Visit the official Doctor Who website

Visit the official Doctor Who website
Look to the future

Asylum seekers...

Asylum seekers...
Refuge of the Daleks

Doctor Who picture resource

Doctor Who picture resource
Roam the space lanes!

Explore the Doctor Who classic series website

Explore the Doctor Who classic series website
Step back in time

Infiltrate The Hub of Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood

Infiltrate The Hub of Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood
Armed and extremely dangerous

Investigate The Sarah Jane Adventures

Investigate The Sarah Jane Adventures
Fearless in the face of adversity

Call on Dani’s House

Call on Dani’s House
Harmer’s a charmer

Intercept the UFO fabsite

Intercept the UFO fabsite
Defending the Earth against alien invaders!

Uncover the secrets of the Dollhouse

Uncover the secrets of the Dollhouse
Programmable agent Echo exposed!

Hell’s belles

Hell’s belles
Naughty but nice

Love Exposure

Love Exposure
Flash photography!

Primeval portal

Primeval portal
Dressed to kill or damsels in distress?

Charmed, to be sure!

Charmed, to be sure!
The witches of San Francisco

Take on t.A.T.u.

Take on t.A.T.u.
All the way from Moscow

Proceed to the Luther website

Proceed to the Luther website
John and Jenny discuss their next move

DCI Banks is on the case

DCI Banks is on the case
You can bet on it!

On The Grid with Spooks

On The Grid with Spooks
Secret agents of Section D

Bridge to Hustle

Bridge to Hustle
Shady characters

Life on Ashes To Ashes

Life on Ashes To Ashes
Coppers with a chequered past

Claire’s no Exile

Claire’s no Exile
Goose steps

Vexed is back on the beat!

Vexed is back on the beat!
Mismatched DI Armstrong and bright fast-tracker Georgina Dixon

Medium, both super and natural

Medium, both super and natural
Open the door to your dreams

Who’s that girl? (350-picture Slideshow)

Saturday, 30 December 2006

Land of the Free!



I’m assuming that this pair of screen caps is from the season three two-part Dalek adventure set in New York, working title “Daleks in Manhattan”, given that the Statue of Liberty is pictured on the monitor behind Martha (Freema Agyeman). I’m also assuming, therefore, that common or garden authenticity isn’t, in any way, important to the Production team. There are two mistakes in the monitor’s caption. There are no motorways in the United States, just freeways and highways! Secondly, across the pond, centre is spelt center!! Surely this is common knowledge? Russell’s forever telling us that “Doctor Who” has to be grounded in reality if we’re to believe the unbelievable! Apart from those glaring errors, however, it’s looking good but then it always does until you hear the scripts!!

2 comments:

Old Cheeser said...

Well spotted. My, isn't that lax of the production team! Smacked bottoms!

I don't really like the title "Daleks in Manhattan" - sounds really bizarre, like sci-fi meets romantic comedy or something!

TimeWarden said...

I thought the title “The Runaway Bride” sounded like a rom com, too, when I first heard it though I suspect “Daleks in Manhattan” is a slight harking back to Hartnell’s Doctor materialising in the observation gallery of New York’s Empire State Building in Dalek story “The Chase”.