Classic Doctor Who to be animated for DVD release

The First Doctor’s final adventure The Tenth Planet is to have its lost fourth episode animated for DVD release, doctorwho.tv can exclusively reveal.

Teased yesterday at the Gallifrey One convention by Dan Hall, commissioning editor of the classic Doctor Who DVD range, The Tenth Planet sees both the introduction of the menacing, dead-eyed Cybermen, and the departure of the First Doctor, William Hartnell. The final episode has been missing from the BBC Archives since the mid-1970s, and will be reconstructed using the same Thetamation process used to recreate The Reign of Terror episodes 4 and 5.

See a gallery of The Tenth Planet animation stills >>

Dan Hall said: "It’s a real thrill to be bringing such an iconic Doctor Who episode back to life. Without the events established in The Tenth Planet episode 4, there would be no Doctor Who as we know it!"

The release date is currently scheduled for late 2013. 

View a clip of episode one, below: A tenth planet has appeared in the sky. No one listens as the Doctor insists that the inhabitants of this new planet will soon arrive...

Source: DoctorWhoTV

Doctor Who Celebrates 50th Anniversary in 3D

Ben Stephenson, the BBC’s Controller of Drama Commissioning, has revealed some exciting news about plans to mark Doctor Who’s half-century. Earlier today he announced, ‘As part of the BBC's blockbuster celebrations to mark the Doctor turning 50, fans will be able to  see the Time Lord and his adventures like never before - in 3D!’ 

 

  

To be broadcast using some of the BBC’s HD capacity, Steven Moffat, lead writer and executive producer, said:  ‘It's about time. Technology has finally caught up with Doctor Who and your television is now bigger on the inside. A whole new dimension of adventure for the Doctor to explore.’

In the meantime, the Doctor and Clara return to BBC One on Saturday, 30th March for a run of eight epic adventures.

 

Source: BBC

Confirmed! Ice Warriors Return To Doctor Who

Armed with lethal sonic technology, the reptillian warmongers first tangled with Patrick Troughton’s Doctor in 1967′s “The Ice Warriors”, returning two years later in “The Seeds Of Death”. Jon Pertwee’s incarnation encountered them in 1972′s “The Curse Of Peladon” and 1974′s “The Monster Of Peladon”. Traditionally seen as one of the show’s “Big Four” pantheon of monsters – along with the Daleks, the Cybermen and the Sontarans – the militaristic Martians won a throwaway mention in 2009′s “The Waters Of Mars” but have remained unseen in the 21st Century series.

“We’ve got the most fantastic episode by Mark Gatiss,” executive producer Caro Skinner tells SFX, “where we are bringing back the Ice Warrior… on a submarine! It’s a really wonderful kind of ‘bunker’ episode, and a classic monster which Mark has brought his own inimitable twist to.”

“We wanted to bring them back because they’re wonderful!” says Skinner. “In the mix of stories that we were planning for this year it felt as if doing something very bold with a monster that hadn’t been seen for a while would be really cool. Mark is an enormous fan of the Ice Warrior stories and came up with the idea. The sense of a monster of that scale and that size trapped in a really small, contained environment such as a submarine was a really brilliant story to be able to tell. And obviously we’ve had a huge amount of fun going back to the traditional designs and recreating them, bringing the Ice Warriors back to life again.

 

“They were such a beautiful original design, and are genuinely really scary in terms of what they look like as they’re coming towards you in that armour. Letting a huge Ice Warrior loose at the heart of a classic Hunt For Red October style submarine movie was exactly the kind of story that the Doctor should get mixed up in.

“They’ve got really scary voices as well,” smiles Skinner. “I spent quite a lot of time on set trying to hiss like an Ice Warrior…”

The Red Planet’s scariest export returns in episode three of series 7.2, directed by Douglas Mackinnon and starring the legend that is David Warner.

Source: SFX 

Adventures In Time And Space Casting Update

BBC ONE Waterloo Road's Jamie Glover (Deputy Head Andrew Trenman) is to play the role of William Russell in the drama An Adventure in Space and Time,his agent Curtis Brown has confirmed. Jamie (the son of Julian Glover and Isla Blair) has made a number of theatre and television appearances, most recently on television as Dr. Michael Evans in Father Brown.

Jemma Powell will play Jacqueline Hill (Barbara)

Sarah Winter will play Delia Derbyshire, the influential composer most famous for her arrangements of the Doctor Who theme.

 Claudia Grant is playing the Carole Ann Ford who played the first Doctor’s granddaughter.
This is  her first TV job since graduating in the summer. 

New Range Of Tees

 New range of tee-shirts available from Forbidden Planet
 RRP £17.99 Web Price £15.99


 

 

Mug: Smaller On The Outside £6.99

Free Doctor Who Postcards With Next Week's Radio Times

 

 

If you do not  normally buy the Radio Times, make sure that you do next week as they have an offer for four free Doctor Who postcards, including David Tennant's The Waters Of Mars Radio Times cover.

 

The magazine goes on sale on Tuesday 12th February 2013.

 

Toys R Us Launch Exclusive Doctor And Dalek Figure Packs

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Toys R Us have announced an exclusive range of Doctor and Dalek figure sets in their Doctor Who range.

The range will comprise eleven sets, one for each Doctor along with a Dalek from one of the stories from that era. So far information about only three of the packs has been released: the Tenth Doctor figure, which comes with a Dalek from The Stolen Earth, the Sixth from Revelation Of The Daleks and the Second from Evil Of The Daleks.

 

 The first sets are expected to reach Toys R Us stores in the UK in the next few days, although the actual retail date and price has yet to be confirmed. There is no information yet on a US release of these packs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Source:  The Doctor Who Site