2013-10-31

50 Pics in 50 Days for 50 Years of Doctor Who

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



These are some Daleks on display at a convention I never attended, built by a fan I've never met.  Loving the full sized Dalek Emperor from Evil of the Daleks.

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



A BBC Doctor Who publicity photo of David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor!  We all look forward to seeing him again in the 50th Special, The Day of the Doctor! Allons-y! 

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



The Character Options Doctor Who:The Tenth Planet Cyberman action figure.  A replica of the Cybermen at their creepiest, as they first appeared in William Hartnell’s final story!

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?”

Bill lit up another cigarette, “Nope.  Well, not today anyway.”

50 Pics in 50 Days for 50 Years of Doctor Who

50 Pics in 50 Days for 50 Years of Doctor Who!

Day 8



The Doctor’s Space/Time machine, the TARDIS.  We learn in the very first episode of the series that the Doctor’s granddaughter, Susan “made up” the name “TARDIS” as an acronym for Time And Relative Dimension In Space.  This toy is the Seventh Doctor’s Flight Control TARDIS from Character Options that come with lights and sound.  The “interior” behind the doors is a picture of the control room that I printed off the internet and stuck inside, because apparently I am the biggest geek in the universe.

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



A pair of Doctor Who Cosplayers portraying the Tenth Doctor and his TARDIS.  I took this photo at the 2012 Calgary Comic Expo.

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



Doctor Who comics have been around for almost as long as the TV programme has.  This is the latest issue of IDW’s 50th Anniversary tale: “Prisoners of Time” featuring the Ninth Doctor as portrayed by Christopher Eccleston. 

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!

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