#robert shearman

[cynicalclassicist]

Well done! It must be splendid to have someone you respect take notice of you!

I'm a few days late, but a happy fifth anniversary to that time I wrote a Twitter thread about The Chimes of Midnight after listening to it at like one in the morning and woke up to find that Robert Shearman had Retweeted it.

Still not entirely certain I've managed to top this accomplishment, if I'm being honest.

[dbot456]

Currently wishing a very happy Chimes of Midnight season to all who celebrate

[companion-showdown]

Who is most important to the history of Doctor Who?

TOURNAMENT MASTERPOST

propaganda under the cut

Robert Shearman – wrote across mediums including Jubilee/Dalek

it's robert shearman do i even need to say anything. (anonymous)

Peter Cregeen – BBC higher-up who cancelled Doctor Who

the dude who cancelled doctor who in 1989. (anonymous )

[phunnyphis]

just listened to jubilee

[somethingsomethingsixthdoctor]

HOLY SHIT OH MY GOD LOOKATTHIS

“BF Novel 1 Jub” wasn’t a coincidental placeholder title. It actually is that what shjsjsnsjs IT’S AN ACTUAL BIG FINISH NOVELIZATION

if it isn’t goin to be 9 october RIGHT NOW i WILL be sick

[landscaping-your-mind]

series 1 episode 6 dalek, quite possibly the best thing to ever grace our television screens. good old bobby shear has done it again

[finalpam8000]

I’ve finally finished listening to all of Robert Shearman’s incredible Big Finish story. So for the 20th anniversary of Scherzo, I was wondering what everyone else thought of them!

(Also Holy Terror, The Chimes of Midnight, and Jubilee, are free to listen too on both Spotify and Tidal! And all are avalbible pretty cheap at bigfinish.com )

[thenotoriousscuttlecliff]

The arrogance in doubling down on your incredibly stupid take after getting called out on it by one of the show's writers.

[denimbex1986]

'David Tennant met Doctor Who comic creators Pat Mills and Dave Gibbons on the set of the 60th anniversary special "The Star Beast." The first of Russell T Davies' three anniversary specials led by Tennant and Catherine Tate adapted the story of Mills and Gibbons' 1979 Doctor Who Weekly comic strip of the same name. In "The Star Beast," the Fourteenth Doctor (Tennant) and Donna Noble (Tate) are swept into an intergalactic pursuit when an alien fugitive crash lands in London.

With the Doctor Who special "The Star Beast" introducing the Meep (Miriam Margolyes) and the Wrarth Warriors, original creators Mills and Gibbons were invited to see their creations come to life on set.

As revealed in the behind-the-scenes show Doctor Who: Unleashed (via @darkwillowz), Mills and Gibbons were joined by host Steffan Powell and Tennant, allowing the actor to receive a signed issue from them and express his love for the comic strip...

Tennant: I got this every week. And I remember this comic strip.

Gibbons: You stole it or you paid for it?

Tennant: I paid for it! Well, my parents did – I mean, I was only nine. But this is so… When I first got the script, and I saw what it was based on the front page, I… it all came back so vividly. I remember these comic strips so clearly.

Mills: That’s great.

Powell: So you remember reading this story?

Tennant: I remember all of them! The Iron Legion, and The City of the Damned. And of course this one, yeah. Very clearly.

Gibbons: He’s passed the test, he remembers all the names, Pat. He’s a genuine fan.

Tennant: It’s true!

Doctor Who Has A History of Expanded Media Tales Influencing The Main TV Series

Mills and Gibbons join a number of expanded media writers who have had their work brought into the main Doctor Who television series. Returning showrunner Davies' first contribution to Doctor Who was not the 2005 TV series, but the 1996 novel Damaged Goods, while fellow showrunner Steven Moffat penned the short story "Continuity Errors" for the 1996 anthology Decalog 3: Consequences. Other writers who first contributed to Doctor Who's expanded media before joining the main series include Mark Gatiss, Paul Cornell, and Robert Shearman.

Like how Mills and Gibbons' creations were brought to the screen, Cornell and Shearman would see their original stories get adapted for the show's revival. While both writers contributed to season 1, Shearman would adapt his 2003 Sixth Doctor audio drama "Jubilee" for the screen in "Dalek," where the Doctor's encounter with a sole surviving Dalek was adjusted to work in a post-Time War setting. Meanwhile, Cornell's tale of the Seventh Doctor becoming human and hiding on Earth shortly before the First World War in the novel Human Nature would be reimagined by the author into the two-part season 3 story "Human Nature/The Family of Blood."

"The Star Beast" was a wonderful celebration that allowed wider audiences to enjoy one of Doctor Who's most well-known expanded media tales. It was gratifying to see Davies properly credit both Gibbons and Mills for their contributions, and allow them the opportunity to see their monsters brought to life during filming. Though Tennant has been heavily involved with Doctor Who even between his Tenth and Fourteenth Doctor tenures, it is heartwarming to see the actor have the opportunity to have his own moments with them as a longtime fan, as well.'

[thedoctorwhocompanion]

Out Now: Christopher Eccleston's Ninth Doctor Takes the Focus in Doctor Who Magazine #592

Out Now: Christopher Eccleston's Ninth Doctor Takes the Focus in Doctor Who Magazine #592

Doom’s Day, the new merchandising event, launches in the latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine, which also ranks the adventures of the Seventh and Ninth Doctors, played respectively by Sylvester McCoy and Christopher Eccleston. Doctor Who Magazine #592 comes with a 20-page supplement featuring Four Hours of Doom’s Day – a new comic-strip adventure including Autons, Cybermen, and more. Inside the…

[doctorandroseinatardis]

*shaking and sobbing*

He wasn't sure if Rose would want to travel with him any longer. They hadn't spoken since the Dalek had died. There hadn't been much time – there had been a lot to do – but even so.

Suddenly, he felt her by his side.

'Are you OK?' she asked.

He wanted to say, I don't know. I don't know that I can be. But I'm going to try. I really feel I need to try. What he actually said was, 'Yeah.'

'Good.'

'Are we OK? Are we friends?'

'Of course,' said Rose. 'It's just... different.'

'Different worse?'

'Just different.'

The Doctor nodded, although he wasn't sure he understood.

Then Rose said, 'I'm sorry. All those people who died. And all because of me. I didn't know what I was doing...'

And he took her in his arms, and she hugged on to him tightly. At last, he let go.

'Rose,' he said. 'Look at me.' So she did. And he saw how much she trusted him still, in spite of everything.

'You were the only one who showed any kindness or compassion. You were the only one who came close to knowing what they were doing.'

Rose squeezed his hand, and smiled.

- Dalek novelisation by Robert Shearman

[partiallithopseffect]

“I love you,” he said, as if that solved a blind thing, as if that did even the slightest bit of good.

— Robert Shearman, We All Hear Stories in the Dark

[companion-showdown]

Who is most important to the history of Doctor Who?

TOURNAMENT MASTERPOST

propaganda under the cut

Justin Richards – wrote Doctor Who novels

Created the Doctor’s brother Braxiatel, need I say more. (@familyparadox )

Lawrence Miles – wrote Doctor Who novels, created Faction Paradox series

Guy reinvented the concept of a Time War, gave us a Humanoid TARDIS, wrote Faction Paradox, made the Doctor suffer, got ripped off multiple times by all three new who showrunners, with the Doctor Getting married to a cool woman whilst time falls apart all around them, the Doctor visiting their own grave whilst Paradoxes happen, Time Wars staring the 8th Doctor and an unknown Doctor, the Doctor having weird gender, many many other things. (@familyparadox )

bitches (rtd and moffat) love stealing from lawrence miles (anonymous)

Robert Shearman – wrote across mediums including Jubilee/Dalek

it's robert shearman do i even need to say anything. (anonymous)

[seismologically-silly]

happy Valentine’s Day!! to celebrate, why not listen to Scherzo, the most romantic story Doctor Who has ever produced?

[pluralzalpha]

If you haven't heard this one, buy it for yourself as a Christmas present this year and listen to it on Christmas Eve.

the chimes of midnight (audio: 2002)

[gingerteaonthetardis]

stop having ship wars start having gay sex i'm bored of this