Thursday, 31 October 2013
Wednesday, 30 October 2013
Ty-Phoo: The Amazing World of Doctor Who - Space-Age picture cards ...
Ty-Phoo Tea promotion from 1976
Monday, 28 October 2013
Dr. Who and the Walls 'Sky Ray' Space Raiders
A 1967 TV commercial for the Walls 'Sky Ray' ice lolly
This promotion offered a set of 36 picture-cards featuring a 'Troughton-esque'
Doctor working with the 'Sky Ray Space Raiders' to battle the Daleks.
There was also an album to collect the cards in :
the Dr Who's Space Adventure Book.
Doctor working with the 'Sky Ray Space Raiders' to battle the Daleks.
There was also an album to collect the cards in :
the Dr Who's Space Adventure Book.
This 28 page album contained some colouring-in pages, games,
and diagrams in addition to its central feature - a short story: Daleks Invade Zaos.
The 36 cards helped to illustrate the story,
and could also be used to play a simplistic
'Space Raiders Battle' game.
and diagrams in addition to its central feature - a short story: Daleks Invade Zaos.
The 36 cards helped to illustrate the story,
and could also be used to play a simplistic
'Space Raiders Battle' game.
Sunday, 27 October 2013
Friday, 25 October 2013
The REAL 'Fish Custard' ...
Episode: THE ELEVENTH HOUR:
“… Box falls out of the sky, man falls out of the box, man eats Fish Custard ...”
To prepare 'Fish
Custard', 11th Doctor style:
Take one packet of Fish Fingers [frozen]
(Likely ingredients: Cod Fillet, Breadcrumb, Vegetable Oil, Wheat Flour, Water, Paprika, Salt, Yeast, Turmeric, Potato Starch, Salt.)
Fry or grill fish fingers until golden.
Take one carton of ready-to-serve Custard
Take one packet of Fish Fingers [frozen]
(Likely ingredients: Cod Fillet, Breadcrumb, Vegetable Oil, Wheat Flour, Water, Paprika, Salt, Yeast, Turmeric, Potato Starch, Salt.)
Fry or grill fish fingers until golden.
Take one carton of ready-to-serve Custard
(Likely ingredients:
Sugar, Skimmed Milk, Modified Maize Starch, Whey Powder,
Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil, Flavourings, Colours: Beta Carotene &
Annatto, Stabiliser: Sodium Tripolyhosphate).
Pour custard into bowl and heat
in microwave.
Eat.
Alternatively,
to prepare
SCOTTISH Fish Custard
try this recipe
by a Miss M. Barrowman* (from Glasgow)
as printed in
GOOD THINGS IN ENGLAND:
to prepare
SCOTTISH Fish Custard
try this recipe
by a Miss M. Barrowman* (from Glasgow)
as printed in
GOOD THINGS IN ENGLAND:
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[* The question has to be asked: Any relation to John - a great, great aunt, perhaps?]
[* The question has to be asked: Any relation to John - a great, great aunt, perhaps?]
Thursday, 24 October 2013
Capaldi in Wonderland
JENNA:
"I know, Peter - I know.
But if Steven Moffat says you have to play the 12th as a cat, you'll just have to accept it.
By the way, how good are you at doing a Cheshire accent?"
"I know, Peter - I know.
But if Steven Moffat says you have to play the 12th as a cat, you'll just have to accept it.
By the way, how good are you at doing a Cheshire accent?"
Monday, 21 October 2013
'The Doctor' - not 'Doctor Who'?
It is interesting to see just how many Whovians become irate
when someone refers to the Time Lord as:
'Doctor Who'.
when someone refers to the Time Lord as:
'Doctor Who'.
Yet having watched the
series from the late 60's, I - like a great many others - grew up
with the understanding that there was no problem referring to the
character as 'Doctor Who' - particularly as, for the first eighteen
years of the original series (and then again in the first year of the
modern series), as well as being called 'The Doctor', the Time Lord was very widely referred to as "Doctor
Who" (or: Dr. Who") by the BBC themselves.
It
is how he was identified in the programme's end-credits.
It is also how he was identified by:
It is also how he was identified by:
The
shows original creators,
Several
of its Producers (including the sainted Verity Lambert),
Script
writers,
Production-paperwork
compilers,
Actors
who played Classic-era incarnations of the Time Lord,
The
BBC Radio Times listings guide editors and feature writers,
The
editors of the classic-era Who Annuals,
The
editors of Classic-era who Novelisations,
and so on.
and so on.
And, contrary to what many would have us believe, for the majority of the 'Classic Era' and beyond, the Time Lord was also commonly referred to as 'Doctor Who' by the general public, by the British press, and more importantly, by many fans:
Some 'Whovian Social History':
Numerous press clippings etc,
which include reference (however brief) to the Time Lord as 'Doctor Who'
can be viewed
HERE
Numerous press clippings etc,
which include reference (however brief) to the Time Lord as 'Doctor Who'
can be viewed
HERE
"TV Choice" Awards, 2013
At the recent "TV
Choice" Awards
- held at London's Dorchester Hotel on Monday, 9th September -
Doctor Who won not only the Best Drama Series award,
but also a special Outstanding Contribution Award in honour of the show’s 50th anniversary.
- held at London's Dorchester Hotel on Monday, 9th September -
Doctor Who won not only the Best Drama Series award,
but also a special Outstanding Contribution Award in honour of the show’s 50th anniversary.
Outside ...
CLARA:
"Doctor, when I said: 'Think outside the box', this wasn't quite what I had in mind..."
"Doctor, when I said: 'Think outside the box', this wasn't quite what I had in mind..."
Sunday, 20 October 2013
Peter Capaldi: DWIFC Magazine
An article by Peter Capaldi in issue 2 of the
Doctor Who International Fan Club magazine.
May, 1976
Doctor Who International Fan Club magazine.
May, 1976
Friday, 18 October 2013
Doctor Who and the Lair of the White Worm - a.k.a: The Curse of ... Temporal Paradox
Hugh Grant and Peter Capaldi
Thursday, 17 October 2013
Rewritten ...
“... thing is, Amy,
everyone’s memory is a mess.
Life is a mess. Everyone’s got memories of a
holiday they couldn’t have been on, or a party
they never went to, or met someone for the first
time and felt like they’ve known them all their lives.
Time is being rewritten all around us, every day..."
Life is a mess. Everyone’s got memories of a
holiday they couldn’t have been on, or a party
they never went to, or met someone for the first
time and felt like they’ve known them all their lives.
Time is being rewritten all around us, every day..."
- The Doctor
(Mini-episode: “Good
Night”)
So it got me thinking:
At Trenzalore, the Great Intelligence jumps into the Doctor's time-stream and starts changing things.
Then Clara jumps into the time-stream, and attempts to rectify things.
Then the Doctor jumps in, and apparently the time-stream starts collapsing in on itself.
And after all this, Clara sees a face she hasn't seen before - in any of her myriad incarnations:
The One who broke the Promise. The One who did what he did in the name of Peace and Sanity.
Well, what if, the reason she hadn't seen him before was simply because he had never existed
- until that final moment?
“TIME IS BEING REWRITTEN ALL AROUND US, EVERY
DAY.”
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