#waris hussein

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Waris Hussein unveils producer Verity Lambert's blue plaque.

While Anthony Coburn's son throws a hissy fit about a young Black man cast as Doctor Who, I'd like to celebrate director Waris Hussein, a young Black man (as British South Asians were then known) whose thankless task it was to turn Coburn's mediocre caveman script into a vehicle that would hold viewers' attention from the pilot, Unearthly Child, until The Daleks.

Above: Waris Hussein. Below: Sacha Dhawan and Jessica Raine as Waris Hussein and Verity Lambert in An Adventure in Space and Time.

Ten years ago, we got a historical docudrama paying homage to Doctor Who's difficult beginnings, when it was punted to a young minority producer and director expected to fail.

Last spring, the Radio Times published what I assume was one of its primary sources:

The 1963 Doctor Who diaries of Waris Hussein - part 2 - part 3

They're a fascinating read.

But while he's tactfully grateful to Doctor Who for helping launch his career, Waris Hussein has had a long, successful career since then, earning an Emmy, a BAFTA, and a slew of nominations, including one for the 1974 historical miniseries Shoulder to Shoulder (Youtube) on British suffragettes.

Here's a link to a good print interview with him. I also recommend listening to the beginning of this podcast interview, as his voice conveys the thoughtfulness he puts into everything:

(SNS Online is a podcast on all the usual platforms, if you want to look up pt 2.)

*Trivia note: Ian McKellan credits Waris Hussein with his first film role. The young director cut his teeth directing Cambridge peers McKellan, Derek Jacobi and Trevor Nunn (the token straight).

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Two amazing photo edits by Tim Buckle for proposed pre-Hartnell "Morbius Doctors."

The first is based on Doctor Who's original producer, Verity Lambert:

The second is based on the series' first director, Waris Hussein:

I am very tempted to write some fanfic for these incarnations!

[helloeverything123]

[companion-showdown]

Who is most important to the history of Doctor Who?

TOURNAMENT MASTERPOST

propaganda under the cut

Graeme Harper – the only director of both Classic and NuWho

Directed some really important Doctor Who episodes in both New Who and Classic Who. (@go-to-the-mirror )

Paddy Russell – Classic Who director

directed some of the best classic who stories, pyramids of mars, horror of fang rock, invasion of the dinosaurs, her directing is great, wish she were better known (anonymous)

Rachel Talalay – NuWho director

She is such a great director! You've probably seen some of her greatest hits-- The Star Beast, Dark Water/Death in Heaven, Twice Upon A Time, and oh yeah, she did Heaven Sent/Hell Bent and World Enough and Time/The Doctor Falls! She delivers GORGEOUS looking episodes because she understands the light comes from the same place as the music. She is my favorite director in television and I have sent her fanmail. (anonymous)

Waris Hussein – directed An Unearthly Child

A gay, Indian man who took the role of directing Doctor Who's first story, and a few other stories from the First Doctor's era. So he was one of the people that made Doctor Who come to life. The characterisations and acting choices are clear from the beginning, and I think it's just a shame that most of his work is either missing or not available for much of the public to watch. Despite, this I believe he has made a huge contribution to Doctor Who that cannot be underestimated. (@b4s1lwh0 )

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Okay so I knew Dhawan!Master is my favourite Doctor Who character but I think I might just be autistic about Sacha Dhawan as an actor bcus I'm obsessed with him as Waris Hussein in An Adventure in Space and Time and I'm seriously considering watching everything this man has been in

[icedsodapop]

Me rolling my eyes at bigots who complain about Doctor Who being gay now. Like fellas, Doctor Who has been gay the very first moment Waris Hussein stepped on set to direct An Unearthly Child in 1963. Please get on with the program.

[nerds-yearbook]

In 1963, two teachers in England got concerned about one of their students and followed her home to what appeared to be a junkyard. They followed her into what appeared to be a police box, but in actuality turned out to be a time/space machine called the TARDIS. They learned that the girl, named Susan, and her grandfather, known as the Doctor, were not human at all but aliens. The Doctor (Doctor 1), upset by their intrusion took them back to 100,000 BC. ("An Unearthly Child", Doctor Who, vlm 1 TV)

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The Doctor Who Appreciation Society's Celestial Toymaker and Adventure in Space and Time Event

The #DoctorWho Appreciation Society's Celestial Toymaker and Adventure in Space and Time Event

I was really upset and annoyed that I had to miss the previous screening of An Adventure in Space and Time and Episode 4 of The Celestial Toymaker (i.e. The Final Test), which was the last of the Doctor Who Appreciation Society‘s screenings at Riverside in 2023. Set for the 24th November, it coincided with a train strike and so I couldn’t make it. But I was really pleased when DWAS announced that…

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The 1963 Doctor Who diaries of Waris Hussein – part one | Radio Times

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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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Doctor Who on BBC Breakfast 23rd Nov 2023 | 60th Anniversary Celebration

A couple of items celebrating Doctor Who's 60th anniversary from BBC Breakfast on 23rd November 2023. Includes and interview with Nicola Bryant also interviews with Russell T Davies, Waris Hussein, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy and David Tennant.

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i’m gonna cry

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The Possession of Joel Delaney (1972, dir. Waris Hussein)

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Doctor Who, 61 anos

The Doctor as portrayed by the series leads in chronological order. Wikipedia Canal Who – Facebook Doctor Who estreou, originalmente, em 1963 e acompanha a trajetória de um alienígena que explora o universo com sua máquina de viagem no tempo e espaço. Um detalhe que marca a produção (e o elenco) é que quando o Doutor está à beira da morte, ele se regenera e “renasce” em um corpo completamente…

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gaza scam warning

I'm locking this post because it was about the original wave of gaza-scams and is now outdated when it comes to recent real fundraisers that have been appearing on Tumblr. Please don't pass up people in need because you're afraid of scams. Identifying scams from the real fundraisers is easy.

@el-shab-hussein does a lot of vetting on Tumblr. @nabulsi is another reliable user who has done vetting (but as of this time is not vetting new posts). @90-ghost is a real palestinian person but they don't do a lot of in-depth vetting.

el-shab-hussein and nabulsi have a vetted fundraiser google sheet. el-shab-hussein has a list of direct contacts in gaza/yemen who are certifiably real people. operation olive branch is a coordinated effort to gather certified crowdfunding campaigns both for families and humanitarian provisions.

When you receive an ask, check any of the above resources to see if they're there. Some also have pre-existing social media accounts, such as Instagram, that they certify as theirs and prove that they are a real person in Palestine. Scroll down their blog, look at the notes in their post, and look for confirmation that they are verified anywhere (do not trust their claims until you see the confirmation yourself).

Then if you see confirmation that they are a real person in Palestine who needs help, reblog their post and maybe donate $5.

Feel free to message me about anyone who sends you an ask that seems suspicious and I'll tell you if they resemble any scam archetypes I've seen.

Original post:

Hey gamers, recently there have been a number of scam blogs on tumblr claiming to be Gazan victims. They've been making a number of iterations of the exact same blog and story but with different names and sometimes different PayPal links.

Thus far, the content of these scams are being stolen from 2 real fundraisers. Please lend your aid to these people who need help instead of the disgusting scam farm

Help Haya Orouq's family escape Gaza

Help Rawan AbuMahady's family escape Gaza

These are examples within the past month which have been deleted.

Ma22ya

Khalilhan

jovialsuitdonutai

miniaturepostkingjaiur

Donation scams on tumblr are extremely common and anyone who has a tumblr account will encounter them at some point. You have likely encountered them before and not realized it. They throw together a brand new blog with a story of needing aid, then use bots to go through follow lists and post notes to send messages to random users. Scambusting blogs like kyra45 do a lot of work to track and call out these scams when they surface.

Scam Spotting Tips

They send an ask often accompanied with a follow despite having never interacted with you before. Ask yourself: How did you find your blog? These interactions usually come out of nowhere when you have no original posts or interests they could've found you through, because they're just going down the lists of random blogs.

They reblog just enough posts to make you think that their blog is in-use when it is actually only a day or a few old. Enable timestamps and try find the blog's oldest post; if a blog seems old but still seems suspicious, be wary of post backdating

They often disable or delete comments on their donation post to hide comments that call them out. Open the notes and see if it says "some replies have been hidden, blocked or removed." Blocked/hidden comments sometimes still appear in reblogs of a post but not the original, so open a random reblog and see if telling comments appear there.

It isn't unusual for the story and the ask to either be exact copy-pastes of each other, or otherwise have very telling suspicious details, such as: using different names, having different goal amounts, contrasting story details, etc. Pay attention to and trust the suspicion of details that stand out as odd.

Like many of the above examples, they often use an automatically generated username consisting of random words

Reverse image searching can be a helpful giveaway if it works, but don't trust it entirely - scammers often steal images from private Facebook groups/profiles or alter the images so that people don't find the source. An image not having a source should also be suspicious, as you should wonder why this person's social media presence is exclusively a 3 day old tumblr blog

When you receive an ask from a blog like this, reporting them for spam or phishing and reporting the PayPal account for fraudulent activity does help get these accounts taken down.

In name of the situation, here are great verified resources to support real people who need help:

Many organizations and gofundmes for Gaza

Verified fundraisers for individuals in Gaza put together by @palestineasdiqa on Instagram and Twitter

Click to donate for free using ad revenue

Participation and political resources for US, UK and Canada

USPCR's toolkit