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Post by Jesse on Sept 23, 2023 13:48:57 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2023 13:54:31 GMT -5
And just like that, all is right with Doctor Who again. Heavens how I've missed those two, I can't wait for this special. |
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Post by Calidore on Sept 23, 2023 19:52:06 GMT -5
Just got my Blu-Ray set of William Hartnell's (and the show's) complete second season. Nine serials totaling 39 episodes.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Sept 24, 2023 15:55:37 GMT -5
That looks awesome. Was that Neil Patrick Harris as the bad guy? Is he the celestial toy maker? |
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Post by Jesse on Sept 24, 2023 16:16:51 GMT -5
That looks awesome. Was that Neil Patrick Harris as the bad guy? Is he the celestial toy maker? Yes and not sure if that was confirmed or not but an awesome throw back to Hartnell if true. I'm excited about Beep the Meep too. Including a character like that I'm wondering if we'll get a Frobisher appearance at some point. |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Sept 25, 2023 5:21:36 GMT -5
That looks awesome. Was that Neil Patrick Harris as the bad guy? Is he the celestial toy maker? Yes and not sure if that was confirmed or not but an awesome throw back to Hartnell if true. I'm excited about Beep the Meep too. Including a character like that I'm wondering if we'll get a Frobisher appearance at some point. Oh man, Frobisher would be awesome. |
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Post by driver1980 on Oct 4, 2023 10:50:58 GMT -5
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Post by Batflunkie on Oct 5, 2023 19:46:10 GMT -5
So found something of a curiosity today at work. It's a Target Books junior novelization of the First Doctor Episode "The Daleks", one of my favorites  I'm kind of a sucker for novelizations of things in general. Wonder how it got stateside, unless the original owner bought it while in England in the 80s |
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Post by badwolf on Oct 11, 2023 16:26:17 GMT -5
So found something of a curiosity today at work. It's a Target Books junior novelization of the First Doctor Episode "The Daleks", one of my favorites I'm kind of a sucker for novelizations of things in general. Wonder how it got stateside, unless the original owner bought it while in England in the 80s If that's your actual copy, it's a new printing. But they were easily available in the U.S. back then as well. Sometimes they had a small distributor sticker on the back, but I forget who it was now. |
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Post by badwolf on Oct 11, 2023 16:27:30 GMT -5
Not that I'm complaining at all, but I wonder why they decided to go back to DT?
And yes, that's got to be the Toymaker. He even resembles Michael Gough a bit.
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Post by Batflunkie on Oct 11, 2023 19:17:29 GMT -5
So found something of a curiosity today at work. It's a Target Books junior novelization of the First Doctor Episode "The Daleks", one of my favorites I'm kind of a sucker for novelizations of things in general. Wonder how it got stateside, unless the original owner bought it while in England in the 80s If that's your actual copy, it's a new printing. But they were easily available in the U.S. back then as well. Sometimes they had a small distributor sticker on the back, but I forget who it was now. No, I just couldn't find a decent image of it online (and honestly didn't feel like taking one myself), but it's a fourth printing from 1980 and has various prices on the back from the UK, Australian, New Zealand, and Canada. Pretty good shape too |
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Post by badwolf on Oct 12, 2023 9:15:16 GMT -5
If that's your actual copy, it's a new printing. But they were easily available in the U.S. back then as well. Sometimes they had a small distributor sticker on the back, but I forget who it was now. No, I just couldn't find a decent image of it online (and honestly didn't feel like taking one myself), but it's a fourth printing from 1980 and has various prices on the back from the UK, Australian, New Zealand, and Canada. Pretty good shape too Ah, okay. Yeah I had quite a few of the Targets, including this one (and a couple from Pinnacle) but I sold the lot off years ago, apart from the one I got signed by Terrance Dicks at my very first convention.
IIRC in this one there's an odd quirk of the writing that the TARDIS is always referred to as TARDIS (without the article, i.e. "We have to get back to TARDIS") that made me twitch when I read it as a teenager.
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Post by driver1980 on Oct 12, 2023 11:19:43 GMT -5
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 12, 2023 13:20:22 GMT -5
The Target books and subsequent were well distributed in the US, once Tom Baker hit these shores. You used to see quite a lot of them in used book stores, after their owners had finished them. We had Day of the Daleks in my high school; and, believe me, we didn't get a lot of contemporary fiction, let alone sci-fi tv tie-in books. Just a handful, as I checked out and read it, Michael Moorcock's The Silver Warriors (with the bears pulling the sled), the Return of the King and one or two others. Our librarian must have gotten some grant money or something and bought a bunch of paperbacks, because we never got new books. This was a rural school district, with a school population (junior and senior highs) of a little over 200.
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 27, 2023 22:17:53 GMT -5
After watching some convention Q&As and The Power of the Doctor Special, with Janet Fielding and Peter Davison back (and Sylvester McCoy & Sophie Aldred, plus Colin Baker, Paul McGann, and some surprises, at the end), I started rewatching the Davison era, which was my first full time doctor Who watching. Tom Baker was the first for our PBS station; but it had been going before I ever ehard of Doctor Who and they were always mid-serial, whenever I tried to watch it; so, I was eternally lost and confused. I started with Adric's first appearance, then watched "The Keeper of Traken" and "Logopolis," for the intro of the other companions and the regeneration, then straight into Davison. I'm watching "Kinda," right now. I forgot that Richard Todd was in it and am finding myself amused by his sort of Colonel Blimp character, to the point I find myself imitating his voice and speech patterns, doing riffs on Commander McBragg cartoons, from Underdog, back in the 60s (which I saw in the very early 70s, in syndication). It satirizes British colonial rule and the British Army in such areas and Todd plays it to the hilt. I find myself saying, "Damned natives don't seem to appreciate being dominated by the British Empire, wot? It reminds me of the time in Bora Bora. I was busy shooting locals for target practice, when......"
Kinda is interesting, as you get to see Fielding do more than stand around asking the Doctor what they are going to do, in an Aussie accent and attitude (exaggerated, to be sure), though she is still stuck in her flight attendant uniform, for a bit. I have to ask, even in the 80s, what airline outfitted their crew in lavender? Just seems a bit subdued, for the 80s. I didn't complain that they always kept her in skirts (unlike Nyssa, who got trousers for a bit), since I am a "leg man." I was quite happy when she got the leather mini-skirt (in time to meet the Daleks). Nyssa did get short changed, though, as I quite liked her; but she never really got a meaty episode, until she was leaving the show. They also never let her be especially feminine or gave her a personality beyond being a scientist and highly intelligent.
I suppose, part of the reason I didn't recall Todd was that I was too busy noticing Nerys Hughes (as a scientist, with the surname Todd, which must have gotten confusing, on set), as the scientific expert, in a rather fetching lab uniform, with an above the knee hemline, open neck collar, and high heels. She looked rather sexy in her costume, even though it was meant to be a futuristic lab coat kind of thing.
I kind of want to watch all the way through to the end of McCoy, especially as I missed most of Baker's second season, with the Trial of the Time Lord and saw none of McCoy, until watching "Remembrance of the Daleks" and "Battlefield," via Netflix (the old fashioned way, on DVD). Meanwhile, I still have my new DVD collection of Eccleston through Capaldi, and am only just getting to "The Runaway Bride" special, and have a long way to go, there.
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