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ON THIS DAY IN DOCTOR WHO COMICS HISTORY:
In 1965, “The Daleks” strip premieres in futuristically themed comics magazine TV Century 21, giving the titular menaces their first appearance and first origin story with the beginning of 3-part story “Genesis of Evil”. (1/2)
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I have never seen this banger of a promo image for The Runaway Bride before and the world needs to see
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There’s no surprise to revealing the presence of Daleks in an episode called “Daleks in Manhattan”, so to compensate it’s the slickest reveal possible.
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Rose’s characterization in the Weakest Link segment of Bad Wolf deftly showcases her character flaws-enjoying the fun of being on a contemporary game show hosted by a pun-named android that she misses all the hints things aren’t right & makes things worse for herself by it.
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Most sauceless TARDIS team on TV. 11 is at his absolute worst, relying the most on well worn out comedy, & Clara is really insufficiently fleshed out, getting by by the power of Jenna Coleman being an incredibly compelling actress almost alone. I have no idea what their vibe is
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The Doctor having to put an out of order sign on the TARDIS when landing in times and places they were in service was an excellent bit I’m surprised hasn’t been given a comeback at least once.
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"You never failed me, professor"
"All children leave home, sooner or later. The joy is to watch them fly."
"So we're good?"
"We're more than good. We're Ace!" I'M NOT OKAY GOOD GOD
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It’s tragically rare for the Doctor to wear period clothes in historical episode, but The Idiot’s Lantern gives us something even rarer: a period hairstyle
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I wanna see this style of photo replicated by some other Doctor/companion duos now, it goes hard
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This clip is just one of the funniest moments in Doctor Who ever. I am never getting over that crash zoom onto Romana.
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The Recon Squad Dalek mutant controlling Lin from her back is one of the creepiest and coolest things NuWho ever did
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The British TV advertisement for Super Mario All-Stars on Super Nintendo is gotta be one of the best game commercials I’ve ever seen
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I kinda feel bad for RTD, having been writing NuWho finales many times over nearly 20 years, but all of them have to live in the shadow of, and pale in comparison to, the closest thing to a perfect finale we’re ever gonna get
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The way The Doctor Falls cuts between Bill as she still sees herself & the Cyberman she’s been converted into is just devastating.
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As the Sarah Jane Adventures were at that point being shot on standard definition cameras, when 11 appeared in The Death of the Doctor they gave him a white button down instead of his usual patterns. You don’t realize how much the look depends on the patterns until they’re gone.
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It only happens a few times in the early Hartnell era, but the TARDIS landing in model shot is always such a vibe.
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Doctor Who gets a somewhat bigger budget than usual for a feature length story and suddenly gets very interested in having motorbikes drive into the TARDIS
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It’s funny to me how the reversal of “the year that never was” in the Series 3 finale ends just before it undoes the assassination of the American president.
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Mark Gatiss must be the only person to be in the Doctor Who title sequences credited as an actor and as a writer.
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It’s kinda sad we’re past the age of companions joining the Doctor by entering the TARDIS expecting it to be an actual police box.
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Clara has three TV Dalek stories, and she ends up inside a Dalek, one way or another, in all of them!
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I have no idea why this Dalek falls off the Mary Celeste in The Chase but I’m so glad it does cause the way it does is so damn funny
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I pray that no EU stories ever have or ever will try to explain how he did this, it’s perfect as is.
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Quark seamlessly jumping in to “yes and” Odo’s prank on O’Brien and Bashir here without a moment’s hesitation- both a fantastic moment of comedy & very revealing of the complex bond the two have. Classic Deep Space Nine stuff
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The coolest the Master has ever looked and it’s in one grainy behind the scenes photo from The Sea Devils
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Death in Heaven putting Clara’s eyes in the title sequence to corroborate a quickly disproven couple minutes of Clara talking out of her ass is a level of commitment to the bit I respect immensely
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Moffat gets a lot of hate for moments interpeted as him “trying to be clever” and I’m certainly not exempt from this, but I gotta say- “Something old, something new, something borrowed, something new” punctuating the TARDIS’ reappearance is just too good to consider passing up.
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These photos were such a lovely encapsulation of Doctor Who’s history, the Radio Times 60th photoshoot stays iconic
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Minor point, but this special was the first time we got to see Ace in depth in an episode not under Thatcher’s BBC, where it had to be implied rather than stated that she was queer. I wish the episode had taken the opportunity to at least make explicit reference to that onscreen.
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It’s a massive waste that Susan’s only appearances in NuWho are a few seconds from indistinguishably far away in The Name of the Doctor and a few seconds of The Daleks in Color in the Series 14 finale, this is something that must be amended asap
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Kate Stewart must be getting tired of finally capturing the Master, only for an army of Cybermen to come to their rescue and ruin her day.
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I love the cold open of Before the Flood- I personally didn’t need to have the bootstrap paradox explained to me, but the scene was written, performed, and directed so compellingly I didn’t mind the unneeded exposition. Makes me wish there were more moments in Who like this
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This is literally the only story that the dynamic between the Doctor and River Song makes the romantic relationship between them feel natural.
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You know ever since we knew the Master was posing as Rasputin I was hoping they’d find a way to make a joke to the song by Boney M so the Master having a full on dance party to it as the Daleks and Cybermen stand around not knowing how to react… 10/10 no notes.
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We so rarely see the TARDIS beyond the console room in NuWho, so it stinks that the episode that pitched itself as doing nothing but that made the ship’s interiors look duller than ever before. Like, if you didn’t know the image below was the TARDIS, would you ever guess it was?
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Pertwee era rehearsal photos are always such a goldmine, just look at this one. They are physically too cool to have existed in this form in the final episode
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It’s interesting how in Classic Who you’d just have the Doctor meet old Time Lord friends of his just living unbotheredly off their home planet and it was no big deal, not even the focus of the story, really. It feels such an alien notion to today’s TV Who.
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I know I’m surely not the first to say it, but I’m still confused why a Time Lord prison made to contain Daleks is styled in a way resembling the Time War Daleks and seems designed to be operable by them.
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The Daleks having security cameras thst look like their eyestalks is such a peak design choice
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I am a huge fan of the idea of previous Doctor’s personalities still remaining in their mind in some form, so this scene in The Power of the Doctor was really cool for that. And it being a way to see my top 3 Doctors back onscreen again is definitely not a bad thing!
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These are the fun things we won’t be seeing in live action thanks to the Ms. Marvel power change
Sad, really
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The time vortex as seen in Arachnids in the UK is so stunning- it’s cool that it’s not just one linear tunnel, and the way it’s constantly in motion looks incredible, stills really can’t do it justice.
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I love the First Doctor’s little Dalek-fighting hat he breaks out the last two times he faces them
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Is it just me or would the titles of this two parter make a lot more sense in reverse order
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Opening the TARDIS doors to find just a simple police box exterior was such a simple yet effective way to immediately build stakes in Father’s Day, such a great idea.
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It’s been said before but the cold open for Ascension of the Cybermen goes so hard, I need more cool integrations of the title sequence into the cold opens like this.
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Jast and Caan checking over their shoulders to make sure they’re not being watched before they start openly questioning Dalek Sec’s orders is such a neat little touch. Love me some paranoid Daleks
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I’m not much a fan of The Magician’s Apprentice/The Witch’s Familiar, but I am a fan of it’s “throw in all the models” approach to the Dalek group scenes. It just adds another layer of fun!
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This little slow motion run in place Nicholas Courtney does in The Time Monster kills me every time
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Every multi-Doctor story since The Three Doctors has been striving for the magic that is Troughton & Pertwee’s bickering, & I don’t think any successor ever came close to the bar the original set.
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Being a Doctor Who fan really does desensitize you in many ways cause I don’t even bat an eye at this anymore.
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So far this anniversary year has given us two polar opposites in terms of TARDIS design style and the only constants are Colin Baker & Nicola Bryant
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I love how the Sarah Jane Adventures creates new baddies the way old arcade-style beat em ups do- slap a new coat of paint on them and call it a day.
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Going from having to take phone calls by tugging the cable from the exterior door phone to using a stylish antique microphone is such an upgrade
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The anecdote has been said a thousand times already, but the prop bus for Planet of the Dead making it all the way to Dubai intact and THEN getting crushed by a shipping container is just too funny.
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Cannot BELIEVE this TARDIS interior got so little showing, it’s too damn nice to be shown so briefly
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Doctor Who writers really had no greater priority in the late 70s than writing K9 out of any given story at the earliest opportunity
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It’s fun how the 3rd Doctor has a little disguise phase around the end of Season 10 and the start of Season 11
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“Doctor Who characters who debuted in comics who later made appearances in the TV show” is a very odd group
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The Pandorica speech is said by many to be 11’s finest hour, but such statements never seem to acknowledge what I find to be the most interesting thing about this scene- the fact that the big speech doesn’t work as an actual solution, a refreshing divergence from NuWho standard
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The wave of Series 5-based action figures that enabled you to collect and build a mini Pandorica is perhaps the coolest gimmick in all their Doctor Who action figure line.
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I just saw the Planet of Giants VHS cover for the first time, nothing could have prepared me. Dear god why is it so funny
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Classic Who is always working on £5 and a dream, but the TARDIS in Battlefield is taking it to a whole different level
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I find it funny just how fast Revolution of the Daleks backed away from the police brutality police aspects- like they introduce it and then they’re deathly afraid of ever really addressing the theme and the implications of it ever again in the episode.
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Why is it every damn interview or comment he gives, I get less and less hopeful for anything coming down the line
russell you are joking right? hahaha…
russell…
RUSSELL…
RUSSELL!!! NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!!!
DO NOT CGI THE DOCTORS I AM SO SERIOUS!!! CHRIS CHIBNALL DID THE “GUARDIANS OF THE EDGE” AND “AI HOLOGRAM” CONCEPT IN THE POWER OF THE DOCTOR FOR A REASON!! 🤬
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I love the idea of Graham forming a group to share stories of the Doctor with the companions still on Earth. It‘a a very fanservice-y idea but it’s a fanservice-y idea with a lot of heart, it’s too darn cute to take it cynically. Especially as we get to see Ian, Jo and Mel again
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The Futurekind from Utopia are such non-entities most of the time I forget they’re in the story entirely
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Barbara absolutely demolishing the Doctor’s accusations in The Edge of Destruction is always a delight to watch
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The Time of the Doctor was expected to answer a lot of lingering questions fans had about the world of the show, but I don’t think anyone was expecting it to answer “Does the Doctor still have the Seal of Rassilon he stole from the Master?”
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Clara is not only one of only 3 companions who got to wear the orange spacesuit, she’s the only one who got to wear it twice, which is more than any Doctor besides 10 wore it as well.
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Perpetually impressed by this photo taken during Paradise Towers location filming… like for just being taken without posing, the lighting and composition are just immaculate. Makes me need to live in the timeline where the McCoy era was shot on film.
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ODYSSEUS! DON’T TELL THE CYCLOPS YOU JUST BLINDED YOUR REAL NAME! HE’S THE SON OF POSEIDON AND HE’LL GET HIS DAD TO CURSE YOU!! ODYSSEUS! NO!
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Doctor Who is absolutely chock full of cliffhangers that attempt to fool the viewer into thinking that the Doctor has met his death, but Under the Lake’s take on the trope is one of the most unique, and consequently one of the most effective.
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