Celebrating 'Victory of the Daleks', plus more news and reviews and spoilers

Editor's bit...

Todays picture is Localised eruption by Harnois75, From Dr Who, either the end of The Dominators, or the start of The Mind Robber, the TARDIS is swamped by a lava flow and there's only one means of escape; a leap into unreality.

The News...


BBC Doctor Who has Celebrating the Series: Victory of the Daleks, after two episodes that introduced a new Doctor, new companion and new-look TARDIS, we now had new versions of his oldest enemy...we first encountered the Daleks in an early episode that was broadcast in 1963. Over the years their appearance has changed, with different shapes, colours and design elements implying a constant evolution. But when these new Daleks appeared, the change was stunning!.....


The Doctor Who News Page has Docteur Who: ratings update, the penultimate week of Doctor Who on France 4 saw Vincent et le Docteur and Le colocataire watched by 303,000 viewers, an improvement on last week and achieving a share of 1.4% of the total audience....


HeroPress has Win Tickets For A Bus Tour Of Doctor Who Locations!, to celebrate the launch of this new tour, Lewis is offering a lucky HeroPress reader (and friend/partner/spouse/significant other/tin dog/assistant/companion etc) a pair of tickets for the Cardiff tour, all you need to do is email me the answer to the following simple question (with the subject line: Doctor Who Competition) by Sunday, March 20 (noon, GMT) and a random correct answer will be selected.....

Tid-Bits...


Inky Adventures in Time and Space has The Trodos Ambush Pt.4, Dr. Who has left John and Gillian in the safe hands of friendly Trods, while he checks on what the Dalek battle squads are up to. He immobilizes a solitary Dalek, but then comes face to face with firing squad. This is the final installment of this strip from 1967.

Review's Roundup...


Tea with Morbius has The Space Pirates, by all accounts, this story cannot really be appreciated in audio format. This is very much intended to be an highly visual story, with heavy use of modelwork to create various spacecraft. I suppose it is in part the limitation of the audio format, but I find The Space Pirates incredibly boring. It does feel awfully padded in places. Some of the plot elements feel like they have been used a few too many times before, such as the Doctor defusing a bomb at the last moment.....


planetzogblog has Doctor Who 1.8: Father’s Day review, "this should be a big emotional story but is it really, isn’t it more confusing than emotional? The confusing aspects are the time-travel elements. Previous to this story, there was a slow accumulation of Doctor Who “time-travel rules” – that were mainly if not always consistent – but this throws in a lot of new concepts into the mix....."


The Daily P.O.P. has Doctor Who and the Power of Kroll, apparently when Graham Williams drafted his brief on Doctor Who as part of his application for the role of producer, he suggested the rough beginnings of the Key to Time. Williams postulated that there were vast cosmic forces kept in balance by two opposing beings (later to become the White and Black Guardian).....


Tachyon TV has Adventures with the Wife in Space: The Romans, Sue has been laughing, albeit unintentionally, at Doctor Who ever since we began this experiment. But how will she fare when she's confronted with a bona fide comedy? The Slave Traders Sue: Have we skipped an episode? Poor Sue....


Bigger On The Inside has ‘Beast Below’ by Steven Moffat is Amy Pond’s first trip in the TARDIS with the Doctor and a taste of what travelling with him will be like. Ground rules are set, her role is established and the skills needed are learnt....

Podcast Review's...


The Untempered Schism Podcast has Episode 13 : The Claws of Axos, having braved the wilds of Gallifrey One and returned reasonably unscathed, The Untempered Schism moves forward and further back into the past, this time to review The Claws of Axos. In particular we are going to be focusing on the Master in all his cunning ways and crafty plans, for this is the start of Master March!

Outer Space Book and a Pick of the Tweets...

DW_Experience Great day at #DoctorWho Experience with our book signing and a visit from @steven_moffat !! http://twitpic.com/46ga7z

TobyHadoke bade a fond farewell to The Brig today in good company. A fitting service for a good man. RIP, splendid fellow.

Draculasaurus13 Check out this T-shirt I designed. Only $8.75! Use discount code: 5OFFSTPADDYS -only good through Monday. http://bit.ly/iiRpaH Truckin'!

steven_moffat Took the kids to the Doctor Who Experience yesterday. Terrific, and I'm not just saying that. http://www.doctorwhoexperience.com/

Spoiler Alert...


Doctor Who Spoilers has Looking Back in Episode Twelve, according to one tweeter whose niece was filming Episode Twelve on Friday the episode will feature at least one character looking back at her childhood....
They also have Wrack is Back, Wales Online are reporting that Lynda Baron has been spotted on set during the filming of Episode Twelve, this will be Lynda’s third appearance in Doctor Who, having previously appeared with the Fifth Doctor as Captain Wrack in Season Twenty’s serial Enlightenment and providing the voice for the Singer in the first episode of the First Doctor story The Gunfighters....