The Doctor Who Thread

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by hivemind

How about The Krotons? Jesus! What a f**king mess of a story.

Watched The Seeds of Death last night. Still one of my favourite Troughton stories.

Susan. You've got The Seeds of Doom, not The Seeds of Death listed up above in the text.

Again i like the actual Kroton design. The story's fine, prefer it to The Dominators.

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Again i like the actual Kroton design

There is a long standing myth that the Krotons were the winning entry in a Blue Peter 'design a monster' competition that was held during the late 60's. It's thought that this misapprehension is due to the fact that one of the winning entries was the 'Aqua-Man', which resembled a cardboard box with legs and arms — in some ways similar to the appearance of the Krotons

It's featured around the 7:30 mark

[iank]

Quite agree - Krotons is pretty unremarkable but it's nowhere near as dull or stupid as The Dominators.

[Susan Foreman]

April 14th: Today in WHO-story

Births
1925 - William Lucas (Range in Frontios)
1928 - Laidlaw Dalling (Rouvray in The Reign of Terror)
1935 - Terrance Dicks (script editor [1968-1975]; writer of The War Games (with Malcolm Hulke), Robot, The Brain of Morbius (original script and storyline), Horror of Fang Rock, State of Decay, The Five Doctors and many Doctor Who-related books, video spin-offs, stage shows and audio adventures)

1937 - Brian Culliford (Perkins in Fury from the Deep)
1949 - Christopher Whittingham (Crew Member in Earthshock); Dave Gibbons (comic strip artist for Doctor Who Magazine)
1958 - Peter Capaldi (Twelfth Doctor; Caecilius in The Fires of Pompeii and John Frobisher in the Torchwood story Children of Earth)

1972 - Alan Ruscoe (Auton in Rose, Lute in The End of the World, Slitheen in Aliens of London/World War Three and Boom Town, Trine-E & the Anne Droid in Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways, Andy Stone in The Waters of Mars and a Clown in the Sarah Jane Adventures story The Day of the Clown; Big Finish Productions actor - Peter Mathis in The Veiled Leopard, Ray in the Bernice Summerfield story Road Trip and Cloris in the Gallifrey story Annihilation)
1978 - Michelle Duncan (Isobel Mac Leisure in Tooth and Claw)
1983 - Josie Taylor (Check-in Girl in The Girl Who Waited)

Deaths
2011 - Trevor Bannister (Korbin Thessingham in the Big Finish audio Nocturne) aged 76

Episodes
1973 - Planet of the Daleks, Episode Two: 10.7 million viewers
2007 - Gridlock: 8.41 million viewers

Documentaries
2007 - Doctor Who Confidential: Are We There Yet?

Releases
1983 - Issue 76 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)

1988 - Issue 136 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)
1994 - Issue 212 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)
2011 - Issue 213 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines)
2013 - Nemesis of the Daleks (Panini UK)

2016 - Nightshade (Big Finish); Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition: Special Effects (Panini UK)

Behind-the-Scenes
2010 - Recording of the Big Finish's audio adaptation of the unmade TV story Crime of the Century took place
2016 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Order of the Daleks took place

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Vega Nexos, a Vegan mining expert (left) from 1974's The Monster of Peladon.

[Susan Foreman]

Review

The Enemy Of The World: Special Edition | The Digital Fix

[Susan Foreman]

Spot the mistake!

2nd edition Target hardback reprints from 1975

[Susan Foreman]

Merchandise opportunity coming soon: A penis-in-a-shower-curtain candle

[Susan Foreman]

April 15th: Today in WHO-story

Births
1921 - David Garth (Grey in The Highlanders and a Time Lord in Terror of the Autons)
1922 - Peter Moffatt (director of State of Decay, The Visitation, Mawdryn Undead, The Five Doctors, The Twin Dilemma and The Two Doctors; extra in The Two Doctors and Silver Nemesis)

1983 - Siobhân Hewlett (Harriet Dervyshire in the Torchwood story To the Last Man; daughter of The Claws of Axos guest actor Donald Hewlett)
1997 - Maisie Williams (Ashildr)

Deaths
2009 - Andrew Downie (Willie Mackay in The Highlanders) aged 86
2012 - Peter Wragg (visual effects designer on The Visitation, Resurrection of the Daleks and parts 5-8 of The Trial of a Time Lord; uncredited Fendahleen operator in Image of the Fendahl) aged 65

Episodes
1967 - The Faceless Ones, Episode Two: 6.4 million viewers
1972 - The Mutants, Episode Two: 7.8 million viewers
2006 - New Earth; Tardisode 2 (mini-episode)

2017 - The Pilot: 6.68 million viewers

Documentaries
2006 - Doctor Who Confidential: New New Doctor

Introductions
2006 - Launch of the second series of NuWho; first appearance of the Sisters of Plenitude
2017 - Launch of the tenth series of NuWho; full debut of Pearl Mackie as new companion Bill Potts; Stephanie Hyman's first appearance as Heather

Departures
2006 - Last appearance of Zoë Wanamaker as Lady Cassandra O'Brien

Releases
1993 - Deceit and The Mark of Mandragora (Virgin Books); issue 199 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)

2010 - Issue 162 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines)
2016 - Toby Hadoke's Who's Round (Big Finish Productions)

Behind-the-Scenes
2008 - Recording of the Big Finish audio The Boy That Time Forgot took place
2015 - Disney XD secured the rights to broadcast episodes featuring the Tenth Doctor

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Daleks from 2005's The Parting of the Ways.