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[companion-showdown]

Who is most important to the history of Doctor Who?

TOURNAMENT MASTERPOST

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David Whitaker – original script editor

The man who created the Doctor Who EU, who wrote the first Doctor Who tie in comic, the first Doctor Who tie in Short story, the first Doctor Who Novelisation, he created the Emperor Dalek, he wrote many many Dalek TV stories, her created the original Dalek Backstory, he created the Black Dalek, Terry Nation may have created the Daleks but David Whitaker raised them. And with out him the Doctor Who EU would not exist. (anonymous)

Terry Nation – creator of the Daleks

Invented the Daleks. I don't think you can get much more influential than that. (anonymous)

Anthony Coburn – wrote An Unearthly Child

Wrote An Unearthly Child. Also important in a bad way because his child/estate/whatever it is is why An Unearthly Child isn't available for streaming along with the rest of Classic Who on some platforms. There are rights issues because they won't let BBC use it. (anonymous)

John Lucarotti – wrote many historicals in the 60s

The single greatest historical writer of the classic series. In an era where historicals were either comedies or one dimensional takes, he wrote nuanced stories exploring unfairly demonized settings. Looking purely at his scripts (because the filmed-products suffered from wiping and racist casting), he brought us the Doctor developing a personal connection with an elderly Aztec woman, Kublai Khan as a reform-minded administrator and genuine human being, the Mongols as tolerant and progressive, and the Aztecs as master builders. In “The Massacre,” he pioneered the Doctor-lite genre, leaving Steven to fend for himself in an unfamiliar past while mounting an unflinching look at the paranoia, corruption, and ambiguity of religious upheaval and social strife. Lucarotti wrote complex, mature historical dramas at the dawn of Doctor Who. (anonymous)

[nerds-yearbook]

In 1851, the Doctor (Doctor 10) arrived in England and met a man who claimed to be the Doctor and the owner of his own TARDIS. Given the knowledge the man contained, the Doctor was starting to wonder if this man might be one of his future regenerations. To complicate things further, the Cybermen were lurking about. ("The Next Doctor", Doctor Who, vlm 3 TV)

[reachingforthevoid]

Dr Who: The Highlanders

I watched what little remains of this serial on 3 January 2023 and was made available on the Lost in Time DVD. There’s a few short violent clips, cut because of Australian censorship. There’s so little, all from episode one, it’s impossible to work out what’s going on. Fortunately, the soundtrack exists, and photos… and it was novelised by Gerry Davis in 1984.

The serial was the first to be wiped from the BBC archives, which occurred in 1967.

The story takes place near where I currently live, although it was filmed at the other end of Great Britain. It introduces Jamie McCrimmon, a piper on the Jacobite side of the bloody battle on Culloden moor that took place in April 1746. It does what Dr Who does well: show that both sides of conflict are rarely uniform in opinion and action. No one side is ever wholly "good" or "evil".

The serial is the last historical story before Black Orchid.

Jamie joined the TARDIS crew and would remain with the Doctor until… well, I’ll get to that by the end of this month.

Fun fact: the MacCrimmons were pipers to the chiefs of Clan MacLeod on the Isle of Skye for several generations including during the 1700s. 

Additional fun fact: Outlander is a book and TV series that's massively inspired tourism in the Highlands. I'd never heard of it until I moved to live here. Diana Gabaldon, author of the Outlander series, was inspired by Jamie McCrimmon and named her protagonist "Jamie" in tribute.

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Some TMA doodls while playing around with a new pencil in CSP

[balthazar-sketti]

"The Porpoise Song"

The Monkees, 1968

[cosmonautroger]

Miles Davis, Chet Baker, Gerry Mulligan, Cool Jazz

[jazzdailyblog]

Art Farmer: The Melodic Maestro of Jazz Trumpet

Introduction: Art Farmer, born ninety-six years ago today on August 21, 1928, in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and raised in Phoenix, Arizona, was one of the most versatile and innovative jazz trumpeters of the 20th century. Known for his warm, lyrical style, Farmer carved out a unique niche in the jazz world, not only as a trumpet player but also as a flugelhornist and, later in his career, as a…

[jazzplusplus]

1957 - 2nd Annual Festival: Jazz for Moderns - Masonic Temple - Detroit

George Shearing Sextet

Gerry Mulligan Quintet

Chico Hamilton Quintet

Miles Davis Quintet

Australian Jazz Quintet

Helen Merrill

Lee Konitz

[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have Furry Vengeance 2010

[downthetubes]

Stand by for Action! Comic Writers and Artists Revealed for "Stingray: Deadly Uprising"

Anderson Entertainment has lined up a fantastic array of British comic talent for their new upcoming Stingray: Deadly Uprising multimedia project, its first instalment, Deadly Concerto, launching in July

Anderson Entertainment has lined up a fantastic array of British comic talent for their new upcoming Stingray: Deadly Uprising multimedia project, its first instalment, Deadly Concerto, launching in July. The creators include New York Times best-selling author James Swallow, Gerry Anderson and Doctor Who artist Lee Sullivan, 2000AD‘s John McCrea, and many more. The team behind the new Stingray…

[myvinylplaylist]

Cat Stevens: Catch Bull At Four (1972)

A&M Records

[singeratlarge]

Kris Ryder a.k.a. Tim “Chris” Andrews SONG OF THE WEEK! “She’s a Romantic” https://timchrisandrews.bandcamp.com/track/shes-a-romantic-non-lp-single  A hypnotic “power ballad” by Kris Ryder a.k.a. Tim “Chris” Andrews. Released in 1982 on the DJM label, it’s a sophomore effort following his debut LP on Polydor. “She’s a Romantic” was produced by and co-written with Julia Downes, songwriter for Sheena Easton, The New Monkees, and John Parr, and she later teamed up with Kris/Chris to write songs w/Roger Daltrey. While no credits are given on the vinyl copy, it sounds like much of the session crew from the Polydor sessions, with stunning keyboard parts and tasteful fretless bass (probably) by the legendary Mo Foster. For a B-side, “She’s a Romantic” stands as one of the “great lost tracks of the 80s,” on par with Gerry Rafferty, Cliff Richard, and Leo Sayer. https://timchrisandrews.bandcamp.com/track/shes-a-romantic-non-lp-single

#krisryder #chrisandrews #timandrews #juliadownes #sheenaeaston #newmonkees #johnparr #rogerdaltrey #DJM #singersongwriter #britpop #powerballad #gerryrafferty #cliffrichard #leosayer

[tocafitas]

'Round midnight

Desde meados dos anos 2000, quando conheci o programa “Linha Imaginária” na Cultura FM (São Paulo/SP), tenho o costume de dormir algumas noites escutando jazz bem baixinho, mesmo sendo semi-analfabeto em repertório do gênero desde sempre. Ainda escuto o “Cultura Jazz”, substituto do “Linha Imaginária” na mesma Cultura FM, mas nem tudo que toca é muito apropriado pra quem tá tentando…

[timetravel-tv]

MYTH MAKERS - KEVIN JON DAVIES TEASER!

[roughghosts]

“Everything meant something else. The apple no longer an apple.” Divided Island by Daniela Tarzona

State the manner of panic, the voice of terror. Approach the scream and grab it with your mouth to make it heard. Right now you’re shouting. You shout with so much force your jugular vein pops out. If one of the possibilities inherent in the form of the novel is the freedom to break with expectations when the expression of the pressing strangeness of being in the world demands it, Mexican writer…