Doctor Who

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...

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...

By dailypop Tony Lee (w) o Matthew Dow Smith (a) o Paul Grist, Smith (c) In Part 3 of the four-part ‘Fugitive’ story arc, the Doctor has been trapped on an alien world with his old enemies now his allies-and his old allies now trying to kill him! He has only one chance to save his life… and possibly an entire...

By dailypop Star Wars Vehicles Coll Mag #01 Millennium Falcon The Star Wars: The Official Starships and Vehicles Collection Magazine brings fans superbly detailed painted metal models of the most amazing starships and land vehicles from George Lucas’ mythic Star Wars films.

By dailypop The script leak reads a lot like fan fiction and is more convoluted and confused that can be imagined, but it will likely get fans and movie makers thinking about what will and won’t work in a fourth movie. The addition of more villains and Bruce Campbell as the Scorpion all sound very ‘off’ to...

By dailypop Comedian, actor and writer Mark Gatiss has been making quite a name for himself. From working on the new Doctor Who behind the screen (as a writer of 2005’s the Unquiet Dead and later the Idiot’s Lantern) and in front of the camera (in The Lazarus Experiment). He also starred opposite future D...

By dailypop Batman Monsters By John Watkiss

By dailypop In this strange skit (possibly filmed in the mid-90’s as part of a Saturday morning children’s program), the Third Doctor as played by Jon Pertwee is psychoanalyzed about his condition. It’s a very funny bit and also speaks to the stage presence that Jon Pertwee possessed even late in life....

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...

By dailypop Doctor Who Ongoing #4 In Part 2 of the four-part ‘Fugitive’ story arc, the Doctor finds himself confined with three aliens that would like nothing more than seeing him dead! But that’s just the beginning of troubles as the Doctor learns that the galaxy is on the verge of all-out war!

By dailypop Story 118: ‘Kinda’ Most every era of Doctor Who has an epic. The First Doctor has the Dalek’s Masterplan, the Second Doctor has the Abominable Snowmen/Web of Fear, the Third Doctor has the Dalek War, the Fourth Doctor has Key to Time. The Fifth Doctor actually has two epics; the Black Guardia...

By dailypop IDW’s newly recolored reprints of classic Doctor Who tales from years past continues. In this issue, the adventures of the Fifth Doctor continue in the concluding chapters of ‘4-Dimensional Vistas,’ printed in the U.S. for the first time! Featuring all-new colors by Charlie Kirchoff.

By dailypop I’ll be honest here and admit that I had not heard of this series before yesterday but the footage I glimpse sufficiently piqued my interest to hunt down everything and anything I could find out and pass it on to you, my faithful reader. This could possibly be the most ambitious and spell-bin...

By dailypop DVD box set trailer The TV series based on Youd’s books took a few liberties but is still great stuff. Considered an exceptionally costly production for its time, the Tripods would appeal to any die-hard sci-fi fan or lover of classic BBC programs such as Blake’s 7 or Doctor Who.

By dailypop “According to the Restoration Team, episodes 2 through 6 have very strong color signals embedded in the black and white film recordings, making it a good candidate for the color recovery process developed from 2007-2009 and used on episode 3 of Planet of the Daleks. However, episode 1 was...

By dailypop Doctor Who Doctor Who Black Death White Life Cover Price: $3.99 After the Doctor and his companion Martha mistakenly land the TARDIS during the Great Plague of London, the discovery of a healer draws them into a mystery that could mean the end of Martha!

By dailypop Peter Davison I just stumbled across this vintage interview with Peter Davison from 1982 as the actor looked back on his first year as the star of the longest running sci-fi program on TV. As Tom Baker was a relative unknown and Jon Pertwee a stage performer/song and dance man before being ca...

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...

By dailypop Top Ten Episodes of Doctor Who 2. BLINK (2007) starring DAVID TENNANT 3. GENESIS OF THE DALEKS (1975) starring TOM BAKER 5. THE EMPTY CHILD (2005) starring CHRISTOPHER ECCLESTON 6. HUMAN NATURE (2007) starring DAVID TENNANT 10. BAD WOLF (2005) starring CHRISTOPHER ECCLESTON

By dailypop IDW PUBLISHING Doctor Who Classics Series 2 #10 (Steve Parkhouse cover), $3.99 War Machine #9 (Francesco Mattina Regular Cover), $2.99 Patriot or Traitor? Hero or killer? Man or machine? James Rhodes fights for his very soul as he takes on the most deadly incarnation of his greatest enemy.

By dailypop In 1973, director Robert Fuest of the Vincent Price films The Abominable Dr. Phibes and Dr. Phibes Rises Again, worked on a film adaptation of a Jerry Cornelius novel, the Final Programme. Utilizing his brilliant sense of color and design, the film appears to be a long lost cousin of Doctor Wh...

By dailypop Matt Smith- Doctor #11 Revealed: Richard Curtis’s Doctor Who ‘An exclusive glance at one of TV’s best guarded scripts. Sort of..’ http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/organgrinder/2009/sep/08/richard-curtis-doctor-who-script

By dailypop The addition of U.N.I.T. also brought in a new element that appealed to the super spy craze popular at the time, but the synergy between the Doctor and U.N.I.T.’s leader Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart also spoke volumes to the younger generation’s revolt against authority. The constant battle be...

By dailypop There was a time when American comics were released only in the UK as strange anthology magazines. In many ways, this provided more ‘bang for your buck’ and allowed kids to catch up on Fantastic Four, Spider-Man and Nick Fury all in one go! In 1976, it was decided that the series should have it...

By dailypop Planet of the Daleks The race of evil mutants determined to eradicate all other sentient life in the universe, the Daleks, make what could have been one of the biggest appearance on the TV screen in this 6 part epic. Last seen one year previous in the time-travel drama ‘Day of the Daleks,’ the...

By dailypop The thrall of the Master, Kamelion was part of the mincing Timelord’s latest ploy to trap the Doctor by altering Earth’s history. Mentally controlling Kamelion’s will so that it resembles King John, the Master sought to alter the signing of the Magna Carte, drastically changing history...

By dailypop This makes Turlough a rarity in three categories… he’s also one of two red-haired companions ( the second is Amy Pond). The Doctor (Peter Davison) and Turlough (Mark Strickson) Click here for all of Turlough’s adventures with the Doctor on DVD.

By dailypop I’m still not sure if the Master’s dialog in The Trial of a Timelord implies that the last incarnation of the Doctor is the Valeyard or what… or if this will ever be addressed (or even if it should be). Doctor #8 - Paul McGann How did the Eight Doctor regenerate?

By dailypop Big Finish has been producing audio adventures since 1999. With titles including Robin Hood, Highlander, Dark Shadows and Stargate, they have covered a lot of ground with fans of cult TV programs that are no longer on the air. Actors Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy and Paul McG...

By dailypop When Patrick Troughton took over from the first actor to play the role of the Doctor William Hartnell there were many changes made to the series… but it was still the same Doctor Who. Could that not be the case here? The renumbering seems to hint that this is the case.

By dailypop The Dalek Empire strip was so popular that it was even adapted into a series of audio adventures much later on featuring Blake’s 7 Gareth Thomas, Red Dwarf’s Craig Charles and even future Doctor David Tennant! Dalek Attack by the Mechmaster Spider Dalek Concept Dalek Girls

By dailypop Jon Pertwee Tom Baker Peter Davison Colin Baker For a program that has become a national icon that influenced everything from special effects to electronic music… the bar is admittedly high for Doctor Who. Perhaps it is only natural that any changes are disappointing? The ‘geek chic’ loo...

By dailypop The team for this special comprises Executive Producers Russell T Davies and Julie Gardner with Nikki Wilson onboard as Producer. Nikki previously worked as script editor on the series four story, The Poison Sky, as well as producing series two of The Sarah Jane Adventures. The Waters of M...

By dailypop When I was living in Cambridge, I stumbled upon a video triple feature called ‘Star Wars: Prequel, Alien 5 and Farrah!’ all done with action figures. Not just restricted to the Star Wars line, Prequel expanded its 4.5 inch cast by introducing toys from the Black Hole and even Doctor Who as a va...

By dailypop Despite Turlough’s obviously sinister attitude, the Doctor happily welcomes him to the TARDIS… cue cliffhanger. Part Two: Terminus Peter Davison (the Doctor) struggles to maintain his dignity The Black Guardian Trilogy will finally be released on DVD this summer.

By dailypop The Hand of Fear saw the departure of the much-loved Sarah Jane Smith but also the exciting cliffhanger that the Doctor was being recalled to his home planet of Gallifrey. Last seen several years ago in the 1973 adventure The Three Doctors, Gallifrey was populated with near-supermen who k...

By dailypop The new series of Doctor Who is expected to air in the Spring of 2010 with three additional specials to appear beforehand leading to the dramatic departure of what could be the most loved Doctor of them all and the biggest risk that the series has faced since 1981 when Tom Baker departed and r...

By dailypop It must be nice to be British. A holiday arrives and there is actually something worthwhile on the TV. This Easter sci-fi fans rejoiced as both Doctor Who and Red Dwarf took to the screens to cries of ’squee’ all across the sceptred isle. I had first heard of Red Dwarf way back in my High [...]

By dailypop This character who so brazenly enters the world of Doctor is later revealed to be Jackson Lake, a normal human who was exposed to a data storage device. The device was loaded with all of the information on the Doctor and it ‘went off’ in Morrisey’s face, causing him to ‘download’ all of the inf...

By dailypop The official trailer for the Easter 2009 Doctor Who special has finally been released… start salivating… This will be the first of 4 specials as the 10th Doctor’s era comes to a close. Honestly, Tennant has gotten so intimate with the prop… who else would want it?

By dailypop Doctor Who Lost in Time Collection of Rare Episodes - The Patrick Troughton Years 1966-1969 (contains segments of the Moonbase and Wheel in Space Doctor Who - The Tomb of the Cybermen Doctor Who - The Invasion Doctor Who: Attack of the Cybermen (Episode 138)

By dailypop For all of my grumbling about the new series, this trailer for the latest Doctor Who Christmas Special looks very good. The next year of Doctor Who is, as always, shrouded in mystery. Will it feature past Doctors in addition to David Tennant? Will it be filmed in America? Will it be any good at a...

By dailypop The former cult favorite of many since the late 1970’s has flowered into a major export for the BBC after the revival Doctor Who program debuted in 2005 with veteran actor Christopher Eccleston and former pop idol turned TV icon Billie Piper. Having succeeded Eccleston in the role, David T...

By dailypop David Tennant, best known for his portrayal of the enigmatic time traveling adventurer Doctor Who, may be leaving the part next year according to co-star Catherine Tate. In her Radio 2 appearance with Jonathan Ross, Tate let it slip that she thought David may leave after the 2008 Christma...