Posted on November 30, 2008 by Andrew Hickey
A lot of important things happened for the first time on the fifth of October. On the fifth of October 1962, the Beatles’ first single, Love Me Do, was first released. On the fifth of October 1969 the first episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus was broadcast. On the fifth of October 1978 I was [...]
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Posted on November 28, 2008 by Andrew Hickey
Apologies if this one is less coherent than some of the other posts – I’ve got a terrible migraine and can barely focus on the screen. I’ve been half-considering leaving this one til tomorrow, but I’ve got quite a busy weekend ahead of me… I always feel terribly sorry for Colin Baker. There is a [...]
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Posted on November 27, 2008 by Andrew Hickey
John Nathan-Turner, the producer of Doctor Who for most of its last decade, gets a bad rap from much of the fanbase. Sometimes this is deserved – some of the worst episodes of the show ever produced were done on his watch, and often at his instigation. It is possibly going to appear over the [...]
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Posted on November 26, 2008 by Andrew Hickey
While most people think of Doctor Who‘s different eras in terms of the different actors playing the Doctor – and this is how I’ve broken up my Doctor Who week this week – the show went through far more radical changes when the production team changed, especially the producer/script editor combination. Those two between them [...]
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Posted on November 25, 2008 by Andrew Hickey
I actually only noticed today that many of the stories I’m choosing for A Doctor A Day fall close to important anniversaries for the show – The Invasion was shown over the fifth anniversary, the Five Doctors was shown for the twentieth anniversary, Remembrance Of The Daleks was the start of the twenty-fifth year of [...]
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Posted on November 24, 2008 by Andrew Hickey
The Cybermen were introduced in the same storyline as the Second Doctor (The Tenth Planet, in which William Hartnell regenerates into Patrick Troughton towards the end of the story) and the two went together from then on. In his three years as the Doctor, Troughton did four further Cybermen stories, and when Troughton left the [...]
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Posted on November 23, 2008 by Andrew Hickey
For a great televisual institution, Doctor Who did not have the most auspicious of starts. The show was not created by a single auteur, wrung from the sweat of the brow of a tormented genius, but was instead created by a huge committee of people, who were looking for a children’s show to go on [...]
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Posted on November 22, 2008 by Andrew Hickey
Now I have a little more free time again, I’m going to start trying to do things on a more regular cycle on this site. As a result, I’ve decided that I’m going to have several regular features that will happen the same time every week. Saturdays will be Comics Day – expect a review [...]
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