The Shore Leave convention has posted the weekend’s schedule. As previously noted, I will be hosting a Doctor Who panel celebrating the show’s fortieth anniversary, Sunday at 5 o’clock. Yesterday’s news that BBCi will be web-broadcasting a six-episode animated special starring Richard E. Grant as the Ninth Doctor gives me something new and interesting toContinue reading “Appearances update”
Category Archives: Doctor Who
Upcoming Appearance
This coming weekend, July 11th through 13th, I’ll be at the Shore Leave science-fiction convention in Hunt Valley, Maryland. The schedule for the convention hasn’t yet been announced, but I know from a phone call this evening that it is being prepared. I’ve been asked to host or moderate a Doctor Who panel for SundayContinue reading “Upcoming Appearance”
On Doctor Who Fandom
If you, good reader, met me in person, you wouldn’t know I was a Star Trek fan. If you came over to my house, you’d see nothing to indicate my Trek fandom. I couldn’t hide my love of Doctor Who even if I wanted to. 🙂 I discovered Who in the early ’80s, when theContinue reading “On Doctor Who Fandom”
Costume Drama
Received in the mail yesterday: MythMakers 13, the Doctor Who fiction fanzine of the Doctor Who Information Network, a Canadian fan group. While I own a number of charity fanthologies, I own very few fanzines, among them Jean Airey’s “The Doctor and the Enterprise” and James Bow’s Trenchcoat series. One of the points of interestContinue reading “Costume Drama”
Move, Countermove, Guile, and Deceit
A few weeks ago I picked up The Complete Musketeers on DVD, a collection of The Three Musketeers and The Four Musketeers as directed by Richard Lester in the early 1970s. (The title is misleading–the collection is not complete in that it does not contain The Return of the Musketeers, the 1989 sequel by LesterContinue reading “Move, Countermove, Guile, and Deceit”
Three happenings
Two Lord of the Rings thoughts. First, The Two Towers video game was released last week for the PlayStation2. For fans anxiously awaiting the Special Edition DVD release of Fellowship of the Ring or the December theatrical release of The Two Towers this game should probably find its way to your video game console. NotContinue reading “Three happenings”
Stones and Glass
I should be worried. I knew the two baseball teams in Gotham City without having to look it up. I even knew which league each team is in. (For those of you wondering, Gotham City hosts the Monarchs, of the National League, and the Knights, of the American League. The Monarchs replaced the Griffins, whoContinue reading “Stones and Glass”
Triple threat
Brad Willis suggested a Doctor Who story challenge in alt.drwho.creative a few days ago–take the Doctor Who characters from seasons 18 to 21 and do a “what if” to them and see where the story takes you. I don’t know how I got this idea. I don’t know what it amuses me so much. ButContinue reading “Triple threat”
Thank you, BBC America
At long last, BBC America has returned Jonathan Creek to their programming lineup. Last spring I discovered this quirky mystery series about a magician’s illusionist played by Alan Davies who solved locked room mysteries as a hobby, but BBC America insisted on showing only the first season’s episodes with an occasional episode from the secondContinue reading “Thank you, BBC America”
On Doctor Who: Neverland
Today I finally finished listening to Neverland. I received …ish earlier in the week (in short–excellent, very strange, and no other Doctor than Colin Baker could have done this story), and then gave Neverland another go. Oh my fucking god. I think I uttered that immortal phrase about six or seven times during the story.Continue reading “On Doctor Who: Neverland”