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But does he have the right to play God? His companions don't all think so, and Ace (Sophie Aldred) decides to gather them from across different parts of Time and Space to stop him before he does something he can never come back from. This finale wants to be the Avengers: Endgame of the Seventh Doctor's[...]

One of those writers was Ben Aaronovitch, who wrote two of the defining stories of the Seventh Doctor's era, "Remembrance of the Daleks" and "Battlefield." If the series had not been cancelled, Aaronovitch would have been involved in the next season, and the biggest change would have been Ace (Sophie Aldred) becoming a Time Lord[...]

When Doctor Who was cancelled in 1989, the Seventh Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) and Ace (Sophie Aldred) were last seeing walking off to their next adventure Before the series was revived in 2005, one attempt to give them a grand sendoff was in fact produced by the BBC and streamed online as an audio drama in[...]

Sophie Aldred plays iconic 80s companion Ace, who joins the Doctor to battle Daleks, Cybermen, the murderous Happiness Patrol, and the evil forces of the Psychic Circus This is considered by many fans as the best season of the 1980s and one of the most underrated and sought-after Blu-Ray sets of a long time This[...]

Fans might remember that Mel left to see the stars with Glitz at the end of the 24th season of Doctor Who in the story "Dragonfire" by Ian Briggs, which introduced companion Ace (Sophie Aldred), who replaced her as the Seventh Doctor's companion Veteran Doctor Who novelist Jacqueline Rayner is the co-writer Here's a look[...]

Joining Sylvester McCoy as the Doctor in The Last Day Part One are Sophie Aldred as Ace, Bonnie Langford as Melanie Bush, Lisa Bowerman as Professor Bernice Summerfield, Philip Olivier as Thomas Hector Schofield (aka Hex), Amy Pemberton as Sally Morgan, Maggie O'Neill as Lysandra Aristedes, Edward Peel as Kane, Geoffrey Beevers as the Master,[...]

It took decades for BBC's Doctor Who to do right by Bonnie Langford's Melanie "Mel" Bush, one of the classic series' unappreciated companions.

The event was attended by former cast members, including Sylvester McCoy, who played the Seventh Doctor, Sophie Aldred, who played Ace, Frazer Hines, who played the Second Doctor's companion, Jamie McCrimmon; Carole Ann Ford, who played the First Doctor's granddaughter, Susan; Hugh Fraser, Michael Jayston, and director Graeme Harper along with Troughton's children Joanna and Michael. McCoy tweeted a photo[...]

They're joined by a human teenager named Ace (Sophie Aldred), who had been snatched by a time storm from 20th Century Earth and is now stuck working as a waitress at a diner on Iceworld They're doing the dirty work for an ice-based crime lord named Kane (Edward Peel), who wants to use the treasure[...]

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[...]

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[...]

Today, we pick "Remembrance of the Daleks" as the quintessential 7th Doctor story. "Remembrance of the Daleks" finds the Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) and companion Ace (Sophie Aldred) landing in South London in 1963, shortly after the 1st Doctor left, to recover an artifact he originally left there as warring factions of Daleks arrive to fight over[...]

Once again, it's a personal story for Ace (Sophie Aldred) He takes her back to her old neighborhood in Perivale for a quick visit, only to find many of her friends have gone missing and a mysterious black cat has been lurking around They discover that Ace's friends and some other people have been teleported[...]

He created Ace (Sophie Aldred) after all back in "Dragonfire" two seasons before Here we get World War II, a warmongering army officer who wants to unleash a weapon of mass destruction, heroic Soviet soldiers, vampires, and an ancient, practically Lovecraftian evil entity, Fenric, who has been battling the Doctor since the dawn of time[...]

It was actually the last story filmed in Season 26, the final season of the old show and of course, Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred's final season It wasn't the final story of the season, though That was "Survival", the one that featured the furries – I mean – the werecat aliens. Doctor Who: "Ghost Light",[...]

Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred at the height of their skills as The Doctor and Ace Alas, the flaws of the production played up the cheesiness that haters of the show always dismissed it for. Jean Marsh in Doctor Who: "Battlefield", BBC Studios But the story is full of big, swing-for-the-fences ideas that serve as a template[...]

Where else are you going to find Tom Baker playing the 4th Doctor again in new stories with surviving cast members like Louise Jameson as Leela? Nostalgic for Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred as the 7th Doctor and Ace? Big Finish has you cover! Or new Torchwood stories that had the creative approval and input[...]

The BBC's official Doctor Who channel released a trailer for Doctor Who: The Collection – Season 26 Blu-Ray and DVD box set, featuring Sophie Aldred as the 7th Doctor's (Sylvester McCoy) companion Ace. All companions who leave or are left behind tend to carry an air of melancholy about them They always wait in hope that he[...]

This includes UNIT, Torchwood, The Gallifrey Chronicles, The Diary of River Song, and more spinoffs involving past Doctors and their companions. The stream will feature David Tennant, Billie Piper, Alex Kingston, John Barrowman, Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann, David Bradley, Sophie Aldred, Katy Manning, Nicola Walker, Sir Derek Jacobi and many[...]

So let's talk about Ace (Sophie Aldred), the Seventh Doctor's companion (1987-1989) – because I really don't get all the complaints about the current series of BBC's Doctor Who having too much politics The series always had politics embedded at its core: virtually every Science Fiction, spy or crime TV series created in the UK in[...]

The good news for Doctor Who and Big Finish fans? You're getting the presents! To mark the milestone, 20+ hours of Doctor Who audio drama will be livestreamed on the BBC's Doctor Who YouTube channel from July 21-22 – giving fans an opportunity to hear stories from some of their favorite Doctors, as well as previously[...]

The Seventh Doctor Who and Ace are called to investigate a massive alien ship in the Australian Outback. Is it a good read?

Other endings were given to her, including her being killed off as well as her inheriting the mantel of the Time Lords when they became extinct. Bleeding Cool's Madeline Potts landed an interview with Ace actress Sophie Aldred at San Diego Comic Con today and was able to learn quite a bit about how the actress felt about[...]

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[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/75394100[/vimeo] Close up of Sophie Aldred at the opening of the exhibition of Steve Cook's manipulated photographs of her, back in the day With a special performance alongside from Sylvester McCoy. She's at Orbital Comics in London again today for a signing, between 6pm and 7pm tonight, followed by an exhibition closing celebration[...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iNSoW5fhAE[/youtube] So Orbital Comics in London, launched their exhibition of Steve Cook's photographs of actress Sophie Aldred, best known as Ace from Doctor Who Taken years ago, Cook has digitally manipulated them to make all sorts of entertaining and interesting images, from a recreation of a non-existent 1963 episode of Doctor Who starring Aldred, as would[...]

Steve Cook has an exhibition of photographs of Sophie Aldred, taken back in the Doctor Who days It launches today at Orbital Comics, with a signing with Aldred this Saturday afternoon. Here are a few of the more 2000AD comic-book inspired ones Including our favourite above, ALDREDD Cook tells me; In September 1991 I created the[...]