A Dr Who super fan has built his very own Dalek. Ian McTeague, from Weston-super-Mare, spent around 18-months making Draco. Powered by an electric wheelchair, Draco is used to raise funds for Help for Heroes and Macmillan Cancer Support at conventions up and down the south west. Video journalist: Jonathan Holmes
A new competition is being launched today [01 February 2021] calling on architects, landscape architects, designers and artists to submit ideas for a 21st Century Police Box to support interaction with residents, workers and visitors in the Square Mile. The competition, being run by the City of London Corporation, the City of London Police, New London Architecture (NLA) and Bloomberg Associates, aims to provide a modern and engaging way to provide information and safety. The ‘Digital Service Point’ will creatively reinvent…
Russell T Davies has said that the BBC’s long-running sci-fi franchise Doctor Who should have a vast shared universe similar to that of Marvel and Star Wars. The prolific screenwriter became a household name for his work on Doctor Who during the Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant eras of the show. A decade on from his departure after handing the reins to Steven Moffatt, Davies’ opinions still holds a lot of sway among fans of the sci-fi series and his latest idea…
Actor Mark Eden, who played “Marco Polo” in the 1964 story has passed away at the age of 92. Eden was born in London in 1928 and decided to become an actor in his teens after falling in love with Shakespeare. However, he was unable to launch a career until he was almost 30, he told the Daily Express newspaper in 2013. “I contracted tuberculosis, spent two years in a sanatorium, worked on the fairgrounds, got married… in fact, I was…
Remembering those creatives from the world of Doctor Who who left us in 2020. With thanks to Toby Hadoke.
The composers behind the Doctor Who theme tune are set to turn the internet into a big musical instrument. The Radiophonic Workshop features musicians from the original BBC group, who created the themes for most shows on the network between the ‘60s and ‘90s. Now, the composers have found inspiration in Zoom calls during the pandemic, using the natural lag of online calls to make “a loop of music”. “The sound gets sent to someone and they add to it, and it…
Despite being diagnosed with dementia late last year, 80-year-old Paul Harvey, a composer and teacher, has continued to be able to play piano pieces from memory. After a clip filmed by his son Nick went viral, BBC Breakfast reunited Paul with some of his former students and colleagues whose lives he impacted during his time as a music teacher, one of which was former Doctor Who theme arranger Dominic Glynn.
This Saturday, August 15th 2020, standby for a special series 1 tweetalong, as Emily Cook hosts the two parter “The Empty Child” and “The Doctor Dances“. So, get those DVDs / BBC iplayer at the ready at 7.00pm (BST) and lets remember those glorious Saturday nights back in 2005. On Twitter please use the hashtag #AreYouMyMummy Do leave your comments at the bottom of this page and let us know your thoughts about this two part story? Earlier this week…
Communal Doctor Who watchalongs were a regular feature of early lockdown – and they are set to return next weekend in celebration of Christopher Eccleston’s return to the Whoniverse. It was revealed yesterday that Eccleston would be reprising his role as the Ninth Doctor after 15 years for a new set of audio adventures, ands the news prompted Doctor Who Magazine’s Emily Cook to revive the popular watchalong events. Cook took to Twitter to suggest a series one watchalong next…
BBC America has announced a premiere date for the animated Doctor Who special “The Faceless Ones,” which will fill in the gaps of the missing serial from the fourth season of the long-running British sci-fi series that starred Patrick Troughton as the Doctor and was first broadcast in six weekly instalments from April to May 1967. The special will air over two days, on Wednesday, Oct. 7 at 8/7c and Thursday, Oct. 8 at 8/7c. “The Faceless Ones” finds the Doctor and his…