October 2019 – Page 3

Doctor Who theme farewell for Fylde coast entrepreneur David

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Pall bearers carry David's Tardis style coffin to the funeral — Pall bearers carry David’s Tardis style coffin to the funeral

One of the Fylde coast’s most colourful characters was given a sci-fi send-off as he moved on to the next dimension.

Family, friends and fans bade a fond farewell to David Boyle, who ran the Dr Who Exhibition on the Promenade next to Sea Life Blackpool.

David wanted people to wear bright colours to his funeral

David, who also founded the toys and railways company Dapol, died from septicaemia after a couple of years of ill health following a stroke.

And true to style, his final music was from TV’s Doctor Who, he was laid to rest in a Tardis style coffin and had asked mourners to wear bright colours to his funeral.

David was well known in the community for driving his beloved Dr Who car Bessie in the Lytham Club Day parade.

The Doctor Who Exhibtion in Blackpool closed in 2009 after the BBC took back some of the costume exhibits there.

The horse drawn hearse makes its way to St Cuthbert's — The horse drawn hearse makes its way to St Cuthbert’s

David in 2015, opened his Blackpool Alien, UFO, Spiritual And Paranormal Exhibition in the former Village Market on the corner of Dale Street and Foxhall Road.

A horse drawn hearse carried him from his home in Lytham to St Cuthbert’s Parish Church.

His partner Julie Whitfield said:

“As the cortège arrived at the crematorium gates a bag-piper led the procession playing two of his favourite tunes, Abide with me and Amazing Grace.

“David was determined that when his time came to move into the next dimension he was going out in style”.

Mourners at David Boyle's funeral — Mourners at David Boyle’s funeral

“David’s health had been declining for many years.

“After using another of his nine lives, he contacted much respected St Annes undertaker, Mark Rae and gave him detailed instructions for his final journey.”

David’s immediate family said their final goodbyes to the strains of the original 1963 Doctor Who theme music.

David’s memory will live on at Lytham Club Day.

The funeral of David Boyle who ran the Doctor Who exhibition on Blackpool Promenade

As in previous years, Dr Who’s bright yellow, car Bessie will appear in the parade with David’s partner, Julie and their good friends Caroline and Graham doing David proud.

He leaves partner Julie, daughter Heather, son Craig and grandsons Adam and Dylan.

David Boyle at the exhibition he ran for many years

Re-created Lost Doctor Who episode gets YouTube premiere

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54 years after the original BBC broadcast, BBC Studios will premiere a new production of Mission to the Unknown, a missing Doctor Who episode faithfully recreated by a team from the University of Central Lancashire.

Mission to the Unknown will be premiered on the Doctor Who YouTube channel at exactly 5.50pm BST on the 9th October to mark the anniversary of the original broadcast of the episode, which was first aired on BBC One in 1965.

The episode will be followed by a making-of documentary short created by YouTuber Josh Snares featuring the cast and crew of Mission to the Unknown with voice of the Daleks, Nicholas Briggs, original cast member Edward de Souza and the classic Doctor Who companion Peter Purves (Steven Taylor) who played the companion to the First Doctor in the 1960s

Luke Spillane, Digital Publishing Manager for Doctor Who at BBC Studios, said:

“I’m delighted that we will be bringing the story of Space Security agent Marc Cory to our 1.3 million subscribers on the Doctor Who YouTube channel as it is such a fantastic recreation, made lovingly with real craft and expertise by everyone at the University of Central Lancashire. I hope audiences around the world can imagine that it’s tea time on the 9th October 1965 as they rather excitingly watch a black and white episode of Doctor Who premiere on their television sets, mobile phones and tablets.”

The project was master-minded by Andrew Ireland, Pro-Vice Chancellor of Digital and Creative Industries at the university, and brought together a dedicated group of students from a wide range of disciplines including film and television, acting, fashion, music, design and dance to recreate the episode from the original script as authentically as possible, carefully researching and reproducing as faithfully as possible the original 1960s production techniques to re-create the classic look of the series.

Andrew Ireland, Pro-Vice Chancellor of Digital and Creative Industries at the University of Central Lancashire, said:

“It is such a loss to our cultural heritage that so many episodes of 1960s Doctor Who are missing from the BBC archives. This project presented us with an exciting opportunity to address that, to explore a new way of bringing these missing slices of TV history to life, and in the process, help students learn their craft by comparing contemporary production methods with historical approaches. The project gave so many people great experiences, and it is wonderful to see the Daleks menacing a black and white jungle once more.”

The recreation caught the imagination of several Doctor Who luminaries including Nicholas Briggs, who has provided the Dalek voices for the recreated episode, and stars including Peter Purves, who played 1960s companion Steven Taylor, and Edward de Souza, who played Marc Cory in the original episode, visiting the new set to lend their support.