Old Doctor Who - Part 3

[Malcy]

I noticed someone posted it on ReleaseBB and I could have watched it for free, but after checking out the trailer I decided against it, and your comments make it sound even worse than I thought it'd be.

I went to get it from there but it's 4 episodes totalling over 9 GB so just got a torrent because it would have been faster. I needn't have bothered. I might watch the end to see if they are all still in the court with only 1 chair and if any of the cast are still awake.

[pigamus]

There's something a bit unsettling about fans having enough money to hire proper actors. I just imagine Ian Levine smoking a fat cigar while making Sylvester McCoy dance for him in his back bedroom.

[Deanjam]

In the 90s we got the Bill Baggs productions where proper Who actors were hired to shoot on camcorder level video with no audio production whatsoever. Also gave starts to LOG's Mark Gatiss & Reece Shearsmith. They're quite bizarre.

Some of them have made their way to Dailymotion

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xcb254

[Malcy]

The Airzone Solution is on Amazon Prime. Davison, Baker & McCoy in some guff about... I can't remember.

[pigamus]

Oh yeah, I think I remember seeing that in Nostalgia and Comics in Birmingham when I were a lad... next to the Mythmakers videos and the Whonatics fanzines.

[Catalogue Trousers]

Also gave Alan Cumming one of his earliest roles.

[SavageHedgehog]

Lasted 10 minutes. Just couldn't be arsed with it at all. Bored me very quick. There was a Sea Devil in a spacesuit and a helmet-less Boba Fett at the start. Then it seemed to be getting into a 90min court case.

This is the other one coming.

I'm sure these are terrible but PHWOAR, look at those 90s BBFC logos they're for some reason using!

[purlieu]

I've got the novelisation on my list, alongside that White Witch one from the other year. I'm not going to watch them, though. Not until I've been through every Big Finish first, at least.

[Malcy]

I've got the novelisation on my list, alongside that White Witch one from the other year. I'm not going to watch them, though. Not until I've been through every Big Finish first, at least.

Every BF? Are you immortal?!

[purlieu]

I spent an afternoon sorting out folders for them all using a couple of listening orders I found online. I've given each story its own folder, even those in box sets etc., apart from the 'series' of Short Trips which I'm doing one folder per series. Mapped out to include all releases to the end of 2019, it runs to 1,312 folders. Some of these are single stories from the when the Monthly Range does several stories at once, and a number are stand-alone Short Trips. Still, it's quite a few years' worth of listening, I'll admit. But then I've been tackling the books for three years now and have a few left there too. So why not!

edit: I'm also allowing myself to skip some of the tenuous spin-offs like Vienna and Graceless if I don't think they're much cop.

[Phil_A]

Lasted 10 minutes. Just couldn't be arsed with it at all. Bored me very quick. There was a Sea Devil in a spacesuit and a helmet-less Boba Fett at the start. Then it seemed to be getting into a 90min court case.

The thing that baffles me about these videos is that the production values of them have not changed a jot since the nineties. We live in a time when any cunt with an iphone can make something that looks like an actual film, and yet Reeltime Pictures, who are a professional video production company of some thirty years, are still making stuff that looks like exactly like McCoy era Who. It's like they just can't get past the fact that TV (and Dr Who) doesn't look or sound like that any more. 

Just a glimpse of that trailer is enough to see the awful lighting choices which serve only to show up the deficiencies in both the Sil make-up (shooting at HD resolution probably does it no favours either) and the cheap sets, which give the impression it was filmed down at the local branch of Laser Quest, and the inevitable appearance of semi-retired character actors who probably haven't had a job in ten years or more and thus aren't really in a position to say no to anything.

Bill Baggs' productions are exactly the same. I have unfortunately seen some of that soft porn Zygon film he made, it looks like an episode of Doctors with some scenes of tits and cocks inserted (I didn't mean like that. Honest).

[jamiefairlie]

I spent an afternoon sorting out folders for them all using a couple of listening orders I found online. I've given each story its own folder, even those in box sets etc., apart from the 'series' of Short Trips which I'm doing one folder per series. Mapped out to include all releases to the end of 2019, it runs to 1,312 folders. Some of these are single stories from the when the Monthly Range does several stories at once, and a number are stand-alone Short Trips. Still, it's quite a few years' worth of listening, I'll admit. But then I've been tackling the books for three years now and have a few left there too. So why not!

edit: I'm also allowing myself to skip some of the tenuous spin-offs like Vienna and Graceless if I don't think they're much cop.

I'm doing the same thing and it is doable. I drive and hike a lot so that does help. I'm up to the 150s of the main range and finished most of the spin-offs.

[Replies From View]

This is the other one coming.



They can't sell very much of them so I reckon they're just rich fans with fuck all else to spend money on throwing cash at people until they agree to do it.

It's upcoming serial ANAL-AMY (starring Karen Gillan) that I'm worried about.

[Small Man Big Horse]

The Airzone Solution is on Amazon Prime. Davison, Baker & McCoy in some guff about... I can't remember.

I've seen that, as a friend was an ardent Who fan who bought up all of Bill Baggs nonsense. I think the kindest thing I can say is that it's better than Zygon, but that's about it.

[Bad Ambassador]

I've put together a document listing all the Doctor Who audios ever, plus ones based on TV spinoffs, should such an item be useful to anyone? It's 11 pages.

I've updated this, following talk about purlieu launching himself into the infinite hell of Big Finish, and it's now 13 pages. Anyone interested?

[Malcy]

I've updated this, following talk about purlieu launching himself into the infinite hell of Big Finish, and it's now 13 pages. Anyone interested?

Me please. Must have been a big job!

[Bad Ambassador]

Updating it with a year's worth didn't take too long. I can't remember how long putting it together in the first place took.

[daf]

sign me up too please!

[Replies From View]

Did you mention it in the audio adventures thread?  https://www.cookdandbombd.co.uk/forums/index.php/topic,68292.msg3890832.html#new

[Bad Ambassador]

sign me up too please!

Done.

[Bad Ambassador]

Donald Tosh, last surviving Hartnell writer and pre-1980 script editor, has died.

[pigamus]

It's upcoming serial ANAL-AMY (starring Karen Gillan) that I'm worried about.

Worried?

[Replies From View]

Worried?

Terribly so.  It will undo all the good generated by casting a female Doctor.

[Malcy]

Sylvester McCoy has spoke a bit about what was planned for the McGann series we never got.

https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2019-12-20/paul-mcgann-doctor-who-series-ace/

[pigamus]

Poor old Philip Segal. Didn't really have much of a clue, did he?

[Alberon]

Didn't he want to remake old stories? If the show had gone to series it would have been more of a reboot rather than a continuation.

[Malcy]

Didn't he want to remake old stories? If the show had gone to series it would have been more of a reboot rather than a continuation.

Yeah I think it was a quest to go and find his father called Ulysses with the stories making up the search being remakes.

[Phil_A]

Yeah I think it was a quest to go and find his father called Ulysses with the stories making up the search being remakes.

As far I know the Ulysses stuff was just one of many, many pitches for the series, which I think had been binned by the time the McGann pilot went into production. Not sure the Segal series would've been much better though

[George White]

It would have been just another Canadian service industry telefantasy a la Sliders or Poltergeist the Legacy

[purlieu]

Yeah, the father search version was intended as a reboot - the Cybermen were going to be Cybs, for example - and it was an early '90s thing that thankfully never came to fruition.