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Rare Patrick Troughton Video From 1980s New Jersey PBS Appearance

Christian Cawley is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

Recorded as a lead-in to a broadcast of the Sixth Doctor’s era of Doctor Who in the late 1980s, the clip above was a NJN (New Jersey Network) promo clip found by the uploader “on an almost-destroyed VHS tape.” It features Patrick Troughton recalling 1969s The War Games, (as well as a previous trip in the 1950s) as well as teasing his Two Doctors co-star

Uploaded to YouTube back in 2010, we reckon the clip is from 1986 (there is a reference to the ITV comedy The Two of Us in which Troughton co-starred with Nicholas Lyndhurst). The Second Doctor actor describing Colin Baker’s incarnation as “Miss Piggy” is of course terribly cheeky, followed by the observation about the younger actor’s weight, and probably wouldn’t be suitable for broadcast in this day and age.

Younger fans wondering just what Troughton is doing on US TV, the answer is neatly summarised by explaining that this sort of thing was common on stations in the 1980s, with stars of the show travelling to the USA for conventions and guests spots on PBS to help raise funds to help to pay for broadcasting Doctor Who.

If you’re an older US-based reader, feel free to share your recollections of this era with us in the comments section.

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Enjoy Love and War For Just £2.99 From Big Finish!

Christian Cawley is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

We’ve already told you about the 12 Days of Big Finish promotion, in which the producers of Doctor Who audio adventures are reducing a whole host of their catalogue for 48 hours only. Today marks the halfway point as day 6 gives you the chance to own the audio adaptation of Paul Cornell’s Love and War for an amazingly low £2.99!

Love and War marks the introduction of Bernice Summerfield into the Whoniverse (as well as the first departure of Ace), portrayed here as she has been in her previous spinoff series (yes, the chronology is confusing) by Lisa Bowerman.

On a planet called Heaven, all hell is breaking loose.

Heaven is a cemetery for both humans and Draconians – a final place of rest for those lost during wartime. The Doctor arrives on a trivial mission – to find a book, or so he says – and Ace, wandering around Joycetown, becomes involved with a charismatic Traveller called Jan.

But the Doctor is strenuously opposed to the romance. What is he trying to prevent? Is he planning some more deadly game connected with the coffins revered by the mysterious Church of Vacuum and the unusual Arch that marks the location of a secret building below ground?

Archaeologist Bernice Summerfield thinks so. Her destiny is inextricably linked with that of the Doctor, but even she may not be able to save Ace from the Time Lord’s plans.

This time, has the Doctor gone too far?

Adapted by Jac Rayner and with James Redmond (Hollyoaks, Casualty) and Bernard Holley (Claws of Axos), and originally released as a Virgin New Adventure in 1993, Love and War (which we reviewed following its audio release) is a pivotal story in the run of Doctor Who stories between 1989 and 2005, and you can pick it up for just £2.99 at the Big Finish website.

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A Tribute to the Doctor Who Monster Books

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Tom Baker does a great bit of comic shtick in interviews; you’ve probably seen it. Recounting tales of how awestruck fans ask him who is his favourite of the other Doctors, he says he loves nothing more than pretending to come over all puzzled as he peers into the distance:

“Other Doctors…? There were other Doctors?”

Only Tom Baker could get away with that. A grin as wide as the Mersey as he makes a gag of overlooking everyone else who ever played the role, and somehow makes you love him all the more.

The thing is, I had my own “other Doctors?” moment. Only mine was for real and I can place it to the moment I first laid eyes on Terrance Dicks’ Doctor Who Monster Book in 1975.

What a treat to get hold of this book with that great monster montage on the cover. But who were these other men pictured alongside the Doctor on the opening pages? There was the current Doctor on the right – no problem recognising him; hat, scarf and curls all in order. And to his left the one who’d come before, the guy who’d fought great big spiders and great big maggots – I could just about remember him.

But this old man, and the dark haired one, both looking stern and serious? All these years later I can still remember the feeling of glorious bafflement as I realised that, when it came to this fantastic programme that filled my imagination like nothing else, I really didn’t know the half of it…

“Other Doctors…? There were other Doctors?”

I’m sure I can’t have been alone in finding this wonderful book so influential. Younger fans must roll their eyes when they read yet another article telling them how good they have it these days, but it’s worth mentioning that it was this slim volume that educated a generation of kids about the programme in the pre-home video era.

For one thing, it had photos. Photos! My first sight of Daleks crossing Westminster Bridge, the Cybermen outside St Paul’s, and of the first three Doctors together came not from a clip show or a repeat but from the Doctor Who Monster Book. There really was nowhere else where you could see what old episodes actually looked like. Sure, there were the Target novels, with those fantastic Chris Achilleos covers (many of which were reproduced in this book) but it was still early days for those books and besides, that wasn’t the same.

Terrance Dicks has come in for some (mostly) gentle stick over the years for his prose style but he’s on top form here: simple, readable and accessible to young readers. Here he is on the First Doctor:

“Although still very active, with a great appetite for knowledge and adventure, this first Doctor was already showing some signs of his great age. He could be querulous and irritable, impatient with those whose intelligence didn’t match his own. He was capable of a kind of childish secretiveness and selfishness…”

Arguably he under-sells Hartnell’s playful side there but that’s still a wonderfully concise description. No mean feat to be so entertaining and informative whilst never patronising the reader.

And then there were the headlines that introduced the different sections. ‘The Monsters… the Worst Came First!’ for the Daleks. ‘Monsters Who Came Back for More!’ for the Cybermen, Ice Warriors, Yeti and other fearsome invaders. And ‘A Mixed Bag of Monsters’ for various terrifying one-offs. This is a book that managed the difficult task of making the Gellguards (‘hideous… blobby, almost shapeless servants of Omega’) sound exciting.

Published as Tom Baker’s first run of adventures was finishing, the book is a little uncertain as to what his defining characteristics will be (‘a strange mix of contradictory qualities… who knows what terrors and dangers lie before him?’). Two years later, it’s a different story and the programme has enjoyed a sustained period of success. Time for a second volume…

The Second Doctor Who Monster Book is the clear (if somewhat unimaginative) title for the 1977 follow-up, and the first thing that strikes you on picking it up today is the way it illustrates how Tom Baker had taken a grip on the role by this time. Whereas the first book had been an overview of the series to date, this edition focuses exclusively on the current Doctor and presents a summary of each of his adventures from Robot to The Talons of Weng-Chiang (although the picture editor did opt for Tomb-era Cybermen to illustrate The Revenge of the Cybermen, which wasn’t the only mistake made by Target in depicting them).

Although the book is smaller in size and lacks the pull-out poster from the first, there’s more use of colour images this time. Perhaps the most interesting aspect though, is the opening chapter ‘The New Doctor Who’ which is as good a description of the Fourth Doctor’s character as you’re likely to read. Some highlights:

‘The fourth Doctor somehow manages to be both elegant and casual at the same time… He has become sharper and is some ways a more ruthless character than before… These days the Doctor is quite likely to give friends as well as enemies the rough side of his tongue…’

Again it’s insightful, informative and doesn’t talk down to the reader. Dicks is wise enough to close with a direct quotation from his and Malcolm Hulke’s The Making of Doctor Who, repeating the never-bettered description of the Doctor which would be re-used again decades later in the programme’s 50th anniversary episode:

‘The Doctor believes in good, and fights evil. Though often caught up in violent situations, he is a man of peace. He is never cruel or cowardly.’

The two Doctor Who Monster Books have to be classed as among the most important non-fiction titles in the series’ history. Published at a time of growing interest in the show they served the need felt by many to know more about previous adventures and to actually see old monsters, even if it was just in still images.

In recent years we’ve been spoiled by books like The Secret Lives of Monsters and A History of the Universe in 100 Objects; beautifully put together volumes, lavishly illustrated in full colour throughout. But these two older books will always have a special place on the shelves of those who grew up in an earlier era when material on their favourite show was so much harder to come by.

If your copies have become lost or fallen apart, or if you’ve never owned them but want to find out what I’ve been banging on about in this article, both books regularly come up for sale on eBay. Expect to pay in the region of £10-20 depending on condition.

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Tenth Doctor #6 New Storyline: Doctor, Weeping Angels & The First World War

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Written by Robbie Morrison with art by Daniel Indro and colours by Slamet Mujiono, Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor #6 from Titan Comics commences a new storyline and is released next week with stunning Cover A artwork by Tommy Lee Edwards!

It’s good to see these new comics going from strength to strength; along with strips for the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors, a new Twelfth Doctor series launched in October and as of Spring 2015, we’ll also be able to enjoy new adventures for the Ninth Doctor.

Below you can see the three The Tenth Doctor #6 covers released so far, with Edwards’ on the left. If the headline above hadn’t already given it away for you (it’s okay, it’s still Christmas) the Tenth Doctor finds himself in the First World War (which he had previously been denied from reaching).

Meanwhile, you probably want to know what it’s all about…

STONE HANDS STALK THROUGH THE CRATERS OF THE SOMME…

When Gabby and the Doctor arrive by accident in No Man’s Land in July, 1916, they’re met by Corporal Jamie Colqhoun – a soldier who knows from bitter experience that there are worse things than the Jerries out in the rat-strewn trenches.

Things that drift through the smoke of a thousand cannon shells, and move only when you look away. Shadows that flit over artillery-blasted field hospitals and throw their terrifying wings over the living. Statues that steal your life in an instant.

The Weeping Angels.

But in a conflict where the life of young men is cheap, and thousands die every day – are the Angels actually offering salvation?

Trapped in the midst of a flock of starving Angels, the Doctor faces his most challenging and terrifying moral dilemma yet!

Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor #6​ hits comic book stores on ​Wednesday January 7, 2015, and below we have a sneak peak for you.

Don’t miss it!

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PodKast Reviews Last Christmas, Previews The Highest Science

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This week, Christian Cawley and James McLean take their critical eyes to Last Christmas, the Doctor Who Christmas special for 2014, and discover a seasonal treat that stands up well alongside similar adventures.

Although there is one question about Santa Claus that remains unanswered… We also take a look at The Highest Science, a new Seventh Doctor adventure from Big Finish that has been adapted from a Gareth Roberts novel from the Virgin New Adventures range back in 1993.

Finally, we chat as spoiler-free as we can concerning Ripper Street Series 3, which has just concluded on Amazon Instant Video.

Kasterborous PodKast Series 4 Episode 47 Shownotes

Doctor Who: The Vault
Tommy Cooper ‘Jus’ Like That!': A Life in Jokes and Pictures
Hogfather
Love and War (audio)
The Highest Science (audio)
Damaged Goods (novel)
Recommendations: Ripper Street, Season 3, Firefly – The Complete Series, The Invasion, Joe Harris speaks to Back to Frank Black

PodKast introduction by John Guilor.

Listen to the PodKast

There are several ways to listen. In addition to the usual player above, we’re pleased to announce that you can also stream the podKast using Stitcher, an award-winning, free mobile app available for Android and iPhone/iPad. This pretty much means that you can listen to us anywhere without downloading – pretty neat, we think you’ll agree! (Note that it can take a few hours after a new podKast is published to “catch up”.)

What’s more, you can now listen and subscribe to the podKast via our Audioboo channel! Head to http://audioboo.fm/channel/doctorwhopodkast and click play to start listening. You can also comment and record your own boos in response to our discussions! Meanwhile you can use the player below to listen through Audioboo:

You haven’t clicked play yet?! What are you waiting for? As well as our new Stitcher and Audioboo presence you can also use one of these amazingly convenient ways to download and enjoy this week’s podKast.

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You can also take advantage of the RSS feed to subscribe to the podKast for your media player, and even find us on iTunes, where your reviews will help the show considerably.

 

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Doctor Who Beaten By Game Of Thrones In Digital Spy’s 2014 Poll

Christian Cawley is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

It’s fair to say that 2014 has been a funny year for Doctor Who, with the transition to a new Doctor, the return of a classic villain in new form and the death of a popular character. And that’s only the stuff in front of the camera.

So it could therefore be argued that coming second to Game of Thrones in Digital Spy’s poll isn’t actually that bad, especially with Sherlock, The Walking Dead and Downton Abbey bringing up the rear.

The problem, of course, is that Game of Thrones is a show that isn’t on any terrestrial TV channel, which limits its availability somewhat. That it topped a poll of any of these shows is either a damning state of affairs for traditional TV or a tick in the box of the modern distribution of TV shows via the web, legally or illegally.

But it is probably both.

Best Drama

1. Game of Thrones – 17.2%

2. Doctor Who – 16.5%

3. Sherlock – 12.1%

4. The Walking Dead – 10.8%

5. Downton Abbey – 8.9%

On the other hand, Jenna Coleman’s success as Best Drama Actress shows just how far Clara has come since the clunk “Impossible Girl” storyline was completed, and even with the added weight of the Clara-Danny relationship in Series 8 she has thrived enough to win a poll convincingly.

Best Drama Actress

1. Jenna Coleman (Doctor Who) – 21.9%)

2. Sarah Lancashire (Happy Valley) – 12.9%

3. Gillian Anderson (The Fall) – 11.5%

4. Melissa McBride (The Walking Dead) – 9.2%

5. Maisie Williams (Game of Thrones) – 9.0%

Of course, polls being polls, everyone has a different opinion (otherwise no one is interested in the results!) so what are your feelings on these results?

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Vienna & Sherlock Holmes Continue Big Finish’s 12 Days Promotion

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You should already know about Big Finish’s “12 Days” promotion, in which the producers of audio Doctor Who are making a curated selection of releases available for just £2.99, with each offer lasting just 48 hours, requiring you, dear reader, to act quickly!

Yesterday, the offer continued with a Vienna adventure, starring Chase Masterson (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) as the eponymous space assassin who we first met in the Seventh Doctor adventure The Shadow Heart. The adventure on offer, The Memory Box, is the first from the Vienna series:

Berkeley Silver, one of the richest men in the Earth empire, lies dead in the Penthouse Suite of the Galileo space-hotel. Law Enforcement Officers Detective Captain McGinnis and Detective Sergeant Mead are called in to investigate – but it seems to have been the perfect crime. Even when subjected to a memory scan, everybody in the space-hotel has an alibi for the murder.

Which means it can only have been the work of one woman. The most accomplished – and the most glamorous – bounty hunter in the galaxy. Her name is Vienna Salvatori. And she has a little rule; nobody gets to hear her name and live…

Go check out Vienna while you still have the chance at this superb low price!

Today, meanwhile, Big Finish is offering Sherlock Holmes – The Tangled Skein for £2.99 starring Voice of the Monsters Nicholas Briggs…

A threat to Holmes’s life, murders on Hampstead Heath and a deadly phantom lady lead Holmes and Watson into the most dangerous investigation they have ever undertaken… An encounter which brings them face to face with evil itself, embodied in Count Dracula, the Lord of the Undead.

Big Finish has quite a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, comprising adaptations and original stories.

Will you be picking up either of these adventures? Let us know!

 

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Hey, Did You Know That Peter Capaldi Was (Not Quite) In Maleficent?

Christian Cawley is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

Angelina Jolie-starring Disney blockbuster Maleficent had an impressive cas of mostly British actors, which included Kenneth Cranham, Sam Riley, Janet McTeer, Imelda Staunton and An Adventure in Space and Time‘s Lesley Manville.

But no Doctors. Or was there?

It was recently revealed by Peter Capaldi that he had in fact been cast in the film (“I did quite a lot of green screen acting in the blockbuster movie Maleficent – from which I was cut!” he said at the Deep Breath premiere Q&A), and recorded scenes as King Kinloch, the ruler of the fairies.

So what went wrong?

Well, it seems that in an all-too-common move in cinema production in the USA, the reaction of test screening audiences resulted in all of Capaldi’s scenes being dropped or reshot with reattributed dialogue. The reason? Apparently the fairy court was considered too dull. Perhaps there was some feeling that the film was closer to The West Wing than Sleeping Beauty; perhaps the test screening people were dullards. Either way, we lost Capaldi from the hit movie, which is a big shame.

Says Diaval actor Sam Riley, “I remember on one of the first days, Peter Capaldi and I were chatting and he was starting to have his makeup put on. Then I went off and four hours later this goblin — or a man with a proper goblin’s head, moving and everything with little hairs in his ears — comes over to me and just carries on the conversation. I was like, ‘Is that you, Peter, under there?'”

But don’t think that Capaldi was somehow annoyed by the makeup. It seemes that he loved it, enthusing at the 2013 BAFTA TV awards: “I have nothing but nice things to say about this movie. The guy who directing Malificent is the production designer on Avatar [Robert Stromberg]. So you can imagine the scale. It has a very magical, dark look and a lot of the film’s characters — Imelda Staunton’s, for example — are computer generated. There’s only a handful of us who are real.

“And Angelina was absolutely lovely. They had Angelina on wires. She’d come flying in from way over there and land at your feet. It’s a big Disney movie with lots of special effects and incredible costumes and make-up. It was great. It was a big, magical, terrific moving story. I’m dying to see it.”

Further research shows that John Lee Hancock (Saving Mr Banks) was brought on board late in production to assist with reshoots. Whether this had a bearing or relation to the changes that were made are unclear, but it seems likely.

Perhaps we’ll one day see a version of Maleficent as originally intended, a director’s cut along the lines of Peter Jackson’s DVD releases of Lord of the Rings. Wouldn’t it be great to see the twelfth Doctor Who star as the Fairy King, alongside Miranda Richardson as Queen Ulla?

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Trailer For Big Finish’s Adaptation Of The Highest Science

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Gareth Roberts’ The Highest Science is one of the more well-remembered adventures from the days when new episodes of Doctor Who came as monthly releases in novel form. As such, it’s release as an adapted audio adventure starring Sylvester McCoy as the Doctor and Lisa Bowerman as Bernice Summerfield has been hotly anticipated.

So much so that Big Finish has made the trailer available on SoundCloud…

Now, if you didn’t already know, the first part of the adventure was released as a free download by Big Finish, and you can still hear it by visiting their website. Adapted by Jac Rayner, produced by Cavan Scott directed by Scott Handcock, the synopsis is as follows:

The Highest Science. The pinnacle of knowledge and a terrible weapon. A legend – nothing more.

Sheldukher. The most wanted criminal in the galaxy. Evil to the core and hungry for power, whatever the cost.

The Chelonians. A vast military power, pledged to eradicate human parasites wherever they are found.

The Doctor. An ancient and wise Time Lord tracking a temporal fluctuation that endangers the universe itself.

Some things should never meet, but as Professor Summerfield is about to discover, the universe is full of coincidences.

Now available to purchase in its entirety, you should head to the Big Finish website right now to grab The Highest Science, an example of what 1990s Doctor Who was like.

Bloody marvellous!

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K-POV: Time of the Big Finish Christmas Special?

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As I’m writing this, there are less than 48 hours until Christmas. The house will be filled with presents, delicious food, loved ones, and the traditions that make the holiday so special to everyone. One of those traditions is fairly new to my household, indeed only the third time I’ve celebrated the occasion: the Doctor Who Christmas Special! For two consecutive Christmases, I’ve watched Matt Smith meet Clara Oswald and I’ve seen my Doctor change into Peter Capaldi, and nitpicking aside, the experience has been magical. I simply cannot think of a better nightcap for the Christmas holiday. While the concept is fairly recent, mostly starting with the revival series (save the Hartnell line in The Feast of Steven) it has evolved into an important part of the Christmas celebration for many Whovians.

For many fans of the classic series, however, it may cause a bit of sadness to realize that Doctors Troughton through McGann (and effectively Hartnell) never got the opportunity to have their own Christmas themed episode air on the holiday. While we cannot take a TARDIS back in time and put the idea into the heads of the show’s creators and succeeding producers and change history, there may yet be another route of getting close. Ladies and gentleman, if you’ve read the article title, you know I’m suggesting that it is time for a yearly Big Finish Christmas Special. Let’s take a look at the whys and the hows of what that would look like and what we could expect, shall we?

The most obvious question we must ask is why. Why do we need and want this new venture? Well, dear reader, at its most simple core it gives us a chance to visit the magic of Christmas with Doctors and companions who have long passed from our TV screens into memory. Have you never imagined a festive themed story featuring the Eighth Doctor? Or what Tom Baker might do with a script set during the holiday? The five living Doctors are all very active participants in their respective Big Finish lines. Why not take advantage of that to give to fans the gift of a Christmas special? As great as Tennant, Smith, and Capaldi have been in their holiday outings, I’m sure there is still a contingency of fans that long for the series and its specials to be more like the classic series was. The likelihood of that is slim, but this would give us a form of that to enjoy.

The next logical musing is how. What does a Big Finish Christmas special look like? Or perhaps more aptly, sound like. The beauty of creating a new thing is that there are so many avenues that could be explored. While some could automatically jump to a multi-Doctor special, I would argue that we keep things a little more focused. My proposal would be to do a different Doctor each year for the special, keeping the story contained to that Doctor and his companion(s) or guest companion (more on that in a moment). Perhaps, even look at a multi-Doctor Christmas after the individual Doctors have had their time in the light, if a story is magnificent and strong enough to support the weight of the cast (that’s actually a good rule for onscreen multi-Doctor specials as well… I digress!). This would also be a fantastic opportunity to potentially bring in a big name actor/actress as a one-off companion or the villain of the story (much in the way that the modern series treats the Christmas special). The opportunities are only limited by those who are interested.

The last detail that needs addressed is, how in the world do you distribute something like this? I offer what I feel to be the best and furthest reaching solution: What if Big Finish partnered with BBC Radio to do a Christmas Day broadcast of the special, potentially timed to finish right before the televised special begins? Afterwards, the special would be available only through the normal Big Finish distribution methods. This allows Big Finish to make a profit on the special, while also providing it for anyone that wants to listen on Christmas Day. It’s a little hard to see a downside here, especially given the increased awareness of the company and their audio adventures. It could potentially lead to a whole new lot of customers and subscribers.

Of course, this is all supposition. To our knowledge, there are no plans for such an endeavor by Big Finish. But what a wonderful thought it is, dear reader! Perhaps this could be the next great Christmas tradition for Whovians. Or maybe it’s just the dream of Big Finish Doctor Who fans; either way, we can always be hopeful that Nicholas Briggs and company might consider the option. Only time will tell for sure.

What say you, fellow Kasterborites? Would you enjoy a Big Finish Christmas Special? Do you think we’ve got a good idea or would you rather see it done differently? Feel free to join in the conversation. Happy Christmas to you all!

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