The Four Faces of Delusion present their long-delayed Fifth Doctor retrospective in which they take a look at the results of listeners’ votes for the Top 5 Fave stories.
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(00:00:00) We open this podcast with a promo for our own Hayden’s spooky new horror novel “The Lurking”. Available at all surviving bookshops and online vendors such as these via these direct links: Amazon and Barnes & Noble and Booktopia and Waterstones.
(00:05:25) Cutaway Comics is a new British imprint of comics and graphic novels drawn from the darker recesses of a dangerous, unpredictable cutaway universe. From the creators of the acclaimed Vworp Vworp! Magazine, they star some of the most enigmatic characters to have graced our screens.
Beginning with a four-issue limited series written by Eric Saward (Doctor Who) and featuring the mercenary Lytton (as portrayed by Gangster’s Maurice Colbourne), Cutaway Comics is also bringing you art from the UK’s hottest artists including Barry Renshaw (Judge Dredd, Strontium Dog).
There’s also a Kickstarter up and running to help fund the launch which can be found here.
Cutaway Comics is inspired by the so-called ‘backup’ stripes of Doctor Who Weekly, which delved deeper into the characters and cultures of the Doctor Who universe away from the Doctor. Stay tuned for some exciting and unprecedented explorations of the worlds of Doctor Who and beyond.
(00:08:12) Earl Cameron CBE (8 August 1917 – 3 July 2020) was a Bermudian actor who lived and worked in the United Kingdom. Along with Cy Grant, he was one of the first black actors to break the “colour bar” in the United Kingdom.
(00:09:24) In 1981, BBC Radio 4 produced a dramatisation of J. R. R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” in 26 half-hour installments. This was full of members of the Doctor Who Repertory Company. Ian Holm played the part of Frodo; Sam was played by a young Bill Nighy; Legolas was played by David Collings (Tyrum, Poole, Mawdryn); Treebeard was played by Stephen Thorne (Omega, Azal and Eldrad); Nazgul was played by Michael Spice (Morbius); Radagast was played by Donald Gee (Eckersley).
(00:12:50) “Marvels” is a four-issue limited series comic book written by Kurt Busiek, painted by Alex Ross and edited by Marcus McLaurin. It was published by Marvel Comics in 1994. Set in the 1939 to 1974 time period, the series examines the Marvel Universe, the collective setting of most of Marvel’s superhero series, from the perspective of an Everyman character, news photographer Phil Sheldon. The street-level series portrayed ordinary life in a world full of costumed superhumans, with each issue featuring events well known to readers of Marvel comics, as well as a variety of minute details and a retelling of the most famous events in the Marvel universe.
(00:26:18) “The Shoreditch Incident” was an event in which Imperial and Renegade Dalek factions battled in Shoreditch in November 1963. “The Shoreditch Incident” was also the title of a book on the incident written by ex-UNIT officer Hamlet Macbeth. (PROSE: The Left-Handed Hummingbird, Return of the Living Dad). Second Lieutenant Gary Jonathan Finch died in the incident but it was hushed up by the military. This inspired his son, Clive Finch, to begin his research on the Doctor. (PROSE: Rose).
(00:32:05) The music bed playing behind Smashie Hayden’s countdowns is, of course, “Yellow Pearl” by Phil Lynott which was used as “Top of the Pops” theme music.
(00:33:00) “Child Out of Time: Growing Up With Doctor Who in The Wilderness Years” is our own Hayden’s memoir of a childhood which began in the year in which Doctor Who was cancelled.
(00:48:50) This “Dalek Attack” commercial can be seen here.
(01:07:25) “A Critical History of Doctor Who on Television” by John Kenneth Muir.
(01:11:14) John Carson (Ambril in “Snakedance”) also played Hans Van Reijn in “A Hymn to Freedom”, S01E12 of BBC serial “Secret Army”, a clip of which can be seen on our Youtube account.
(01:40:00) We’d like to draw your attention to “Regenerations”, a charitable anthology to which Simon has contributed and which has now been confirmed as coming out on 3rd August and can be pre-ordered now at this link.
“Something has gone very wrong with time! The Time Lord formerly known as the Doctor has been fighting the Time War for as long as he can recall. His previous lives — all those triumphs and tragedies — have been boxed up and filed away, too painful to revisit. That is until something — or someone — begins tugging at the thread of the Doctor’s past. As familiar stories twist and shift, threatening the stability of the universe itself, the reluctant Warrior finds himself with only one option. He has to save the Doctor.”
“Published by Chinbeard Books, “Regenerations” has been written to raise money for “Invest in ME”. It is a non-profit, unofficial, charity anthology – with no copyright infringement intended. Nobody involved is taking a fee for their time or talent.
Chinbeard has already sold out the limited print run but ebooks can still be bought.
P.S. A lovely promo vid can be seen at this separate link.
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