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Post by blueshift on Nov 11, 2018 20:14:14 GMT
Tonight's episode was MUCH more like it. The problem is Chibbers. The difference with another writer getting a full crack at it was enormous. -Ralph They have gone with a semi writers room model for this season though haven't they? So we don't really know who is doing what.
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Post by Bogatan on Nov 11, 2018 21:16:21 GMT
I believe so. but I agree with Ralph the writing matched the quality of the rest of the production for the first time. This would have come across as really preachy in other episodes, but tonight it always hauled itself back in.
Anyone know where this was filmed? Did they squeeze in multiple episodes while inSouth Africa? If its in the UK its done far better than normal.
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 12, 2018 18:33:17 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 12, 2018 20:35:11 GMT
Nevertheless, we must go!
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 13, 2018 18:32:57 GMT
I'm told Derrick Sherwin has left us, aged 82. This week is the 50th anniversary of his writing credit, The Invasion, hitting the screen. I believe that leaves just Philip Hinchcliffe as the sole surviving classic DW producer. Philip Segal is still alive too. -Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 16, 2018 7:26:07 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 17, 2018 21:31:24 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 18, 2018 6:38:57 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Nov 18, 2018 21:42:01 GMT
What's that you say BBC? A live internet lesson 2pm Friday on light for 11 year olds with a Doctor Who theme?
My class of 11 year olds are doing light with me in science at the moment. So that's this week's lesson planned...
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 18, 2018 22:12:33 GMT
I was more interested in the ad for that than this week's episode!!!
-Ralph
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Post by blueshift on Nov 18, 2018 22:15:26 GMT
I was more interested in the ad for that than this week's episode!!! -Ralph OH RALPH!
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 18, 2018 22:16:22 GMT
It wasn't very good, especially after the belter we had last week.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Nov 18, 2018 22:23:09 GMT
That live lesson is spot on perfect for my needs - right age, right topic. My only problem is that my class are scheduled to be doing something else at that point that involves other classes. It may need to iPlayer it, which would be a shame, but we are DEFINITELY doing that. Which also means I can put my DWM Jodie Whittaker poster up in my classroom. ROCK ON TOMMY.
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Post by Pinwig on Nov 18, 2018 22:24:29 GMT
This week's ep felt like an Eccleston one to me. Basic sets, dark humour, use of a contemporary theme with a dark twist. It was like that Big Brother pastiche ep.
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Post by KnightBeat on Nov 22, 2018 20:53:55 GMT
Amazon found a way to get back at the BBC
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 22, 2018 22:38:43 GMT
Which is???
-Ralph
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Post by blueshift on Nov 22, 2018 22:40:24 GMT
They found the last copy of The Macra Terror and set it on fire, laughing
(Amazon video had next week's ep up by mistake briefly)
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 23, 2018 7:22:25 GMT
"Doctor. If you can hear me, listen. You have ten minutes, Doctor. Ten minutes to relinquish your freedom. At the end of that time, your young friend Zoe will pay the consequences of your foolish and totally pointless opposition. Ten minutes, Doctor, ten minutes!" This week on Fifty Years of Doctor Who we're "watching" episode 223 The Invasion: Episode Four 50yearsdoctorwho.blogspot.com/2018/11/223-invasion-episode-four.html
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 23, 2018 17:28:03 GMT
"Have you ever thought what it's like to be wanderers in the Fourth Dimension? Have you? To be exiles? Susan and I are cut off from our own planet - without friends or protection. But one day we shall get back. Yes, one day...." FIFTY FIVE years ago today An Unearthly Child, the first episode of Doctor Who, was broadcast! 50yearsdoctorwho.blogspot.com/2014/10/an-unearthly-child-part-1-unearthly.html
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 23, 2018 19:38:50 GMT
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Post by blueshift on Nov 23, 2018 19:48:17 GMT
Am I right in thinking that Silver Nemesis had the highest AI score for the entire classic series?
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 23, 2018 21:22:44 GMT
Clayton Hickman on Twitter shows a couple of photos from The Dalek Masterplan that I hadn't seen before that feature an old friend: It's the the Palitoy Death Star prop! First seen in Curse of the Fly then in Doctor Who it appears in the Space Museum, War Machines, Wheel in Space, Mind Robber & Spearhead from Space See 50yearsdoctorwho.blogspot.com/2015/05/071-space-museum-episode-4-final-phase.html for pictures! And, because it would be rude not to, the Power Station Panel behind it has been in Out of the Unknown: The Counterfeit Man and the film Island of Terror. Hadn't found it before in DW!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 25, 2018 7:52:48 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 25, 2018 17:03:47 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 25, 2018 20:07:29 GMT
Really enjoyed tonight's episode. Proper monsters at last and finally the 13th Doctor gets to show some steel and drives the plot. More like that, please!
Best of this series so far for me.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Nov 25, 2018 22:37:10 GMT
It was an excellent episode. The only problem was that it meant virtually sidelining all three companions to make it work. That was the kind of story I'd have expected Mark Gatiss to write, but never did.
Oddly, Mrs P informs me that the location used for shooting the episode is a reconstructed 17th Century village a stone's throw from where I work. Somewhere I didn't even know existed. Which is a bit perturbing. I thought I knew the Who locations round here: IBM (Necros) and Butser Farm (Ravalox) but this passed me by. It's closed now until spring, but of course I will need to visit at the soonest opportunity. I will make sure I get mud samples to send to all Hub members.
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 25, 2018 22:42:09 GMT
I may have to go too...
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 26, 2018 8:18:25 GMT
On this day in 1993, as noted on Gallifrey Base:
'Dimensions In Time: Part One premiered on BBC One in 1993 at 8:08pm, watched by 13.80 million viewers.'
-Ralph
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Post by blueshift on Nov 26, 2018 8:26:24 GMT
On this day in 1993, as noted on Gallifrey Base: 'Dimensions In Time: Part One premiered on BBC One in 1993 at 8:08pm, watched by 13.80 million viewers.' -Ralph One of the most popular episodes of Who ever
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Nov 26, 2018 17:32:12 GMT
Indeed.
A classic.
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