Panopticon V: Miss-Gendered by Worzel Gummidge

Panopticon V (Organised by @DWASonline): Miss-Gendered by Worzel Gummidge, aka the Third #DoctorWho

During the early 1980s, after becoming a ‘proper’ Doctor Who fan in 1979, I joined the Doctor Who Appreciation Society — I was a member for a couple of years. I’d receive my copy of The Celestial Toymaker, via Royal Mail, and scour its three or so pages of A4 for any titbit of news and peruse the many adverts for fanzines, information sheets, and posters that numerous local groups and the society…

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Watch Classic Doctor Who on Pluto TV Completely Free Now!

Watch Classic #DoctorWho on Pluto TV Completely Free Now!

US fans now have a new way to enjoy Doctor Who’s classic era. Pluto TV, which is a free streaming channel stateside, has set up a dedicated pop-up channel purely to screen 200 episodes of the original run. This channel is the result of a licensing deal between BBC Studios and Viacom and is a great place to start if you’re a NuWhofan looking for a way into the series as it was 1963- 89 or if…

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#Agatha Christie #Beryl Reid #Chris Boucher #Daleks’ Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.#Earthshock #Eric Saward #Leela #Peter Grimwade #Pluto TV #Robert Holmes #Terror of the Autons #The Ark in Space #The Caves of Androzani #The Dalek Invasion of Earth

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Introducing: Mawdryn Undead

Time travel can’t be real. That’s the conclusion many have come to after pondering on the notion of playing with that tricky fourth dimension. And it’s this conclusion that Mawdryn Undead tackles, seeing fit to sneer at the problems of paradoxes and getting into fisticuffs with the argument over memory. The 1983 serial explores one of Doctor Who’s remits beautifully as we meet a new companion and…

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#Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart #Eric Saward #Fifth Doctor #Janet Fielding #Mark Strickson #Nicholas Courtney #Nyssa #Peter Davison #Peter Grimwade #Sarah Sutton #Tegan Jovanka #Vislor Turlough