#Kroll-Oper

[scifipinups]

The Six Segments of Romanadvoratrelundar

The Ribos Operation

The Pirate Planet

The Stones of Blood

The Androids of Tara

The Power of Kroll

The Armageddon Factor

[fordreviews]

📽️ Operation Finale (2018)

This movie was so interesting! It was extremely detailed and easy to follow. It wasn’t super action-packed, although there was some action; but it kept my interest the whole time. The fact that it’s based on a true story just makes it even better, especially since I learned some things I never knew about Israel after World War II. I would definitely recommend this movie especially if you’re someone who is interested in history.

Sex/nudity: 2/10 (kissing, woman briefly seen in a bra)

Language: 4/10 (one f word and several other curse words)

Violence: 7/10 (gory violence vividly described but not seen, other violence including torture seen on screen)

Overall rating: 7/10

[doctorwhogirlie]

[thatbiologist]

Overthinking the Doctor Who Timeline

The present day on Gallifrey during the time of the Sixth Doctor is 30,491 CE (Doctor Who: FASA. Sourcebook for Field Agents). With a stated age of the Sixth Doctor is 900 years old (Revelation of the Daleks).

On that assumption, the Doctor was loomed circa 29,591 CE, and is a genetic reincarnation of the Timeless Child/the Other (Lungbarrow and The Timeless Children). The Doctor left the House of Lungbarrow to go to the Academy circa 29,599 CE (Lungbarrow and The Sound of Drums). Whilst at the Academy, the Time Lord known as Theta Sigma (the Doctor) befriended a fellow Prydonian from the House of Oakdown, Koschei (the Dark Path).

The Doctor left their primary school at the age of 45 (Shroud of Sorrow).

There were only 26 students in Theta Sigma’s class at the Academy (Lungbarrow). Ten of these students were the most gifted, called the Deca (Divided Loyalties).

During their years at the Academy, Theta Sigma and Koschei formed a pop band together, the Gallifrey Academy Hot Five. Theta Sigma played the perigosto stick and Koschei ironically was on the drums (Deadly Reunion).

The First Doctor left Gallifrey in a stolen Type 40 TARDIS at the age of 236 (The Ribos Operation) circa 29,827 CE. The First Doctor regenerated before the age of 450 years old (The Tenth Planet and The Tomb of the Cybermen).

The Second Doctor is grabbed by the Time Lord secret service (possibly Division) to carry out clandestine missions for the High Council (Beyond War Games). The Second Doctor visible ages between the trial at the end of the War Games and his appearance in the Two Doctors. (The War Games and The Two Doctors). Personally, I would view this as a 200-year time gap. Making the Second Doctor around 650 years old when he regenerates.

Personally, (I know people will disagree) but the Fugitive Doctor exists here. But her memories were erased by Division, so sadly it’s impossible to know how long she lived for. Her memories were erased and trapped inside a Chameleon Arch. Furthermore, Division sent back the Doctor back to the moment they were taken. To being their exile on Earth.

I believe the Fugitive is a Season 6b Doctor as. Firstly, she was working for the Time Lord secret service, other than her only the Second Doctor ever worked for them. Secondly, her TARDIS had a police box, the Chameleon circuit only broke at the end of the first ever episode (The Unearthly Child). Thirdly, UNIT was aware of the existence of the Fugitive Doctor, as she helped plan various the contingencies with Operation Time Fracture (Doctor Who: Time Fracture). Fourthly, her face was shown the Rogue when he analysed the different faces of the Doctor; but no other Timeless Incarnations were shown (Rogue).

To make the timeline add up, the Third Doctor probably lived for a century. With most of this time being between companions and in missing adventures. The only ages the Third Doctor gives is “several thousand years” (The Silurians and The Mind of Evil). However, it is safe to assume the Doctor is lying or may been unconscious aware as their life as the Timeless Child/the Other.

The Fourth Doctor says to Sarah Jane that he is 750 years old (Pyramids of Mars). Then when the Fourth Doctor first met Romana he claims to be 756; however, Romana corrects him saying that he’s 759 (The Ribos Operation). The Doctor has a birthday during the Key to Time story arc, as he then states to be 760 (The Power of Kroll). Furthermore, the Fourth Doctor regenerated into the Fifth at the age of 813 (Cold Fusion). This would mean the Fourth Doctor lived for at least 63 years.

The Fifth Doctor regenerated at approximately 850 years old (The Ultimate Treasure). This would mean the Doctor only lived as the Fifth incarnation for 37 years.

The Sixth Doctor regenerated at the age of 953 (Time of the Rani). This would mean the Doctor lived as the Sixth incarnation for 103 years.

The Seventh Doctor claimed to have regenerated at the age of 1010 (Set Piece). However, the Eighth Doctor believes the Seventh survived to the age of 1200. This would mean that the Seventh Doctor either lived for roughly 57 years or 247. Considering that the Seventh Doctor visibly ages, I would believe the latter.

But the Doctor starts to recount their age after becoming their Eighth incarnation (Vampire Science). But considering that the Eighth Doctor visibles ages, I would believe the Eighth incarnation lived for roughly 300 years.

The War Doctor states his age at the very end of the Time War claims to be 800 years old (Day of the Doctor). The War Doctor estimated that he fought in the Time War for roughly 400 years (Engines of War). However, we do not know how far into the Time War this story takes place. So for convenience sake I’ll add another century until the end of the Time War. This would make the War Doctor 800 years old when he tri-generates. The War Doctor tri-generates into three different Ninth Doctors (Rowan Atkinson, Richard E Grant, and Christopher Eccleston).

The first Ninth Doctor (Rowan Atkinson) claims to be over 800 years old (Curse of Fatal Death). This shockingly lines up well with the age that the War Doctor claimed. Thus, supporting the tri-generation theory.

The second Ninth Doctor (Richard E Grant) doesn’t state his age (Scream of the Shalka). However, he is travelling with an android incarnation of the War Master (Derek Jacobi). Furthermore, it is implied that Gallifrey has been destroyed, as this Ninth Doctor is protecting a Time Lord matrix (Scream of the Shalka). The Time Lord matrix is a supercomputer containing the consciousness of every dead Time Lord (The Deadly Assassin and Dark Water/Death in Heaven).

The third Ninth Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) claims to Rose Tyler be 900 years old (Aliens of London). This means the Doctor meet Rose Tyler a literal century after the end of the Last Great Time War. This is even more hilarious that the Ninth Doctor never looked at his face for 100 years. Furthermore, the Doctor spends 28 years on Earth (from 1894 to 1922) before returning to Rose (The Other Side).

The Tenth Doctor is the shortest-lived incarnation, only existing for approximately 5 to 6 years. Regenerating at the age of 906 (The End of Time). Also, for three of years he was without his TARDIS and trying to save Martha and find the wreckage of the Infinite (The Infinite Quest).

The Eleventh Doctor claims to be roughly 1200 years old (Day of the Doctor). Shortly thereafter, the Eleventh Doctor was trapped on Trenzalore and spent the next 900 years protecting the town of Christmas (The Time of the Doctor). Regenerating at the age of 2100.

There’s two major time jumps for the Twelfth Doctor. Firstly, the Doctor spends 24 years on Darillium with River Song (The Husbands of River Song). Secondly, the Doctor has lectured at St Luke’s University for 50 years or 70 years (The Pilot). Also, the Doctor spends 100 years on the planet of Sto, after being sent back in time by a weeping Angel (A Confusion of Angels). Therefore, the Twelfth Doctor lived for roughly 200 years. This would make the Doctor 2300 years old when he regenerated (Twice Upon a Time).

There’s lots of time gaps in Thirteenth Doctor’s incarnation, allowing lots of potential for missing and solo stories. Also, she spent around 30 – 40 years in a Judoon prison.  However, it’s impossible to know how long this incarnation lived for; but I would speculate around 45 to 50 years.

Initially, the Fourteenth Doctor bi-generates 15 hours after Thirteen regenerated (The Giggle). As the bi-generation allowed the Fourteenth Doctor to continue on living, as a separate incarnation of the Doctor. But sadly, the Fourteenth Doctor finally dies in Venice in 2063, trying to prevent the city from sinking. Then he possibly regenerates into the Curator (Tom Baker). Assuming this incarnation was living on the ‘slow path’ with only occasional day trips in time and space. This would mean the Fourteenth Doctor dies after 39 to 40 years.

[6-and-7]

Doctor Whooves in City of Death! Bonus, I’ve hidden one reference to every TV Fourth Doctor story in this image (which was actually exhausting, Tom had 41 stories, plus Shada) – how many can you spot?

(Answers and alt version below the cut)

Robot - King of Hearts, center, above Mona Lisa The Ark in Space - Noah with green hoof, lower left The Sontaran Experiment - Sontaran Flag, center left Genesis of the Daleks - Wires, upper right of center Revenge of the Cybermen - Vogon seal/later Seal of Rassilon, above the Doctor

Terror of the Zygons - Zygon, lower right Planet of Evil - Antimatter creature effect, above Sontaran flag Pyramids of Mars - Eye of Ra, right The Android Invasion - Ginger pop, on bench The Brain of Morbius - Claw, upper right The Seeds of Doom - Krynoid seed pod, left of Seal of Rassilon

The Masque of Mandragora - Masque, upper right The Hand of Fear - Stone hoof and bracelet, right, above skull The Deadly Assassin - Crispy Master, left of Melkur statue The Face of Evil - Xoanon Statue, right of Romana The Robots of Death - Corpse marker, right of Zygon The Talons of Weng-Chiang - Rat, up and left of Seal of Rassilon

Horror of Fang Rock - Lighthouse, upper left The Invisible Enemy - K9, next to Romana Image of the Fendahl - Fendahleen skull, lower right The Sun Makers - Gatherer Hade, upper left Underworld - Helmet, left, under Sontaran flag The Invasion of Time - Lead wall decorations, top center

The Ribos Operation - Romana I, lower left The Pirate Planet - Pirate Captain, lower left The Stones of Blood - Ogri and Megara, lower left The Androids of Tara - Count Grendel, lower left The Power of Kroll - Kroll, lower left The Armageddon Factor - Princess Astra, lower left

Destiny of the Daleks - Movellan, left of Zygon City of Death - Mona Lisa, center The Creature from the Pit - Erato, up, left of lead gears Nightmare of Eden - Jungle scene, right of center The Horns of Nimon - Nimon, upper right Shada - Skagra's silver sphere, above Zygon

The Leisure Hive - Argolian, lower left Meglos - Dodecahedron, right of Watcher Full Circle - Pony infected by Marsh Spider venom, right of Key to Time State of Decay - Vampire, above Zygon Warrior's Gate - Gate, left The Keeper of Traken - Melkur, right of Doctor Logopolis - Watcher, lower right

[stopmyhearts]

Books- the Romana Project

aka now we're starting to dig deep. I'm going to divide this by publisher/range so it's a bit easier to understand. also in the ranges I will generally go by publishing order

Target novelizations

these have two subsections, the older ones published between 1979 and 1983 (for the Romana ones at least) and the new Target range published since 2021. Most of these also have audiobooks, and I'm biased but I strongly recommend any read by Lalla Ward she is excellent at doing narration.

old Targets:

Doctor Who and the Destiny of the Daleks: you will soon discover that most of these are written by Terrance Dicks. if I don't mention an author, assume it's him. his novelizations have a pretty consistent middling quality. they give you what's on screen in written form, nothing less and nothing more. this one is one of his better ones, imo, but I also adore Destiny of the Daleks so that does influence my opinion

Doctor Who and the Ribos Operation: this one is actually written by Ian Marter, who also played Harry Sullivan. It's middling in my opinion

Doctor Who and the Stones of Blood: I liked this one, but it's nothing outstanding

Doctor Who and the Androids of Tara: not great, not bad, typical Terrance Dicks

Doctor Who and the Power of Kroll: this story works better in written form than on screen, I think, though of course you miss seeing Mary Tamm. It's okay. I actually own this one as a physical book

Doctor Who and the Armageddon Factor: I liked this one, it's one of Terrance Dicks' better ones

Doctor Who and the Nightmare of Eden: again it's good but far from outstanding

Doctor Who and the Horns of Nimon: same thing. much prefer watching this one, the novelization can't really capture that energy

Doctor Who and the Creature from the Pit: hey, something written by someone else for a change! It's by David Fisher, who also wrote the script. The world feels very rich, I like this one

Doctor Who and the State of Decay: I like the serial, and the novelization is fine enough

Doctor Who and Warriors' Gate: I love this one! Written by Steve Gallagher, the original author of the story, under a pseudonym, it's special in that it's continuous prose, without any chapters. It enhances the atmospheric feeling of the serial and is genuinely amazing. My favorite Target novel so far

Doctor Who and the Leisure Hive: written by David Fisher who also wrote the serial. It's good but nothing special

Doctor Who: Full Circle: another Terrance Dicks one. don't have anything else to say

Doctor Who: Meglos: it's not terrible but I don't really like it

Doctor Who: The Five Doctors: Romana's part is, same as in the serial, negligible, but it is pretty good for a Terrance Dicks novelization

The new Target range:

Doctor Who and the Pirate Planet: written by James Goss and based on the Douglas Adams serial. haven't read it yet but ratings are high

The Stones of Blood: while the original novelization was by Terrance Dicks, in 2011 an audio adaption by David Fisher, who wrote the serial, was released. this is that audio adaption in written form. I haven't read it yet, but I did like the audio version

The Androids of Tara: same history as the Stones of Blood. based on the 2014 audio adaptation. also haven't read but have listened and liked it

Warriors' Gate and Beyond: you might ask yourself why this story also appears twice here. this is because Steve Gallagher wasn't happy with the cuts made to his original novelization. So in 2019 an audio version based on his original plans for it was made. This book contains that audio version as prose, the short stories The Kairos Ring, itself previously an audio story in the Beyond the Doctor series, telling the story of a war Romana fights with the Tharils, as well as The Little Book of Fate, which depicts a meeting between a future Romana during presumably the Time War with the Eighth Doctor. This novelisation is really good, it feels very atmospheric, even more so than the TV story. It's also continuous prose, which really helps enhance that feeling. Romana's exit is much better than on TV. The short stories are both very good, I especially liked the second one

That's all the Target novels!

Next, Romana has appeared in 8 books by Virgin Books, that are three VNAs and five VMAs

Virgin books:

Blood Harvest: a VNA that features Romana's return from E-Space to Gallifrey and gives us the delightful combination of Romana II and Bernice Summerfield. I want more of those two. Also Vampires!! I love this book and can highly recommend it

Goth Opera: a VMA with the main team of the fifth Doctor, Nyssa and Tegan. also has vampires and is very good. this is at the same time a prequel and a sequel to Blood Harvest but it's the second one for Romana. She only appears rather briefly, but it does show the start of her rise to power on Gallifrey

The Romance of Death, The English Way of Death & The Well-Mannered War: I haven't read these yet, these are the three VMAs that feature Romana II and the fourth Doctor. They also exist as novel adaptations by Big Finish (so does Goth Opera but they took Romana's parts out). they're by Gareth Roberts who's very transphobic so I know not all people like to read his stuff, but he is a good writer in my opinion. and it's not as if he's earning any money with these

Happy Endings: this is the 50th VNA and a celebration of that series. as such it features a lot of returning characters and people might tell you it's meant to be read after at least a substantial amount of other VNAs. I don't agree with that, the only one I read before was Blood Harvest and I had great fun. truly the most enjoyable, pure fluff Doctor Who book I have ever read. all you need is a bare-bones understanding of who Benny is, though it probably is fun if you can recognize all the other characters. Romana appears only at the beginning and end, but it shows her first days as president of Gallifrey and her parts are pure gold

The Shadow of Weng-Chiang: a VMA that features Romana I and the fourth Doctor. It's sort of a sequel to Talons of Weng-Chiang. It's less racist than that TV story from as far as I can judge, and it does have the Romana I/Four dynamic down perfectly. set during the Key to Time arc

Lungbarrow: oh Lungbarrow, the book that you are. If you like physical books this is the part where you go on ebay and cry. If you like ebooks, you go to the internet archive here and have fun. this book is insane, absolutely wild, filled with lore and I adore it. it is genuinely that good. also has Leela!!

Now we come to the books published by the BBC. I will divide these into EDAs, PDAs and Douglas Adams based ones

BBC books:

EDAs: The Eight Doctors which is sort of a prequel to the EDAs, and The Shadows of Avalon and The Ancestor Cell given that these are in the middle of that series, they probably have prerequisites, if anyone could let me know about them that would be wonderful, I haven't read either of these yet

PDAs: Tomb of Valdemar has Romana I and Four. Heart of TARDIS has Four and Romana I, as well as Two, Jamie and Victoria and the Brigadier. Festival of Death features Four and Romana II. I haven't read any of these yet

Douglas Adams books: these are based upon finished or unfinished scripts by Douglas Adams. We have:

Doctor Who: Shada: I love this one. It's my favourite version of Shada. the audiobook is read by Lalla Ward and you just know that's delightful

Doctor Who: City of Death: this one is a DELIGHT. It's so fun, definitely a favourite. Strongly recommend it. also has the audiobook read by Lalla Ward

Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet: haven't read yet, based upon initial scripts by Douglas Adams

Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen: haven't read yet, based upon an unproduced Douglas Adams story. I've heard good things about it

Miscellanous:

The Self-Made Man: part of the Decades Collection, which released a book for each decade of Doctor Who. haven't read it yet

I'll also mention The Choice, a novelisation of the BBV audio of the same name, featuring both a Romana stand-in and one of K-9. I haven't been able to track this down

And that gives us a total of 39 (+1 if you count the Choice) Doctor Who books that contain Romana! Good luck to any of you who want to join me in reading them all

Masterpost for the Romana Project

[why-and-or-bother]

Reblog for sample

[hitchell-mope]

Every serial of classic who.

An unearthly child

The Daleks

The edge of destruction

Marco Polo

The keys of Marinus

The Aztecs

The Sensorites

The reign of terror

Planet of giants

The Dalek invasion of Earth

The rescue

The Romans

The web planet

The crusade

The space museum

The chase

The time meddler

Galaxy 4

Mission to the unknown

The myth makers

The Daleks' Master Plan

The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve

The ark

The celestial toymaker

The gunfighters

The savages

The war machines

The smugglers

The tenth planet 

The power of the Daleks

The highlanders

The underwater menace

The moonbase

The macra terror

The faceless ones

The evil of the Daleks

The tomb of the Cybermen

The abominable snowmen

The ice warriors

The enemy of the world

The web of fear

Fury from the deep

The wheel in space

The dominators

The mind robber

The invasion

The Krotons

The seeds of death

The space pirates

The war games

Spearhead from space

Doctor Who and the Silurians

The ambassadors of death

Inferno

Terror of the autons

The mind of evil

The claws of axos

Colony in space

The dæmons

Day of the Daleks

The curse of Peladon

The sea devils

The mutants

The time monster

The three doctors

Carnival of monsters

Frontier in space

Planet of the Daleks

The Green Death

The time warrior

Invasion of the dinosaurs

Death to the Daleks

The monster of Peladon

Planet of the spiders

Robot

The ark in space

The Sontaran experiment

Genesis of the Daleks

Revenge of the cybermen

Terror of the zygons

Planet of evil

Pyramids of Mars

The android invasion

The brain of Morbius

The seeds of doom

The masque of Mandragora

The hand of fear.

The deadly assassin

The face of evil

The robots of death

The talons of Weng-Chiang

Horror of fang rock

The invisible enemy

Image of the Fendahl

The sun makers

Underworld

The invasion of time

The ribos operation

The pirate planet

The stones of blood

The androids of Tara

The power of kroll

The Armageddon factor

Destiny of the Daleks

City of death

The creature from the pit

Nightmare of Eden

The horns of nimon

The leisure hive

Meglos 

Full circle

State of decay

Warriors gate

The keeper of Traken

Logopolis

Castrovalva

Four to doomsday

Kinda

The visitation

Black orchid

Earthshock

Time flight

Arc of infinity

Snakedance

Mawdryn undead

Terminus

Enlightenment

The king’s demons

The five doctors

Warriors of the deep

The awakening

Frontios

Resurrection of the Daleks

Planet of fire

The caves of Androzani

The twin dilemma

Attack of the Cybermen

Vengeance on Varos

The mark of the Rani

The two doctors

Timelash

Revelation of the Daleks

The mysterious planet

Mindwarp

Terror of the Vervoids

The ultimate foe

Time and the Rani

Paradise towers

Delta and the Bannermen

Dragonfire

Remembrance of the Daleks

The happiness patrol

Silver nemesis

The greatest show in the galaxy

Battlefield

Ghost light

The curse of fenric

Survival

The movie

[monkeyssalad-blog]

Jarmila Novotna by Truus, Bob & Jan too! Via Flickr: German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 6837/1, 1931-1932. Photo: Walter Firner, Berlin. Czech soprano Jarmila Novotná (1907-1994) was one of the world-renowned opera luminaries of the 20th Century. Her film appearances were unfortunately few and far between. Jarmila Novotná was born in in Prague, Czech Republic in 1907. She studied singing with Emmy Destinn. In 1925, the 17-years-old Novotná made her operatic debut at the Prague Opera House as Marenka in Bedřich Smetana's Prodaná nevěsta (The Bartered Bride). Six days later, the lyric soprano sang there as Violetta in Giuseppe Verdi's La traviata. The following year, she made her film debut in the silent film Vyznavaci slunce/The Sun Disciples (Václav Binovec, 1926), starring Luigi Serventi. In 1928 she starred in Verona as Gilda opposite Giacomo Lauri-Volpi in Verdi's Rigoletto and at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples as Adina opposite Tito Schipa in Gaetano Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore. In 1929 she joined the Kroll Opera in Berlin, where she sang Violetta as well as the title roles of Giacomo Puccini's Manon Lescaut and Madama Butterfly. When talking pictures arrived, she headlined in German films like Brand in Der Oper/Fire in the Opera House (Carl Froelich, 1930), with Gustaf Gründgens, Der Bettelstudent/The Beggar Student (Victor Janson, 1931), and the film version of The Bartered Bride, Die Verkaufte Braut (Max Ophüls, 1932). Hal Erickson at AllMovie on Die Verkaufte Braut (1930): “The original libretto, involving the comic misadventures of two mismatched couples, is given a respectable amount of attention, but the film's biggest selling card is the photographic dexterity of Max Ophuls, who never met a camera crane he didn't like. Since filmed opera was seldom big box-office in 1932, Ophuls concentrates on the farcical elements of the story; especially worth noting are comic contributions by Paul Kemp and Otto Wernicke, who seldom let their German film fans down. Curiously, star Jarmila Novotna, whose ‘live’ appearances in The Bartered Bride were much prized by contemporary critics, doesn't come off all that well in this film version.” Other films followed such as Nacht Der Grossen Liebe/Night of the Great Love (Geza von Bolvary, 1933) with Gustav Fröhlich. In January 1933 she created the female lead in Jaromir Weinberger's new operetta Frühlingsstürme (Spring Storms), opposite Richard Tauber at the Theater im Admiralspalast, Berlin. This was the last new operetta produced in the Weimar Republic, and she and Tauber were both soon forced to leave Germany by the new Nazi regime. Jarmila Novotnà returned to Czechoslovakia to star in the film Skrivanci pisen/Lark's Songs (Svatopluk Innemann, 1933). In 1934, she left for Vienna, where she created the title role in Franz Lehár's operetta Giuditta opposite Richard Tauber. Her immense success in that role led to a contract with the Vienna State Opera, where she was named Kammersängerin. She also appeared there with Tauber in The Bartered Bride and Madama Butterfly. In the cinema, she starred in the Austrian operetta film Frasquita (Karel Lamac, 1934) with Heinz Ruhmann, the Austrian romantic thriller Der Kosak und die Nachtigall/The Cossack and the Nightingale (Phil Jutzi, 1935) with Iván Petrovich, and in the French-British operetta film La dernière valse/The Last Waltz (Leo Mittler, 1935), which was made in two language versions. She then left the film industry to concentrate on her stage work with the Viennese State Opera. After the Anschluss of Austria, she had to leave Vienna. In January 1940 she made her debut with the Metropolitan Opera in New York, as Mimí in Puccini's La bohème. From 1940 to 1956, Novotná performed regularly at the Met. In 1946 she returned before the cameras in a straight dramatic role in the Hollywood production The Search (Fred Zinnemann, 1946), starring Montgomery Clift. The Search is a semi-documentary film on the plight of WWII orphans. Novotná played a Czech mother who has lost contact with her young son when they were in Auschwitz and she now travels from one refugee camp to another in search of him. Novotna's then played turn of the century diva Maria Selka in the biopic The Great Caruso (Richard Thorpe, 1951), featuring Mario Lanza. The film traces legendary tenor Enrico Caruso's ascension from adolescent choir singer in Naples to the uppermost ranks of the opera world. Mario Lanza's tenor voice made this film one of the top box-office draws of 1951, and this helped to popularize opera among the general public. On TV she appeared in The Great Waltz (Max Liebman, 1955), which charts the life and times of composer Johann Strauss, Jr. She also played Hans’ mother in the TV musical Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates (Sidney Lumet, 1958), starring Tab Hunter. Her last screen appearance was as an interviewee in the documentary Toscanini: The Maestro (Peter Rosen, 1985). At 85, Jarmila Novotná passed away in 1994 in New York. Sources: Hal Erickson (AllMovie), Wikipedia, and IMDb.

[greenjeanqueen]

After thinking about it, I’ve made the difficult decision to sell my Classic Doctor Who DVDs. I’m hoping to find someone who will enjoy them and add to their own collection. I’m pricing them at $5.00 each (with packs it will still be $5.00 each DVD, not $5.00 for the whole pack). If anyone is interested please let me know. I’ll send an invoice via PayPal to keep things professional.

First Doctor Stories:

“The Beginning” Pack:

An Unearthly Child

The Daleks

The Edge of Destruction

Second Doctor Stories:

The Mind Robber

The Invasion

Third Doctor Stories:

Spearhead from Space

Inferno

Fourth Doctor Stories:

Complete Season One - Blueray ($20.00 - case is broken, but DVDs are brand new, never used

The Ark in Space

The Sontaran Experiment

Place of Evil

Pyramids of Mars

The Hand of Fear

The Deadly Assissin

The Talons of Weng-Chang

Horror of Fang Roch

“The Key to Time” the complete adventures

The Ribos Operation

The Pirate Planet

The Stones of Blood

The Androids of Tara

The Power of Kroll

The Armageddon Factor

City of Death

The Leisure Hive

“New Beginnings” pack:

The Keeper of Traken

Logopolis

Castrovalva

Fifth Doctor Stories:

The Visitation

Earth shock

The Five Doctors

Resurrection of the Daleks

The Caves of Androzani

I also have complete season of New Who 1-12 available for $15.00 each

[drwhodraws]

Every episode of Doctor Who in three words. Feel free to ignore me.

Part 3

Season 15

Horror of fang Rock: Lighthouse drama queen

The invisible enemy: shooty dog thing

The image of fendahl: What the fuck?

The Sun makers: money money money

Underworld: Tom Baker’s worst

The invasion of time: that’s very twisty

Season 16

The Ribos operation: lost my key

The pirate planet: very Douglas Adams

The stones of blood: courts in session

The androids of Tara: where’s the king?

Power of the kroll: a squid thing

The Armageddon factor: Part of it

Season 17

Destiny of the Daleks: that face? really.

City of death : many Mona Lisas

The creature from the pit: Yours is bigger

Nightmare of Eden: that’s drugs mate

The horns of nimon: the space minator

Shada: only took 37yrs

Season 18

The leisure hive: have a baby

Meglos: literal cactus man

Full circle: the annoying child

State of decay: (Buffy) the vampire slayer

Warriors’ gate: Strange Lion man

The keeper of traken: crispy bacon’s back

Logopolis: imma fall off

Season 19

Castrovalva: what the inception

Four to doomsday: evil frog people

Kinda: intro to pantheon

The visitation: 1600s meets aliens

Black orchid: actually having fun

Earthshock: Jeasus Christ adrick

Timeflight: faceless ones reboot

Season 20

Ark of infinity: I shot myself

Snakedance: further Tegan trauma

Mawdyn undead: the two brigs

Terminus: robot dog man

Enlightenment: sussing out turlough

The kings demons: another manic master

The five doctors: four doctors, Shada

Season 21

Warriors of the deep: shit and kick

The awakening: face wall church

Fontios: massive fucking centipedes

Resurrection Of the daleks: final Tegan truma

Planet of fire: Karmelion on crack

Caves of androzani: killed by mushrooms

The twin dilemma: let’s strangle peri

[doctorwhogirlie]

The Fourth Doctor: Tom Baker

Click keep reading to see all the season sixteen story reviews I've posted

Season Sixteen:

1. The Ribos Operation:

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2. The Pirate Planet:

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3. The Stones of Blood:

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4. The Androids of Tara:

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5. The Power of Kroll:

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6. The Armageddon Factor:

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watched adults fx because all the gifs of paul baker reminded me of the moustache man and I miss him o7 kinda crazy a sitcom got only 8 episodes though

fjkldsjfkldsfklsdfksl. yeah i hate how streaming operates nowadays and how many shows will just be axed if they can't manage to break through the horde of random shit on these platforms. the cast is so much fun and i think we deserve to see them for way longer 😭 knowing some of the shittiest tv shows of all time just got seasons on seasons on seasons pisses me off.... i saw a twt that said smth like 'how can nick kroll get big mouth renewed for 8 seasons but we're struggling with this one' and literally.

[jiminysjournal]

How I would have done The Key to Time:

Tom Baker had been hoping to leave after this season, but the producers talked him into staying. If he had left, he would've last as long as Pertwee, tying them both for longest-lasting Doctor.

I'm curious if, had he regenerated, Mary Tamm may have been more willing to stay, as it would've given her a new dynamic to work with.

Anyway, I'm gonaa break it down, serial-by-serial:

The Ribos Operation

Some pacing would be adjusted, including introducing The Seeker earlier. Honestly, the best Ribosian character.

The Pirate Planet

Mmm…no notes.

The Stones of Blood

Cut to three parts, with the courtroom storyline cut entirely (don't worry; it'll come back). Just keep it supernatural. Because, why not?

By the way, Amelia Rumford walked, so River Song could run.

The Androids of Tara

Cut to three parts. The fourth part is completely unnecessary. Rather than Grendel escaping and then being shot dead by K•9 offscreen, he gets killed by the monster he "saved" Romana from, earlier.

The Power of Kroll

Replaced with the proposed but unwritten Chris Boucher story about an Earth outpost.

The Armageddon Factor

The first two episodes are compressed into one, and the last four are compressed into three. The Shadow is, himself, the Black Guardian, removing the need for a tacked-on confrontation.

That being said! The courtroom storyline cut from SoB would be moved here, serving as parts 5 and 6. It would, instead, be the trial of the Black Guardian.

In one last act of desperation, the Black Guardian kills the Doctor. Because he was killed by a Guardian, he cannot regenerate. As the Black Guardian attempts to take the Key, it instead absorbs itself into the Doctor, and he regenerates…into Lalla Ward.

As a result, the Key is not rescattered (by the way, the Doctor and Romana figure out Astra is the segment earlier), and Astra does not return. But, she lives on, through the Fifth Doctor.

I'm also curious if a Doctor-playing Lalla might've stayed longer than she did as Romana. Who knows? Who…nose?

[unfug-bilder]

Wer sagt ihm, dass die Kroll-Oper abgerissen wurde?

[ma1kayl]

My Doctor Who Collection (1/26/25)

SPEAKING OF THE SHELF

Doctor Who is kind of the whole reason I revitalized this blog so I figured it's about time I show off the collection so far.

Classic Era

First Doctor

Not a whole lot going on yet. I actually have the 2012 single case reissue of the Beginning box set but I decided I like the original packaging better so I printed out the covers and that's the end of that story.

DVD: An Unearthly Child, The Daleks, The Edge Of Destruction, Lost In Time

Blu-ray: The Daleks In Color, The Celestial Toymaker

Second Doctor

A little bit more going on. Featuring the custom covers I made for the animations because I'm butthurt we're the only ones who didn't get covers in line with the rest of the DVD range (nothing against the original artists of course I just have OCD). One for The Underwater Menace (and The Celestial Toymaker) pending

DVD: The Power Of The Daleks, The Macra Terror, The Faceless Ones, The Evil Of The Daleks, The Tomb Of The Cybermen, Fury From The Deep, The Dominators, The Seeds Of Death

Blu-ray: The Underwater Menace

Third Doctor

I think it's very funny that 3/4 serials that I own on DVD are also on the Blu-ray set I have. I will rectify this in both directions one day.

DVD: Terror Of The Autons, The Three Doctors, Carnival Of Monsters, The Green Death

Blu-ray: Season 10

Fourth Doctor

I wonder if you can tell who my favorite classic Doctor was for a while. He's just a silly guy. I'm debating if I want to make a cover for Shada. I'm on the fence about it because the only difference between it and the rest of them is just the logos. I wonder if I can get away with just making a spine for it, because I actually quite like the cover artwork itself.

DVD: The Ark In Space, Pyramids Of Mars, The Masque Of Mandragora, The Robots Of Death, The Talons of Weng-Chiang, The Ribos Operation, The Pirate Planet, The Stones Of Blood, The Androids Of Tara, The Power Of Kroll, The Armageddon Factor, Shada, Full Circle, State Of Decay, Warrior's Gate, The Keeper Of Traken, Logopolis

Blu-ray: Season 12, 14, 17, 18

Fifth Doctor

One of the top contenders for my favorite Doctor in general. I'm very proud to not only own the first classic Doctor Who DVD to come out ever, but one that came out day and date on 9/11. I think that's really funny.

DVD: Castrovalva, The Visitation (Special Edition), Earthshock, The Five Doctors (Special Edition), The Caves Of Androzani

Blu-ray: Season 19, 20

Sixth Doctor

I really love Colin Baker as a guy. I'm very glad he's speaking his shit on the special features on the Season 22 Blu-ray. Man deserved so much better and I'm glad he's finally been getting it.

DVD: Vengeance on Varos, The Two Doctors, The Trial Of A Time Lord

Blu-ray: Season 22

Seventh Doctor

Another top contender for my favorite Doctor in general. Dragonfire was the first classic Who story I ever watched, and it's remained one of my favorites if only for that fact. Season 26 in its entirety is a masterpiece, and I'm very excited to get my hands on Season 25 once the Blu-ray drops here next month.

DVD: Paradise Towers, Dragonfire, Remembrance Of The Daleks, The Curse Of Fenric

Blu-ray: Season 24, 26

Eighth Doctor

Not much to say here. I think the movie is a fun time. I'm glad I was finally able to get my hands on a region 1 copy of it because it was much harder than I feel like it really should have been. I finally found it in some random retro games store about a year ago. If ever I feel like getting into the Big Finish audio stories, this is definitely where I'm gonna start.

DVD: The Movie (Region 1)

Blu-ray: The Movie (Region 2)

Modern Era

Ninth and Tenth Doctor

I originally had the Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant Collection DVD set, but it wouldn't be Doctor Who on DVD if it wasn't a waste of shelf space, so I bought these instead.

Eleventh Doctor

I have a very soft spot in my heart for the Eleventh Doctor because he's who was on when I first got into Doctor Who as a kid. Thus it was only appropriate that his be the first I completed the DVD collection for.

Twelfth Doctor

Without a doubt my favorite Doctor period. I was still only like 9 or 10 when Peter Capaldi first started his tenure on the show, and the overall darker tone of his episodes really scared me, so I never really watched any of his episodes until about three years ago. Series 9 is peak television and I will not hear anything otherwise. Currently I'm only missing Last Christmas.

Thirteenth and Fourteenth Doctor

At this moment in time I've only seen a few episodes from the Thirteenth Doctor, but I can't say I wasn't at least entertained during them. But of course I've watched 10 kajillion video essays on the era. I do not recognize anything Chris Chibnall did to the lore of the show. I think I'm only missing Resolution. The 60th anniversary specials were pretty good. Hoping they put out Series 14 over here soon.

That's it for now. I'll update periodically when I get more shit. Thank you for your time.