From ampersands to The Apprentice, from dinner ladies to Dirty Den, here's a selection of nerdy in-jokes from Doctor Who series 2...
Last month we took a look at Doctor Who Series One as it celebrated its 10th Anniversary. Specifically, we delved deep into the murky world of in-jokes and sweet nerdy references.
Let’s take another trip back in time and have a look at the more notable and interesting references and in-jokes from Doctor Who Series Two, starring David Tennant and Billie Piper, where the credit of “Doctor Who” had been changed back to “The Doctor”. Pfft, party poopers.
New Earth
Old-skool fans would have been forgiven for being excited at the prospect, given that “New Earth” was a planet mentioned in the 1974 classic Invasion Of The Dinosaurs (though it didn’t actually exist in that story, it was a fake world). But all fans could get excited at...
Last month we took a look at Doctor Who Series One as it celebrated its 10th Anniversary. Specifically, we delved deep into the murky world of in-jokes and sweet nerdy references.
Let’s take another trip back in time and have a look at the more notable and interesting references and in-jokes from Doctor Who Series Two, starring David Tennant and Billie Piper, where the credit of “Doctor Who” had been changed back to “The Doctor”. Pfft, party poopers.
New Earth
Old-skool fans would have been forgiven for being excited at the prospect, given that “New Earth” was a planet mentioned in the 1974 classic Invasion Of The Dinosaurs (though it didn’t actually exist in that story, it was a fake world). But all fans could get excited at...
- 4/29/2015
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Christian Cawley is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.
Cards on the table: I loved the Virgin New Adventures and their BBC Books incarnation too, but when Doctor Who returned in 2005 the range suddenly became quite… childish, I suppose. So when I heard about the Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart series of books, and saw the roster of authors, I had high hopes. Lance Parkin, Nick...
The post The Forgotten Son: The New Adventures of Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart Reviewed appeared first on Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews.
Cards on the table: I loved the Virgin New Adventures and their BBC Books incarnation too, but when Doctor Who returned in 2005 the range suddenly became quite… childish, I suppose. So when I heard about the Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart series of books, and saw the roster of authors, I had high hopes. Lance Parkin, Nick...
The post The Forgotten Son: The New Adventures of Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart Reviewed appeared first on Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews.
- 2/26/2015
- by Christian Cawley
- Kasterborous.com
A new series of Doctor Who spinoff novels featuring the character of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart have been announced.
Candy Jar Books will launch the officially licensed book series early next year.
A major recurring character on Doctor Who, Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart was played by actor Nicholas Courtney from 1968 to 2008.
The books will pick up with the character after his first appearance in 1968's 'The Web of Fear', when he is still a Colonel.
The first novel - The Forgotten Son by Andy Frankham-Allen - will be released on February 22, the fourth anniversary of Courtney's death.
Three more - Horror of Det-Sen by Lance Parkin, The Schizoid Earth by David A McIntee and Mutually Assured Domination by Nick Walters - will be released quarterly.
Courtney made his final screen appearance as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart - often referred to as simply 'The Brigadier' - in two episodes of Doctor Who spinoff The Sarah Jane Adventures in 2008.
However,...
Candy Jar Books will launch the officially licensed book series early next year.
A major recurring character on Doctor Who, Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart was played by actor Nicholas Courtney from 1968 to 2008.
The books will pick up with the character after his first appearance in 1968's 'The Web of Fear', when he is still a Colonel.
The first novel - The Forgotten Son by Andy Frankham-Allen - will be released on February 22, the fourth anniversary of Courtney's death.
Three more - Horror of Det-Sen by Lance Parkin, The Schizoid Earth by David A McIntee and Mutually Assured Domination by Nick Walters - will be released quarterly.
Courtney made his final screen appearance as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart - often referred to as simply 'The Brigadier' - in two episodes of Doctor Who spinoff The Sarah Jane Adventures in 2008.
However,...
- 12/9/2014
- Digital Spy
Christian Cawley is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.
Yes, you read that headline right! Forget CyberBrig, the legendary Lethbridge-Stewart is back in a new series of novels set after The Web of Fear, written by authors Andy Frankham-Allen, Lance Parkin, David A McIntee and Nick Walters. There are simply not enough exclamation marks to follow that sentence. So,take a moment, compose yourself, and find out...
The post The Legend Begins: Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart In New Adventures! appeared first on Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews.
Yes, you read that headline right! Forget CyberBrig, the legendary Lethbridge-Stewart is back in a new series of novels set after The Web of Fear, written by authors Andy Frankham-Allen, Lance Parkin, David A McIntee and Nick Walters. There are simply not enough exclamation marks to follow that sentence. So,take a moment, compose yourself, and find out...
The post The Legend Begins: Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart In New Adventures! appeared first on Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews.
- 12/8/2014
- by Christian Cawley
- Kasterborous.com
Feature Andrew Blair 25 Nov 2013 - 15:15
Spoilers ahead for anyone who hasn't yet seen The Day Of The Doctor, as Andrew ponders the identity of one character in particular...
Warning: this piece contains a Major Spoiler for The Day Of The Doctor.
For those of you who haven't seen The Day of the Doctor yet: begone from this place, and get ye to iPlayer. What kept you?
For yes - as was mentioned once or twice by people who I wish to be locked in a room with Dimensions in Time for perpetuity - Tom Baker was back on our screens in Doctor Who, ostensibly playing the curator of the National Gallery. The conversation that ensues is delightfully enigmatic, hinting at one explanation and then undercutting it. It's not meant to be definitive, and purely there to please, to tantalise and to allow indulgent speculation. To say that its meaning...
Spoilers ahead for anyone who hasn't yet seen The Day Of The Doctor, as Andrew ponders the identity of one character in particular...
Warning: this piece contains a Major Spoiler for The Day Of The Doctor.
For those of you who haven't seen The Day of the Doctor yet: begone from this place, and get ye to iPlayer. What kept you?
For yes - as was mentioned once or twice by people who I wish to be locked in a room with Dimensions in Time for perpetuity - Tom Baker was back on our screens in Doctor Who, ostensibly playing the curator of the National Gallery. The conversation that ensues is delightfully enigmatic, hinting at one explanation and then undercutting it. It's not meant to be definitive, and purely there to please, to tantalise and to allow indulgent speculation. To say that its meaning...
- 11/25/2013
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Earlier today the BBC held a press conference to officially reveal the recently uncovered Doctor Who missing episodes that had unearthed. They then promptly embargoed anyone from reporting on the contents of the press conference until after midnight, because apparently the BBC don’t understand what a press conference is for. Details of the conference have leaked, however, and after checking numerous sources I now feel reasonably confident in reporting what we’d all hoped: 9 of the missing episodes of Doctor Who have been recovered, and they’re all Second Doctor stories.
We’d known for a few days that “a number” of episodes had been recovered, which implied at least two and probably more. Then two days ago, I got information that Deborah Watling, who played Victoria during the Second Doctor’s time, and Frazier Hines, who played Jamie, would be at the press conference. That indicated the recovered...
We’d known for a few days that “a number” of episodes had been recovered, which implied at least two and probably more. Then two days ago, I got information that Deborah Watling, who played Victoria during the Second Doctor’s time, and Frazier Hines, who played Jamie, would be at the press conference. That indicated the recovered...
- 10/10/2013
- by Chris Swanson
- Obsessed with Film
Review Andrew Blair Jan 24, 2013
Andrew takes a look at the first of the eleven Puffin Doctor Who eshort stories, from Artemis Fowl's Eoin Colfer...
The first of Puffin’s eleven e-Books, A Big Hand For The Doctor sees a pre-Unearthly Child First Doctor and Susan engaging in a battle with Soul Pirates in the skies of London in 1900.
Eoin Colfer, acclaimed author of the Artemis Fowl series (and internationally vilified author of Another Thing…) presents William Hartnell’s Doctor in a scenario that evokes Steven Moffat’s “Dark Fairy Tale” approach, right down to the alien objects hidden in the clouds above Victorian London. While the tone is that of a playful children’s fantasy, the concepts within remain those of enjoyable science-fiction. The resolution involves quick thinking, a computer interface and some implausibly fast typing. The First Doctor is surprisingly mobile throughout, especially considering what happens to his hand before the story begins.
Andrew takes a look at the first of the eleven Puffin Doctor Who eshort stories, from Artemis Fowl's Eoin Colfer...
The first of Puffin’s eleven e-Books, A Big Hand For The Doctor sees a pre-Unearthly Child First Doctor and Susan engaging in a battle with Soul Pirates in the skies of London in 1900.
Eoin Colfer, acclaimed author of the Artemis Fowl series (and internationally vilified author of Another Thing…) presents William Hartnell’s Doctor in a scenario that evokes Steven Moffat’s “Dark Fairy Tale” approach, right down to the alien objects hidden in the clouds above Victorian London. While the tone is that of a playful children’s fantasy, the concepts within remain those of enjoyable science-fiction. The resolution involves quick thinking, a computer interface and some implausibly fast typing. The First Doctor is surprisingly mobile throughout, especially considering what happens to his hand before the story begins.
- 1/24/2013
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Well they’re here at last! “What’s that?” you ask like some elderly relative visiting at Christmas: “What’s here?” The reprints of Lance Parkin’s BBC Books contributions, that’s what. Don’t tell me you’ve missed the almost constant coverage they’ve received from Ebury books and Auntie? You have? Well that might just be because there has been [...]...
- 9/2/2011
- by Alasdair Shaw
- Kasterborous.com
"Doctor Who" is the longest running science fiction show in the world. The British show ran for 26 seasons from 1963 until it got cancelled in 1989. The Doctor, a time travelling alien (a Time Lord) from the planet Gallifrey, travels though space and time, experiencing adventures and righting wrongs all over the Universe (but strangely seems to spend most of the time in his televised adventures on Earth). His time machine/space ship looks like a 1950s blue police box, and is quite a lot bigger on the inside than on the outside. He has had a variety of companions through the years, mostly humanoid, although the majority seem to be young women of varying degrees of hotness.
When the Doctor dies, he regenerates into a new body. This means that when the first actor playing the Doctor needed to be replaced, they were able to keep the show going without any major changes.
When the Doctor dies, he regenerates into a new body. This means that when the first actor playing the Doctor needed to be replaced, they were able to keep the show going without any major changes.
- 5/26/2010
- by Dustin Rowles
We've got one copy of Doctor Who solo adventure The Eyeless from BBC Audiobooks to giveaway - but entries can come via Twitter only! Starring the Tenth Doctor, written by Lance Parkin and read by Russell Tovey (Midshipman Alonso Frame, Voyage of the Damned) entry to this Twitter only release is simple - simply send the answer to the following question: What are the titles of the first and final Eighth Doctor novels, both written by Lance Parkin and released in 1997 and 2005? The answer to...
- 9/1/2009
- by Christian Cawley info@kasterborous.com
- Kasterborous.com
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