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Doctor Who Magazine 598: Ncuti Gatwa IS The Doctor!

Blogtor Who - Sun, 12/10/2023 - 20:00
Doctor Who Magazine Issue 598: NCUTI GATWA IS THE DOCTOR!

A bumper edition of Doctor Who Magazine including a 32-page mini-mag of the original Star Beast comic strip and double-side poster is out now. The issue also includes a special offer to download Cold Fusion, a free audio drama featuring the Peter Davison and Sylvester McCoy. And, of course, an exclusive interview with new Doctor Ncuti Gatwa accompanying the traditional ‘IS The Doctor!’ cover!

This issue’s features include:
  • AN IN-DEPTH INTERVIEW WITH NEW DOCTOR NCUTI GATWA.
  • Exclusive previews of new episodes The Giggle and The Church on Ruby Road with Russell T Davies.
  • Mum and grandma of new companion Ruby (alias Michelle Greenidge and Angela Wynter) on joining the show in this year’s Christmas Special.
  • The final interview with much-loved national treasure Bernard Cribbins.
  • The Diary of the Meep! A minute-by-minute account of the irrepressible Miriam Margolyes’ journey to becoming the Meep.
  • Further Than We’ve Ever Been Before DWM’s Emily Cook on the set of Wild Blue Yonder to discover its VFX secrets.
  • A very special comic strip adventure featuring the Fourteenth Doctor and Donna…
  • 80s director Andrew Morgan remembering his time on the show. 
  • A glimpse behind the scenes on 60s Doctor Who.
  • Letter from the Showrunner – Russell T Davies is in the festive spirit, and even lets a few secrets about the next series slip.
  • Production Diary – script editor Scott Handcock on how production has reached its busiest point yet!
  • The Fact of Fiction – all you could ever want to know about the 2015 series finale Hell Bent.
  • Gallifrey Guardian – all the latest official news.
  • Other Worlds – the essential guide to new stories in the wider Whoniverse.
  • Reviews – The Underwater Menace animation, Frazer Hines’s Evil of the Daleks and action figures!
  • The fiendishly festive DWM Christmas quiz!
DWM 598 gives Ncuti Gatwa the traditional “IS The Doctor” cover

Doctor Who Magazine Issue 598 is on sale Thursday 7 December from panini.co.uk and WH Smith priced £10.99 (UK).

Also available as a digital edition from pocketmags.com priced £9.99.

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REVIEW: Doctor Who: The Giggle – The brief tenure of the Fourteenth Doctor reaches a dramatic end

Blogtor Who - Sat, 12/09/2023 - 20:15
The final installment of the Doctor Who 60th Anniversary trilogy brings the curtain down the brief tenure of the Fourteenth Doctor. Highly anticipated with the return of the Toymaker to televised Doctor Who for the first time in almost 60 years, did ‘The Giggle‘ meet expectations?

The pre-title sequence took viewers back to 1925 and the invention of television by John Logie Baird. Aside from some casual racism from the proprietor of Mr Emporium and a varying accent, it is a very creepy opening. The imagery of the puppet’s head on fire is quite disturbing and wouldn’t be the last thing. ‘The Giggle‘ really kicked off where ‘Wild Blue Yonder‘ left our heroes. The world has gone mad. Chaos everywhere, very much setting the tone for the fast paced adventure which would follow. But the man from the Toyshop in 1925 is there in 2023! It’s a solid set up and built the excitement up wonderfully.

Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials: The Giggle Episode 3, Picture Shows: John Logie Baird (John Mackay), (c) BBC Studios 2023, Photographer: James Pardon Returning characters galore

Many fans were anticipating the returns of Kate Lethbridge-Stewart (Jemma Redgrave), last seen in ‘The Power of the Doctor‘ and Shirley Anne Bingham (Ruth Madeley), introduced a fortnight ago in ‘The Star Beast‘. However, few would’ve expected to see Bonnie Langford return as Mel Bush. Unless of course, you spotted a familiar shape in the background of photo shared earlier this week. But it was a wonderful moment. Out of nowhere. The Doctor and Mel reunited. We would get a brief catch up between the two later and it was lovely to have Bonnie Langford back in Doctor Who again. Hopefully, we’ll see much more of her next year. Special mention to the Sarah Jane Smith line which brought a tear to my eye!

Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials, The Giggle Episode 3, Picture Shows: Kate Lethbridge Stewart (Jemma Redgrave), (c) BBC Studios 2023, Photographer: James Pardon

Perhaps the most surprising return however was Lachele Carl as Trinity Wells. It really does feel like 2008 again! Except Trinity Wells has her own show. And she’s gone a bit rogue! We are also introduced by The Vlinx as if it was something completely normal. I feel like I’ve missed something there. Anyway, in the Avengers Tower, sorry, UNIT HQ, (they’ve certainly got their budget back now!), Logie Baird’s giggle has infiltrated the brains of the human race and driven everyone mad. Well, opinionated.

Screens rot your brain

Using television and computer monitors and mobile phone screens as a part of the plot makes a lot of sense. We are all addicted to them after all. Our lives revolve around them. The explanation of how the human race shouts, and types, and cancels is so accurate. A perfect tale for 2023. But that’s just the route into the unfolding madness as we learn that the Toymaker has infiltrated our reality. But that isn’t all. Despite some slightly shaky CGI we are treated to some of the most creepy and disturbing imagery ever in Doctor Who. Human beings as dolls. Puppets collapsing with the strings cut. The stuff of nightmares.

Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials, The Giggle Episode 3,Picture Shows: Neil Patrick Harris, (c) BBC Studios 2023, Photographer: Alistair Heap Neil Patrick Harris revels in his role as the Toymaker

The return of the Toymaker has been highly anticipated since the first photos of Neil Patrick Harris were taken. Although the character of the Toymaker has made reappearance in comic strips, novelisations and audio adventures, bringing the character back to television screens was going to require an actor of significant screen presence. Neil Patrick Harris is a sublime piece of casting. Doogie Howser, Barney Stinson and Count Olaf are unlikely to have been roles that prepared NPH for this particular character. However, he completely captures the magic and mystery of this incredibly powerful being. That twinkle in the eye is precisely what Michael Gough had back in 1966. A twinkle which NPH has that could light up a galaxy! He’s also the perfect individual for a musical number, although ‘Spice up your life’ was an interesting selection.

Then unfortunately everything plummeted off a cliff!

Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials, The Giggle Episode 3, Picture Shows: The Doctor (David Tennant), (c) BBC Studios 2023, Photographer: James Pardon David Tennant is STILL the Fourteenth Doctor

Things got controversial; a bi-generation. If you thought the meta-crisis regeneration was problematic then this might really push you over the edge. As with that meta-crisis Doctor this one also gets to walk off into the sunset and live a human existence. With a TARDIS this time. I see a spinoff coming. The Fourteenth Doctor and Rose Noble. Coming to Disney+ in 2024. Apologies, I’m skipping ahead.

So we have both the Fourteenth and the Fifteenth Doctors. Together. The Time Lords challenge the Toymaker to the deciding game. A game of catch. To say that it’s anticlimactic would be an understatement. An attempt is made to try and make the final game dramatic, with the peril fairly obvious, but with quick cutting it just didn’t work for me. It should’ve been much more prolonged, building the tension gradually with a few potential drops of the ball along the way. But there’s no time for that.

So despite all the strong imagery and a world of possibilities the game is lost by the Toymaker failing to catch a ball. And that’s it. The Toymaker is banished from our reality. Well, stuffed in a box and put into a vault.

Doctor Who: Unleashed 3 – The Giggle – Steffan Powell and Ncuti Gatwa,(c) BBC Studios, Photogrpaher: James Pardon Ncuti Gatwa is the Fifteenth Doctor

Now we have a new Doctor! Ncuti Gatwa is here and has already defeated his first enemy. Immediately he radiated energy and not just because he was running around without any trousers on! His scenes with predecessor David Tennant were lovely to watch. Whilst I understood the idea of the Doctor having kept running and never stopping, needing to stand still, the new Doctor is going to keep running and long may that continue.

Overall, the episode was a fast paced, bonkers thrill ride full of twists and turns, scares and surprises. It just lost me when things got out on that helicopter pad! But with a new Doctor and fresh energy now is the time to look forward. We don’t have long to wait. The adventure continues of Christmas Day when we get to see the Fifteenth Doctor once again…

Doctor Who returns on Christmas Day with ‘The Church on Ruby Road‘ on BBC One, BBC iPlayer and Disney+

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A Top Secret History of UNIT Bases in Doctor Who

Blogtor Who - Sat, 12/09/2023 - 17:00
UNIT are back with the biggest, shiniest, and least secret HQ yet! But how does it compare to its predecessors

UNIT have a whole new HQ which debuts in The Giggle, the last of Doctor Who’s 60th Anniversary specials. Their new digs show a certain Marvel inspiration, with more than a little of the Avengers Tower about them. A massive skyscraper which dominates even the eclectic London skyline, it speaks of a UNIT for the 21st century. More than that, it positively yells it at the top of its voice ,the massive UNIT logo on the side making clear that the Unified Intelligence Taskforce are far less ‘Top Secret’ than before.

That itself shows another influence of the Marvel Cinematic Universe on Doctor Who. Showrunner Russell T Davies has already spoken about how the MCU convinced him that audiences would buy into the high stakes and drama of a world like our own. And that that stayed true even with superheroes and aliens running around it every day. Applying that to Doctor Who, there’s no longer a need to continually explain why Dalek saucers don’t fill the sky outside the viewer’s window.

But this new UNIT tower is also simply the latest in a long line of HQs. And some have been more top secret than others…

A UNIT car brings the Doctor aboard their flying HQ in The Invasion (c) BBC The Invasion introduced UNIT and its very first HQ: a mobile command centre

The very first time we see UNIT in 1968’s The Invasion, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart leads the task force from his mobile command aboard a Hercules military cargo aircraft. It’s kitted out with all kinds of gadgetry. It makes itself a difficult target, too. The plane touches down at different airbases only for long enough to deploy UNIT personnel to wherever needed. It’s also potentially a case of Doctor Who’s influence on Marvel, with ‘the Bus’ mobile command used in Agents of SHIELD having striking similarities.

The Third Doctor locates the subterranean entrance to UNIT’s secret London HQ in Spearhead from Space (c) BBC In the Third Doctor’s era UNIT moved around different unmarked offices in central London

Next came the early 1970s (or, well, whenever those episodes actually take place.) UNIT now operates out of various office buildings in central London. There’s a warehouse style building of drafty looking corridors in Spearhead from Space, and then a smarter Chelsea address at Cornwall Gardens seen in Seasons Eight and Nine. The geography of all this seems slightly muddled. There’s a convenient canal to throw bombs into where no canal should be, for instance.

Already at this point the ambiguity around UNIT’s level of secrecy has an impact on its HQ. Both these buildings have no external markings identifying them as UNIT bases. The security guard on duty will deny knowing anything about them. (Or would do if the Third Doctor let him getting a word in.) Yet all the personnel walk around inside in full uniform, and the Brigadier too as he comes and goes in his chauffeur driven car. So it must have presumably gotten local members of the public wondering why troops keep flooding out of these nondescript offices as if on their way to an emergency.

 

UNIT HQ Keep Out UNIT’s countryside HQ might have been more discreet, if not for the giant sign at the entrance

Perhaps that issue is why UNIT decamped for Seasons Ten and Eleven to an old manor house in the country. It was still located near enough to London to provide a fast response to attacks on Earth’s biggest alien magnet. But remote enough that they could openly train and display equipment without drawing too much attention. Infamously though, despite the Brig still bristling at times about how people “shouldn’t have even heard of” UNIT, the entrance to this HQ was marked with a giant sign reading “Ministry of Defence. UNIT Headquarters. KEEP OUT.”

 

UNIT started the 21st century based in a secret bunker under the Tower of London The Tower of London hosted UNIT in the 2000s and 2010s, allowing tourists to imagine aliens around every corner of the historic building

When Doctor Who was revived in 2005, UNIT’s bases got grander, and their level of secrecy even weirder. The Christmas Invasion introduced their new HQ under the Tower of London. It’s an outlandishly fun idea straight from the mind of Russell T Davies. Now every child visiting the popular tourist destination could imagine heroes and aliens just out of sight around every corner. But it always seemed more than a little impractical. The UNIT bunker may have built out of concrete below the Tower itself, but as with their previous London base, people had to get in and out somewhere. Surely to the residents of London, UNIT’s presence there must have been the worst kept secret in the world, even if they weren’t sure exactly what all these black clad soldiers did, exactly.

 

UNIT HQ (left) sported a huge logo as it sat amongst London’s landmarks in The Power of the Doctor (c) BBC The Power of the Doctor introduced a new high rise UNIT building and implied a new relationship with the public

Once the unfortunate incident of UNIT being defunded by the machinations of an alien man/snake hybrid was dealt with, the team got a whole new HQ. A towering stone building, with the UNIT logo proudly displayed on the side it represented a change in the task force’s relationship with secrecy. Much bigger than anything that could have fit under the Tower of London, it was filled with offices, science labs, and high tech equipment. A place UNIT could call home for many years to come…

Well, until it blew up at the end of its very first appearance. Which was unlucky.

 

The Doctor (DAVID TENNANT) in the main situation room of the new UNIIT HQ in The Giggle ,BBC Studios 2023,Alistair Heap UNIT’s latest HQ is the biggest, most futuristic yet and just may be around for a while yet

Which brings us right up to date. The new HQ introduced in The Giggle takes the concept introduced in The Power of the Doctor and turns all the dials up to 11. Massive, spacious, and futuristic, this is surely now the central hub for defending the entire planet. Once more the UNIT logo is on proud display in massive letters, while military helicopters openly carry Police Boxes to his inbuilt helipad. There’s no missing it.

And it seems like the Giggle’s new HQ is sticking around for a while this time. Elements of the set have appeared in promotional photos for Ncuti Gatwa’s new season. So it looks like UNIT, and their new HQ, are here to stay.

 

The Doctor (David Tennant), Donna Noble (Catherine Tate) and the Toymaker (Neil Patrick Harris) in The Giggle ,BBC STUDIOS 2023 ,Zoe McConnell and Alistair Heap Doctor Who’s 60th Anniversary specials conclude tonight [contact-form] with The Giggle at 6.30pm GMT on BBC One in the UK and Ireland, and simultaneously on Disney+ worldwide

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Doctor Who – The Giggle – Airs Tonight

Blogtor Who - Sat, 12/09/2023 - 16:46

The last episode of the 60th Anniversary specials airs tonight, and we say goodbye to David Tennant’s Doctor and Catherine Tate’s Donna Noble.   The Doctor and Donna have returned, and so has UNIT, complete with Kate Lethbridge-Stewart (Jemma Redgrave) and their Scientific Advisor, Shirley Anne Bingham (Ruth Madeley). The Doctor and Donna have only been gone for 2 days, but that is enough time for the world to fall apart. Everyone has gone mad fighting each other.   But who is that mysterious man dancing in a top hat and tails, and where did that giggling puppet come from?

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The giggle of a mysterious puppet is driving the human race insane. When the Doctor discovers the return of the terrifying Toymaker, he faces a fight he can never win.

The Doctor is face-to-face with an old foe – the (Celestial) Toymaker.   He barely beat him last time.   Can he win again?

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This is the last of the David Tennant and Catherine Tate’s 60th Anniversary specials. We say goodbye to David Tennant’s Doctor and meet Ncuti Gatwa’s Fifteen for the first time.

Showrunner Russell T Davies has promised a game-changing end to these episodes. If you have heard the rumours that we have heard, it is going to be quite a different Doctor Who series going forward to 2024.   There has also been a promise that BBC will drop a lot of content and details one minute after the closing beats of the main theme.

It is sure to be a spectacular night.

So let’s say goodbye.

And say Hello.

The new Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) makes his debut in the 60th Anniversary specials next year (c) BBC Studios, Screen Grab

Doctor Who – The Giggle airs tonight (9th December 2023) on BBC One and Player at 6:30 pm and simultaneously streams on Disney+ at 10:30 am EST.

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Who is Doctor Who Villain The Toymaker?

Blogtor Who - Sat, 12/09/2023 - 00:00
Just who is the Doctor’s latest, and most powerful, enemy?

 

Today’s the day we’ll know it all. In fact, Russell T Davies has already been warning people that if they can’t see it live, they should avoid, well, everything until they’re in front of a TV. Because The Giggle is the story everyone will be talking about. But for now, Neil Patrick Harris’ enigmatic villain, the Toymaker, remains a mystery. Except this isn’t his first appearance in Doctor Who. So what does that tell us?

It’s testament to how well the villain captured the imagination that he casts such a long shadow down the decades despite having only one previous on screen appearance. Not just that, one lost on screen appearance. The four part 1966 serial The Celestial Toymaker is missing from the BBC Archive, with only the fourth episode surviving. Though its missing status might actually have helped its reputation. Its soundtrack remains, thanks to the work of loyal fans recording it at home, and it creates mental images of an ambitiously surreal world. An imaginary version of the story which a BBC budget would have struggled to match.

 

The First Doctor with the Toymaker and two of his clown dolls (c) BBC The Toymaker was introduced in 1966 as a bored godlike being restrained only by the rules he makes for himself

The story sees the TARDIS land outside our universe entirely and in the pocket dimension known as the Celestial Toyroom. This whole world is the creation of the godlike Toymaker. Driven as much by boredom as anything else, he’s become a compulsive gameplayer, imposing rules on himself as the only way to make eternal life interesting. Yet his boredom is matched only by his pathological need to win. As the Toymaker forces the First Doctor and his companions Steven and Dodo to play his games of life and death one thing becomes clear: the Toymaker cheats. Even darker are the opponents Dodo and Steven play against. They take the form of living playing cards, clowns, and characters from classic stories. But they’re all themselves victims. People who played and lost and are now the Toymaker’s playthings for all eternity, living as dolls in his collection until needed.

Perhaps another reason people remember the villain’s one appearance so well is because even then mystery surrounded him. For the first time in Doctor Who’s history we see the Doctor encounter an enemy he’s already met. More than that, despite the First Doctor being as defiant as ever, he’s clearly rattled in a way we rarely saw. The Doctor actually fears the Toymaker and clearly barely escaped their earlier confrontation. Needless to say, too, The Celestial Toymaker ends with the godlike entity swearing revenge on the Doctor in their next rematch. The surviving footage show actor Michael Gough like some sort of urbane serpent, full of sophisticated menace. No wonder fans have long dreamed of seeing that rematch.

And they’re finally getting their wish.

 

The Toymaker returns to battle the Twelfth Doctor and Clara in Titan Comics’ Relative Dimensions (c) Titan Comics The villain has caught the imagination of generations of creators, appearing in comics, novels and audio plays

In the almost six decades between the Toymaker’s two TV appearances, Doctor Who creators have tried to deliver on that promised revenge in other media. The villain’s been in eight comic book stories, four short stories, two original novels, three audio plays, and a poem. Yes, a poem.

There’s a little double counting there, admittedly. The Nightmare Fair exists as both a novel and an audio play, both adapted from the unfilmed 1986 script for Colin Baker’s Doctor. In that story, the Toymaster would have relocated to… Blackpool. Lurking in a lair beneath the Pleasure Beach, he’s moved into the world of computer games with a new arcade game that bends all its players to his will.

Many of these appearances have tried to answer the secrets of the Toymaker’s origins. Some claim he’s really the Crystal Guardian, one of the key cosmic beings underpinning the fabric of reality. Others say that he’s from ‘before the universe,’ like the Beast in The Satan Pit. Some even detail that as meaning he’s a survivor from a race of Time Lords that found a way to survive the end of their universe and live as gods in ours. His appearance in The Tales of Terror collection even suggested he actually won his earlier game against the Doctor. A dark twist hinting that all the Doctor’s adventures since were simply games played out for the Toymaker’s amusement.

Who knows if The Giggle will vindicate any of these theories. Maybe Russell T Davies will add a whole new explanation of his own. But perhaps most likely of all is that the origins of this strange, otherworldly enemy will remain as mysterious as ever.

 

The forthcoming animation of 1966’s The Celestial Toymaker (c) BBC The Celestial Toymaker will be the next Doctor Who animation release, reborn more surreal and weird that a 60s BBC budget could manage

For those who want to see more of the Toymaker after The Giggle, there’s good news. The Celestial Toymaker been announced as the next in the official range of animations. Based on the trailers and promo images they’re taking full advantage of the CG animation format too. That world of huge set pieces and surreal vistas that people has long imagined is finally going to make it to the screen.

 

The Doctor (David Tennant), Donna Noble (Catherine Tate) and the Toymaker (Neil Patrick Harris) in The Giggle ,BBC STUDIOS 2023 ,Zoe McConnell and Alistair Heap Doctor Who’s 60th Anniversary specials conclude with The Giggle at 6.30pm GMT on BBC One in the UK and Ireland, and simultaneously on Disney+ worldwide

 

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Video of the Day – Fandango, 2023

Blogtor Who - Fri, 12/08/2023 - 04:00

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Doctor Who: Wild Blue Yonder E-Book is Out Now!

Blogtor Who - Thu, 12/07/2023 - 20:00
Head back into a Wilder, Bluer, Yonder in an expanded novelisation of the latest episode

Target Books new range of Doctor Who novelisations, fresh from the screen, continues with Wild Blue Yonder. Mark Morris (Doctor Who: Ghosts of India) had adapted last week’s episode. And for this most mysterious of episodes, there’s been rarely a more compelling opportunity to expand on events and characters’ backstories in typical Target style.

The print edition of Wild Blue Yonder is coming to book shelves on the 11th of January, but for now you can get the e-book edition to read on your device. Target will be publishing the paperback of The Star Beast and The Giggle the same day. The Star Beast is already out in e-book form, and The Giggle e-book is coming next week.

 

 

The Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) and Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson), in The Church on Ruby Road ,BBC Studios 2023,Lara Cornell A Target Books hardback of The Church on Ruby Road follows in the new year

But there’s more to come in addition to the 60th Anniversary special adaptions. The first episode of Ncuti Gatwa’s new TARDIS residency airs on BBC One on Christmas Day. And again, fans won’t have long to wait before they can relive it in all its glory in print form. This month’s Doctor Who Magazine has revealed that the Target novelisation of The Church of Ruby Road will be with us on the 25th of January. What’s more, this will be a very special hardback edition. It will also have a new cover artist, with Anthony Dry having announced his departure as the range’s cover artist after The Giggle.

The adaptation of the Christmas special is just one of the many bits of news and insight in the new DWM about the Fifteenth Doctor era. Get your copy now!

 

 

Doctor Who: Wild Blue Yonder by Mark Morris. Cover by Anthony Dry and Stuart Crouch. (c) Target Books

Doctor Who: Wild Blue Yonder

The Tardis takes the Doctor and Donna to the furthest edge of adventure. To escape, they must face the most desperate fight of their lives, with the fate of the universe at stake.

Doctor Who: Wild Blue Yonder Ebook edition is available now. The paperback edition will hit the shelves of all good booksellers on the 11th of January, 2024.

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