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BBC Reveals Full Doctor Who Series 9 Episode List!

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.

Wow! The BBC has this afternoon revealed every title for the forthcoming run of Doctor Who, and there are a couple of surprises for those of you who thought they knew everything about Series 9…

(On a personal note, this is particularly annoying as I’ve not only spent all morning updating our Series 9 page, only to have to do much of it again, but also recorded a podKast in complete ignorance of all this news. Ah well!)

Here’s the full list of Doctor Who Series 9 episode titles:

1/2 The Magician’s Apprentice/The Witch’s Familiar (Steven Moffat)

3/4 Under the Lake/Before the Flood (Toby Whithouse)

5 The Girl Who Died (Jamie Mathieson, Steven Moffat)

6 The Woman Who Lived (Catherine Treganna)

7/8 The Zygon Invasion/The Zygon Inversion (Peter Harness)

9 Sleep No More (Mark Gatiss)

10 Face the Raven (Sarah Dollard)

11/12 Hell Bent/Heaven Sent (Steven Moffat)

And remember, our Doctor Who series 9 facts page has today been updated with this and other new information.

(With thanks to Joe and Richard)

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Unseen Daleks’ Master Plan Animation Test Reel Released!

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 all know that Doctor Who fans are obsessed by missing episodes; it’s fair to say that a fair few of us are particularly hung up on Dalek stories that are lost. Over the years we’ve had various attempts to reconstruct The Daleks’ Master Plan, and thanks to Rick Lundeen we even released our own charity graphic novel.

This should come as no surprise. After all, it was a 12 part story of which, sadly, only three remain.

This past weekend, previously-unseed test antimation for The Daleks’ Master Plan was released on YouTube by Niel Bushnell, one of the test reel’s animators. This video was produced (by Chris Chapman) to see how feasible it might be to reconstruct the serial as a mostly animated DVD released, but the proposal was ultimately shelved. In its place, however, was reconstructed release of The Ice Warriors, animated by the same team.

We think it’s pretty good, and while it was good to get The Ice Warriors, wouldn’t it be superb to get The Daleks’ Master Plan in this format (omnirumour explosion notwithstanding)?

(Via Combom)

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How Do Two Part Episodes Work in Doctor Who Series 9?

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 learned how Doctor Who Series 9 is returning to the much missed “cliffhanger” format, and in this new video Jenna Coleman and Steven Moffat explain just what this means…

Showrunner Steven Moffat gives us a hint of what the change really means: “We’ve got a lot of locations and places before the main characters are even totgether.”

Says Jenna, meanwhile:

“We get a lot more time to explore story, and characters coming in as well. It also means that at the end of the first episode you get the opportunity to do HUGE cliffhangers.”

Should we expect a cliffhanger on Saturday night? Doctor Who Series 9 kicks of on BBC One at 7.40pm, with BBC America following suit at 9/8c, with The Magician’s Apprentice.

We’re nearly there

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Whose Servants Are Seeking the Doctor? [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.

In last week’s prologue video for Doctor Who Series 9, the Twelfth Doctor was seen chatting with Ohila, of the Sisterhood of Karn, last seen in The Night of the Doctor.

Watching the not-quite-two-minute-long introduction, we learn that someone is looking for the Doctor.

Here’s a reminder:

So, who is looking for the Doctor? Whose servants are seeking out our hero? Well, it cannot be the Master/Missy, as we’ve seen in the trailer that she hands the same disc seen in this video to Clara. Missy therefore, is the intended recipient of the disc. Seeing as it’s a week away, we thought we’d ask you, dear reader. Tell us what you think with the poll below and the comments at the foot of the page.

Take Our Poll

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Colin Baker Awarded Honorary Doctorate by Buckinghamshire New University

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.

Colin Baker was presented with his Honorary Doctorate by Buckinghamshire New University Vice-Chancellor Professor Rebecca Bunting in a graduation ceremony at the Wycombe Swan Theatre on Monday 7 September.

The sixth incarnation of the Doctor (who continues to play the role courtesy of Big Finish) received the Honorary Doctorate in recognition of his international standing, local profile and links to the University’s course portfolio.

He said: “To receive an honour like this is something I could never have predicted even in my wildest imaginings when I gave up a career in the law to become an actor five decades ago. “It’s even more exciting for me personally than the last time I became a Doctor in 1983.”

Alongside a wide selection of theatre credits, Colin has written a column for the Bucks Free Press newspaper for 20 years of which two anthologies have been published – Look Who’s Talking and Second Thoughts, as well as a book of short stories entitled Gallimaufry. He is also Vice-chair of Governors at Wycombe High School, in Marlow Road, High Wycombe, and President of Wycombe Arts Festival, Wycombe Sinfonia, and the Wycombe Society for the Performing Arts (WYSPAS).

Professor Rebecca Bunting, Vice-Chancellor of Buckinghamshire New University, said: “We are delighted that Colin Baker has accepted our invitation to be associated with Bucks New University in this prestigious way. We carefully select our honorary awardees in recognition of their outstanding achievements in their particular fields and I am sure that he will be an inspiration to our graduating students and to those in years to come.”

Congratulations, Colin!

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10 Things You May Not Have Known About Kasterborous

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.

As you may have noticed, as well as it being 10 years since Doctor Who‘s return to TV, it’s also a decade since this site launched, on New Year’s Day 2005. You may have seen some posts earlier this year celebrating this fact, and at times it really is hard to believe.

Looking back over the decade, it’s strange to see some of the things that we’ve done, places we’ve been, and extra-website activities that we’ve started and, in some cases, continued to date.

Work on the site started in 2004, after graphic artist Anthony Dry and writer Christian Cawley got chatting on Outpost Gallifrey (insane prop collector Brian A. Terranova joined us in early 2005), but we didn’t get our act together for six months or so. Christian Cawley thought of “Kasterborous” as a site name. Let’s face it, it’s the best of the lot, isn’t it? (We were arrogant, noisy, and pissed off established Doctor Who fansites. Sorry about that.)
Anthony Dry eventually moved on, finding himself working on Doctor Who DVD packaging, and more recently on Iron Maiden album art.
In 2007, Anthony and Christian were invited to work on an unofficial Doctor Who bookazine, which was subsequently downgraded to a calendar. We were promised riches, but never heard from the publishers again… (although we did later read that they weren’t keen on paying their contributors, so lucky escape there!)
In 2008 we launched our Time Leech comic strip, a three part timey-wimey adventure that featured Silurians, Churchill and airships (but is nothing like 2010’s The Wedding of River Song) by Christian Cawley and Brian Terranova. We’re pleased to say that the first part was script edited by former DWM editor John Freeman! Time Leech part one also appeared in issue one of Vworp Vworp!
Various members of the Kasterborous team past and present are professional writers (including assistant editor Philip Bates).
We’ve produced two full copies of Kasterborous Magazine, which you can read online free forever.
Until 2008 Christian wrote EVERY SINGLE NEWS ITEM. It made him  quite insane . (Incidentally, Andrew Reynolds is our longest running news & reviews contributor, with a massive 1417 articles to his name – praise him!)
In 2010, we published Ultimate Regeneration Volume 1, a compendium of reviews and essays about the Russell T Davies era of Doctor Who. We will be following it up with volume 2 just as soon as Steven Moffat moves on…
The podKast began in 2007, and was mired in flights of fancy until James McLean got involved in 2011. Is it better now? We leave that to our listener to decide, but over the years we’ve had featured interviews with Colin Baker, John Guilor, Terrance Dicks and many more.
We’ve also produced – with Rick Lundeen – a graphic novel adaptation of The Daleks’ Master Plan for Children in Need. And the remaining copies will be available to purchase later this year…

(If all of that was a  little too celebratory for your tastes, Philip Bates produced a more mocking version last year.)

Again, we’d like to thank you, our readers and listeners, for making the ten years seem worthwhile. I honestly had no idea what I was getting into when I launched Kasterborous. I think it’s fair to say that I would never have done it if I’d known just how intensive and heartbreaking it can be at times. But without this website, I’m certain I would still be fixing PCs for a living, rather than explaining to people how to do that and more. This website has given me and many others the chance to develop and showcase skills, and most importantly (the evidence is strong for this) entertained and informed all of you out there.

Thank you!

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Torchwood Gets Second Series from Big Finish!

Richard Forbes 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.

Big Finish has surprised fans with a special announcement: Torchwood will be returning to Big Finish with a second series, come March 2016. This revelation may come as a surprise to Torchwood fans given Big Finish has just released their first Torchwood series, Torchwood: The Conspiracy – this new series, however, will actually be released only a month after the first series concludes with its final installment.

The new series will feature six audios which follow Captain Jack Harkness (played by John Barrowman) and the Torchwood team during various points in Torchwood’s colorful history. The series will also feature a new theme composed by Blair Mowat, who also designed the theme for The Doctor Who Fan Show and has worked with the man himself, Murray Gold on Doctor Who.

With the Torchwood series a near certain success, the new series was a natural development according to the staff at Big Finish Productions, citing the fun the crew had in the making of their first series.

“I couldn’t really imagine that the response to our Torchwood series wouldn’t be positive so I’m very pleased not to be proven wrong.” says co-executive producer of Big Finish Productions (and voice of the Daleks!), Nicholas Briggs.

He continues: “The series has so many dedicated followers and the audios have been written, directed and produced with such love for the source material. James Goss, as producers, has brought so much enthusiasm and joy to the project. I find myself hoping every day that I’ll receive another excited email from him.”

This new, second series of Torchwood is currently in pre-production. You can subscribe to purchase the new series at a bargain price now: £45 on CD, £40 on download.

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NuWho 10th Anniversary: What Is Your Favourite Series 6 Story?

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.

This year, Doctor Who has been back on our screen ten whole years. It feels like yesterday that the TARDIS materialised once more; suitably, it also feels like forever.

So join us as we celebrate a decade with the Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Doctors. Let’s find out which serials are our favourites, and shine a light on the underrated ones too. Watch us run.

And then vote on your favourites. At the end of the year, we’ll find out which serials showcase our beloved show at the height of its game.

The Doctor has been running. Faster than he’s ever ran. Now, it’s time for him to stop. A picnic, and then a trip – somewhere different, somewhere brand new. With Amy, Rory, and (now and then) River Song alongside him, the Doctor faces death. From Lake Silencio to a set of flats where a child’s fears are bleeding into reality, from Demons Run to a hotel filled with bad dreams: it all leads back to a place that will always be 5:02pm…

Jeremy Remy: The Doctor’s Wife

For me, Series 6 was a bit all over the place. It was this season where the episodic and serialized plots didn’t balance well. This isn’t to say there weren’t great episodes; just that the season felt a bit off, when taken as a whole. The Doctor’s Wife, however, convinced me that all was right in the Whoniverse, and finally the Doctor’s longest lasting companion was given the opportunity to speak.

Suranne Jones is fantastic as a TARDIS trapped in a humanoid body, with the inability to fully understand individuals who live in one-directional temporal existence. Uncle, Auntie, and Nephew provide equal parts comedic relief and an eerie sense of danger. And, viewers are treated to both previously unseen TARDIS corridors, the return of the Classic Who hypercube, and reveals about TARDISes and Time Lord regeneration played with subtlety and ease.

The Doctor’s Wife is more than just Neil Gaiman meets Doctor Who. As the story progresses, it is clear that this is NuWho the way many of us hoped the revised series would originally progress: a combination of Science Fiction and Fantasy that is self-aware enough to laugh at itself, and bold enough to tell stories that develop and expand the overall mythology into something better than it was before.

Becky Crockett: The Wedding of River Song

Being the last of the series, it ties everything up but it still so wacky in the process. All of time happening at once, finding out the answers to how the Doctor survived being shot by his wife, while his wife watched, while his best friend watched while pregnant with his wife…and then FINALLY the Doctor and River get married! Sort of. Maybe?

Plus: mean, eye-drive-wearing Amy and River are fabulous! And then there’s that kiss…

Thomas Skychalski: The Girl Who Waited

Series 6 is where it began to get complicated, at least for some.

However, my choice for favourite episode is a pretty straightforward affair.

The best for me would have to be The Girl Who Waited, which although adding more timey-wimey based story points into Series 6, it was also a finely written tale with some real emotional moments.

For me the best emulation of the feeling of family Russell T. Davies seemed to be able to mix into the TARDIS crew with ease was Amy and Rory, who had some good dynamics and also the trio just seemed to be comfortable with each other. You could believe this group was casually oit exploring time and space in a battered wooden box.

This allowed for some real tension when that family is suddenly torn apart, even though they are just in the next room.

Amy suddenly (from our perspective) turns old enough to most likely retire in this one due to some time slips and a couple doors and although most of it is pretty much standard ‘person left behind’ material the ending sequence where the Doctor has to ‘kill’ the older Amy is one not often seen.

It shows some of the real horrific effects that can occur if you go messing about with time.

James Whittington: The Doctor’s Wife

Ah, The Doctor’s Wife, oh where do I begin? Well let’s just say it’s written by Nail Gaiman so that’s a good start, and basically all you need to know. This love letter to fans of the show (even a console that appeared was designed in a Blue Peter competition) brings true heart and soul to the series.

Away from all the confusion of Amy and Roy’s complicated lives, this wonderfully nostalgic yet contemporary piece is as gripping as it is mad. By making real the personality of the TARDIS within someone named Idris we learn more about the Doctor than we did in the 50th anniversary. Suranne Jones gives it her all without making the role a pantomime extra: she is solid, consistent and unpredictable, just like the TARDIS itself. We hear of how the Doctor talks to his machine and confides in it, the way we do to our closest confidants

It’s a human story of love and how we become attached to inanimate objects (not as crazy as it sounds) as well as the “what ifs” of life without entering sugary sentiment or killing off Rory again. Supported ably by Adrian Schiller and Elizabeth Berrington as patchwork beings, the story stands up to repeated views and is a landmark in quality that really still has to be matched.

Katie Gribble: The Rebel Flesh/ The Almost People

I was told by a friend that the reason people preferred two-part stories was purely because there is more time to create the world and explore its characters more complexly. Now I agree with that to a degree, but as we know, some people live more in twenty years than others do in eighty. It’s not about the time. It’s the people or, in this case, the almost people. The Rebel Flesh and The Almost People together bring a fun romp of a Doctor Who story, whilst asking some very probing questions about the characters, their actions and ultimately the audience response to some of life’s most confounding questions.

The concept of the Flesh as an entity is fascinating. This fully programmable matter has the ability to manipulate cells and replicate any living organism. In this instance, it is used as an advanced form of protection against the hazards of mining acid. The story begins when a freak solar flare overloads the islands main power circuits during a storm which disconnects the Gangers from their human counterparts. As the Doctor states, the problems arise because humans have blindly been piling their lives and personalities into the Flesh. Previously, the humans needed the Ganger form to complete dangerous tasks whilst the Ganger only existed because of human contact. Now that they no longer rely on one another, dependence turns to fear. The humans fear what the Gangers will do to them whilst the Gangers fear for their own safety, scared that their ultimate fate will lead to them being ‘decommissioned’ or ‘executed’ as Ganger Jennifer reminds us throughout the two-parter. This tension strengthens the rift between Gangers and humans until the harmonious ending where the human Cleaves and Ganger Dicken walk into the Morpeth Jetsan conference, ready to bring the events of recent times to light and move forward in the development and treatment of the Flesh.

It is the tests that both the humans and the Gangers are put through to prove their humanity which really brings the story to a level beyond ordinary Doctor Who. Matthew Graham gives us the perspectives of the Gangers to the point where these supposed monsters actually garner more sympathy from me than the humans’ plight, consistently raising the question: ‘who are the real monsters?’ It is up to us as an audience to decide.

Philip Bates: The Girl Who Waited… and The God Complex

Oh, this two-parter was sublime. It was everything that – – eh? Sorry, what? What do you mean, ‘it’s not a two-parter’?! Of course it is! Sure, the sets and characters change, as do the writers, but to anyone who had been enchanted by Amy and Rory’s trips into time and space since The Eleventh Hour (2010), these two episodes were a gloriously-sad finale for My Favourite TARDIS Team (with Closing Time to The Angels Take Manhattan forming a fantastic extended epilogue).

The tones are largely the same, even if the settings are poles apart. Both have this beautiful gravity to them. The universe isn’t in danger. They’re just deeply personal journeys that pay off Amy’s undying faith in her Raggedy Man (and actually, vice versa), her and Rory’s relationship, all that waiting, and Rory’s (sometimes unwilling) trips in the TARDIS.

The acting from the main three stars has always been amazing, but here, they’re heart-breaking. Karen Gillan really does change when she’s supposed to be older – everything about her. Even her delivery of lines. Arthur Darvill changes too, his character given an intimate dilemma, the like of which he’s never faced before. Then in The God Complex, both portray the wisdom of their travels, but there’s something grim in the air. Something ominous. Something’s been waiting for them, all this time: a little girl, sat on her suitcase, waiting for her Doctor to return.

That’s without mentioning the utterly astounding Minotaur or the sleek Handbots; fantastic guest cast in the latter tale; and stunning sets.

Matt Smith, of course, is a brilliant chameleon; at one turn happy-go-lucky, at another severe and almost-guilty, with the weight of all time and space on his shoulders. Here’s the thing that convinces me that these two episodes basically form a two-parter: the endings. In The Girl Who Waited, when Amy wakes up and asks where her counterpart is, the Doctor gives them the saddest of looks, then wanders off, a terrible burden around his neck. Right there and then, he knows he has to give them up. And in The God Complex, we’re afforded a brief glimpse at the Doctor’s loneliness. That space-time ship has never felt so big.

To top all this off, we get another listen of The Life and Death of Amy Pond, my favourite track that debuted in The Pandorica Opens (2010). In Blink (2007), Sally Sparrow claims that sad is happy for deep people, and here, you really understand what she means.

James Lomond: The Doctor’s Wife

Standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Blink for the combination of sheer inventiveness and heart, The Doctor’s Wife is the Best Thing we had in Series 6, and for much of NuWho. The ever-so-Gaiman idea of taking the TARDIS as a character and giving it/her a voice gave this story such presence and purpose, it just sings with love for the show and its history. The character of Idris and the casting of Suranne Jones were perfect – a maternal archetype with a time-sensitive absent mindedness. Of COURSE the TARDIS would think that Rory was the pretty one – we don’t know whether it thought he was just a looker or whether there was something pretty about his timeline, but all at once we know that the TARIDIS has opinions and feelings and about the “strays” the Doctor brings home and they are deeply personal and perhaps otherworldly at that. Or perhaps I’m not giving Rory the credit he’s due.

Anyway: The construction of a make-shift TARDIS console being piloted between universes by the Doctor and his personified-craft, saving his companions by materialising in a previous control room just-for-old-times-sake was pure fan love turned into a thrilling story. This is EXACTLY the kind of magical dream-like game I would have played with my Dapol figures back in the late ’80s but here it had a plot and a point. We got this and the wonderful image of the TARDIS remarking on how much bigger human beings are on the inside.

Thank you Mr Gaiman, you put timey-wimey to one side and gave us what’s important in one glorious, lyrical love letter to Doctor Who. Bravo!

Drew Boynton: Closing Time

Honestly, Series 6 is probably my least favourite series since Doctor Who returned in 2005. It’s weighed down by overly complicated plots (did anybody REALLY think the Doctor was going to get assassinated by someone in a spacesuit?) and episodes that really showed promise… and quickly broke that promise (The Curse of the Black Spot, Night Terrors).

For my favourite episode of Series 6, I’m going to pick Closing Time. It’s not one of my favourite Doctor Who episodes ever, but it is the sequel to one: 2010’s The Lodger. And like most sequels, it’s not as good as the original. James Corden returns as Craig Owens, the best friend the Doctor ever had who wasn’t officially a companion. Corden and Matt Smith have great chemistry together, even if Closing Time‘s “The Cybermen are buried under a shopping mall” plot is a bit hard to buy. It’s too bad that Corden and Daisy Haggard (as Craig’s wife, Sophie) couldn’t have been invited back for one more go-round in Series 7 to make a complete trilogy.

And who knew that Matt Smith’s greatest acting may just take place when his co-star is a baby (Stormageddon)?! Closing Time isn’t a great Doctor Who episode, but it is worth a look from time to time.

Jonathan Appleton: The Girl Who Waited

I have to confess that Series 6 wasn’t my favourite period of the show. Enough’s been said and written about the pros and cons of the ongoing River storyline, but for me the knowingly ironic tone became just a bit too much this series. But in this episode the wisecracking was toned down, thankfully, and we got a beautifully constructed story which mirrored The Girl in the Fireplace in the way it explored just how badly things can go wrong when you spend your life mucking around in a time machine.

Terrific performances from the leads, chief among them a standout turn from Karen Gillan as a hardened, lonely Amy, stranded in an alternate timeline which she really, really wants away from…

Alasdair Shaw: The Doctor’s Wife

Of course it’s The Doctor’s Wife. It’s not really a competition for this series and quite frankly I’m expecting my fellow occupants of Kasterborous Towers to agree with me.

Neil Gaiman worked on various drafts of this script for multiple series and quite frankly it shows. There are so many ideas and concepts flying around in this episode yet none of them seem rushed or forced. Indeed one may wonder if Gaiman might have been the first person to suggest killing Rory, it certainly doesn’t seem feasible that he might otherwise entertain an unoriginal idea for this episode.

With a mere handful of lines he manages to introduce the idea of transgender regenerations so casually that no one blinks and with a single line makes the Eleventh Doctor the scariest incarnation since the Seventh.

But it’s Idris that steals the show. Granted, the TARDIS might have been in more episodes than any other character, but Suranne Jones’ performance is such that new life is breathed into the dynamic between Time Lord and TARDIS, no mean feat after nearly fifty years.

Quite simply a masterpiece.

Those are a few of our favourites from Series 6. Now it’s your turn! Vote below for your favourite, and we’ll find out the overall winner later this year…

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Illusionist Productions’ Doctor Who Fan Audio Productions Continue

Josh Maxton 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.

Love the idea of Doctor Who audio adventures but can’t afford Big Finish?  You’ll enjoy Illusionist’s Doctor Who fan-produced audio dramas then! You can listen to Illusionist’s Doctor Who audio dramas for free on their website. Their most recent story, The Lesser of Four Evils, is an interesting one. Here’s the synopsis:

“Space Station Dimoprasion in deep space. A collection of high flyers have been assembled to bid on an unbelievably precious item. But nobody knows what the item is. Except for one person – the seller. An old friend that the Doctor must defeat without revealing his identity.”

Illusionist Productions actually sets up their adventures very similarly to the way Big Finish does, even having a “Main Range”, a few spin-offs of their own, and even a “Short Trips” of their own.

Cast for The Lesser of Four Evils: Tom Denham (The Doctor), Nari Riis (Luna), Elice Rebecca (Penelope), Matthew Hadgraft (Mortimus), Anthony Hendrie (The Adjudicator), Lliam Amor (Lord Tarl), Uschi Felix (Rhondial Maldovar), W.D. Stevens (Harrington/Hept Kal-Tar),  Jessica Hayden (Flaish Ect-Tic)

The adventure excels in it’s audio format. Tom Denham plays the Doctor very well. References are made to the modern series in a few places. It is implied that Tom Denham and the rest of Illusionist Production’s Doctors are the incarnations after current Time Lord Peter Capaldi – “Future Doctors” if you will. This is never confirmed, but if you were to try and fit these Doctors into canon, you’d probably place them there. The next adventure, The Diary of the Alchemist, is yet to be released.

What do you think about fan-produced adventures?  Let us know in the comments!

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Time Warp: Sylvester McCoy on Going Live!

David Power 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.

Hey you! D’you remember 1987-1993’s Going Live!? Because I don’t. But to be fair that’s because it was broadcasting before I was born.

Anyway, Going Live was a variety/magazine show that aired on Saturday mornings, featuring different segments and celebrity guests. Surprisingly, last week a new clip from Sylvester McCoy’s appearance on the show was uploaded last week by YouTube user David Chandler.

The clip features Sylvester on the Trevor and Simon segment of the show. Trevor and Simon was a recurring segment of Going Live!‘s run, in which Trevor Neal and Simon Hickson played a range of characters and interviewed the shows celebrity guest. This time they played folk duo ‘The Singing Corner’ where they initially believe that Sylvester McCoy is in fact Sylvester Stallone. This clip is from November 5th, 1988, so if you were watching this on TV as it went out then you’d currently be waiting for episode 2 of The Happiness Patrol. Sorry.

Craving more Going Live!? Well you’re in luck! Uploaded two year’s ago by YouTube user Pauls VideoArchive, is yet another section of Sylvester’s appearance on the show. In The Press Conference segment, Sylvester is interviewed by Sarah Greene (Attack of the Cybermen), the audience around him, and people calling in! How intense.

So, d’you remember Going Live!? Did you watch it at all? Did you happen to catch this exact episode? Let us know!

(With thanks to Gareth Kavanagh)

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