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Post by matthewsee on Feb 5, 2012 0:56:04 GMT
Memory Lane:
Memory Lane is an audio story that featured the Eighth Doctor, Charley and C’rizz.
Released in October 2006 by Big Finish Productions, it was written by Eddie Robson in his Doctor Who audio debut.
Also in Memory Lane is Anneke Wills (formerly companion Polly to the First and Second Doctors) making another appearance as Charley’s mother, Lady Louisa Pollard.
With Doctor Who’s return to television the year before it was decided at Big Finish to give the Eighth Doctor a new lease of life with a new companion Lucie Miller but to do that they first had to provide a departure for Charley and C’rizz (although Charley would continue travelling with the Sixth Doctor).
So the purpose of Memory Lane was to give one final fun adventure with the Eighth Doctor, Charley and C’rizz as these two companions would each part company with the Eighth Doctor in the two subsequent Eighth Doctor stories.
The Doctor, Charley and C’rizz lands in the suburb where not everything is as it seems as the mystery here involves an ice cream van, a long lost astronaut and why it is important to update video technology.
With its setting Memory Lane provides a very good kind of mystery in a Desperate Housewives kind of way and given what is eventually revealed in this story there is quite a fun gag which brought the story to a close.
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Post by matthewsee on Feb 8, 2012 23:16:37 GMT
From the Doctor Who News Page:
The latest issue of DWM confirms that Chris Chibnall and Toby Whithouse have joined the writing team of season 37.
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Post by matthewsee on Feb 14, 2012 23:10:36 GMT
The Invisible Enemy:
In Part 4, the info text written by Richard Molesworth stated that model shots by Ian Scoones filmed here was specially shot for this episode and was not recycled footage from an abandoned remake of Quatermass II as often been reported.
One person to have made this mistake was Mat Irvine who stated as such in the DVD commentary during this episode.
The Invisible Enemy is notable for introducing K9 and Molesworth also writes in the info text that as it was undecided whether K9 would join the Doctor and Leela on their travels, two scenes were recorded one showing K9 going into the TARDIS at the end and thus starting his tenure as a companion and the other of him staying behind with Professor Marius.
I remember reading in DWM in an analysis of the story that only one scene was recorded for the story’s end which determined K9’s future and that there was no alternative scene. If it was decided that K9 would not become a companion then the story would simply had ended at a point before K9 was seen K9 going into the TARDIS to join the Doctor and Leela on her travels. The viewers would therefore have concluded that it was decided off-screen that K9 had stayed with Professor Marius.
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Post by matthewsee on Feb 14, 2012 23:47:45 GMT
Time:
Upon seeing two Amys, the Doctor says that if the timeline isn’t fixed then there would be a problem of having two Amys forever.
As this Comic Relief story was written by showrunner Steven Moffat, perhaps this was a foreshadowing of the issue of having two Amys being treated in a more serious manner in The Girl Who Waited.
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Post by matthewsee on Feb 15, 2012 0:50:03 GMT
From the Doctor Who News Page:
The director of the first block of season 37 has been named and it is Saul Metzstein.
Mertzstein’s previous work included directing former Doctor Who companion actor Jean Marsh in the Upstairs, Downstairs season 6 finale The Cuckoo.
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Post by matthewsee on Feb 17, 2012 0:31:50 GMT
Absolution:
Absolution is an audio story featuring the Eighth Doctor, Charley and C’rizz.
Released in October 2007 by Big Finish Productions, it was written by Scott Alan Woodard.
This was Conrad Westmaas’s last story as C’rizz as C’rizz departs from the Doctor and Charley.
Guest stars Robert Glenister who previously appeared in another Doctor Who swansong that of the Fifth Doctor’s in Caves of Andtrozani.
Very tense circumstances in the manner of C’rizz’s departure in this very intriguing story.
The Doctor is used to companions coming and going but that does not really excuse him being nonchalant when talking to Charley about where to go next after C’rizz departs from them.
Paul McGann did good in delivering this nonchalantness and the circumstances of this story would have an impact on the next story The Girl Who Never Was, Charley’s swansong with the Eighth Doctor.
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Post by matthewsee on Feb 17, 2012 3:57:59 GMT
Allons-y!:
Corresponding Confidential to The End of Time Part 2.
According to Julie Gardner, the last slate number for David Tennant's last scene as the Doctor was 999 and that is the emergency number including calling a doctor. Quite appropriate indeed for that being last slate number for David Tennant.
Quite a nice song accompanying the montage of the Tenth Doctor which ends this Confidential.
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Post by matthewsee on Feb 18, 2012 22:50:43 GMT
From the Doctor Who News Page:
Bob Anderson has passed away.
Born September 15 1922, Bob Anderson had a bit part in Doctor Who when he played Fighting Guard in the fourth episode of the Patrick Troughton story The Enemy of the World.
Other TV series that he appeared in were the Danger Man episode I Can Offer You Sherry & The Protectors episode The Big Hit.
Anderson’s main work has been as a stuntsman.
His stunt work included The Guns of Navarone, the Bond movie From Russia With Love, the 1967 Bond spoof Casino Royale and the original Star Wars trilogy.
In regards to the Star Wars films he even got to be Darth Vader in fight scenes in The Empire Strikes Back & Return of the Jedi standing in for The Time Monster guest star Dave Prowse.
Bob Anderson died on January 1 2012 at the age of 89.
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Post by matthewsee on Feb 20, 2012 22:32:24 GMT
From the Doctor Who News Page:
Mark Williams has been announced as a guest star in the upcoming season. His previous roles included playing Arthur Weasley in the Harry Potter film series.
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Post by matthewsee on Feb 22, 2012 1:03:46 GMT
From the Doctor Who News Page:
Rupert Graves and David Bradley have been cast in the upcoming season.
Rupert Graves' previous roles included the 2002-03 versuib if The Forsyte Saga & V For Vendetta, appearing alongside Tenth Doctor David Tennant in Single Father and playing Inspector Lestrade in the Steven Moffat/Mark Gatiss series Sherlock.
David Bradley has been in the Whoniverse before with Matt Smith as he was a Shansheeth voice in the SJA story Death of the Doctor. Like the previously announced guest star Mark Williams, had a key role in the Harry Potter films, in his case that of playing the caretaker Argus Filch.
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Post by matthewsee on Feb 22, 2012 21:57:15 GMT
From the Doctor Who News Page:
According to the BBC the 14 episodes of season 37 would be movie length episodes.
"Fourteen big, blockbuster-movie episodes - each a brand new epic adventure featuring new monsters and some familiar foes as you've never seen them before."
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Post by matthewsee on Feb 23, 2012 0:47:40 GMT
The Invisible Enemy:
One of the DVD special features included an extract on Blue Peter when K9 made his first appearance here reflecting on his Doctor Who debut in The Invisible Enemy.
A Blue Peter presenter made reference to the story’s name but the subtitles correlated her as saying “invisible enemy.”
The subtitle writer seems to have forgotten what he was writing about since the Blue Peter presenter was clearly referring to the story’s name and wasn’t saying “invisible enemy” in lower case spelling.
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Post by matthewsee on Feb 24, 2012 20:10:55 GMT
42:
Despite what the number 42 is known for, the full version of Confidential of 42 makes no mention of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and for that matter Douglas Adams. It did however shows clips of City of Death & The Nightmare of Eden both of which were script edited by Adams as well as him writing the former story.
In addition to this it also showed the demonstration of how the Jagoroth spaceship scene from City of Death was shot.
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