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New Animated Dr. Who Series
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.
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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I hate it when a site thinks they are so big and cool and make you upgrade to the latest player.
What? Flash 3 couldn't cut it. ARE THEY TOO GOOD FOR FLASH 3?! Geez.
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Should provide adequate sustinence for the Animated Dr Who marathon!
It occurred to me the other day that there was a 4th Doctor story ("Deadly Assassin") involving a computer-generated world called the Matrix. One sat down, put some gear on one's head, then appeared inside this world using a virtual body. If one's Matrix body dies, one's real self dies as well. The lone hero struggles against an enemy who can take advantage of the fact that the "laws" of physics, well, aren't.
No bullet dodging, but given that the BBC's special effects budget was about the price of a cheeseburger, that should come as no surprise.
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I guess I'm way out of the loop. What have they done with the theme song? It's all... techno. BTW, does anyone know where I can legally get a Dr. Who theme as an MP3?
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I love Dr. Who, but the first four minutes of episode 1, the Shambala or whatever, was really really bad. And not the good campy bad. Just not good. As in bad. Oh well, I guess it is back to my old video tapes of Dr. Who from PBS in the mid-80s. Now where is my BetaMax?
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Or you could listen to "Doctor?" from Orbital's album "The Altogether" for the truly techno'ed version.
I never watched them either - the theme music at the beginning was just too scary.
... and that whiney twangy thing just freaked me out and I had to change the channel.
The deep, repetitive da-na-na-nnn, da-na-na-nnn,
From what I've heard, the props were all so bad that the theme was actually the scariest part of the show. Maybe I should have hung around.
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Richard E. Grant, rumored as the front-runner in the new Dr. Who series being developed by the producer of Queer as Folk. I wondered briefly whether his appearance in this meant he'd landed the role for certain, but a Dr. Who fan tells me that he'd been selected for this long before the new series was decided on.
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(Amusing trivia note: Grant actually already has played the Doctor in live-action...for about thirty seconds, in the Comic Relief charity benefit spoof episode The Curse of Fatal Death
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Why is all this crap done in Flash or Shockwave or whatever? Don't they realize that the majority of their viewers (geeks) don't have Flash installed because it's just some method for advertisers to make us all sick?
Put the damn things out in mpg and I'll watch 'em!
Hell, I'll even get out my scarf first!
Orbital on "The Altogether Now' has a song that is Doctor ? which is a nice techno version
As a rock-in-roll Physicist once said, No matter where you go, there you are.
Would it ruin anything if one watched these new animated eps without seeing *any* of the original series?
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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.)
R: That voice. Where have I heard that voice before? B: In about 365 other episodes. But I don't know who it is either.
It says so on the webpage
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What can I say other than it seems to me the BBC has an amazing handle on the Internet, and how to use it to its fullest potential. It seems every week something prompts me to say out loud: "BBC Rules!".... ..In fact, so much more than any other pre-internet broadcaster I have seen. "Major Kudos", its nice to watch some Doctor for the first time in a long time.
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Richard E. Grant is the new doctor. There is some resemblance and of course it is his voice.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/doctorwho/shalka/inte
The BBC's web site also says:
"Scream of the Shalka
Richard E Grant stars in the Ninth Doctor's debut adventure."
its clearly the best show. you have a time traveller who goes around solving other peoples problems and dependning on which one you watch he has a different personality. but always he is knowledgeable and intelligent moreso than everyone else. he also frequently changes nice looking english hoes. might i add, also from all time periods.
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of course the 4th and 7th are most memerable to me. maybe the 2nd one was good too.
Marshal: 'How can we have peace until we have the ultimate deterrent that will ensure a lasting peace?'
Doctor: 'Tell me Marshal, if you had this ultimate deterrent, what would you do?'
Marshal: 'Use it of course, make sure it works.'
Doctor: 'Yes... You have a true military mind, Marshal.'
Marshal: 'Thank you.'
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k9 rocks the casbah too:
Drax: 'Blimey, it's a dog! Who's a little tin dog, then?'
K9: 'Your silliness is noted.'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/doctorwho/episodeguide/
also i have tonnes of pirate dr who. if anyone has a nice ftp or collection of torrents i would be happy to trade.
I'll just use my special getting high powers one more time...
I remember this SNL skit about this copier that took a crappy show's script, and made it something better. Case in point on the script was the golden girls got turned into designing women.
I think if Dr. Who went through the same machine, we would end up with a show starring Scott Bakula as this time traveler that went around solving peoples problems, K-9 would be replaced by ziggy, and Dean Cain would replace the Dr.s female sidekick.
When I last heard, there were 110 episodes missing (This was 10 years ago)
These are mostly Hartnell and Troughton episodes. During the Pertwee era (Colour) the BBC took black & white footage too, and although some colour footage is missing, all the black and white films remain. Additionally, the BBC still has audio recordings of everything.
Since the BBC sold stories to other countries, occasionally, foreign copies are found (Sometimes in the vault of a crypt, somewhere in mid-eastern Europe), but it looks like it's slowing down.
I did have a list of exactly which episodes were missing, if anyone's interested, I could probably dig it up.
For those interested in the cause; as I recall, the BBC had two distinct branches, BBC Worldwide and BBC something-else. Each branch thought the other had the 'master copies' of the films, so junked theirs - they were stopped before all the Doctor Whos (or is that Doctors Who?) were destroyed, but of course, some didn't make it.
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The deep, repetitive da-na-na-nnn, da-na-na-nnn, ...
There is a story behind the music. It was written by Delia Derbyshire, who was working for the BBC Radiophonics workshop. She was an absolute pioneer in electronic music, who worked by physically cutting, pasting, splicing and stretching pieces of tape to creat some real groundbreaking noises.
Her work was hugely influential on modern music - you can see her influence in The Beatles, and many fashionable young electronics gurus cite her (e.g Aphex Twin, Autechre).
I guess this is one of the things that makes a cult program - all the stories and folklore that enshroud it.
If you happen to be on Windows, and you might not, Media Player Classic plays these. Just download the swf file and grab the slider and scroll to after the "Loading" screen.
...can be found over at Big Finish productions, where for their 50th Doctor Who CD (nicely enough being released this month), they united pretty much every single actor who's played on their shows so far, including the last 4 doctors, most of their respective companions including their "new" companions they've added to keep some variety into the show, Nick Courtney as the Brig, John Leeson as K9, and a whole bunch of others, for a 3-CD story.
There's a wonderful set of pictures from the recording sessions available. Yes, the various doctors are getting old, and only McGann could probably reprise his role on screen...but on the radio/audio, the voice and your memories and imagination make it all work.
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