Doctor Who Stuff

[Alan]

Listen to the voice of your Master
5th Nov 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHgQh3u933Q


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It’s been 24 years since his first appearance fighting Paul McGann’s Eighth Doctor. Now he’s back! And it’s about time!

Eric Roberts returns to play the Master, as originally seen in the 1996 TV Movie, Doctor Who. Now he’s escaped the Time Vortex to wreak havoc upon the universe in his very own box set of brand new, full-cast audio adventures, due for release in March 2021.

Along the way, he’ll meet old enemies, new companions and the universe’s most glamorous and dangerous bounty hunter, Vienna Salvatori (a special guest appearance by Chase Masterson).

Abandoned in the Vortex, the Master’s lost incarnation is about to be thrown a lifeline.

Earth rebuilds in the aftermath of invasion, and power rests with those who innovate. Genius Lila Kreeg makes a deal with the devil to see her dreams fulfilled.

As the Master returns, there are those – like Vienna Salvatori – who wish to hunt him, and those upon whom he wishes vengeance himself...

The Master will be doing his dastardly deeds in three thrilling new stories:

Faustian by Robert Valentine

Prey by Robert Whitelock

Vengeance by Matt Fitton

Director, Jamie Anderson, said: “Entering this Blade Runner-esque world with the TV Movie Master was a real thrill for me, and it's been a joy to hear our brilliant cast interacting with the effortlessly evil Eric Roberts. The future this writing trio have created is a thrilling place to adventure for three one-hour stories, and listeners are in for a treat when they get to meet the future Earth's characters – both good and evil.

Producer, David Richardson added: “The Master continues his cunning plan, by stealth, to take over the Big Finish release schedule – we have the War Master, we have Missy, and now the Movie Master has his own box set, reaching out for help from the Time Vortex – and finding new allies and new foes. Think Killing Eve in a dystopian future and you may just get a taster of what this new direction for the Master looks like.”

Master! is now available for pre-order as a collector’s edition three-disc box set (on CD at £19.99) and as a digital download (at £16.99).

[Alan]

#DoctorWhoDay

[Alan]

The Collection: Season 8
Wednesday, 25 November 2020 - Reported by Marcus

https://www.doctorwhonews.net/2020/1..._season_8.html

BBC Studios have announced the next instalment in the Doctor Who: The Collection range will be the Third Doctor's second season, Season 8.

Starring Jon Pertwee and Katy Manning, this hotly anticipated instalment can be pre-ordered now and will be available from 23rd February 2021.

TERROR OF THE AUTONS
THE MIND OF EVIL
THE CLAWS OF AXOS
COLONY IN SPACE
THE DAEMONS

Stranded on 20th Century Earth, the Third Doctor teams up with UNIT and new companion Jo Grant to thwart alien invasions! And that’s not all, he must also contend with the arrival of his deadliest foe – arch-nemesis the Master.
Battling Autons, Axons, an alien mind parasite and a mighty Daemon, the Doctor, Jo and UNIT must defend the Earth – and its future pioneers - in five action-packed adventures.

With all episodes newly remastered, this Blu-ray box set also contains extensive and exclusive special features including:

• Behind the Sofa - New episodes with Katy Manning, Stewart Bevan, Janet Fielding, Sarah Sutton, Sacha Dhawan and Anjli Mohindra.
• In Conversation - Matthew Sweet chats to companion Katy Manning.
• A Devils Weekend - Actors Katy Manning and John Levene take a personal trip back to the picturesque village of Aldbourne, 50 years after they recorded the Doctor Who story The Daemons there.
• The Direct Route - Doctor Who directors Michael Briant, Graeme Harper and Tim Combe take an epic road trip to all the filming locations from Season 8 as they discuss directing the show in the early 1970s.
• Terrance and Me - Lifelong Doctor Who fan, Frank Skinner sets out to meet the family, friends and colleagues of the late, much-loved writer, Terrance Dicks.
• Blu-Ray trailer - A specially shot mini-episode
• Extended Episode 1 of The Claws of Axos
• 90-minute omnibus edition of The Daemons
• Immersive 5.1 surround sound on Terror of the Autons and The Daemons
• Optional updated special effects and CSO clean-up on Terror of the Autons
• Unseen studio footage
• Rare archive treats
• Convention footage
• HD photo galleries
• Scripts, costume designs, rare BBC production files

The eight-disc box set also includes hours of special features previously released on DVD.

Doctor Who – The Collection: Season 8 can be pre-ordered now from Amazon

Jo Grant vs the Autons... Again?

[Alan]

The Collection: Season 8
Wednesday, 25 November 2020 - Reported by Marcus

https://www.doctorwhonews.net/2020/1..._season_8.html

BBC Studios have announced the next instalment in the Doctor Who: The Collection range will be the Third Doctor's second season, Season 8.

Starring Jon Pertwee and Katy Manning, this hotly anticipated instalment can be pre-ordered now and will be available from 23rd February 2021.

TERROR OF THE AUTONS
THE MIND OF EVIL
THE CLAWS OF AXOS
COLONY IN SPACE
THE DAEMONS

Stranded on 20th Century Earth, the Third Doctor teams up with UNIT and new companion Jo Grant to thwart alien invasions! And that’s not all, he must also contend with the arrival of his deadliest foe – arch-nemesis the Master.
Battling Autons, Axons, an alien mind parasite and a mighty Daemon, the Doctor, Jo and UNIT must defend the Earth – and its future pioneers - in five action-packed adventures.

With all episodes newly remastered, this Blu-ray box set also contains extensive and exclusive special features including:

• Behind the Sofa - New episodes with Katy Manning, Stewart Bevan, Janet Fielding, Sarah Sutton, Sacha Dhawan and Anjli Mohindra.
• In Conversation - Matthew Sweet chats to companion Katy Manning.
• A Devils Weekend - Actors Katy Manning and John Levene take a personal trip back to the picturesque village of Aldbourne, 50 years after they recorded the Doctor Who story The Daemons there.
• The Direct Route - Doctor Who directors Michael Briant, Graeme Harper and Tim Combe take an epic road trip to all the filming locations from Season 8 as they discuss directing the show in the early 1970s.
• Terrance and Me - Lifelong Doctor Who fan, Frank Skinner sets out to meet the family, friends and colleagues of the late, much-loved writer, Terrance Dicks.
• Blu-Ray trailer - A specially shot mini-episode
• Extended Episode 1 of The Claws of Axos
• 90-minute omnibus edition of The Daemons
• Immersive 5.1 surround sound on Terror of the Autons and The Daemons
• Optional updated special effects and CSO clean-up on Terror of the Autons
• Unseen studio footage
• Rare archive treats
• Convention footage
• HD photo galleries
• Scripts, costume designs, rare BBC production files

The eight-disc box set also includes hours of special features previously released on DVD.

Doctor Who – The Collection: Season 8 can be pre-ordered now from Amazon

Jo Grant vs the Autons... Again?

[Alan]

Masterful social media-only exclusive scene
•1 Dec 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo57Zo08vgs

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This social media-exclusive scene stars Mark Gatiss and Jon Culshaw.

Further details of Masterful, the special audio adventure commemorating half a century of the evil Time Lord, have been revealed, plus an exclusive scene is now available on social media.

Due for release on 2 January 2021, exactly 50 years to the day since Roger Delgado made his debut in Doctor Who: Terror of the Autons, Masterful is a celebration of the mischief and madness of the Master (and Missy).

Script Editor Matt Fitton said: “Because we’re also celebrating the first appearance of Roger Delgado’s Master, we wondered how we could represent that era and Jo Grant sprang to mind – she also first appeared in Terror of the Autons. So we asked Katy Manning if she’d like to be involved as well and she said yes, which is great.

“We also thought about other tools the Master has used over the years and it made sense to include Kamelion. We were delighted that Jon Culshaw agreed to play that role and, through him, we were able to channel the Anthony Ainley Master – among other surprise guests!

“It’s always fun to have an anniversary celebration. The Doctors have a get together every so often, so it’s perfect for the Masters to have one too!”

Masterful stars Geoffrey Beevers, Mark Gatiss, Michelle Gomez, Derek Jacobi, Alex MacQueen, Milo Parker, Eric Roberts and John Simm, featuring guest appearances from Jon Culshaw as Kamelion, Katy Manning as Jo Grant, with Abigail McKern, Aurora Burghart and Zaqi Ismail.

Masterful is now available to pre-order as a limited edition 8-CD box set (priced at £44.99), or on download (at £39.99), exclusively at the Big Finish website. This edition contains:

Discs 1-3: Masterful by James Goss

Disc 4: Masterful - Behind the Scenes

Disc 5: Doctor Who - Short Trips: I Am The Master by Geoffrey Beevers and Short Trips: The Switching by Simon Guerrier (both previously available on download only)

Discs 6-8: Doctor Who: Terror of the Master by Trevor Baxendale, a brand new, narrated audiobook featuring the Third Doctor, the Master and UNIT.

Writer Trevor Baxendale said: “I approached Terror of the Master as a Target novelisation – it’s about the same length – of a six-part TV story we never saw. But then it’s also satisfyng to up the ante just a little – I gave the Doctor and the Brigadier an exciting car chase through London, with hitmen on motorbikes and bullets flying, which wouldn’t have been achievable for the programme on TV.

“Similarly, it’s nice to give them a few quieter moments together, to show just how fond of each other they are by this stage – even though neither of them would admit it.”

Please note the box set edition is limited to 3,000 copies only.

The standard edition of Masterful (featuring only the content of discs 1-3 above) is also available to pre-order, priced at £24.99 (on CD) or £19.99 (as a download).

[Angela V]

I didn't know where to put this. I more recently got BritBox and have started Doctor Who from the start. So excited that they have all the classic episodes! I've seen all of Doctor 4 and 5 and bits and pieces of the other Doctors.

[Alan]

I didn't know where to put this. I more recently got BritBox and have started Doctor Who from the start. So excited that they have all the classic episodes! I've seen all of Doctor 4 and 5 and bits and pieces of the other Doctors.

I'm glad that you've been enjoying Doctor Who from the start via BritBox! Maybe you can tell us what exactly you've been watching at these threads here and here?

[Alan]

Doctor Who Magazine: Issue 559
Wednesday, 9 December 2020 - Reported by Marcus

https://www.doctorwhonews.net/2020/1...issue_559.html

Doctor Who Magazine Issue 559 talks to Jodie Whittaker, John Barrowman and Chris Chibnal as the preview the New Year episode of Doctor Who, Revolution of the Daleks.

Highlights of the new issue include:

• An exclusive preview of the New Year’s Day Special, featuring contributions from Jodie Whittaker, John Barrowman, Chris Noth, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Chris Chibnall, director Lee Haven Jones and costume designer Ray Holman.
• The latest from showrunner Chris Chibnall in his Production Notes.
• A behind-the-scenes look at the trailer for the Season 8 Blu-ray box set, with writer and director Pete McTighe, Katy Manning and Stewart Bevan.
• Christmas with the Doctor – a fresh look at stories that were broadcast during the festive period between 1963 and 1989.
• What did missing 1965 episode The Feast of Steven actually look like? DWM’s CGI recreation offers some clues.
• The strange story of the 1964 record I’m Gonna Spend My Christmas with a Dalek.
• Interviews with the team behind theimmersive theatre experience Time Fracture.
• The final instalment of a two-part article exploring David Whitaker’s influence on the Daleks.
• The Fact of Fiction analyses the 2014 Festive Special Last Christmas.
• Apocrypha rediscovers the bizarre 1965 comic strip A Christmas Story.
• The DWM Christmas Quiz!
• The first part of The White Dragon, a new comic-strip adventure for the Thirteenth Doctor.
• Previews and reviews, news, prize-winning competitions, Time and Space Visualiser, The Blogs of Doom and more.
• PLUS a giant, double-sided poster!

Doctor Who Magazine Issue 559 is on sale from Thursday 10 December
£6.99 (UK)

[planet_tv]

I know these videos are from last year, but I just came across them. The have to do with Tom Baker and Scratchman, whose paperback version should be out early next year. One of the videos has Tom Baker reading an excerpt of his book.

Tom Baker's Doctor Who Book! | Doctor Who: Scratchman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CcrIwsSanY

Doctor Who: Scratchman by Tom Baker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5FQNJpz2Uo

Tom Baker Answers Fan Questions | Doctor Who: Scratchman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJKQ9jfdBY4

[Alan]

Doctor Who Season 24 - Blu-ray
Thursday, 21 January 2021 - Reported by Marcus

https://www.doctorwhonews.net/2021/0...4_blu_ray.html

The next release in the Doctor Who: The Collection range will be Season 24, the first staring the Seventh Doctor Sylvester McCoy.

First shown in 1987, the box set can be pre-ordered from today ahead of a release date later this year.

Doctor Who – The Collection: Season 24

• TIME AND THE RANI
  
• PARADISE TOWERS
  
• DELTA AND THE BANNERMEN
• DRAGONFIRE

Season 24 first aired in 1987 and saw the Seventh Doctor and companion Mel, played by Bonnie Langford, travel through space and time traversing alien planets, a hostile futuristic tower block, 1950s Wales and finally, the mysterious colony of Iceworld, where the Doctor meets Ace played by Sophie Aldred.

The Doctor is faced with enemies including the Rani (Kate O’Mara) and the terrifying Tetraps in Time and the Rani, Kroagnon and his cleaning robots in Paradise Towers, the ruthless Bannermen in Delta and the Bannermen and Kane (Edward Peel), the murderous ruler of Ice world in Dragonfire.

These four stories have been newly remastered alongside extensive and exclusive special features including

• EXTENDED VERSIONS of all four stories, featuring previously unseen material
• IMMERSIVE 5.1 SURROUND SOUND – on all four stories and extended versions
• ISOLATED SCORES – on all four stories
• BRAND NEW DOCUMENTARIES - Including a feature-length overview of Season 24 -Here’s To The Future, plus The Making Of Delta And The Bannermen.
• RARE STUDIO & LOCATION FOOTAGE - Over 25 hours of raw material never seen before, including behind-the-scenes footage from the regeneration scene
• IN CONVERSATION - Matthew Sweet interviews Sylvester McCoy about his life, career, and time as the Seventh Doctor.
• BEHIND THE SOFA - Four new episodes with Sylvester McCoy, Bonnie Langford, Sophie Aldred, Peter Davison, Janet Fielding, Sarah Sutton, Colin Baker & Michael Jayston
• THE DOCTOR’S TABLE - Sylvester McCoy, Bonnie Langford, Sophie Aldred and Clive Merrison reminisce about the making of the season.
• RARE GEMS FROM THE ARCHIVES - Hours of footage covering the promotion of this season including lots of previously unreleased material.
• AN AUDIENCE WITH LADY STEPHENS - A brand new interview with Season 24 actor and rocky Horror cult figure Patricia Quinn
• BLU-RAY TRAILER - A brand new mini-episode
• CONVENTION FOOTAGE
• HD PHOTO GALLERIES - Including many previously unseen images.
• INFO TEXT - Behind-the-scenes information and trivia on every episode.
• SCRIPTS, costume designs, rare BBC production files and other rarities from the archive

The eight-disc box set also includes hours of special features previously released on DVD and Blu-Ray.

Doctor Who – The Collection: Season 24 can be pre-ordered now from Amazon, HMV and Zavvi and will be released later this year.

[Alan]

The Ninth Doctor vs the Cybermen!
Tuesday, 30 March 2021 - Reported by Marcus

https://www.doctorwhonews.net/2021/0...cybermen_.html

Christopher Eccleston’s Ninth Doctor will encounter some old friends and foes in the forthcoming volumes of Big Finish’s Doctor Who –The Ninth Doctor Adventures.

The Ninth Doctor will soon face off against one of his greatest enemies –the Cybermen, as voiced by Nicholas Briggs.

The final episode of volume three, due for release in November 2021, features one of the menacing Mondasian monsters on the set of Fritz Lang’s celebrated 1927 motion picture, Metropolis.

Writer John Dorney said:

“I know everyone was very keen for the Ninth Doctor to have an encounter with the Cybermen, and as they were the only Doctor and monster I hadn’t written for at Big Finish, I was very keen to be the one to write it! It was a real honour getting to script their meeting... particularly as it gave me the chance to dive into my love for the movies and write a bit of a celebrity historical.”

In volume four, due for release in February 2022, the Doctor is reunited with Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, as played by Jon Culshaw, in an adventure that takes the Time Lord to the Firth of Forth.

Writer Roy Gill said:

“The Brigadier is an iconic character from the Classic Series, whereas the Ninth Doctor arrives at the very forefront of the New Series. They may initially seem very different, but there’s an interesting connection: both forthright and deeply decent, they’ve been through conflict and arestill fighting for what’s right... It was a privilege to write their first meeting for Big Finish.”

Producer David Richardson added:

“It’s been so enjoyable creating a whole new era for the Ninth Doctor, and I think the scripts really succeed in defining that bold new start. We are talking the Ninth Doctor pre-Rose. These are the adventures some time after his regeneration, travelling alone, starting to discover himself after all that time being the War Doctor.”

Doctor Who fans worldwide can now pre-order all four volumes of The Ninth Doctor Adventures, which are available in three formats –collector’s edition CD, digital download or limited edition gatefold triple LP vinyl –exclusively from the Big Finish website at bigfinish.com.

HE'S BACK! | The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Ravagers Trailer

[cosmichobo]

Can't see it above...

The BBC have announced that they will be re-releasing the classic era Blu Ray Box Sets (aka "Collections") but in not as pretty packaging, for a few dollars less than before.

For those who don't care about the packaging - just hold out and you can grab the box sets cheaper than those of us who rushed to buy the original releases.

And for those of us in Australia....... WHO KNOWS! Maybe this means the local distributor may return to the higher quality packaging for the initial releases, and then use the crappy packaging they are currently using for a later version..

[Alan]

Q&A with Christopher Eccleston | The Ninth Doctor Adventures | Doctor Who
•19 Apr 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi_HO6SrwSA

Doctor Who


Before the Ninth Doctor's return in new audio adventures, Christopher Eccleston answers questions from listeners! Pre-order the Ninth Doctor Adventures here: http://bit.ly/NinthDoctorAdventures

[planet_tv]

Hallmark 4th Doctor and Tardis Keepsake Tree Ornaments
I am defiantly going to have to convince my Mom I want to get this for later in the year, when comes out, either for her birthday or Christmas because this is the first time I have seen them have DW related ornament(s).

It looks like River Song herself, Alex Kingston, has written a Doctor Who novel called Doctor Who The Ruby’s Curse. Here's a link to where I saw it mentioned: https://merchandise.thedoctorwhosite...tion-hardback/

I will defiantly be getting this book for Mom to go along with Doctor Who meets Scratchman by Tom Baker.

edit: I just happened to come across these (No 12th Doctor thou. Only 4th, 10th, 11th and 13th):
https://www.amazon.com/Funko-POP-PEZ.../dp/B07KQQ4KLC

https://www.amazon.com/Funko-POP-PEZ...MGZ87HT2R457M9

https://www.amazon.com/Funko-Doctor-...MGZ87HT2R457M9

https://www.amazon.com/Funkos-Doctor...7KLMNX2L&psc=1

[Alan]

"It'll be... Fantastic" | The Ninth Doctor Adventures Trailer | Doctor Who
13/05/21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMkKRXfWzTo

The Ninth Doctor era on audio begins today... Join Christopher Eccleston and Big Finish Productions for an absolutely FANTASTIC adventure! ➡️ bit.ly/3b59zsW0