Playstation Official News UK has included Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock in their '12 for 2012: PS3 Games to watch out for' feature:
As the longest-running science fiction TV show in the world, Doctor Who will materialise this year on PlayStation 3 in a thrilling adventure game. Featuring a mysterious being known as the Doctor, hostile aliens, Earth-shattering plots and time travel, who wouldn't want to play a Doctor Who game?
Take control of the Timelord and his feisty companion River Song on a journey through space and time where your actions in one era can influence events in another...
The Eternity Clock's Official Twitter account also released 3 new promo images today, which you can view below: |
Illuminating the Dark Dimension
Our extensive 30-page article in this issue looks at the unmade 30th
anniversary special, Lost in the Dark Dimension, examining the BBC
paperwork for the first time and looking just how far the pre-production
got and the reasons why it was ultimately cancelled.
Journey into Time -
The Story of the Lost Doctor Who Radio Series
We look at what happened back in 1966/67 when Stanmark Productions
proposed an independent 52-episode radio series, from its early development
through to the recording of the pilot with Peter Cushing. And for the first time
ever, we present the full script for the pilot, written by Malcolm Hulke.
Who Was the Original Sarah Jane Smith?
So who really was originally cast as Sarah Jane Smith back in 1973? We
reveal all and talk to the actress concerned to find out what happened...
The Evil of the Daleks -
The Chris Thompson Off-Screen Photographs
For the first time, we publish the 26 off-screen photographs taken by
Production Designer Chris Thompson from the first episode of The Evil of the
Daleks, presented along with the existing John Cura Tele-Snaps. The article
also features photos from Chris' personal collection showing the filming done
at Ealing in the Emperor's chamber set.
The Living Planet
A look back at the one of the first stories proposed for the new series, written
by Alan Wakeman during the summer of 1963 containing the proposed four-
part storyline plus the draft script for the first episode.
Hayles Storm
We reproduce and review ten unmade storylines submitted by Brian
Hayles to the production office between February 1965 and May 1975,
covering the first four Doctors featuring more Ice Warriors, the return of
the Celestial Toymaker and a meeting with the Toymaker's half-sister,
The Queen of Time.
Designing The Space Pirates
Costume Designer Nick Bullen shares his original costume
designs from The Space Pirates, and for the first time since
1969 we get an idea what Dom Issigri looked like!
New Location Photographs
We present new colour photographs taken during the filming
of The Smugglers and The Invasion and new b/w photos from
The Enemy of the World.
• We speak to the winners of the 1965 TV Century 21 Dalek competition
to see what it was like to win a Movie Dalek and what happened to
them...
• We look at some of the proposed 1960s toys that never made it to the
shop...
• We find out from Effects Designer John Horton just what went wrong
with the original Nestene effect in Spearhead from Space...
And lots of other interesting stuff!
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A long-lost radio script for an episode of a proposed Doctor Who radio series, to be made in the late sixties, and starring Peter Cushing as the Doctor, has been discovered in the BBC archives.
Journey into Time was written by Malcolm Hulke, who went on to write some of the most regarded scripts of the classic series of Doctor Who. In the radio play, a pilot of which was recorded but never broadcast, the Doctor, accompanied by his granddaughter, ends up in the midst of the American Revolution. The recording has been lost for many years.
The series was proposed as a collaboration between independent company Stanmark Productions and Watermill Productions, who put forward plans for 52 episodes to be made for Australia and other overseas territories. It would star Cushing, who had previously played a character called 'Doctor Who' in the two Dalek movies made earlier in the decade. Its existence was known about through promotional material discovered in 1989, but the script was thought lost until it was discovered by Richard Bignell in a file of merchandising queries held in the BBC archives.
The series was rejected by the BBC with Martin Esslin, head of sound drama, saying: " As a typical commercial production for unsophisticated listeners in Australia or even some parts of the United States, it stands up quite well. As a piece of science fiction, however, it strikes me as extremely feeble."
The story detailing precisely what happened back in 1966/67, along with the original pilot script, is detailed in the third issue of the production research magazine Nothing at the End of the Lane, published on Monday 16th January.
Also in the issue:
- Illuminating The Dark Dimension: A 30-page article looks at the planned anniversary special, seeing how far things really got, and for the first time reveals precisely the reasons why it all fell apart. With artwork by Lee Sullivan.
- "Oh No, You Shouldn't!": A look back on William Hartnell's one and only pantomime performance in the 1966/67 tour of Puss in Boots, complete with photos of Billy as Buskin, the Fairy Cobbler...
- The Original Sarah Jane Smith: So who really was originally cast as Sarah Jane Smith back in 1973? All is revealed and the actress concerned tells what happened.
- The Living Planet: A look back at one of the first stories proposed for the new series, written by Alan Wakeman during the summer of 1963, with the full proposed storyline and draft script for the first episode.
- Designing The Space Pirates: Costume Designer Nick Bullen shares his costume designs from The Space Pirates, and for the first time since 1969 we get an idea what Dom Issigri looked like!
- Hayles Storm: ten unmade storylines submitted by Brian Hayles to the production office between February 1965 and May 1975, are reprinted and reviewed, covering the first four Doctors, featuring more Ice Warriors, the return of the Celestial Toymaker and a meeting with the Toymaker's half-sister, The Queen of Time.
- The Evil of the Daleks - The Chris Thompson Off-Screen Photographs: For the first time, the 26 off-screen photographs taken by Production Designer Chris Thompson from the first episode of The Evil of the Daleks are published. The article also features photos from Chris's personal collection showing the filming done at Ealing in the Emperor's chamber.
- New Location Photographs: New colour photographs taken during the location filming of The Smugglers and The Invasion and new b/w photos from The Enemy of the World.
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Gallifrey One’s Network 23, the 2012 edition of the world’s foremost, fan run Doctor Who convention, takes place from February 17-19 at the LAX Marriott Hotel in Los Angeles, California, and it is an honour and a privilege to announce that Radio Free Skaro will be opening the convention with our live show, Radio Free Skaro and The World of Tomorrow! Taking place at noon on Friday, February 17 in the main programming hall, this 75-minute special will kick off Gallifrey One in grand style as hosts Steven, Warren, and Chris hope to entertain and delight you with the usual nefarious hijinks heard on the Radio Free Skaro podcast, as well as some special guests. Joining the Three Who Rule on stage will be: |
Camille Coduri
Camille played Rose Tyler’s feisty, yet loyal, mother Jackie Tyler during Series 1 and 2 of the new series of Doctor Who, as well in return appearances in Journey’s End (2008) and The End of Time, Part Two (2010). Camille is making her first appearance at Gallifrey One this year. |
Barnaby Edwards
A multi-talented writer, director, actor, and artist, Barnaby Edwards is perhaps best known as being the principal Dalek Operator in every Dalek episode of the revived series of Doctor Who. In addition to this, Barnaby has written, directed, and provided voices for Big Finish Doctor Who audio dramas. This will also be Barnaby’s first time at Gallifrey One. |
Toby Haynes
For a stretch of time from June 2010 through April 2011, no Doctor Who episode aired on BBC One that wasn’t directed by Toby Haynes. At the helm for five consecutive episodes, Toby’s work on the Series 5 finale and the 2010 Christmas special received considerable acclaim, and he was the director for Doctor Who’s first major US location shoot for The Impossible Astronaut and Day of the Moon. Toby is another first-timer at Gallifrey One. |
Gary Russell
Gary Russell has been involved with Doctor Who for most of his adult life, including a four-year stint as editor of Doctor Who Magazine, producer of the Doctor Who range of audio dramas at Big Finish, and script editor on Doctor Who. Gary has also written numerous Doctor Who novels and non-fiction books, and has been a popular fixture at Gallifrey One for years. |
Two-Minute Time Lord
Chip from Two-minute Time Lord, who served as technical director for Radio Free Skaro in 3-D at Gallifrey 22, will again be the man behind the scenes this year, but will also appear on-stage for a special Two-Minute Time Lord segment about the changing nature of Doctor Who over the past 48 years. |
It all kicks off at 12:00pm on Friday, February 17 in the Main Programming Hall at Gallifrey One. Get there early!
Stay tuned to Radio Free Skaro and radiofreeskaro.com for further details about the show, and visit the Gallifrey One website (www.gallifreyone.com) for updates on the convention itself. See you all there!
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“It’s Doctor Who meets Harry Potter”
And with those golden words, the BBC has signed up to a new Russell T Davies TV show, Aliens Vs Wizards for their children’s CBBC channel, something he has previously described as a “small committment”.
Revealed by his agent’s website, he is also listed as creating the show with Doctor Who writer and Sarah Jane Adventures head writer Phil Ford.
But BBC insiders tell me Ford is not alone in that and much of the crew to Sarah Jane Adventures, which finished half way through its fifth series after the death of lead actress Elizabeth Sladen, are working on the show.
The series is being written by familiar Sarah Jane Adventures writers including Gareth Roberts and Joseph Lidster, is set in the present day and will follow the Sarah Jane Adventures formula of twelve two part half hour episodes. |
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Caroline Skinner has become one of the most important people in British television science fiction and fantasy, almost overnight. She produced The Fades, the horror-fantasy series which took Britain by storm, and which hits BBC America this Saturday. And now she's the new executive producer of Doctor Who, replacing Piers Wenger and Beth Willis.
We were lucky enough to talk to Skinner exclusively on the phone today, and she told us what to expect from both Doctor Who and The Fades. |
With The Fades, Skinner came in on the ground floor — but with Doctor Who, she was joining an established show. She says it's been "hugely exciting" to join the team, and she started with the recently transmitted Christmas special, with Wenger staying on to ease the transition. "That was an absolutely fantastic one to start on. And now, I'm thrilled and slightly daunted at the scale of what we're achieving in the next series. We're not too far away from starting shooting, and I think it's going to be the biggest series ever." |
When you ask her about Doctor Who's 50th anniversary in 2013, Skinner won't say much about what's planned — it's all up in the air — but she does say that "the plans for the anniversary are going to be absolutely huge," and "2013 is going to be the biggest year in the history of Doctor Who so far." |
She also can't say whether the seventh season, filming soon, will all air in the fall, or whether some of it will air in the following spring. "At the moment, we're just embarking on shooting more episodes than we have done before. But in terms of the schedule, it's just too early to confirm anything." |
So what happened with the Doctor Who movie? |
While we had a producer of Doctor Who on the phone, we were curious to ask what actually happened with director David Yates. Where did Yates ever get the idea that he was going to be directing a big-screen Who movie in the first place? Had he been having discussions with the BBC's Jane Tranter, who's been in L.A. since early 2009 trying to develop BBC properties in Hollywood? And how did the brakes get put on this process? Here's what Skinner told us: |
Who knows what will happen with the Doctor Who movie? I think that obviously, [David Yates] had been talking with Jane [Tranter] about the possibility of it. I think that if a Doctor Who movie ever happens, that's something that will be done hand-in-hand with Steven [Moffat] and the production team. But any movie's a very, very long way off. |
Mark Gatiss has dropped some small clues on his Series 7 episode of Doctor Who.
Gatiss previously penned episodes The Unquiet Dead, The Idiot’s Lantern, Victory of the Daleks and, more recently, Night Terrors.
In the latest Doctor Who Magazine (#443), Gatiss confirms he pitched his latest story idea to Steven Moffat late last year.
He goes on to say that, naturally, he can’t reveal anything yet, except that the episode contains the words ‘meat’, ‘klaxon’ and ‘Vienna’. |
A new DVD release has finally named the actress originally cast as Sarah Jane Smith |
It’s a mystery that’s been the subject of speculation amongst Doctor Who fans for nearly four decades: who was originally cast as Sarah Jane Smith, then unceremoniously dropped from the role after several rehearsals and replaced by Elisabeth Sladen?
Lis Sladen knew, but refused to say, believing it was unfair to the actress concerned, but now the cat’s been let out of the bag. The truth’s emerged in, of all places, the text commentary track on the DVD of “Invasion Of The Dinosaurs”, part of the new UNIT Files box set.
So, who was the original Sarah Jane Smith?
April Walker, apparently – not a household name, but an actress with a very heavily-populated CV including guest roles in everything from Dad’s Army and Terry And June to Judge John Deed and Waking The Dead. Here’s a clip of her playing Jean Wilson in the Fawlty Towers episode “The Wedding Party” (4m 45 secs in), and here she is in The Two Ronnies.
Why was she replaced? Well, the story goes that Pertwee liked his Doctor to be a paternal, protective figure, and felt that his co-star should be young, petite and vulnerable (Sladen’s take on this was that Pertwee was the sort of man who “likes to impose themselves physically on smaller women”). Walker – tall and in her early ‘30s – didn’t fit the bill, as far as the star was concerned. And so her contract was cancelled. Producer Barry Letts obviously felt bad about the whole affair, as he later went on to cast Walker in his 1976 production of The Prince And The Pauper. |
The time has arrived! The latest addition to the ranks of Big Finish Doctors is the Fourth Doctor, Tom Baker, and he's back with Louise Jameson as trusty savage Leela this month in brand new original adventures. In a celebratory podcast, executive producer Nick Briggs and producer David Richardson chat about the road to these new releases with two of the people who've written and script edited for the Fourth Doctor, Jonathan Morris and John Dorney. With clips aplenty from the newly released Destination: Nerva and The Fourth Doctor Lost Stories Box Set, plus hints of things to come, it's the perfect prelude to welcoming the Fourth Doctor and his companion Leela back into your life. Download or stream the podcast now, and we'll take you back to teatime in 1977 all over again... Download Podcast Here |
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