Kamelion Boxset Preview and TARDIS needed for Doctor Who fans plus a Pick of the Blogs

TARDIS Scanner - Who Tube has BBC DVD: Kamelion Boxset Preview, with The King's Demons and Planet of Fire.

Hyde Fundraisers has the news of Dr Tanner at UNIT Presentation, a message from Geneva has now confirmed that respected scientist Dr Tanner will be arriving in the UK for this Saturday's highly secret UNIT presentation. We have been advised that the briefing is likely to be for just over 220 people during the day so we would advise early arrival to avoid disappointment, Dr Tanner has worked very closely with Dr Malcolm Taylor who is currently on attachment to Torchwood. Security passes will be required for access and UNIT looks forward to welcoming you on October 10th (ed: event at The Village Hotel in Ashton-under-Lyne).

BBC iPlayer (UK only) has...

• Doctor Who - Series 4: 1. Partners in Crime, Donna is determined to find the Doctor again.
  
• Doctor Who Confidential - Series 4:1. A Noble Return, features interviews with Catherine Tate, David Tennant and Sarah Lancashire.

Morley Observer has Morley Literature Festival 2009: TARDIS needed for Doctor Who fans, phenominal demand for tickets to hear four Doctor Who writers discuss their work as part of Morley Literature Festival has meant the event has had to be shifted to a bigger venue.

SFX has From the Archive - Jon Pertwee, here's another chance to read our 'lost' interview with the great man.

WalesOnline has Cardiff goes English for Doctor Who, a leafy corner of the city has apparently been transformed into an English village – thanks to Doctor Who (ed: warning spoiler pictures ahead).

Cadmium 2 has released Show 60: Doctor Who – Spare Parts, to tie in with last weeks look back at The Tenth Planet (William Hartnell’s finale as The Doctor and the first appearance in the show of the Cybermen) we decided to follow this up with an extra show where we review Big Finish’s Tenth Planet prequel, Spare Parts… (ed: added to the pods and audio button).

Tin Dog Podcast has released TDP 102: Fronteer in Space and New Logo Chat (ed: added to the pods and audio button).



Radio Free Skaro has 2010 Series Writers and Directors: The Story So Far, we at Radio Free Skaro have rarely been keen to spread plot spoilers for upcoming episodes of Doctor Who (apart from that brief time a few months ago when Spoilor went on a rampage), but we’re always interested to see who the key people are behind the production of the show.

Dr Who Interview Archive has Philip Hinchcliffe (1990’s), he talks about the influences for Tom Baker’s Doctor, the accusations from Mary Whitehouse that the show had become too scary for children, and why he thought ‘The Ark in Space’ was one of the scariest stories.

Rich's ComixBlog has Forever Janette – 52, Janette visits LaCroix to tell him that she’s moving on. Leaving Toronto to start a new life elsewhere. She sells him the Raven for a song and slips out quietly.

Doctor Who: Dreamland Animation Blog has Getting the full storyboard, as work continues on eps 3 and 4 of Dreamland, another milestone was reached today... the final storyboards were delivered!

HeroPress has Frontier In Space (1973), the centrepiece of the 10th anniversary season Doctor Who was the two six-part stories that would later come to be known as the "Dalek War".

New Logo, New Sonic Newsdriver plus a Pick of the Blogs

BBC Doctor Who gives you the chance to Download the New Logo, as a computer wallpaper.

Gallifreyan Embassy has released Sonic Newsdriver 20091006, special quick episode announcing the new Doctor Who logo and location photos, Catch Doctor Who: Podshock 163 and soon 164, and Get Your Sonic Gear, plus more! (ed: added to the pods and audio button on the editor's bit).

Digital Spy has Paul McGann talks 'Doctor Who' return, sSince his disappearance from the Doctor Who franchise - after a brief stint as the Eighth Doctor in the 1996 movie reboot - some fans have demanded that Paul McGann return to the series (or at least briefly reprise his role to regenerate into Christopher Eccleston).

CBBC Newsround has Check out new Doctor Who logo, logos past, present and future.



Rich's ComixBlog has Forever Janette – 51, back at his apartment, Nick shares his emo feelings with Nat.

Behind the Sofa has "The Blue Box. You dreamt of a blue box.", this is very much, in a very definite, very clear sense, the new Doctor Who logo, yes indeed, what looks like two in fact, and my brain is aching because I’m sure I’ve seen the acronym one with the lense flare before.

SJA News has Doctor Who Magazine 414 Cover, the cover for the upcoming doctor who magazine 414 has been released and it features both David Tennant and Elisabeth Sladen on the cover which can be seen below. It will be released later in the month and it will be available in all good newsagents.

Radio Free Skaro - The Chronic Hysteresis has...

• XXX4 - Death to the Daleks 4, the Doctor and Bellal's journey through the city of the Exxilons should have been more fun and exciting than it turned out to be.
• YYY1 - The Monster of Peladon 1, it's good to see so little has changed on Peladon over the course of fifty years.
• YYY2 - The Monster of Peladon 2, there have been some silly hairdos in Doctor Who (one need look no further than Bill Filer and Captain Dent in Season 8 for proof of that).
• YYY3 - The Monster of Peladon 3, 1970s feminism is given a rare boost in Doctor Who in this episode for one scene, before it all comes crashing back down to Earth again just seconds afterward. 
• YYY4 - The Monster of Peladon 4, the Ice Warriors make an impressive entrance in this episode, firmly establishing their power and influence over everyone in this story. 

Doctor Who Methadone 2008-2010 has "The Unquiet Dead", a trip to the future was followed by this jolly trip into the past. Mark Gatiss weaves a very enjoyable tale of ghostly gaseous aliens, a rift in time and space, zombies and Charles Dickens.

The Tardis Project has "The Reign of Terror" wrapup, ...the season closer that wasn't meant to be.

Introducing the Doctor Who logo 2010

BBC - Doctor Who

When the new series of Doctor Who begins in 2010 there'll be a new Doctor, a new companion and a new logo - as seen above.

Before that we have three fantastic specials to look forward to, beginning with The Waters of Mars.

New Logo Revealed Tomorrow and New On Set Spoiler Pictures plus a Pick of the Blogs

BBC iPlayer (UK only) has Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned, when disaster hits the Titanic, the Doctor uncovers a threat to the whole human race.



BBC Doctor Who has We exclusively reveal new logo on Tuesday!, the first ten logos... Which do you remember?

Radio Free Skaro has released 161 – Second Hand News, rumours, rumours and more rumours were grist for the RFS mill this week, as the Three Who Rule speculated on a new, possibly leaked list of Season 5/1/31 writers (and confirmed one or two writers and directors along the way), watching Phil (friend of the show) Ford’s reactions to watching Dreamland (very meta) and DVD speculation run amok (ed: added to the pods and audio button).



Rich's ComixBlog has Forever Janette – 50, the regeneration consumes the last of Pierre’s energy reserves, and then his physical body itself. They are left with an empty suit of clothes and some powerder and goo.

HeroPress has Top Of The Pile: Doctor Who - Black Death White Life, ...is the latest of IDW's generally magnificent Doctor Who one-shots, soon to be collected in Through Time And Space.

Radio Free Skaro - The Chronic Hysteresis has...

• XXX2 - Death to the Daleks 2, a scene in this episode, perhaps unlike any other, serves to highlight the key differences between the classic series and the new series, and the way the Daleks were treated by both the production team and in the stories themselves by the characters they encountered.
• XXX3 - Death to the Daleks 3, we're introduced, in this episode, to one of the more adorable supporting characters in recent memory - Bellal.
  

Please note that links in this section of the Newsroom can seriously damage your enjoyment of forthcoming episodes and unless you really are a spoiler chaser I do not recommend clicking these links.

SFX has GREAT PICS! Karen Gillan Filming Doctor Who, check out these amazing shots of the latest Doctor Who filming in Cardiff and MORE GREAT PICS! Matt Smith this time!, following on from our great set of Karen Gillan pics , now SFX has managed to secure some shots of Matt Smith, Doctor 11, in action.

Life, Doctor Who & Combom has Llandaff Green, Cardiff Doctor Who Filming News (05-10-09).

Doctor Who Set Reports on Twitter.

Evolution of the Doctor Who Logo...

We exclusively reveal new logo on Tuesday at 08:00!

India Fisher's Diary and a Pick of the Blogs

TARDIS Scanner - Who Tube has Dr Who and Daleks at Bristol Mini Days.

The Vervoid takes a look at Genesis of the Daleks (2006), Tom Baker (perhaps unsurprisingly!) after Elisabeth Sladen and David Maloney have commented on the Dalek operators being good movers: "They used to be at the Royal Ballet...on the clerical side".

Loose Cannon Productions has new reviews of The Power Of The Daleks, Marco Polo, The Space Pirates and The Faceless Ones.



Big Finish has India Fisher's Diary of Blue Forgotten Planet, subscribers get more with Big Finish, and there’s a very special extra being available to subscribers this weekend. India Fisher’s Audio Diary is a special feature recorded behind the scenes of her final story Blue Forgotten Planet, recorded entirely by India herself.

Two-minute Time Lord has 2MTL 65: Two-minute Miscellany, Gosh, what a lot of news we've recently had in the Doctor Who world! I'm breathless. Or perhaps I'm exhausted from my attempt to ape Yahtzee Croshaw in this week's quick survey of three topics... (ed: added to the pods and audio button on the editor's bit).



Rich's ComixBlog has Forever Janette – 49, Nick pulls Pierre off of the Doctor, but the mutations and desperation for energy have made him inhumanly agile and strong. Pierre flips over Nick and begins to feed off of him instead. But Janette slams a broken lamp post through him, pinning him to the floor and triggering yet another regeneration.

Dr Who Interview Archive has....

• Sydney Newman (1986), ...was, for many, the creator of ‘Doctor Who’, even if there were so many people involved in the show’s conception that many others could stake a claim for being involved.
• Jackie Lane (1988), who played Dodo for about a year with William Hartnell’s Doctor, talking about her experience with the show.
• Jon Pertwee (1985), talking to DWM about his time on the show, including his thoughts on the character of Liz Shaw, his favourite (and least favourite) monsters, and his return for ‘The Five Doctors’.
• Graham Williams (1983), ...was one of the most popular producers of ‘Doctor Who’, presiding over the later Tom Baker years just before John Nathan-Turner’s arrival.
  

The Doctor Who Site has The Widows Curse Graphic Novel, the second volume of comic strips collecting the 10th Doctor's complete adventures from the pages of Doctor Who Magazine and the Doctor Who Storybook (Panini).

The Rift has Mars Attacks, Secrets of the Stars Part Two, right in the previous episode con-man Martin Trueman had managed to make himself appear on every single tv channel in the world and was slowly, one by one, collection people by their star signs.

Blogtor Who has Review - The Day of the Troll, narrated by David Tennant himself, this tale is set in Earth's future where ecological issues have become the issue of the day, but is all at the hand of man?

Doctor Who Methadone 2008-2010 has "Rose", we open in space and bear down upon Earth at frightening speed- to end up looking at the face of an alarm clock and "The End of the World", if "Rose" was a low-key story that gently introduced the viewer back into Doctor Who, "The End of the World" pitches them headlong into the crazy worlds that Doctor Who can take us to.

Cadmium2's Big Finish Review has 5 The Fearmonger, the New Britannia party, headed by Sherilyn Harper, is starting to do very well politically in a Great Britain of the near future.

planetzogblog has C5.5: The Web of Fear review, when the results of the 2009 DW Magazine Survey of all 200 stories were published recently, nestling among the Gothic Toms and Nu-Who modern classics, in the top 25 of the survey was The Web of Fear (at number 23.)

Spreading word of the man in the blue box has “Nice to meet you, Rose. Now Run!”, sets off the whole tone for the series, doesn’t it? Seems like they are always running.

Sarah Jane Adventures Game Trailer and Fandom on Second Life plus a Pick of the Blogs

TARDIS Scanner - Who Tube has...

• The Sarah Jane Adventures Game Trailer on CBBC.
  
• This is Gallifrey - Doctor Who in Second Life, A quick promo video of The Panoptican in New Gallifrey and The Zenobia Time Station in Marti, both are future scenes for the Doctor Who role play which will be kicked off by the High Council of Time Lords, based in New Gallifrey.

TARDIS Shop has updated October's releases.

TARDIS Scanner has updated the UK TV and Radio Guide for all thats 'Whovian' on the box for next week.

Hyde Fundraisers tells us that... The Valeyard Returns, "we are delighted to welcome an additional special guest for Saturday October 10th for our event at The Village Hotel in Ashton-under-Lyne, actor Michael jayston - known to Dr Who fans as The Valeyard from the Sixth Doctor mega story TRIAL OF A TIMELORD - will be making a special appearance. Michael's extensive stage, film and tv career make him one of the UK's most popular and versatile actors and we look forward to welcoming him on October 10th! Both Michael and John Leeson will be signing in our special Hyde Fundraisers area and accepting donations for our nominated charities.

Caption Who has "we say bye-bye to Peladon -- AND the Third Doctor! We finish off with 'The Monster of Peladon' (starting on page 857) then move right on to 'Planet of the Spiders.' We bring an end to Jon Pertwee's era with a laugh -- and one more look at a very disturbing image."

BBC iPlayer (UK only) has...

• Doctor Who - The Eighth Doctor Adventures Series 2:6. The Zygon Who Fell to Earth, Time Lord companion Lucie is reunited with her Auntie Pat - but who is Uncle Trevor? 
• Beyond the Vortex - Series 2:6. Trevor of the Zygons, singing monsters on the shores of Lake Grasmere? Behind the scenes of Doctor Who. 
• Doctor Who - Series 3:13. Last of the Time Lords, Earth has been conquered and the Master rules supreme. Can Martha Jones save the world?
• Doctor Who Confidential - Series 3:13. The Valiant Quest, two enemies square up for a battle of valiant proportions in the series finale. 
• The Sarah Jane Adventures - Series 2 - Enemy of the Bane - Part 2, Luke is kidnapped by Mrs Wormwood. Sarah Jane prepares for a showdown at a stone circle
  

Bridging The Rift Podcast has Bridging the Rift has released 10: Fandom on Second Life, we’re joined by Tim Drury from Living A Second Life and Tim’s Take On podcasts to discuss Doctor Who universe fandom on Second Life (ed: added to the pods and audio button on the editor's bit, look up Doctor Bernard if you get into the Second Life Universe, the readers of the newsroom have their own island, oh and nice one Tim).

Tennantcast have released 20 – The Morrisseycast, "we’ve reached twenty episodes! Speaking of twenties, Kari just turned 21 the 23 of September so yay for legallness! (in the US atleast)" (ed: added to the pods and audio button on the editor's bit).

Gallifreyan Embassy has This Week In Doctor Who, October 3, 2009 - Vol 12, No 38, the weekly guide to Doctor Who broadcasts worldwide since 1998.
by Benjamin F. Elliott



Rich's ComixBlog has Forever Janette – 48, Janette provokes Pierre who approaches her a little too closely. Nick shoots him (and Janette!) through the shoulder, which begins to trigger another regeneration. Desperate for energy, Pierre’s mind goes, his body leaps back at Nick to obtain the energy required, but the Doctor steps in the way, hoping to appeal to the last vestige of his human spirit.

Paul Magrs has Vintage Item no.6 - K9, "....K9's apparently turned evil – wearing some kind of high priest robes covered with hieroglyphs and swooping around in the air."

Dr Who Interview Archive has Sarah Sutton (1988), ...talking about her time as Nyssa, her thoughts on how the character ‘grew up’, and her eventual decision to leave the show.

Radio Free Skaro - The Chronic Hysteresis has XXX1 - Death to the Daleks 1, ...has some similarities with both The Daleks and the virtual remake of The Daleks, Planet of the Daleks, but not enough to be annoying.

HeroPress has....

• The Spiritual Father of Who..., originally created by writer Nigel Kneale in the paranoia-fuelled 1950s, Quatermass - an intellectual professor defending the Earth from extraterrestrial threats through the use of brains rather than brawn - is an obvious precursor of The Doctor (who shares many of the same traits and convictions, despite being an alien himself).
• Doctor Who: Revenge Of The Cybermen (1975), once again, the cybermen prove themselves to be the masters of the unnecessarily convoluted plot: having found the "lost" planet Voga, a major source of gold, the cyberman kryptonite, instead of simply blowing it up from outer space, they concoct a ridiculous scheme involving a fake plague and bombs strapped to human beings.
  

The Tardis Project has "Prisoners of the Concergerie", Ian, Barbara and Jules are at Jules' house. Suddenly, there is a knock on the door and in walks the Doctor...followed by Lemaitre! Jules accuses the Doctor of betraying them while Ian looks for soldiers, but the Doctor reveals that he and Lemaitre have come alone.



Please note that links in this section of the Newsroom can seriously damage your enjoyment of forthcoming episodes and unless you really are a spoiler chaser I do not recommend clicking these links.

Digital Spy Forums has Series Five announcement - next week.

Life, Doctor Who & Combom has Lots Of Photographs of Set Dressing To Film Doctor Who At Llandaff Green, Cardiff (02-10-09).

3rd Doctor & Giant Maggots From "The Green Death"

This elegant figure of the 3rd Doctor, is shown with long trousers and his familiar black jacket with red piping. Wriggling along with him are three deadly and highly toxic giant maggots courtesy of chemical mutation.

Due for release on the 16th October, order from Forbidden Planet.

K9 TV series Trailer and Dreamland First Reactions plus a Pick of the Blogs

TARDIS Scanner - Who Tube has K9 TV series Trailer and Doctor Who: Dreamland - First Reactions!.



BBC - Doctor Who: Dreamland Animation Blog has First Reactions!, we caught up with one of those producers, Mat Fidell, who told us, 'This week we've been reviewing episodes 3 & 4 which now have music and sound effects on them. It's amazing the difference music can make - great music can really drive everything along. We're just making some adjustments to those before we go into the online and dub for next week.'

SFX has The Sarah Jane Adventures boys interviewed, back in July SFX went on set for The Sarah Jane Adventures (during the filming of series finale “The Gift”) and talked to the cast about what it was like working with David Tennant on the mid-season story in which he guest stars.

Doctor Who Online has WhoCast episode 137, along with the regular news and reviews, this episode of the DWO WhoCast reviews the latest release from 2Entertain - Keys of Marinus, we also listen to and read the feedback on Jon Pertwee, in response to our recent retrospective of the Third Doctor (ed: added to the pods and audio button).

Digital Spy has 'Doctor Who return unlikely', Paul McGann has said that it is unlikely that he will return to Doctor Who to film a Children In Need special.



Doctor Who Time Vortex has the cover and details for Doctor Who Adventures Issue 135, and SJA Promo Pics, the official Sarah Jane Adventures website has been updated with new promo pictures for the upcoming third series of the show and they are available to download from 'Sarah Jane's PC' section of the site.

The Ultimate Doctor Who Site has SJA: The Mad Woman in the Attic - Synopsis, the BBC Press Office have revealed the synopsis for the second two-part story of Series 3 of The Sarah Jane Adventures entitled The Mad Woman in the Attic.

whoviavortex has Help Find The Alien!, the homepage of the BBC official Sarah Jane Adventures now has a brilliant new game, to find the Blathareen.

Nothing Tra La La? (Simon Guerrier) has Now the science bit..., "here's my talk at the Royal Observatory from Tuesday night, which seemed to go down okay."

Rich's ComixBlog has Forever Janette – 47, Pierre explains how he woke up after the castle exploded, waited for days or weeks until people arrived to loot the castle wreckage. He fed from them and revived himself, then found the TCE lying in the ruins.

Gallifreyan Embassy has A Who York Evening… with Louise Jameson (Leela)!, a few months ago, you may have read my post regarding Who York, and some of DWNY's exciting plans to create Doctor Who events and conventions in New York City. Well, the first of those plans has now come to fruition, with the announcement of the first Who York Event - A Who York Evening with..... Louise Jameson, who played Leela with the 4th Doctor.

Dr Who Interview Archive has Wendy Padbury (1986), ...talking about joining the show as Zoe, the temptation to remain for Jon Pertwee’s first season, and her subsequent role in the ‘Seven Keys to Doomsday’ stage play.

Radio Free Skaro - The Chronic Hysteresis has Invasion of the Dinosaurs - 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6.

HeroPress has Baker Buzzes As Doctor Battles Bugs Through Time..., the Dead Shoes, the second episode of the thrilling audio adventure, Hornets' Nest, featuring Tom Baker's return to his role as The 4th Doctor picks up from the end of The Stuff Of Nightmares.

Alternate Empire and The Untimely Dead Pus a roundup of the Blogs

TARDIS Scanner - Who Tube has...

• Doctor Who - Alternate Empire, the Doctor and Samantha go up against the KRALL, an invading alien race that plan to conquer a planetary system based in the STAR WARS universe. This is the first episode of a six part scifi web series
  
• Doctor Who: Dreamland - Writer Phil Ford on Colonel Stark, pay attention, soldiers! It's the third in our trilogy of videos giving you the low down on Colonel Stark, one of Dreamland's central characters. In this latest despatch, writer Phil Ford discusses the Colonel's creation, the origins of Dreamland, and 1950s monster movies!

BBC iPlayer (UK only) has...

• The Sarah Jane Adventures - Series 2 -
  The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith - Part 1, Sarah Jane cannot resist going back in time to meet the parents she never knew. 
• The Sarah Jane Adventures - Series 2 - The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith - Part 2, Sarah Jane has to make a devastating sacrifice in order to save Earth from the Trickster.
  
• The Sarah Jane Adventures - Series 2: Enemy of the Bane - Part 1, Sarah Jane turns to an old friend for assistance when a former enemy appears seeking help.

Doctor Who Reference Guide has synopses for the audio stories Orbis, Hothouse, The Beast of Orlok, Wirrn Dawn, The Scapegoat and The Cannibalists.

David Tennant.Com has David Featured In Under The Radar, there is a double page interview with David in the latest issue of the American magazine and TV Times Awards, David has been nominated in the Favourite Actor category



BBC Doctor Who has reposted The September Review, make sure you didn't miss any of our September exclusives!

CBBC Newsround has In pictures: Dr Who in the Sarah Jane Adventures, David Tenant will star along side Elisabeth Sladen who plays Sarah Jane in the series.

Brokensea has released The Untimely Dead (B2E10), pulled away from New Earth by forces that even he does not understand, the Doctor lifts the fog from one of the least understood events in the history of the Universe — The Time War (ed: added to the pods and audio button on the editor's bit).



The Minute Doctor Who Podcast has 023 - A Bit of a Filler, "in which I do some feedback and update you on the situation with Doctor Who Mastermind."

Rich's ComixBlog has Forever Janette – 46, Nick and Janette flee the castle, but Janette turns back to look for LaCroix. Nick tries to bring her to shelter from the rising sun, and the castle explodes.

Dr Who Interview Archive has...

• Barry Letts (Various), he talks about working with Patrick Troughton, about the brief ‘Moonbase 3? series he worked on with Terrance Dicks, and about the time Mr. Pastry almost became the Fourth Doctor.
• Heather Hartnell (1983), a very touching interview with William Hartnell’s widow Heather, talking to DWM back in 1983 about her husband’s time on the show, including his public appearances and, sadly, the illness that forced him to retire. At the end, there’s a very nice little story about a solid gold TARDIS…
  

Radio Free Skaro - The Chronic Hysteresis has...

• UUU4 - The Time Warrior 4, Professor Rubeish is an amusing character not only because he pretty much wears a sign on his back that says "Comic Relief Character", but because he wanders around, oblivious to his surroundings, thanks to his failing eyesight, just managing to ensure that everyone around him is equally as oblivious towards him.
• WWW1 - Invasion 1, the Doctor and Sarah land back in London fresh off their adventure in the Middle Ages, but not before they either stopped off at a hairdressers (obviously the first place you want to take a girl when trying to impress her early on, Doc), as Sarah's lovely, flowing mane from The Time Warrior has been reined in to a tight, little, slightly less attractive, bob, and The Doctor is now sporting a gigantic bouffant pompadour that must surely be housing a safety helmet to protect the increasingly fragile Jon Pertwee's cranium.

HeroPress has Doctor Who: Terror Of The Zygons (1975), UNIT calls in the Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) after a number of oil rigs in the North Sea, off the coast of Scotland, are destroyed in mysterious circumstances.