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Post by Angel Lewis' Chinese Husband on Apr 14, 2012 21:29:48 GMT -5
Power of the Daleks (re-imagined): Patrick Troughton's official debut story Power of the Daleks has been re-imagined and the first part has just been released: www.doctorwhonews.net/2012/04/dwn140412155008-power-of-daleks-part.htmlThe Doctor here is played by Nick Scovell who is also the project's adapter and director. Guest stars includes Barnaby Edwards, Nick Briggs and Lisa Bowerman. Quite a different setting from the original story with the name of the characters still remain and it is quite a good start to this re-imagined version. The accompanying mini-Confidentials provides a fascinating look at the story's production.
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Post by Angel Lewis' Chinese Husband on Jul 4, 2012 18:18:47 GMT -5
Year of the Pig: Year of the Pig is an audio story released by Big Finish Productions in December 2006. Written by Matthew Sweet and featured the Sixth Doctor and Peri. The guest cast includes Paul Brooke, Michael Keating (Blake’s 7 and a returning Doctor Who guest star), First Doctor companion actor Maureen O’Brien (Vicki) as another character and Adjoa Andoh who had appeared in TV Doctor Who which included playing Martha’s mum Francine. Remarkably speaking from this year 2012, Year of the Pig was released before Adjoa Andoh first appeared as Francine Jones in the 2007 season but already had TV Doctor Who to her credit when she played Sister Jatt in the 2006 season opener New Earth but her face was covered with cat prosthetics due to Sister Jatt being a cat. For a pig-themed story it is remarkable to note that Year of the Pig was released mere months before the original transmission of the 2007 TV story Daleks In Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks which had featured pig creatures but not a story that had featured Adjoa Andoh as Francine. Paul Brooke played the performer Toby The Sapient Pig and I was quite surprised to find out that there was a performer by that name although he was long deceased before the setting of Year of the Pig. Year of the Pig is a jolly good romp of a story as it is extremely fun in a lot of places including the mystery about Toby’s history. My enjoyment of this story was helped by how much the cast seemed to enjoy making it. Considering that it was released in December 2006 it was definitely a suitable story due to its atmosphere to have been released in time for Christmas 2006.
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Post by Angel Lewis' Chinese Husband on Jul 4, 2012 18:19:49 GMT -5
P.R.O.B.E.: The Devil of Winterborne: In 2011 I found out the passing of Nicholas Courtney (the Brigadier) and Lis Sladen (Sarah Jane Smith) during or shortly after viewing The Sarah Jane Adventures season 2 which included an appearance by the Brigadier on the DVD release. More than a year later in 2012 came the passing of another former companion in Caroline John (Liz Shaw). So it is with sad coincidence that like Nicholas Courtney and Lis Sladen, I was watching Caroline John in a production she was in when learning of her passing. In Caroline John’s case it is The Devil of Winterborne released in 1995, the second in the P.R.O.B.E. independent video series from BBV in which Caroline John reprised her role as Liz in the 1990s when she was an investigator for P.R.O.B.E. (Preternatural Research Bureau). Saw it on Youtube in 10 parts starting here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JFa1oBEOP0Along with Caroline John, the cast has other Doctor Who alums. Unlike Caroline John, these other alums, Peter Davison, Louise Jameson, Terry Molloy and John’s husband Geoffrey Beevers all played different characters instead of their familiar Doctor Who characters. In Davison’s case he could not play the BBC-owned The Doctor in a non-BBC production. Instead he played the headmaster of a boarding school when a gruesome murder took place nearby. Also appearing were Mark Gatiss, who in his capacity as writer wrote all of the P.R.O.B.E. series including The Devil of Winterborne, and his fellow League of Gentleman Reece Shearsmith. With The Devil of Winterborne, Gatiss has written a chilling mystery. Overall it is not bad but also quite disturbing in seeing rituals of a cult. P.R.O.B.E. has been said to be a forerunner of fellow spin-off Torchwood and like Torchwood, The Devil of Winterborne is definitely not for children’s viewing.
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Post by Angel Lewis' Chinese Husband on Jul 30, 2012 17:54:58 GMT -5
From the Doctor Who News Page: Big Finish's licence to produce Doctor Who audio dramas has been extended to December 2015.
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Post by Angel Lewis' Chinese Husband on Jul 30, 2012 17:56:00 GMT -5
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Post by Angel Lewis' Chinese Husband on Jul 30, 2012 23:13:44 GMT -5
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Post by Angel Lewis' Chinese Husband on Jul 31, 2012 15:59:06 GMT -5
Adventures In Time and Space: www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0zfxkhxYZk&list=UUh_F3VAKQoE-glwAw1d2Y0A&index=1&feature=plcpNarrated by Peter Jones (who had also performed the same function for Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy), Adventures In Time and Space was a documentary on Doctor Who that was shown as part of Doctor Who Night in 1999. Including interviews with all the past surviving Doctors up to that point Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy, (Paul McGann was technically the current Doctor at that time) this was an enjoyable overview of Doctor Who.
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Post by Angel Lewis' Chinese Husband on Aug 31, 2012 18:08:04 GMT -5
Pond Life Part 5: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxXAY7LyjcMFinale. Most of this episode has the Doctor talking on the phone but it sure ends ominously and it is a good lead-up to Asylum of the Daleks.
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Post by Angel Lewis' Chinese Husband on Sept 16, 2012 18:41:56 GMT -5
Night of the Humans: Night of the Humans is an original novel featuring the Eleventh Doctor, Amy and Rory. Released in April 2010 and written by David Llewellyn. I haven’t read the book itself but I have listened to the audiobook version of it when it was made as a free download offer from The Brilliant Book 2012. The audiobook was read by Arthur Darvill (Rory). David Llewellyn has written an intriguing story of how humans are perceived very far in the future by the non-human race that appeared here. Thanks to Arthur Darvill’s narration the audiobook feels very chilling about the menace that appeared here as well as the presentation of an unsavoury character in Dirk Slipstream a former prisoner on Volag-Noc. Volag-Noc had been seen visually in the Tenth Doctor animated story The Infinite Quest. Very good on the developing of the lead-up to the denouement.
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Post by Angel Lewis' Chinese Husband on Sept 16, 2012 20:54:41 GMT -5
Carnival of Monsters: The Carnival of Monsters I am talking about here is not the Jon Pertwee story from season 10 but it is instead the documentary with that name that was shown as part of Doctor Who Night in 1999. It can be seen on Youtube starting here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_nQOu_eNncNarrated by Fenella Fielding it is overall not a bad overview about the monsters who had appeared in Doctor Who up to point in time. It is unsurprising that narrator Fielding declared that the Daleks are the king of all the monsters.
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Post by Angel Lewis' Chinese Husband on Dec 22, 2012 0:20:17 GMT -5
Goodbye Bannerman Road: Remembering Elisabeth Sladen: vimeo.com/32978876Goodbye Bannerman Road: Remembering Elisabeth Sladen is a documentary released on the Sarah Jane Adventures season 5 DVD release which had some of the cast and crew paying tribute to the late Lis Sladen whose passing brought about the hastened end of The Sarah Jane Adventures. This was quite moving tribute to Lis Sladen. Somewhat saddening to hear from Daniel Anthony (Clyde) that Lis Sladen never knew how good she was in her performances and with her passing bringing SJA to an abrupt end, this documentary is certainly very good as a coda to the series.
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Post by Angel Lewis' Chinese Husband on Dec 22, 2012 0:24:23 GMT -5
The Darksmith Legacy - The Colour of Darkness: The Colour of Darkness is the third book in The Darksmith Legacy series. Written by Richard Dungworth and released in 2009. It featured the Tenth Doctor travelling on his own without a regular companion. Very thrilling book taking place in the midst of a village on the planet Karagula especially since the village is childless. Also eerie is the woman with powers.
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Post by Angel Lewis' Chinese Husband on Dec 22, 2012 1:30:43 GMT -5
The Doctor Who Project: www.thedoctorwhoproject.com/pages/seasons/seasons.phpThe Doctor Who Project is a Doctor Who fan fiction series that explored what would have happened if Doctor Who had not stopped showing new episodes in 1989 and continued on from that point onwards and the writers of this project uses season numbers that is a continuation from the 26 seasons of the “classic” series. The Final Sunset: Season 27 opener. As this continues straight on from the “classic” series the Doctor here is the Seventh Doctor. The Final Sunset takes place sometime after Ace left the Doctor and it features here the Doctor’s old companion (from when he was the Third Doctor) Liz Shaw. The villains here are the Silurians and the Master. In fact the Silurians introductory story was one of the four stories from Liz’s only season as a companion. Unfortunately the Doctor does not get to be reunited with Liz until the near end but this makes for a cracking story involving the aforementioned villains.
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Post by Angel Lewis' Chinese Husband on Mar 30, 2013 16:13:05 GMT -5
From The Doctor Who News Page: The BBC confirmed that David Tennant and Billie Piper will reprise their roles as the Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler respectively in the 50th anniversary episode.
Also cast in the 50th anniversary episode is John Hurt. Prior to his casting in the 50th anniversary episode, Hurt was referenced elsewhere in the Whoniverse in Greeks Bearing Gifts when Tosh mentioned his infamous scene in Alien.
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Post by Angel Lewis' Chinese Husband on Mar 30, 2013 18:22:09 GMT -5
Recently discovered a parody of Doctor Who called Doctor Where and there are segments of an educational maths show from the BBC. Mathematics: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXs8NBSWx1AProbability: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvVI3rAhGjUScale: www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6Xkv9y2xp0As well Doctor Where, these sketches features their own Brigadier and a companion called Sally Anne. Sally Anne was later used as the name of the companion to a fake Doctor in the Big Finish Sixth Doctor story The One Doctor and someone has speculated that the Sally Anne name came from the Doctor Where sketches. Overall the Doctor Where sketches are not bad in humour in their purposes of education.
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