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Doctor Who: The Collection – Season 25
All episodes have been newly remastered from available sources, meaning these classic adventures have never looked or sounded so good on home media. BBC The Collection: Season 25 is also jam-packed with hours of new and exclusive material including: UPDATED SPECIAL EFFECTS Exclusive to Blu-ray, on the original broadcast versions of REMEMBRANCE OF THE DALEKS, SILVER NEMESIS, and THE GREATEST SHOW IN THE[...]
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The new era has done its utmost to correct the wrongs the writers did to some companions from that era, most recently Melanie "Mel" Bush, played by Bonnie Langford. Image: BBC/Disney+ Mel was a companion that was hastily thrown into the show in 1986 in what ended up as the Sixth Doctor's (Colin Baker) final season during[...]
Doctor Who: Russell T. Davies' Vision Pays Off with "Empire of Death"
Flood (Anita Dobson), who laments cryptically about not getting to enact her own plans before comforting Cherry as they all turn to dust. They're out of the picture except for The Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa), Ruby (Millie Gibson), and Mel (Bonnie Langford), who manage to escape in the newly created Memory TARDIS formed from Ruby's memories[...]
Doctor Who: New “Tales of the Tardis” Details Tempers Expectations
This is comprised of an introductory scene with the characters, then we are treated to a slightly re-edited version of the classic Doctor Who story they're featured in with the original opening and closing titles removed for a seamless single feature length story, followed by an ending scene of the characters in the Memory Tardis. It[...]
Doctor Who: Bonnie Langford Pens Mel Bush Murder Mystery Novel
Bonnie Langford, who plays companion Mel Bush on Doctor Who, has written a mystery novel set in space called "Death in the Stars: a Mel Bush Mystery" She returned recently in the 60th Anniversary Special "The Giggle" and is set to return in the new Season One on Disney+ worldwide, has written a murder mystery starring[...]
Sylvester McCoy, Colin Baker, Bonnie Langford
Or whether we will be getting the return of The Common Men. Photo by Rich Johnston On the Sunday, it was Bonnie Langford's turn to get the big line, and she also joined Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy on stage, her two Doctors from playing the companion Mel in the eighties and recently returning to The Giggle[...]
Doctor Who: Redeeming Mel, One of the Most Unappreciated Companions
The latest example is Melanie Bush, played by Bonnie Langford, who was the Sixth Doctor's (Colin Baker) final companion and the Seventh Doctor's (Sylvester McCoy) first companion She might be the most underrated and under-appreciated companion of the classic series. Bonnie Langford as Mel Bush in "Doctor Who", still: BBC Doctor Who Used to be Bad for[...]
Doctor Who: Blu-Ray Boxset of William Hartnell's 2nd Season Announced
Together they face off against the dreaded Daleks, the marauding Mechanoids, the ant-like Zarbi, and the Meddling Monk while visiting fantastic alien worlds and turbulent times in the Earth's history. The missing two episodes of The Crusade have been reconstructed using off-air photographs and the original broadcast soundtrack, while the remaining episodes have been newly remastered from[...]
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers is Another
Davies when he brought the show back in 2005. Sylvester McCoy and Bonnie Langford in "Doctor Who", image: BBC The first story of the season where the Doctor regenerates and has to deal with the Rani's latest evil scheme was actually a banked script New story editor Andrew Cartmel disliked it because he felt it was generic[...]
Doctor Who: Russell T. Davies’ “Mind of the Hodiac” Out Now!
Davies Doctor Who story, "Mind of the Hodiac", has regenerated into a new highly-anticipated full-cast audio drama, released today by Big Finish Productions. Colin Baker and Bonnie Langford star in this brand new (old) adventure for the Sixth Doctor and Mel, based on the recently rediscovered unproduced script by Davies It was thought lost until Davies found it amongst[...]
Doctor Who: Big Finish to Produce Long-Lost Russell T. Davies Story
It's all in the Mind of the Hodiac! Conceived in 1986 and rediscovered almost 35 years later, Doctor Who: Mind of the Hodiac stars Colin Baker and Bonnie Langford as the Sixth Doctor and Mel The full cast audio version is expanded from the original script into two episodes and is co-written by Russell T[...]
Doctor Who: Season 24, the 7th Doctor’s Debut, Coming to Blu-Ray
Sylvester McCoy's first season as the Seventh Doctor, which featured Bonnie Langford as companion Mel Bush and introduced Sophie Aldred as Ace, is coming to Blu-ray and DVD with the Season 24 boxset Apparently one of the most reviled seasons of Doctor Who, season 24 actually marked the arrival of script editor Andrew Cartmel, who[...]