Doctor Who Reaction Thread

 

Doctor Who: Revolution of the Daleks just aired on BBC One tonight. Too early for reactions? How about spoilers? The title seems very arbitrary, but maybe it is too subtle for me? My initial response is that it was by the numbers. Kind of fun, but you see it coming. 

Any thoughts?   

Merry Christmas in the TARDIS

 

Back on the old Observation Deck, I once had something to say about Doctor Who comics and that got me thinking about the place it all started, TV Comic. Except it got a bit twisted and I've never had all the information available, so it went on a back burner and just fermented in the drafts.

The Return of Doctor Who

 

Outside of time and space as we know it, plans were laid for a radio series chronicling the adventures of Doctor Who. Specifically, it would star Peter Cushing playin a version of The Doctor that fell somewhere between the character he played on the Silver Screen and William Hartnell's abrasive curmudgeon. Serious plans it seems, because Malcolm Hulke even got to script it.

Ultimately, production fell, but decades later some engaging folk have had a crack at the opening instalment, so you can judge it on its merits. 

1/2 Now released into the wild, the new re-recording of Journey Into Time, Malcolm Hulke's opening episode of the abandoned 1967 Peter Cushing/Dr Who radio series! https://t.co/WNxtXQOp0j pic.twitter.com/7K9souuL1Q

— Richard Bignell (@NothingLane) November 23, 2020

I rather enjoyed it. Try for yourself.

   

Free Doctor Who Audio Story

 

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— Big Finish (@bigfinish) November 23, 2020

Just in time for Doctor Who Day, Big Finish have a free audio adventure up for grabs today. 

Daleks sell out?

 

Not bad for cyborgs approaching their Sixtieth birthday! In the dying hours of the old Deck, I mentioned that Panini's Doctor Who Magazine had sneakily released a bookazine comic collection, The Daleks. This assembles a remastered version of 104 pages of Sixties strips from the legendary TV Century 21. 

Written variously by Alan Fennell, David Whittaker, Angus Allan and Terry Nation, it sported art by Richard Jennings, Eric Eden and Ron Turner. The origins of the Daleks on Skaro were explored in the wake of the war on Skaro and expanded into a wider galaxy. 

The comic Daleks gave us an Emperor with a bubble-head and flying platforms, along with a distinctive typeface that shouted Dalek murder machine. 

Now, the strips have been collected by DWM before, back in the Marvel days, but The Dalek Chronicles mag can change hands for a couple of hundred quid. But the new bookazine has sold out on official mail order sources and is itself selling on eBay for three-times the price. That's some sharp inflation. Still cheaper than Chronicles though.