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Doctor Puppet is a charmind stop-motion-style animated takeoff of Doctor Who. Here is the latest epsiode, “The Red X”.
In the prequel to the new season…”the Doctor takes a break on Earth, despondent that he can’t find Clara”…
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who, BBC Books is reissuing eleven Doctor Who novels, most of them classics. Each novel features one of the eleven Doctors and has been redesigned with new covers (including 50th anniversary branding) and new introductions.
According to Amazon, all books in the series will be available in March. However, note that BBC’s site lists the release date as July.
Embiggened cover images an synopses follow the jump…
Have you noticed the trend of established authors writing Doctor Who novels? I have, and I wrote about it.
You can find Drawn to the Pages of Doctor Who over on the Kirkus Reviews Blog today.
Or, has it been there for millions of years…?
(See what I did there?)
“It’s your kid, Rory. Something’s got to be done about your kid!”
This video is full of wonderful mash-up moments. I especially liked 9-Stein. 
Check it out after the jump! …and whatever you do, don’t blink.
A little late for Christmas, but hey, we can’t all have time-traveling phone booths and get posts in on time.
In this cute animation by Alisa Stern, the Doctor puppet must save New York. Again.
For what will undoubtedly for some be 11 times better than licking Isaac Asimov, the Royal Mail has revealed 11 new Doctor Who stamps.
I wonder if you can use these stamps to pay bills that are way past their due date without penalty by sending them back in time? Or maybe you will be able to mail bow-ties for free because they’re cool.
Bigger pics of the individual stamps can be found after the (time) jump….
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As if the upcoming Doctor Who Christmas Special needed any further buzz, here comes this prequel mini-sode called “The Great Detective”. A nice extra, but the real deal is in the trailer for the Christmas Special istelf, an episode titled “The Snowmen”
Here are both for your weekend enjoyment.
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Following the last season of Doctor Who Series 6 (aired in the sates by BBC America), Stephen Moffat and the BBC announced that the new/next/2012 season would not air until the Fall. This didn’t sit well with a lot of fans of the show, including me. It felt like a really long break to take, which meant that when the show came back, it would need to rebuild the momentum from the previous seasons, and deliver some truly strong episodes to propel it forward into the 50th anniversary year.
Did it?
I’m not so sure…
Fans of NBC’s Community already know the sordid story of Inspector Spacetime, the in-show Doctor Who parody enacted by lovable nerd-geeks Troy and Abed.
For the uninitiated, here’s the short version: There was a particular episode of Community in which they showed a live action version of Inspector Spacetime. The title character was played by actor Travis Richey, who attempted to produce a real-life Inspector Spacetime via Kickstarter. Didn’t work. NBC’s lawyers ex-ter-min-ated the effort shortly after it began. So Richey, wise to the ways of fan outcry and parody, renamed his project. The official title is Untitled Web Series About a Space Traveler Who Can Also Travel Through Time, a name generic enough to rally fans and repel NBC’s lawyers.
Here is the fruit of that effort:
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At our household, Doctor Who is one of those shows that we miss when it’s not on, and the erratic scheduling hurts.
So we’re thrilled to see the new trailer for the Fall 2012 series/season. Bring it on…
I have really embraced Netflix and streaming video. Enough so that I made a post about 5 genre shows now streaming from the service just a couple days ago. Looking through the available content, though, I realized there were a lot more shows deserving of a mention. So, here’s a list of five more shows! (presented in no particular order)
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[via James Bradley]
The winners of an Olympic-themed Doctor Who contest were three young girls who wrote a short Doctor Who script that they got to see being filmed. Here’s the result, with a surprise return appearance by…well, just see for yourself.
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SFX has posted the cover art and synopsis of the upcoming novel Doctor Who: The Wheel Of Ice by Stephen Baxter. It features the second Doctor and companions Jamie and Zoe. Here’s the synopsis:
Resilience. Remembrance. Resolution. Whatever the cost.
She had no name. She had only her mission – she would return Home. And bathe in the light of a long-dead sun… Even if it meant the sacrifice of this pointless little moon to do it.
The Wheel of Ice: a ring of ice and steel turning around a moon of Saturn, home to a colony mining minerals for a resource-hungry future Earth. A bad place to grow up.
The Wheel has been plagued by problems. Maybe it’s just gremlins, just bad luck. But what’s the truth of the children’s stories of ‘Blue Dolls’ glimpsed aboard the gigantic facility? And why won’t the children go down the warren-like mines? And then sixteen-year-old Phee Laws, surfing Saturn’s rings, saves an enigmatic blue box from destruction.
Aboard the Wheel, The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe find a critical situation – and three strangers who have just turned up out of nowhere look like prime candidates to be accused of sabotage … The Doctor finds himself caught up in a mystery that goes right back to the creation of the solar system. But it’s a mystery that could have dire repercussions for the people on the Wheel. It’s a mystery that could kill them all.
The 320-page hardcover releases in the U.S. and U.K. in August 2012.
This is why I love the Internet: you have Karen Gillan, an actrees with eternal geek cred given her time on Doctor Who as Amy Pond, showing her appreciation for the Inspector Spacetime, Community‘s in-show ripoff of Doctor Who. Amy Pond on Community? Yes, please!
[via Nerdist]
Required viewing for all Doctor Who fans…
[via Neatorama]
Michaele Jordan‘s novel, Blade Light, is a charming traditional fantasy that was serialized in Jim Baen’s Universe and is now available as an ebook at Amazon or at iBooks. Her newest novel, Mirror Maze, is available now.
I am sure you have all heard about pride, and where it goeth. And, alas, I am very proud of my Doctor Who expertise, and that pride most definitely wenteth.
I recently boasted that I had caught out the almighty BBC and castigated them for having mislaid an episode-and not merely the episode but all record of that episode. I said that, in preparation for a convention panel, I had reviewed all the Doctor Who episodes with Sarah Jane, “starting with ‘The Time Warrior’ (11th season, John Pertwee) and continuing on through ‘Hand of Fear’ (14th season, Tom Baker).”
I was particularly annoyed since the missing episode was one of Elizabeth Sladen’s most memorable. In it, Sarah Jane found a stone hand with an unusual ring in a quarry. Before regenerating into a silicon being during a nuclear meltdown, it possessed her causing her to run around chirping, “Eldrach MUST live,” while dressed in pink and white Andy Pandy overalls. Trust me-Sarah Jane fans find it unforgettable. So I was particularly irate that the late Ms. Sladen was not getting the respect she was due.
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Michaele Jordan‘s novel, Blade Light, is a charming traditional fantasy that was serialized in Jim Baen’s Universe and is now available as an ebook at Amazon or at iBooks. Her newest novel, Mirror Maze, is available now.
When I am not writing books (such as Mirror Maze) or even stories (check out the March issue of Redstone Science Fiction for my latest, “I Will Love You Forever“), I like to relax by watching Doctor Who.
I first met the Doctor in August, 1979. I was attending the Louisville NASFC and happened to attend the masquerade. One particular costume caught my eye. A tall man with a wonderful head of thick lamb curls, topped by a dramatic fedora, walked down the aisle. He had a scarf around his neck. And such a scarf! It was at least fourteen feet long, and adorned with rainbow stripes. Red stripes, green stripes, yellow stripes-I was charmed! I had no idea who he was, but I was in love.
Did I mention that, barring the scarf, he was nude?
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This came to me by Jules Sherred of the Geeky Pleasures Radio show and I thought it was well worth sharing.
Do you want to help fund a piece of superb science-fiction? Do you want to help create a delicious audiodrama, dripping with sound so luscious it seeps from your ears, creating vibrant images within your brain? Do you want to be a part of and own a little piece of the Doctor Who universe? Of course you do!
Radio Static is currently raising funds to create The Minister of Chance Episode 3: Paludin Fields.
If you are not yet familiar with this brilliantly written and superbly produced audiodrama, The Minister Of Chance takes place in the Doctor Who universe. As described on The Minister’s website:
The Minister of Chance is an audio Science Fiction Fantasy series in the tradition of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and the best in radiophonics. It’s free, and you get it by subscribing to the podcast.
The Minister, like The Doctor, is a Timelord, first introduced to audiences in the award-winning and record-breaking BBC Doctor Who mini-series Death Comes to Time. He was originally played by Stephen Fry but, as Timelords will, he has now regenerated into Julian Wadham’s more austere and urgent incarnation.
The Minister Of Chance stars a lot of Doctor Who Alumni, including:
For more information or to help fund this SciFi Audio Drama, please visit the Geeky Pleasures website.
