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New Animated Dr. Who Series

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the rockin-the-tardis dept.

smak writes "To celebrate the doctor's fourtieth anniversary, the BBC and Cosgrove Hall Films are webcasting a fully-animated adventure starring Richard E. Grant. You can watch the first episode of Scream of the Shalka and new episodes will be launched every Thursday. Enjoy." It requires Flash 4, but also looks pretty damn cool.

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  1. Showing Dr. Who by The+Munger · · Score: 4, Informative

    At the moment in Australia, we're enjoying Dr. Who weeknights at 6:00. The ABC (Our government run station), is showing them from the very first episodes. Great days for Australian 'Who' Geeks. It's great seeing the emergence of the Daleks and all your old fav's.

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  2. Done before with Douglas Adam's script by NaugaHunter · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here - all six episodes.

    I'd never really watched Dr. Who before, but I enjoyed this - probably because of Professor Chronotis and good ol' Adam's wit. I'll watch the newer ones when I get a chance, but I figured I'd point this out for those the Adam's fans that didn't see the link on the bbc page.

    (There's also another 6 episodes called 'Real Time', talking about the return of Cyber Men. Probably an inside Dr. Who thing - if you've never seen Dr. Who but are interested and are a Douglas Adam's fan his series is probably the best introduction.)

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  3. Re:Who's influence on the Matrix films... by NanoGator · · Score: 4, Informative

    There's also an episode called "Trial of a Time Lord", with Colin baker as the Doctor. The last chunk of it involves entering the 'Matrix'. It was a little different, though. In this ep, the Matrix was a repository of all Time Lord knowledge. Or something like that. Imagine the universe having a black box recording everything that happens, then having a Holodeck to walk into and witness events that occured. It was taken over and the laws of physics were messed up, etc.

    Though I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if this episode had significant influence on the Matrix movies, it'd be difficult to say it was more than simply inspired.

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  4. Re:Which doctor is this? by Performer+Guy · · Score: 4, Informative

    Richard E. Grant is the new doctor. There is some resemblance and of course it is his voice.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/doctorwho/shalka/inter vi ews/grant/

    The BBC's web site also says:

    "Scream of the Shalka
    Richard E Grant stars in the Ninth Doctor's debut adventure."