Paul Scoones

Details of Doctor Who on New Zealand television here: doctorwho.org.nz/archive/time...
There were usually 1-2 episodes screening each week from 1985-1990.

No credit for Mark Strickson!

Watching regular Star Trek usually does it for me.

So Louise Jameson would have us believe anyway!

Despite many reference works insisting otherwise!

Haining acknowledged various newspapers when he used them as the basis of date entries in the book. I wonder what his reason was for not according DWM the same courtesy.

We really need a Gravis figure.

See (hear) also American fan podcasts.

The second of two takes. The majority of this shot appears in the finished programme, cutting away just before the horse follows them through the gate.

That's certainly the case for me. I really liked Doctor Who and had been a viewer for about six years, but Destiny was when I became obsessed with the series' mythology and started collecting Targets triggered by a desire to find out what had happened in Genesis of the Daleks, a story I hadn't seen.

Australia fared considerably better than New Zealand. Many more stories here were either rejected because of an adult censor rating or not even purchased in the 1960s & 70s. But on the plus side, we did get to see both The Brain of Morbius and The Deadly Assassin when Australian TV didn't!

The New Zealand broadcasts weren't particularly well publicized so it's unlikely that Haining was aware of them. It was research into broadcast dates by Jon Preddle and myself around 1988-89 that brought this information to light.

Likewise! :)

Today's the anniversary of the day that Rochelle and I officially opened our shop, Retrospace Sci-Fi Collectibles, on Hurstmere Road, Takapuna, on Saturday 7 January 2012. Prior to that we'd been selling online and had stands at events for a few years. Still going strong all these years later!

Doctor Who: The Lion film can now, still with the markings it had at the time of its discovery. The "Sedang Cinema" label was stuck over the top of the 1960s NZBC sticker by film collector Bruce Grenville in 1998. Photos courtesy of the film can's current owner.

27 years ago today, my friend Neil and I visited a film collector to follow up a rumour that he possibly had a lost episode of Doctor Who. The rest is history.

You would turn up on one of the few days of the year we're closed... :)

Yes! It's oddly sort of the inverse of film reviews, which are almost always about the director and seldom mention the writer.

2017?

Deacon (tuxedo) is older and more on the alert than Jonesy (ginger). He's reacting to me taking the photo.

A ginger and a tuxedo cat on the same chair.

Our two cats caught in an astonishing moment where they're happily snoozing in the same spot. Usually they're play fighting and chasing each other.

People seated on Takapuna beach reserve, watching a one-man performance of The End of the Golden Weather

20th anniversary Christmas Day performance of The End of the Golden Weather on Takapuna Beach.

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!

You've prompted a long-buried memory. Not only was I unfamiliar with Chauvelin and the Scarlet Pimpernel, but it was also in this book that I first encountered the name Moriarty.

I adored this book as a child. It was the second Doctor Who book I owned and for several years the only guide I had to the series. The section on the making to Robot is to blame for seeding a fascination with behind-the-scenes details that ultimately led to me working on the DVD / Blu_ray info text.

This artwork terrified me so much as a young child of about 7 or 8 (already an avid reader and Doctor Who fan), that when I borrowed it from the library I assiduously always placed the book face down so that I didn't have to look at the monster on the cover.

Watch out for a Masterful performance by Anthony Ainley as Reverend Emilius!

It was a private meet up for drinks with just a few of us, not an official part of the tour. Casual, off the record conversation I think revealed the true author behind the books.

I met him on an author tour back when I was a bookshop manager. Lets just say I liked his books more before I met him...

Congratulations, Toby. For me, it's been about 15 years since I gave up the booze for health reasons. I don't miss it at all. Rejoice in sobriety!