my thoughts on the founbd troughtoins and a new Doctor

Synopsis

November 23rd 1963 proves to be a significant day in the lives of all eight Doctors…

It's the day that Bob Dovie's life is ripped apart…

It's also a day that sets in motion a catastrophic chain of events which forces the first eight incarnations of the Doctor to fight for their very existence. As a mysterious, insidious chaos unfolds within the TARDIS, the barriers of time break apart…

From suburban England through war-torn alien landscapes and into a deadly, artificial dimension, all these Doctors and their companions must struggle against the power of an unfathomable, alien technology.

From the very beginning, it is clear that the Master is somehow involved. By the end, for the Doctors, there may only be darkness.

 

This is a five-disc limited Special Edition in deluxe premium packaging, which includes a stunning array of professional photos of the cast.Discs 1 and 2 – The Light at the EndDisc 3 – The Making of The Light at the End (70 minute documentary)Disc 4 – This is Doctor Who at Big Finish (70 minute documentary)Disc 5 – Doctor Who – The Companion Chronicles: The Revenants performed by William Russell as Ian

Yes its that time of year when you remember what you wanted other people to buy for you and didnt get. well dont let it happen again.

you know you wanted it.

you didnt get it..

but it for yourself!

Roy Holder (born 15 June 1946) is an English television actor who has appeared in various programmes including Ace of Wands, Z-Cars, Spearhead, the Doctor Who serial The Caves of Androzani and Sorry! His first notable appearance on the screen was in the 1961 film Whistle Down the Wind. He also starred in the 1968 film Romeo and Juliet. More recently, Roy played the part of 'Friar Tom' in Robin Hood, and 'Fred Goddard' in Warhorse.

Holder was born in Birmingham. He plays in several celebrity golf tournaments throughout the year and is currently 1st team captain at his home club. His loveable attitude and shaggy hairstyle have made him one of East Molesey's most popular celebrities.[citation needed] Roy is also a big name in the local Drama School industry, having lived in East Molesey for most of his life with his partner and two children. Roy also plays the part of Father Christmas at local primary schools

Biography[]

Wills' parents, Alaric and Anna Willys planned to buy a house in the  but their plan was ended by the outbreak of . Alaric Wills's gambling debts forced his wife to find work while he became a captain in the  and an absent figure. Anna was occupied as a companion to a blind aristocrat, gardener, teacher - moving Anneke and her brother Robin around the country.[]

Career[]

Wills gained her first role at the age of 11 while she was living on a houseboat in ,. The film was called Child's Play and she gave the £9 fee to her mother. Deciding she wanted to be an actress she then studied drama at the  and  in  and quickly became one of the busiest actresses of her generation, early roles included an appearance as Roberta in the second TV version of  in 1957.

At 17 she began a relationship with  while working on the TV series . Newley fathered Wills' first child, but left her to marry . During the 1960s Wills spent much of her time at the famous Troubadour Coffee Shop and , and was part of the so-called Chelsea Set, counting among her close friends  and, , ,  and ,  and  among others.

Wills married actor  in 1962, but Gough's infidelity and possessive nature led to the end of their marriage and the couple divorced in 1979. In 1966 she took the role of  in Doctor Who and appeared in the show into 1967 alongside  and then . Other television credits include appearances in  and as Evelyn in  (1969–70). She left the latter series when it was planned to switch filming to Hollywood.

Personal life[]

In 1970, Wills gave up acting and moved to , throwing herself into motherhood and gardening. During this time she travelled to and  and spent time at ,  at the  of . Known then as Ma Prem Anita, she visited the ashram many times in the 1970s and early 1980s, accompanied by her son Jasper (Swami Dhyan Yogi).

She has remarried twice and lived in  and in an artists' colony on  in , returning to the UK in the mid-1990s. She is still involved in the worlds of Doctor Who, being a popular guest at  and being employed by the  and  to record various Doctor Who related audio and DVD projects.

The first volume of her autobiography, Self Portrait, was published in 2007 by Hirst Books, and a second volume, Naked, followed in 2009.

Wills's latest book Anneke Wills - In Focus, was published in May 2012 by Fantom Films, an updated paperback version will be released in 2014.

In October 2013 she recorded an abridged version of Who's There? the biography of , written by his granddaughter, Jessica Carney.

References

Dick Mills (born 1936) is a British sound engineer, specialising in  sound effects which he produced at the .

Mills was one of the original staff at the Radiophonic Workshop, joining in 1958 as a technical assistant. At first he was employed to handle the hardware of the Workshop but soon found himself recording effects. Some of his earliest, uncredited sound work was on the 1958  science-fiction serial . Another of his prominent early recordings was the "'s Stomach" sound effect, a significant part of the popular .

Although he recorded much in those early years, it is his later work on  for which he most remembered. In 1972, he took over from fellow BBC Radiophonic Workshop sound effects producer , whom he had sometimes previously assisted, and continued providing "special sound" for every episode of the programme, with the exception of two four-part stories, until it ended in 1989. He also provided special sound for the Doctor Who spin-off . As such, he has the distinction of having more on-screen credits than anyone else in the history of the series. Owing to his technical know-how, he managed to bring to the position new methods of recording sound effects quicker than before. Besides his sound effects on Doctor Who, he also produced and compiled the first of the programme's music compilations,  and . Over the years, many of his own sound effects have also appeared on various compilations.

Other sound effects he provided included material for the cult series , produced in 1973 by then-Doctor Who producer , and also occasionally sounds for .

Mills' work was acknowledged in a Doctor Who documentary broadcast on  in 1977. The same year, he appeared on the BBC's children's magazine programme  to demonstrate how some of the Doctor Who effects were realised and how children could make their own sound effects at home. He also appeared in the 2004 BBC Radiophonic Workshop  documentaryAlchemists of Sound.

He is also the author of many books on  and tropical fish, as well as a former editor of The Aquarist and Pondkeeper magazine and a member of the Federation of British Aquatic Societies Council

WHOOVERVILE 5.0  INTERVIEW 3 Andrew Cartmell

Andrew Cartmel (born 1958) is a   and , and former  of. He has also worked as a script editor on other television series, as a magazine editor, as a comics writer, as a  lecturer, and as a .

Cartmel took a post-graduate course in Computer Studies and worked on  for Shape Data Ltd (now ) in ,  during the mid-1980s. He then turned more to writing and managed to gain an agent on the strength of two unproduced scripts, also attending workshops run by the  Drama Script Unit.

In late 1986, when he was in his late twenties, Cartmel was hired as the  for the  of the iconic science-fiction programme , having been recommended to the producer  by the producer's agent, who had seen some unproduced scripts Cartmel had written. Cartmel worked on the programme for the next three years, overseeing the final three seasons of its original run on . He brought in several young, new writers and despite declining ratings, tried to take the series in a new creative direction.

The most significant legacy of this new direction might have been the so-called "", a back story developed with other writers that restored some of the mystery of the Doctor's background and could have explained exactly who he was. Although hints were dropped in the two full series Cartmel edited, the proposed revelations never materialised on screen as the programme was taken off the air in 1989.

When production of Doctor Who was placed on indefinite hold, Cartmel became script editor on the BBC's popular medical drama series  for one season. During the 1990s he wrote comic strips for  and  and threeDoctor Who novels for  in their  series. This series had used elements of the "masterplan" as part of their overall story arc for the Doctor, particularly in the last Seventh Doctor novel , written by .

In 1999 his first original novel, The Wise, was published in Virgin's short-lived series of new science-fiction novels, Virgin Worlds. The same year, he became editor of the science-fiction magazine , although the appointment was a short one and he left the magazine in 2000.

Since then, he has written several pieces of Doctor Who fiction: in 2000, , an audio drama for '; in 2003, , a  for Telos Publishing; and, in 2005, , a novel for . He developed a script for the third series of  entitled 'The Jinx', but it was dropped when the show's format was reworked. In 2010, Cartmel worked as script editor for '  line, overseeing the adaptation of story ideas created for Doctor Who's unmade  into audio dramas (released in 2011). In addition to script editing the four "Season 27" stories, Cartmel wrote two scripts ( and ) and co-wrote a third, , with .

As well as Atom Bomb Blues, 2005 saw the publication of: Script Doctor - The Inside Story of Doctor Who 1986-89, an account of his work on the Doctor Who television series; Through Time: An Unofficial and Unauthorised History of Doctor Who; and two  spin-off novels, Judge Dredd: Swine Fever and : Day of the Dogs'.

Cartmel has also written a novel set in the world of 's  television series for . The novel, released on February 15, 2008, is entitled Miss Freedom.

Common themes and techniques in Cartmel's novels include: animal rights; the use of animal perspectives; and extended metaphors of animal behaviour. These elements appear in the three Virgin New Adventures novels, the original novel The Wise, the Judge Dredd novelSwine Fever and the audio play Animal.

In 2001 Cartmel briefly returned to television as the script editor on the second season of 's fantasy / adventure series , writing what proved to be final episode of the series.

His first stage play, End of the Night, a thriller with gothic overtones, was produced by Long Shadow Productions in the summer of 2003.

Lisa Bowerman played  in , the last televised story of the original series. However, she is better known as the voice of Professor  in the spin-off audio dramas produced by . She is also the human face of the character, appearing in publicity photographs dressed as Summerfield. Bowerman also provides the voice of  in the  and the voice of in the  story . She has appeared in , an animated Doctor Who series, as the voice of . She has also directed many stories in Big Finish's various ranges, including being the most prolific director of the  as well as being the sole director of the  series.

She was a regular in the first series of the  medical drama Casualty and is also a professional photographer.

Lisa Bowerman played  in , the last televised story of the original series. However, she is better known as the voice of Professor  in the spin-off audio dramas produced by . She is also the human face of the character, appearing in publicity photographs dressed as Summerfield. Bowerman also provides the voice of  in the  and the voice of in the  story . She has appeared in , an animated Doctor Who series, as the voice of . She has also directed many stories in Big Finish's various ranges, including being the most prolific director of the  as well as being the sole director of the  series.

She was a regular in the first series of the  medical drama Casualty and is also a professional photographer.

Whooverville Interview 1 Simon Fisher Becker