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An hour before the event, audio drama "Doctors Assemble!" was released to coincide with both today's anniversary/birthday as well as the special nature of this edition's rewatch.[caption id="attachment_1210951" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Doctor Who Lockdown Kicks Off with Special Message from David Bradley[/caption]But just to make sure things are officially official, actor David Bradley (William Hartnell in[...]

The Cyberman wanted everyone to be like them.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtEPOTRWm7I Cybermen from the Start The Cybermen made their debut in “The Tenth Planet”, William Hartnell’s final story as the First Doctor before he regenerated into Patrick Troughton It’s fun to see the first version of the Cybermen, designed with barely any budget so their faces were just cloth masks[...]

If you started watching Doctor Who with Jodie Whitaker, it certainly doesn’t make you less a fan than when William Hartnell or Matt Smith took on the role.If there are things to take away fan culture from 1999 compared to 2019, we have greater access and influence than ever before As nerds and geeks, we’re[...]

It just happened to be Christmas, so William Hartnell and the cast broke the 4th Wall and addressed the audience directly to toast them a Merry Christmas.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9xUK6ZL9lkAlas, this episode is lost to time as the BBC erased the mastertapes for re-use This was before they realised that episodes of the show could be re-sold for[...]

When original Doctor William Hartnell had to leave the show due to deteriorating health, the producers didn't want to cancel the show.It was one of the most popular shows in Britain after all They invented regeneration in an act of desperation Little did they know that they created a means for the show to go[...]

Variety reports that the deal includes  Doctor Who episodes featuring Tom Baker (including “The Deadly Assassin,” “The Ark in Space,” and “The Robots of Death”), Peter Davison (including “EarthShock,” “The Caves of Androzani”), Jon Pertwee (including “Planet of the Spiders,” “Terror of the Autons”), and William Hartnell (including “The Dalek Invasion Of Earth”).https://youtu.be/sjciw9A5D0o BBC Studios SVP of[...]

If there was one major takeaway from this year's BBC Doctor Who New Year's Special 'Resolution,' it's that there's definitely a new Dalek in town. It's broke and has no casing, broken off by a bunch of warriors hundreds of years ago. So what's a poor Dalek in "The Big City" to do when it finally […]

In the TV movie An Adventure in Space and Time, which told the story of first Doctor William Hartnell,  Ford was played by Claudia Grant, who has since gone on to play the role in Big Finish Production’s new audio dramas featuring the First Doctor and his companions.[caption id="attachment_959305" align="aligncenter" width="541"] BBC[/caption]The video is a promo[...]

We'll also be treated to interaction between Capaldi and David Bradley, portraying William Hartnell's first Doctor.But that interaction might not go so smoothly, because while the Time Lords are one of the oldest and most advances species in the universe, a society who are far beyond human preconceptions of gender, apparently nobody told Doctor #1[...]

Earlier this week, we linked to shots taken by one Doctor Who fan, George Baker, and posted to Twitter (before being deleted) that identified a figure filming the Doctor Who Christmas Special alongside Peter Capaldi. And one that seemed to confirm earlier rumours about the cliffhanger of this Saturday's series ten finale episode, The Doctor Falls.The rumour[...]

There is also an invading force of bee people known as the Menoptera, but who are the real rulers of the planet? And why does it take so long for anything to happen?Justin and Erik discuss the problems of the six-part story, William Hartnell's extra-strength flubbing and the way everyone seems to let the show[...]

When you accept the job you know there’ll come a day, inevitably, when you’ll be saying goodbye."With some variation, an actor typically plays the Doctor for three years.Original star William Hartnell would have been happy to continue in the role, but was forced out after three-and-a-hair years by management as his irascible nature (and a[...]

Though the tone of Doctor Who requires Smith to play stuff in a pretty high register, I've never found him to grate or even seem too arch.And, yes, I was drawn to David Bradley's take on William Hartnell in An Adventure in Space and Time pretty much from the off I've always liked Bradley, and[...]

The BBC have announced the schedule for all the programmes that will be shown to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who this year, and it's a packed schedule of treats for Doctor Who fans.First there's the previously announced special, which will run to seventy-five minutes and it was announced today will be called The[...]

The current BBC webpage for Dad's Army second series lists the three remaining episodes but now, also states, "There will be 6 episodes. More information coming soon."

This one-off TV movie will tell the story of how Doctor Who was created, and first became a success, and while Gatiss has reportedly trimmed the script down to the bare essentials, we also hear that he's done a fine job of finding a central, engaging thread of drama.As you'd expect, the BBC have An Adventure[...]

The first official image from Mark Gatiss' An Adventure in Space and Time gives us our first look at David Bradley in character as William Hartnell, but not David Bradley in character as William Hartnell in character as The Doctor.Here he is, alongside Lesley Manville as his wife, Heather, and a dog, playing their dog.I wonder[...]

well, can we assume the premiere of the 50th anniversay special? I'd be mighty surprised if they don't go that way.The first session is set for 3.30pm on Saturday January 12th, and tickets will go on sale at 11.30am on December 11th.As you might expect, the opener will be An Unearthly Child, the first ever adventure from[...]