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[trebor8273]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

Confirmation of The Daleks

"***BREAKING NEWS***

The Daleks will officially be returning in the New Year's Special - 'Resolution'!

Make sure you don't miss their big return in the epic blockbuster special on January 1st 2019 at 7pm on BBC One and 8pm on BBC America! Don't miss it!"

Will watch be my expectations will be very low as Chibnall and team will screw it up in someway.

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by trebor8273

Will watch be my expectations will be very low as Chibnall and team will screw it up in someway.

Self fulfilling prophecy!

Some people have already decided that the New Year special, [and indeed anything with Jodie and Chris Chibnal], is going to be awful so when they watch, they have a preconceived expectation of badness [regardless of what the end result is like] just so they can say 'told you so'!

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Miss Hartigan (Dervla Kirwan) with her allies, the Cybermen in the 2008 Christmas special The Next Doctor.

[Susan Foreman]

December 26th [Boxing Day]: Today in WHO-story

Births
1914 - Dudley Jones (John Dyson in The Tenth Planet)

1915 - Arne Gordon (Hrostar in The Web Planet and the Tour Guide in The Chase)

1922 - Richard Mayes (Chief Baxter in Fury from the Deep)

1934 - Bill Mitchell (Newscaster in Frontier in Space and Zor in the Argo Records story Doctor Who and the Pescatons)
1940 - James Beckett (Payne in Attack of the Cybermen)

Deaths
1986 - Leslie Dwyer (Vorg in Carnival of Monsters) aged 80

1999 - Roger Jacombs (Yeti in The Web of Fear and an extra in The Faceless Ones) aged 59

Episodes
1964 - The Dalek Invasion of Earth, Episode Six ('Flashpoint'): 12.4 million viewers

Documentaries
2009 - The Lost Episodes (BBC Radio 4)

Departures
1964 - Carole Ann Ford's final regular appearance as Susan Foreman

Releases
1991 - Issue 182 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)

2007 - Wishing Well, The Pirate Loop and Peacemaker (BBC Books)

2008 - The Story of Martha, Beautiful Chaos and The Eyeless (BBC Books)
2016 - Ghost Stories, Part One (Titan Comics)

[Susan Foreman]

December 27th: Today in WHO-story

Births
1930 - Bill McGurick (Guard in The Enemy of the World and the Policeman in Terror of the Autons)

1934 - Christopher Benjamin (Sir Keith Gold in Infero, Henry Gordon Jago in The Talons of Weng-Chiang and Big Finish Productions' audio adventure, Colonel Hugh Curbishley in The Unicorn and the Wasp and Tardell in the Big Finish audio Grand Theft Cosmos)

1940 - Paul Joyce (director of Warriors' Gate)

1977 - Sinead Keenan (Addams in The End of Time; Big Finish actress - Margery Phips in Council of War, Aoife Dineen in Iterations of I, Stephanie Wilton in The Worlds of Doctor Who, Rosheen in The Highest Science and Mary Summersby in The Darkness of Glass)

1987 - Lily Cole (Siren in The Curse of the Black Spot)

1989 - Benjamin Smith (Luke in School Reunion)
1995 - Laurence Belcher (younger Kazran Sardick in A Christmas Carol)

Deaths
1994 - Steve Plytas (Wigner in The Tenth Planet) aged 81

2014 - Bridget Turner (Alice Cassini in Gridlock; wife of The Edge of Destruction and The Sensorites director Frank Cox) aged 75

Releases
1979 - Issue 12 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)

1990 - Issue 156 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Daleks attack in the 2013 Christmas special The Time of the Doctor.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Received this for Christmas.

I know the obvious answer is to listen to the bloomin' thing but have any of you got the previous cd releases based on the Doctor Who annuals and did you enjoy them?

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Maybe a leak, maybe not. It's off Twitter. If it's real then it looks similar to a classic series Dalek than the gold ones.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

I watched Twice Upon a Time on Christmas Day (night).

My feelings towards it are similar to what they were when i first watched it last Christmas Day. Some lovely poignant scenes with Mark Gattis, a decent farewell for Peter Capaldi, some good ideas - Rusty alone in it's tower with hundreds of Dalek mutants desperate to destroy it - and some excellent scenes with the first Doctor. However here's where the problem lies. Steven Moffat gave us a sexist caricature of the Hartnell Doctor and even though David Bradley was very good, the sexist comments the first Doctor made were cringe inducing and not in character at all.

This unneeded trait Moffat gave the first Doctor still makes me feel bitter towards the episode and drags the scoreline down from an eight to a six out of ten.

[Susan Foreman]

December 28th: Today in WHO-story

Births
1916 - Dennis Edwards (Centurion in The Romans and Lord Gomer in The Invasion of Time); Noel Johnson (Thous in The Underwater Menace and Sir Charles Grover in Invasion of the Dinosaurs)

1922 - Stan Lee (founder of Marvel, the original publishers of Doctor Who Magazine)

1936 - Rhys McConnochie (Rod in The Enemy of the World)

1959 - Marty Ryan (Older Guard in the Torchwood story Miracle Day)

Deaths
1990 - Edward Brayshaw (Léon Colbert in The Reign of Terror and the War Chief in The Games) aged 57

Episodes
1963 - The Daleks, Episode Two ('The Survivors'): 6.4 million viewers
1968 - The Krotons, Episode One: 9.0 million viewers
1974 - Robot, Part One: 10.8 million viewers
1981 - K9 & Company: A Girl's Best Friend: 8.4 million viewers
1988 - The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, Part Three: 4.9 million viewers

Introductions
1963 - First full appearance of the Daleks

1974 - Launch of the twelfth series of the 'classic era' of Doctor Who; Tom Baker's full debut as the Fourth Doctor; Ian Marter's debut as Harry Sullivan

1981 - First and only episode of Doctor Who's first TV spin-off K9 & Company

Releases
2012 - Issue 300 of Doctor Who Adventures (Immediate Media Co.)

2017 - Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 232 (Big Finish Productions)