Doctor Who: Fifty Stories For Fifty Years: 1975
May 13th, 2012
1975 was the last year that everything changed for Doctor Who. We’ve seen that there are three main forces behind the feel of Doctor Who , the producer, the script editor, and the star. Season 12, which started in the last week of 1974, was the last time that all three would change at once during the show’s original TV run. (Technically, producer Barry Letts stayed on for the first story of the season, after Pertwee and script editor Terrance Dicks had already left).
Doctor Who: Fifty Stories For Fifty Years: 1974
May 6th, 2012
All is not well at the Wenley Moor underground atomic research station: there are unaccountable losses of power-output; nervous breakdowns amongst the staff;
and then—a death!UNIT is called in and the Brigadier is soon joined by DOCTOR WHO and Liz Shaw in a tense and exciting adventure with subterranean reptile men—SILURIANS— and a 40 ft. high Tyrannosaurus rex, the biggest, most savage mammal which ever trod the earth!
‘DOCTOR WHO, the children’s own programme which adults adore…’ Gerard Garrett, The Daily Sketch
Doctor Who: Fifty Stories For Fifty Years: 1973
April 10th, 2012
Steven Moffat once said of Doctor Who that it “was a great idea that happened to the wrong people”. Some might think that this says more about Moffat than about Who (in my experience writers who think of ideas as ‘happening’ to other writers, rather than being produced by those other writers, tend not to have very many ideas of their own) but in some cases one can see what he means. The Three Doctors, and in general all the work of writers Bob Baker and Dave Martin, tends to be a case in point.
Doctor Who: Fifty Stories For Fifty Years: 1972
March 19th, 2012
Doctor Who: Fifty Stories For Fifty Years: 1971
March 13th, 2012
People often think these days that Russel T Davies was the first auteur to run Doctor Who.
Davy Jones
March 1st, 2012
This photo is from what I think was the last ever photocall the Monkees did, on what I think was Davy Jones’ last visit to his hometown of Manchester. I was about three feet away at the time.
At the show that night, Davy Jones made a joke that he made every night of that tour – “I used to be a heartthrob, now I’m a coronary”.
Doctor Who: Fifty Stories For Fifty Years: 1970
February 20th, 2012
Doctor Who: Fifty Stories For Fifty Years: 1969
February 11th, 2012
It was the end…but the moment had been prepared for.
Doctor Who: Fifty Stories For Fifty Years: The Mind Robber
February 5th, 2012
Sometimes the best creative work comes from having to work within restrictions imposed from outside. The Mind Robber is a perfect example of this. The story before, The Dominators, was originally meant to be a six-parter, but had to be cut down to five (thankfully, as it’s the most awful mess imaginable from every possible standpoint).
For some reason the scene above is a favourite of straight men, but few others…
Doctor Who: Fifty Stories For Fifty Years – 1967
January 19th, 2012
I’m back after an extended Christmas and not-being-arsed break! Only one photo this time though as my hard drive is knackered and I’m busy recovering all my files (have you any idea how difficult it is to recover a 2TB hard drive with about ten thousand non-contiguous bad sectors? Thank heaven for ddrescue). I could only get the one image before catastrophic failure.
