50 Pics in 50 Days for 50 Years of Doctor Who!
Day 27
Happy Halloween people! Today's pic is a replica of the Doctor’s TARDIS key, a cool little object
available now from http://www.bbccanada.com/Shop/
2013-10-30
50 Pics in 50 Days for 50 Years of Doctor Who
50 Pics in 50 Days for 50 Years of Doctor Who!
Day 26
Omega, one of the founders of Gallifrey’s Time Lord society,
turned villain, as he appeared in 1983s Arc of Infinity.
2013-10-29
50 Pics in 50 Days for 50 Years of Doctor Who
50 Pics in 50 Days for 50 Years of Doctor Who!
Day 25
Here we are at the freaking HALF-WAY point! Day 25! Let's get to it shall we!
My favourite companion since Ace, was the
beautiful, fantastic, Rose Tyler as played by Billie Piper.
2013-10-28
50 Pics in 50 Days for 50 Years of Doctor Who
50 Pics in 50 Days for 50 Years of Doctor Who!
Day 24
When Doctor Who made its return to television in 2005,
everything changed, from the logo, right down to the very format of the
programme. No longer would it be a
series of 24 minute serialized stories, but a modern, fast paced, 45 minute
action packed drama.
2013-10-27
50 Pics in 50 Days for 50 Years of Doctor Who
50 Pics in 50 Days for 50 Years of Doctor Who!
Day 23
The TARDIS console room has undergone many changes
over the years. This is the latest
incarnation, and in my opinion this is what the console room should have looked
like since they re-started the series in 2005, as it more closely resembles the look of the console from the original series.
2013-10-26
50 Pics in 50 Days for 50 Years of Doctor Who
50 Pics in 50 Days for 50 Years of Doctor Who!
Day 22
Doctor Who: Spearhead From Space was the first (and
in all likelihood, last) classic story to receive the blu-ray treatment, and
this was the funky sticky from the packaging that let us know!
2013-10-25
50 Pics in 50 Days for 50 Years of Doctor Who
50 Pics in 50 Days for 50 Years of Doctor Who!
Day 21
2013-10-24
50 Pics in 50 Days for 50 Years of Doctor Who
50 Pics in 50 Days for 50 Years of Doctor Who!
Day 20
Cover from the LAST ISSUE of the Marvel Comics Doctor Who
run featuring the Fifth Doctor. The
Marvel series featured colour reprints of comic stories originally published
in Doctor Who Magazine in the UK, and was a “prestige format” title printed on high quality
paper, and costing just a little more than regular comics at the time.
2013-10-23
50 Pics in 50 Days for 50 Years of Doctor Who
50 Pics in 50 Days for 50 Years of Doctor Who!
Day 19
Cover detail of the Doctor Who Virgin New Adventures
novel, “Warlock” by Andrew Cartmel published in 1995. The Virgin New Adventures Novels began after the final TV story, Survival,
and continued the adventures of the Seventh Doctor and Ace, introduced new
companions, and took a more “adult” approach to storytelling. A wonderful documentary on Doctor Who books
during “The Wilderness Years” can be found on the Special Edition DVD of The Ark in Space.
2013-10-22
50 Pics in 50 Days for 50 Years of Doctor Who
50 Pics in 50 Days for 50 Years of Doctor Who!
Day 18
2013-10-21
50 Pics in 50 Days for 50 Years of Doctor Who
50 Pics in 50 Days for 50 Years of Doctor Who!
Day 17
A Cornerstone Communications Doctor Who Series 2 Trading
Card from 1995. Card #142 featuring the
1973 Jon Pertwee Story, The Green Death with Katy Manning as Jo Grant,
apparently wearing the Fifth Doctor’s cricket jumper!
2013-10-20
50 Pics in 50 Days for 50 Years of Doctor Who
50 Pics in 50 Days for 50 Years of Doctor Who!
Day 16
2013-10-19
50 Pics in 50 Days for 50 Years of Doctor Who
50 Pics in 50 Days for 50 Years of Doctor Who!
Day 15
This is a brochure for The Doctor Who Experience, an
interactive tour through 50 Years of Time and Space, currently taking place at
Porth Teigr Cardiff Bay! I did not go,
but was lucky enough to have a friend who did and she brought this item back
for me. One side is in English, and the
other in Welsh.
2013-10-18
50 Pics in 50 Days for 50 Years of Doctor Who
50 Pics in 50 Days for 50 Years of Doctor Who!
Day 14
 |
| (Pic not mine, stolen from the interwebs) |
Some things in the Doctor Who universe are strange, some
things are difficult to explain, and some others just make you laugh and say to
yourself, “What were they thinking???”
The Doctor Who Suchard Milk Chocolate Egg is one of the latter.
2013-10-17
50 Pics in 50 Days for 50 Years of Doctor Who
50 Pics in 50 Days for 50 Years of Doctor Who!
Day 13
Since his second incarnation, The Doctor used his trusty Sonic
Screwdriver to open doors, locks, and basically get out of tricky
situations. In the New Series The
Doctor’s Sonic seems to be able to do just about anything and has become a bit
of a lazy writer’s crutch IMHO. But I
digress, this pic is a toy version by Character Options of the Sonic used by
the Ninth and Tenth Doctors, complete with lights and sound.
2013-10-16
50 Pics in 50 Days for 50 Years of Doctor Who
50 Pics in 50 Days for 50 Years of Doctor Who!
Day 12
The “Pydonian Seal” also known as “The Seal of Rassilon” is
an object from Doctor Who that made its first appearance in the series 12 story, “Revenge
of the Cybermen.” However in that
story it appeared as a decoration related to the people of Voga, the planet of
gold!
2013-10-15
50 Pics in 50 Days for 50 Years of Doctor Who
50 Pics in 50 Days for 50 Years of Doctor Who!
Day 11
 |
| Even The Master enjoys a fine cigar on occasion |
One of The Doctor’s deadliest enemies, the Moriarty
to The Doctor’s Sherlock Holmes, if you will is The Master. This is Roger Delgado from 1971s “The
Mind of Evil.”
2013-10-14
50 Pics in 50 Days for 50 Years of Doctor Who
50 Pics in 50 Days for 50 Years of Doctor Who!
Day 10
With the exception of 1976s “The Deadly Assassin,”
The Doctor has always travelled with a companion. This is a publicity photo of Sophie Aldred
as Ace from 1988s “Silver Nemesis.”
2013-10-13
50 Pics in 50 Days for 50 Years of Doctor Who
50 Pics in 50 Days for 50 Years of Doctor Who!
Day 9
The Doctor Who Logo has changed several times over 50
years. This logo was used from Series
11 through Series 17.
2013-10-12
Lond Ho Adventures
One Shot: Rebels Without a Clue
The noonday sun shimmered in the pale, greyish sky over the
city, barely warming the 800,000 beings going about their daily business. The streets were clogged with vehicles, and
people heading out on their lunch breaks, many already in heavy winter
coats. The weather was already
beginning to turn to the cooler side as the season rolled from summer to fall.
In the corner of a dingy, concrete floored warehouse, Bill
Williams scribbled some numbers on his inventory sheet, then tossed the
clipboard to the top of the beer cases stacked on the wheeled dolly in front of
him. He leaned the dolly back onto its
wheels and rolled it down a long aisle.
He grumbled to himself, noticing yet another overhead light was burned
out which meant he would have to climb up that shitty aluminium ladder again
and change out the bulb with the yellow pole with the claw on the end that was
supposed to “help” in these situations.
What didn’t help was he would still have to climb to the top of that
rickety old ladder that creaked and rattled and was never steady even if
someone was around to hold it at the bottom.
Bill shuddered, he hated heights and even if it was no more than eight
feet up, it was still a hard, unforgiving concrete floor he would be hitting if
he fell. Actually, it wasn’t so much
the “heights” that he was afraid of, more the whole “falling through the air
and hitting the ground” part that he was in no way fond of.
Bill wheeled up and tipped the dolly back onto its base in
front of a small stack of Molson Canadian 12 pack bottle cases and began
unloading, stacking the cases from his dolly on top of the cases sat on the
floor. One after the next, giving the
mundane activity about as much attention as he thought it required, which was
very little. So little in fact, he
failed to notice the third case from the bottom had a torn handle.
“Shit!” he grumbled
as the cardboard handle disintegrated in his hand and the case fell three feet
to the floor. There was a muffled,
liquid smash, and the golden elixer of life began pooling under the shattered
box. Bill stood staring for a second,
frozen, in shock as the case bled out on the dusty concrete.
He shook his head and tossed the last couple of cases on the
stack before commencing the clean up.
In ten minutes the glass and cardboard was in the trash and the
remaining bottles sat on the table in front of him. He scribbled on his clipboard a note about five broken and seven
remaining in the “broken stock” column on his worksheet, clipped the pen to the
front of his grubby apron, then tossed the clipboard down in disgust. He felt a grumbling in his gutmeats. It was close to one and he hadn’t had lunch
yet. Bill got up from the table, turned
around and jammed various coins into the employee snack machine and pulled out
a bag of Roast Chicken flavoured Lays potato chips, then sat back down at the
small table in the employee lounge area of the warehouse. It was really no more than a cheap wooden
IKEA table with a couple equally cheap chairs, a Mr. Coffee maker and a snack
machine that was frequently short on snacks.
Bill often wondered who the joker was that wrote “employee lounge” on
the piece of duct tape and stuck it to the wall, because it was really quite
funny.
He tore open his bag of chips and jammed a few into his
mouth, crushing them to gooey paste in his teeth before swallowing. Almost without thinking he grabbed one of
the beers from the table, and before he knew it, the cap was off and he was
pouring it down his neck.
About four blocks west from where Bill sat enjoying his
lunch, Joe Cornelious Hunter was standing in the chilly computer and elevator
control centre of BVS Towers. Thor “The
Hutt” sat in a creaking office chair at the main desk, glowering at him,
waiting for Hunter to do something as several red lights blinked on elevator
control board, and an emergency phone was annoyingly beeping, begging to be
answered. He squeezed his chilly hands
into fists, and picked up the handset.
“Control centre, what seems to be the trouble?”
A slightly annoyed voice came over the line, “Uh, I dunno
you tell me! We’ve been stuck in this
fucking elevator for fifteen minutes!”
Hunter took a breath, “Sir, as I said to you the last time
you called we are having trouble with the elevators, a service technician had
been notified and is working to resolve the problem. If you could just be patient with us we should have you out of
there very soon.”
“Soon? How soon is
NOW for you asshole? I got a meeting in
five minutes!”
“Sir, we are doing everything we can to fix the situation,
but I must ask that you remain calm –“
A rough hand shoved Hunter to the side while another grabbed
the emergency handset from him. Thor
put the hand set to his ear and spoke, “Hello who is it I’m speaking with? As the guard told jou, everything that can
be doon is being doon, so izzat. If jou
are a schmoker und think that would help you relax den smoke if you must but do
not call back on this line. Ve vill
call you, thank you und goodbye.”
Hunter was shocked.
He couldn’t believe Thor had just told someone to smoke IN the
elevator. It was an enclosed
environment, and with the power out the only ventilation was the tiny grill on
the ceiling.
“So izzat meester Unter!
Zat is ho jou deal wif these people.”
The corpulent Dutchman grumbled as he squeezed his massive bulk back
into the protesting office chair.
“You really think it was a good idea telling him he could
smoke a cigarette in there?”
Thor stared at Hunter for several seconds, with an arrogant
look on his face like the kind most politicians get when they can’t believe a
“civilian” would dare question them or their policies. When he finally spoke, it was as if to a
child, “Look, Meester Unter, I am Day Shift Supervisor und that means I am God,
okay? You don’t worry about what I am
doing, only about yourself, so Izzat huh?”
Hunter looked at Thor for a moment before waking over to
him, picking up the office chair next to him and bringing it down with all his
strength over his supervisor’s head.
The chair under Thor’s enormous bulk collapsed and he crashed to the
floor, crying “noooo!” and “So izzaaaat!”
In Hunter’s mind, this was the best course of action, so
instead he just looked back at Thor's fat, greasy, arrogant face and said through gritted teeth, “Yes sir Mr. Bugg.” And turned back
to his elevator control board, seething in silence.
Bill sat in the middle of the enormous, black and tan
cushioned chesterfield, a bottle of Molson Canadian in one hand, his black
rucksack laying on its side, on the black, aluminium grilled coffee table in
front of him. He finished the last gulp
and dropped the bottle to the floor beside him when the locks to flat 1401 of
London House rattled, heralding the arrival of Hunter. Bill shook his left arm and flourished back
the sleeve to look at his watch. If it
was Hunter he was a number of hours too early, so perhaps it was Paco taking a
break from his afternoon studio session at the Alberta College of Art.
The door opened, then slammed shut and in stalked Hunter,
face red with rage, “Huh? The fuck are
you doing home?” He grumbled.
“And a good afternoon to you too, dickwad!” Bill spat back, a little more than annoyed
by the greeting he received.
“Well, you will not fucking BELIEVE what happened at work
today!”
Bill interrupted, “Wait.
Stop. Calm down. Have a beer.” He motioned towards his bag on the table, inside Hunter could see
many brown bottles of beer.
Hunter pulled one out, opened it and sat in the Big Leather
Chair.
“Don’t panic, but I just got shit-canned from BeerLand™
today.”
Hunter spat out his first sip of beer, “Shit!”
“I said ‘don’t panic’ there Arthur Dent,” Bill almost smiled.
Hunter shook his head, “It’s not that, it’s just this
beer. It’s piss-warm! What happened?”
Bill stood up and grabbed another beer before heading to the
kitchen. He put two bottles in the
freezer and the rest on one of the empty shelves in the refrigerator. “Lets hit the deck for a smoke.”
Hunter took another swig of warm lager and grimaced as he
swallowed. He stood up and wandered
into his bedroom and pulled open the topmost drawer of his old boyhood chest of
drawers. He rummaged around for a few
seconds, pushing aside his Lt. Worf action figure, and a red covered notebook
covered in stickers and pictures before finding and pulling out a pack of Old
Port Tipped cigarillos and a lighter emblazoned with the flaming “C” of the
Calgary Flames NHL Hockey Club.
Bill was already lit up and on the couch when Hunter slid
open the patio door and joined him.
Hunter snapped the lighter on with his thumb and lit the end of his
cigarillo before flopping down beside Bill on the dusty, tattered, grey love
seat.
“So what happened?”
Hunter asked, blowing the sweet tobacco smoke from his mouth. Hunter enjoyed smoking his cigars and
cigarillos, but never inhaled, even when he smoked the occasional
cigarette. He just never thought it was
necessary for his enjoyment, so he never got into the habit of it.
“Apparently, even though the company lets us take the
remainders of the “broken stock” home, they frown upon us indulging at work
during out lunch breaks.”
Hunter nodded, “So you got fired for drinking at work?”
“I prefer the term ‘let go’ or ‘released from contract to
pursue other endeavours’ to ‘fired’ but the result is much the same.” Bill took a drink of his beer, “Don’t worry
though, a cousin of mine said they needed a bouncer over at the Cecil and I
could just start working nights over there starting next week.”
“Well, isn’t that special?”
Hunter said in the voice of Dana Carvey’s “Church Lady” from Saturday
Night Live. “You wanna know what
happened to me today?”
“Not particularly,” Bill grinned evilly.
"That fat douche bag of a Dutchman supervisor, Thor The Hutt
lied to the Dumfeld Head Office and got me booted from BVS Towers! I’ll get a new site in a couple of days but,
it just fucking infuriates me! Those
dumbfucks in Head Office believed him!
I mean it was HIM that told those people in the elevator they could
smoke, not me! Ahhh, whatever!” Hunter choked back some more warm swill.
“So,” Bill said butting out his cigarette, “Let me see if
I’ve got this straight; We both got shit-canned, but still ended up with jobs
at the end of the day? Gotta love living in
King Ralph’s Alberta!”
“Yeah,” Hunter said, “so everything is fine, and no need to
sell our bodies to science or anything then?”
50 Pics in 50 Days for 50 Years of Doctor Who
50 Pics in 50 Days for 50 Years of Doctor Who!
Day 8
2013-10-11
50 Pics in 50 Days for 50 Years of Doctor Who
50 Pics in 50 Days for 50 Years of Doctor Who!
Day 7
The Five Doctors was the first Doctor Who DVD
released in Region 1. The very first Who DVD I purchased. At the time the only place to find such things in Calgary was at small specialty shops such as The Sentry Box, where I found happened to find this one. It contained a
commentary track featuring Peter Davison and Terrance Dicks that was not on the
original UK release!
2013-10-10
50 Pics in 50 Days for 50 Years of Doctor Who
50 Pics in 50 Days for 50 Years of Doctor Who!
Day 6
2013-10-09
50 Pics in 50 Days for 50 Years of Doctor Who
50 Pics in 50 Days for 50 Years of Doctor Who!
Day 5
2013-10-08
50 Pics in 50 Days for 50 Years of Doctor Who
50 pics in 50 Days for 50 Years of Doctor Who!
Day 4
The first Doctor Who stories to be novelised were, Doctor
Who in an exciting adventure with the Daleks by David Whitaker, Doctor
Who and the Zarbi by Bill Strutton, and Doctor Who and the
Crusaders also by David Whitaker.
These were published in hardcover by Fredrick Muller Ltd. The above picture is the Target Books second impression (that’s
second “printing” for us North Americans) from 1975.
2013-10-07
50 Pics in 50 Days for 50 Years of Doctor Who
50 Pics Continues!
Day 3
Patrick Troughton as "Salamander" form Story No. 40, "The Enemy of the World." A rare treat for Who fans in this story as Patrick Troughton, the second Doctor plays the Hero and the Villain of the piece!
2013-10-06
50 Pics in 50 Days for 50 Years of Doctor Who
50 Pics in 50 Days for 50 Years of
Doctor Who Continues!
Day 2
One of the things that helped get Whovians through the
“Wilderness Years” of the 1990’s were the trading card sets released by
Cornerstone Communications, Inc. This
is card #4 from the first series and features William Hartnell as The Doctor,
Carole Ann Ford as Susan, Jacqueline Hill as Barbara, and William Russell as
Ian, and is an on set still from the lost story “Marco Polo.”
2013-10-05
50 Pics in 50 Days For 50 Years of Doctor Who
The celebration of 50 Years of Doctor Who continues
with this new feature: 50 Days of Who!
It’s 50 days until the 50th Anniversary of Doctor
Who, so leading up to 23 November 2013 Chilled Monkey Brainz
will be posting a daily Who related photo!
Check back every day and enjoy!
Day 1
Black "Dalek Sec" toy from Character Options.
2013-10-04
Lond Ho News
Lond Ho Series 3 begins JANUARY 2014!
A New Series of stories from the twisted mind of The Jaeger.
12 Months.
12 Episodes.
B.Y.O.B.
But that doesn't mean you have to wait that long for NEW Lond Ho! A new one shot is being finished up for 12 October 2013!
And... a New feature to celebrate 50 Years of Doctor Who starts tomorrow! See you here!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Reviews From The Chesterfield
Ghost in the Shell Directed by Rupert Sanders Based on the manga by Shirow Masamune In the near future, the cyberneticly enhan...
-
Ghost in the Shell Directed by Rupert Sanders Based on the manga by Shirow Masamune In the near future, the cyberneticly enhan... -
No Dropping Out: Back to School at 35 (35 sai no Kokosei) Directed by Noriyoshi Sakuma, Seiichi Nagumo, and Maki Nishino Original... -
Star Wars: The Clone Wars The Lost Missions Disney/Lucasfilm The final completed episodes of Star Wars: The Clone Wars (previously ...