2010!

To all my readers and followers. Have a great New Year and I look forward to talking to you in 2010.

2009 A Year in Review

January:
Matt Smith is the 11th Doctor
Patrick MaGoohan passes
Ricardo Montalbon passes
Michelle Ryan/Planet of the Dead
February

Classic Series Figures
March
Tom Baker to Return
May
The Doctor visits Sarah Jane
Karen Gillan joins Matt Smith
June
Passing of a great Doctor Who Fan
July
Set Pictures of the 11th Doctor
New Tom Baker Audios
August
Doctor Who.com
Harry Towb passes
September
Jamie Returns to the Doctor
Mary Tamm Autobiography
October
New Tardis Interior
Barry Letts Passes
New Who Logo
December
The Time Lords Return

Tennant on Breakfast

Doctor Who Gallifreyan Buccaneer

Trailers for End of Time pt2 - SPOILERS!

Ok, if you have not seen End of Time pt1. Do Not Watch these trailers! They are filled with episode 1 SPOILERS. ENJOY.

Doctor Who Rings in the New Year

Following its ratings success with The Waters of Mars, BBC America is broadcasting nothing but Doctor Who for the first 46 hours of 2010. Almost the entire run of David Tennant episodes will be shown starting with the Christmas Invasion at midnight New Year's Day and going right through to The End of Time Part Two ending at 10pm on 2nd January.

Donald Pickering 1933-2009

The actor Donald Pickering has died at the age of 76. He passed peacefully at home on December 19th 2009

Known to Doctor Who fans for his three appearances in the Classic series. He fist played the role of Eyesen in the 1964 story The Keys of Marinus alongside William Hartnell. Eyesen was the Court Prosecutor, who has succeeded in persuading the Three Judges of Millennium to find Ian guilty of murder.

Pickering returned to the series in 1967, this time with Patrick Troughton, playing Captain Blade in The Faceless Ones. Blade was an airplane pilot at Gatwick Airport whose identity was taken over by a Chameleon.

His final appearance in the series was twenty years later in Sylvester McCoy's first story, Time and the Rani. In this story he played Beyus, the leader of the Lakertyan race, who was forced to serve the Rani alongside his daughter.

Classic Wave 2 Figures

Wave 2 of the classic range of Doctor Who figures are on their way in the new year. Sadly no Doctor figures are included so we will have to wait a bit longer for a Sylvester McCoy and Paul McGann figure to add to your collection of already released William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Perter Davison and Colin Baker.
Wave 2 consists of: Cyberman From the 5th Doctor story Earthshock, An Ice Warrior, From the 2nd Doctor Story The Ice Warriors, The Morbius Creature from the 4th Doctor story The Brain of Morbius, A Mummy with Canopic Jar also from a Tom Baker story Pyramid of Mars, The Master from The Deadly Assassin and a Voc Robot from Robots of Death. The figures are avabilile for preorder from Forbidden Planet.com

thanks to dennis for the heads up

End of Time BBC America

The End of Time airs on BBC America over the next two Saturdays, with Part One at 9pm ET on the 26th followed by Part Two at 8.30 ET on 2nd January. To mark the importance of the program to the channel, Doctor Who has taken over the front page of the BBC America website, with video clips and images from the specials.

BBC America has already confirmed that Series One, Matt Smith's first series as the Doctor will air on the channel in the Spring. Previous series have aired first on the Sci-Fi channel, where they got ratings of around 1.5 million.

BBC America Ratings

The Waters of Mars helped BBC America achieve its highest ever rating last Saturday.

Over 1.1 million watched the Doctor Who special on the channel giving it its highest ever prime time rating and making it 13th highest amongst advertising supported cable networks for ages 25-35.

Doctor Who Magazine special

Doctor Who Magazine 416 is the biggest-ever edition and, less than a month before he leaves the role, is a David Tennant special. Tennant gives an in-depth interview about his last days as the Tenth Doctor, the forthcoming Christmas Special, The End of Time, and the reasons why he’s decided to leave his dream job.


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McGann Reissue

The latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine reveals that The TV Movie will be re-released on DVD as a special edition in 2010.

The movie stars Paul McGann in his only television appearence as the Eighth Doctor, it
was first shown in 1996. The new release will be part of the "Revisitaions" box set, which will consist of new editions of stories that were previously released in the early days of the DVD range.

The TV Move special edition will include a documentary called The Seven Year Hitch, which looks at producer Philip Segal's long quest to get the project into production and talks to Segal himself, as well as writer Matthew Jacobs and the then-BBC One controller Alan Yentob.

There is no confirmed release date for the Box Set, nor is it known if the story will finally be available in North America.


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Tennant Specials in February

It's being reported by tvshowsondvd.com that the specials of Doctor Who: the final David Tennant stories will arrvive on dvd and blu-ray this Feb 4th. The Waters of Mars, The End of Time pts 1&2 will all come out that day, including the complete specials that will include The Next Doctor, The Waters of Mars and The End of Time pts 1&2 on dvd and blu-ray. Below are images of the box covers (though these might change) enjoy.

For Sale: One Dalek

Only four of the pepper pot aliens from the 1963 run were ever made, the other three having already been sold.
Bonhams is to auction more than 100 outfits and props from Dr Who, the first time the BBC has done so on such a scale since 1990.
Andrew Beech from the BBC said the Daleks could be dated by their different construction methods.
He said: "The original Daleks were created by a company called Surecraft Models. The 'skirt panels' had round holes in them and the hemispheres were pushed through from the back.
"With the later models, the panels were left intact and the hemispheres glued on."
He added: "I believe this is the last BBC original – the others have been sold off in previous auctions.
From: http://www.telegraph.co.uk


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Guest Stars of Doctor Who: Peter Miles

Peter Miles is a British actor. He has played many television roles including several different characters in Z-Cars and Doctor Who. His other television work has included Survivors, The Sweeney, Dixon of Dock Green, Moonbase 3, Poldark and Bergerac.

In the science fiction series Blake's 7 he played the character of Rontane in two episodes:

"Seek-Locate-Destroy"
"Trial"
For Doctor Who, he appeared in three serials as:

Dr. Lawrence in Doctor Who and the Silurians (1970)
Professor Whitaker in Invasion of the Dinosaurs (1974)
Nyder in Genesis of the Daleks (1975)

He also performed in the BBC Radio 5 Doctor Who audio drama The Paradise of Death in 1993, playing the villainous character Tragan. Miles contributed to several other Doctor Who spinoffs, including the independent video production More Than a Messiah and the audio dramas Zygons: Absolution and Prosperity Island, all produced by BBV. For the licensed audio drama producers Big Finish Productions, he appeared in Whispers of Terror in 1999 and Sarah Jane Smith: Mirror, Signal, Manoeuvre in 2002. In 2006, he reprised the role of Nyder in I, Davros: Guilt. For Magic Bullet Productions, he appeared in five of the Kaldor City SF audio dramas, in the role of scheming politician Landerchild. He has also appeared in the second volume of The True History of Faction Paradox, The Ship of a Billion Years, as the Egyptian deity Anhur. He played Lord Straxus in the Bernice Summerfield Season 9 episode The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel.

Peter Miles is also an accomplished jazz singer. He was a childhood friend of the legendary soul singer Dusty Springfield; in fact the first recording Dusty ever made was with Peter on guitar, as referenced in a biography of Dusty Springfield broadcast by The South Bank Show on 9 April 2006, in which Peter Miles also appeared.

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