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Hallowe’en Who in Chicago!

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.

Horror-based Who is coming to Chicago this Hallowe’en at the Next Door Café.

The Meetup website has an active, 480-strong Doctor Who group who meet for screenings of favourite episodes and indulge in glorious Geekdom. On Sunday October 27th the group will be screening two fear-infused stories: Hide from Series 7 starring Matt Smith and Jenna Coleman will be shown alongside 1976’s The Brain of Morbius, appropriately from Season 13 (!) with Tom Baker and Elizabeth Sladen.

The theme is Holmes (as in Robert) – the writer who gave us shiversome gems like Pyramids from Mars and The Talons of Weng-Chiang - and Hinchcliffe (as in Philip), the producer who delivered the palpitation-heavy horror-soaked early years of Tom Baker’s reign.

Both stories obviously borrow heavily from the horror genre. But while The Brain of Morbius reaches back to the nineteenth century and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (inspired by her Big Finish adventures with the Eighth Doctor, no less!), Hide in contrast evokes the fantastic 1972 ghost story The Stone Tape by Nigel Kneale – author of the Quatermass serials.

So if you are in Chicago, be sure to head over for some Gothic scares-in-flares and settle down to two prime morsels of Who horror! And if you’re not in Chicago but are a fan of sinister sci-fi then I highly recommend a viewing of The Stone Tape – it’s a 1970s Who set-up where the Doctor never arrives. A team of scientists, including a woman (!), use lots of *science* to investigate a ghost in a creepy old house, unearthing an ancient mystery in the process. Sound familiar?

Find out more here – or find the Next Door Café on Google Maps!

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PodKast Discusses Doctor Who’s Awesome 50th Anniversary 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.

It would be criminal to overlook it, so this week the reunited podKast team of Christian Cawley, Brian Terranova and James McLean cast their eyes over the ridiculously brilliant Doctor Who 50th anniversary trailer that aired last Saturday evening.

Musing over the quality of the body doubles, voice over work, the intricacies of the various props that were included and the prospect of a seeing a 3D version, the team also manage to mention a few other things, such as Brian Terranova’s coming appearances at conventions in the USA and an update on Christian’s Doctor Who Figurine Collection concerns.

There’s also our usual recommendations section, which includes classic Doctor Who and a few other things beside.

Ready? Click play!

Kasterborous Series 3 Episode 38 Shownotes

The trailer
Eleventh Doctor outfits
Facebook gallery
Doctor Who Figurine Collection from Eaglemoss
Remembrance of the Daleks
Radio Times cover/Manchester
Midsomer Murders: Written in Blood
Whitechapel Series 4



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.

Use the player in the top right of the Kasterborous home page, or visit the podKast menu link.
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Incidentally, if you are listening on iTunes, please take the time to leave a rating and review and help us to bring in new listeners to the podKast!

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The Web Of Fear Trailer

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.

A terrific trailer for the newly discovered The Web of Fear is now available on, ahem, the web.

If you’re one of those who has so far decided to hold off downloading the episodes from iTunes and await the DVD release next year, it will surely test your resolve.

Highlights include a wonderfully inappropriate-for-its-timeslot dead body covered in cobwebs, a nicely understated ‘Oh dear…’ from Victoria, and the Doctor being vague but brilliant as only Troughton could. And not forgetting the Yeti on the streets of London.

What do you think? Are you going to play the waiting game until you can get your hands on the disc? Or have you already downloaded this lost classic? Share your thoughts below!

 

 

 

 

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Awesome Doctor Who Costume Replicas on eBay

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.

Are you a fan of the fashion sense of our wonderful Doctor? Looking for your own Fifth Doctor’s coat to go with your celery or your own Tenth Doctor’s trench to wear with those 3D glasses and Chuck Taylors?

We’ve found a great seller on eBay who custom makes a number of iconic pieces worn by the Doctor throughout the show’s 50 year history.

Tssy2005 has an extensive collection of costume replicas from a number of different fandoms up for bid on eBay. Among them are the coats worn by the Fourth, Fifth, Tenth, and Eleventh Doctors as well as other coats worn by Captain Jack, Amy, and Romana II.

The seller, who ships from China, has a 99.5% positive rating and an average rating of 5 stars for the items they sell being what was delivered.

While custom-made pieces can be expensive, these replicas look great and the seller has great feedback. I’m eyeing the Eleventh Doctor’s tweed jacket for myself…

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Pertwee meets Capaldi!

Drew Boynton 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 son of the Third Doctor meets the soon-to-be Twelfth in a dramatic recent instagram photo posted by Sean Pertwee.

Sean, the son of 1970s Doctor Jon Pertwee, is quite a popular and busy actor in his own right and has a lengthy list of credits on IMDB, most recently as Lestrade in Elementary. None as yet, though, for the BBC’s upcoming drama, The Musketeers, where this photo seems to have originated from.

The actual key to all of this may be the third man in the picture, Skins and The Borgias actor Luke Pasqualino, who is appearing with Capaldi in The Musketeers and previously acted with Pertwee in the series Jo.

The real question is, why are the three men reeling in obvious horror? What do they see!? An invading Dalek fleet? The identity of John Hurt’s Doctor revealed? Matt Smith’s new wig? Steven Moffat streaking naked through the halls of the BBC?

In all seriousness, it is nice to see these three men together in one photo… and obviously enjoying themselves. It is also very cool to see a semi-link to Doctor Who‘s past and future between Pertwee and Capaldi. And who knows, maybe these men will turn up in a future Doctor Who episode together? One can only hope!

So, Kasterborites, if you could instagram yourself with one Doctor Who star, who would it be?

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Get Ready for Doctor Who Time Trips!

Danny_Weasel 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.

As excited as we all are for the impending 50th anniversary special, now mere weeks away, from there we have the seemingly endless wait until Christmas for our next fix, and then till some time next year for our first full Capaldi jaunt. But fear not, for there shall not be a drought of shiny new things to keep that fez wearing monkey off your back till then.

The big news of the moment is the release of details surrounding the new Time Trips range of digital short stories first mentioned over the summer - and an impressive line up it is too; it plans to pair some of the UK’s biggest writers from across genres with one of television’s biggest and most beloved brands, so the results should be pretty spectacular.

Joining the previously announced award-winning writers AL Kennedy, Jenny Colgan, Nick Harkaway and Trudi Canavan for the series are Kake Arnott, Cecelia Ahern and Joanne Harris. Aherne says:

“I’m so excited to have written a story for the Time Trips series and I enjoyed writing every word… to be involved in the 50th anniversary is beyond a dream – it is an honour.”

The monthly range will launch on December 5th with AL Kennedy’s Fourth Doctor adventure The Death Pit and will be followed by Jenny Colgan’s story for Doctor number Eleven entitled Into the Nowhere on January 9th.

Other Doctors appearing the the range so far are David Tennant’s number Ten in Keeping up with the Jonses, Colin Baker’s Six in A Handful of Stardust and Pertwee’s Three in Salt of the Earth.

Launching 5 Dec from BBC Digital and publishing monthly throughout 2014, £1.99 each. The line up and release dates for the first five in the series are as follows:

Doctor Who: The Death Pit

By A.L. Kennedy

Published on 5 December 2013

 

Doctor Who: Into the Nowhere

By Jenny T. Colgan

Published 9 January 2014

 

Doctor Who: Keeping Up with the Joneses

Nick Harkaway

Published 6 February 2014

 

Doctor Who: Salt of the Earth

Trudi Canavan

Published 6 March 2014

 

Doctor Who : A Handful of Stardust

Jake Arnott

Published 3 April 2014

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Amazing Fan-Made Sculptures

Danny_Weasel 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.

As it’s a rather special year for Doctor Who (in case you hadn’t heard), a great many folk across the globe have taken it upon themselves to celebrate the Time Lord’s half century in a variety of wonderful ways.

One such fellow is James O’Neill aka frasierdalek on DeviantART who has spent the year posting sculpts of each incarnation of the Doctor, one per month, and the results are nothing short of spectacular in some cases.

“Seeing as everybody is doing Doctor Who tributes to mark the programme’s 50th Anniversary this November, I thought I’d knock something up to pay tribute in my own way. Seeing as it’s a programme I have tremendous affection for.”

It’s fair to say that what has been “knocked up” over the past ten months have been incredible to the point of putting, in my opinion, some official figure sculpts to shame (especially Doctors Three and Four).

But the man’s talents do not end with gallivanting Gallifreyans, a quick look through his extensive galleries show a variety of other famous faces who are instantly recognisable such as David Bowie, Douglas Adams and Simon Pegg as well as some equally top notch sketches; his Alan Partridge is particularly fine.

It will be fun to see how November’s sculpt shapes up, and possibly a twelfth entry for December too, or perhaps a certain mysterious ‘Other Doctor’ will make an appearance?

See the full gallery here.

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The End of AudioGO?

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.

Up to a hundred jobs may be at risk after producers of Doctor Who talking books and soundtracks AudioGO (formed when BBC Audiobooks were bought out by private investors) suspended trading.

The audiobook company is based in Bath with a sizeable infrastructure of five studios and output that spanning BBC’s radio dramatic catalogue. A statement from Rachel Josephon, head of marketing and sales, released on Tuesday 22nd October read,

I can confirm that AudioGO has temporarily suspended business operations while we seek an investment or a sale of the business… there is a considerable amount of interest in AudioGO and we are hopeful of achieving a swift resolution.

It’s been reported that while sales are up, financial issues have arisen due to the general move from CDs to online purchasing and the relative prices charged. This comes in the year where AudioGO has given us the on-going anniversary saga, Destiny of the Doctor, with a tale from each incarnation every month.

The company also produces readings of the Target novelisations of classic episodes as well as the books based on nuWho and many related Who-themed radio morsels. Let’s hope there is a speedy resolution that both protects jobs and Doctor Who output!

(Via Bath Chronicle | Thanks to Scott)

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Ian Levine’s Praise for Doctor Who Tombraider Philip Morris

Andrew Reynolds 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.

Ian Levine has apologised for his reaction to the 2009 documentary Archive Hour, where he believed that role in returning lost episodes of Doctor Who to the BBC had been written out of history, and has hinted at the haul of episodes found by Project Africa could be substantial.

With everything hanging on the on-going negotiations between Phil Morris and the BBC, Levine was given the chance to respond to Doctor Who Archive, who have recounted the extraordinary story of how the episodes weere returned, to address his behaviour around the time of the 2009 documentary:

I want to publicly and sincerely apologise to both Paul Vanezis and Phil Morris for anything that I said in anger, way back in 2009. I still do believe that I should not have been so totally left out of a program about missing Doctor Who episodes, not when I returned twenty personally, plus lots more on behalf of other people, including Paul Vanezis. But I must confess that what I said at the time was both spiteful and unfair.

I am so so proud of him and think of him as a kind of incredibly successful protege. I do deeply pray that he finds lots more, and in fact it is my firm belief he already has done.

After an announcement in December 2009, where TV Producer Paul Vanezis and Phil Morris had both made encouraging progress thanks to research into the way film was transported in Africa, the documentary focused on the pair’s efforts, much to the chagrin of Levine who, annoyed by inaccuracies, vented spleen on the Missing Episodes forum, an unfortunate event that is detailed by Doctor Who Archive.

But we’ll ignore that aspect of the affair for now. This fascinating story began back in 2005 where Philip Morris, then an oil worker from Formby, Merseyside, made contact with Levine about using his connections in Africa to begin searching for lost episodes.

The suggestions were largely dismissed but Ian made sure that Philip was provided with the correct documentation to launch his search. It was around this time that Ian introduced Philip to TV Producer Paul Vanezis.

It is this dismissal of the initial aid he gave to Phil that irked Levine most about the documentary:

But yes, it is a true fact that I did indeed believe in him nearly ten years ago, when no-one else did, and in fact many of the hypocrites were mocking his suggestions, which made me angry at the time, and so I then met up with him and and got him the paperwork that he needed originally. And introduced him to Paul Vanezis…

…Up till now I never once publicly discussed my being his first contact, and I do have to say that I am so so proud of him and think of him as a kind of incredibly successful protege. I do deeply pray that he finds lots more, and in fact it is my firm belief he already has done.

In fact Levine believes that he is just eleven episodes short of amassing the same amount of lost episodes that he discovered:

I WANT him to be the number one episode hunter of all time, I pray that he finds and returns another eighty episodes, and I am more proud of this man Philip Morris than I have ever been as proud of anyone else for anything, throughout my entire life. He is a genius and I just can’t begin to thank him enough for the pleasure he has brought to us.

…I would not say or do ANYTHING to upset Phil Morris, because I believe he holds the answer to all our hopes and dreams in his hands. I still pray he gives us the opportunity to see Marco Polo, The Massacre, The Myth Makers, and Power Of The Daleks, even though I have resigned myself to the sad fact that my all time favourite story, The Daleks Master Plan, can never be found.

And so I must conclude by saying that we all owe the most MASSIVE debt of gratitude to Phil Morris, and as long as we get to see them in the end, none of us can object to the way he chooses to release the rest of his wonderful miraculous find.

Terrorism, government intervention and acrimony; the full extraordinary story can be read over at Doctor Who Archive – you really should go and read it now.

(With thanks to Gareth Kavanagh)

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Win A Doctor Who Marriage Ceremony With Whovian Wedding!

Drew Boynton 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.

Are you a Doctor Who fan? (Of course you are!) Do you want to get married? (Um, of course you do!) Well, the time is right!

As previously reported, WhovianWedding is planning a mass wedding ceremony involving no less than 50 couples – 50 couples of Doctor Who fans for the 50th anniversary! Those wanting to be involved can be getting married, renewing vows, entering into a civil partnership, or just simply receiving a blessing. There are many couples who have already signed up (viewable on the website), and they appear to be quite an amazing cross-section of Who fandom–all races, genders, and ages! Couples can also bring along a best man, maid-of-honor, and children (if available), as long as they know what a TARDIS is.

The blessed event will take place in just about one month, on November 24th, so your wedding day will less than 24 hours after The Day of the Doctor! The ceremony will be held in London at the Bloomsbury Ballroom, which promises to be full of Who characters, items, and food (“Care for a jelly baby, my dear?” “I do, Doctor!”).

If you’d like to be part of the ceremony, simply go to WhovianWedding.com and register, or contact them directly by e-mail: info@whovianwedding.com. Marriage, of course, is an expensive business, but couples who sign up now have a chance of winning their Whovian Wedding.

Just be careful, though, if a strange man in shiny flowing robes offers to marry you with the Ring of Rassilon. It could turn out that you and your loved one have been transported to Gallifrey and are playing a terrible game in the Death Zone. And nobody wants to be trapped in something that would feel like an eternity of unhappiness and torment…

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