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Memories of a lost DVD label - it seems that Network, issuers of old television on DVD and Blu-ray to the discerning or would-be discerning, is no more.
I've marked the fifty-seventh anniversary of the first episode of Doctor Who by writing something on Image of the Fendahl, C.S. Lewis and corn dollies.
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I've blogged an article originally published in The Tides of Time on that publication's website. Empty Pockets, Empty Shelves is a short look at how the character of the Twelfth Doctor was represented in motifs destroyed or dispersed at the arrival of the Thirteenth Doctor and how these absences help define the Doctor as now portrayed by Jodie Whittaker.
Yes, I've skipped It Takes You Away, for reasons of time. I was asked to review The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos for Space-Time Telegraph, however.
An introductory post on The Event Library adds a little more context.
An introductory post on The Event Library adds a little more context.
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My review, this week at the Doctor Who News Page's reviews section.
Afterword on my review, at The Event Library
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Also, news on the publication of issue 42 of the Oxford-based Doctor Who fanzine, The Tides of Time.
Afterword on my review, at The Event Library
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Also, news on the publication of issue 42 of the Oxford-based Doctor Who fanzine, The Tides of Time.
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I was asked last week to review The Power of the Daleks for Timelines, the Doctor Who blog of longstanding fan and prolific fanzine editor John Connors, which is worth checking out for its reviews and its material from John's rich archive of fan memories such as convention reviews and photographs from the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. The review was published a few hours ago and can be found here.
However, when preparing the link from my own review blog, The Event Library, I realised I'd not mentioned Patrick Troughton specifically, which was something of an omission when covering Troughton's first story. So there can be found a couple of paragraphs on Troughton at that post.
However, when preparing the link from my own review blog, The Event Library, I realised I'd not mentioned Patrick Troughton specifically, which was something of an omission when covering Troughton's first story. So there can be found a couple of paragraphs on Troughton at that post.
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Doctor Who survived its end of history moment. The last three years of its first run saw a refocusing on the postwar Britain of paternalist, class-led social democracy not as the present or near future, but as the past just gone. The pastiche of Paradise Towers is drawn from the 1970s with its acknowledgements of J.G. Ballard’s High-Rise and Monty Python’s Flying Circus’s architect sketch, but collides with a design aesthetic which doesn’t know how to navigate the fashions of the 1980s let alone reconcile them with the script, and consequently any statement on society which Paradise Towers makes is stifled. The first story to explicitly explore this new hinterland of the newly-lost present with some success is Delta and the Bannermen.
For more in this vein read the fourth part of my look at Doctor Who and British national identity, over at John Connors's Time Lines blog.
For more in this vein read the fourth part of my look at Doctor Who and British national identity, over at John Connors's Time Lines blog.
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More musings on Doctor Who and national identity from me have been published at John Connors's Time Lines blog. I've written an introduction with more ideas at The Event Library, and the posts themselves are available at part two and part three.
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The first part of a series of musings on Doctor Who and British identity, at John Connors's Timelines blog, originally commissioned by John for the fanzine Plaything of Sutekh which he co-edited with Richard Farrell. A short introduction can be found at The Event Library, too.
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I've not seen this play, but would like to. Directed by Douglas Camfield, starring Katy Manning as a lesbian threat to middle-class domesticity, produced by Joan Kemp-Welch (wife of Peter Moffatt), almost directed by Darrol Blake, and featuring Neville Barber probably looking more in his depth than in K-9 and Company (though looking out of place in a conventional sort of way was his stock in trade) it's tempting to view it as a sort of Doctor Who awayday, for lots of people who didn't actually work together on Doctor Who, though of course it isn't that at all. More at the Spaces of Television project blog.
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There's an informative blog post written by the editor of 'Tavzine' (a Doctor Who fanzine distributed free at the traditional monthly fan meetings at the Fitzroy Tavern in London) Venusian Spearmint about the long tradition of Doctor Who broadcasts on public television in Iowa and that state's devotion to the Time Lord. It's written with a personal urgency born of the author's own involvement in the world of very necessary pledge drives and the outgoing, ebullient Doctor Who fandom found in the USA. It's very well worth a read.
( Thursday's other Doctor Who news )
( Thursday's other Doctor Who news )
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Long-term Doctor Who Magazine readers will remember Dave Owen as custodian of the reviews section during the 1990s. He's now written on his blog about being diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome. It's not a lengthy read, and well worth it just for a consideration of the symptoms which this condition can present.
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