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Month: September 2019

‘Doctor Who: The Edge of Time’ Special Event

‘Doctor Who: The Edge of Time’ Special Event

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Technology company HTC and BBC Studios are putting together a special two-day event for Doctor Who fans at Protein Studios in East London next week. Visitors will see a full-size TARDIS on display outside the venue, while inside they can use HTC’s newly released VR headset, the VIVE Cosmos, to play a new game based on the show called Doctor Who: The Edge of Time. Attendees can book free 30-minute slots to play Doctor Who: The Edge of Time, produced by Maze Theory for…

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Tardis send-off for man who ran Blackpool’s Doctor Who exhibition

Tardis send-off for man who ran Blackpool’s Doctor Who exhibition

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The man who used to run Blackpool’s famous Doctor Who exhibition on the Prom has died. David Boyle, 71, was one of the Fylde coast’s well known characters, regularly seen at club days in his copy of Jon Pertwee’s Doctor Who car Bessie. The fan of the BBC science fiction classic who ran the exhibitions in Blackpool from 2004 to 2009 and Llangollen from 1994 to 2003, and dedicated UFO researcher died at Blackpool Victoria Hospital from septicaemia. He will…

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HOME FIRES BURN

HOME FIRES BURN

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Candy Jar Books is proud to announce more details about the first novel in its seventh series of Lethbridge-Stewart novels. The first novel in the Bloodlines sequence of novels is Home Fires Burn by first-time novelist Gareth Madgwick. He has previously written two short stories for the Lethbridge-Stewart range, The Great Magician and the Spirits of the Vasty Deep in The HAVOC Files 4 collection, and Inheritance in the Lineage anthology. Home Fires Burn is set in 1943 and sees…

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Panopticon is back!

Panopticon is back!

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Our good friend and Panopticon superemo Mr Andrew Beech has very kindly put us in the picture on the status on the new Panopticon events and their place within fandom. The DWAS subsidiary company ‘DSL’ (Dominitemporal Services Limited), which ran PanoptiCon from 1988 onwards (and of which I was managing director), became independent of DWAS in 1993 and ran all subsequent events wholly separately – albeit continuing to support the DWAS by providing a platform for them at the event….

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Rose Tyler returns, the Twelfth Doctor starts a podcast and more!

Rose Tyler returns, the Twelfth Doctor starts a podcast and more!

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The Sixth Doctor and Peri meet Houdini! The world is at war, and Harry Houdini wants to fight for his adoptive country. He might get the chance when an old friend crashes his New York show… but no one is as they seem in this latest adventure! Order Harry Houdini’s War from Big Finish The Fifth Doctor meets his hero… Cicero! 63BC. When the Fifth Doctor, Nyssa and Tegan arrive at Cicero’s villa, new dangers lie in wait and Cicero, the famed…

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DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE 543

DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE 543

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THE JOHN NATHAN-TURNER LEGACY A new perspective on Doctor Who’s longest-serving producer, featuring previously unseen images from his own scrapbooks! Highlights of this issue include: Former Doctor Who script editor Andrew Cartmel describes working with John Nathan-Turner. Sophie Aldred explains how JNT changed her life. Stephen Cranford on what it was like to know JNT as a friend. Writer Philip Martin and actor Nabil Shaban reveal Sil and the Devil Seeds of Arodor. Composer Richard Hartley on recreating his score for 1986’s ‘Mindwarp’. An…

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Doctor Who: The Curse of Fenric (Special Edition)

Doctor Who: The Curse of Fenric (Special Edition)

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The next Doctor Who screening at the BFI will be ‘The Curse of Fenric’ on the 23rd of November to promote the upcoming Season 26 blu-ray release. There will be a Q&A with actor Sophie Aldred and script editor Andrew Cartmel. Tickets on sale from the BFI September 24th https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/default.asp…

Step into the Doctor’s TARDIS with the new VIVE Cosmos

Step into the Doctor’s TARDIS with the new VIVE Cosmos

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HTC is celebrating the launch of the VIVE Cosmos, its latest premium PC-based Virtual Reality (VR) system, and has teamed up with BBC Studios to offer Doctor Who fans the chance to embark on an adventure with the Doctor by stepping into the legendary TARDIS (spoiler: it’s bigger on the inside) On Friday 27th and Saturday 28th September, visitors to the Protein Studios experience in Hackney will be fully immersed in the sci-fi world of Doctor Who through the riveting…

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Jacob Dudman plays the Twelfth Doctor in new audio drama boxset

Jacob Dudman plays the Twelfth Doctor in new audio drama boxset

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The Doctor Chronicles range brings the new series era Doctor Who to life on audio, utilising the amazing talents of actor and impressionist, Jacob Dudman. From David Tennant’s Tenth Doctor to Matt Smith’s Eleventh Doctor, we’ve marvelled at these exciting new adventures building on the ideas of Russell T Davies and Steven Moffat. And now we head to Peter Capaldi’s Twelfth Doctor. There will be four stories in the first box set of The Twelfth Doctor Chronicles, set for release in…

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Freema Agyeman returns to the Doctor Who universe

Freema Agyeman returns to the Doctor Who universe

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Tenth Doctor companion Martha Jones returns to the world of Torchwood in January next year. Freema Agyeman (Doctor Who, Sense 8, Law & Order UK) starred in series 3 of New Doctor Who and its spin-off show, Torchwood, before going on to a huge career. Big Finish Productions is delighted that Freema is reprising her role in this new Torchwood story, which explores what Martha did after her adventures with the Doctor. Gwen Cooper turns up on Martha Jones’s doorstep with a dead body in tow. She needs to ask one final favour of…

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