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@mudlark

It seems that RTD has answered the question of @ Maestro/Master connection:

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/doctor-boss-addresses-master-return-084200272.html

And yet, in spite of what RTD says, we know that somebody picked up the Toymaker’s gold tooth.

Just reading this, about Delia Derbyshire, the forgotten person who turned Ron Grainger’s original theme for the show into the iconic sound that it became.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/ten-pieces/articles/zd4k382

I think there may be at least one documentary out there on her, but I have yet to find it.

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@mudlark

Good point about Jinkx Monsoon’s character being named Maestro.

Hmmm. I would have thought that the Master requires someone who can communicate real threat. The little I have seen of Jinkx Monsoon seems to evoke silly rather than sinister.

But who knows.

New trailer

On the question of whether Doctor Who moves to Disney+

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/mar/27/russell-t-davies-says-end-of-bbc-is-undoubtedly-on-its-way

the butterfly effect: this is a good explanation (and the origins of where it comes from)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Sound_of_Thunder

@ps1lov3y0u–sorry, but after three attempts  I give up trying to get your name right…

“… a secret exclusivity option after say three seasons.”

And I was wondering what the reason was for calling this season 1 instead of 14…

I think I might be alarmed.

new trailer

He’s back!

https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-steven-moffat-return-newsupdate/

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@brewski

Welcome back! Very interesting idea about Mrs Flood. It does answer many of the questions I had about her seemingly contradictory behaviour. But her change of feeling regarding her neighbour from the beginning of the episode to the end still still seems a bit puzzling.

I tend to agree with you about the goblin musical number. Am willing…[Read more]

@juniperfish

That made my day!

Brilliant.

@mudlark After watching the two extant episodes, I was reading about the audience reception.  Apparently a significant number of television sets had been purchased at the time of the coronation. But there was little experience of actually watching a thriller on TV. On the basis of the two episodes I watched last night I can only imagine the…[Read more]

Dug out my DVD of the “Quatermass Collection” last night and watched (for the first time) the first Quatermass story to be filmed — “The Quatermass Experiment” from 1953. It (that is, the first 2 episodes that survive of the 6 filmed) was great! And genuinely creepy. It was very early days for BBC television (and probably the oldest TV show I…[Read more]

@mudlark

The 1958 version of “Quatermass and the Pit with Andre Morell is brilliant, and still very creepy. I have it on DVD, and a quick check reveals it is still available for purchase in the UK and North America. Surely a new year’s treat is in order…

Another TV adaptation of a distinctly British version of “end of the world” fiction that…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u

For me, The Honourable Schoolboy was one of the great novels of the 20th century. As you say, the critique of empire was devastating. And not just “empire” in a political sense, but the whole literature of empire that supported the belief system of the politicians and public servants who imposed and administered their power s…[Read more]

Just watched “The Five Doctors” (for the first time). What an abomination.

Susan. No. She does not somehow appear back in London in the 1970s. That abomination of a show does not demonstrate that she is anywhere but with her lover from “The Dalek  Invasion of  Earth”.

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@mudlark

Mrs Flood–not sure how she could be Susan (even if the age gap works) as the Doctor left his granddaughter in a future, devastated, London at the end of “The Dalek Invasion of Earth”. No?

Like you, I think RTD will surprise us with something entirely different.

@devilishrobby

Thanks for reporting back from Doctor Who Unleashed (which I do not seem to be able to access out here in the colonies). So, RTD has indicated a slow reveal of Mrs Flood? This promises more guess work on our behalf!

@ps1l0v3y0u

You are, of course, correct. It’s true, there was a lot of…shall we say Christmas cake…yesterday.