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Post by Kath Kinmont's Chinese Husband on Jun 22, 2012 23:09:21 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 Kath Kinmont's Chinese Husband on Jul 31, 2012 16:54:46 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 Kath Kinmont's Chinese Husband on Jul 31, 2012 19:12:23 GMT -5
P.R.O.B.E.: Ghosts of Winterborne: Fourth and final film of the P.R.O.B.E. series Saw it on Youtube in five parts starting here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwLTSbeY2IcThis is the sequel to The Devil of Winterborne. The resolution of what happened in the earlier film is adequate but there are bits there are quite disturbing.
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Post by Kath Kinmont's Chinese Husband on Aug 1, 2012 1:34:51 GMT -5
According to IMDb, Jonny Lee Miller was once in Doctor Who: 1982 Doctor Who (TV series) Kinda Child – Kinda: Part One (1982) … Kinda Child (uncredited)
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Post by Kath Kinmont's Chinese Husband on Oct 27, 2012 23:43:55 GMT -5
How To Build a TARDIS: www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6IeW19dmVcHow To Build A TARDIS was a short documentary that was part of Doctor Who Night in 1999. Presented by scientist Dr Jim Al-Khalili on the possibility of a TARDIS being built in real life. Not bad and a bit fascinating.
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Post by Kath Kinmont's Chinese Husband on Nov 2, 2012 23:47:37 GMT -5
From the Doctor Who News Page: Tamzin Outhwaite, Calvin Dean and Robert Whitelock have been revealed to be guest stars in the 2013 episodes.
Meanwhile Star Trek: Deep Space Nine alum Aron Eisenberg has said that he would like to be in Doctor Who especially if Peter Jackson does direct while fellow Star Trek alum, former Enterprise lead Scott Bakula revealed that he had been offered the role of Isaac in A Town Called Mercy but had to turn it down due to the filming of the episode clashing with other work commitments (Isaac went instead to Ben Browder). Bakula said he became fan of the “new” series after catching some episodes in the UK last year.
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Post by Kath Kinmont's Chinese Husband on Nov 2, 2012 23:50:08 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 Kath Kinmont's Chinese Husband on Nov 2, 2012 23:50:25 GMT -5
Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary: tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Bidding_Adieu%3A_A_Video_DiaryReleased by BBV, Bidding Adieu was a documentary that followed Sylvester McCoy to Vancouver when he filmed his scenes for the 1996 Doctor Who TV movie which saw him regenerate into Paul McGann. Saw it on Youtube beginning here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsRbeG7dUxMAs well as McCoy, it also interviewed McGann, Daphne Ashbrook and Anneke Wills. Anneke Wills is present here due to the fact that she was a companion who had witnessed the very first regeneration of the Doctor when William Hartnell turned into Patrick Troughton. For some of the scenes the interviewer was Mark Gatiss, now a Doctor Who writer. Bidding Adieu does not really go into much about making of the TV movie as this was about McCoy reflecting on his time as the Doctor as he makes his final performance as the then current Doctor. Quite poignant for McCoy and it is easy to see this as a template to David Tennant making his video diary on his own last days as the Doctor more than a decade later.
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Post by Kath Kinmont's Chinese Husband on Dec 22, 2012 15:36:22 GMT -5
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Post by Kath Kinmont's Chinese Husband on Dec 22, 2012 17:39:03 GMT -5
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Post by Kath Kinmont's Chinese Husband on Dec 22, 2012 23:45:54 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 Kath Kinmont's Chinese Husband on Dec 23, 2012 0:46:23 GMT -5
The Doctor Who Project: www.thedoctorwhoproject.com/p...ns/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 Kath Kinmont's Chinese Husband on Jul 28, 2013 2:05:19 GMT -5
2013 Annual
Lorna’s Escape: In A Good Man Goes, Lorna says that she first met the Doctor when she was a girl. Well Lorna’s Escape is that story. Intriguing story about Lorna’s first meeting of the Doctor and provides a neat link-up to A Good Man Goes to War.
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Post by Kath Kinmont's Chinese Husband on Nov 10, 2013 16:12:11 GMT -5
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Post by Kath Kinmont's Chinese Husband on Jan 27, 2014 22:05:16 GMT -5
Read in DWM #409 from 2009 with Peter Ware looking back on issue 220 from November 1994 with the report under the headline Gimme Spock! that former Doctor Who producer Barry Letts and former script editor Terrance Dicks met with Leonard Nimoy earlier in 1994 to discuss the then proposed Doctor Who movie. Nimoy had been keen to have Letts and Dicks involved in the project as advisors and reportedly told them that if no-one suitable presented themselves soon then he might play the Doctor himself!
Ultimately this project was abandoned and the next time new Doctor Who would be seen on screen at that point was with the 1996 TV movie. To date Nimoy still does not have a Doctor Who credit to his name.
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