#david whitaker

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The Daleks (or The Darleks as everyone I knew called them). A 2020 collection from Panini of the 1960's comic strip that appeared in TV Century 21. The strip was written by Angus Allen, Terry Nation, Alan Fennell and David Whitaker and drawn by Richard Jennings, Eric Eden and Ron Turner. The cover art is by Mike Collins.

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Who is most important to the history of Doctor Who?

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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)

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Robert Hack's Glass Dalek, leader of the Skaro City from David Whitaker's Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure With the Daleks!

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THE YEAR 1965

For over a Year now Doctor Who has had a consistent canon, but today that changes. Three men have come together with one goal, these men are:

GERRY ANDERSON: the Puppet Master, the brains behind the plot

TERRY NATION: the geneticists, the only man with the connections to put this plan into actions

DAVID WHITAKER: the Emperor, the one who puts the plan in to action.

The goal these three men share is the same for all of them know that soon or letter things must change. These men are:

THE CANON KILLERS!!!!

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Radio Free Skaro #974 - Phantom of the Goth Opera

Radio Free Skaro #974 - Phantom of the Goth Opera - with guest host #DoctorWho composer Sam Watts! - Paul Cornell & LM Myles interviewed! - Doctor Who renewed? New spinoff coming?

http://traffic.libsyn.com/freyburg/rfs974.mp3 Download MP3 While Warren tours Europe, after having chatted with Doctor Who scribes Paul Cornell and LM Myles at Worldcon (which you can hear on this podcast), Doctor Who composer (and Edmonton native) Sam Watts steps in as co-host! Hear of Tales of the TARDIS, Sarah Jane Adventures, and other audio delights as news of a new Jodie Whittaker Blu-ray…

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Coming Soon: Doctor Who: Print The Legend

Pre-orders have opened for Doctor Who: Print The Legend, due for release in newsagents and comic shops on 6th June 2024. This lavish, 116-page bookazine is the essential guide to Doctor Who novelisations

Pre-orders have opened for Doctor Who: Print The Legend, due for release in newsagents and comic shops on 6th June 2024. This lavish, 116-page bookazine is the essential guide to Doctor Who novelisations – hardback, paperback and audio adaptations of television stories.  Highlights include profiles of leading authors, a section on collecting rarities, a look at the recording of the audiobooks…

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Doctor Who Television Review: The Evil of the Daleks

Title: The Evil of the Daleks Story Number: 36 Season:  4 Screenwriter:  David Whitaker Director: Derek Martinus Thoughts: This seven-part Dalek romp (the second Dalek story of the season and of Patrick Troughton’s tenure) was supposed to be the final Dalek story ever.  I often straddle the line between recognizing the significance of Daleks in Doctor Who lore and being frustrated by the…

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Serge Gainsbourg like to be provocative as we have noticed in here, yet what might be probably his greatest affront? France Gall might be, if you ask me, his most controversial collaboration in some circles thanks to him subverting her image without her being alerted. Of course, the whole story is more complicated than this, especially since she did return to work with him, after she learnt of his ethos. The tune on the link, for instance, points to a strangely odd rebellion they both intended, i.e. the piece is an anti-LSD PSA in the form of a ye-ye song that decides to respond to your laughter by laughing back in the same manner. Unsurprisingly, this wasn't as their previous successes, but I think they should have developed some strands they had here, since they were intriguing.

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Triple-Q: Losing Me Your Way

Kill La Kill arrived a bit late to jump on the "Every anime needed a Linkin Park AMV" train but that didn't stop Triple-Q from creating one of the best mash-ups in the business with this mixture of "Pushing Me Away" and "Don't Lose Your Way". It's so good, even the rap part is tolerable! And trying to find out who killed your dad seems like an average issue worth mentioning out of nowhere.

Song Score: 15/10

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I've seen it suggested that the 1970 Doctor Who serial "The Ambassadors of Death" derives its title from Wilson G. Knight's essay on Hamlet "The Embassy of Death", and, while I doubt if the serial's name has any literary pedigree (it was originally titled "The Carriers of Death" and the production team at one point apparently considered calling it simply "The Ambassadors"), I think it's worth noting that the phrase "ambassadors of death" appears in the anonymous Elizabethan play Edward III, published in 1596:

"These iron-hearted navies,

"When last I was reporter to your grace,

"Both full of angry spleen, of hope and fear,

"Hasting to meet each other in the face,

"At last conjoined, and by their admiral,

"Our admiral encountered many shot.

"By this, the other, that beheld these twain

"Give earnest penny of a further wrack,

"Like fiery dragons took their haughty flight,

"And, likewise meeting, from their smoky wombs

"Sent many grim ambassadors of death."-Scene 5

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[companion-showdown]

Who is most important too the history of Doctor Who?

TOURNAMENT MASTERPOST

propaganda under the cut

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)

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This new TARDIS is beautiful, like truly stunning... But they really need to utilise it properly, the problem with Jodie's tardis was that they did nothing with, they didn't interact with it, they didn't shoot it interestingly, they just stood there. In contrast to throughout Capaldi's run where the tardis set became character in itself with the bookshelves, the blackboard, the lighting, how they shot it.

Please let them do interesting things with this one.

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Photos (all that you could ever want!) of what should be Paige and Joe's first show together.

If I'm not mistaken, this is the first time in London that there have been two principal black actors in the trio at the same time. (Lucy St. Louis and Jemal Felix did have some shows together, but Jemal was one of the understudy Raoul's.)