The Dr Who Thread 3 3

[Max Carnage]

On 11/17/2021 at 9:41 AM, Max Carnage said:

For anyone interested, It's been fun watching the best of the different Doctor's on Youtube.  Here are some of them:

Christopher Eccleston

David Tennant

Matt Smith

Peter Capaldi

Jodie Whittaker

And we have a winner ;)

[Get Marwood & I]

I thought I'd share this article from this week's Times, which reprints Tom Baker's 'A Life in The Day' from 1978. I always knew Tom had his demons, and this is a good insight into them from a time which, to me, still seems like the recent past but which is - was, in fact, another world. Which is appropriate I suppose, for a Time Lord.

 

[Bosco685]

Fake story shot down by the actual rumored actor

 

[Number 6]

In case anyone is interested:

Zavvi just announced that they’re releasing steelbooks for the two Peter Cushing Dalek movies in 4K in June. 
 

They’re offering just the standalone steelbooks and as part of a deluxe package that comes with a bunch of doo-dads and gee-gaws. 
 

 

No joke, I literally JUST paid $150 for the Blu-Ray steelbook of Doctor Who and the Daleks yesterday and then get this e-mail today.  I’m ok with it as the Blu has original poster art and I’m always a sucker for that, but still winced a bit when I saw this. 

Edited April 13, 2022 by Number 6

[NewEnglandGothic]

On 2/7/2022 at 5:22 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

I thought I'd share this article from this week's Times, which reprints Tom Baker's 'A Life in The Day' from 1978. I always knew Tom had his demons, and this is a good insight into them from a time which, to me, still seems like the recent past but which is - was, in fact, another world. Which is appropriate I suppose, for a Time Lord.

 

Just about love every one of his episodes.  Even the "fakey" looking Underworld one.  Most underrated one... "Stones of Blood."

[NewEnglandGothic]

On 11/15/2021 at 11:09 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

Really?

Deep Breath, Listen, Mummy on the Orient Express, Magician's Apprentice, Witch's Familiar, Heaven Sent, Hell Bent, Pilot, Twice Upon a Time, The Return of Doctor Mysterio. 

I rewatch those.  Capaldi is my personal favorite Modern Doctor.

[Get Marwood & I]

On 4/16/2022 at 4:22 PM, NewEnglandGothic said:

Just about love every one of his episodes.  Even the "fakey" looking Underworld one.  Most underrated one... "Stones of Blood."

I drew what I thought was a nice Tom Baker montage which included SOB, for the old fanzine DWB. They never used it though, just chopped off K9 for the front cover.

I'll try to dog it out at some point. 

On 4/16/2022 at 4:24 PM, NewEnglandGothic said:

I rewatch those.  Capaldi is my personal favorite Modern Doctor.

I loved Baker as Who. A true one off. But Capaldi is The Doctor. I say that often, but he is. I'm not too fussed about the destruction of the show anymore. It ended when he did with, let's be fair, nowhere else to go. 

[Get Marwood & I]

I've just seen that I said 'dog it out' instead of 'dig it out'. And just after posting a picture of K9. That's quite cool 

[OtherEric]

On 4/16/2022 at 8:38 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

I drew what I thought was a nice Tom Baker montage which included SOB, for the old fanzine DWB. They never used it though, just chopped off K9 for the front cover.

I'll try to dog it out at some point. 

I loved Baker as Who. A true one off. But Capaldi is The Doctor. I say that often, but he is. I'm not too fussed about the destruction of the show anymore. It ended when he did with, let's be fair, nowhere else to go. 

It's Doctor Who.  There are always going to be eras you like and others don't, and vice versa.  I'm interested in seeing where RTD goes with it... I can't imagine he would be returning if he didn't think he had something really interesting to do with it.

Also:  Troughton was The Doctor.  Capaldi is around #4 on my all-time list... still one of the greats.

[Get Marwood & I]

On 4/16/2022 at 6:51 PM, OtherEric said:

It's Doctor Who.  There are always going to be eras you like and others don't, and vice versa.  I'm interested in seeing where RTD goes with it... I can't imagine he would be returning if he didn't think he had something really interesting to do with it.

If he takes up my earlier cheese suggestion, I'll be on board.

On 4/16/2022 at 6:51 PM, OtherEric said:

Also:  Troughton was The Doctor.  Capaldi is around #4 on my all-time list... still one of the greats.

Poppycock! 

[OtherEric]

On 4/16/2022 at 11:23 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

Poppycock! 

That's just the beauty of the show... nobody has exactly the same list of favorites and hated episodes or favorite and least favorite doctors.

My personal ranking:  Troughton, Smith, McCoy are my top 3 in that order.  Tom and Capaldi are in a rough tie below that, and then the rest are all about even and well loved... even if I feel some of them were far better served by their respective eras than others.

[Get Marwood & I]

On 4/16/2022 at 8:01 PM, OtherEric said:

That's just the beauty of the show... nobody has exactly the same list of favorites and hated episodes or favorite and least favorite doctors.

My personal ranking:  Troughton, Smith, McCoy are my top 3 in that order.  Tom and Capaldi are in a rough tie below that, and then the rest are all about even and well loved... even if I feel some of them were far better served by their respective eras than others.

It's a brave man who places Sylvester above Tom and Peter, but you're right of course. Each to their own.

That said, Capaldi is The Doctor 

[Get Marwood & I]

[Ken Aldred]

At least it's good to see one of my favourites from the Jon Pertwee era back tomorrow night.

 

[Get Marwood & I]

Hulke no like. 

[Get Marwood & I]

On 4/16/2022 at 4:38 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

I drew what I thought was a nice Tom Baker montage which included SOB, for the old fanzine DWB. They never used it though, just chopped off K9 for the front cover.

I'll try to dog it out at some point. 

Found it @NewEnglandGothic 

[Get Marwood & I]

Nearly 40 years old now, those pages 

I tried to watch Sunday's episode but couldn't get beyond the first ten minutes. Everything that I believe is wrong with this incarnation, and writing, was in glaring evidence.  

Thank God for the past. And the future 

[Ken Aldred]

On 4/20/2022 at 10:31 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

Nearly 40 years old now, those pages 

I tried to watch Sunday's episode but couldn't get beyond the first ten minutes. Everything that I believe is wrong with this incarnation, and writing, was in glaring evidence.  

Thank God for the past. And the future 

The Sea Devils were terrible, especially the rubber masks, little improvement 50 or so years on. All the same, fixed expression.
 

This series is also maintaining the solidly craptastic storytelling. Please, let it end.

Edited April 20, 2022 by Ken Aldred

[Get Marwood & I]

On 4/20/2022 at 12:48 PM, Ken Aldred said:

This series is also maintaining the solidly craptastic storytelling. Please, let it end.

Yes, I didn't need more than ten minutes to detect, once again, the towering absence of a satisfying story. There's no point listing out everything that is wrong. They just don't know what they're doing on any level. As you say Ken, just let it end.

[Get Marwood & I]

Much like comics, Doctor Who has been a lifelong love for me. I can still remember Aggedor running through the cave towards Jon Pertwee, the piano bars of Baker's robot, the Krynoid getting bigger and bigger, the mummies, the maggots and Weng Chiang. And Eldrad must live! of course. The cards in the weekly Weetabix box were a thing of wonder and excitement. Doctor Who Weekly became Doctor Who Monthly and my Target novelisation collection grew and grew.

Then, as I matured to a teenager, I started to get right into it. During the Davison era, I started sending my drawings to fanzines and started collecting any memorabilia I could afford. I watched Mawdryn Undead again, for the first time in many years recently. Oh dear how badly it had aged! But I loved it at the time, and Doctor Who more or less kept pace with my own development right up to the Capaldi era which I loved as an adult, just in a different way to my love as a kid for the Pertwee to McCoy era.

Anyway, I spotted an eBay listing for all the original printing pages of Doctor Who Bulletin #33 and couldn't resist buying it:

I wonder what the % would be today, for getting shot of Chibbers, were he not already leaving?

The listing said it was for every page but #13, the artwork page:

Here's the missing art page, in the printed copy:

And here, reunited for the first time since 1985, is my original artwork page that was sent back to me after printing all those years ago:

I get a kick out of that - bringing together the entire issue templates for the first time in nearly 40 years:

I miss those innocent days