Escapay wrote:
Watched "School Reunion" at 8, followed by "The Ribos Operation". Two doctors in one night, woohoo!
It was kind of jarring though. Cause the entire time I was watching Ribos, I just kept thinking, "K9 dies 30-odd years later!" And two doctors with long brown coats. Wonder what would the fans think if Tennant decides to start wearing a long scarf.
Escapay
There's actually FOUR K-9s
K-9 Mk 1 remained on Gallifrey with Leela
K-9 Mk 2 (in the Ribos Operation) remained on E-Space with Romana*
K-9 Mk 3 was built by the Doctor and sent to Sarah Jane as a Gift (seen in K-9 and Company, The Five Doctors and School Reunion)
K-9 Mk 4 is shown at the end of School Reunion and will be (briefly) in Sarah Jane Adventures
* Later non-TV fiction (the Big Finish Audio plays and the Virgin/BBC Books have K-9 Mk2 on Gallifrey with Romana, who has returned from E-Space and is the President of Gallifrey. The canonity of the spin-off media is debateable.
OK - This month's Doctor Who Magazine is full of information. There truely has never been a better time to be a Doctor Who fan!
Doctor Who Series 3 Information
Not a lot of information, as the production team are still playing things close to their chests. However there is confirmation of the casting of
Mark Gatiss and
Thelma Barlow I reported before, as well as some new casting names.
Escapay, get your dancing elephant ready.
Ardel (Father Ted, My Hero) O'Hanlon has been added to the list of guest stars for series 3!
Julie Gardner, one of the show's executive producers has been promoted within the BBC to become "Head of Drama, Commisioning" while still keeping her current job as head of drama at BBC Wales.
Doctor Who Series 2 DVD Information
The full details of the commentary participants has been revealed. Note: In most cases these are different to the commentaries they appeared on the BBCi transmissions and are still available to download from the BBC Doctor Who site ( http::www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho ) Sadly, all indications are these original commentaries will not be present on the boxset. One episode per disc has the option of viewing the commentary while watching the episode.
The Christmas Invasion writer/executive producer Russell T Davis, executive producer Julie Gardner and producer Phil Colinson – IN VISION
New Earth director James Hawes, Julie Gardner and visual effect producer Will Cohen
Tooth and Claw Russell T Davies, visual effect producer Dave Haughton and production designer Edward Thomas
School Reunion David Tennant, writer Toby Whithouse and Julie Gardner
The Girl in the Fireplace Phil Colinson and actors David Tennant (the Doctor) and Sophia Miles (Reinette) – IN VISION
Rise of the Cybermen actors Noel Clarke (Mickey), Camille Coudri (Jackie) and Andew Hyden-Smith (Jake)
The Age of Steel director Graham Harper and actors Nicholas Briggs (cybermen voice) and Paul Kasey (Cyber Controller) – IN VISION
The Idiot's Lantern David Tennant, Edward Thomas and special effects/prosthetics producer Charlie Bluett
The Impossible Planet David Tennant, Will Cohen and actor Shaun Parkes (Zachary) – IN VISION
The Satan Pit director James Strong, editor Mike Jones and actor Ronny Jhutti (Danny)
Love & Monsters director Dan Zeff, Camille Coduri and Julie Gardner
Fear Her Julie Gardner, writer Matthew Graham and actor Nina Sosanya (Trish)
Army of Ghosts actors Noel Clarke, Tracy Anne Oberman (Yvonne Hartman) and Raji James (Dr Rajesh Singh)
Doomsday David Tennant and Bille Piper (Rose) – IN VISION
Eighth Doctor News
While Doctor Who will not return to our TV screens until Easter 2007 (apart from the Christmas Special) the radio station BBC 7 has commissioned a series of audio adventures starring Paul McGann. Although the Eighth Doctor has only appeared on screen for little over an hour, there have been over 50 hours of Big Finish audio plays produced featuring the 8th Doctor! This series due to start on New Year's Day 2007 will feature Sheridan (Two Pints of Lager…, Grown-Ups) Smith as new companion Lucie, as well as a host of British stars – Una Stubbs, Stephen Gately, Claire Buckfield, Bernard Cribbins, Nigal Havers, Timothy West, Roy Marsden and, er…, Anita Dobson. A Cybermen and a Dalek story are also promised.
The episodes will be available for listening worldwide on the BBC Radio player for a week after their initial broadcast.
Sarah Jane Adventures
As well as the 1 hour pilot (currently filming) the series for later in 2007 will be 10 half-hour episodes. (So the whole series is just the right size for a 2 disc DVD set!). Gareth Roberts (co-writer) drops a few hints in the Production Notes column when he says about SJA "The stories and characters have started to come to life. New monsters are born, some familiar monsters are reborn." Strongly implying that some old Doctor Who monsters will be in the series.
Torchwood
John Barrowman has revealed he's had to turn down roles in the West End for three musicals due to his Torchwood/Doctor Who commitments – The Sound of Music, Wicked and Spamalot. Torchwood will be premiered on Sunday October 22nd, athough now it doesn't look like there will be a BBC 1 broadcast when it is shown on BBC 3. There will be a BBC 2 repeat sometime later in the week.
My only complaint about TGITF was the clockwork droids, while looking good, we never really strong enough to be "monsters". Also, its only in the spin-off books you find out why they are clockwork (so that they can function and repair the ship in the event of a power failure)
