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Post by garyp on Mar 29, 2014 23:01:01 GMT
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Post by Matthew Kurth on Mar 30, 2014 12:37:24 GMT
Well, the first photo selected to illustrate the story is fitting for an airing on the Horror Channel.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2014 17:37:43 GMT
Colour photo from Marco Polo...That has GOT to be a sign!
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Post by andyc on Mar 30, 2014 19:15:11 GMT
The Horror Channel will be showing:-
An Unearthly Child The Dead Planet The Mind Robber The Seeds of Death Terror of the Autons The Daemons The Brain of Morbius The Caves of Androzani Attack of the Cybermen Remembrance of the Daleks
Looking forward mostly to The Mind Robber as I've never actually seen it.
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Post by shellyharman67 on Mar 30, 2014 19:26:33 GMT
The Horror Channel will be showing:- An Unearthly Child The Dead Planet The Mind Robber The Seeds of Death Terror of the Autons The Daemons The Brain of Morbius The Caves of Androzani Attack of the Cybermen Remembrance of the Daleks Looking forward mostly to The Mind Robber as I've never actually seen it. Great choice. i see Androzani is there as usual. A shame the BBC dont show them on their own channels....
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Post by shellyharman67 on Apr 2, 2014 11:17:02 GMT
Just seen the advert for the horror channel. Cool..........
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Post by Paul McDermott on Apr 3, 2014 1:09:21 GMT
The Horror Channel will be showing:- An Unearthly Child The Dead Planet The Mind Robber The Seeds of Death Terror of the Autons The Daemons The Brain of Morbius The Caves of Androzani Attack of the Cybermen Remembrance of the Daleks Looking forward mostly to The Mind Robber as I've never actually seen it. Interesting choices, some of them. Wonder how the selection was made? Leaving aside the obvious point that Tom's only got one story out of seven years yet so many of his best stories are the very essence of horror a la Who, a few other things strike me. Tomb for Troughton seems an obvious choice. It's a mummy movie! By contrast, The Mind Robber seems a bit fantasy-land. As an alternative choice for Davison, Black Orchid could work. It's far from my favourite historical, but there's unpleasantness to be found and offers something different to the other slots. Not so sure about Colin's era being represented by Attack. Vengeance seems a better fit, really. Video nasties were all over the shop in this one! McCoy too - surely The Curse Of Fenric is the better choice? Battlefield or Ghostlight might do, too - but I think Fenric works more effectively both as horror and for new viewers, despite the bit of backstory for Ace coming to the fore in the climax. You've got zombies, a hulking monster type, an ancient evil, and McCoy in his darker period, both in coat and tone.
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Post by Patrick Coles on Apr 3, 2014 12:54:07 GMT
'Horror' is a by now very loose tag for this CBS channel in many ways - does 'Star Trek' & 'Wonder Woman' really constitute 'Horror'...?
but if that's the criteria surely; 'The Gunfighters', 'Creature From The Pit', 'Time Flight', 'The Twin Dilemma', 'Time And the Rani', & 'Delta And The Bannermen' etc might have been picked ?
They were all pretty horrific to sit through compared to many classic Dr.Who tales...!
seriously tho' I guess it depends on what the channel had to pick from (we don't know if BBC made them ALL available for Horror channel to choose from)
I can understand the two William Hartnell & Patrick Troughton stories chosen re length and themes etc (possibly they held off 'Tomb of The Cybermen' as 'Attack' also features them too ?)
The Pertwees are o.k. - I liked 'Inferno' (which could be deemed 'horror-ish') & 'Spearhead From Space' (which had the memorable Autons in the shop windows coming to life & Hugh Burden's 'Channing' acting like one of David Vincent's 'Invaders' currently on 'Horror' channel) but the two picked are fine too
Maybe Tom's 'Seeds of Doom' or 'Talons of Weng Chiang' might have been better choices...? while 'Pyramids of Mars' was the real 'mummy' story with good old Gabriel Woolf shining as that happy old soul 'Sutekh'
- 'Morbius' has the great Philip Madoc in top form ...but it also has that awfully silly sisterhood forever swanning about like a bunch of deranged Kate Bush fans on ecstasy...!
'Androzani' was an obvious choice for Peter Davison's Doctor ...tho' Kinda' or 'Snakedance' had a horror tinge re the Mara etc, and 'Mawdryn Undead' had a grim angle re the quest for Timelord-like near immortality...'Terminus' had a pretty grim atmosphere too, ...while I think a four part story is really needed as opposed to the all too brief two parters.
'Varos' for Colin would have been my own choice with ugly old charmingly detestable Sil, the guy with a botched up face, the acid bath bit, the girls transmograforming into fish and feathers......and the generally grim atmosphere of Varos...('No options Kill' & the 'Purple Zone' etc)
'Curse of Fenric' might have suited Slyv McCoy better too being another period set piece (reminding us of the Time Travel aspect to the show that too often got forgotten after 1967...) with the 'evil' of Fenric and a sense of the stalking of the Doctor & Ace...plus the nice viking mythology angle...('Remembrance' is a good one but then we already have a Dalek feature in 'The Daleks: The Dead Planet' debut Dalek tale too)
nevertheless it's not a bad choice by Horror channel...and the little 'running figures' promo depicting each of the seven Classic show Doctors (set to Tom Baker's voice I think - the senior surviving Doctor actor) is very amusing...
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Post by Paul G on Apr 3, 2014 15:18:41 GMT
The Horror Channel will be showing:- An Unearthly Child The Dead Planet The Mind Robber The Seeds of Death Terror of the Autons The Daemons The Brain of Morbius The Caves of Androzani Attack of the Cybermen Remembrance of the Daleks Looking forward mostly to The Mind Robber as I've never actually seen it. The original item I saw about this on doctorwhonews.net suggested they would be showing '30 adventures': www.doctorwhonews.net/2014/03/classic-doctor-who-on-horror-channel.html
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Post by barryb on Apr 3, 2014 19:42:29 GMT
gunfighters should not be in that list, a super story, far better than many other Hartnell stories, such as edge, space museum and chase.
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Post by Will Weller on Apr 5, 2014 13:10:16 GMT
Just got DWM 472, and the stories are due to be broadcast on the 18th April just for anyone who didn't know
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Post by Patrick Coles on Apr 6, 2014 9:46:34 GMT
I'd NEVER put or rate 'The Gunfighters' above far more fascinating and influential to the show stories such as 'Edge of Destruction' or 'The Space Museum'...!
'Edge of Destruction' actually changes the entire "Doctor/Human companions" dynamic in the show thereafter and begins The Doctor's relationship with humans as friends which then remained a series constant....
'The Space Museum' looked first (episode one) at the weird time effects of a Tardis malfunction as the crew get a glimpse of a future potential fate - the theme re odd time effects due to Tardis malfunctions was revisted later a number of times, notably in 'The Mind Robber' first episode (where the Tardis slips out of 'reality' into another dimension) & later in Don Houghton's 'Inferno' (where The Doctor & the Tardis console slip 'sideways in Time' to a parallel universe), while Tardis malfunctions creating odd time effects were revisited in 'Day of The Daleks', and odd time effects were used in other stories such as 'Meglos' etc...
while the 'Space Museum' itself then looked at future destiny...and how 'set in stone' it was as the Tardis crew appear unable to escape a pre-determined fate as museum exhibits...the twist being the actions of those they have influenced rather than anything they can do themselves saves them (this idea is revisited many times thereafter in the show)
in comparason 'The Gunfighters' is played as largely a unrealistic semi comedic spoof - some ham it up, others don't ! - with totally unrealistic depictions of real life western characters & Peter Purves has to sing a bloody daft song 'The Ballad of The Last Chance saloon' (which he detested doing) - it ridicules Steven Taylor as a credible character and is generally a rather 'panto' style effort new producer Innes Lloyd had inherited from his outgoing predecessors (it's significant that NONE of Lloyd's other 'Dr.Who' stories attempted to repeat the style or stance of 'Gunfighters')
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Post by andyc on Apr 6, 2014 17:33:49 GMT
Just got DWM 472, and the stories are due to be broadcast on the 18th April just for anyone who didn't know They start on the 18th and run through until May 1st. Some of the stories will be shown in blocks, e.g The Dead Planet is being shown in blocks of 2,2,2 & 1 episodes over 4 days.
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Post by Jaspal Cheema on Apr 17, 2014 21:38:14 GMT
Absolutely love the animated trailer on the Horror Channel for this run of original stories! It's very funny yet lovingly done and captures some key moments in its history-Davros's hand being forced by Baker's Dr, Troughton holding the solar dishes in Seeds.Shame nothing like this was produced for the damp squib that was the 50th Anniversary year-watching Sky News's blurry retrospective on the show was just embarrassing.Even the execrable After Party had nothing like this produced for it.
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Post by malcolmostlere on Apr 17, 2014 22:07:24 GMT
Absolutely love the animated trailer on the Horror Channel for this run of original stories! It's very funny yet lovingly done and captures some key moments in its history-Davros's hand being forced by Baker's Dr, Troughton holding the solar dishes in Seeds.Shame nothing like this was produced for the damp squib that was the 50th Anniversary year-watching Sky News's blurry retrospective on the show was just embarrassing.Even the execrable After Party had nothing like this produced for it. Unfortunately I can not get the horror channel. But I do love the adverts for Dr Who on the horror channel, currently on the side of some London buses.
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