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This Month’s Panic Moon Out Now!

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Don’t panic! The newest issue of the Panic Moon fanzine is now available! It’s an “old fashioned” paper-n-ink zine filled with lots of Doctor Who goodness.

The December 2013 issue features an eye-catching illustration of a be-scarfed Peter Capaldi as how he might appear as the Twelfth Doctor. In the interior pages are reviews and insights on everything newsworthy and recent, including An Adventure in Space and Time, Series 7, the minisodes, the found Troughton episodes, a tribute to the late Dalek designer Ray Cusick, and even some writing by Toby Hadoke!

The fully-illustrated new issue of Panic Moon is 44 “pocket-sized” pages and sounds like the trip of a lifetime!

It’s just £1.50 in the UK, and for those outside the UK, £3.00 post-paid. Paypal payments can be sent to: panicmoonfanzine@googlemail.com, and please use the ‘sending money to family or friends’ option.

For more details and peeks at past issues, visit their website.

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Philip Morris On The Importance Of Finding The Lost Episodes [VIDEO]

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In a small interview with BBC News at the Doctor Who Celebration in London on the anniversary of the show, the man who found the recently-released missing Patrick Troughton lost episodes, The Web Of Fear and The Enemy Of The World, spoke about why it was so important about finding lost episodes of Doctor Who and other British television shows.

Philip Morris was asked why the world was so excited that these episodes of the Second Doctor, long thought to be lost forever, had been found.

I think if you look at the show itself, it is very unique. When it was first brought out and transmitted, there was nothing else like it. When it sells good stories and all the pieces come together, there’s no other show like it – its one of its own.

 

Its one of the big icons of the 20th century if you like, you know, with all the great science fiction series out there like Star Trek; it’s up there with those,  it’s one of the greats. And will only get bigger of course!

He is *such* a fan…

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More Guests & Photos For The Time of the Doctor!

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Thanks to Radio Times, we now have a little more information on who will be a part of the Doctor Who Christmas special this year.

It seems we will get to meet another member of Clara’s family. Sheila Reid, most known for her current role on Benidorm, will play Clara’s grandmother.

James Butler will be reprising his role as Clara’s father, last seen in the The Rings of Akhaten episode earlier this year. Also look out for Tessa Peake-Jones, best known to British TV viewers as Only Fools and Horses‘ Raquel Trotter.

Get a load of this gallery, via BBC America!

The episode, set to be the Eleventh Doctor Matt Smith’s last episode, will also introduce us to the next man to take the role of the Doctor: Peter Capaldi.

Smith’s Doctor will face some of his greatest foes of all time including the Cybermen, the Daleks, and the Silence, who have plagued the Doctor and his companions and want to stop him at all costs.

The Doctor Who Christmas special, titled The Time Of The Doctor, will air on Christmas Day, 25th December, at 7:30pm.

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More Guest & Photos For The Time of the Doctor!

Rebecca Crockett 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.

Thanks to Radio Times, we now have a little more information on who will be a part of the Doctor Who Christmas special this year.

It seems we will get to meet another member of Clara’s family. Sheila Reid, most known for her current role on Benidorm, will play Clara’s grandmother.

James Butler will be reprising his role as Clara’s father, last seen in the The Rings of Akhaten episode earlier this year. Also look out for Tessa Peake-Jones, best known to British TV viewers as Only Fools and Horses‘ Raquel Trotter.

Get a load of this gallery, via BBC America!

The episode, set to be the Eleventh Doctor Matt Smith’s last episode, will also introduce us to the next man to take the role of the Doctor: Peter Capaldi.

Smith’s Doctor will face some of his greatest foes of all time including the Cybermen, the Daleks, and the Silence, who have plagued the Doctor and his companions and want to stop him at all costs.

The Doctor Who Christmas special, titled The Time Of The Doctor, will air on Christmas Day, 25th December, at 7:30pm.

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Moff: Peter Capaldi Is “very dashing”

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It’s Christmas Day. The Eleventh Doctor has made his emotional departure and you’ve managed to pull yourself back together from the sobbing mess said departure will leave you in (No, not now! Don’t even think about it! You’ll set me off).

Thoughts will – inevitably – turn towards the future and Peter Capaldi.

Of course, the pressing concern will be just what sort of Doctor will the artist formerly known as Malcolm Tucker be, but perhaps just as important in cementing that shiny brand new identity will be:

What will the Doctor be wearing?

While that information is shrouded in secrecy as Series 8 begins filming the Radio Times’ Ben Dowell can at least bring us a flavour of the look Capaldi will be sporting, thanks to the elusive BBC Insider:

[/quote]A BBC source tells me that the decision over the costume was ultimately made by a combination of Capaldi himself, executive producer Brian Minchin, showrunner Steven Moffat and senior members of the art team and had to be approved by senior BBC executives.[/quote]

Capaldi’s costume mixes old and new – is a “bit old fashioned to denote the fact that he is the oldest Doctor” but is also “looking to the future as well” says the well-placed sourced.”

My guess would be the costume would be something traditional but something that reflects the history of the Capaldi himself; perhaps something a little new wave or post punk  - perhaps something militaristic but old-fashioned too.

Who knows? Well Capaldi for one who according to Steven Moffat, has some ‘”very strong opinions about clothes, he’s very dashing”’

While we wait to see just what threads the new Doctor will be sporting; what do you think the new Doctor should dig out of the wardrobe? A frock coat? Spandex? A Pith helmet?

(Via Radio Times.)

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BBC Releases Trailer For Doctor Who: The Time of the Doctor [VIDEO]

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We have just 14 days. In two weeks’ time we will experience the end of an era as Matt Smith’s final incarnation of the Doctor faces his final test. Doctor Who will never be the same again.

Today the BBC has released a trailer for The Time of the Doctor. Pay attention to the Dalek dialogue, which suggests that drawing the Doctor to Trenzalore has been a huge plan hatched to end the Doctor’s life at the end of his natural Time Lord lifespan.

Interesting things are afoot. Press play above to enjoy

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Regeneration 101: The Tenth Doctor

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There seems to be a lot of confusion among Doctor Who fans and websites as to what constitutes a regeneration. Specifically – in this instance – I’m talking about the Tenth Doctor and the crazy moments in The Stolen Earth/Journey’s End when the Doctor regenerates, then later his severed hand from The Christmas Invasion, Utopia and several Torchwood episodes gives birth to a half human Doctor.

Basically, there are two things happening here which seem to be getting confused in the minds of fans. Of course, this isn’t gospel as I am not Steven Moffat or Russell T Davies – but it certainly makes a lot more sense than some theories out there. Given Steven Moffat has declared that the current Doctor is the thirteenth incarnation, it’s time to sort this out.

First, the Doctor is shot by a Dalek. Dragged to the TARDIS by Jack and Rose, he climbs to his feet, and says “it’s too late, I’m regenerating!” One week later, mid-regeneration (the process has started) he completes it by syphoning off the regeneration energy from his dormant spare hand, thereby using his Time Lord DNA to maintain his appearance and character. As he observes, after the regeneration has completed: “I like being me.”

This is the Doctor’s tenth regeneration: from Journey’s End onwards, David Tennant is playing the Doctor in his eleventh body – it just so happens that it is identical to his tenth.

Second, a few minutes later, is the moment when the meta-crisis Doctor is born. This is not a regeneration. Rather, this is a result of the Doctor’s regenerative energy restarting the energy already in the hand. With Donna’s contact/close vicinity, the hand grows into what is a half-human clone of the Doctor.

The clone/meta-crisis Doctor is not the Doctor, and so it doesn’t count as a regeneration. The Doctor shot by a Dalek is the Doctor, and the resulting burst of energy is a regeneration.

So, to illustrate – this is a regeneration:

This, on the other hand, isn’t:

So with a lost incarnation in the shape of the War Doctor being the Time Lord known as the Doctor’s ninth incarnation, and two used up by his vain tenth self (in reality the eleventh and twelfth incarnations) Matt Smith – who we know as the Eleventh Doctor – is that Time Lord’s final body.

Now we’re all on the same page, it’s time to look forward to the Doctor’s death… or otherwise

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Moffat Confirms Matt Smith Is Doctor Who #13

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Well the Moff has certainly put the cat among the pigeons lately: not content with bringing back Gallifrey (yay by the way) he has now gone on the record as stating that Matt Smith is the Thirteenth Doctor, thanks to the inclusion of both John Hurt’s ‘War Doctor’ and David Tennant’s borrowed DNA-from-a-hand second Tenth Doctor/

The Time Lord is now out of lives.

That 12 times limit is a central part of Doctor Who mythology – and science fiction is all about rules, right? So if the Doctor can never change again, what’s Peter Capaldi doing in the Christmas Special?

Now, I know that there are a lot of folks out there scratching their heads over this as only days earlier the news hit that Moffat had declared that Matt Smith was definitely, definitively the 11th Doctor. Well to throw my hat into the ring on the situation, I see both as being true, yes the Doctor has used up all 12 regenerations – the concept first being established in 1976 adventure The Deadly Assassin, and has indeed had 13 different bodies but only 11 of them have been ‘The Doctor’, in name at least.

Remember that Hurt’s character renounced the name while the regenerating Tenth Doctor stole the DNA from his own previously severed hand to avert an early change (“I like being me”). So even though we have no need to rebrand any of the actors who have inhabited the role, we are in for something very special come Christmas as we see what happens when a Time Lord runs out of lives.

The Christmas special The Time of the Doctor will air on Wednesday, December 25 at 7.30pm on BBC One and 8/9c on BBC America.

(Via Digital Spy.)

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Behind The Scenes Of An Adventure in Space and Time [VIDEO]

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So, now that the smoke has cleared on the frankly spectacular 50th anniversary celebrations its time to indulge in what all Whovians are good at, stuffing ourselves with extra content and for those of you who, like myself, haven’t managed to get your mitts on the DVD yet, those wonderful folks at the BBC have uploaded a great little 10 minute ‘behind the scenes of’ for Mark Gatiss’ amazing drama An Adventure in Space and Time to their YouTube channel.

The short clip features narration from the original companion Carole Ann Ford and includes interviews with members of the cast, both from the production including David Bradley, Mark Gatiss and Brian Cox as well as from some notable faces from the show’s own illustrious past, most of whom make at least a brief appearance in the drama itself too.

But a word of warning, if you haven’t seen the show itself yet (and if you haven’t, why?), here’s something that didn’t make it in…

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Dalek Speakers Invade the Earth, 2014AD

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The year is 2014. The place – Earth. The invasion of the Dalek speakers has begun.

Massive Audio has announced “the largest, loudest and most deadly portable Bluetooth speaker” this side of the Medusa Cascade. Modelled on the Doctor’s deadliest enemy, the six foot Dalek Massive will be armed with over forty coaxial speakers and a slew of sonic surprises.

As Massive Audio’s technical description puts it:

“Dalek Massive will feature forty Massive Audio DX Series coaxial speakers, 3000 watt Summo Series subwoofer, 7” Bluetooth monitor as well as both D-Bit Series mono and full-range digital amplifiers…  Truly a portable sonic powerhouse that will rival anything in the Galaxy.”

This terrifying creation will be unveiled at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show between January 7th - 11th 2014 before going on a worldwide tour that will cover the US, UK, Canada and Australia. It will then be auctioned off in July 2014, with all proceeds being donated to charity.

There is one thing we can be sure of. It isn’t remotely human…

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