Posted on July 22, 2010 by Andrew Hickey
Marco Polo Writer: John Lucarotti Director: Waris Hussein (ep. 4 by John Crockett) DVD Availability: a half-hour ‘reconstruction’ edit is available on The Beginnings box set Buy From Amazon Other availability: Narrated soundtrack on CD. Buy From Amazon First, I’d like to apologise for the delay in doing this one. I’ve been physically exhausted for [...]
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Posted on July 13, 2010 by Andrew Hickey
The Doctor Who And Batman week continues tomorrow, now that my computer problems are over and my coursework done (it would have continued today but my wife is unwell and I’ve been looking after her). I hope tomorrow I’ll also get round to answering some of my email backlog. Meanwhile, some links: A talk by [...]
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Posted on July 9, 2010 by Andrew Hickey
A few weeks back, the Daily Torygraph had a week of giveaways of Doctor Who CDs. I didn’t get them because I refuse to buy that wretched snotrag of a paper, but they have recently announced an offer to get rid of their back stock, and are selling all seven CDs for ‘P&P only’ – [...]
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Posted on July 7, 2010 by Andrew Hickey
So I’m a couple of weeks behind in my blogging now, thanks to some rather bad health problems due to stress, and I’m aware I’ve got quite a bit of stuff to write about. So I hereby declare the next seven days to be Doctor Who And Batman week, with the plan being to do [...]
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Posted on June 25, 2010 by Andrew Hickey
Proper posts tomorrow (on Morrison Batman) and Sunday (on Doctor Who) if possible, but I’ve got a busy weekend ahead of me (got to work from home to keep to a deadline, and also going to a gig tomorrow night). Meanwhile, some links: Zom at the Mindless Ones is doing an alphabetical look at all [...]
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Posted on June 20, 2010 by Andrew Hickey
The Edge Of Destruction Writer: David Whittaker Directors: Richard Martin and Frank Cox DVD Availability: As Disc 3 of The Beginnings Box Set (Buy from Amazon) Other Availability – legally viewable on YouTube for those with Flash – episode 1, episode 2 A review I read of last night’s Doctor Who (which I’ve not yet [...]
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Posted on June 12, 2010 by Andrew Hickey
My in-laws are visiting from the US, so blogging will probably be lighter than normal for the next week. In the meantime, some links: On Twitter, Lawrence Miles has started a World Cup Of Things (you’ll need to be logged in to see that link). One of the two teams I’ve entered – ‘a 1970s [...]
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Posted on June 9, 2010 by Andrew Hickey
And after that heaviness, a few links: I’m through to the FINAL!!! in the Pop World Cup, but unfortunately from the comments it looks like I’m getting thrashed by Nigeria. Please go there and vote for Germany. Obverse Books, who publish the Iris Wildthyme Doctor Who spinoff books, have announced they will be working with [...]
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Posted on June 5, 2010 by Andrew Hickey
The Daleks. Writer: Terry Nation Directors: Christopher Barry and Richard Martin DVD Availability: As Disc 2 of The Beginnings Box Set While An Unearthly Child was the start of Doctor Who, The Daleks is the story where what we now think of as Doctor Who actually started. Well, sort of. More than any other story [...]
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Posted on May 27, 2010 by Andrew Hickey
One thing I’ve wanted to do with this blog for a while is sit down and watch every Doctor Who serial, in order, until I get bored with them or reach Survival (whichever comes first). I’m going to try to do one serial a week, and stick to a few simple rules: 1) If the [...]
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