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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Feb 7, 2016 2:33:19 GMT
Cold Storage: Cold Storage is fan fiction written by Chris McKeon for Doctor Who Reviews: www.doctorwhoreviews.altervista.org/Fan%20Fiction_files/Cold%20Storage.pdfFeaturing the Ninth Doctor, Rose and Captain Jack. Also featuring the Ice Warriors and another familiar foe who comes very late in the story. Thrilling encounter the Doctor, Rose and Captain Jack have with the Ice Warriors. Also pretty good how certain pets turned up here in the lead-up to the appearance of their masters at the cliffhanger.
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Feb 7, 2016 2:34:05 GMT
Robot Chicken 7.14 Walking Dead Lobster (broadcast on July 13 2014) included a Doctor Who sketch in fact this particular sketch can be seen on Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew6aAEiyeycThe sketch however is rather disappointing for any Doctor Who fan to see. In hindsight the first indication that I was not going to enjoy this was when The Nerd stated clearly that he never seen Doctor Who. It has been said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery but there is absolutely nothing flattering about Doctor Who in this sketch and the resolution is rather awful in this Doctor Who fan's perspective. The Doctor here is voiced by Tim Roth who incidentally had expressed an interest to play the Doctor for real if and when the current Doctor Peter Capaldi decides to step down.
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Feb 7, 2016 2:35:22 GMT
Lethbridge-Stewart: The Fright Before Christmas: An enjoyable Christmas story featuring Lethbridge-Stewart.
Interesting how some Santas got involved here and exciting the climax between Lethbridge-Stewart and the sphere.
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Feb 7, 2016 2:35:47 GMT
4 x 20 - The Underwater Menace Episode 2: With its recovery in 2011, this is earliest surviving episode from the Troughton era. It is a fascinating look visually on how Troughton played the Doctor in those early days of his tenure. A highlight of this episode was when the Doctor tries to convince King Thous that Zaroff is as mad as a hatter. Impressive when the Doctor demonstrate to Ramo the likely outcome of Zaroff's experiment.
The DVD subtitles undignifyingly refer to Polly as Woman and Ben as Man. Obviously the DVD subtitle writer was not well verse with the characters. Among the comments in the commentary in this episode is Anneke Wills (Polly) revealing that Troughton disliked not only working on this story but also the director Julia Smith.
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Feb 7, 2016 2:36:19 GMT
Timewyrm: Genesys: Timewyrm: Genesys is the first book in the New Adventures range.
Written by John Peel and released in June 1991 marking the launch of the said range.
... Genesys is also the first in the quartet of the Timewyrm novels.
Featuring the Seventh Doctor and Ace sometime after their last televised adventure together in Survival.
The Third and Fourth Doctors also make cameo appearances in quite unexpected manners.
Timewyrm: Genesys is a fascinating start to the New Adventures with a worthy adversary for the Doctor in Ishtar.
Fascinating on the revelation of what the Timewyrm is and how it was created which leads into further adventures with the Timewyrm with the subsequent three books in the said quartet.
It seems that Malorie Blackman, the author of the Seventh Doctor/Ace 50th anniversary short story The Ripple Effect had not read Timewyrm: Genesys also featuring the Seventh Doctor and Ace when she wrote The Ripple Effect.
This is because in The Ripple Effect, the Doctor explained the Cloister Bell to Ace for the first time but the Doctor also had the first explanation of the Cloister Bell to Ace in Timewyrm: Genesys!
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Feb 7, 2016 2:36:49 GMT
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Mar 12, 2016 1:05:10 GMT
The original Master Roger Delgado had met a tragic death when the driver of the car that was taking him to a filming location crashed the car into the ravine that killed himself and Delgado.
In DWM's The Essential Doctor Who - The Master, it was sad to read that this tragedy could have been prevented by Delgado himself if he had not broken a routine of his.
In an interview here, Richard Franklin (Captain Yates) said that Delgado "never trusted unit drivers. There hadn't been any particular bad driving , he just didn't trust anyone other than himself to drive a car. He was very house-proud as far as his own driving was concerned. And so he didn't want this driver to be in a hurry and have an accident."
"You see, it's sad. He was always so well prepared."
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Mar 12, 2016 1:12:17 GMT
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Mar 12, 2016 1:22:29 GMT
Torchwood: Consequences - The Baby Farmers: First story in the Consequences anthology book. Written by David Llewellyn.
Along with Captain Jack, this story featured Emily Holroyd and Alice Guppy who had appeared in the TV Torchwood.
Enthralling story of what the story title and horrifying at the same time.
The Consequences anthology book was published in 2009 and I was surprised that The Baby Farmers included a Victorian barmaid by the name of Clara who was at the age of 26. Remarkably just three years later in 2012 TV Doctor Who featured its own Victorian barmaid by the name of Clara in The Snowmen also at age 26. However unlike the TV Clara, the Clara in The Baby Farmers is a blonde woman. Also The Baby Farmers took place in 1899 just seven years before The Snowmen in 1892.
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Mar 12, 2016 4:27:30 GMT
The Waters of Amsterdam: The Waters of Amsterdam is an audio story featuring the Fifth Doctor, Nyssa and Tegan.
Written by Jonathan Morris and released by Big Finish Productions in January 2016.
This takes place after Arc of Infinity as Amsterdam was where this TARDIS team were at the end of that TV story.
In an continuity with another Big Finish story, it is made clear here that the solo Fifth Doctor story Omega took place during the last scene of The Waters of Amsterdam.
With the Doctor, Nyssa and Tegan, they especially Tegan got a surprise when they bumped into Tegan's ex Kyle.
Good depiction of how Tegan really lost her job as an air stewardess and how her history with Kyle.
A certainly shocking revelation of Kyle in Part 3.
The TARDIS team meets Rembrant and this story certainly has shades of Vincent and the Doctor to it with Rembrant being the Vincent Van Gogh of this story. In Vincent and the Doctor, we see how much Vincent was unloved by his contemporaries and then the Doctor taking him to the future to show how much he is remembered by his work.
It was that particular fact about Vincent I got reminded of in The Waters of Amsterdam when Nyssa told Rembrant of how much his work is valued in the future only for him to say how much it was of use to him after he is dead.
Funny how the Doctor and Kyle first met Rembrant in the dialogue about his work.
The Nix makes for a menacing adversaries and quite clever the alliances the Doctor goes through to ultimately provide the resolution of this story.
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Mar 12, 2016 4:28:39 GMT
Jago & Litefoot: The Bloodless Soldier: The Bloodless Soldier is the series opener of Jago & Litefoot from Big Finish. Quite an intriguing start to the series with the said bloodless soldier thanks to the engineering by Dr Tulp. Thrilling adventure all the way through but too bad the tragedy that Ellie got here.
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Apr 28, 2016 22:17:53 GMT
You Are The Doctor And Other Stories - You Are The Doctor: You Are The Doctor And Other Stories is an anthology release from Big Finish and featuring the Seventh Doctor and Ace begins with You Are The Doctor. You Are The Doctor written by John Dorney is in a Choose Your Adventure format in which the listener decides which direction the story would take from the options available and in fact this format is even incorporation as an explanation in the story. I was somewhat wary about this story's Choose Your Adventure format as I worry about wanting to go through all the single variables of the story options. However at the end of the day such worries were not founded and I did enjoy per the episode title being the Doctor deciding where to go with the story. This plus the Chimblys making for good villains of this story.
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Apr 28, 2016 22:37:34 GMT
The Companion Chronicles: Find And Replace: Find and Replace is the third story of the fifth season of The Companion Chronicles from Big Finish Productions. Released in September 2010 and written by Paul Magrs. Find and Replace is a Third Doctor tale and has my wif eKaty Manning doing double duty as both Jo Grant and Iris Wildthyme, the latter having been created by Magrs. Also featuring Alex Lowe as Huxley whom he played before in the Turlough Companion Chronicle Ringpullworld. Katy is superb as both Jo and Iris in this story especially the reunion of the former with the Doctor. An ultimately heart-warming story.
The accompanying interviews were enjoyable to listen including Katy enjoying playing both Jo and Iris. Also brought up in the interviews was the possibility of Lowe returning as Huxley but alas according to TARDIS Wiki, Find and Replace is his last appearance as Huxley to date.
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Apr 29, 2016 0:31:38 GMT
Aquitane: Aquitane is an audio story featuring the Fifth Doctor, Nyssa and Tegan and is the second in the 2016 trilogy with this TARDIS trio.
Written by Simon Barnard and Paul Morris and released by Big Finish Productions in February 2016.
This takes place not long after Tegan rejoins the Doctor and Nyssa on their travels after Arc of Infinity and sometime before Snakedance.
Here the Doctor, Nyssa and Tegan arrives on the spaceship Aquitane.
What ensues is a fascinating tale of a time anomaly and an amusing robot butler by the name of Hargreaves.
There is a funny scene at the end with the suggestion that Hargreaves joins the TARDIS team something the Doctor declines in having.
However when it comes to robots travelling with the Fifth Doctor, it was just the delay of the inevitable as he would eventually get Kamelion but while Tegan is still with the Doctor by then, Nyssa had already left the Doctor.
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Apr 29, 2016 2:18:44 GMT
The Diary of River Song: The Boundless Sea: The Diary of River Song is an audio series from Big Finish Productions in which Alex Kingston reprises her role as River Song and the series was launched on Christmas 2015 the same day as The Husbands of River Song in what could be the character's last TV appearance. The Diary of River Song opens with The Boundless Sea. Intriguing adventure with River as she looks for a missing archaeologist and oh quite a discovery what became of her. The Boundless Sea felt sad in a lot of places but an effective way to begin The Diary of River Song.
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