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These were the three best TARDIS duos, hands down.

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The Eighth Doctor with some of his past (and future!) companions.

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Fraser Hines As Jamie Mcrimmon “Doctor Who - The Abominable Snowmen”

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The Macra Terror

"There is no such thing as Macra!" The Macra Terror is this week's #TBT! #DoctorWho #DrWho #ClassicDoctorWho #ClassicWho #TheMacraTerror #SecondDoctor #PatrickTroughton

This is an emergency! Control must be believed and obeyed!  No-one in the colony believes in Macra!  There is no such thing as Macra!  Macra do not exist! There are no Macra!Control Voice Synopsis The Doctor, Ben, Polly and Jamie visit a colony that appears to be a happy holiday camp.  However, when they scratch beneath the surface, they find that the colonists are mind controlled by the Macra,…

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BBC classics 1964 smugglers bay tv series. Riverside studio D. Dr Who Aztecs filming at same time.

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Radio Free Skaro #909 - I've Got A Feeling

Radio Free Skaro #909 - I've Got A Feeling - #DoctorWho missing episodes chatter! - Waris Hussein diaries! - The Timelash!

http://traffic.libsyn.com/freyburg/rfs909.mp3 Download MP3 It’s time for a Return of the Omnirumour as mysterious film canisters are pored over by specialists to see if heretofore undiscovered missing Doctor Who episodes have emerged or in fact it’s all just the same copy of Match of the Day over and over. Intriguing! Also Waris Hussein chronicles a trip to Moscow while Doctor Who’s debut hits…

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Dr Who: The Mind Robber

After a small break, regular service is resumed.

I watched this serial on 23 January 2023. As with the Dominators, this is an extant five episode tale. It’s also a serial I haven’t seen before, and knew little about.

Interesting continuity reference to the fluid links malfunctioning before. It is amazing what happens when creativity is under pressure. The first episode was an emergency write since the producers cut an episode from the original running length for the Dominators. Anyway, the Mind Robber serial proper (episodes 2 to 5) introduces quite a few concepts that the series returns to a few times. They’re good concepts that suit Dr Who, so no complaints from me. And I think the game-playing works better in this story than in what remains of the Celestial Toymaker.

Zoe’s sparkling body suit is amazing. Not many people can get away with wearing an outfit like that. Ahem. Interesting that Zoe doesn’t say the name of her home city. It seems that she’s from the year 2000… unless that’s the name of the media company making the cartoon strip that Zoe and chums enjoyed as kids.

Fab first episode set up, and the cliff hanger is a shock. Whole story keeps up the momentum rather well. Five episodes works surprisingly well... References to ‘the master’ are amusing, but it’s not that one. This chap is an Englishman nicked from the 1920s. It does explain why the stories used are mostly of the type well-known to British kids of a particular time, place and socio-economic class. Sanitised Greek myths and fairy tales aplenty. Ha, though, at the mention of the publication this chap wrote for: Captain Jack Harkaway, hey. Yes, I did immediately think: what if there was an English school boy adventure serial about Captain Jack Harkness? It would make for a different serial altogether...

I can’t ignore episode 2’s replacement Jamie (actually Scottish actor Hamish Wilson stepping in when Fraser Hines was ill). I love the explanation: a brilliant critique of identikits and ‘face memory’. 

Two oddities. Firstly, when the Doctor first meets Gulliver, they talk about language in a roundabout way. The Doctor grumpily insists on English. Secondly, it’s interesting that Jamie can read. It’s possible he was taught, but unlikely given what was going on in his part of the Highlands in the early eighteenth century and his social class. The TARDIS crew might have taught him, but when?

Anyway, the Mind Robber is a jolly fun serial.

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So I recently started watching Outlander and I’m just thinking huh Jamie Frazer reminds me a lot of Jamie McCrimmon probably cause they’re both Scottish Highlanders from the 18th century and both are very loyal and won’t go down without a fight. Also both of the shows (Outlander and Doctor Who) have time travel and there’s also the fact that Jamie McCrimmon is played by Frazer Hines and Jamie from Outlander’s last name is Frazer just like Jamie M’s actor’s first name.

But then I was watching the 15th episode and I was like hold up that actor looks familiar, wait is that Frazer Hines!!! And I looked it up and sure enough it was!! Then I proceeded to see if there was a connection between the two shows and I learned that Outlander was inspired by Jamie McCrimmon!!!

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i think that jamie mccrimmon should come back to doctor who. i think he should meet the kilt wearing fifteenth doctor.

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London’s Bookery Gallery’s “All About Ink” exhibition opens this weekend

A smashing exhibition of comic art opens at the Bookery Gallery in London this weekend

London’s The Bookery Gallery hosts an inky extravaganza, All About The Ink!, this month, opening on Saturday 8th April and running until 6th May 2023. An exhibition of contemporary cartooning and comics art, the show will be a cavalcade of inky splendour, hanging original works by over 20 cartoonists, alongside digital displays of works in progress, coloured finishes and short films. The…

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i've cosplayed as ace at two separate conventions so i think i can handle seven energy

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Jamie McCrimmon in Tales of the TARDIS

The most special thing that's come out of Doctor Who in years. But the most important return for me will always be Frazer Hines as Jamie McCrimmon. I want him back in a full episode. His story is so rich for a return that could only involve the Doctor (and/or the TARDIS), as well as not only having clear parallels to Donna Noble's mind wipe, but also being the Classic companion who most meant it that he'd never have left the Doctor willingly and would've followed him until the end.

For the record, this Jamie was the inspiration for Jamie Fraser (note the actor's first name being Frazer) in Outlander, as The War Games (my favorite Classic serial) was what Diana Gabaldon was watching when she came up with her idea, which is arguably Doctor Who fanfiction that 'ships time-traveling highlander Jamie McCrimmon with that serial's WWI nurse, Lady Jennifer. Frazer Hines is well aware of being the inspiration and even cameo'd.

Jamie was not only the longest-serving companion in Doctor Who history (yes, even more episodes than the Brigadier, though Sarah Jane beats him with her spinoff) with his 116 episodes (1966-1969, 1983 and 1985) and this short (2023), but he's also one of the greatest examples of the Doctor's closest and most-beloved companions not necessarily being chosen for being the most "equal" (the idea that companions from humble or easily-belittled beginnings like Jamie, Jo, Leela, Rose, Donna, etc…, who all struggled with insecurity over their worth due to their backgrounds, are his intellectual inferiors and thus not as worthy or appropriate as non-human companions like Romana or River, or even human genius Zoe here, for the Doctor to love--which is an insult to the Doctor and what he fell in love with humanity for), but for being the most human, genuine, loyal and loving as well as brave. This is one thing that Russell T Davies understood so well and Steven Moffat didn't quite get.

Jamie was hardly afraid to call the Doctor out when he disagreed or thought the Doctor had callously gone too far, by the way. Just watch/listen to The Evil of the Daleks for that, which is where the Doctor manipulates Jamie's very humanity to get him to rescue Victoria from the Daleks along with him being the source of the "human factor" used to create human-Dalek hybrids. Jamie's desperate, heartbroken, unrequited reaction (sadly, reduced to just audio, which captures the sound of a kiss) to Victoria's departure likewise puts to bed the idea that sentimental emotionalism and the Doctor dealing with companion reactions at their most human began in the Russell T Davies era.

Jamie certainly was more of a skirt chaser, albeit quite innocent, than you'd assume would be depicted in Classic Who! As much as Ian and Barbara, and then Ben and Polly, were depicted as couples in the TARDIS, they never got such an explicit declaration of feelings as Jamie's in Fury from the Deep.

Jo is the Classic companion who arguably admitted to having feelings for the Doctor himself, describing Cliff Jones as a younger version of the Doctor for why she's choosing him. These shorts allude to this moment as well, though frame it in retrospect as Jo having chosen Cliff over the Doctor, despite her arguably having more of a basis for feelings towards the Doctor than Sarah Jane in School Reunion and her inability to move on (highlighted beautifully when she walked down the aisle alone after her wedding day betrayal, only to be comforted by the Doctor, not to mention her adopting all the children she never had), which made her a mirror to Rose's future. Jo is thus a mirror to Sarah Jane as the companion arguably in love with the Doctor in a not-so-platonic way who moved on and found real love vs. one who didn't move on until it was too late, and who was likewise a mirror to Rose, who is famous for being the companion most explicitly in love with the Doctor to the extent that her moving on involved ending up with the Doctor's Metacrisis (but ultimately choosing him, their daughter Mia and a human life over the Eighth and Eleventh Doctors in Empire of the Wolf).

The Second Doctor's favoritism of Jamie extended so far as to go back for him (quite rare for the Doctor) when he was forced to work for the Time Lord Celestial Intervention Agency (season 6b, which isn't so much a theory anymore) and the reaction towards Jamie was probably the most cuddly and warm the Sixth Doctor (to the extent that the turbulent relationship with Peri got a little better for that one serial because of Jamie's presence) sadly ever got on screen before Big Finish salvaged the era. Jamie always brings out of the best in the Doctor and what the Doctor loves humanity the most for.

That Frazer Hines was so genuinely close to Patrick Troughton in real life (they were quite the mischievous pair, often sneaking gags in past the censors in addition to their pranks!) comes across so beautifully in every voice impression of his old friend and through his portrayal of Jamie whose love for and wish to have never left the Doctor is unquestionable.

Obviously, there was that fear of what he had left to return to, but also his belief that he needed to be there to protect the Doctor, which he always took it upon himself to do. Jamie would no doubt get along very well with the Brigadier (whose first story was with Jamie), Leela and Ace in their willingness towards protective violence, not to mention Ian and Rory often facing having to fill that role a little more reluctantly. And most of all, one of the deepest, most-loving friendships among Doctor and companion. Yes, there is exactly one iteration of the Doctor whose closest, most-favorite companion (that tendency towards favoritism was already there) was unambiguously not any of the female ones and was an even firmer break from the Doctor's old model of replacing his granddaughter with a relationship that felt far more like friends/partners in crime with a hint of fatherliness or mad uncle. And of course, this twin mop-topped Odd Couple fit in nowhere. Jamie was as out-of-place and "alien" as the Doctor wherever the TARDIS landed.

And given where he was sent back to by the Time Lords, his future without his memories looked pretty dire. His immediate return involved being being shot at, hanged, put on a slave ship by the Redcoats or fleeing to France--which was the context of his situation when the Doctor saved his life and he walked into the TARDIS when he was a piper from the Battle of Culloden in 1746 who could neither swim or read, and who was as likely to call an airplane a "flying beastie" as calling a Cyberman "the Phantom Piper", and then was returned to that sans all memories but for his first adventure before entering the TARDIS.

Obviously, Russell T Davies has given Jamie quite a happier ending than his tragic comic fate in The World Shapers in which old Jamie has finally gotten his memories back, but his family (he married Kirsty McLaren, daughter of the laird whom he was a humble, orphaned piper for, from The Highlanders) has abandoned him over it and he rapidly ages to death in sacrifice. The Tenth Doctor also had a comic companion named Heather McCrimmon (descended from those five daughters, but still retains the surname!) who still carried her ancestor's Artron radiation energy from the TARDIS. I would love to see Jamie meet Heather, who would be awesome to see realized on screen.

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The '5' Doctors ..

1st Doctor - Richard Hurndall

2nd Doctor - Patrick Troughton

3rd Doctor - Jon Pertwee

4th Doctor - Tom Baker [Waxwork]

5th Doctor - Peter Davison

TARDIS, Katy Manning, Fraser Hines & Carole Ann Ford [1973]

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I just watched The Five Doctors to brush up on my Susan returning knowledge, just in case all the build up comes to anything, and it's quite goofy but extremely charming. I was aware ahead of time of Tom Baker's parts being taken from Shada, but it's still executed in quite a funny way. "Oh no, I'm being stolen by a triangle! This was definitely what was originally happening in this shot! And now I'm mysteriously trapped in the vortex all episode, don't worry about it!" The guy in a silver morph suit who is supposedly the deadliest killing machine ever was also a wonderfully silly highlight. It's the first time I've seen this version of the Master as well and he's good fun! He's no Roger Delgado, but Anthony Ainley has such an over the top camp energy to him with his flowing cape etc. that worked really nicely with the tone of the story.

Richard Hurndall makes a valiant effort as the First Doctor. He's not William Hartnell, obviously, and he's still a little brusque but I think he gets One's mannerisms and sense of humour better than David Bradley. Interestingly, this story also has him being misogynistic in a way that then gets reacted to/commented on (eg. telling Tegan to get them some refreshments/to stay in the TARDIS rather than going into the action), which is again not fully in character for One. However, it's nowhere near the level of character assassination in Twice Upon a Time.

One of the reasons I wanted to watch this now was because I'd seen people saying that the Doctor worked out the abandonment stuff with Susan here, but he absolutely doesn't. We don't even see her be collected by the floating triangle to get an idea of her life. She just appears and finds herself with her Grandfather, then we don't get to see their parting. Although there's no apparent animosity between them, and they fall straight back into their old dynamic, there's also nothing in the way of hashing out the whole "I shall come back" thing. If RTD is planning to make good on his many Susan hints, there's definitely still fertile ground there. You could even throw in a line acknowledging that "I saw you in the Death Zone on Gallifrey, but we didn't get to talk" or something similar.

Sidenote, I got extremely excited at Jamie's appearance. I was happy that Two got to hang out with the Brigadier, but I was a little sad it wasn't with Jamie because I thought I recalled Fraser Hines not being able to do this one. I may have been thinking of The Three Doctors, though, so it was such a joyous surprise when he appeared, even though I knew immediately that he and Zoe were illusions. If we do get Susan back properly (and I hope we do, with Carole Ann Ford specifically), can Jamie be next on the list for a main series return? I adored his appearance in Tales of the TARDIS, but I yearn for more!

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Tomiko Fraser Hines / digital painting by Miki Foldi

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Radio Free Skaro #908 - Maggie Mae

Radio Free Skaro #908 - Maggie Mae - Indira Varma is...The Duchess in #DoctorWho! - Doom's Day is coming! - The Timelash!

http://traffic.libsyn.com/freyburg/rfs908.mp3 Download MP3 It’s the Eve of Doom’s Day as the BBC ramps up its transmedial multimodal whatsit starring Sooz Kempner for a debut on June 5th! The Three Who Rule cogitate on this monumental and somewhat confusing chronological crisis, along wth much more, including Indira Varma as the mysterious Duchess, Frazer Hines writing an Evil of the Daleks…