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[Susan Foreman]

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Must admit that I was led to believe that it was going to be the 'big' episode that started the new series

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

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Must admit that I was led to believe that it was going to be the 'big' episode that started the new series

I had no idea what might start the series but thought the Judoon one would be in the middle with the Cyberman story the two part finale. I didn't even know it was supposedly the Mary Shelley story.

The Dalek story i presume will be shown next Christmas / New Year.

[nosferatu42]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

Don't forget the Mary Shelley Frankenstein / Cybermen story as well

I remember hearing somewhere about this at one point, i did wonder when they mentioned Ava Lovelace being Lord Byron's daughter whether there would be a link later with the Cyberman , Shelley and the Byron birth of Frankenstein weekend.

Therefore there could be a Cyberman influence on the birth of computers passed down to Ada.

...Or something like that.

[Susan Foreman]

Popular music in 'Doctor Who' #10

Episode: 'The Daemons' (1971)
Artist: Hector Berlioz
Title: 'Symphonie Fantastique, Movement IV: "March to the Scaffold"'
Notes:
* Heard as part of the television broadcast of the French rugby team's victory over the British, before Yates and Benton return to the BBC coverage of the dig at Devil's End
* Berlioz was 26 when he wrote the composition
* The symphony was written in 1830, and had it's world premier at the Paris Conservatoire on December 5th of the same year
* The symphony consists of 5 separate movements: i) Reveries – Passions (Reveries – Passions) ii) Un bal (A Ball) iii) Scene aux champs (Scene in the Fields) iv) Marche au supplice (March to the Scaffold) v) Songe d'une nuit du sabbat (Dream of a Witches Sabbath)

[will graham]

Why is everyone who obsessed with writing stories about Tesla at the moment? There's another film coming out soon with Ethan Hawke playing him.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The third Doctor (Jon Pertwee) dons his space suit in the 1973 story Frontier in Space.

[Susan Foreman]

Popular music in 'Doctor Who' #11

Episode: 'The Green Death' (1973)
Artist: Electric Banana
Title: 'It'll Never Be Me'
Notes:
* Heard during the party for Jo and Professor Jones
* Electric Banana was a pseudonym for the rock band The Pretty Things
* The song can be found on the album 'Even More Electric Banana' (1969)
* The song is also featured in the 1969 Normal Wisdom film 'What’s Good For the Goose'
* Away from The Pretty Things, the music of Electric Banana was provided as stock music for film soundtracks. Their songs would be included on various horror and soft-porn films of the late 1960s. The song 'Cause I'm A Man' appeared in Romero's 'Dawn of the Dead' (1978)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The BBC's movie style promo poster for Hide (2013)

[Susan Foreman]

Popular music in 'Doctor Who' #12

Episode: 'The Masque Of Mandragora' - Part 4 (1976)
Artist: Pierre Attaingnant
Title: 'Basse Danse La Brosse'
Notes:
* Played during the masque
* The score was originally published by Attaignant in a collection entitled ‘Neuf basses dances deux branles’ in 1530
* Taken from the album 'Terpsichore: Renaissance and Early Baroque Dance Music' by Konrad Ragossnig, Ulsamer-Collegium

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Carole Ann Ford (Susan Foreman) and Jacqueline Hill (Barbara Wright) in an on-set shot from The Dalek Invasion of Earth (1964)