Doctor Who Stuff

[Alan]

Season Fifteen Comes to Blu-ray
Thursday, 11 January 2024 - Reported by Marcus

https://www.doctorwhonews.net/2024/0...o_blu_ray.html

The BBC has announced that the next season of Doctor Who to be released on Blu-ray is Season Fifteen first broadcast in 1977.

The seven-disc box set stars Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor alongside Louise Jameson as Leela.
This limited-edition set contains six classic stories packed with hours of new and exclusive material.

Doctor Who – The Collection: Season 15

HORROR OF FANG ROCK
THE INVISIBLE ENEMY
IMAGE OF THE FENDAHL
THE SUN MAKERS
UNDERWORLD
THE INVASION OF TIME

These stories include the character of trusty robot dog K9, voiced by John Leeson and builds to an epic showdown on the Time Lords’ home planet Gallifrey with the Doctor pitted against his old adversaries the Sontarans.

All episodes have been newly remastered from the best available sources – these classic adventures have never looked or sounded so good on home media.

The Collection: Season 15 Blu-ray box set also includes extensive Special Features including:

• UPDATED SPECIAL EFFECTS
  Exclusive to Blu-ray, on Horror Of Fang Rock.
• BEHIND THE SOFA
  New episodes with Louise Jameson (Leela), Colin Baker (The Doctor), Sarah Sutton (Nyssa), Janet Fielding (Tegan), Matthew Waterhouse (Adric), Katy Manning (Jo Grant), Betsan Roberts (wife of director Pennant Roberts) and comedian and presenter Toby Hadoke.
• BLU-RAY TRAILER
  A brand-new scripted trailer to announce the Season 15 Boxset of Doctor Who.
• DARKNESS AND LIGHT
  A look at the life and career of producer Graham Williams.
• IN CONVERSATION
  Interviewer Matthew Sweet chats to Louise Jameson.
• INSIDE THE LIGHTHOUSE
  Making Horror Of Fang Rock.
• TOM TALKS
  Tom Baker muses on life, the universe and everything.
• AUDIO COMMENTARIES
  Exclusive new Audio Commentaries from Tom Baker.
• 5.1 SURROUND SOUND MIX
  On Horror Of Fang Rock.
• RARE CONVENTION FOOTAGE
• TOM BAKER BLACKPOOL EXHIBITION LINKS
• RARE ARCHIVE TREATS
• HD PHOTO GALLERIES
• INFO TEXT
• PDF ARCHIVE
• PLUS LOTS MORE!

This seven-disc box set also includes hours of special features previously released on DVD including Documentaries, Updated Special Effects, Featurettes, Audio Commentaries and more.

The set is available to preorder on Amazon.

Leela vs the Time War | The Collection: Season 15 Announcement Trailer
Even a warrior as brave as Leela knows when it's time to leave the battlefield... ???? #DoctorWho: The Collection returns with Season 15, the Fourth Doctor's fourth season, as the next Blu-ray release

[Alan]

January 22nd, 2024
Doctor Who Fugitive Doctor and Tardis Collector Figure Set

https://merchandise.thedoctorwhosite...or-figure-set/

Available to order from www.character-online.com

Online Exclusive announced by Character Options

Character Options is excited and delighted to announce that, for the first time, the Fugitive will join her esteemed other incarnations with her own figure set in this latest Online exclusive Doctor Who Figure set.

The set will be solely available for sale via www.character-online.com

Inspired by the Doctor Who episode entitled “Fugitive Of The Judoon”, Character Options is proud to present this figure of the mysterious Fugitive Doctor along with her very own TARDIS! Both are presented in this specially designed 60th Anniversary window packaging, which has been designed to wow even before it’s opened.

Set Contents at 5.5 Inch Scale:

• 1 x Fugitive Doctor Figure.
• 1 x Division Blaster Accessory
• 1 x TARDIS with opening doors

This incarnation of the Doctor is shrouded in mystery. The Thirteenth Doctor first met the Fugitive Doctor (played by Jo Martin) when she was hiding out as ‘Ruth Clayton’, a tour guide living in Gloucester. Using a Chameleon Arch, she’d re-written her DNA to appear human and buried her TARDIS below ground where it could never be found. She was hiding from her former employer, a mysterious Time Lord agency called ‘The Division’, who had hired the Judoon to track her down. With the arrival of the Judoon and Thirteenth Doctor, the Fugitive Doctor’s secret couldn’t be kept for much longer.

Ruth flees with the Thirteenth Doctor to a lighthouse she remembered as a child, but what they discover there only deepens the mystery. Sensing something familiar, the Thirteenth Doctor discovers her own TARDIS from the long past, and when Ruth breaks the fire alarm within the lighthouse it triggers a reversal of the Chameleon Arch. Instantly the Doctor once more, she teleports herself and the Thirteenth Doctor into her TARDIS and takes off to confront the ‘Division’. The Thirteenth Doctor is hugely disturbed by the fact she cannot remember being this incarnation but recognises the truth that she undeniably had been. Now free, this no longer fugitive Doctor leaves for further adventures and would go on to meet her Thirteenth self a handful of times, as a projection of the Matrix, and then again as a holograph.

The full story of the Fugitive Doctor remains undisclosed and only time will reveal the full truth… as it always does.

Al Dewar, Creative Director, commented:

“Well, it’s finally out there! And safe to say this is one of the most special Doctors I’ve ever worked on. It’s been under wraps for well over a year and a half which helped keep the secret. Jo Martin, who was utterly delightful to work with when creating this set and we also give her rather lovely TARDIS a wee overhaul as well, with the original flat roof being replaced by a slightly angled one, with replacement lamp and nice little undercuts between the roof pillars. There is also one neat little easter egg in the pack we hope collectors enjoy. All in all, this is a truly great set.”

The online exclusive costs £39.99 and will include postage to UK addresses. It will be available to order 22nd January 2024 from www.character-online.com and dispatch will be within 3-4 days.
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[Alan]

DWM Special - The 2024 Yearbook
Thursday, 25 January 2024 - Reported by Marcus

https://www.doctorwhonews.net/2024/0..._yearbook.html

The latest special from Doctor Who Magazine, the 2024 Yearbook is released today.
Included in the issue

• A year in the life of the stars of Doctor Who.
• A look back at the 2023 Specials.
• The producer of Tales of the TARDIS discusses this nostalgic series.
• A summary of various instalments of the Doom’s Day multi-media event!
• Wrarth Warrior actor Robert Strange speaks to the magazine about his role in The Star Beast.
• A special feature on Goblin celebrity Janis!
• A report from the Doctor Who at 60 musical celebration at Cardiff’s Millennium Centre.
• We talk to BBC Audio, Big Finish, Silva Screen and AUK Studios about the various audio offerings over the past year.
• Doctor Who writers discuss the last 12 months of books and comics.
• Follow the journey of young fan Piper as she is crowned The Ultimate Whovian by Blue Peter!
• Alan Barnes and Lee Sullivan discuss their epic Fourteenth Doctor strip, Liberation of the Daleks.
• We visit a new exhibition of Who props and memorabilia at Gunnersbury Park Museum.
• A look at the new version of The Daleks… in colour!
• Archivist Helen Randle on making the BBC’s vast catalogue of information available to the public.
• A tribute to the Doctor Who luminaries who passed away in 2023.
• Coming soon… A look ahead to 2024!

Doctor Who Magazine Yearbook 2024 is on sale Thursday 25 January from panini.co.uk and WH Smith priced £8.99 (UK).

Also available as a digital edition from pocketmags.com priced £7.99.

[Alan]

Doctor Who Magazine Issue 600
Thursday, 1 February 2024 - Reported by Marcus

https://www.doctorwhonews.net/2024/0...issue_600.html

Doctor Who Magazine marks its 600th issue this month with a celebratory issue which includes a 16-page supplement, an exclusive art card, a specially commissioned diorama featuring figures from the recent series and a four-hour-long Sixth Doctor audio drama for every reader.

The Magazine, which started as Doctor Who Weekly in 1979, has been covering the ups and downs of Doctor Who for over 40 years, ever since the era of the fourth Doctor.
Inside this issue

• Millie Gibson checks in with DWM following the debut of companion Ruby Sunday in The Church on Ruby Road.
• UNIT regulars Jemma Redgrave (Kate Lethbridge-Stewart), Alexander Devrient (Colonel Ibrahim) and Ruth Madeley (Shirley Anne Bingham) face questions from the TARDIS Tin.
• Production designer Phil Sims takes us on a guided tour of UNIT’s central London HQ!
• We talk to DWM writers about their experiences interviewing the stars of Doctor Who for early issues of the magazine.
• International Who! A special report on how the series has become a hit in Spain!
• Meet Christina Rotondo – the singer who gave voice to Janis Goblin!
• We pay tribute to Richard Franklin who died on Christmas day – and examine the impact he had as UNIT officer Captain Mike Yates.
• We talk to production runner Thani Subkhi about his vital work on the upcoming series.
• Letter from the Showrunner – Russell T Davies gives us an update on the progress being made on the next two series!
• Time-Space Visualiser – discover the secret recipe for sky-high ratings!
• The Fact of Fiction – we examine the opening episodes of 1973’s Planet of the Daleks.
• The adventures of the Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday continue in the comic strip!

PLUS!

• Gallifrey Guardian – all the latest official news.
• Reviews – covering books, audio dramas and games.
• Other Worlds – the essential guide to new stories in Doctor Who’s expanded universe.
• Win The Daleks in colour, Blu-ray box sets, books and audio dramas!

Doctor Who Magazine Issue 600 is on sale Thursday 1 February from panini.co.uk and WH Smith priced £10.99 (UK).

Also available as a digital edition from pocketmags.com priced £9.99.

[Alan]

Doctor Who Magazine: Issue 602
Thursday, 28 March 2024 - Reported by Marcus

https://www.doctorwhonews.net/2024/0...issue_602.html

Issue 602 of Doctor Who Magazine is out today
Inside this issue!

• In the run-up to the new series, Millie Gibson talks to DWM about playing companion Ruby Sunday – her most in-depth interview yet!
• We examine a long-lost interview that First Doctor William Hartnell gave to the Scottish press – including some forthright opinions!
• Davina McCall shares her love of Doctor Who and reflects on her role in last year’s Christmas Special.
• Script to screen: find out what processes went into bringing creepy puppet Stooky Bill and his family to life in The Giggle.
• To tie-in with the release of Season 15 on Blu-ray, we present an interview with model-maker Bill Pearson.
• We visit the set of Henry House – a new series starring many familiar faces....
• A report from from LA super convention Gallifrey One!
• Letter from the Showrunner – Russell T Davies on celebrating milestones out of sequence!
• Time-Space Visualiser – this month: the Trods!
• Who & Me – DWM contributor Beth Axford on how she became hooked on Doctor Who.
• Loose Ends – exploring the mysteries of the Sixth Doctor!
• The Fact of Fiction – a deep dive into the plot of Twelfth Doctor story The Woman Who Lived.
• The adventures of the Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday continue in the comic strip!

PLUS!

• Gallifrey Guardian – packed with all the latest news about the upcoming series!
• Reviewed – the new Season 15 Blu-ray Collection and all the latest audio releases.
• Other Worlds – the essential guide to new stories in Doctor Who’s expanded universe.
• Win Blu-rays and the latest audio releases!

Doctor Who Magazine Issue 602 is on sale Thursday 28 March from panini.co.uk and WH Smith priced £7.99 (UK).
Also available as a digital edition from pocketmags.com priced £6.99.

[Alan]

Three Fifteenth Doctor Doctor Who Novels Coming
Thursday, 18 April 2024 - Reported by Marcus

https://www.doctorwhonews.net/2024/0...ls_coming.html

BBC Books has announced that three new Doctor Who novels will be published this year, featuring Ncuti Gatwa’s Fifteenth Doctor. Each book is an original, stand-alone adventure and will be published simultaneously in hardback and audiobook. The books are:

Ruby Red by Georgia Cook
April, 1242: the Doctor and Ruby answer a distress call sent from medieval Russia. The signal’s sender? Ranavere, an alien girl forced to take part in a barbaric conflict between the armies of Estonia and Novgorod on the frozen surface of Lake Peipus. Ranavere wants to escape, but her distress call has summoned her warmongering sisters, intent on preserving family tradition whatever the cost. And as human battle begins, the Doctor and Ruby must face a more devastating threat – a monstrous entity with plans of conquest, growing stronger beneath the icy lake…

Georgia Cook is an illustrator and writer from London. She has written for several sets in the Big Finish Doctor Who Audio range, including The Eleventh Doctor Chronicles, Gallifrey: War Room, and the Interludes. She has also contributed short stories to publications such as Baffling Magazine and Flame Tree Press, and is a frequent contributor to various horror anthology podcasts as a writer and voice over artist.
The audiobook edition of Doctor Who: Ruby Red will be narrated by Millie Gibson, who plays companion Ruby Sunday in the TV series

Caged by Una McCormack
Are aliens ever abducted by aliens? And if they were, would anyone believe their story? When the Doctor and Ruby arrive on Cavia, they meet a gentle local who is certain that she has been taken for study by creatures from the stars. The Doctor is concerned to find mysterious meteors appearing in the sky, while strange robotic creatures crowd the forests, watching everything and waiting for…what? Who is interested in Cavia, and why? What is the sinister truth of the abductions? The Doctor and Ruby must discover the secrets of this mysterious world – and those who would seek to destroy it…

Una McCormack is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author. She has written many Doctor Who articles, scripts and novels, including The King's Dragon, The Way Through the Woods, Royal Blood, Molten Heart and Time Lord Victorious: All Flesh is Grass, all from BBC Books.

Eden Rebellion by Abi Falase
On the crystalline planet of Yewa, the Gardens of Kubuntu are a true Eden, said to be the most peaceful destination in the universe. At least, until the Doctor and Ruby arrive. Ancient rivalries between Yewa and its more prosperous sister world of Bia are being stirred by forces unknown, threatening to plunge its people into anarchy. With Ruby swept up in the fire of the Yewan rebellion, the Doctor finds dark secrets buried deep in the planet’s ancient history – and his hopes for a lasting peace hanging by a thread. For sinister guardians stalk the Gardens of Kubuntu, while an implacable enemy plots in the shadows – and in plain sight…

Abi Falase is a Black British writer and director, reimagining fundamental societal concepts in inventive new worlds. Creating what they like to call “feel-good social realism”, wrapping big discussions about everything from race and gender to capitalism in little pockets of humour – because if you don’t laugh, you’ll cry.

Ruby Red by Georgia Cook (BBC Books, £14.99) is out in hardback and audiobook on 13th June
Caged by Una McCormack (BBC Books, £14.99) is out in hardback and audiobook on 27th June
Eden Rebellion by Abi Falase (BBC Books, £14.99) is out in hardback and audiobook on 24th November

[Alan]

Doctor Who Magazine: Issue 603
Thursday, 25 April 2024 - Reported by Marcus

https://www.doctorwhonews.net/2024/0...issue_603.html

The latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine marks the return of Doctor Who to Television screens worldwide

Inside this issue

• Previews of the new episodes broadcast this month. Russell T Davies talks Space Babies and The Devil’s Chord and we take a quick peek behind the scenes of Boom with writer Steven Moffat and exec producer Joel Collins.
• Meet the Beatles: John, Paul, George and Ringo (alias Chris Mason, George Caple, Philip Davies and James Hoyles) and their producer George Martin (Ed White)…
• …and to celebrate the Beatles appearance on opening night of the new season, we also look back at the relationship between the band and Doctor Who over the years…
• Jinkx Monsoon discusses her role as the malevolent Maestro.
• Can we get any answers from Anita Dobson about her character, the mysterious Mrs Flood? Worth a try!

We also speak to the equally intriguing Susan Twist about her roles in last year’s episodes and her involvement in the forthcoming season…

• Letter from the Showrunner – Russell T Davies considers the scheduling of the new episodes and welcomes new readers!
• Script to screen: discover the intricacies involved in bringing ‘Jimbo’ – the robot from Wild Blue Yonder – into being.
• A tribute to the work of the late Sid Sutton who, among many other career highlights, designed the Doctor Who titles in the 1980s.
• We test the memory of Matthew Waterhouse, who played companion Adric.
• Time-Space Visualiser – how second Doctor Patrick Troughton made a partial comeback in the late seventies…
• Loose Ends – tying up some dangling threads from the 1960s
• The Fact of Fiction – a scene-by-scene look back at an earlier opening night: 2007’s Smith and Jones.
• The concluding part of Mancopolis – our comic strip featuring the Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby.

PLUS!

• An exclusive comic strip supplement featuring TIMESLIP – the memorable multi-Doctor comic strip by former DWM editor Paul Neary. This also includes an essay on the story by Gary Gillatt and a chat with Dez Skinn who came up with the original idea for the strip.
• Two art cards to celebrate the new season!

AND ALL THE USUAL REGULAR FEATURES INCLUDING THE LATEST NEWS, REVIEWS AND COMPETITIONS!

Doctor Who Magazine Issue 603 is on sale Thursday 25 April from panini.co.uk and WH Smith priced £9.99 (UK).
Also available as a digital edition from pocketmags.com priced £8.99.