Doctor Who: Classic or Dud?

lol, i should have said "apart from dan".

My co-worker has read every new Who and Torchwood book published. It's a bit strange.

all the nu-Who books are hardcover and like $14 apiece, which is just too much damn money

I had no problems dishing out for these things when they were paperbacks and $6

To be fair she orders them all from our interlibrary loan system so she's not paying for them, but still.

Also, she went to England for the specific purpose of seeing David Tennant & Catherine Tate in Much Ado About Nothing.

DJP, some of them get reissued as paperbacks for about that price. I don't know what they're like because I've not read anything since Gallifrey Chronicles, doubt they're ~essential~ though

The one I read was baaaad. But then I don't care very much about Rory's inner feelings, so.

To be fair she orders them all from our interlibrary loan system so she's not paying for them, but still.

Our interlibrary loans cost the library abt $12 iirc and are free to the end user

I'm in the office next door to the ILL staff so I think they might come and kill me if I ordered 6000 Doctor Who books at the library's expense

(this sounds quite funny, I might try it)

just looked at the ppl writing the new ones; I would generally be interested in written by (in descending order of interest):

Lance Parkin
Jonathan Morris
Mark Michalowski
Simon Messingham
Paul Magrs
Jaq Rayner
Justin Richards
Martin Day
Trevor Baxendale

I would expect the Gary Russell books to be REALLY dubious in quality and the Gareth Roberts books would vary wildly from great to unreadable. I am kind of shocked at how many of the same people are still writing these!

Lance Parkin (for obvious reasons) is maybe the only one I am not surprised at being not involved tbh.

does anyone actually buy these books?

IIRC the BBC became the fifth-largest fiction publisher in the UK simply by publishing the new range of tie-ins?

I rly liked Jenny Colgan's 2nd and 3rd novels, she turned untellably atrocious after that tho

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=chameleon+circuit&oq=Chameleon+Circuit&aq=0&aqi=g4&aql=&gs_sm=1&gs_upl=14834l14834l0l26143l1l1l0l0l0l0l397l397l3-1l1l0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju0qWmjK_II

theres even worse ones on the link

this might be the worst
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98rtEm7sUsU

and I wonder what life would be like if
I could choose not to say affirmative

^^^^ death penalty for that rhyme sequence alone

why would you do this to this thread AG
why
why
why

Delilah

*cries*

you're actually watching all the videos

I am not, I stopped after that stupid K9 video

oh you would love dr what

stfu

its about on a par with the cheesy power metal you grew up with and still love! :P

not helping

also gfy :P

the OG opening to K9 and Company is something to behold:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu7OiJpnlUs

did my facebook acquaintances beat ilx to the naked karen gillan story?

say what now

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2008482/Doctor-Who-star-Karen-Gillan-naked-riotous-New-York-party.html

tbf its daily mail

oh shit that's last year ha

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Ms. Gillan has joined Twitter as of today and already has almost 20,000 followers, all of whom are posters here posting under numerous bots. She currently follows six people, including two Spice Girls.

The chap in that Mail story NZA posted is neither heterosexual nor a gentleman

Doctor Who Online have put out a THREE HOUR interview with Ian Levine. I'm slowly slogging through it on commutes, it's ridiculous and rambling and there are big chunks where I just don't know what he's talking about, but it's pretty great overall. He talks a lot about how close the BBC came to wiping a LOT more of the old episodes than they actually did, and while I'm sure he plays up his own role in stopping that, it's still amazing stuff. Eps 256/257 here.

I've been an apologist for Ian to an extent in the past, but his latest shit with Lawrence Miles (also, more or less, a dick) has tipped me over the edge with him. I can't defend him any more.

But because of the stuff with Lawrence I'm not talking about him at all, and certainly not speculating on his part in things.

wait, what's the latest shit with Miles

I could google but I am trying to make you renege on yr stance, lol

Lawrence put up a post on his blog in light of Ian's sudden love of NuWho as the best thing ever, featuring a graph which compared the popularity of The Daleks/The Mutants/Serial B with the popularity of Ian over the decades. Ian is trying to sue him over it and has been offering people money on Twitter to hand over Lawrence's home address/phone number etc.

omg just read the Miles post, cannot stop lolling

why do I love all of these dickish British SF types (see also Warren Ellis) so much

that week when levine publicly cracked the shits at eccleston for ruining who by quitting was delightful

Google's Doctor Who 50th Anniversary doodle game: https://www.google.co.nz/

Since this isn't about the Capaldi era, I thought I'd repost it on a more general Who thread

I'm trying to work out when the Tardis expanded beyond being depicted as just the control/console room, at some point it gained a multiple of rooms which are apparently almost infinite. I've just watched the Liz Shaw and Jo Grant eras of the Jon Pertwee incarnation through and the rest of the interior doesn't seem to appear. There may be some reference to him having a lab inside in the first story past the regeneration, but the Master is trying to keep the key from him so you don't get to see inside for several stories. There is no explanation as to where his wardrobe is coming from after his initial theft of items from a hospital changing room. He gets to the end of the first story then realises he's still wearing that clothing and has to return it but is still wearing it at the beginning of the next story. But yet he appears with various variations on the dress shirt, smoking jacket and Inverness cape throughout his tenure. At some point it became lore that UNIT replaced the first load of clothing with identical togs but I didn't hear any mention of such in the series.
I think Baker starts his tenure by going through the Tardis's wardrobe. Is that the first mention of an expanded interior or have corners been cut in depictions in the Pertwee era?

I've just watched Planet of The Daleks in which they appear to have nothing beyond the console room. Jo drags out a camp/cupboard folding bed from a bedroom unit of chest of Drawers/wardrobe when the Doctor collapses and has to cover him with his own Inverness cape instead of taking him to his sleeping quarters. Oddly at the time she has just managed to change clothing without explaining where she got the new clothing. (I do like that jacket she changes into, looks like a cross between burberry tartan and a collarless bike jacket or something.)
In the Third incarnation right up until the end of The Three Doctors the Doctor is pretty much stranded on earth with limited usage of the Tardis which might explain an absence of any depth of population of the space with rooms etc
So I'm wondering if the other rooms had appeared in any stories from the first couple of Doctors , not having watched either of the incarnations through remotely recently.
So anybody know of any earlier references to rooms inside or were the contents always depicted as the console/control room anytime the inside of the TARDIS appeared?
Always wondered where the Doctor was supposed to sleep/live outside of his depicted adventures. Now he has a multiple of rooms on a multiple of floors.

I've got vague memories of sleeping quarters being mentioned in some Hartnell serial or other, but they may be false.

I remember corridors in "The Edge of Destruction" (the third ever serial of the Hartnell era), which presumably led to other rooms.

Edge of Destruction is a cool little story.

That story is actually titled "Inside The Spaceship," and does indeed go to a couple of rooms further inside the spaceship.

Sean Pertwee as his dad:

http://instagram.com/p/u1J6-juOHD/

Seen this from so many places, great every time.

Drama (freeview channel 20) is showing The Aztecs tomorrow from 16:00 - 18:00. followed by An Adventure in Space & Time (recent bbc2 drama).

Doctor Who: The Aztecs on November 2nd
Doctor Who: Tomb of the Cybermen on November 9th
Doctor Who: Spearhead From Space on November 16th
Doctor Who: (TBD)
Doctor Who: Earthshock
Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos

http://drama.uktv.co.uk/shows/doctor-who/episodes/

Have there been many recent updates of recreation of either Hartnell or Troughton missing episodes?
I downloaded complete era episode sets for both in I think 2009 and content may be much older. That is to say where people have combined the audio which a number of people taped at time of broadcast with stills and some production footage.
I have a number of stories in pretty rough versions so subsequently wonder if better versions have been made since.
I need to get copies of the stories found in Nigeria in the interim. I know they got all of Enemy of the World where Troughton plays 2 roles. Did they get all of Web of Fear too? Yetis on the Underground in other words.

Think 1 episode of Web of Fear is sill missing.

Watched Enemy of the World recently; fun, but hardly a classic.