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Jan 28, 2010 - 6:41 AM
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The Space Museum
Featuring: William Hartnell as The 1st Doctor
The TARDIS jumps a time track and the travellers arrive on the planet Xeros. There they discover their own future selves displayed as exhibits in a museum established as a monument to the Galactic conquests of the warlike Morok invaders who now rule the planet. When time shifts back to normal, they realise that they must do everything they can to try to avert this potential future.
Special Features:
• Commentary - with actors Maureen O'Brien and William Russell, writer Glyn Jones. Moderated by Peter Purves.
• Defending the Museum - writer Robert Shearman provides a personal and robust defence of this somewhat forgotten story.
• My Grandfather, the Doctor - Jessica Carney talks about the career of her grandfather, William Hartnell.
• A Holiday for the Doctor - spoof comedy recollections of sixties Doctor Who starring Christopher Green as actress Ida Barr
• Photo Galley - production and publicity photos from the story.
• Coming Soon - a trail for a forthcoming DVD release.
• PDF Material - Radio Times listings in Adobe PDF format for viewing on PC or Mac.
• Programme Subtitles
• Subtitle Production Notes
The Chase
Featuring: William Hartnell as The 1st Doctor
The travellers are forced to flee in the TARDIS when they learn from the Time/Space Visualiser taken from the Moroks' museum that a group of Daleks equipped with their own time machine are on their trail with orders to exterminate them.
Special Features - Disc One:
• Commentary - stereo. With actors Maureen O'Brien, William Russell and Peter Purves, director Richard Martin.
• Cusick in Cardiff - Raymond Cusick, the designer of the Daleks, visits the new series production studios in Cardiff to be shown around the TARDIS set and meet the newest version of his design. With Raymond Cusick, production designer Edward Thomas and designer Peter McKinstry.
• Coming Soon - a trail for a forthcoming DVD release.
• PDF Material - Radio Times listings in Adobe PDF format for viewing on PC or Mac.
• Programme Subtitles
• Subtitle Production Notes
Special Features - Disc Two:
• The Thrill of The Chase - director Richard Martin looks back at the making of the story.
• Last Stop White City - School teachers Barbara Wright and Ian Chesterton were the first people from Earth to travel with the Doctor and his granddaughter Susan in their time and space vehicle, the TARDIS. From their first step into the TARDIS in 'An Unearthly Child' to their departure at the end of 'The Chase', the duo were involved in sixteen thrilling adventures that captured the imagination of a generation. This documentary tells their story. With actors William Russell, director Richard Martin, studio vision mixer Clive Doig and writer Simon Guerrier.
• Daleks Conquer and Destroy - since they first appeared on our television screens in 1963, the Daleks have been a source of enduring fascination for followers of Doctor Who. But just what was their appeal? With producer Verity Lambert, Dalek designer Raymond Cusick, director Richard Martin, actress Carole Ann Ford, writer Robert Shearman, designer Matthew Savage, model unit supervisor Mike Tucker and new series Dalek voice artiste Nicholas Briggs.
• Daleks Beyond the Screen - from the outset, the merchandising opportunities presented by the popularity of the Daleks was quickly realised and continues right through to the present day. With producer Verity Lambert, Dalek designer Raymond Cusick, director Richard Martin, new series Dalek voice artiste Nicholas Briggs, designer Matthew Savage, writer Robert Shearman, Doctor Who merchandise collector Mick Hall, model unit supervisor Mike Tucker, Private Eye journalist Adam MacQueen, BBC Worldwide's Kate Walsh and Dave Turbitt.
• Shawcraft - The Original Monster Makers - this documentary looks at the work of Uxbridge-based Shawcraft Models, who during the sixties provided many of the props and models for Doctor Who. With BBC designers Raymond Cusick, Spencer Chapman, John Wood and Barry Newbery, and Annette Basford, the daughter of Shawcraft owner, Bill Roberts.
• Follow that Dalek - an amateur 8mm cine film from 1967 looking around the premises of Shawcraft Models. The film features numerous props and models from Doctor Who, many seem for the first time in colour.
• Give-a-Show Slides - sixteen stories presented on seven slides each, as featured in the Doctor Who Give-a-Show Slide Projector toy from the sixties.
• Photo Gallery - production and publicity photos from the story.
The Space Museum / The Chase is released on 1st March 2010, priced £29.99.
http://www.drwho-online.co.uk/news/
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I noticed that Amazon US offered to buy separate Peladon serials.
Let's hope they will do the same with "The Time Monster" because I don't want to buy the two Tom Baker drecks that go with the package.
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I noticed that Amazon US offered to buy separate Peladon serials.
Let's hope they will do the same with "The Time Monster" because I don't want to buy the two Tom Baker drecks that go with the package.
I think they are fun in their own way, rather like City of Death. It could be worse, one of the stories could be Time and the Rani. LOL
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I noticed that Amazon US offered to buy separate Peladon serials.
Let's hope they will do the same with "The Time Monster" because I don't want to buy the two Tom Baker drecks that go with the package.
I think they are fun in their own way, rather like City of Death. It could be worse, one of the stories could be Time and the Rani. LOL
Thanks to the US release of "Beneath the Surface", I could get "The Silurians" and "The Sea Devils" without "Warriors of the Deep".
I really want "The Time Monster" because it means UNIT and The Master.
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I really want "The Time Monster" because it means UNIT and The Master.
Perhaps BBC Video will call The Time Monster, "The TOMTIT Edition. 
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I really want "The Time Monster" because it means UNIT and The Master.
Perhaps BBC Video will call The Time Monster, "The TOMTIT Edition.
If only they could!
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Feb 10, 2010 - 7:09 PM
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johnjohnson
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The Doctor and Douglas
ZZ9, the official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Appreciation Society, reports that BBC Radio 4 are currently preparing a documentary about former Doctor Who script editor Douglas Adams, entitled "The Doctor and Douglas". Produced by Simon Barnard and made for the BBC by the independent production company Wise Buddah, the documentary will apparently look at Adams's association with Doctor Who, from being a teenage fan of the programme in the 1960s to writing and script editing for it in the late 1970s.
This will be the fourth recent Doctor Who-related documentary to be broadcast by Radio 4, which last year transmitted programmes celebrating the Target novelisations of old Doctor Who episodes, and exploring the subject of the show's missing episodes. One of Adams's scripts for the series, Shada, featured heavily in a documentary which looked at 1970s television dramas which were abandoned during production. The network has also broadcast radio plays of the Doctor Who spin-off series Torchwood.
"The Doctor and Douglas" is expected to be aired sometime in either March or April.
http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com/
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Feb 14, 2010 - 11:38 AM
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This is nothing new. This was so obvious when it was originally screened.
BBC scriptwriters tried to use Doctor Who to bring down Margaret Thatcher
She famously battled the Argentine army abroad and the trade unions at home, but she never knew she was also under attack from outer space.
Left wing scriptwriters hired by the BBC during the 1980s tried to inspire a 'Tardis revolution' by using Doctor Who as propaganda to undermine Baroness Thatcher.
In one series they caricatured the then Prime Minister as a vicious and egotistical alien ruler who banned outward displays of unhappiness among her downtrodden people and used a secret police to oppress dissidents.
Other Doctor Who plots set in distant planets included thinly veiled support for the miners' strike and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, former actors and writers on the show have admitted.
The revelations appear to confirm complaints at the time that the BBC opposed the then Mrs Thatcher's government which prompted the Tory party chairman, Norman Tebbit, to claim that the corporation was in the hands of a 'Marxist mafia'.
But so lacklustre was the extraterrestrial satire that even those who produced it admit that it had no impact on the Conservative government and nobody at the time even 'noticed or cared'.
Sylvester McCoy, the actor who played the Time Lord for two years in the 1980s, said: 'Our feeling was that Margaret Thatcher was far more terrifying than any monster the Doctor had encountered.
'The idea of bringing politics into Doctor Who was deliberate, but we had to do it very quietly and certainly didn't shout about it. We were a group of politically motivated people and it seemed the right thing to do.
'At the time Doctor Who used satire to put political messages out there in the way they used to do in places like Czechoslovakia. Those who wanted to see the messages saw them; others, including one producer, didn’t.'
McCoy took over as the Time Lord, three months after the Tory leader had been elected for her third term in 1987.
He starred in the three part serial, The Happiness Patrol, which caricatured Mrs Thatcher as Helen A, the extraterrestrial tyrant of a human colony on the planet Terra Alpha who carried a carnivorous pet Stigorax named Fifi.
During the series, which was screened in November 1988, the Doctor persuaded the oppressed drones, who toiled in factories and mines, to revolt in a deliberate echo of the miners’ and printers’ strikes during the 1980s.
In a show the following year the Doctor gave an impassioned speech about the evils of nuclear weapons, which borrowed heavily from material obtained from CND.
Andrew Cartmel, the show’s script editor during the late 1980s, said he was open about his plans to mock Mrs Thatcher when interviewed for the job.
'My exact words were: "I’d like to overthrow the government," he told the Sunday Times. 'I was a young firebrand and I wanted to answer honestly. I was very angry about the social injustice in Britain under Thatcher and I’m delighted that came into the show.'
The writers he hired to encourage anti-Thatcher storylines included Ben Aaronovitch, son of the late Marxist intellectual Sam Aaronovitch, and Rona Munro, who went on to become a scriptwriter for Ken Loach, the socialist film-maker.
But Mr Cartmel admitted the alien attacks did nothing to undermine Mrs Thatcher's government.
Doctor Who ratings plunged from a high of 16m, when Tom Baker was the Doctor a decade earlier, to 3m and the show was taken off air twice during the late eighties.
'We were going out against Coronation Street so hardly anybody, apart from the most ardent of fans, saw the programme,' said Mr Cartmel.
'Critics, media pundits and politicians certainly didn’t pick up on what we were doing.
If we had generated controversy and become a cause celebre we would have got a few more viewers but, sadly, nobody really noticed or cared.'
A BBC spokesman said: 'We're baffled by these claims. This is the first we've heard of this and given that 20 years have passed, we find this strange. The BBC's impartiality rules applied just as strongly then as they do to programmes now.'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1250940/BBC-scriptwriters-tried-use-Doctor-Who-bring-Margaret-Thatcher.html
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Still nothing about "The Dominators", starring Patrick Troughton?
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I won't buy the triple set "Myths and Lengend": too many Bakers.
I wonder when the US edition will release it in separate cases?
Last years releases were top-notch: "The War Games"—that I still watch—and "The Dalek War" box set.
Now, let's hope 2011 will see a selection of better episodes.
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I won't buy the triple set "Myths and Lengend": too many Bakers.
I wonder when the US edition will release it in separate cases?
Last years releases were top-notch: "The War Games"—that I still watch—and "The Dalek War" box set.
Now, let's hope 2011 will see a selection of better episodes.
Don't say that.
They still haven't released The Gunfighters yet.
I don't know this one but let's hope they will release more UNIT/Master episodes.
If only they could locate those missing Troughton episodes.
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