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Ronson8 Things can only get better.
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| Mythopoeika wrote: | Perhaps they should have a transgendered, third-sex Doctor - called Doctor What or something...  |
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| Peripart is only passing through
Great Old One Joined: 01 Aug 2005 Total posts: 3851 Age: 45 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 13-09-2013 11:11 Post subject: |
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| Mythopoeika wrote: | | Perhaps they should have a transgendered, third-sex Doctor - called Doctor What or something... |
Or a moody teenager, and call it "Doctor Whatever".
The possibilities are almost endless... |
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| Soong Purveyor of curios
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| Posted: 13-09-2013 11:40 Post subject: |
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| Are they addressing the limited number of regenerations a TL has? |
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| Peripart is only passing through
Great Old One Joined: 01 Aug 2005 Total posts: 3851 Age: 45 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 13-09-2013 11:52 Post subject: |
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| Yes, by ignoring the issue completely, I should imagine. |
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| Moooksta Muppet
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| Posted: 25-09-2013 13:34 Post subject: |
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If anyone is interested...this popped into my email box a few moments ago...
For the sum of twelve Earth Pounds...
A Walking Tour of Doctor Who
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Sunday, 29th Sep 2013 Starts at 11:00 am
Prepare for an adventure as we take you on a Doctor Who Tour of London. The 2 ½ hour walking tour includes Doctor Who locations from the past 50 years with a particular focus on the classic series.
We’ll see over 15 locations from the show, both new and old including sites featured in The Invasion, Remembrance of the Daleks through to more recent episodes such as Rose, The Shakespeare Code and The Bells of Saint John.
On the Doctor Who London Tour you’ll learn how the episodes were made, get trivia about Doctor Who and see locations from various episodes.
Along the way you’ll have plenty of chances to take pictures and see the locations up close. As part of the tour we will take a short tube or bus journey so you will need a Zone 1 travelcard or Oyster card.
The walking tour will finish at Waterloo Station.
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
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| Posted: 06-10-2013 13:09 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Over 100 long-lost Doctor Who episodes found by dedicated fans - in Ethiopia
6 Oct 2013 00:00
The Sunday People can exclusively reveal that 106 BBC programmes have been unearthed featuring the first two doctors
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A group of dedicated Doctor Who fans tracked down at least 100 long-lost episodes of the show gathering dust more than 3,000 miles away in Ethiopia.
It was feared the BBC programmes from the 1960s – featuring the first two doctors William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton – had vanished for all time after the Beeb flogged off a load of old footage.
But after months of detective work the tapes have been unearthed at the Ethiopian Radio and Television Agency.
A television insider said: “It is a triumph and fans everywhere will be thrilled.
“This is a really big deal for the BBC and is set to make them millions from the sale of the DVDs.”
They were here: The agency where the tapes were found
If the tapes are returned in time the BBC hopes to announce the news during celebrations to mark Doctor Who’s 50th anniversary next month.
The Thick Of It actor Peter Capaldi, 55, takes over from Matt Smith as the 12th Time Lord at Christmas.
The recovered episodes from the 60s include much-loved scenes from The Crusade, The Enemy of the World and The Ice Warriors series.
In the four-part Crusade story Hartnell and his assistant Vicki, played by Maureen O’Brien, arrive in the Tardis in Palestine in the 12th century just as King Richard the Lionheart is doing battle with the Saracen ruler Saladin.
After each airing only once between 1964 and 1969, copies were sold to the Ethiopian Agency and the BBC then lost or wiped the originals.
As the corporation still owns the copyright the shows could be digitally remastered and shown again. The prospect will delight millions of fans worldwide.
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Fans' favourite: Patrick Troughton
Doctor Who expert Stuart Kelly revealed news of the discovery at the Wigtown Book Festival in Scotland last week.
When contacted by the Sunday People he said: “I was told by a friend that the episodes have been found in Ethiopia. The BBC is negotiating to get them back right now. I really can’t say any more than that.”
Rumours emerged of the lost shows earlier this year when tapes and 16in films of 90 episodes were thought to have been handed to a TV historian after turning up in a container loaded on a ship from Zambia.
In December 2011 two other episodes that were thought to have been lost were returned to the BBC.
The shows, from 1965 and 1967, starring Hartnell and Troughton, were found three decades after they were sold by mistake at a village fete.
The 50th anniversary episode of Doctor Who will be broadcast simultaneously in at least 70 countries on November 23, the BBC has said.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/106-doctor-who-episodes-uncovered-2343474#ixzz2gwWzScbR
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| gncxx King-Size Canary
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| Posted: 06-10-2013 19:49 Post subject: |
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| Pretty sure this is a hoax that's been going around for a while. |
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| Pietro_Mercurios Heuristically Challenged
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| gordonrutter The Indescribable Horror that is a
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| gordonrutter The Indescribable Horror that is a
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| Fluttermoth Mrs Treguard
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| Posted: 06-10-2013 21:07 Post subject: |
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I was just coming over here to post those links myself 
Exciting news! |
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| Pietro_Mercurios Heuristically Challenged
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| JamesWhitehead Piffle Prospector Joined: 02 Aug 2001 Total posts: 5779 Location: Manchester, UK Gender: Male |
| Posted: 08-10-2013 19:27 Post subject: |
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Much as I love Lost & Found film and video stories, I get the feeling that "106 lost episodes rediscovered in darkest Africa" is not what we will be hearing any day soon.
The BBC seems to be milking the announcement and it coincides with what sounds to be a marvellous new BFI streaming facility. I'm a bit more excited about the latter than about the missing Whos. Probably the unseen sights are fairer, going off the odd series or two I have re-encountered since childhood. 
edit: Superfluous "that" zapped in paragraph one. BBC is singular Corporation so it "seems" not as previously "seem" to be milking.
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| Pietro_Mercurios Heuristically Challenged
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| Fluttermoth Mrs Treguard
Great Old One Joined: 05 Feb 2008 Total posts: 398 Location: Cornwall, GB Age: 43 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 08-10-2013 21:22 Post subject: |
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Things have been majorly kicking off about this across the Who forums (and Twitter/FB)
I'm hoping for Marco Polo. |
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