Doctor Who @ 50
November 10, 2012
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Doctor Who @ 50
- Tagged: Anneke Wills, Ben Jackson, BOSS, CAL, Doctor Who, Dodo Chaplet, First Doctor, Innes Lloyd, Jackie Lane, Kenneth Kendall, Major Green, Michael Craze, Polly Wright, Professor Brett, Quatermass, The Green Death, The War Machines, Verity Lambert, William Hartnell, WOTAN, Xoanon -
Doctor Who’s first producer, Verity Lambert, said in interviews long after she left the show that she didn’t approve of Jon Pertwee’s Doctor, that he’d made the character part of…
November 9, 2012
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Doctor Who @ 50
- Tagged: Chal, Clare Jenkins, Doctor Who, Dodo Chaplet, Elders, Ewen Solon, First Doctor, Frederick Jaeger, Jackie Lane, Jano, Nanina, Peter Purves, Steven Taylor, The Savages, William Hartnell -
Writer Ian Stuart Black’s first story for Doctor Who contains a pure science-fiction premise as straightforward as they come. The Doctor, Steven and Dodo visit a seemingly-idyllic, advanced society on a distant…
September 23, 2012
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Doctor Who @ 50
- Tagged: Doctor Who, Dodo Chaplet, Donald Tosh, First Doctor, Gerry Davis, Innes Lloyd, Jackie Lane, John Wiles, Johnny Ringo, Laurence Payne, Lynda Baron, Peter Purves, Rex Tucker, Steven Taylor, The Gunfighters, William Hartnell -
It may seem unremarkable, but The Gunfighters is important. Why? Oh, so many reasons, layered on top of one another to provide a fun, twisting adventure instantaneously and a fulfilling,…
When I was a new Doctor Who fan in 1983, The Five Doctors was my first story(!). That little clip of Hartnell at the start of that story was the…
I started watching Doctor Who when Peter Davison was in his middle season. Saw a lot of Doctors three, four and five before I got a chance to see the…
September 1, 2012
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Doctor Who @ 50
- Tagged: Abbot of Amboise, Admiral de Coligny, Andre Morrell, Anne Chaplette, Annette Robertson, Bell of Doom, Charles Preslin, Daphne Dare, David Weston, Doctor Who, Dodo Chaplet, Donald Tosh, Edward Finn, Eric Thompson, Erik Chitty, First Doctor, Gaston, Jackie Lane, John Lucarotti, Leonard Sachs, Marshall Tavannes, Nicholas Muss, Peter Purves, Priest of Death, Steven Taylor, The Massacre, The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve, William Hartnell -
Against a backdrop of religious persecution in 16th Century Paris, Steven is separated from the Doctor, who then reappears in the guise of an Abbott and is then murdered on…
August 22, 2012
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Doctor Who @ 50
- Tagged: Adrienne Hill, Bret Vyon, Daleks, Dennis Spooner, Doctor Who, Douglas Camfield, First Doctor, Jean Marsh, Katarina, Kevin Stoney, Mavic Chen, Nicholas Courtney, Peter Butterworth, Peter Purves, Sara Kingdom, Steven Taylor, Terry Nation, The Daleks' Masterplan, The Destruction Of Time, The Feast of Steven, The Meddling Monk, The Traitors, William Hartnell -
1965-66 epic The Daleks’ Masterplan seldom fails to be hounded by contentiousness among Who fans. Is it the longest story ever, or does that honour go to four-stories-in-one Trial of…
