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WHO Shop Christmas Triptych Titan Comics Cover Variants

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.

This December Titan Comics is teaming up with The WHO Shop to celebrate the store​’​s 30th Birthday with a special Doctor Who Comics Christmas triptych cover variant!

These variants will only be available to purchase at The W​HO​ Shop.

This special image featuring​ the Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth Doctors was created by artist Lee Sullivan (Doctor Who Magazine, Transformers, Thundercats, 2000AD) and ​runs across three ​Doctor Who comic issues this December​: ​Tenth Doctor #5, Eleventh Doctor #5 and Twelfth Doctor #3​.

Stunning, aren’t they?!

For more information you can call The WHO Shop on ​+44 (0) 20 8471 2356, visit their website at www.thewhoshop.com or pop by the store at​: The WHO Shop, 39-41 Barking Rd, London E6 1PY, UK.

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William Hartnell Stars In New BBC One Christmas Campaign!

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.

Doctor Who’s long association with Christmas on BBC One has been invoked in a new seasonal campaign for the channel, showcasing some of its successes over the past five decades, with the voice of the original Doctor, William Hartnell, heralding the 60 second clip fest.

The “Be with the ones you love” trailer encapsulates the greatest moments of BBC at Christmas, from Doctor Who to Morecambe and Wise, EastEnders to The Royle Family, and beyond. What is significant about the Hartnell clip, however, is that it comes from The Feast of Steven, a now-lost episode from 1965’s The Daleks’ Master Plan, a 12 part epic the spanned the Christmas period, running from13th November until 29th January 1966.

Without getting all #omnirumour about it, the matching video isn’t even available to use, which is why the black and white opening shot of the Doctor is from 1966’s rather superb The War Machines. But he isn’t alone – look out for the Tenth Doctor, Astrid, Rose and Mickey in there, along with various other famous faces from BBC Christmas successes over the years.

There’s lots to see – tell us your favourite clip!

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Spot Peter Capaldi In The Paddington Movie Official Trailer

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.

Peter Capaldi is among the many big names in the new Paddington movie (alongside Hugh Bonneville of Curse of the Black Spot and A Christmas Carol‘s Michael Gambon) and you can get a glimpse of thim in this clip which features the animated bear many of us in the UK grew up with.

What do you mean you’re too young?!

A young bear originally from Peru with a passion for all things British travels to London in search of a home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington station, he begins to realise that city life is not all he had imagined. This is until he meets the kindly Brown family, who read the label around his neck—”Please look after this bear”—and offer him a temporary haven.

 

Released last Friday, you can catch Peter Capaldi in Paddington in cinemas now!

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Possible Tennant/Tate Team Up, Project Latte & Jack Whitehall Wants Guest Spot

Jonathan Appleton 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.

Packed with more content than the Black Archive, it’s the Kasterborous Newsblast! Set your weekend off in style as we explore what some of the stars of Doctor Who are getting up to! Stream the Doctor! Get a Missy action figure! See the Daleks hit Leeds! All the Who news that’s fit to print, as the New York Times doesn’t (quite) say!

Tate and Tennant to Team Up?

Catherine Tate has revealed that she and former time travelling mate David Tennant are “looking for future projects together.” We’re intrigued Catherine, tell us more…

“Working with David is the best. We get on so well and it’s just always so much fun. It’s just that something clicked when we first started working together from day one on The Runaway Bride and hopefully will continue to.”

Fans of the Doctor’s gobbiest companion to date will, however, be disappointed to hear that Catherine doesn’t see much potential for a reunion:

“Unfortunately I think Donna’s storyline would prevent her from coming back. Any memory of the Doctor, of her time travelling with him, and the adventures she embarked on, would kill her. So I can’t see a storyline being able to bring her back.”

A Latte for the Doctor

News from Canada now, and Bell Media has done a deal to bring the series to its new subscription on-demand streaming service. ‘Project Latte’, for that is the service’s highly intriguing-sounding ‘code name’ according to the press release, will give users in Canada access to 108 episodes of Doctor Who as part of its package of over 350 unique TV titles.

Genre fans will also be able to enjoy Orphan Black, Utopia and every episode of Star Trek ever made. The Doctor has been a strong performer in Canada of late, with Series 8 averaging 756,000 viewers on the Space channel, earning it the coveted honour of ‘most-watched TV series on Canadian speciality television’. Makes you want to know what other kinds of speciality television there are in Canada…

Jack Wants a Part

Comedian Jack Whitehall fancies being in Doctor Who, and as part of his preparation for pitching to Steven Moffat he’s been researching other comedy co-stars who have appeared in the programme during the current showrunner’s tenure:

“I’d love to do Doctor Who. I need to corner Steven Moffat. He had Zawe (Ashton, Jack’s co-star in Fresh Meat) and Michelle Gomez (who has appeared in BBC 3 sitcom Bad Education) in the last series – they were both very good in it.”

He doesn’t want just any old part, mind you. Whitehall reckons he’d be just right for a baddie in the Die Hard mould:

“I’d like to play a villain. My heroes are people like Jeremy Irons and Alan Rickman. I’d love to do my version of a Rickman villain.”

Michelle’s Secret is Out

Missy actress Michelle Gomez has given an interview to Gay Times, and seems to have rather enjoyed carrying that dark and terrible secret as to her character’s true identity around…

“I did have to keep it secret. I kept it so much of a secret that it was a surprise to me in the end. Somebody did tell me at some point and I chose to stuff it into the darkest recesses of my mind so the reveal was very surprising to me too. I did have this secret all summer so I did wander around looking like Mona Lisa all summer with this strange enigmatic smile because it’s quite nice having a secret, really, isn’t it?”

Elsewhere in the interview Michelle is coy about Missy returning to the series next year (bit late for that, we would have said!) but can disclose, with permission from her PR minder, that a Missy action figure is on the way:

“Well I’m terribly excited I think it’s a huge achievement for not only the fact that I’m a woman in this industry but to be a 47 year old action figure is pretty good going for the old girls.”

Anniversary Special for Leeds Fans

A story to remind you of the magnificence of Doctor Who fans now, and a Leeds-based group of amateur filmmakers are celebrating the 20th anniversary of their first Doctor Who production. The Projection Room fans group script their own adventures and film them on home made sets and on local locations and have attracted a dedicated following. Former Doctors Sylvester McCoy and Colin Baker have even got involved over the years.

Member David Hobson is refreshingly honest about how his family regard his hobby:

“We have a laugh and people see to appreciate it. I’m not sure my wife is overly thrilled, but she accepts it is part of me. My daughter is 13 and is completely embarrassed by the whole thing.” Warms your heart, doesn’t it?

Freema’s Baptism of Fire

 

Can it really be all those years since Martha Jones’s debut in Doctor Who? The memories are still powerful for Freema Agyeman, however, who describes the full-on freight train impact of joining up with the Doctor: “It’s not exhausting in a negative way but it can be all-encompassing. I always liken Doctor Who to this locomotive going at a million miles per hour. You jump on it, you’re exposed to all of that and you can just get off – it keeps going, the show is a big deal. For you as an actor, you can have the positive and negative experiences of that and then you can move on – it doesn’t have to overshadow or affect the jobs you do afterwards.”

Freema is promoting her promising-sounding new audio drama Six Degrees of Assassination, a political thriller co-starring Sherlock’s Andrew Scott:

“It’s thrilling and exciting for people to experience that from the safety of their own home. It’s not too heavy on the political side of things so you’re going to get a mainstream audience that can come on board with it. It’s a brilliant whodunit.”

Catch Karen and David on Netflix

Finally for now, Netflix subscribers who haven’t so far caught up with some of the post-Doctor Who appearances of some of the show’s best -loved stars of recent years will be able to soon. Karen Gillan’s 2014 horror film Oculus will make its debut on the online subscription service on December 3rd, with David Tennant’s hit ITV drama Broadchurch available from the 12th of the same month – just before its much anticipated second series appears on UK screens in 2015. Troubling fare to keep you entertained in these long winter evenings…

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Jenna Coleman Reported To Be Staying On Doctor Who

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.

The will-she-leave-or-won’t-she story of Jenna Coleman and Doctor Who Series 9 has moved to a new stage today, with newspaper The Mirror claiming that the actress has changed her mind and will now remain in the show beyond the Christmas special.

As The Mirror tells it, “Jenna had originally planned to bow out in the upcoming BBC1 festive special, and it was reported in August that the Doctor, played by Peter Capaldi, would soon be in need of a new sidekick. But since then she has changed her mind about departing and asked to remain for the first half of the new season, to be broadcast next autumn.”

They back this up with the frustrated rumblings of show source, concerned about the scripts for Series 9: ““When it came to Clara, they had to tear them up and start again.”

Rumoured story details for the Christmas special, Last Christmas, claimed that the Doctor would be beside an aged Clara on her deathbed.

What we have here is the successive reporting of rumours as facts. Over the months, the story has gone from staying, to leaving and now back to staying, but only for a bit.

As ever, we would suggest readers only accept what the BBC says. In this case, they’ve told Radio Times that “This is speculation so we won’t be commentingViewers will have to watch the Christmas episode to find out!”

Kasterborites with long memories will know that this is the standard reply from the BBC. Throw in the regular assertions from Capaldi, Moffat and Coleman herself that they are playing it close to their chests in order to create a surprise, and you have a situation that really cannot be second guessed.

What we’ve heard…

As with most things related to Doctor Who‘s production, we’ve heard various things concerning Jenna Coleman’s continuing relationship with the show (or otherwise). While informed that she was definitely leaving following the Christmas episode, we’ve since been told that she’s still not yet made up her mind whether to continue or not. The last we heard of this was around 10 days ago.

We reckon, therefore, that there is a strong chance that Clara may be hanging around at least for a few episodes of Series 9.

But what do you think? Will it be the Doctor and Clara’s Last Christmas, or do you expect her to hang around?

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Torchwood’s Catherine Tregenna For Doctor Who Series 9?

Philip Bates 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.

Ah, now here’s some welcome news! Torchwood scribe, Catherine Tregenna will, according to her online CV, be writing for Series 9 of Doctor Who!

Tregenna will be the first female writer since Helen Raynor, who wrote the slightly-wonky Daleks in Manhattan/ Evolution of the Daleks (2007), and the far-more-enjoyable The Sontaran Stratagem/ The Poison Sky (2008). People have been giving showrunner, Steven Moffat some flack because hey, people are always giving those in charge grief there’s only been one female writer since the show returned in 2005. Even Neil Gaiman (The Doctor’s Wife; Nightmare in Silver) seemed to have a go, before backing down a bit and conceding that it’s not for lack of trying on the Moff’s behalf. Maybe this possible news will quieten them down for… ooh, about three minutes?

This hasn’t been confirmed, but it slipped through the net (well, the Internet) on her CV. That seems like a confirmation, but in the past, writers’ online credits have included Doctor Who – then that episode doesn’t actually appear. Doc Martin‘s Jack Lothian is a prime example of this.

Catherine Tregenna does have a history with the Whoniverse, having written four episodes of Torchwood. Season 1’s Out of Time was one of the highlights of the run, while Captain Jack Harkness was nominated for the 2008 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form. It lost out to an episode of Doctor Who called Blink. I doubt you’d have heard of it. Meanwhile, her Season 2 episodes, Meat and Adam were grim, gritty, and surreal. Actually, all her serials were pretty brilliant, so this is definitely good news for us Whovians and of course, the Twelfth Doctor!

So who else is writing for Doctor Who Series 9? Both Tom MacRae (The Girl Who Waited) and Neil Cross (Hide) have said they’ve worked on idea for Peter Capaldi’s Time Lord, the former with an idea for the Weeping Angels. I’d definitely be up for both of them returning! Given his chumminess with a certain Mr. Moff, Mark Gatiss will likely be back too (a man whose episodes are polarising, but what the heck, I liked them all, bar Robot of Sherwood). Might we assume Steve Thompson, too, will be back? We’ve not had anything from Broadchurch‘s Chris Chibnall in a couple of years either…

Take Our Poll

Oh, and please, please, please: Jamie Mathieson! He’s absolutely fantastic. In fact, his two episodes for Series 8 helped redeem the 12-episode run for me. There, I said it!

Moffat has also stated that we’ve not seen the last of Kill The Moon‘s Peter Harness, so perhaps he’ll be involved somewhere.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Moffat writes more episodes than usual next series, purely because (by his own admission) he’s nearer the end of his reign than the beginning. So how many slots will that leave?

Which other writers would you like to see? I’m throwing Sally Wainwright’s name into the mix: Last Tango in Halifax and Happy Valley are magnificent, and a further female writer would be great – not to pander to the PC Squad but because she’s talented. I’d love an episode by Who-loving mega-screenwriter J Michael Straczynski. How about bringing some of the Seventh Doctor clan back?! Andrew Cartmel and Ben Aaronovitch are more than capable of delivering quality Who!

Oh! I know! Nick Briggs! Get him to write a Dalek story! C’mon, people!!

Tell you what. Let’s make a deal. How about you vote in our poll and perhaps comment below, and in return, we’ll keep you up-to-date when names are announced for Doctor Who Series 9? Yeah? Okay, let’s do that.

You’re all so agreeable. It’s a pleasure writing for you.

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Weird Doctor Who Stuff You Can Find On eBay Today

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 not every day when your eyes are opened to the horrors of Doctor Who figures from the 1970s. Today was that day. You see, I’ve just learned that the Mego/Denys Fisher Cyberman figure from the mid 1970s was NAKED UNDERNEATH.

Insane, I know. For some reason, the boiler suit outfit wasn’t glued/stitched to the pseudo Action Man underneath. Rather, it all came off, um, Action Man-style, leaving a silver headed cyborg to steal the VTOL craft and conquer the training tower.

How did I learn this gem today? Thanks to our friend John Guilor, who shared the frankly disturbing image from this eBay auction that has left me seriously weirded out. And then he did this…

At first I thought it was a Toy Story-esque toy mutant, until I was set straight: this is what a 1970s Cyberman looked like underneath. I’m just surprised I made it to 38 without possessing this knowledge sooner.

However, it got me thinking. What other weird and unusual Doctor Who items are currently available on eBay?

Unsettling Ood Mask

First, we have this slightly worrying Ood mask. Seemingly unlicensed (and very poor if this is the case) the mask is suitable for adults and children, and features what appears to be bloodsucker worms (are they a thing, or a childhood fallacy?) being vomitted from the Ood’s mouth, rather than gentle tentacles.

It has a violent, bloody edge to it, don’t you think?

Sonic Tooth Brush That Isn’t

There is absolutely no reason why a toothbrush shouldn’t be ultrasonic, except perhaps the risk of atomising your teeth.

This Sonic Screwdriver Toothbrush isn’t unique to eBay, but it is bloody odd. You wouldn’t use a standard screwdriver to brush your teeth, would you? So why use one that can supposedly open doors and reprogram computers?

Classic Series Tat

If it’s unusual tat from the classic era of Doctor Who, this snowglobe featuring the first four Doctors on one side and a collection of Daleks on the other is exactly what you’re looking for.

One can imagine something like this being used as a paperweight in the BBC production office at Television Centre all those years ago. Cheap old snowglobes tend to have mouldy or rotten “snow” in them, but the deadline is imminent for this auction, so you’ll be saved the horror of having to own it.

Disco Cyberman

You may or may not know this, but one of the key dance moves in nightclubs during the mid-2000s was The Point. Few could pull it off with the required aplomb, but thanks to a distributed educational campaign, various books, magazines and even toy ranges were developed to help spread the word.

Here we see a rare CybusMan Cyberman demonstrating how The Point should be used. Practice with care. There is only one reason to point at someone in a nightclub, after all…

No Book for Judging

They say you should never judge a book by its cover.

Perhaps the owner of this copy of Destiny of the Daleks felt it better to just keep the cover and discard the rest of the book, perhaps dismayed by how poor the TV version is in comparison.

We just don’t know.

However, we do know that the cover of Terrance Dicks novelisation – available from a US seller – is in reasonable condition, and should you be in possession of the rest of the book sans cover, then you will be a very happy Doctor Who fan this evening.

So, plenty of weird stuff on eBay today. Perhaps you’ve got some really odd Doctor Who merchandise, or can share with us some that you’ve seen? Let us know in the comments.

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What Songs Do You Associate With Doctor Who?

James Lomond 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.

Drama and music have a close relationship. From the ancient Greek Chorus to the Glee, from Ben-Hur to Benny Hill, a musical accompaniment helps tell a story and provides a broader context for what we see on screen.

Doctor Who has used a lot of music in the show over the years but what about it’s broader relationship with music? You probably recall Britney Spears’s Toxic featuring in Series 1’s The End of the World as a “traditional ballad” and the Electric Light Orchestra’s songs featured in Love & Monsters (still not forgiven, just sayin’).

Here I present my Top 5 tracks featured in the show, a few of oddities to intrigue and a mystery to be solved…

5 Flutters By

In the Eighth Doctor’s first of two onscreen appearances, we had the oddest but perhaps classiest musical accompaniments to a Doctor’s “death” in the show.

Grace, the soon-to-be companion and unemployed cardiac surgeon was at the opera with her (totally unreasonable) boyfriend, Brian when she was bleeped to come and navigate the Seventh Doctor’s arteries following a gun-shot wound. Needless to say she gets lost in that binary heart system and doesn’t do much to help the regeneration that follows. But it’s all done to strains of Puccini’s Madame Butterfly.

Loched In At Number 4

A personal favourite here (no judging) – in Terror of the Zygons the landlord of the inn where UNIT have camped out is playing Flowers of the Forest on his bagpipes before Sarah interrupts. For some reasons Tom Baker’s delivery of the explanation is burned onto my memory. Lovely music too – if you like bagpipes.

It’ll Never Be 3

When Jo Grant, escapologist and grooviest of the Classic companions left the series in 1973, her farewell party allegedly featured the The Pretty Things under the title of Electric Banana – you can barely hear them in the episode but a look at the video for the featured track, It’ll Never Be Me (rather poignant for our bereft Third Doctor) is straight out of the Austin Power’s version of the 70s. Perfect for our Jo…

A Ticket 2 Ride

The Beatles made an appearance in 1965’s The Chase with Ticket to Ride on the Doctor’s Time Space Visualiser at Vikki’s request.

The segment was apparently taken from an appearance on Top of the Pops from that year, the rest of the episode having been wiped!

We Love #1, Actually

Now, Kasterborites, I promise I am, as a rule, strictly anti-schmultz. Doctor Who sometimes rides a fine line between good drama and sentimentality but never shameless emotional excesses has it been so well carried off as when Athelete’s Chances accompanied Van Gogh’s trip to his future and seeing a little of the appreciation he was lacking during his lifetime.

Impressively close to Love Actually, while still being Doctor Who – only Richard Curtis and Matt Smith could carry this off.

All Oddities Great And Small

Next, dear reader I have some oddities for you…

Doctor Who is an inspirational show. We know this: it inspired the careers of the various talents that are making it now and many other writers, performers and artists out there. And oftentimes, as with a certain opening title sequence (it’s great but CLOCKS?!) snippets of inspiration end up on Youtube.

You might recall the Third Doctor’s monster-mesmerising Venusian Lullaby from the Peladon adventures, set loosely to the melody of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen…

Here’s what you might not have expected to ever hear – a cover.

Another Who-inspired performance, this time an original acoustic tribute to Amy Pond…

And now a theory – Kylie Minogue released Two Hearts in November 2007. A month later she was featured as Astrid in Voyage of the Damned. Two hearts…? Fangirl reference…?

Some cunning viewers noticed what the Twelfth Doctor was whistling in The Caretaker. In a cheeky dig at Clara’s teaching style that I *totally* missed, the Doctor samples the melody from Pink Floyd’s Another Brick in the Wall. Oi, Teacher – !

And now my favourite for sheer inventiveness and chutzpah… Okay, they could do with a studio and some professional choreography, but this unexpected Blurred Lines parody radiates AWESOME…

And finally, as promised, a mystery (unless you already know what’s going on)… Back in Silver Nemesis the Cybermen’s appraisal of freestyle jazz sax was “meaningless”. But it looks as though they may have been more musical than we’d thought. Take a look…

Yes dear reader, you can believe your ears, there was a band named “The Cybermen”. Who? When? Why? What did their legal team tell them? If you know anything about this early ’90s (American?) album and their digital label please tell us below.

While we’re at it, any favourite tracks that remind you of Who? Youtube tribute vids? Your own musical creations? Share below – we’ve already established that I like bagpipes so you can’t come off much worse…

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Preview: The Eleventh Doctor #5 From Titan Comics

Philip Bates 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.

The next issue of Titan Comics’ Eleventh Doctor series is released and we’ve a nice little preview to get you in the mood for more action with the bow-tie-wearing alien.

Written by Al Ewing (Avengers: Ultron Forever) and 2000AD‘s Boo Cook, check out our three-page look of The Sound of Our Voices…

There are two covers to collect, one by Verity Glass and the other a photo subscription variant. Here’s what to expect:

Still trapped aboard the SERVEYOUinc research satellite, Alice and the Doctor must unravel the mystery of the creature codenamed ‘ARC’ – while staying one step ahead of its whisper-quiet rampage through the station!

But there’s something essential the Doctor’s missing – something he’s overlooked.

Can Alice help him see it, in time to save her life… or is the story of the Doctor’s favorite sarcastic library assistant doomed to end in the icy depths of space?

The Eleventh Doctor #5 is released on Wednesday 3rd December.

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140 Characters: Kris Griffin

PJ Edmundson 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.

Who fandom, by whichever titles they go under, has always displayed a level of interest and devotion that is typical of science fiction, but more detailed, more committed and now, more in charge of the show itself. Through fanzines, fan productions evolving into DVD extras and additional Who franchises, Doctor Who fandom has produced a level of art form not replicated to such an extent in the UK and perhaps the world, based on a rolling work of fiction.

The questions below are all on or below 140 characters. The answers are the same.

This week, Kris Griffin, a 37 years old marketing expert from Worcestershire.

What is the single most important aspect of the show?

Creativity. Without this there is nothing.

When you first started watching Doctor Who, how old where you and where were you?

I was four. I was at home in Pershore.

So how long have you been watching Doctor Who?

Since 1979; but properly from Full Circle in 1980.

 

Do you see yourself as one of the Doctors and why that one?

I think each personality is too extreme…perhaps Matt Smith for his normality and humanity.

What was your very first episode of Doctor Who?

The first elements I remember watching were City of Death in 1979.

How would you rate that episode now?

A genuine classic – Douglas Adams – enough said.

Do you ever dress like the Doctor in everyday life?

When I wear a long coat it’s hard not to feel like Tom.

Does the Doctor ever get it wrong?

Of course, that’s what makes him half-human!!!!!!

Do you ever find yourself rooting for the bad guy?

There are a couple of Doctors I would have liked dispatching sooner.

If you could travel with any of the Doctors, which one would it be and why?

Eccleston, for the bromance.

Which, if any, companion would you like to be there as well?

Rose…

Who would you name as your favourite companion and why?

I have a deep affection for Liz Shaw – she broke a mould.

Is there a villain or monster you identify with more than others?

Only those that are misguided fools rather than the summation of evil.

Is there an episode that means more to you than all the others?

School Reunion to finally bring things full circle.

Is the Master the Doctor’s opposite number?

Yes.

Which is your favourite TARDIS interior and why?

Season 21…come fly with me.

Is the TARDIS alive?

No.

When the new series arrived, what was your initial reaction?

Relief.

Nearly ten years on, how do you feel about it now?

Relief.

Who was the best Doctor, never cast?

Richard Harris – makes me giddy thinking about what he could have done.

How involved in fandom have you been?

Working with Big Finish has immersed me more over the last 3 years.

How should the Doctor dress?

Not like a clown or a Viking – something contemporary and stylish.

What is the best thing that being a fan of the show ever given to you?

My son’s third birthday – Tardis themed – he was blown away.

Many thanks to Kris Griffin!

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