Doctor Who

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On the same night that I saw The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe I also saw Matt Smith in The Graham Norton Show Christmas Special 2011.
It also had Gillian Anderson in it meaning seeing both the Eleventh Doctor and Agent Scully together as they both sat on the same couch as they talked about their experiences on Comic Con including the Doctor not having any memory of Dodo:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVapasOuzCE&feature=player_embedded


Whilst talking about The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe, a clip of the episode was shown and that was of the Doctor showing the Arwells the kids' room.



Gillian Anderson said that she had watched Doctor Who whilst growing up until she moved to the US when she was 11. Gillian Anderson was born on August 9 1968 meaning she would have seen Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker, the latter in which she refer to as the guy in the curly hair in the 1970s.


Also a woman on the red chair said that she is a Doctor Who fan but Graham Norton booted her off when she made the mistake of thinking Christmas Day was on December 26!

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The Invasion of Time DVD:
In the Continuity feature showing the trailers of The Invasion of Time at the time of its original transmission it included the BBC promo of it with other BBC shows.
Among the other shows included in this promo was Mike Yarwood In Persons and this particular episode had as its guest as shown here was Twiggy.
Curious thing about this is that Twiggy had been suggested to be the companion to the Doctor for Tom Baker's never made film Doctor Who Meets Scratchman. So the inclusion of Twiggy's appearance in Mike Yarwood In Persons along with The Invasion of Time in the said promo is the closest Twiggy came to appearing with Tom Baker in Doctor Who.
Incidentally the suggestion of Twiggy as a companion was made and dropped shortly before Louise Jameson was cast as Leela and Invasion of Time was her swansong as Leela.

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As revealed in The Brilliant Book 2012, the audiobook of the Doctor Who novel Night of the Humans by David Llewellyn and read by Arthur Darvill (Rory) is available to download for free at AudioGo until January 31 2012.
In case one is not available to get The Brilliant Book 2012 prior to the said date, the free download is at www.audiogo.co.uk/brilliant and the promotional code for it is BBDW12NoH.

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The late Lis Sladen was not the first choice to play Sarah Jane Smith in Doctor Who. It was instead April Walker. Details on why April Walker was dropped can be read here:
www.doctorwhonews.net/2012/01/dwn100112002512-first-sarah-jane.html

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Dalek I Love You Too:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b009kfxs

Dalek I Love You Too is the sequel to Dalek I Love You:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalek_I_Love_You_(radio)

I did not like Dalek I Love You and when I listened to the sequel I thought it was a little bit of an improvement over its predecessor only to ultimately conclude that the sequel is just as bad as its predecessor.
Frustratingly like its predecessor the sequel has a confusing ending.

Dalek I Love You Too was originally broadcast on BBC 7 (as BBC Radio 4 Extra was then known) on March 22 2008 and it was definitely not worth the wait.

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It has just been discovered in the BBC archives of a long lost radio script of an episode for a proposed Doctor Who radio series in the 1960s And starring Dalek movies Doctor Peter Cushing.

The name of the episode in question is called Journey Into Time written by Malcolm Hulke who would go to write for the Troughton and Pertwee Doctors in the TV series.
It was projected that the radio series would have 52 episodes but the series was rejected by the BBC.

However a recording of the pilot was made but unfortunately that has been lost for many years.
More on this can be read here:
www.doctorwhonews.net/2012/01/dwn150112121012-missing-radio-script.html

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From the Doctor Who News Page:
Harry Fowler has passed away.

Born on December 10 1926, Harry Fowler had appeared in Doctor Who as Harry in Parts 1 and 3 of the season 25 opener Remembrance of the Daleks starring Sylvester McCoy.

His long acting career had also seen him play Corporal Flogger Hoskins in the fifth and final season of The Army Game in 1960-61 alongside eventual First Doctor William Hartnell.

Harry Fowler died on January 4 2012 at the age of 85.

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Return of the Daleks:
Return of the Daleks is a Big Finish Doctor Who audio drama which is a crossover with Big Finish’s Dalek Empire series.
Return of the Daleks was originally released in December 2006 as a free CD with The Year of the Pig. It subsequently had its own release.
Written by Nicholas Briggs.
The Doctor here is that of Seventh Doctor Sylvester McCoy with Sarah Mowat and Gareth Thomas reprising their roles as Susan Mendes and Kalendorf respectively from the Dalek Empire series.
For the Seventh Doctor it is one of these stories that takes place not long before he regenerates into the Eighth Doctor in the 1996 TV movie.
In the timeline of Dalek Empire, Return of the Daleks takes place sometime after The Human Factor, the second episode of the first Dalek Empire series.
This crossover between Doctor Who and Dalek Empire was not a crossover that I had expected nor was it one that I would have made demand before. Whilst listening to the preceding Dalek Empire instalments I thought that Dalek Empire worked well on its own and never occurred to me that the Doctor had to be involve in some way.
Having said that Return of the Daleks is a worthy story to listen to especially in displaying the contrasts in character of the Doctor with that Suz and Kalendorf.
This story takes place on the planet Zaleria and it is quite a surprise what its secret turned out to be.
The trickery that the Doctor brings on the Daleks leads to a fine conclusion to the story.

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From the Doctor Who News Page:
Jenny Tomasin has passed away.

Born on November 30 1936, Jenny Tomasin appeared in Doctor Who, playing Tasambeker in Revelation of the Daleks which closed season 22 and Colin Baker’s first full season as the Doctor.

Outside of Doctor Who, her most notable role was that of the maid Ruby in 41 episodes of Upstairs, Downstairs starring and co-created by one time Doctor Who companion actor Jean Marsh.

Jenny Tomasin died sometime in January 2012. She was 75.

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Doctor Who and The Universal Vacation & Re-T.A.R.D.I.D are a couple of Doctor Who fan made videos that got picked up by the Doctor Who News Page.


Doctor Who and The Universal Vacation:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=18pHTzjHhMk&feature=player_embedded

A music video showing what happens when the Doctor and Amy meets certain people that they see here.
Quite fun with the ending a cracker.

Re-T.A.R.D.I.D:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvpvwSxcoRA&feature=player_embedded

This one did not really work for me as it looks at the consequence of travelling in the TARDIS. It did not work for me as no reason was given of why one character did what he did in the end.

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The DVD info text for The Trial of a Time Lord Part 13 (the first episode of The Ultimate Foe) it says that four versions of the Master was seen in Doctor Who subsequent to the Anthony Ainley one.
There seems to be a miscount on the info text writer’s part as there have been three Masters chronologically since Anthony Ainley and they are Eric Roberts, Derek Jacobi and John Simm. However the extra Master that the info text writer may have included in his count may have been the brief appearance of Gordon Tipple as the Master at the beginning of the 1996 TV movie but he is really counted as the Ainley version or the snake like being the Master became after the Ainley/Tipple body was destroyed which then took over Eric Roberts’ body.

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The Invisible Enemy:
Part 2 included the gag about Gallifrey being in Ireland. The info text says that The Invisible Enemy writers Bob Baker and Dave Martin previously used the gag of Gallifrey in Ireland a few years earlier in The Hand of Fear.
It was hardly a few years since The Invisible Enemy was first shown in 1977 whereas The Hand of Fear was shown only the year before in 1976!
During this episode the info text mention other work that Frederick Jaeger had done but neglected to mention that he had worked with both Tom Baker and Louise Jameson either before or subsequent to The Invisible Enemy.
The info text mentioned Jaeger’s previous Doctor Who appearances including Planet of Evil but not the fact that it also starred Tom Baker like The Invisible Enemy.
With appearances outside of Doctor Who that Jaeger had made the info text included The Omega Factor (the final episode Illusions to be precise) but did not mention it had as a regular his The Invisible Enemy co-star Louise Jameson.
This episode has Leela finally knowing what she looks like by seeing her clone and this was something that went by the info text without any comment as I thought this was something that the info text would have commented upon as this was a significant moment for Leela. It is as significant as K9’s first appearance in the series in this episode which the info text made a comment on.

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From The Doctor Who News Page:
Frederick Treves has passed away.
Born on March 29 1925, Frederick Treves appeared in Doctor Who playing Lieutenant Brotadac in the Tom Baker story Meglos.

His other roles included Carry On Constable, the original A For Andromeda and its sequel The Andromeda Breakthrough, The Avengers, The Baron, the original Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), Doomwatch, The Protectors, Poirot, The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones & Mr Bean with Comic Relief Ninth Doctor Rowan Atkinson as the titular character.

Frederick Treves died on January 30 2012 at the age of 86.