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What have you been watching this week (w/e November 20)
Original at The Medium is Not Enough TV
• 10 hours ago
By Rob Buckley The Thick of It – Another good one. The opposition are starting to seem more interesting than the government though. Still got this week's CSI, Cougar Town, Modern Family and Supernatural to watch. But I've decided I'm never going to watch this series of The Sarah Jane Adventures so I've dele...
Exclusive Doctor Who preview on Children in Need
Original at BBC Sport
• 21 hours ago
This years BBC Children in Need is to feature an exclusive preview of the forthcoming Doctor Who Christmas Special.
Doctor Who Adventures #142
Original at Tardis And Torchwood Treasures
• Thu, Nov 19
By noreply@blogger.com (Mark) Monsters from Mars! This week’s Doctor Who Adventures magazine is all about The Waters of Mars. We investigate the planet Mars and find out if it is a place you should visit or avoid. If you were to visit Mars with the Doctor what would you take? Find out with Doctor Who Adventures’ essential ch...
Opinion: The John Nathan-Turner Memoirs, Volume 2
Original at theLogBook.com TheatEar
• Wed, Nov 18
By Earl Green Doctor Who producer John Nathan-Turner (1980-1990) relates the story of his tenure as the longest-serving producer of the series, virtually guiding it through the entirety of the 1980s until the BBC quietly cancelled it. In this volumes, he takes listeners,episode-by-episode, thro...
The Doctor Who DVD Files #23
Original at Tardis And Torchwood Treasures
• Wed, Nov 18
By noreply@blogger.com (Mark) The twenty third issue of the Doctor Who DVD Files was released today and it is now on sale in all good newsagents across the United Kingdom and Ireland at the price of £6.99. This fortnight's issue comes with a free DVD containing the next two episodes of Doctor Who; 'Planet of the Ood' and 'The...
REVIEW: Doctor Who, 2009 Special, "The Waters of Mars"
Original at crossoverman (Livejournal)
• Mon, Nov 16
I still don't think a series of specials is the right way to say farewell to an incarnation of The Doctor - it robs the story of some of the power a full season can really bring. It feels so much like we've been running on the spot since "Journey's End" last season and now we're off in a sprint until...
Opinion: "Waters of Mars" and The Prisoner (with spoilers)
Original at KRAD's Inaccurate Guide to Life
• Sun, Nov 15
By keith@decandido.net The problem is, Tennant doesn't do menacing. That's why they dropped the whole "no mercy" angle six-and-a-half seconds after "The Christmas Invasion" aired and it was clear that Tennant's daffy charm wasn't suited to that particular trope -- and that was never more evident than in "Wate...
Richard E. Grant- The ‘Other’ Doctor Who
Original at The Daily P.O.P.
• Sun, Nov 15
By dailypop The follow-up announcement that Doctor Who would be returning as an animated series rather than live action was a lead boot falling on the hopes of fandom. BBCi not only announced in the Summer of 03 that Doctor Who would be returning as a multimedia online animated feature but that it was th...
Opinion: Doctor Who and the Ark
Original at The Daily P.O.P.
• Fri, Nov 13
By dailypop The Ark - Story 023 Goofy monsters? Check. Whacked-out time travel? Check? Morally-imbued plot? Check. Yes, this is Doctor Who of the 1960’s. Before the Hammer Horror era of the 1970’s or the plastic rayguns of the 1980’s there was this, the Doctor and his companions getting wrapped up in so...
Podcast: DWO WhoCast episode 142
Original at DWO WhoCast
• Thu, Nov 5
By feedback@thewhocast.com (feedback@thewhocast.com) We cast our eye over some of the marvellous fan audio groups who have been out there producing new adventures for the good Doctor, some for 20 years or more! The groups we covered in this weeks ep are just a few of the great groups out there. There is literally a whole world of Doctor Who out ther...
Doctor Who: The Waters Of Mars
Original at BBC Sport
• Sat, Oct 31
Doctor Who will return to BBC One on Sunday 15 November for The Waters of Marsthe second of four specials airing throughout 2009.
New Doctor Who is 'simply the best'
Original at Register
• Fri, Oct 30
Steven Moffat sings praises of Matt Smith Doctor Who lead writer Steven Moffat has classified Matt Smith as "simply the best" Time Lord of the bunch - a brave statement as the 27-year-old actor prepares to receive the Tardis keys from David Tennant.…
Mark Gatiss and Rory Kinnear to star in BBC Four drama The First Men In The Moon
Original at BBC Sport
• Wed, Oct 28
Mark Gatiss League Of Gentlemen Doctor Who is to star in his own adaptation of HG Wells thrilling scientific romance The First Men In The Moon alongside Rory Kinnear Waking The Dead Silent Witness in a oneoff 90minute drama from Can Do Productions for BBC Four.
Opinion: Who And Me
Original at theLogBook.com TheatEar
• Tue, Oct 27
By Earl Green Doctor Who producer Barry Letts (1923-2009) narrates the story of his own beginnings in TV and theater, from second-string actor to writer to producer of one of the BBC’s most popular series during its first seasons in color starring Jon Pertwee. This first volume, featuring Letts readi...
Doctor Who – Curse/Monster of Peladon
Original at The Daily P.O.P.
• Sat, Oct 24
By dailypop Screened in 1972, just after Day of the Daleks brought fans back to their screens rapt in anticipation of what could come next, The Curse of Peladon is a step backwards in many ways for Doctor Who. The program had become sophisticated and more action-oriented than ever before in recent year...
Podcast: Doctor Who: Podshock - 164
Original at gallifreyanembassy.org
• Fri, Oct 9
• 16 related articles
Episode 164 Running Time: 1:28:03 News and we review Robot, Tom Baker as the 4th Doctor first Doctor Who story. Hosted by Louis Trapani, James Naughton and Ken Deep with Joshua Lou Friedman. Brought to you by the Gallifreyan Embassy and is a production of Art Trap Productions.
Beeb unveils new Doctor Who logo
Original at Register
• Mon, Oct 5
Regenerates for new series in 2010 The BBC has unveiled the new Doctor Who logo - due to grace the nation's small screens when Matt Smith takes over as the latest incarnation of the Time Lord in 2010.… Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work
Podcast: DWO WhoCast episode 137
Original at DWO WhoCast
• Wed, Sep 30
By feedback@thewhocast.com (feedback@thewhocast.com) We also listen to and read the feedback on Jon Pertwee, in response to our recent retrospective of the Third Doctor. Don't forget to enter our fantastic Doctor Who script competition, details of which can be found in episode 135.
Opinion: Doctor Who: Key 2 Time – The Judgement Of Isskar
Original at theLogBook.com TheatEar
• Wed, Sep 30
By Earl Green directed by Jason Haigh-Ellery music by Jamie Robertson Cast: Peter Davison (The Doctor), Ciara Janson (Amy), Laura Doddington (Zara), Nicholas Briggs (Isskar), Andrew Jones (Harmonious 14 Zink), Raquel Cassidy (Mesca), Jeremy James (Thetris), Heather Wright (Wembik)
Podcast: DWO WhoCast episode 135
Original at DWO WhoCast
• Tue, Sep 22
By feedback@thewhocast.com (feedback@thewhocast.com) After being waist deep in Pertwee for three episodes it's time to kick our shoes off and relax a bit. If you want to see the DWO WhoCast team relaxed, this is the episode for you. We premiere our brand new game, Lame, in which we pair up Doctor Who monsters and find out the lamest amongst them.
Doctor Who and the Keys of Marinus
Original at The Daily P.O.P.
• Sat, Sep 19
By dailypop A supporting cast never to be topped The supporting cast of Ian Chesterton, Barbara Wright and Susan Foreman are equally impressive and flesh out the stories quite well. Ian is so dashing and forthright, often in direct opposition to the cranky self-gratified Doctor. However, the true st...
Podcast: Doctor Who: Podshock Aftershock 20090813
Original at gallifreyanembassy.org
• Thu, Aug 13
AFTERSHOCK 20090813 Running Time: 0:19:55 Join us for our next SL meet up, The War Games recap, 4th anniversary for the podcast, new podcast swag. Doctor Who: Podshock 159 is coming soon! Hosted by Louis Trapani, with Eric Escamilla.
Fanfics Created By stickmeninc And kingdomkey
Original at Doctor Who Makes Torchwood
• Fri, Jul 31
By Stickmeninc This section has all the fanfic episodes that stickmeninc and kingdomkey have created together about Doctor Who and Torchwood. Torchwood: The Doctor Who Files
This Week (July 20 - 27)
Original at About Sci-Fi / Fantasy
• Mon, Jul 20
And as if that weren't enough, this Sunday the spring Doctor Who special, "Planet of the Dead" – billed as Tenth Doctor David Tennant's last chance to have a blow-the-doors-off blast before his final dark and brutal episodes in the fall and at Christmas, airs as well, also on BBC America. Wa...
REVIEW: Torchwood - Children of Earth
Original at crossoverman (Livejournal)
• Sat, Jul 11
The strength of the mini-series is in taking the three current Torchwood Cardiff employees and setting them against a vast conspiracy. It's not just another five episodes of Torchwood but a story in and of itself. It almost requires no former knowledge of character or setting - and enriche...
How To: Doctor Who: Dalek Voice TutorialOriginal at YouTube
• Sun, Jun 7
By rss@youtube.com (MsipmsonW) Author: MsipmsonW Keywords: BBC Doctor Who Dalek Voice Tutorial Audacity Killerringer Added: June 7, 2009
Joy of Six: Sci-fi TV showsOriginal at EducationGuardian.co.uk
• Mon, May 18
By Georgina Turner Finally, a British entry. Brits always claim to have invented sci-fi – but in time-honoured tradition, they let everyone else do better at it (cf football, cricket, rugby …). My colleagues here on guardian.co.uk, firm David Tennant fans, would argue that Doctor Who continues to be the excep...
Fanfiction: Professor Who Interesting Planet (3/)Original at YouTube
• Mon, Apr 20
By rss@youtube.com (professorwho) Author: professorwho Keywords: Professor_Who Doctor_Who Doctor_WHO_fanfiction daleks cybermen ook David_Tennant Billie_piper Catherine_tate Added: April 20, 2009
Doctor Who Night (1999) - How to Build a TARDISOriginal at YouTube
• Tue, Apr 14
By rss@youtube.com (noisyheart) None Author: noisyheart Keywords: doctor who night how to make tardis science documentary chameleon circuit dimensionally transcendental engineering bigger on the inside time lord technology gallifrey Added: April 14, 2009
Fanfiction: TRAILER: Gangs of OakleighOriginal at YouTube
• Sat, Apr 4
By rss@youtube.com (professorwho) None Author: professorwho Keywords: Professor_Who Doctor_Who Doctor_Who_Fan_fiction Daleks Cybermen Tardis Added: April 4, 2009
Life Past Death-Everything Begins to Change- A BtVS, Torchwood, Doctor Who FanficOriginal at YouTube
• Fri, Jan 23
By rss@youtube.com (jezaeiri) The past is never really dead. and there are no casual connections. Author: jezaeiri Keywords: Buffy Doctor Who Tenth doctor fanfiction crossover twisting the hellmouth Added: January 23, 2009
Opinion: Understanding Doctor Who Part III: The Essential Doctor Who
Original at Siskoid's Blog of Geekery
• Thu, Jan 8
By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) Children in Need bit with Tennant followed by The Christmas Invasion (Series 2 boxed set) Torchwood Series 1 Sarah Jane Adventures Series 1 Torchwood Series 2 Sarah Jane Adventures Series 2 (not yet on DVD) The Next Doctor (and other specials this year, not yet on DVD)
The New Doctor’s Who?
Original at SF Universe
• Tue, Jan 6
By Cynthia When I think of ‘Doctor Who’, it’s David Tennant’s face that rises before me. And when I got my dvds in the mail and watched Season 1 I enjoyed it enormously, but with the knowledge that Christopher Eccleston wasn’t staying. That he was going to morph into David Tennant. And I was okay with that. I...
Understanding Doctor Who Part I: Ch-ch-ch-changes
Original at Siskoid's Blog of Geekery
• Tue, Jan 6
By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) It's not that Christopher Eccleston stayed too briefly to have his own era, but rather that New Who up til now has been Russell T Davies' story above all. Starting with "Rose", it's a story that only finds its conclusion in Journey's End, 4 years and 2 Doctors later. RTD reinvents the program f...
Opinion: "The Next Doctor"
Original at KRAD's Inaccurate Guide to Life
• Sat, Jan 3
By keith@decandido.net Since the show's relaunch in 2005, the BBC has aired a Doctor Who Christmas Special every 25th of December. The results haven't always been Who at its best. 2005's "The Christmas Invasion," David Tennant's first full story as the Tenth Doctor replacing Christopher Eccleston, was a bog-st...
Staggering Stories Podcast #36: The Next Godzilla
Original at Staggering Stories Podcast
• Fri, Jan 2
Show summary: Andy Simpkins, Adam J Purcell, Fake Keith and the ‘Real’ Keith Dunn, ready for the New Year, talk about Doctor Who: The Next Doctor, our Predictions for 2009, our Hopes and Dreams for 2009, see how wrong we were about our Predictions for 2008, find lots of general news, and a va...
Staggering Stories Podcast #35: The Christmas Kazoo Charade
Original at Staggering Stories Podcast
• Sun, Dec 21
Show summary: Andy Simpkins, Adam J Purcell, Fake Keith and the ‘Real’ Keith Dunn get festive and talk about Doctor Who: The Christmas Specials and Science Fiction Christmas References, play Swanee-Kazoo and Charades, have a visit from The Agony Nanny, find lots of general news, and a v...
Doctor Who Fan CreditsOriginal at YouTube
• Fri, Dec 19
By rss@youtube.com (Onceuponanillusion) I don't know what I was doing, really. I just really needed to upload something so you could all subscribe... ;) Disclaimer: I do not own nor am I affiliated with Doctor Who or the song. Non profit fan work. Author: Onceuponanillusion Keywords: Doctor who fan credits Added: December 19, 2008
Podcast: The Settling
Original at nhw (Livejournal)
• Wed, Dec 17
by Simon Guerrier, takes the Seventh Doctor, Ace and Hex to Drogheda and then to Wexford in 1649, where, inevitably, they get mixed up in Cromwell's invasion of Ireland - Hex ends up as a confidant of Cromwell's, while the Doctor and Ace get involved with the civilian victims of the unfoldi...
How To: Fandomestic: 10 Brilliant Doctor Who-Themed Cakes
Original at Fandomania
• Wed, Sep 24
By Celeste Monsour Making cakes based on Doctor Who has been popular ever since the UK children’s show Blue Peter featured a how-to back in the ’60s for making chocolate Dalek cakes (they did an updated tutorial prior to the start of Series 3). ...
Patch: Classic Who on US iTunes
Original at Outpost Gallifrey
• Wed, Aug 20
Just a couple of weeks following the release of complete seasons of new series Doctor Who on iTunes in the USA, a selection of classic Doctor Who adventures are now available on the download service as well. While most of the titles released so far have already been made available on DVD, suc...
Doctor Who - The Ten Doctors
Original at The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log
• Mon, Jun 23
By Richard This stole away an hour of my night last night so it’s time to share. Richard Morris has spent 15 months to give us 102 pages of Dr Who comics. (And he’s not done yet!) This is just the ultimate fan’s idea of “how can I get everyone into one Doctor Who comic?” and features all 10 doctors, plus compan...
Doctor Who - 4x13: "Journey's End" - Press Release
Original at Spoiler TV
• Thu, Jun 19
By docta(noreply@blogger.com) The entire universe is in danger as the Daleks activate their masterplan, in the concluding episode of Russell T Davies's Bafta Award-winning time-travelling drama. The Doctor is helpless, and even the Tardis faces destruction. The only hope lies with the Doctor's secret army of compan...
Doctor Who - 4x08: "Silence in the Library" - Digital Spy Preview
Original at Spoiler TV
• Tue, May 27
By docta(noreply@blogger.com) A few more humanoid life-forms join the party before too long, as a team headed up by Professor River Song (Alex Kingston) arrives to investigate The Library and its moving shadows. Song instantly recognises the Doctor, claiming that they have been to many places together - but the Doctor...
Staggering Stories Podcast #12: Rumble in the Fungal
Original at Staggering Stories Podcast
• Sat, Jan 12
Show summary: Andy Simpkins, Adam J Purcell, Fake Keith and Tony Gallichan talk about Doctor Who: The TV Movie (aka The Enemy Within), Star Wars Galaxies, 2007 in review, predictions for 2008, and a variety of other stuff, specifically: 00.00 - Intro and theme tune.01.00 — Greetings, yes?0...
Fanfiction: Curse of the Inferi by Brown Suit Blue [R]
Original at whofic.com
• Wed, Dec 12
The Doctor and Rose are thrown off course heading for 1895, instead landing in Piccadilly, 1960. The world they wander into is a radioactive wasteland populated by sub-human beasts. Something drastic has happened to space-time and now the Doctor and his companion must journey to the gasl...
DW Fic: Out of the Dark (1/1) PG-13
Original at humansrsuperior (Livejournal)
• Fri, Sep 14
Pairing: Doctor/Rose Summary: He isn’t about to let himself think that, in her, he can see everything that he has lost in himself. Author's Note: This story was written for my dear raspberry_splat, who so loves and misses her lovely damaged Ninth Doctor.
DW Fic: Wishing for the Impossible (1/1) PG-13
Original at humansrsuperior (Livejournal)
• Wed, Aug 22
Title: Wishing for the Impossible Rating: PG-13 Pairing: Ten/Rose Spoilers: Vague for The Last of the Time Lords Time Frame: Sometime between Season 3 and 4 Beta: raspberry_splat Disclaimer: Doctor Who and its characters belong to the BBC
DW Fic: Broken Teacup (1/1) PG
Original at humansrsuperior (Livejournal)
• Fri, Aug 17
Summary: The teacup was one of his last bits of Rose. Her favorite mug. A gift from him to her. A memento of a day he had spent with her—a real time, not some wish or fantasy. And now, it is lost to him. Slipped from his fingers and shattered across the floor.
Opinion: Blink!! Doctor Dan - And Others -
Give DOCTOR WHO
29.10 A Perfect Score!!
Original at Ain't It Cool News
• Sun, Jun 10
Blink" Steven Moffat has earned himself a huge reputation in fan circles, after writing season 1's most tonally-correct adventure (The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances) and season 2's sublime The Girl In The Fireplace. It's a reputation well-deserved and Moffat refuses to put a foot wron...