Archive for June, 2013
Big Finish Lost Stories sale - June 28-30 2013
03 months ago
This weekend gives the chance to pick up some bargain Lost Stories. On offer are 12 titles in all: eight from the first series featuring the Sixth Doctor and Peri; four from the second series for the Seventh Doctor and Ace. The latter also introduces us to Raine Creevy.
I have heard a couple of the first series and may dip into the others. The second series I talked about when I reviewed The Raine Trilogy and Thin Ice.
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Philip Hinchcliffe Presents - a Big Finish Announcement
03 months ago
Fans of the Fourth Doctor and Leela will be interested to know that Big Finish has just announced a 5-disc boxset of two stories. The brainchild of Philip Hinchcliffe these indicate the direction he might have taken the show had he stayed involved for one extra season. If that isn’t enough to tempt then the fact the Marc Platt is writing might be the icing on the cake.
Full details in the Big Finish news item.
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Painting the Forth Road Bridge with The Doctor
33 months ago
Over on DoctorWhoTV I read an interesting post from Lewis Christian (he of the Celebrate, Regenerate! project). Entitled How Will Future Fans Keep Up? it addresses the thorny issue of the ever-increasing volume of episodes that each wave of new fans won’t have seen. How do they ever catch up with the past when, like the painting of the famous bridge, the task never finishes.
Lewis mentions the fans that are hoping to re-watch every available episode before the 50th but also makes the point that many fans never will keep up. Some will make a token effort here and there but for most fans the past will remain a closed-door.
I wondered what this might mean in other ways and wanted to add to the context…
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Something Borrowed by Richelle Mead reviewed
04 months ago
Puffin Books anniversary short story for June 2013 is Something Borrowed by urban fantasy (=vampire;-) author Richelle Mead. This is a Sixth Doctor and Peri tale set at a wedding which was strangely apt as it was released for my consumption the day after I had myself been at a wedding.
With no prior knowledge of Richelle Mead and a sense of unease at the prospect of vampires I had a read. How was it? Carry on and find out…
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Colin Baker interview on Doctorwho.tv
04 months ago
It’s worth popping across to doctorwho.tv for this great interview with Colin Baker. He talks about the TV version of the Sixth Doctor and how the character has come on leaps and bounds on audio.
All thanks to Big Finish and Colin’s hard work methinks!
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Interview with Simon Guerrier
04 months ago
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Starburst #390 (with Wolverine on the cover) includes my two-page write-up of an interview with Simon Guerrier. In this he discusses a range of topics including Graceless, Sara Kingdom, writing trilogies and his Destiny of the Doctor story Shadow of Death. He even finds time to talk about his Blake’s 7 story The Turing Test. In an exclusive he also reveals which Doctor it was that appeared at the end of the Sara Kingdom Trilogy!
Starburst is available (in the UK) in a range of outlets and is also available as an iPad edition, so there’s no excuse not to read it!
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Dalek Invasion of Earth 2150 AD (Blu Ray) reviewed
04 months ago
Anyone familiar with this blog will know that Dalek Invasion of Earth is one of my favourite stories as I explained in-depth in The One with the East London Docks!. With this being 2013, and the market being saturated with new and re-issued product, along comes that rarity of rarities a Doctor Who Blu-Ray!
In a year that also saw Spearhead From Space also get the HD treatment, it shouldn’t have been a surprise that the two Peter Cushing titles saw release. Now these are not canonical (though I have seen arguments otherwise) but they do tell largely the same story as the Hartnell originals. I will briefly sum up where the film differs from the TV story and where it doesn’t. I will also look at where the film actually works well (and where it doesn’t).
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