The Fendahl Files: Behind the Scenes at the Original Doctor Who Experience (Madame Tussauds in 1981)

The Fendahl Files: Behind the Scenes at the Original #DoctorWho Experience (Madame Tussauds in 1981)

1981: when Bucks Fizz won the Eurovision Song Contest with their immortal ballad Making Your Mind Up, when Margaret Thatcher was prime minister and Mr and Mrs Sunak delighted in their tiny toddler (name of Rishi), when John McEnroe told the Wimbledon umpire, ‘You cannot be serious!’, and one Arthur Scargill was elected leader of the National Union of Mineworkers. In the year 1981, say I, it came…

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The Doctor Who Location Tour: The Leisure Hive/ Revelation of the Daleks/ The Sea Devils

The #DoctorWho Location Tour: The Leisure Hive/ Revelation of the Daleks/ The Sea Devils

I’ve been determined to take in as many Doctor Who filming locations as I can recently following my successful trip to the village of Charlton, used in Terror of the Zygons. This time around, I’ve visited three different locations, Brighton Beach, Lakeside North Harbour – formally the IBM building and then Fraser Gunnery Range. The Leisure Hive Used in the opening scenes of The Leisure Hive…

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#Daleks #Fourth Doctor #Jo Grant #K9 #Katy Manning #Lalla Ward #Nicola Bryant #Peri Brown #Revelation of the Daleks #Roger Delgado #Romana II #Sixth Doctor #The Leisure Hive #The Master #The Sea Devils #The Sound of Drums #Third Doctor #Tom Baker

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Here's How Peter Howell Remixed the Doctor Who Theme Tune in the 1980s

Here's How Peter Howell Remixed the #DoctorWho Theme Tune in the 1980s

Fans of the Doctor Who theme (and who isn’t, eh?) should check out this BBC report from 1982 in which Peter Howell describes how he went about revamping the programme’s famous opening tune. The clip was originally screened on 2nd February 1982 as part of The Music Arcade: Electricity in Music. Peter gives a detailed run through of his use of polyphonic analogue synthesisers, a vocoder, and an…

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#BBC Archive #BBC Radiophonic Workshop #Delia Derbyshire #Doctor Who theme #Dominic Glynn #John Nathan-Turner #Jon Pertwee #Paddy Kingsland #Peter Howell #Ron Grainer #The Leisure Hive

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Hammer House of Underrated Horror: 10 Scary Films for Halloween

Hammer House of Underrated #Horror: 10 Scary Films for #Halloween

I’m a huge horror fan. One of my earliest memories is of watching the final act of 1980’s The Fog, through a crack in the living room door when I was far too young. Seeing those ghostly pirates creeping down the aisle of a church and Adrienne Barbeau fleeing to the very roof of a lighthouse to escape the same ghosts has been imprinted in my memory — something I’ll always remember. And as great…

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#Christopher Lee #Dracula #Frankenstein #Hammer Horror #Hammer Studios #Jacqueline Pearce #Joanna Lumley #Lalla Ward #Mary Shelley #Patrick Troughton #Peter Cushing #The Leisure Hive #The New Avengers

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Doctor Who The Collection Seasons 10 and 18 to be Re-Released on Standard Blu-ray

#DoctorWho The Collection Seasons 10 and 18 to be Re-Released on Standard Blu-ray

Standard Blu-ray versions of Doctor Who Season 10 and Season 18 will be released this summer after the Limited Edition boxsets sold out, leaving fans aghast at the holes in their collections. The pair form part of Doctor Who: The Collection, a range that upscales Classic serials to Blu-ray and bundles them together by season. Both Seasons 10 and 18 will be released in standard packaging on 5th…

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Out Now: Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition 55 - Production Design

Out Now: #DoctorWho Magazine (@DWMtweets) Special Edition 55 - Production Design

After a Covid-enforced hiatus, the Doctor Who Magazine Special Editions are back, this time looking at the show’s production design.

Production designers are some of the unsung heroes of Doctor Who, bringing outlandish script concepts to life and recreating historical settings for one of the BBC’s most demanding productions. Initially responsible for creating alien creatures as well as bizarre…

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#Arwel Wyn Jones #Dafydd Shurmer #Dr Who and the Daleks #Edward Thomas #Mawdryn Undead #Michael Pickwoad #The Aztecs #The Evil of the Daleks #The Leisure Hive #The Mutants #The Pirate Planet

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Yes, Of Course Doctor Who: The Collection - Season 18 has been Delayed

Yes, Of Course #DoctorWho - The Collection - Season 18 has been Delayed

Naturally, the release of the Doctor Who: The Collection – Season 18 Blu-ray has been delayed, pushing the boxset into March 2019. Doctor Who has never been very good with time – rather ironically. And, no offense, but anyone who believed Doctor Who: The Collection – Season 18 would actually be available on its initial release date of 25th February 2019 needs their heads examining.

This is the…

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Out Now: Lovarzi’s The Fourth Doctor Season 18 Burgundy (Shorter) Scarf

#Fourth Doctor #Full Circle #John Nathan-Turner #June Hudson #Logopolis #Lovarzi #Meglos #State of Decay #The Keeper of Traken #The Leisure Hive #Tom Baker #Warrior&039;s Gate

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Lovett Bickford, The Leisure Hive Director (1942- 2018)

The director Lovett Bickford, who oversaw The Leisure Hive, the opening story of Doctor Who Season 18, has died aged 76.

Bickford’s first brush with Doctor Who came in the 1960s as Assistant Floor Manager on the First Doctor story, The War Machines and the Second Doctor serial, The Moonbase. The Leisure Hive was to be his sole directing credit on the programme but he certainly made his mark, with…

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#Barry Letts #Doctor Who Season 18 #Fourth Doctor #John Nathan-Turner #Lalla Ward #Lovett Bickford #Romana #The Leisure Hive #The Moonbase #The War Machines #Tom Baker #Totally Tasteless: The Life of John Nathan-Turner

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Tonight, Deborah, I’m Going to be a Watling...

Tonight, Deborah, I’m Going to be a Watling…

I was a small, scared and rather sweet (so I’m told) seventeen-year-old when I went to my first, and only (so far), Doctor Who convention. I’d seen reports of theses gathering in Doctor Who Magazine (DWM) but never plucked up the courage to go. I didn’t have any Doctor Who friends, and didn’t want to go on my own. But I’d seen Space Mountain advertised in DWM at the Shepperton Moat House Hotel…

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