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Visit the official Doctor Who website
Look to the future
Asylum seekers...
Refuge of the Daleks
Doctor Who picture resource
Roam the space lanes!
Explore the Doctor Who classic series website
Step back in time
Infiltrate The Hub of Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood
Armed and extremely dangerous
Investigate The Sarah Jane Adventures
Fearless in the face of adversity
Call on Dani’s House
Harmer’s a charmer
Intercept the UFO fabsite
Defending the Earth against alien invaders!
Uncover the secrets of the Dollhouse
Programmable agent Echo exposed!
Hell’s belles
Naughty but nice
Love Exposure
Flash photography!
Primeval portal
Dressed to kill or damsels in distress?
Charmed, to be sure!
The witches of San Francisco
Take on t.A.T.u.
All the way from Moscow
Proceed to the Luther website
John and Jenny discuss their next move
DCI Banks is on the case
You can bet on it!
On The Grid with Spooks
Secret agents of Section D
Bridge to Hustle
Shady characters
Life on Ashes To Ashes
Coppers with a chequered past
Claire’s no Exile
Goose steps
Vexed is back on the beat!
Mismatched DI Armstrong and bright fast-tracker Georgina Dixon
Medium, both super and natural
Open the door to your dreams
A Brief History
- TimeWarden
- United Kingdom
- I consider myself fortunate to have watched the science fiction television series Doctor Who from the very beginning. I prefer the programme’s early years from which my favourite story is the Patrick Troughton serial Fury From The Deep. I am also an admirer of Gerry Anderson’s puppet shows and successive live-action series, from Fireball XL5 to Space Precinct and beyond! My pick is an episode of UFO entitled The Psychobombs. I am currently addicted to US supernatural drama Medium while, in film, I’ve always adored the gothic horror of Hammer. On first hearing Roxy Music’s Virginia Plain, music, both popular and classical, became the major force in my life, so much so that I gained a BA in the subject from Nottingham University and an M.Mus in composition from Goldsmiths, University of London. Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 In C Minor - The Resurrection and Stravinsky’s The Rite Of Spring are favoured scores. Aladdin Sane by David Bowie is probably my favourite rock album. Singles of choice are Mott The Hoople’s All The Young Dudes, Steve Harley And Cockney Rebel’s Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me) and No More Heroes by The Stranglers.
Tune into TimeWarden’s Jukebox
Play the pipes of peace!
Peruse my IMDb reviews
Gaze in wonder!
The films of Tony Scott
True Romance
Receive this Sofia Vassilieva fansite
Go on an Ariel bender!
Lean on lovely Lena
White robed
Keep abreast of Britney
Oh! Baby, baby...
Attend a Church service
Black mass
Foxy Foxy
School daze
Picture palace
Nikki’s a natural!
Make an appointment at Billie’s boudoir
Belle of the ball
Join the Doctor Who image archive
Billie beckons
Admire Anjli’s attic!
Pretty in pink
Be seduced by Lily
Double first
Discover fansite Doctor Who Online
Keeping it covered!
Take off to Fanderson
Your Destiny awaits!
Aspire to Being Human
New ghost on the block!
Meet Survivors, old and new
Dying is easy. Surviving is hard...
Read all about Freewheelers
Adventure on the high seas
Take a peek at BLOGGERTROPOLIS
Tap on a bap!
Chart the Chronicles Of An Old Cheeser
Top stuff!
Go bananas with The Japing Ape
King-size!
Watch the Sunset Over Slawit
Top-rated!
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Nicola Bryant Gallery
Nicola played Peri in Doctor Who in the mid-Eighties
Lovely Smile
Purple patches
Popping Out!
There’s many a slip ’twixt cup and tit!!
Big Time Sensuality
White heat
Femme Fatale
Weapons of mass destruction
Virginal
Under my umbrella
Snow-White
Present perfect
Open Sesame!
Colin certainly looks as though he has his hands full... lucky guy!
Deep Thought
Squatting in The Two Doctors
Gone Fishing!
Cooling off in The Two Doctors
Billie Piper Gallery
Billie played Rose in Doctor Who in the mid-Noughties
Fetching in Green
Laid-back
Stunning in Black!
On the button
Knock Us Out (1/2)
Short and sweet
Knock Us Out (2/2)
Hot air balloons
Feeling Blue (1/3)
Bigger on the inside
Feeling Blue (2/3)
Boulder holder
Feeling Blue (3/3)
Bowled over
Undercover
Tyler-maid
Union Jack (1/3)
Captain of your ship
Union Jack (2/3)
Royal Rose
Union Jack (3/3)
The bottom line
Galaxy of Stars...
Glitterball Girl
Pinky and Perky!
Twin Peaks!!
See Emilia Play
Doctor Who in the Sixties
The Dalek Invasion of Westminster
The Dalek Invasion of Trafalgar Square!
Ben and Polly (1/2)
Ben and Polly (2/2)
Jamie and Victoria (1/2)
Jamie and Victoria (2/2)
The Doctor and Victoria
Zoe
The Cyber Invasion of St. Paul’s!!
Zoe, The Doctor and Jamie
Get It On
Doctor Who in the Seventies (and early Eighties)
The Doctor and Jo (1/2)
Jo and The Doctor (1/2)
The Doctor and Jo (2/2)
Jo and The Doctor (2/2)
Sarah Jane and The Doctor (1/2)
The Doctor and Bettan
Sarah Jane and The Doctor (2/2)
The Doctor and Romana
Tegan, The Doctor and Nyssa
Doctor Who in the Eighties (and mid-Nineties)
The Doctor (1/2)
Peri (1/2)
Peri (2/2)
The Doctor and Peri (1/2)
Peri and The Doctor
The Doctor and Peri (2/2)
Ray and The Doctor
Ace and The Doctor
Squeak (blog-busting bonus picture 1/3)
Squeak (bra-busting bonus picture 2/3)
Squeak (bra-bursting bonus picture 3/3)
The Doctor (2/2)
Mara (bust in time bonus picture 1/2)
Mara (lust in time bonus picture 2/2)
Doctor Who in the mid-Noughties
Rose and The Doctor
Rose (1/2)
Billie Piper as Rose Tyler (Doctor Who bonus picture 1/2)
The last Dalek and Rose
Pete and Rose
Ex-ter-mi-nate!
Rose (2/2)
The Doctor and Rose (1/2)
Billie Piper as Rose Tyler (Doctor Who bonus picture 2/2)
The Doctor and Rose (2/2)
Dodging the Daleks
Daniela Denby-Ashe and Naoko Mori in Series One of Torchwood
Bumper Jumper
Seduction...
...Alien Seduction
The Price of Love
Beware
Neck on the Line
Death on Two Legs
Stairway to Heaven
Girl Power
Eve Myles as Gwen Cooper (Torchwood bonus picture)
The Primeval Spearritt
Honky Tonk Charlotte
Let’s Spend The Night Together
Girl Reaction
Tracey’s treasure-chest!
Tracey’s beakers!!
Pyjamarama
Down in the Sewer
The Vampires Of Venice (1/3)
The Vampires Of Venice (2/3)
The Vampires Of Venice (3/3)
Sarah Smart as Jennifer Lucas in Doctor Who in 2011
Reaching out
Intruder alert
Searching
Suited
Holding on
Double figures
Double-dealing
Double-time
Doubly pretty!
Sam and Dani, having the cheek to cheek!!
Many thanks for taking the time to scroll to the foot of the Journal...
Bikini bottom (1/2)
Duly rewarded!
Bikini bottom (2/2)
Doubly rewarded!!
5 comments:
Happy Birthday Mr Baker! The best Doctor of them all! (Well in my humble estimation anyway).
I cannot believe that he is 73 - wow. He's holding up pretty well isn't he? I love his voiceover on "Little Britain" and it's great that he's still with us.
And his swansong Dr Who story is just about to come out on DVD! Hoorah! (I had to get that in somewhere didn't I?)
I think it’s inevitable that people in their thirties will plump for either Tom Baker or Peter Davison as their favourite Doctor while those in their forties go for one or other of the first three. It’s a shame that Hartnell always comes off poorly in opinion polls and it’s because most fans are in their mid-to-late thirties rather than really reflecting the true quality of the show’s earliest stories.
It is hard to believe Tom is now 73 just as it’s hard to believe that that other “Starman” David Bowie turned 60 the other week! Many more fruitful years to both of them!!
True, it's a generational thing. You tend to prefer the Dr you grew up with. (Thank goodness I wasn't a youngster when Sly McCoy was Dr!! Although maybe I might have ended up liking him!) From the episodes and clips I have seen, Hartnell really did give an authoritative and comanding performance as the Dr and was an excellent first choice for the role.
Yes you tend to think of these people remaining the same even though time marches on! Tom still has his commanding eccentricity and that wonderfully rich, fruity voice that makes him so distinctive an actor.
I'm 37 and I'd put the Doctors in order as
Hartnell
Pertwee
Davison
Eccleston
Tom Baker
and then the rest in a bit of a guddle.
Bowie being 60 is just scary though!
I have a gut feeling that each time the Doctor regenerates, brilliant concept though it undoubtedly is, the programme moves further away from what made it unique in the first place and more towards the commonplace. Thus, each new Doctor appears less inventive than the one before, even if you warm to them initially. But, despite this generalisation, they’ve all had their good and bad moments, ups and downs.
I believe the programme depends more on quality of script and production, than performance of an individual actor, with regard the success of each story, season or even era. For me, Simon, McCoy was fine if the story was strong enough to carry him. I appreciate he’s not the world’s greatest actor! And, Stuart, your choice of Eccleston over Tom surprises me, knowing how much you enjoy season 12. Or do Tom’s later seasons, under Graham Williams, undermine his earlier quality, for you?
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