Well, that's this visit to the BBC Written Archive over and done with. 5882 scans and images obtained. Brain fried. 😀
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Well, that's this visit to the BBC Written Archive over and done with. 5882 scans and images obtained. Brain fried. 😀
Five full days. Start at
10am when I’m allowed in then work flat out, no breaks, until I get kicked out at 5pm. 🙂
Back here again for my 20th visit whilst working on the Doctor Who Blu-ray Collections! Here all week, gathering material for the next unannounced 2026 release as well as making a start on the scanning for the two releases after that (probably).
🚨NEW EPISODE!🚨
The 500th episode of the Power of 3 has just dropped.
We look at a #DoctorWho lost story, The Zeldon, by William Emms, originally discussed for the Fifth Doctor. We bring it to life with 4 fab readers and discuss the plot.
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Two years before my effort, Jan Pinkava won the Young Film Makers' Competition. He subsequently went on to win two Oscars for his work at Pixar.
I recently found the judge's letter I received with regards to my entry to Screen Test's annual Young Film Makers' Competition back in 1982. I love how they bothered to give proper consideration to the entries and the kind and encouraging nature of their comments.
It's in DWB #59 from October 1988. They printed this part of the interview over brown-toned photographs, which doesn't help when it comes in trying to read the thing!
Back in 1988, Gerry Davis said in an interview that when he was story editor on Doctor Who, one of the first people he commissioned to try and write for the programme was Roy, but there's no evidence of this in the BBC Written Archives. Did Roy ever have any memories of this happening?
And thanks to the British Newspaper Archive uploading the Evening News to their repository last year, we now have William Hall's account of being involved with The Feast of Steven.
The PDF Archive for the Doctor Who Season 21 Blu-ray Collection has finally been locked, so here's what's going to be included this time round - a total of 7706 pages of material, the second largest so far. It brings the running total across the 19 releases to 78,493 pages!
Delighted to announce after many years of trying to get this to happen, the lovely people at North One & UKTV saw the opportunity and we're making this incredibly special series. A joy to work with these teams and of course with Sir David and the rest of the fantastic OFAH cast.
I'm part of a film collecting group on Facebook. Back in 2022, I asked the members whether they had made any firm plans as to what should happen to their collections when they die. These were the results. This is one of the reasons why the work of @filmisfabulous.bsky.social is so important.
The daily PasB logs are included on a number of the Collections, but after a time, the log stopped in that format and they reverted to just using the PasC sheets, which form part of the PDF production paperwork anyway.
The hired-in metal condenser panels seen hanging in the top left of the photo and in the middle of the studio layout have been used many times over the years and were the same ones reused for some of the new filming for the 2017 version (image (c) John Kelly)
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The overhead image helps to make geographic sense of the photo of the partly erected (but not dressed) studio set looking towards the TARDIS console room, lab set and the back of the TARDIS storage room.
It's been kicking around in fandom for about 40 years, so it's pretty well known about. It's not a great story, though. Looking forward to listening to the podcast!
"No, Malcolm. You've misheard. Jenna Stannis is a Space *Pirate*..." 🤣
And a couple of rather nice Blake's 7 Blu-ray Collection subtitling goofs for Series 2 that we caught along the way...
Apologies for the lateness, but here is the breakdown of the PDF Archive on the new Blake's 7 Blu-ray Collection for Series 2, this time with a total of 3556 pages of stuff!
Here are the contacts. I had a nasty feeling that Reach would begin dumping vast swathes of negative libraries when they started to take over multiple local newspapers.
I bought several of their Shada photos years ago. I’ve still got the contact sheet of all of them somewhere.
What "previous upscaling method" has The Android Invasion been through that you can point to as being any different?
You see, I find all this very disingenuous. The sign would take up 2.1 x 1.7mm on the original 16mm frame and then be transferred on a not-great telecine machine. On the original Quad tape, the sign is barely any different to this because the detail simply isn't there. I find this perfectly legible.
What about it?
That's as transmitted and it's called undergrowth! 🤣
Also from the 6th August 1966 edition of Jackie magazine, we learn that Roger Daltrey was a big fan of Doctor Who and had two Louis Marx Daleks in his flat! Mr Who loves Dr Who!
The British Newspaper Archive has recently put up the entire run of the girls' magazine, Jackie (1964-93), including their 1969 serialised ‘Private Life of Frazer Hines’ strip. This is the somewhat wonky section covering Frazer's Doctor Who career (and, of course, bits of his love life!)
It's actually quite a Sutekh thing to say!
I don't think they'd have any interest in taking them, to be honest and sometimes scripts are no help at all. It wouldn't surprise me if a percentage of it is done by running the dialogue through a program rather than by a real person anyway.
No, we've always done it and we flag up hundreds of corrections along the way. It may be that we flagged it and they accidentally missed it during whilst correcting all the others or it could have been that we just couldn't work out what was really said as there's only a rehearsal script for Part 2.
