The Doctor Who Thread

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by nosferatu42

Yep, when the three specials aired i quite enjoyed them and was looking forward to the new series.
The Christmas episode and the couple that followed really deflated my expectations, then the series seemed to pick up, but it just seemed to fizzle out in the end.

I don't think the actors were bad just that they weren't given enough good writing to work with.
After watching the final episode on iplayer the story Rose began to play and I sat and watched that again.

I think Doctor Who works best when it is just a straightforward tale, Rose is very simple, just a character piece really with the Autons added in. Its basic and uncomplicated but works really well.

I just think that the more convoluted Dr Who gets the less effective it is, at the end of a story these days I always end up thinking I liked parts but this and that didn't make sense.

This ^ one hundred %.

It's like the finale and the return of Sutekh. Fantastic! Then we are told it's been riding on the outside of the TARDIS since the end of Pyramids of Mars.

WTF?

You'd have thought Idris might have mentioned this during The Doctor's Wife or.. well, probably best not to mention The Big Bang in which the TARDIS BLEW UP taking much of the universe with it.

[will graham]

Tbh I've felt that even back in the Eccleston days.

Like I said before nothing wrong with the actors, just the writing.

I still think next season is last season for a few years.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Bill (Pearl Mackie) running on Thin Ice (2017)

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A striking publicity image of Sara Kingdom (Jean Marsh) taken for The Daleks' Master Plan (1965)

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Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) in a scene from The End of the World (2005)

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Doctor Who The Stuff of Legend Stage Play

Paul McGann and India Fisher to star in special one-off live recording of Big Finish?s Eighth Doctor adventure

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of licensed Doctor Who audio dramas, Big Finish Theatre, in partnership with BBC Studios, Fourth Wall Live and AEG, is proud to announce a unique full-cast live recording event, taking place at Cadogan Hall, London on Saturday 14 September 2024.

For the very first time, Doctor Who fans will be able to watch an all-star cast take to the stage to perform a brand-new audio play, The Stuff of Legend, by Robert Valentine.

Leading the cast is Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor and India Fisher as his indomitable companion Charley Pollard. They?ll be joined onstage by Alex Macqueen as the Master alongside Nicholas Briggs, who voices the Doctor?s unstoppable arch-enemy, the Daleks.

Something is afoot in the lonely Cornish village of Merrymaid Bay. Rumours of dead men working in the tin mines have sent a chill through the community, and it?s up to the Doctor and Charley to get to the bottom of the mystery.

Can the legends of the Bucca that haunts the mines be true? And just what awesome power do the Doctor?s greatest enemies ? the Daleks! ? threaten to unleash upon the universe?

Tickets will be available to order at www.doctorwhoaudiolive.com from 10:00 on Friday 05 July, with prices beginning at ?18.00.

Cadogan Hall has limited capacity so fans are advised to book quickly to avoid disappointment.

There you go, Susan. Sounds good.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The striking cover art by Sean Longmore for the forthcoming Big Finish audio anthology Future Phantoms featuring Derek Jacobi as the War Master. It's based on the classic BBC series Ghost Stories for Christmas with Christopher Lee and is released this November.

When the cold, dark nights draw in. Would you like to hear a story? Because the Master?s waiting.

[Susan Foreman]

Season 25 announced as the next instalment in The Collection Blu-ray range / Doctor Who TV

"Sylvester McCoy's penultimate season as the Seventh Doctor will be the next release to join the Blu-ray collection.

Doctor Who fans can continue to build their own home archive on Blu-ray with an EIGHT-DISC box set of the 25th season from 1988, starring Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor. Containing four classic stories, this limited-edition set is packed with hours of new and exclusive material, and will be released on 21st October 2024.

The stories also feature Sophie Aldred who plays iconic 80s companion, Ace, who joins the Doctor to battle Daleks, Cybermen, the murderous Happiness Patrol and the evil forces of the Psychic Circus.

"This eight-disc box set also includes hours of special features previously released on DVD including documentaries, featurettes, audio commentaries and more.

A special trailer containing archive footage from Season 25 and special features from the release has also been created to mark the announcement."

PLUS, fans can experience this season like never before, with brand new extended special editions of all four adventures, exclusive to this Blu-ray set.

The four Special Editions feature unseen footage, updated special effects, immersive surround sound, and surprises. All episodes have been newly remastered from available sources meaning these classic adventures have never looked or sounded so good on home media.

The Collection: Season 25 is also jam-packed with hours of new and exclusive material including:"

• UPDATED SPECIAL EFFECTS
  Exclusive to Blu-ray, on the original broadcast versions of Remembrance of The Daleks, Silver Nemesis and The Greatest Show in The Galaxy.
  
• BEHIND THE SOFA
  New episodes with Sylvester McCoy (The Doctor), Sophie Aldred (Ace), Bonnie Langford (Mel), Nicola Bryant (Peri), Wendy Padbury (Zoe), Janet Fielding (Tegan), Sarah Sutton (Nyssa), Dame Sheila Hancock (Helen A), Jessica Martin (Mags), Karen Gledhill (Allison) and Mark Hardy (Cyber-Lieutenant).
  
• IN CONVERSATION
  Three new episodes, with Sophie Aldred, script editor Andrew Cartmel and director Chris Clough.
  
• LOOKING FOR DURSLEY
  A documentary looking back at the life and career of Dursley McLinden (Mike).
  
• THE MAKING OF DOCTOR WHO
  A rare vintage documentary from 1988, previously only available on VHS.
  
• SILVER NEMESIS ? VHS EXTENDED VERSION
  A version of the story originally released on VHS with extra footage.
  
• SILVER NEMESIS ? SPECIAL EDITION OMNIBUS
  A special cut-down feature-length version of this adventure, in the tradition of the 1970s Christmas repeats.
  
• THE COLLECTORS ? THE 1980s
  Host Emily Cook chats to Doctor Who collectors about their 1980s treasures.
  
• THE DOCTOR WHO ESCAPE ROOM ? TEAM SEVENTH DOCTOR
  Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred and Bonnie Langford attempt to escape the room of doom.
  
• WHEN SOPHIE MET LESLEY
  Sophie Aldred chats to Lesley Dunlop, her co-star from The Happiness Patrol who also appeared in the Fifth Doctor story Frontios (1984).
  
• STEPHEN MANSFIELD INTERVIEW
  The practical effects genius looks back on his Season 25 work.
  
• STUDIO & LOCATION FOOTAGE
  Hours of raw footage and outtakes captured during the making of all four stories.
  
  PLUS:
  
• 5.1 SURROUND SOUND
• RARE ARCHIVAL MATERIAL FROM THE BBC VAULTS
• EXCLUSIVE CONVENTION FOOTAGE
• HD PHOTO GALLERIES
• INFO TEXT
• PDF ARCHIVE
• PLUS LOTS MORE!

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Season 25. Fantastic. The best Doctor Who story ever (In my opinion) in Remembrance of the Daleks.

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