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Month: March 2015

Radio Times: Doctor Who’s Top 10 episodes of the Modern Era (as voted by you)

Radio Times: Doctor Who’s Top 10 episodes of the Modern Era (as voted by you)

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Doctor Who’s top ten episodes of the modern era (as voted by you) A staggering 280,859 votes were cast in RadioTimes.com’s poll to find the best episode since 2005. Here’s the final countdown… Such is the timey-wimey nature of Doctor Who that hot on the heels of the Time Lord’s 50th anniversary in 2013, we are celebrating his tenth. For on March 26th, it will be a decade since Russell T Davies relaunched the Tardis to great acclaim on BBC1….

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Event At The Strand

Event At The Strand

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EVENT AT THE STRAND – THURSDAY MARCH 20th 2014 – 10:30-14:30 TOM BAKER – THE FOURTH DOCTOR Joining us again to commemorate not only his appearance in the 50th Anniversary episode, but his 80th year!

Doctor Who: Damaged Goods: Trailer

Doctor Who: Damaged Goods: Trailer

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A trailer is now online for May’s Big Finish adaptation of Doctor Who producer Russell T Davies’ novel Doctor Who – Damaged Goods… In May, Big Finish release the second of their Doctor Who – The Novel Adaptations collections, part of which is a brand new audio version of Doctor Who producer and writer Russell T Davies’ Doctor Who – Damaged Goods: The year is 1987 and there’s a deadly new narcotic on the streets of London. As part of…

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Doctor Who: The Fourth Doctor Adventures: Requiem for the Rocket Men: Released

Doctor Who: The Fourth Doctor Adventures: Requiem for the Rocket Men: Released

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The latest of Big Finish’s Fourth Doctor Adventures range is out today with the release of Doctor Who – Requiem for the Rocket Men – and there’s a little reward for purchasers through the Big Finish site… Doctor Who – The Fourth Doctor Adventures: Requiem for the Rocket Men is out today, John Dorney’s script the third Big Finish visit to the worlds of the villainous, murderous space pirates! The Asteroid – notorious hideaway of the piratical Rocket Men. Hewn…

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Doctor Who: The Entropy Plague: Released

Doctor Who: The Entropy Plague: Released

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The latest main range Doctor Who title – the Fifth Doctor story The Entropy Plague – is out today… The March release of our Doctor Who main range is Doctor Who – The Entropy Plague, a final adventure (or is it?!) in E-Space for the Fifth Doctor (Peter Davison), Tegan (Janet Fielding), Nyssa (Sarah Sutton) and Turlough (Mark Strickson), written by Jonathan Morris: A Great Darkness is spreading over E-Space. Entropy increases. In search of a last exit to anywhere,…

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Ark In Space audio book to the read by Jon Culshaw

Ark In Space audio book to the read by Jon Culshaw

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Jon Culshaw, perhaps the finest Fourth Doctor impersonator this side of Kasterborous, France, will be lending his dulcet tones to the audiobook adaptation of the indomitable Doctor Who and The Ark in Space. Ladbroke audio played host to the Dead Ringers star as he recorded his very first audiobook over two fun, epic days as he brought Ian Marter’s novelisation of Robert Holmes’ 1975 serial to life. It’s not long before the crew of the TARDIS find things going suspiciously…

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Terrence Dicks discusses Malcolm Hulke at “An Audience With…”

Terrence Dicks discusses Malcolm Hulke at “An Audience With…”

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                              Held at Manchester’s Fab Cafe on 19th April, Dicks will discuss the work of his friend, Hulke, who is perhaps most famous for creating the Silurians and Sea Devils, but also wrote stories like Colony in Space, Frontier in Space, and The Faceless Ones. The pair co-wrote The Ambassadors of Death (with several others), and the Second Doctor’s swansong, The War Games. This event celebrates the release of Doctor Who and…

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Make it Digital

Make it Digital

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  Major initiative will give a coding device to every child in year 7 across the UK, 1 million devices in total; create up to 5,000 digital trainees; partner with around 50 organisations; and launch a season of dedicated BBC programmes and online activity. The BBC today launched Make it Digital – a major UK-wide initiative to inspire a new generation to get creative with coding, programming and digital technology. The UK is facing a significant skills shortage with 1.4m…

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Doctor Who’s most complained about episode revealed

Doctor Who’s most complained about episode revealed

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Last year’s Doctor Who episode ‘Dark Water’ received the most complaints to broadcast regulator Ofcom since the show was revived in 2005. The opening part of Season 9’s two-part finale aired in November 2014 and featured Danny Pink (Samuel Anderson) being killed in a car accident. The story later revealed that the dead are able to feel their bodies being cremated. The second most complained about episode was Peter Capaldi’s first full story, ‘Deep Breath’, which featured a hot air balloon made from human skin….

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Doctor Who: The Well Mannered War: Trailer

Doctor Who: The Well Mannered War: Trailer

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Ahead of May’s release of the next Fourth Doctor novel adaptations, the trailer’s been released for Doctor Who – The Well-Mannered War… In May we release our next collected set of Doctor Who novel adaptations with new versions of Gareth Roberts’ Doctor Who – The Well-Mannered War and Russell T Davies’ Doctor Who – Damaged Goods, available as separate two-disc releases or as a luxury five-disc set edition which includes a further disc of extras. The trailer for The Well-Mannered War is online now: The edges of space, the…

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