One of the great things about Doctor Who is that it always champions the underdog. The evil tyrants are never allowed to win the day (except on rare occasions) and so it's left to the Cordos, Vishinskys and Jagos to stroll off into the sunset with their heads held high.
Doctor Who even has its very own group of underdog stories – some of these fall into the underrated but brilliant strand like The Ambassadors Of Death, Image Of The Fendahl or Frontios. Then there are the tales that used to be slated but are getting reappraised by fans like The Horns Of Nimon or The Gunfighters. And then there are the tales that are seemingly beyond redemption like The Twin Dilemma, Time And The Rani and Timelash.
Ah, Timelash. Nobody seems to like it. Some clever soul found that if you rearrange the letters, they make up Lame Shit, which...
Doctor Who even has its very own group of underdog stories – some of these fall into the underrated but brilliant strand like The Ambassadors Of Death, Image Of The Fendahl or Frontios. Then there are the tales that used to be slated but are getting reappraised by fans like The Horns Of Nimon or The Gunfighters. And then there are the tales that are seemingly beyond redemption like The Twin Dilemma, Time And The Rani and Timelash.
Ah, Timelash. Nobody seems to like it. Some clever soul found that if you rearrange the letters, they make up Lame Shit, which...
- 2/21/2011
- Shadowlocked
People being terribly nice to each other. What is that again? In today's day and age, where people go around bitching behind other people's backs, slagging other people off, bankrupting, happy slapping, swearing etc, people being terribly nice to each other is about as alien as a horde of Daleks, Cybermen, Sontarans, Autons and Plasmatons.
It is however, a concept rife on the tranquil planet of Traken. People seem happy. They are invited to each others' weddings. They may drink too much, but hey, it's a celebration.
Unfortunately, as soon as a statue called Melkur lands out of nowhere in the Grove, that's when things start to go wrong. Trust a certain emaciated Time Lord to put a spanner in the works, he's the sort of person who would gatecrash a birthday party, eat all the cake, break the DJ's records, drunkenly snog the girls and then scuttle off again,...
It is however, a concept rife on the tranquil planet of Traken. People seem happy. They are invited to each others' weddings. They may drink too much, but hey, it's a celebration.
Unfortunately, as soon as a statue called Melkur lands out of nowhere in the Grove, that's when things start to go wrong. Trust a certain emaciated Time Lord to put a spanner in the works, he's the sort of person who would gatecrash a birthday party, eat all the cake, break the DJ's records, drunkenly snog the girls and then scuttle off again,...
- 12/13/2010
- Shadowlocked
"Shada. Shaaadaaahhh. Shaaaaaahhhhdaaaaahhhh....."
So remembers Big Tom about a story called, um Shada. But what's this I hear you cry? A Doctor Who review that never made it to screen?
Well, it was planned and part made to go to screen, to be transmitted between January and February 1980. An ambitious script by Douglas "Friend Of Lalla Ward" Adams started to go before the cameras in October 1979. The cast and crew went down to Cambridge for hi-jinks at the university, punting on the Cam, riding bicycles and tripping over red carpets. The story even got a studio session in early November 1979, during which a number of significant scenes got recorded.
And then the axe fell. Doctor Who had been lucky with the BBC strikes in the last two years. The Invasion Of Time had been affected by studio strikes, but remedied the problem by filming on location. The Armageddon Factor got affected too,...
So remembers Big Tom about a story called, um Shada. But what's this I hear you cry? A Doctor Who review that never made it to screen?
Well, it was planned and part made to go to screen, to be transmitted between January and February 1980. An ambitious script by Douglas "Friend Of Lalla Ward" Adams started to go before the cameras in October 1979. The cast and crew went down to Cambridge for hi-jinks at the university, punting on the Cam, riding bicycles and tripping over red carpets. The story even got a studio session in early November 1979, during which a number of significant scenes got recorded.
And then the axe fell. Doctor Who had been lucky with the BBC strikes in the last two years. The Invasion Of Time had been affected by studio strikes, but remedied the problem by filming on location. The Armageddon Factor got affected too,...
- 11/29/2010
- Shadowlocked
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