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Post by GC on Aug 22, 2022 18:12:23 GMT
Is that correct about Colin Baker speeding and being banned for driving after travelling at over fifty eight miles an hour in a thirty mile zone? His excuse was that he had lost sight of the van ahead of him that was part of his convoy to his next signing or something like that? He'll notice that absence of cash in his pocket from the lack of sold autographs and photos I'm sure... JB Yes that's right. Caught speeding and banned from driving.
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Post by Cyggy on Aug 25, 2022 10:41:26 GMT
I think that Mestor may have a strange fascination with old Earth movies - as he seems to have acquired not only Jabba's "hookah".... But am fairly sure that the frog mask from " The Abominable Dr. Phibes" is on display at one point too....?
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Post by GC on Sept 20, 2022 2:23:10 GMT
Someone pointed out on Twitter that there's some ZVP work overalls from Blake's 7 hanging on the rail...
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Post by johnnybear on Sept 28, 2022 6:57:41 GMT
Patrick Troughton's trousers are there too, probably waiting for him to wear them again in the up and coming Two Doctors episodes or they were left there since The Five Doctors the year before? JB
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Post by Cyggy on Dec 8, 2022 4:10:13 GMT
A complete 1984 issue on the Internet Archive of the very short lived (only 3 issues) magazine Fantasy Image, with old Sixie muscling in on the front cover..... Contains an article mentioning the recently finished airing 21st season and concludes that, with Colin and Nicola having taken over, the future bodes well.... Fantasy Image Issue 1
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Post by GC on Sept 16, 2023 4:33:00 GMT
One way they could've improved this story
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Post by dsjr on Jul 18, 2024 21:07:02 GMT
I don't think it's that bad, but my Gawd Colin's portrayed character is awful and couldn't be done in these times. larger than life certainly, but surely the Doctor in any circumstances can't go around trying to strangle people. I'm starting to despair of JNT's influence with this.
As for the rest of it, it's a good old romp to me, with the baddie's carapace pretty dire. The commentary is pretty good I think.
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Post by profh0011 on Jul 18, 2024 21:36:56 GMT
The interview segments are a bit disturbing.
So making the 6th Doctor "spikey" was Colin's idea? REALLY? Okay... but was there NO ONE on-set with ANY SENSE AT ALL to say, "Right, that's TOO much." Now that I think of it, it reminds me of Jonathan Harris on LOST IN SPACE, who often could be quite brilliant... EXCEPT... nobody EVER told him "That's far enough" or "That's TOO far. KNOCK it off!"
Couple this with JNT's comments about the costume... NO, as a matter of fact, it's NOT nonsense. What he described in words could have worked. But what we GOT was utter S***. I've long felt the perfect scene would have been someone using the equivalent of a FLAME-thrower and his jacket got caught and he had to get it off as it was going up IN FLAMES. And then, he & Peri would be staring at the ashes of it on the ground, and he'd shrug and walk back to the TARDIS. "Right. I guess I'll have to wear something else." It's painfully clear to me, that JNT just had NO taste, NO sense of restriction, NO idea of when something WAS TOO MUCH.
JNT was in charge. Therefore, whatever goes wrong, IT'S HIS FAULT.
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Post by profh0011 on Jul 18, 2024 21:53:13 GMT
Crazy enough... after 3 years of Peter Davison... one entire season of nothing but death & destruction... and 4 entire episodes of darkness and violence and killing and death, and The Doctor himself taking all 4 episodes to DIE... that ending the season on something more... "light-hearted"... was a good idea. It was a WELCOME RELIEF.
And it annoyed me no end that PBS here in America "held back" Colin's 1st story FOR A WHOLE YEAR.
Yeah. Really.
Even more crazy, I admit... for the longest time... I didn't really MIND most of this story.
But years and years and years went by... and each time I'd watch it... more about it began to bother me.
Now... OH GEEZ. Yeah. Now I know exactly why so many hate the thing. It's practically EVERY SINGLE ASPECT of it.
And, dammit, it didn't have to be that way. But they'd have to change SO much... the costume... his ATTACKING Peri... his RIDICULOUSLY over-the-top flamboyant theatrical exagerated acting... the costume worn by the space defense guy... the design of those alien henchmen... the voice of Nestor... THOSE KIDS...
Maurice Denham seems to be the only one who comes out of this unscathed. Except... he doesn't. Now, I've read that the original plan was to reveal that his character was really The Doctor's mentor, who we met in ONE-- SINGLE-- episode-- years earlier, as "Kampo", who regenerated into "Cho-Je". Except... when I consider what JNT's tenure did to RUIN so many characters n the show, new and old (including Borusa)... I'm glad they changed their mind. At least we can figure that The Doctor's mentor is STILL out there living somewhere in peace, and never would have gotten involved in the INSANITY that this "Edgeworth" person STUPIDLY allowed himself to be. (WHY would Kampo / Cho-Je have EVER been ruler of a planet? It DOESN'T FIT his personality AT ALL. Thank god it wasn't him.)
About the ONLY thing I still like is the moments where Colin's Doctor is having a nervous breakdown, but without going too far. That COULD have worked, had it been limited to one or two episodes, and not gone any further than that. For example, I love when he's hiding behind Peri as the henchman approach, and tries to blame her for his being there. (Come to think of it, that is CLASSIC 'Dr. Smith"!!!) I also love...
"Oh stop feeling sorry for yourself." "SELF-PITY IS ALL I HAVE LEFT!"
The rest... OY.
But then... I don't really LIKE any of the stories he did... until The Two Doctors... and Revelation of the Daleks. And then, The Mysterious Planet (which would have been a HELL of a lot better without the "trial" segments), and Terror of the Vervoids (ditto).
Oh, God. WHY, why didn't JNT and Eric Saward BOTH get the HELL off the show after season 21?
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Post by profh0011 on Jul 18, 2024 21:59:11 GMT
For some really classic Maurice Denham see the 1965 SHERLOCK HOLMES episode "The Retired Colorman".
He's also in a couple of 1982 episodes of THE AGATHA CHRISTIE HOUR.
(He also plays Inspector Japp in THE ALPHABET MURDERS in 1965, but I try not to think about that one... )
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Post by sadako on Jul 18, 2024 23:09:08 GMT
The interview segments are a bit disturbing.
So making the 6th Doctor "spikey" was Colin's idea? REALLY? Okay... but was there NO ONE on-set with ANY SENSE AT ALL to say, "Right, that's TOO much." Now that i think of it, it remnids me of Jonathan Harris on LOST IN SPACE, who often could be quite brilliant... EXCEPT... nobody EVER told him "That's far enough" or "That's TOO far. KNOCK it off!"
Couple this with JNT's comments about the costume... NO, as a matter of fact, it's NOT nonsense. What he described in words could have worked. But what we GOT was utter S***. I've long felt the perfect scene would have been someone using the equivalent of a FLAME-thrower and his jacket got caught and he had to get it off as it weas going up IN FLAMES. And then, he & Peri would be staring at the ashes of it on the ground, and he'd shrug and walk back to the TARDIS. "Right. I guess I'll have to wear something else." It's painfully clear to me, that JNT just had NO taste, NO sense of restriction, NO idea of when something WAS TOO MUCH.
JNT was in charge. Therefore, whatever goes wrong, IT'S HIS FAULT.
I'm gonna be honest. I'm not sure that particular JNT interview quote is authentic. I remember a fan called Adrian Sherlock did some youtube videos where he did parodies of JNT, Saward and Levine discussing the era. I'm sure his JNT one was word-for-word the same. To be fair I think he got the accent down pat so it might've been mistaken for an authentic.
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Post by profh0011 on Jul 19, 2024 1:46:25 GMT
One way they could've improved this story That's TWO sets of twins, ain't it?
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Post by dsjr on Jul 19, 2024 21:23:20 GMT
I can't believe that they actually showed the Doctor throttling the hell out of Peri on Blue Peter, a show usually I think for pre-teens. I appreciate that this was back in 1984, but bloody 'ell.....
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Post by Future-Diver on Jul 20, 2024 8:53:42 GMT
I can't believe that they actually showed the Doctor throttling the hell out of Peri on Blue Peter, a show usually I think for pre-teens. I appreciate that this was back in 1984, but bloody 'ell..... Yes, I see your point, but the most traumatic Blue Peter moment occurred in 1983, when Janet Ellis revealed that the Blue Peter garden had been destroyed by vandals. I've never been the same since...
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Post by dsjr on Jul 20, 2024 10:36:42 GMT
I can't believe that they actually showed the Doctor throttling the hell out of Peri on Blue Peter, a show usually I think for pre-teens. I appreciate that this was back in 1984, but bloody 'ell..... Yes, I see your point, but the most traumatic Blue Peter moment occurred in 1983, when Janet Ellis revealed that the Blue Peter gardens had been destroyed by vandals. I've never been the same since... I'm way behind - Do the Blue Peter gardens still exist somehow?
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