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Screening of The Happiness Patrol, BFI, 31 August 2024.

Screening of The Happiness Patrol, BFI, 31 August 2024.

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Last Saturday (August 31st 2024) the BFI hosted the launch of the next season in the Doctor Who Collection” Blu-ray range – Season 25.  The chosen story to represent this season was “The Happiness Patrol” and our good friends and intrepid reporters  Jacqueline Lindemulder and Angela Scholder of the Dutch Whovian Community reports. Before 10:00am people were already queueing to see if they would be able to still get hold of a ticket from the returns desk. While walking in…

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Season 25 announced as the next instalment in The Collection Blu-ray range

Season 25 announced as the next instalment in The Collection Blu-ray range

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Sylvester McCoy’s penultimate season as the Seventh Doctor will be the next release to join the Blu-ray collection. Doctor Who fans can continue to build their own home archive on Blu-ray with an EIGHT-DISC box set of the 25th season from 1988, starring Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor. Containing four classic stories, this limited-edition set is packed with hours of new and exclusive material, and will be released on 21st October 2024. The stories also feature Sophie Aldred who plays iconic…

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Graeme Curry: 1965 – 2019

Graeme Curry: 1965 – 2019

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The writer Graeme Curry has died at the age of 54. Graeme Curry wrote the 1988 Doctor Who story The Happiness Patrol, starring Sylvester McCoy as The Doctor and Sophie Aldred as Ace. The story featured Sheila Hancock as Helen A, a character now acknowledged to be based on the then Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. The story is unique in Doctor Who stories for being mentioned in the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Easter Sermon when Dr Rowan Williams referenced the story…

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