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shadow27 · 6 months
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Doctor Who is celebrating 60 years by releasing over 800 episodes on BBC iPlayer.
The sci-fi fantasy show first premiered in 1963 and has cemented itself as a permanent fixture in pop culture history. This fall, fans will be able to stream the entire 800-plus episode series along with spin-offs like Sarah Jane Adventures, Torchwood, and Class, and the behind-the-scenes series Doctor Who Confidential.
Each Dr Who episode will be made accessible for all Whovians, with subtitles, audio description, and sign language options available for the very first time.
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find-me-in-hell · 6 months
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oh my god. theyre putting EVERYTHING on bbc iplayer!!!! LITERALLY EVERYTHING!!!!
including. Torchwood, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Class AND DW Confidential!!!!!
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additionally! there is going to be an online archive! with everything from interviews with cast to written documents, long unheard audio, and behind-the-scenes photos!!!
ALL LAUNCHING OF NOVEMBER 1ST!!!
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nkp1981 · 8 months
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In 1993 BBC Radio 5 broadcast the first episode of "The Paradise of Death" an exclusive audio adventure starring Jon Pertwee, Elisabeth Sladen and Nicholas Courtney as the Third Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith and Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge Stewart.
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thethirdromana · 1 year
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In honour of Doctor Who's 59th birthday, here are some of the things I love about Doctor Who:
There's just so freaking much of it. About a month without pause of the TV series alone. Don't fancy the TV series? How about the books, of which there are hundreds? Or Big Finish audio dramas? Or Torchwood or the Sarah Jane Adventures or Class...?
And what there is, is wildly varying in tone and style. There's 60s-teaching-you-about-history Doctor Who. There's Hammer Horror tribute Doctor Who. There's Douglas Adams comedy Doctor Who. There's Doctor Who that I loved when I was a teenager and find a bit tedious now, and I'm sure there's Doctor Who I hated on first watching that I'd now enjoy if I revisited it.
It has very little editorial control. Other shows have series bibles; Doctor Who has showrunners whose sole restriction is the limitations of the BBC weekend teatime slot. No part of canon is sacred, and that's exhilarating. It contradicts itself happily and often.
It's now wholly a product of its fans. I think there's something for better or for worse in this, but equally it's delightful that there are people who watched Doctor Who as children who are now the ones running the show.
It's explicitly non-violent. Sure, the Doctor has pushed someone into a vat of acid at least once, but most of the time, this is a show that's rude about the military and in which guns are very seldom the answer.
And at its high points (City of Death? Web of Fear? Blink?), it's simply some of the best TV ever.
Happy birthday Doctor Who :)
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pers-books · 6 months
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60 Years of Doctor Who on iPlayer
To mark the 60th Anniversary of Doctor Who, the BBC is to make over 800 episodes of the series and its spin-offs available on iPlayer.
The episodes will be released on iPlayer from the start of next month, with each one having subtitles, audio description, and sign language available. It will be the biggest collection of Doctor Who ever available on the iPlayer with hundreds of episodes available with multiple accessibility features for the first time.
With the Anniversary Specials due to hit our screens, next month, viewers will have the opportunity to travel back in time with any of the Doctors through the show’s 60-year history with the classic series, as well as explore the vast world of Doctor Who with spin-offs like the Sarah Jane Adventures, Torchwood and Class, or step behind-the-scenes with every episode of Doctor Who Confidential – all available in one place - BBC iPlayer. 
With over 800 episodes of Doctor Who programming on iPlayer, Russell T Davies, Showrunner said:
I’d like to thank the BBC for all the hard work, to get this massive back catalogue under one roof, at long last.  I'm so excited for new viewers - imagine being 8 years old, spending winter afternoons exploring the 60s, 70s, 80s and beyond.  And we’re determined this won't be a dusty museum - we have exciting plans to bring the back catalogue to life, with much more to be revealed!
Dan McGolpin, Director of iPlayer and channels, said:
Doctor Who has captivated countless millions of viewers on the BBC for 60 years and in celebration of this special moment we are bringing classic series to BBC iPlayer for the first time. Fans will be able to enjoy many of the Doctor’s earliest adventures with William Hartnell right through to the very latest series and the soon to be released and tremendously exciting new anniversary specials with David Tennant. We want everyone to be able to enjoy this breath-taking back catalogue, so we are making each episode on iPlayer as accessible as possible, with subtitles, audio description, and sign language all available for the first time.
As the companion to the back catalogue, the BBC will simultaneously launch an extensive online archive from the show’s history at bbc.co.uk/doctorwho, with everything from interviews with cast to written documents, long unheard audio, and behind-the-scenes photos. Together, they tell the story of the ground-breaking series through 60 archive gems for the 60th anniversary.
The archive invites fans to delve even deeper into the show with curated journeys such as the genesis of Doctor Who, where audio from former Head of Drama, Sydney Newman alongside documents with his original handwritten notes guide you through the origins of Doctor Who. 
In its beginning stages, this new site will feature curated journeys through the archive to bring the show’s extensive history to life for fans – with items like interviews with cast members, news pieces, audio, imagery, and written documents.
Over time, more content will be added to the archive including a special collection of photos that have been scanned at 8k resolution from an estimated total of 25,000 prints, negatives, slides and digital images, which will give an unprecedented insight into the show with access to all areas throughout the years. 
The expanded archive will also feature additional gems from over 100,000 documents, including memos, correspondence, designs, and audience research, alongside orchestral scores of sheet music.
Also being added is a selection of audio clips about Doctor Who, including radio programmes, documentaries, interviews, and music.
BBC iPlayer’s back catalogue and the online archive will launch on 1st November before David Tennant returns as the Fourteenth Doctor for three special 60th-anniversary episodes.
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amalthea9 · 2 years
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Because in the BBC audio play “The Adventures of Pat Garrett And Billy the Kid (Deceased) Pat mentions a wife. 
Nancy: Where’s your wife now?
Pat: Home...waiting for me.
Nancy: You hold her in some affection?
Pat: You have no idea...
So here’s my self insert wife for Pat Garrett! Sarah Jane Marsden(Marsden a nod to one of my favorite game series: Red Dead Redemption’s John Marsden)
I gave her the straight and red hair of Sean Gilder’s real life wife, the beautiful Robin Weaver! <3 <3 <3
Helped creating her by my dearest @ariel-seagull-wings
The outfit in the first panel was given to me by the dear @professorlehnsherr-almashy based on his period clothing books! Sarah Jane’s working clothes and her Sunday best!
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@superkingofpriderock @ailendolin​ @captain-dad​
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thebadtimewolf · 6 months
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i will never get over the fact that dr. martha jones wouldve been the only companion in both doctor who, torchwood and sarah jane adventures had freema not be in law n order uk at the time. its why sarah jane didnt ask for an introduction she just knew who dr. jones was. idk.
the only one who has been in all three [on a technicality] is the doctor. yes hand in a jar is his hand so it counts of the doctor's appearance with tentoo's first appearance according to every official publicized source being journeys end two parter.
now thats canon tenmartha bby we can feast for eons
[sad that we literally was gonna have a janto x ten audio by big finish themselves until they pulled it two days before it came out after i already pre ordered months ago because n*el cl*rke couldnt stand being called out of assulting 30+ ppl so he brought what bbc literally promoted and profited off of on multiple box sets in public (even though it was already public information) with barrowman on multiple bbc-owned radio stations asking for the exact same invasive physical comedy of an uncomfortable joke for everyone involved. that same joke that is also asked bts in cons egged on by ppl who knew of said joke. eugh. but thats bbc still getting money for money sake. otherwise ten wouldve been in all three or rather david wouldve been in EVERY. BIG. FINISH. AUDIO.]
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tsjadventuresgifs · 3 years
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horselover107 · 4 years
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So, I’m relistening to Torchwood: Asylum for the first time in years, and the rift refugee they’re chasing steals the motorcycle Jack earlier comandered because he fucking left the keys in it.
Combined with the time the SUV gets stolen because they left the keys in it in Countrycide and the time Ianto got the SUV stolen in COE because he fucking drove it to the estate...
How did Torchwood not have all their shit stolen years ago?
It’s worse than Sarah Jane leaving her spare key by her door and everyone just walking into her alien attic...my god.
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altamont498 · 4 years
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As someone who used to love watching The Sarah Jane Adventures, I can safely say they ended it perfectly. Could’ve included an actual line or two from the Doctor themselves, but otherwise perfect.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go and cry and maybe start a lawsuit against Russell T. Davies for emotional damages. 
Accessibility notes: Subtitles/Transcript aren’t available for this video (at the time of writing.)
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Welcome!
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What do you mean by Classic Who and DWEU? - Classic Who is the version of Doctor Who that aired before the 2005 revival. The DWEU (Doctor Who Expanded Universe) consists of the many BBC-authorized and not-technically-not-authorized audio dramas, novels, short stories, and graphic novels that also tell Doctor Who-related stories, including spinoffs like Bernice Summerfield, Gallifrey, The Diary of River Song, and Jago & Litefoot. I’m going to make a somewhat arbitrary decision and say that this blog isn’t focused on the televised spinoffs Torchwood, Class, or the Sarah Jane Adventures, since those are bigger and have their own fandom spaces. (Of course, if you post about those and Classic/DWEU, this blog is for you!)
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GUYS
I had an idea.
So I’ve thought before that it would be unbelieably awesome if the BBC had Sean Pertwee do anything as the Third Doctor - like a special, or even a short clip, literally anything - but then I thought of something even better...
What if we got Sadie Miller involved on this (if you didn’t know, she’s doing some audio adventures as Sarah Jane) and got the two of them to do some scenes from any of the season 11 serials. Or even make some original content. I would literally accept anything.
Like think about it, guys! They’re about the right ages, they’re both involved in acting, we’ve seen Sean dress up as the Doctor before. What if this happened??
If anyone has any thoughts on this, I’m hopefully going to Chicago TARDIS this year, and Sadie is one of the guests (as of this posting). Would it be crazy to mention this? Please add to this, reblog it, signal boost it, or just like it. If it gains momentum, I may bring whatever opinions I collect to Chicago.
Allons-y Whovians!
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valc0 · 3 years
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I found your blog through H&D and I've followed it since bc I love your Thoschei content <3 but I've also seen some content about DW stories that I don't recognise and I was wondering if you could explain where they come from and how I could find them as well (e.g. Masterful, Eight content, Omega). Thank you in advanced if you do answer, love your art <3<3
Thank you so much for following me! I’m happy you like my art and my content in general!
I’ve been thinking a lot about this because I found myself in your same situation many times and I still find myself in it to this day.
The Doctor who fandom is like an iceberg, you start from the tip, which is the season broadcast on TV at the time, and work your way back and the more you go the more stuff and content you discover.
I’m also the last person able to properly explain this to you, so if anyone is more knowledgeable than me, please go ahead and correct me if I’m wrong on stuff.
Classic Who – The old series from 1963 till 1989. Some episodes of the first seasons have been lost, so they are not that easy to find. From the Third Doctor onwards I’m fairly sure you can find them all for streaming.
The Movie – Medium who, it’s the point of connection between old and new series. They wanted to make it a pilot for a possible revival but it failed so miserably they tried to shoved it under the rug and pretend it never happened. I actually know it happened and I’m grateful only to God and Paul Mcgann for its existence.
Nu Who – The actual revival from to 2005 to the present.
Spin-offs – Torchwood (Jack Harkness and Co.), Class (¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ...sorry), The Sarah Jane Adventures (The adventures...of Sarah Jane. Who is a Classic-Who companion.
Webcasts – episodes formatted for the web. Scream of the Shalka is the only one I watched and it’s really good. It was yet another try to revitalize the series until Nu Who started in 2005. They go from still images that hovers around to actual animated episodes. Now that flash is dead the old website doesn’t work any more but I’m sure you could find them to stream somewhere.
Big Finish – I believe Big finish is the company, other than BBC, that created the most content for Doctor Who. They do fantastic Audio Dramas, the only downside is that they are a bit pricey, but they also have a lot of their older stuff up for free on Spotify, so you can have an idea of the quality of their work and decide whether or not to buy the rest. To find it just search Big finish profile on Spotify. Basically here is where Masterful and all my Eight Doctor content comes from.
Comics – Both as series and as part of the Doctor Who Magazine, they release a lot of other stories in there. They also really like to do multi-doctor stories, so that’s good.
Books and Audiobooks – There are a lot of books and many of these have an audiobook form too (some are read by members of the original cast!) I’ve yet to read any of them but I’ve heard they are great!
In general I suggest you to visit the TARDIS wiki page, because they have far more info than I do about DW content and where to find it.
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benpaddon · 3 years
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And here we are. You and me, on the last page. • Over the last year-and-change, I've watched all of #DoctorWho, including the spinoffs, in broadcast order. It's not the first time. I've done a complete run, but it is the first time I included all of the spinoffs - Torchwood, Class, The Sarah Jane Adventures, and last year's animated Daleks! series - and it's the first time I've opted to include the audio releases of episodes that are missing from the BBC archives. I'd refused to listen to those before. That way, when missing episodes are found, it's entirely new to me. • Not this time, though. I can't believe I'd been sleeping on "The Mythmakers"! It's easily one of my favorite Hartnell stories now. Steer clear of "The Celestial Toymaker", though - not only does it fail to hold up, it's also deeply, deeply racist. Christ. • This morning, I'll be rewatching "Revolution" - can you believe it's only Jodie's second seasonal special? - and then I'm done. At least, until. The next time I fancy running through it all again. • What's next? Well, I plan to tackle all of #StarTrek, but first I'm taking a quick detour to watch Batman: The Animated Series, which I've not seen in a hundred thousand years. https://www.instagram.com/p/CMw-jbNjyE1/?igshid=dls26yxz2hhl
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pers-books · 9 months
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Over on the Bird App Big Finish asked what are our favourite BF audios currently listed at £2.99 or less - apparently this is an attempt to create a definitive top ten! - so I went through the list and here are my faves. I figured I’d share them in case anyone’s interested in trying some BF without having to spend £20 or more to do so. (There are, of course, the Big Finish for Free audios - although, be warned, not all of those are complete - some are just the first part of a four part story.)
Unbound: Sympathy for the Devil; Full Fathom Five: Masters of War Short Trips: The World Beyond the Trees; A Heart on Both Sides; All Hands on Deck; The Revisionists Main Range: The Time of the Daleks (Eight); ...Ish (Six); Jubilee (Eight); Zagreus (Eight); Scherzo (Eight); The Kingmaker (Five); Circular Time (Five); The Spectre of Lanyon Moor (Six); Winter for the Adept (Five); The Shadow of the Scourge (Seven) Companion Chronicles: The Blue Tooth; Old Soldiers; Bernie Summerfield and the Criminal Code Sarah Jane Smith: all of them!
Note, the Companion Chronicles are two-handers, ie there’s only two actors and they’re telling the story between them, rather than it being a full cast audio, while the Short Trips titles are read by one actor alone. 
The Unbound range is Alternate Universe Doctor Who. For example, both Sympathy for the Devil and Masters of War feature David Warner as an alternate version of the Third Doctor and both feature a different version of The Brig, as voiced by Nicholas Courtney.
Main Range stories are the full cast audios and I’ve listed in brackets which Doctor is involved in the story.
The Sarah Jane Smith range are also full cast audios featuring Lis Sladen. Be warned, S2 ends on a cliffhanger as no more were made due to the BBC deciding to do The Sarah Jane Adventures on TV! Note, this is a more cynical version of Sarah Jane that we see in SJA.
Anyway, if you want to try out some cheap Big Finish audios, those are the ones I recommend!
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Before Big Finish
Everyone knows about Big Finish’s DW audio dramas, but how many people are aware of the very first Doctor Who audio productions? From a handful of official BBC radio dramas, to fanmade productions distributed on cassette tapes, here’s a rundown of Doctor Who audio productions from a time before Big Finish, plus links to listen where available!
Official BBC radio dramas 
Rather surprisingly, the BBC only issued a small number of official Doctor Who audio productions. Most of them were broadcast as radio shows while the television series was still running, and a few of them were remade into novelizations (most notably, The Ghosts of N-Space and The Paradise of Death, both by Barry Letts). Here’s a list of productions with links to listen and short summaries:
Doctor Who and the Pescatons (Internet Archive)
Featuring Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor and Elisabeth Sladen as Sarah Jane Smith, Doctor Who and the Pescatons was the first original, officially licensed Doctor Who audio production. From the TARDIS wiki: “The Doctor finds himself in the capital city of London, where the population is bewildered and trembling beneath the violent onslaught of a merciless invader... This is the story of a dying Planet, of a Deadly Weed, and the merciless Creatures themselves. It is a Challenge to the Doctor—a frightening race against time...”
Exploration Earth: The Time Machine (Internet Archive)
An educational story that used the Doctor Who format to present information about the creation of the Earth. It features the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith facing off against Megron, High Lord of Chaos, as they witness the formation of planet Earth. 
Slipback (Audible) 
Features Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant as the Sixth Doctor and Peri. From the TARDIS wiki: “The Sixth Doctor and Peri share an adventure on board a starship taken over by its dual personality computer, which tries to take the ship back to the dawn of the universe and start life again. Along the way the duo meet a couple of comedy policemen, an art thief and a captain who wants to infect his crew with one of his diseases...”
The Paradise of Death (Internet Archive)
A Third Doctor audio drama written by Barry Letts, The Paradise of Death features Jon Pertwee, Elisabeth Sladen, and Nicholas Courtney reprising their roles from the television series. From the TARDIS wiki: “When a horrific and inexplicable death occurs at Space World, a new theme park on Hampstead Heath, UNIT is called in to investigate. The Doctor is highly suspicious. Just who controls the Parakon Corporation, the shadowy organisation behind the running of the park? What is "Experienced Reality" and what are the limits of its awesome powers?”
The Ghosts of N-Space (Internet Archive)
The Ghosts of N-Space follows the events of The Paradise of Death, although it also functions as a stand-alone story, and was the final audio production to feature Jon Pertwee. From the TARDIS wiki: “The Brigadier's ancient great-uncle Mario seems unsurprised by the spectres which haunt his even more ancient Sicilian castle. But when the Doctor comes to investigate he finds himself faced with a danger as great as any he has yet encountered.”
The Audio Visuals
The Audio Visuals were a fan group that cropped up when Doctor Who was cancelled in 1989. They created a series of twenty-eight amateur, unlicensed audio productions (plus a pilot episode); many members of the group went on to work with BBV Productions, Big Finish, and the 2005 revival of Doctor Who. Below is a link to the entire series, uploaded to the Internet Archive: 
The Audio Visuals (Remastered) (Internet Archive)
BBV Productions
Some of the people involved in the Audio Visuals productions were also involved with BBV, a production company known for its “off brand” Doctor Who content. From the TARDIS wiki: “It was a commercial enterprise founded to serve Doctor Who fans who were starved of content between the broadcasts of Survival and Rose. Towards this end it heavily used Doctor Who actors and, when possible, characters. BBV therefore quickly gained the reputation for putting out content that was ‘almost official’ or ‘nearly Doctor Who’.” In addition to fims and video content, BBV released four “seasons” of audio content between 1998-2004. There are too many productions to link to each one in this post, but here’s an overview of the main series BBV produced: 
The Time Travellers (Internet Archive, first episode)
The Time Travellers, or Professor and Ace, is a 10-episode series featuring Sylvester McCoy as the Professor (later the Dominie) and Sophie Aldred as Ace (later Alice). Their characters are very similar to the roles they played in Doctor Who - so much so, in fact, that the BBC became worried about copyright and BBV had to adjust the characters’ names and personalities accordingly. The first six episodes are available on the Internet Archive; the tenth and final one is on Youtube; all of them are available to purchase on Audible. 
Adventures in a Pocket Universe (Audible, first episode) 
Adventures in a Pocket Universe is a two-episode series featuring John Leeson and Lalla Ward as K-9 and his Mistress. It was intended as a sequel to the TV serial Warriors’ Gate; however, while BBV was able to acquire the rights to K-9′s character directly from his creator, they did not have the rights to Romana or E-Space. The audios therefore follow K-9 and his Mistress as they travel through Ecto-Space. This kind of Doctor Who-adjacent content is a common theme in BBV productions, and allowed the company to release products for fans of the show while keeping away from copyright infringement. 
The Stranger Chronicles (Audible, first episode)
An audio series following the same story as BBV’s video series The Stranger; both series feature Colin Baker. There are two audio episodes, and the second one was remade as the sixth video installment. 
Faction Paradox (Internet Archive, first episode)
From the TARDIS wiki: “The Faction Paradox series is a standalone collection of audio, prose, and comic stories set in and around the War in Heaven, introduced in Lawrence Miles' 1997 Eighth Doctor novel Alien Bodies... By the year 2000, BBV Productions had agreed to produce The Faction Paradox Protocols audio series. These audios introduced several concepts that would later become staples of the Faction Paradox range, such as the Faction's shadow-weapons and alternate names like "Great Houses" for the Time Lords or "timeships" for TARDISes.” Six episodes were released, beginning with The Eleven Day Empire; all six episodes are available on the Internet Archive.  
BBV released a handful of other audio dramas, featuring characters such as the Rani, Zygons, Cyberons (BBV’s off-brand Cybermen), Sontarans, and Krynoids. Check these pages for more info: 
BBV Official Wiki 
TARDIS Wiki 
Bill & Ben Video - Wikipedia
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