoid). Her mind opens in a black void where she undergoes provocation and terror from a series of nightmarish characters, one of which taunts her: “You will agree to being me, sooner or later, this side of madness or the other". The spectres are a manifestation of the Mara, an evil being of the subconscious that longs for corporeal reality. Mentally tortured, she eventually agrees to become the Mara and a snake symbol passes to her own arm. When her mind returns to her body she is possessed by the Mara. In a scene reminiscent of the Book of Genesis she passes the snake symbol to the first Kinda she finds, a young man named Aris, who is the brother of one of the Kinda in the Dome. He too is transformed by evil and now finds the power of voice.Back at the Dome, Hindle has conceived a bizarre and immolatory plan to destroy the jungle, which he views as a threat. Adric plays along with this delusion. Hindle's world soon starts to fall apart when first Adric 'betrays' him and then Sanders defies expectation and returns from the jungle. However Sanders is radically different from the martinet in earlier episodes. Panna, an aged female mystic of the tribe, presented him with a strange wooden box (the 'Box of Jhana') which when opened has regressed his mind back to childhood. Sanders still has the box and shows it to Hindle, who makes the Doctor open it.The Doctor and Todd see beyond the toy inside and instead share a vision from Panna and her young ward, Karuna, who invites them to cave. The shock of the situation (accompanied by strange phenomena) allows the Doctor and Todd to slip away into the jungle where they encounter Aris dominating a group of Kinda and seemingly fulfilling a tribal prophecy that “When the Not-We come, one will arise from among We, a male with Voice who must be obeyed.” Karuna soon finds the Doctor and Todd and takes them to meet Panna in the cave from the vision, with the wise woman realising the danger of the situation now Aris has voice. She places them in a trance like state and reveals that the Mara has gained dominion on Deva Loka. The Great Wheel which turns as civilisations rise and fall has turned again and the hour is near when chaos will reign, instigated by the Mara. The vision she shares is Panna's last act: when it is finished, she is dead.In the Kinda world, multiple fathers are shared by children, just as multiple memories are held, and at Panna's death her life experience transfers to Karuna. She urges Todd and the Doctor to return to the Dome to prevent Aris leading an attack on it which will increase the chaos and hasten the collapse of the Kinda civilisation.Back at the Dome Hindle, Sanders and Adric remain in a state of unreality, with the former becoming ever more demented and unbalanced, and infantile. Adric eventually escapes, and attempts to pilot the TSS but is soon confronted by Aris and the Kinda. He panics, and Aris is wounded by the machine (which responds to the mental impulses of the operator) and the Kinda scatter.The Doctor and Todd find an emotionally wrecked Tegan near the Windchimes and conclude that she was the path of the Mara back into this world. They then find Adric and the party heads back to the Dome where Hindle has now completed the laying of explosives which will incinerate the jungle and the Dome itself: the ultimate self-defence. Todd persuades Hindle now to open the Box of Jhana, and the visions therein restore the mental balance of the two. The two enslaved Kinda are freed when the mirror entrapping them is shattered. The Doctor then realizes the only method of combating the Mara- he realises the one thing evil cannot face is itself and so organizes the construction of a large circle of mirrors (actually reflective solar panels) in a jungle clearing. Aris is trapped within it and the snake on his arm breaks free. The Mara swells to giant proportions but then is banished back from the corporeal world to the Dark Places of the Inside.With the threat of the Mara dissipated, and the personnel of the Dome back to more balanced selves, the Doctor, Adric and an exhausted Tegan decide to leave (as does Todd, who decides 'its all a bit green'). When they reach the TARDIS, Nyssa greets them, fully recovered.[edit] Continuity * The Mara features again in the next season's serial Snakedance. * Delta waves reappeared in the 2005 episode "The Parting of the Ways". Far from the brain wave-enhancing recuperation devices from Kinda, however, delta waves were described by Jack Harkness as being "waves of Van Cassadyne energy...your brain gets barbecued." * A fairy like creature which is compared to a Mara features in the 2006 Torchwood episode Small Worlds, however there may be no connection between the two. * In Time Crash (2007), the Tenth Doctor asks the temporally misplaced Fifth where (i.e. when) he is now – and speculatively references Tegan, Nyssa and the Mara from his own memories. * In Turn Left (2008), the time beetle on Donna Noble's back is also revealed when faced with a circle of mirrors.[edit] ProductionSerial details by episode Episode Broadcast date Run time Viewership(in millions)"Part One" 1 February 1982 (1982-02-01) 24:50 8.4"Part Two" 2 February 1982 (1982-02-02) 24:58 9.4"Part Three" 8 February 1982 (1982-02-08) 24:17 8.5"Part Four" 9 February 1982 (1982-02-09) 24:28 8.9[2][3][4] * The working title for this story was The Kinda. * This was the first story to feature Eric Saward as script editor. * In the ancient language Sanskrit, "Deva Loka" means "Celestial Region". * Nyssa makes only brief appearances at the start of episode 1, and at the end of 4, because the script had largely been developed at a time when only two companions for the Doctor were envisioned. When it was known a third companion would also be present, rather than write Nyssa into the entire storyline it was decided she would remain in the TARDIS throughout and be absent through most of the narrative. To account for this absence Nyssa was scripted to collapse at the end of the previous story, Four to Doomsday. In this story she remains in the Tardis, resting. Sarah Sutton's contract was amended to account for this two-episode absence.[4] * For the scene in episode 2 in which the two Tegans talk to each other about which of them is real, John Nathan-Turner allowed Janet Fielding to write her own dialogue.[edit] Outside references * Writer Christopher Bailey based this story heavily on Buddhist philosophy. He used many Buddhist words and ideas in writing Kinda; most of the Kinda and dream-sequence characters have names with Buddhist meanings, including Mara (temptation — also personified as a demon), Dukkha (pain), Panna (wisdom), Karuna (compassion), Anicca (impermanence) and Anatta (egolessness). Additionally, Jhana (also spelt Jana in the scripts) refers to meditation. * This serial was examined closely in the 1983 media studies volume Doctor Who: The Unfolding Text by John Tulloch and Manuel Alvarado. This was the first major scholarly work dedicated to Doctor Who. Tulloch and Alvarado compare Kinda with Ursula K. Le Guin's 1976 novel The Word for World is Forest, which shares several themes with Kinda and may have been a template for its story. The Unfolding Text also examines the way "Kinda" incorporates Buddhist and Christian symbols and themes, as well as elements from the writings of Carl Jung.[5][edit] In printDoctor Who bookBook coverKindaSeries Target novelisationsRelease number 84Writer Terrance DicksPublisher Target BooksISBN 0-426-19529-9Release date 15 March 1984Preceded by Mawdryn UndeadFollowed by SnakedanceA novelisation of this serial, written by Terrance Dicks, was published by Target Books in December 1983.In 1997 the novel was also issued by BBC Audio as an audio book, read by Peter Davison.[edit] Broadcast and VHS release * The serial was repeated on BBC One over 22-25 August 1983, (Monday-Thursday) at 6.25pm. This story was released on VHS in October 1994 with a cover illustration by Colin Howard. * This story is set to be released on DVD in 2011 along with Snakedance in a special edition boxset entitled Mara Tales. It will feature an audio commentary by Peter Davison, Matthew Waterhouse, Janet Fielding and Nerys Hughes.[6][edit] References 1. ^ From the Doctor Who Magazine series overview, in issue 407 (pp26-29). The Discontinuity Guide, which counts the unbroadcast serial Shada, lists this as story number 119. Region 1 DVD releases follow The Discontinuity Guide numbering system. 2. ^ Shaun Lyon et al. (2007-03-31). "Kinda". Outpost Gallifrey. Archived from the original on 2008-07-31. http://web.archive.org/web/20080731011611/http://www.gallifreyone.com/episode.php?id=5y. Retrieved 2008-08-30. 3. ^ "Kinda". Doctor Who Reference Guide. http://www.drwhoguide.com/who_5y.htm. Retrieved 2008-08-30. 4. ^ a b Sullivan, Shannon (2007-08-07). "Kinda". A Brief History of Time Travel. http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/5y.html. Retrieved 2008-10-04. 5. ^ Tulloch, John; and Alvarado, Manuel (1983). Doctor Who: The Unfolding Text. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-21480-4. 6. ^ Matthew Waterhouses' autobiography Blue Box Boy[edit] External links * Kinda at BBC Online * Kinda at Doctor Who: A Brief History Of Time (Travel) * Kinda at the Doctor Who Reference Guide * KI'n'DA - Cardiff Doctor Who group[edit] Reviews * Kinda reviews at Outpost Gallifrey * Kinda reviews at The Doctor Who Ratings Guide[edit] Target novelisation * On Target — Kinda
Doctor Who: Podshock - Episode 168 EXTRA Edition Preview Running Time: 6:16 (actual episode 35:40) Preview of our first Extra Edition episode featuring a rare exclusive 1985 interview with the then Doctor Who Producer, John Nathan-Turner, comments from Matthew Waterhouse (Adric) about Castrovalva and more. Hosted by Louis Trapani. Get the full episode of extra content by becoming a Podshock Supporting Subscriber. Brought to you by the Gallifreyan Embassy and is a production of Art Trap Productions. This podcast is made possible in part by Podshock Supporting Subscribers and from donations from listeners like you.
Doctor Who: Podshock - Episode 168 EXTRA Edition Preview Running Time: 6:16 (actual episode 35:40) Preview of our first Extra Edition episode featuring a rare exclusive 1985 interview with the then Doctor Who Producer, John Nathan-Turner, comments from Matthew Waterhouse (Adric) about Castrovalva and more. Hosted by Louis Trapani. Get the full episode of extra content by becoming a Podshock Supporting Subscriber. Brought to you by the Gallifreyan Embassy and is a production of Art Trap Productions. This podcast is made possible in part by Podshock Supporting Subscribers and from donations from listeners like you.
Listen past the end credits for spoiler chat!4 Topics!1) Terror of the Verviods2) Ultimate Foe3) Steampunk in Doctor Whoend credits4) Spoiler chat...The Doctor returns to the courtroom after a recess, given to allow him to mourn 's death, shown in the . The Doctor begins his defence, showing events from his future on the galactic liner Hyperion III, a ship taking a supply of rare metals from Mogar to Earth in the year 2986AD. The Doctor states that many of the passengers and crew will not survive the journey to Earth, for "[someone determined to] protect a secret hidden on the space liner... will become a murderer."''Continuity The new companion "Mel" is introduced without the typical "meeting" story, as this evidence is supposed to take place in the Doctor's future, after he has already met Mel.Despite references to them having met before, the Doctor has never been shown to meet Commodore Travers on screen before this. Production Serial details by episode: Episode Broadcast date Run time Viewership (in millions) "Part Nine" 1 November 1986 24:56 5.2 "Part Ten" 8 November 1986 24:18 4.6 "Part Eleven" 15 November 1986 24:07 5.3 "Part Twelve" 22 November 1986 24:45 5.2 Preproduction This story segment of Trial was originally supposed to be written by , creator of the cult science fiction series . Hammond's story outline, titled Paradise Five, was liked by script editor Eric Saward but disliked by producer John Nathan-Turner, who rejected it and commissioned Pip and Jane Baker to do the segment instead. Hammond later wrote two episodes of the Doctor Who drama, . Designed as a typical set on a space liner, the actual structure of the story (and its bubbly tone) are reminiscent of the series during Douglas Adams' tenure as script editor, during season seventeen. In the first episode, Professor Lasky is briefly seen reading a copy of Christie's . Production The Vervoids bear a strong resemblance to the , a common template for alien creatures.[] Post-production This serial marked the last time the provided a music score for the series. As no individual title was used onscreen or on the final scripts for this story, there has been some confusion over how to refer to the story. It was initially commissioned with the title of The Ultimate Foe. However this title was later given to the novelisation of the 13th and 14th parts of the season. Writers Pip and Jane Baker repeatedly referred to the story as The Vervoids in subsequent interviews, as have other production team members, but this title does not appear to exist on any contemporary documentation. When published Pip and Jane Baker's novelisation, it was under the title of Terror of the Vervoids, which is now generally used to refer to the story (see and ). Commercial releases In October 1993, this story was released on as part of the three-tape The Trial of a Time Lord set.It is also due for DVD release on September 29th2008, similarly packaged with the other stories in The Trial of a Time Lord season. Special Features include: deleted and extended scenes • "The Making of a Trial of a Time Lord - Part Three - Terror of Vervoids" • "Now Get Out of That - Doctor Who Cliffhangers" (a 28-minute feature) • "The Lost Season" (an 11-minute feature) • Saturday Picture Show archival television footage • photo gallery • and trails and continuities. The Ultimate Foe is the generally accepted title for a in the series , which was first broadcast in two weekly parts from to , . It is part of the larger narrative known as , encompassing the whole of the 23rd season. This segment is also cited in some reference works under its working title of Time Incorporated (or Time Inc.). This was the last regular story to feature as the .Continuity Thanks to the paradoxes of time travel, since Mel is from the Doctor's future, she has already met him, but from the Doctor's perspective he is meeting her for the first time. Most media, including the novelisation by the Bakers, have assumed that the Doctor, at the end of the trial, takes Mel back to her proper place in time and eventually travels to her relative past to meet Mel for the first time from her perspective. That meeting, never seen on screen, is related in the novel by and also in his audio story He Jests at Scars, which provides a semi-sequel to this TV story. In the new series episode , a Magnetron (possibly salvaged during The Time War) is used to move a number of planets to another spot in the universe. Since then, the technology appears to have been modified and/or improved as the planets apparently just teleport rather than being "thrown". [] The Doctor This was the last story to feature Colin Baker as the current Doctor. Baker was fired by the BBC and John Nathan Turner was ordered, reportedly by , to recast the lead part for the following season. Baker was offered the chance to appear as the Doctor in all four episodes of the first story of Season 24, but he declined this and the invitation to return for the traditional sequence in . Due to Colin Baker's dismissal from the role, it would turn out that the 's last lines on screen were "Carrot juice, carrot juice, carrot juice!" Although The Ultimate Foe was his last regular appearance as the Doctor on screen, the last story that Baker actually recorded was . Baker would reprise the role on stage, in 1989's , and on screen in the 1993 charity special , as well as various audio adventures for . [] Final appearances This marked the last appearance to date of the , apart from a brief flashback in "." Coincidentally, (The Keeper of the Matrix) had appeared in (albeit in a different role), which was the first serial to feature the Time Lords. The Valeyard has not re-appeared in the television series. His sole appearance in the audios has been the (and therefore outside of established continuity) , where Michael Jayston reprises the role. The character has been featured (usually in dream sequences or metaphors) in the and book ranges from Virgin Publishing and the from the BBC, however none of these appearances conclusively reveals his origins. The forthcoming unofficial novel , the late 's final novel completed by his friend Chris McKeon, will see the return of the Valeyard and his origins revealed. Whereas previously 's had appeared in at least one story per year, it would be another three years before he returned in , the final story of the show's original run. [] Production Serial details by episode: Episode Broadcast date Run time Viewership (in millions) "Part Thirteen" 29 November 1986 24:42 4.4 "Part Fourteen" 6 December 1986 29:30 5.6 was originally commissioned to write the two episodes. Unfortunately, he died from a chronic liver ailment after completing a draft of the first and left nothing beyond a plot outline of the second. The series Script Editor resigned around this time due to disagreements with the producer, John Nathan-Turner, but agreed to write the final episode based on Holmes' outline, and also rewrite Holmes' draft to tie the two together, for which he was credited as Script Editor. The original ending to this segment (and, indeed, the whole Trial story and possibly the series) would have seen the Doctor and the Valeyard in an inconclusive , both (seemingly) plunging into a void to their deaths as an extra "hook". However, Nathan-Turner felt this was too downbeat and believed that it was important that the season did not end on an inconclusive note since it was important after the hiatus to prove the series was back in business. Saward refused to change the ending and withdrew permission to use his script very late in the day, by which point the production team had been assembled and the segment was entering rehearsals. John Nathan-Turner commissioned Pip and Jane Baker to write a replacement final episode. For copyright reasons they could not be told anything of the content of Saward's script (and there were lawyers observing all commissioning meetings). The only similarity between the two is the announcement that the High Council of the Time Lords have resigned, which was a natural development of the earlier scripts. The new script ended on an optimistic note, with the Doctor departing for new adventures. In keeping with this more optimistic stance, Nathan-Turner decided to amend the script at the last minute to show how had not died as shown in but in fact, became Yrcanos's queen. Her "death" was merely a part of the 's tampering with the , with a shot from the earlier story used to show this. was disappointed to learn how the fate of her character had been changed. Ultimately, the works of are evident in the story: the fictional landscape in the Matrix resembles Britain, and the character (and name) of Mr. Popplewick are strongly Dickensian. The Doctor also quotes the final two lines of , prompting Mel to chide him: "Never mind the heroics!" The working title of this story was Time Incorporated. However, this title did not appear in the final scripts or on-screen. Steampunk is a subgenre of and that came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. The term denotes works set in an era or world where is still widely used—usually the 19th century, and often set in —but with prominent elements of either or , such as fictional technological inventions like those found in the works of and , or real technological developments like the computer occurring at an earlier date. Other examples of steampunk contain -style presentations of "the path not taken" of such technology as or ; these frequently are presented in an idealized light, or a presumption of functionality. Steampunk is often associated with and shares a similar fanbase and theme of rebellion, but developed as a separate movement (though both have considerable influence on each other). Apart from time period and level of technological development, the main difference between cyberpunk and steampunk is that steampunk settings usually tend to be less obviously than cyberpunk, or lack dystopian elements entirely. Various modern utilitarian objects have been by individual craftpersons into a pseudo-Victorian mechanical "steampunk" style, and a number of visual and musical artists have been described as steampunk.
The , , and arrive on a spaceship which is headed for . On board they meet natives of Earth from various different eras, and also three Urbankans: Monarch, Persuasion and Enlightenment. What are the aliens' intentions when they reach Earth? Plot The TARDIS materializes on board a vast and advanced alien spacecraft, observed by a hovering surveillance device which conveys the arrival of the Doctor, Tegan, Nyssa and Adric to an observing being that is in control of the vessel. The TARDIS crew become separated and the Doctor and Tegan reach the bridge of the vessel where the green-skinned commander introduces himself as Monarch, ruler of Urbanka, and his associates and fellow Urbankans are the Ministers of Enlightenment and Persuasion. The leader is intrigued by talk of current Earth civilisation and reveals their ship is bound for Earth. Shortly afterward Enlightenment and Persuasion seemingly regenerate into human form, dressed in garments Tegan designed to demonstrate contemporary Earth fashions. The TARDIS crew are reunited as guests aboard the ship and it soon becomes apparent that there are four distinct human cultures represented on the vessel by a small group of humans – Ancient Greeks, the leader of whom is the philosopher Bigon; Chinese Mandarins and their leader Lin Futu; Princess Villagra and representatives of the Mayan people; and Kurkutji and his tribesmen, of the very ancient Australian Aborigine culture. The Urbankans have made periodic visits to Earth, each time getting speedier in their journeys. This time they have left their homeworld after erratic solar activity, storing three billion of their species on slides aboard their craft, and it seems the current journey is their last and they now wish to settle on Earth, which they are due to reach in four days time. The Doctor becomes suspicious of Monarch and soon learns that the Urbankan does not plan on peaceful co-existence: instead, he has developed a virus to wipe out humanity, and this will be unleashed before the Urbankans disembark. He also finds out that the humans aboard are not descendents of the original abductees, but are the original people taken from Earth and converted into androids like the three Urbankans walking around on board. The four leaders of the peoples have been given additional circuits to help them reason, but this facility can be taken away, as Bigon learns when he crosses Monarch once too often. He explained to the Doctor that Monarch strip-mined and destroyed Urbanka in a quest for minerals to improve the ship, and now plans to do the same to Earth. Monarch believes that if he can move the ship faster than the speed of light, he can pilot it back to the beginning of time and discover himself as God… Adric, nevertheless, is rather taken with Monarch, and tensions between him and the Doctor become very strained. It takes the truth to break the alien's hold over the boy. The Doctor now sets about over-throwing Monarch and, with the help of the human androids led by a restored Bigon, a revolution is put into effect. Enlightenment and Persuasion are de-circuited, while Monarch himself is exposed to the deadly toxin and killed. It seems he was a product of the weak “flesh time” after all, having never, as the Doctor suspected, been fully converted into an android. The humanoid androids decide to pilot the vessel to a new home on a new world, while the TARDIS crew departs. Back in the console room, Nyssa suddenly collapses to the floor in a dead faint. Cast notes Guest stars in this serial include as Monarch and as Lin Futu. See . Continuity The provides an alternative explanation, beyond mere exhaustion, for Nyssa's collapse at the end of this story. The canonicity of the audio dramas, however, is unclear.When the Doctor tells Tegan "Who'll believe us? We'll be laughed at!" when she wants to get to Earth to warn them about Monarch's plan, he has clearly forgotten the purpose/existence of , the , for which he was unpaid Scientific Advisor (through most of his ). He makes use of his U.N.I.T. connections , however.This is the third occasion of a recurring theme where Adric 'betrays' the Doctor, or else , Nyssa or Tegan, gaining the villains' trust and then later saving them. See , , and, to a lesser degree, and Goofs The Doctor describes the as having reached its peak "8000 years ago"; the very earliest Maya settlements began 4000 years ago.The Doctor claims the population of the Earth to be 3 Billion, where as it was around 4.5 Billion by 1980, being about 3 Billion in around 1960. Few non-indigenous Australians speak an (of which around 200 exist) as fluently as Tegan demonstrated with her conversation with Kurkutji. It is almost certain that the language that Kurkutji spoke 40,000 years ago would have since evolved into a totally different language that his people would be using today. Production Serial details by episode: Episode Broadcast date Run time Viewership (in millions) "Part One" 18 January 1982 23:36 8.4 "Part Two" 19 January 1982 24:11 8.8 "Part Three" 25 January 1982 24:09 8.8 "Part Four" 26 January 1982 24:53 9.4 The working title for this story was Days Of Wrath.Although was the first story aired which featured Peter Davison as the , this story was the first in the season to be produced.It was originally decided that after Castrovalva, the Doctor would only have two companions, Adric and Tegan. As a result, the character of Nyssa was to be written out of the series at the end of this story. However, Peter Davison strongly opposed this move because he felt that Nyssa was the companion who was "most suited to his vision of the Doctor." Given this, producer John Nathan-Turner and the rest of the production team relented. In print book Four to Doomsday Series Release number 77 Writer Publisher ISBN 0 426 19334 2 Release date 21 July 1983 Preceded by Followed by A novelisation of this serial, written by , was published by in April 1983. Broadcast, VHS and DVD release This story was released on in September 2001. A release has been confirmed for 15th September . Clockwork Cabaret RSS feed is www.clickcaster.com/channels/clockworkcabaret.xml
The Mysterious Planet is a in the series , which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from to , . It is part of the larger narrative known as , encompassing the whole of the 23rd season.Plot Synopsis The materialises in a corridor, and the steps out bewildered and alone. He walks into a room, where it is revealed that he is being put on trial for conduct unbecoming a Time Lord. The notes that the Doctor , and the Valeyard states that he will argue that the Doctor was shown too much leniency on that occasion. The Valeyard opens the case by using the to show the Doctor's involvement on the planet Ravolox. The Doctor and arrive on Ravolox, which is virtually identical to . He tells Peri that the official records state that the planet was devastated by a fireball, but they note that the forest they are walking through suggests otherwise. They are seen by and Dibber, who attempt to shoot the Doctor; but he moves off just in time. Glitz and Dibber discuss their plan to destroy the "L3 robot" by sabotaging its light conversion system, which has been turned into a by a primitive tribe on the planet. The Doctor and Peri find an apparently abandoned building and explore it. Peri discovers a sign saying "" — a sign, which means that they are on Earth. Peri begins to mourn for her planet. The Doctor asks what the relevance of this is, then asks why Peri is not with him on the station. The Valeyard answers that she is where the Doctor left her, and states that the Doctor's evident temporary amnesia - a side-effect of being taken out of time - should soon pass. The Doctor goes into the complex alone because Peri is upset, but she is captured by two masked figures. Meanwhile, Glitz and Dibber are brought before Katryca, Queen of the tribe. Glitz claims that the totem attracted the fireball that devastated Ravolox, and asks for it to be taken down. The Queen tells him that others have asked for the totem to be dismantled, and none have succeeded. Glitz and Dibber draw out their guns, but they are overpowered and locked up. The Doctor finds an underground complex, but is caught. He is accused of spying, and sentenced to be stoned. The Doctor tries to block the rocks with his umbrella, but is knocked unconscious. The Valeyard proposes that the inquiry into the Doctor's activities should become a full blown trial, with the penalty being the termination of his life. Other officials arrive and break up the stoning. The Doctor is still breathing, but before he can be killed, Merdeen receives a message from the Immortal stating that he wishes to question the Doctor. The Immortal, revealed to be a huge humanoid robot, commands its two assistants to release the service robot. Peri is brought before Katryca, who informs Peri that as there are few women, she will need to take many husbands. She is then put in the same prison as Glitz and Dibber. They tell Peri their plan to destroy the Robot. They are taken back to Katryca, who tells them that Glitz will be sacrificed because of his attempt to destroy the great totem. The Doctor is taken to the Immortal, who introduces itself as Drathro. He commands that the Doctor work with the two assistants. The Doctor identifies the problem, and tries to leave in order to fix it, but Drathro does not allow him to leave, as his instructions were to maintain an underground system. The Doctor electrifies the robot and his assistants, and escapes. Drathro sends the service robot to track down the Doctor. Meanwhile, Peri, Glitz and Dibber overpower the guards and escape. Dibber remains behind to plant a bomb on the Black Light converter, whilst they go to the underground complex. In Marb Station, Merdeen tells Balazar that there has been no fire for hundreds of years, and that he should leave the complex. They encounter the Doctor, and Merdeen implores him to help Balazar escape. Peri, Glitz and Dibber, pursued by tribesmen, find the Doctor, and they flee into the Marb Station, but are trapped between the tribe and the service robot. The tribesmen shoot at the service robot and disable it. The Doctor tries to re-enter the underground complex, but the tribesmen insist they all return to the village. There, The Doctor is brought before Katryca, but she is unimpressed with his explanation of the true nature of the Totem, and puts them all back in the prison cell. Glitz confirms that the planet is actually Earth. Drathro reactivates the service robot, and send it to the village. It breaks into the building with the Doctor, stuns him and takes him away. The tribesmen disable the service robot, and decide to attack the Immortal's castle to steal his technology. Peri rescues the Doctor from the service robot, and they set off to the underground complex to stop Katryca and disable the black light system. Katryca and tribesmen arrive at the Castle, where they are confronted by Drathro,. He electrocutes Katryca, and dismisses the rest of the tribe. The Doctor enters Drathro's domain, promising to help repair the black light system. However, he determines it to be beyond repair, and tells Drathro that he must shut down the Black Light System to prevent a massive explosion. Drathro refuses to allow that as it would mean its own destruction. The Doctor pleads with him, saying that the explosion could destroy the entire universe, but that only makes Drathro determined to allow what he thinks is a unique event. Balazar and Peri plead with Merdeen to help them, noting that he would die if the converter exploded. Glitz and Dibber arrive and follow them into the Castle through a food chute. Drathro attempts to kill by turning on the food processing system, but Dibber shoots him through the wall. Glitz tells Drathro that they have black light on their ship, and offers to take the robot to the Andromeda Galaxy. Drathro agrees, and leaves with Glitz and Dibber. The Doctor realises that the black light system has already begun to self-destruct, and that all he can do is prevent it starting a chain reaction. The system explodes, but the blast only destroys the Castle, and as a result Drathro collapses. The Doctor and Peri leave Merdeen and Balazar to take the remaining inhabitants to a new life on the surface. The Doctor announces to the court that he has saved the Universe, and starts to present his defence. The Valeyard warns the Doctor that he has more evidence to come, and that the Court will demand the Doctor's life at the end. Continuity The reason why Earth has become Ravalox, as well as the reasons for the Fireball, are explained in , the final part of the Season.The relationship between the Sixth Doctor and Peri is less abrasive in this story than in the previous season. Both Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant wanted to show how travelling together had made their characters less combative and argumentative. Both this and the changes in their appearances, particularly Peri's hairstyle and mode of dress suggest a long gap between this story and their previous on-screen appearance in and allowing for "unseen" adventures in the spin-off media to be placed there.Early in Part One, the Doctor appears to be about to reveal his surname for the first and only time in the entire series (but see , and further discussion in ).The Inquisitor and the Valeyard reference the events of .The Doctor's claim that he cannot be on trial as and the Inquisitor's explanation that he had been removed were reportedly added to the script after Colin Baker noticed the apparent .Recovering from unconsciousness, the Doctor briefly slips back into the personality of one of his previous selves, allowing Colin Baker to do an impersonation of . He even uses the phrase, "."In this serial, the First Law of Time refers to the well-documented Time Lord policy of non-interference, as opposed to specifically forbidding a Time Lord meeting a past or future incarnation and therefore interfering with his own history, as stated in earlier serials. Production The details available for each episode of this story are outlined in the table below. Episode Broadcast Date Run Time Ratings "Part One" 06 Sep 1986 24'57" 4.9m "Part Two" 13 Sep 1986 24'44" 4.9m "Part Three" 20 Sep 1986 24'18" 3.9m "Part Four" 27 Sep 1986 24'20" 3.7m Preproduction In February 1985, the BBC announced that the planned twenty-third season of Doctor Who had been canceled. After vocal protests by the press and Doctor Who fans (including a charity single, ), the BBC announced that the progamme was merely on "hiatus", and would return in September 1986. Several stories which had been planned or commissioned for the original Season 23 were in favour of an overarching "trial" theme, reflecting the fact that the programme itself was on trial at the BBC. This story was the last complete Doctor Who story written by . Its plot is similar to Holmes' first contribution to Doctor Who, . In both stories, an alien machine subjugates a humanoid civilization and forces its brightest young people into its service. [] Casting The actor playing Merdeen, Tom Chadbon, had previously appeared in the 1979 serial . Production The opening model shot of the Time Lord Space Station where the trial is held throughout the season was the most expensive model shot from the classic series run (costing more than £8,000). The sequence depicts the Time Lord Space Station orbiting in space then dragging the TARDIS inside via the use of a . From this serial onwards, all location work would be recorded on Outside Broadcast (OB) tape instead of 16mm film. This practice would continue until the end of the series. The only footage shot on film for this episode was the opening special effects shot of the TARDIS. The had been encouraging the replacement of film cameras with OB cameras since the early 1980s on the grounds that they were cheaper, and mixed with studio-shot material better. John Nathan-Turner had actually wanted to switch to OB shooting as early as 's first season in 1982, but met with resistance from the directors working on the show at the time. Post-production was hired to score the music for The Mysterious Planet, and John Nathan-Turner offered him the chance to rearrange the opening title music. His new score for the opening theme was the shortest lived, lasting this season alone (not counting the unused 1973 version by and ). Some saw it as an improvement on the version, while others criticized it for being "too quiet" or "not scary enough". It has since been used on the majority of the featuring Colin Baker as the . Commercial releases In October 1993, this story was released on as part of the three-tape The Trial of a Time Lord set. A DVD release is due in , similarly boxed with the other stories in The Trial of a Time Lord season. In print book The Mysterious Planet Series Release number 127 Writer Publisher Cover artist ISBN 0 426 20319 4 Release date 19th November 1987 (Hardback) 21st April 1988 (Paperback) Preceded by Followed by A novelisation of this serial, written by , was published by in November 1987. External links at at the at at Reviews reviews at reviews at Target novelisation
The Five Doctors was a special feature-length of the series , produced in celebration of the programme's twentieth anniversary. It aired in the United Kingdom on , , although it had its world premiere in the , on the station and various other PBS affiliates on , the anniversary date. //<![CDATA[ if (window.showTocToggle) { var tocShowText = "show"; var tocHideText = "hide"; showTocToggle(); } //]]> Synopsis Someone is plucking all the incarnations of out of time, and placing them in the Death Zone on where they will meet old friends and enemies and play out the deadly Game of Rassilon, for the ultimate prize. But to lose is to win, and he who wins shall lose... Plot The , and are taking a break on the Eye of Orion, one of the most tranquil spots in the universe, when the Fifth Doctor suddenly collapses. Tegan and Turlough bring the Fifth Doctor back into the , where they discover to their distress that he is literally fading away. The Fifth Doctor manages to set the TARDIS controls for a destination and the ship dematerializes. In a hidden chamber, a dark figure is manipulating the controls of a time scoop and kidnapping previous out of the time stream along with some of his former companions. The is taken while he is walking in a rose garden, the and from a reunion and the while he is out driving his roadster, Bessie. Also taken out of time are and the Doctor's granddaughter . The and are taken while along the , but whoever is doing this is frustrated as the two are trapped in the time vortex by a time eddy and unable to rematerialize. All of them, save the Fourth Doctor and Romana, are deposited on a desolate, rocky landscape — the Death Zone on . Meanwhile, in the Capitol on Gallifrey, the High Council of , headed by Lord President and consisting of Chancellor Flavia and the , watches in concern. The is being drained by whoever is taking the Doctor out of time, endangering all of Gallifrey. Despite Borusa's misgivings, the High Council has unanimously voted to call in the to assist by going into the Death Zone to help the Doctors. Offered a pardon and a new cycle of regenerations, the Master accepts, and is given a copy of the Seal of the High Council by the Castellan to prove his bona fides, and a matter transmitter (transmat) recall device. He is then teleported via transmat to the Death Zone. In the Zone, the Doctors face various dangers. The First Doctor and Susan are pursued by a through a hall of mirrors, finally escaping when they push the Dalek into a dead end, where the discharge of its energy weapon ricochets back and destroys it. The Second Doctor and the Brigadier escape from a squad of , and the Third Doctor rescues Sarah from her fall down an embankment. Sarah is mildly confused, as she had seen the Third Doctor regenerate into the Fourth (), but is glad to see the Doctor she once knew. The Second and Third Doctors explain to their companions that in Gallifrey's past, known as the Dark Time, the Time Lords misused their powers. A device called the Time Scoop was used to pluck beings out of their times and place them in the Death Zone, where they would fight each other in a sort of gladiatorial game. The Doctors' goal now is to reach the Dark Tower, where the Time Lord founder is entombed, although there is some doubt as to whether Rassilon is actually dead. The Master meets and tries unsuccessfully to convince the Third Doctor that he is there to help. He is then forced to flee when thunderbolts fall from the sky. The Third Doctor only sees this as confirmation that this is all a plot of the Master's. The First Doctor and Susan find the TARDIS and the presence of the First Doctor seems to stabilize the Fifth for the moment. Together, they scan the tower and find three entrances — one at the apex of the tower, the main gate at the base, and one underground, but a force field prevents the TARDIS's entry. The Fifth Doctor takes Tegan and Susan to go to the main gate, but encounters the Master, who has no better luck convincing the Fifth Doctor than he did the Third. At that moment, the two are surrounded by Cybermen, and when they try to run away, the Master is knocked out by a cybergun blast. The Fifth Doctor finds the Master's recall device on his unconscious body, and transmats himself to the Capitol. The Master, confronted by the Cybermen, offers himself as a guide to the Tower. In the Capitol, the Doctor is informed of the situation by the High Council. The Doctor realizes not only that he has done the Master an injustice, but also that they were found too easily by the Cybermen. He opens the recall device and finds a homing beacon inside. The Castellan, who gave the Master the device, is arrested and his quarters ordered to be searched. There is found a box containing the Black Scrolls of Rassilon — forbidden knowledge from the Dark Time. Borusa destroys the scrolls before anyone can examine them and orders the Castellan taken to the mind probe for interrogation. However, as the Castellan is escorted outside, there is a shot. The Doctor rushes out to find the Castellan dead, and the Captain of the guard reporting that he was shot while trying to escape. The Doctor voices his concerns to Chancellor Flavia: the Castellan was stubborn, but not a traitor. There is more to this than meets the eye. The Second Doctor and the Brigadier are exploring a series of caves when they encounter a left over from the games. Taking refuge in an alcove, the Doctor tries to chase the Yeti off with a , succeeding only in maddening it, and causing it to collapse the entrance to the alcove. However, the Doctor detects a breeze from further back and discovers the underground entrance to the Tower. On the surface, the Third Doctor and Sarah come across a , according to the Doctor the most perfect killing machine ever devised. Able to move with blinding speed and fire bolts of metal at its targets, it detects its victims by motion. The Doctor and Sarah are unable to move without attracting the robot's attention, but luck is on their side when a squad of Cybermen come over the ridge and are rapidly eliminated by the robot. Taking advantage of the distraction, the Doctor and Sarah run past the robot's position, taking some rope and spare bolts from the robot's cave. Reaching a cliff face just above the Tower, the Doctor uses the rope and bolts to form a grappling hook, and he and Sarah across to the top of the Tower. Tegan and Susan have told the First Doctor what happened to the Fifth Doctor. The First Doctor decides to head for the main gate himself, with Tegan insisting on accompanying him. Opening the main gate through the means of a keypad hidden under a bell, they find a chessboard floor pattern blocking their way. The First Doctor determines that the chessboard is a trap — electrical bolts will destroy anyone attempting to cross unless they find the safe path. The Master appears at this point, warning them that the Cybermen are close behind. While the Doctor and Tegan hide, the Master lures the Cybermen onto the chessboard where they are killed. The Master tells the Doctor, "It's as easy as pie", then blithely steps across the board and moves into the Tower. The Doctor realizes that the Master means the Greek letter , and that the safe path is calculated by means of the mathematical constant. He and Tegan make their way across the trap. In the Zone, the TARDIS is being surrounded by Cybermen who start to assemble a bomb to blow it up. Inside, Turlough and Susan watch helplessly. The Second and Third Doctors encounter more obstacles while moving separately through the Tower, with the mind of Rassilon exuding an intensifying feeling of fear. They also encounter what appear to be their previous companions: the Third meeting and ; the Second meeting and . The Doctors soon realize that the 'companions' are just phantoms designed to impede their progress through the Tower, and the spectres vanish with a scream. Finally, all three Doctors reach the tomb where Rassilon's casket lies. While the Brigadier, Sarah, and Tegan get re-acquainted, the three Doctors try to translate an inscription written in Ancient Gallifreyan on a pedestal near a control panel. The Fifth Doctor finds that Borusa has vanished from the Council chamber, but the guards insist that the President could not have gotten by them at the only entrance. The transmat is out of power, so the Doctor deduces that there must be a secret door. He finds it hidden behind a painting of Rassilon playing the harp. The key to opening the door is a series of notes played on the actual harp standing before the painting — notes indicated by the sheet music in the painting itself. The Doctor enters the secret chamber, finding the dark figure that had taken his other selves out of time: Borusa. The Lord President is not satisfied with ruling Gallifrey for his lifetimes — he wants to be President Eternal. Borusa has determined that Rassilon discovered the secret of immortality, and he means to claim it, sending the Doctors into the Zone to clear the way for him. Using the Coronet of Rassilon, Borusa overwhelms the Fifth Doctor's will, thus forcing the latter to obey his commands. In the tomb, the Doctors have deciphered the inscription: Rassilon had discovered immortality and will share it with whomever overcomes the obstacles to the tomb and takes the ring from his body. However, one line troubles the First Doctor: "To lose is to win and he who wins shall lose." The Master steps out of the shadows to claim immortality for himself, yet is jumped from behind by the Brigadier and tied up by Sarah and Tegan. The Third Doctor fixes the control panel by , allowing the TARDIS to transport itself to the tomb (just seconds before the Cybermen's bomb detonates). The Second Doctor contacts the Capitol and the Fifth Doctor answers, still under Borusa's control. He tells his other selves to await their arrival. He and Borusa transmat over to the tomb. Borusa paralyzes the Doctors' companions with a command and tries to control the minds of the Doctors as well, but fails as all four Doctors combine their wills against him. However, a booming voice echoes through the chamber — the voice of Rassilon, demanding to know who disturbs him. Borusa steps forward to claim immortality and while the other Doctors protest, the First Doctor holds the others back and says to the projection of Rassilon that Borusa deserves the prize. Borusa takes the ring from the body and puts it on. He finds himself paralyzed, then transformed into one of several stone faces carved into the side of the casket. Rassilon sends the Master back to his own time, then frees the Fourth Doctor from the time vortex and returns to eternal rest. The First Doctor smugly tells the Fifth that he finally understood the proverb. The 'prize' was yet another trap — a means for Rassilon to eliminate whoever sought immortality. The Doctors and the companions say their good-byes to each other and re-enter the TARDIS save for the Fifth Doctor, Tegan, and Turlough. As those three watch, the others are transported back to their proper times. Chancellor Flavia arrives with guards and tells the Doctor that with Borusa's disappearance, the Council has appointed the Doctor as President. The Doctor appears reluctant, but Flavia tells him he cannot refuse an order of the Council or it will attract the severest penalties. The Doctor orders Flavia back to the Capitol, saying that he will travel there in his TARDIS and that she has full powers until his return. Once in the TARDIS, though, he reveals to Tegan and Turlough that he has no intention of returning. Tegan asks if the Doctor really intends to go on the run from his own people in a rickety old TARDIS. The Doctor replies, smiling, "Why not? After all, that's how it all started." Cast — , , , , , — — — — — — — — Chancellor Flavia — The Castellan — — — — — — — — — Voice of — Voice — Dalek Operator — Sergeant — — Commander — Technician — Guard — — Cast notes The role of the First Doctor was played by Richard Hurndall, as William Hartnell, who originally played the role, died in 1975. William Hartnell does make an appearance, however, in a pre-titles sequence taken from the end of .Tom Baker declined to reprise his role as the , as he did not want to reappear in the series so recently after his departure (a decision he would later say that he regretted); so his appearance in the story was pieced together from footage filmed for the unaired serial .The scene with Jamie and Zoe was originally written with Zoe and in mind. The Doctor would have realised the truth when Victoria called Lethbridge-Stewart "Brigadier", since Victoria had only met the Brigadier when he was a Colonel in . However, was unable to make the filming dates. Frazer Hines was able to free himself up for a day's shooting, so Jamie was written in instead.In the original drafts of the script, the Doctor/companion combinations were very different. Before Tom Baker decided not to appear, the Fourth Doctor would have been paired with Sarah, the Third Doctor with the Brigadier and the Second Doctor with Jamie. When Baker declined to appear and Frazer Hines was unable to meet the production dates due to other commitments, the scripts had to be altered. However, Hines was able to step in later for a cameo appearance, as noted above. was asked to appear as but objected to the way in which the character interacted with the Second Doctor and declined to participate. The scene was filmed with an unnamed sergeant in place of Benton. Continuity This is only the second time in the series' history that there was a pre-credits sequence. (1982) was the first such story. Subsequently, (1987) and (1988) also featured pre-credits teasers. The pre-credits sequence became a regular occurrence starting with the 2005 series episode .This serial also featured the debut of the new TARDIS console and room, the first redesign since 1977. This console would remain until the end of series production in 1989.This serial ended fan speculation as to whether or not and Jon Pertwee's Doctors were regenerations or merely "changes of appearance". It also explicitly indicated in dialogue that the Davison incarnation of the Doctor was in fact the fifth, officially contradicting the speculation that had circulated since the serial that there had been additional incarnations of the Doctor prior to Hartnell.When asked by the Third Doctor as to whether he has regenerated again, the Master says, "Not exactly", referencing his stealing of Tremas's body as seen in the Fourth Doctor story (1981).This is the first time it is suggested that a new cycle of regenerations can be bestowed on a person (in this case the Master), implying that it could be possible to circumvent the twelve-regeneration limit established in . However, the Master is occupying a non-Time Lord body, so whether this can be applied to a Time Lord who has already reached his thirteenth incarnation is unclear. Years later, however, the episode "" shows the Master regenerating and in the following episode "" indicates that he had been "resurrected" (the Master's own word, left unexplained) by the Time Lords to fight in the , suggesting a new regeneration cycle was indeed bestowed upon him.Three incarnations of previously appeared in , and .Dinah Sheridan makes a guest appearance as Flavia. The character has subsequently been mentioned in spin-off fiction as becoming President of the High Council and then subsequently removed from office due to a scandal (as detailed in the novel, Happy Endings). In the new series, a musical cue composed by with ethereal sounding vocals is jokingly referred to as "Flavia's Theme" by the production team, who say it is Flavia's voice singing out from the .One of the jewels from the Coronet of Rassilion would later play an important part in the adventure .No explanation is given for 's absence from this story.The First Doctor does not quite recognise the Master ("Do I know you?"), and has to be reminded of their time at the Academy together. The Third Doctor does recognise him, however, though it seems not as easily as usual.The Mind Probe would later be used as a plot device in the Torchwood episode . Retroactive perspectives This story takes place after from the point of view of the First Doctor and Susan, given Susan's mature appearance and the implication that they have been separated for some time.Although it is never made clear exactly where this story takes place within the Second and Third Doctors' chronology, it is made clear that it takes place after the events of . The Second Doctor mentions while reminiscing with the Brigadier, and also makes a comment about his own replacement being "unpromising" when he is in UNIT headquarters and meets Lethbridge-Stewart's successor. The Third Doctor also refers to “that fellow in the check trousers and black frock-coat? when he meets the illusions of Mike Yates and Liz Shaw. The familiar and mock-antagonistic way that the Second and Third Doctors interact also suggests that The Five Doctors takes place after the events of The Three Doctors for them both. Since the First Doctor refers to the Second as "the little fellow", it is reasonable to assume that the story takes place later in his chronology as well.The Second Doctor's method of determining that Jamie and Zoe are phantoms, which references the events of , is, seemingly, a continuity error, (subsequently rendering the Second Doctor's earlier meeting with the Brigadier in this story a continuity error). The memories of Jamie and Zoe's travels with the Doctor, as opposed to their respective initial adventures with him in their own home eras ( and ) were wiped in The War Games when they were returned to their own times at a moment just after they had left in the TARDIS. There are various fan explanations for this and it is noted that it is the Brigadier only that they should not have recognised as neither of them would remember meeting him in and respectively. (see )This story takes place some time between and from the Third Doctor's point of view, as he recognises Sarah Jane, for whom events take place after K-9 and Company.The Third Doctor reacts to Sarah's mimed description of the Fourth Doctor by saying, "Teeth and curls?" and telling her the change has not happened yet for him. Although the Third Doctor may just be interpreting her gestures, his accuracy has led some fans to believe that it implies a previous unseen encounter with the Fourth Doctor. According to on the commentary, the line was supposed to be Sarah's, but Pertwee negotiated with Elisabeth Sladen for him to say it instead, leading to the problem. In the short story The Touch of the Nurazh by Stephen Hatcher from the anthology , an injury makes the Third Doctor begin to regenerate into the Fourth but the process is reversed. This is witnessed by Jo Grant, and the theory is that she subsequently describes the Fourth Doctor's appearance to the Third.This story occurs after from the Brigadier's point of view, given that he recognises Tegan and later the Fifth Doctor.At the start of the episode, Sarah Jane Smith is shown with K-9, a direct reference to the spin-off pilot of two years earlier, . The two characters later returned in the story . Production The working title for this story was The Six Doctors. It would have been written by former and would have featured the and their of the five incarnations of the Doctor; in their attempt to extract DNA to turn themselves into "Cyberlords", the twist being that the First Doctor and Susan would actually be impostors (the former being the "Sixth Doctor" of the title) and the Second Doctor would have saved the day. However, Holmes dropped out at an early stage and another former script editor, Terrance Dicks, was brought in instead. Some elements of this plotline would be reused in Holmes's own .The original script featured an appearance by the , last seen in . After being dropped into the Death Zone, Sarah would have been attacked by a group of them before being rescued by the Third Doctor. However, due to budgetary restrictions, the scene was dropped and replaced in the finished version.Just before she meets the Third Doctor, Sarah falls a few feet down what fans have generally considered a rather unconvincing slope. In the novelisation, Sarah actually steps off a cliff. This was what was originally intended in the script, but for budgetary reasons the sequence was changed.Nathan-Turner's first choice of director for the story was , who had directed the first ever Doctor Who serial, , in 1963. However, Hussein was in America at the time and was unable to accept the offer. Nathan-Turner then asked another veteran director, , to direct but he also declined. It has been suggested[] that Camfield was offended to be second choice or that he was angered that Nathan-Turner had not asked him back to Doctor Who before, but there is no known evidence to support this suggestion. Camfield was also very ill with , and this may have had an impact on his decision not to direct the production. He died of a early in 1984.The programme is officially a co-production with the , although the production team were not aware of this during production and the agreement in effect amounted to little more than a pre-production purchase pact.The story was prepared in two formats: the ninety-minute version and a four-part version, the latter designed for international distribution or repeat broadcasting in the ordinary series run. The episode breaks were, respectively: Sarah falling down the slope, the Cybermen placing their bomb outside the TARDIS while Susan and Turlough watch; and the Master appearing behind the and Tegan while in the Dark Tower.In the various publicity photos of the five Doctors from this story, a waxwork model of from a 1980 Doctor Who Exhibition in was used. According to producer John Nathan-Turner, Baker had agreed to do the photocall for the 20th anniversary but, suspecting that he might not turn up, Nathan-Turner organised for the waxwork to be on location.This is the only programme from the classic series of Doctor Who for which all recorded and filmed material, including alternate and unused takes, fluffed scenes and so forth, still exists in broadcast-quality format. This allowed for the creation of the 1995 version of the story.The end credits featured a specially mixed version of the theme music, which began with 's original 1960s arrangement and then segued into the arrangement being used by the series at the time. This arrangement was only used on this one occasion and was the last time that the Derbyshire version was heard during the show's original run. A unique arrangement of the opening credits music was also used, which ended in a brief coda phrase that was never used in any other serial. Outside references The Brigadier references "" and "".The 's line, "Scarecrow!" (aimed at the ), is an , referencing the fact that Jon Pertwee played .Some of the inscriptions on the tombstone when they reach Rassilon's Tower are mathematical symbols. In print Doctor Who book The Five Doctors Series Release number 81 Writer Publisher Cover artist ISBN 0 426 19510 8 Release date 24 November 1983 Preceded by Followed by A novelisation of this serial, written by , was published by in November 1983; it was the only Target novelisation to be published before its story was transmitted. Broadcast, VHS and DVD releases The Five Doctors was first broadcast in the on the actual date of the programme's 20th anniversary. The broadcast in the United Kingdom was delayed two days so it could coincide with the BBC's charity night. There were a few scenes in the BBC broadcast that had not been shown in the US airing.The story was first released and in September of 1985. This version was also released on in 1994.It was rereleased on VHS in 1990 without 2 minutes of edits present in the earlier tapes and discs. To date, this is the only release of the story as originally broadcast.A Special Edition of the episode, with updated special effects, surround-sound compatibility and an alternate editing of the raw material was released on VHS in 1995 in a box set with the video of and a limited edition postcard album. Since about 2000, this version has been turning up frequently in the syndication package instead of the original.This was the first Doctor Who serial to be released on , on , . Some of the special effects were further enhanced and the voice of Rassilon was noticeably different. The Region 1 version has a commentary track by Peter Davison and writer .On it was announced that The Five Doctors would be the first Doctor Who story to be made available to download to , in a deal between and the technology firm .This story will be rereleased on a 2 disc 25th Anniversary special edition DVD on 3rd March 2008. [] References Briggs, Nick, "Last Orders", , #229, 30th August 1995, , p.36, quote of Nicholas Courtney (who did not specify a companion for Troughton) Lyons, Steve and Chris Howarth, "The Good Soldier" (interview with John Levene) Doctor Who Magazine, #230, 27 September 1995, Marvel Comics UK Ltd., p.44 ; David J. Howe (2006). Talkback: The Unofficial and Unauthorised Doctor Who Interview Book: Volume One: The Sixties. England: , p. 30. . Rawson-Jones, Ben. "", , -. Retrieved on -. External links at at at the Reviews reviews at reviews at reviews at 130 - The Five Doctors telemovie The Doctors inside the Tomb of Rassilon () () () () (, archive footage only) (First Doctor, pre-titles clip) () () () () (, archive footage only) Writer ( segment) (uncredited) ( segments) (uncredited) Director (uncredited) (The Dalek Invasion of Earth segment) (uncredited) (Shada segments) (uncredited) Script editor Producer John Nathan-Turner Executive producer(s) None Production code 6K Series Length 90 mins Originally broadcast , (first global) , (first ) Chronology ? Preceded by Followed by →
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Doctor Who: Podshock Episode 65 For the Week of the 29th of January 2007 Running Time: 1:11:53 In this episode: News: Sir Derek Jacobi Cast for 2007 series, Britney Spears Wanted?, Animated Doctor Who adventures, Gallifrey One 2007 Convention Update, etc. Features: Interview with the late producer John Nathan-Turner from December 1993 with Joey Reynolds, and Episode 3 of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Whoverse. Announcements: Create a Doctor Who: Podshock mash-up promo and the one we like the most will get a special 'iGift' from us. Feedback: That Neil Guy on Shada, Eric in Augusta, GA, Bill on the roll of the Doctor time-span, and Aaron from Torchwood.tv. Promos: Doctor Who: No More Lies BBC 7 Radio promo. Guests: Prerecorded guests include John Nathan-Turner and Joey Reynolds. Hosted by James Naughton (UK), Ken Deep (US), and Louis Trapani (US). Brought to you by the Gallifreyan Embassy and presented by Outpost Gallifrey. Do you need 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.
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