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Let’s talk books

Because that’s something I seldom bring up here, right? Except…there have been a few changes to the schedule.

VWORP!3With Peter Capaldi announcing that he is not only leaving, but his final episode will be this year’s Christmas special, VWORP!3 will be gaining a subtitle along the lines of “The Capaldi Years” and has slid back to January 2018. In line with the rethink of the WARP! series, VWORP!3 will be a thinner book that its predecessors, and it’ll cover four main topics:

  • The Peter Capaldi era on TV
  • Class
  • Big Finish audios featuring new series Doctors (10th Doctor stories, War Doctor stories)
  • Big Finish audios featuring other new series characters (UNIT, Churchill, Torchwood)
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Funny Stuff Television & Movies Toiling In The Pixel Mines

It’s a great pity…

…that local TV station KHBS (my former employers, so it’s not as if they don’t know a thing about me!) couldn’t think of a way to localize this story by contacting, oh, I don’t know, a local author who’s written a giant book on the subject.

Doctor Who on Channel 40!?

The above Twitter link led to this story, which was almost certainly relayed straight from the wire service.

Still, I’m highly amused at the thought of channel 40, or even their Twitter account, running a story about Doctor Who. 😆

Now, about all this Doctor Who business… … Read more

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Television & Movies

A page from history… sorta

As we wait for all to be revealed about the recovered Doctor Who episodes, the thought occurred to me that we have a very good record of where this search was, this time 30 years ago.

From a page in the back of Peter Haining’s “Doctor Who: A Celebration”…

Doctor Who

Between the publication of that book in late 1983 and the discovery of episodes of The Underwater Menace and Galaxy Four late in 2011, the total number of missing episodes of Doctor Who dropped from 136 to 106.

I wonder what that number will be here in a few hours?… Read more

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Television & Movies

The missing tapes, in the name of the Doctor

Doctor WhoOh, well that changes things quite a bit, doesn’t it?

When the Daily Mirror broke the news over the weekend that “106 episodes of Doctor Who” had been located, it was easy to dismiss as another festering pile of Dalek droppings. The number alone was pure wish-fulfillment: since the 2011 discoveries of episodes of Galaxy Four and The Underwater Menace, only 106 episodes remained to be found, including episodes that had never been sold outside of the UK for a variety of reasons; the by-now-legendary major find in northern Africa, or Sierra Leone, or Nigeria, or Ethiopia, or whatever it was, couldn’t possibly complete the entire series. The fanciful discussion of the mythical find has even received its own name – “the omnirumor” – with True Believers and skeptical detractors lining up for or against its chances of actually being true.

Today, BBC News broke its silence, confirming that something has indeed been found, somewhere. An announcement will be made in a couple of days. Fandom is waiting to exhale. … Read more