Notices tagged with drwho
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#RIP Wendy Willams, who brilliantly under-played Vira in the Ark in Space, the paradigmatic "base under seige" story. http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2019/12/wendy-williams-1934-2019.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S4X-fXWtmM #DrWho
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Disbelief suspended. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkEB0ysv7sM #DrWho
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Happy #DrWho day. 56 Earth years young. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXBmQz2r2M8
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#RIP Terrance Dicks, the man who invented 1970s #DrWho and steered it for five years, prolific script writer, novelist, and true gentleman. Thank you for making my adolescence wonderful, Terrance. https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/31673 https://microblog.mjd.id.au/attachment/31672
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@andyc Re: #DrWho, Colin Baker always used to say the part could be played by anybody with an Equity card, which explains why his performance was so thoroughly misjudged. Jodie Whittaker's great; a bit too self-consciously quirky, but they all are at the start. New showrunner Chibnall was not quite as self-assured as I expected from a fan of my vintage and a generally well-regarded writer who's handled some thankless gigs before (eg. Torchwood). Keen/apprehensive to see how they settle in next year.
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@tregeagle Reserve the #DrWho / JFK shooting anniversary weekend in late November.
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Happy 100th birthday to Jon Pertwee. I 'as me 'ansome 'ead on to celebrate, all special like. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqmp2u5UH9k #DrWho #worzel #splink
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#RIP the ubiquitous Glyn Houston, who gave us a couple of memorable #DrWho appearances as well as… Good grief, it might be quicker to list the shows he wasn't in. http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2019/07/glyn-houston-1925-2019.html
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Been 30 years since the end of classic #DrWho. Cut down a couple of years into a potential new golden age by Thatcherite #BBC management hell-bent on outsourcing to independent production companies everything that wasn't nailed down. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3u-ia1wfGI
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Eldrad must live, but Stephen Thorne's number is up. #RIP #DrWho http://dwca.org.au/the-passing-of-omega/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AjIxydSKgI
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Stuff the kids. I want one. #DrWho
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The Tardis is a brilliant place of safety and agency. Every child needs one. #DrWho
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Production designer Roger Murray-Leach, who worked on "golden era" #DrWho also did #LocalHero. I love that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Murray-Leach
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"When asked what my favourite #TV show is, I always say it’s not Doctor Who, because that’s too big to be a ‘favourite TV show’, it’s more of a lifestyle choice." #q Paul Cornell #DrWho
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The criminally underrated Doctor Peter Davison (though I suppose being possibly Britain's second-best-loved actor after Judi Dench and never being out of work a day in his life has been some consolation). Perfect casting (more by good luck than good judgment) undermined by a production team that sincerely loved and believed in the show, but fundamentally didn't understand it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXARnlPFsOk #DrWho
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The story I heard long ago about the aborted 70s #DrWho movie was not so much simply "lack of funds", rather that Tom, Ian, Liz, and I think even Nick Courtney, decided to check out the competition. They went to the cinema to see this new little sci-fi thing called "Star Wars" and emerged thoroughly disheartened. http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2018/11/tom-bakers-scratchman-to-be-released-in.html
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'Twas ever thus. For 55 years, #DrWho, in accordance with Cory Doctorow's law that science fiction is always about the present rather than the future (or indeed the past), has been the zeitgeist as reflected in a funhouse mirror. https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/21851
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Also pleased to see that Peter Davison is a fellow wild-haired scruffy baldy. Finally he's a role model I can realistically emulate. #DrWho
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Oh, nice. I have no idea how anybody has enough time to listen to all the #BigFinish productions, and I will not be listening to this, but I'm glad it was done. http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2018/11/jenny-meets-fifth-doctor-for-big-finish.html #DrWho
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#RIP Derrick Sherwin, who served as midwife when 1960s #DrWho gave birth to the colourful 1970s. Notable also for his bravura cameo as Speechless Car Park Attendant opposite Jon Pertwee at his most haughty, in Sherwin's last story and Pertwee's first. http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2018/10/derrick-sherwin-1936-2018.html
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