Mind of Evil - Doctor Who DVD
The Mind of Evil was a Third Doctor story that brought a radical change in the way United Nations Intelligence Taskforce was portrayed. Instead of being a primarily investigative body interested in alien or unexplained phenomena, here UNIT was mostly seen as a simple security force, guaranteeing the safety of international diplomats. In other words, the "United Nations" portion of their acronym was stressed over the "Intelligence Taskforce" bit — as would later happen in such stories as Day of the Daleks and The Time Warrior. Meanwhile, the main plot about the mind-control device was something writer Don Houghton intentionally included as an homage to A Clockwork Orange. Evil went badly over budget, thanks in no small part to one of Doctor Who's rare usages of a real helicopter in the concluding episode. An unimpressed Barry Letts therefore withdrew director Timothy Combe from his informal "director's rota", and Combe never worked on the programme again.
Think Doctor Who is just for boys? Don't you believe it. Not only was the show's very first producer a woman, but it would never have come back without the fierce advocacy of Jane Tranter and Julie Gardner. Considering her importance to Doctor Who it's somewhat ironic that Tranter's only on-screen credits are for Torchwood: Miracle Day. But Gardner, her "partner in crime", is tied only with Russell T Davies as the most prolific producer in Doctor Who history.
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Officially, only The Lodger has been explicitly adapted from a comic strip — also called The Lodger.
However, several stories have clearly taken material from comic strips — often those in Doctor Who Magazine. The Shakespeare Code contains a good amount of material from A Groatsworth of Wit, and the notion of the Doctor absorbing the time vortex in order to spare a companion was explored in both The Parting of the Ways and The Flood.
Donald Baverstock was the BBC executive who set the the wheels in motion that eventually led to the creation of Doctor Who. Essentially the original commissioner of the programme, he hired Sydney Newman and later imposed a sense of financial responsibility upon producer Verity Lambert.
But Baverstock wasn't the only BBC executive to have a profound impact on the development of Doctor Who. Make sure you read about Lorraine Heggessey, Mark Thompson, Danny Cohen, George Entwistle, Tony Hall, Shaun Sutton, Sydney Newman and others.- 1965 - "The Death of Time" was first broadcast on BBC1.
- 1965 - Part two of TV Century 21 story The Amaryll Challenge was first published.
- 1971 - Episode two of The Dæmons was first broadcast on BBC1.
- 1971 - Part one of The Vogan Slaves was first published in Countdown.
- 1976 - Part four of the TV Comic story Hubert's Folly was first published.
- 1980 - DWM 34 was first released by Marvel Comics.
- 2003 - DWM 331 was first released by Panini Comics.
- 2008 - The Beast Is Back In Town was first released online.
- 2008 - DWM 396 was first released by Panini Comics.
- 2010 - Cold Blood was first broadcast on BBC One. Later, What Goes on Tour... aired on BBC Three.
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- 2014 - DWM 474 was first released by Panini Comics.
- ... that actor Louis Mahoney, whose most recent role in Doctor Who was that of the elder Billy Shipton in Blink, had previously appeared in both Frontier in Space and Planet of Evil?
- ... that Elvis Presley signed a 1957 stratocaster that ended up in the hands of the Eighth Doctor? (PROSE: The Taint)
- ... that the creation of Stonehenge was witnessed by the Doctor and Sam Jones, (PROSE: The People's Temple) although the Monk claimed to have assisted with its construction using anti-gravity lifts? (TV: "The Meddling Monk")
- ... that Susan was once prevented from drowning by the then-retired Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart? (PROSE: The Gift)
- ... that the Terpsivores were a race of massive centipedes who powered their spaceships by dancing? (COMIC: Death Disco)
- 1928 - Actor Frederick Jaeger was born.[1]
- 1934 - Actor Neville Jason was born.[2]
- 1941 - Actor Mike Lucas was born.[3]
- 1941 - Actor and stuntman Bill Weston was born.[4]
- 1952 - Writer Louise Cooper was born.
- 1952 - Actor Oliver Smith was born.
- 1964 - Actor David Kinder was born.[5]
- 1965 - Actor Dursley McLinden was born.[6]
- 1977 - Actor Brian Treitler was born.
- 1981 - Actor Ramsay Williams died.[7]
- 1982 - Actor Anita Briem was born.
- 1987 - Actor Pearl Mackie was born.[8][9]
- 1992 - Actor Gregg Sulkin was born.
- 2000 - Actor Aubrey Richards died.[10]
- 1964 - "Strangers in Space" was recorded at BBC Television Centre. (INFO: "Strangers in Space")
- 1969 - Episode eight of The War Games was recorded at BBC Television Centre Studio 8. (TCH 14)
- 2013 - Recording for 1963: The Space Race took place at The Moat Studios.
- 2018 - The Torchwood story Serenity was recorded at the Moat Studios.
- 2019 - Recording for The First Doctor: Volume Three was recorded.
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- ↑ Gee, Catherine (7 April 2017). Doctor Who's Pearl Mackie: everything you need to know about the new companion. The Telegraph. Retrieved on 15 April 2017.
- ↑ Duff, Seamus (15 April 2017). Who is Pearl Mackie? Doctor Who companion Bill Potts who admits she's never seen the show. The Sun. Retrieved on 15 April 2017.
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