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Do you want to watch Doctor Who at the cinema before November 23rd?

A bit of a long shot but do you want to watch Doctor Who at the cinema before November 23rd? You can! The Lumiere Cinema in Romford is showing classic serials a few times in the run-up to Christmas, they're showing serials like The Silurians, Inferno, The Ambassadors of Death and Tomb of the Cybermen

But... they do say in the listings how people need to book in because the license to hire Doctor Who for cinema screenings is very expensive... so if you can, please book in! There is a screening of The Silurians tomorrow at 10am as well as on Sunday at 11am! I appreciate this is quite last minute but these events come along so rarely that I would hate them to see Doctor Who as not being financially worth it right now.

https://www.lumiereromford.com/movies/doctor-who-and-the-silurians-1970

u/StepsStan — 6 days ago
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Nearly bumped into this fella while scrolling on my phone (Rhyl high street, North Wales)

Very lucky I didn’t wake him. Extermination looks painful.

u/pvhc47 — 10 days ago
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I feel like Knives out is absolutely what Doctor Who could be in a modern era.

As a character Benoit Blanc has pretty much no stakes within the plots that he’s finds himself in. He doesn’t know the main characters, he doesn’t have any involvement with the people who died.

But he cares so much because he’s a massive ego maniac, he loves that feeling of solving a mystery, getting that moment of victory. Combined with Blanc playing his cards close to his chest while playing an act to lul them into a false sense of security.

On top of that while the tone does shift between the three, not only does it keep its core but Blanc is such a strong character he can shift it to whatever it needs to be.

I’m not advocating for Doctor Who to be a murder mystery every episode but I do think more simple stories set in all time and space that really allow the Doctor as a character to shine and elevate new ones every story would be really beneficial to the show.

u/Icy-Career-1531 — 9 days ago
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What do you think is the funniest moment from the Tenth Doctor Era

Mine is

"We have an intruder."

"How did he get in Intruder Window."

It's dumb but I love it.

u/Helloimafanoffiction — 10 days ago
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How do you think Chris Chibnall would have handled the Twelfth Doctor if Peter Capaldi had actually stayed for one more season? We know what series 5 would have looked like if Tennant had stayed, but what do you think series 11 would have been like with Capaldi?

u/HomarEuropejski — 10 days ago
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An Unearthly Child is a 11/10 1-parter pilot episode followed by a 4/10 3-parter and we need to stop ignoring it! . I mean the Band that Susan listens to in her introduction scene got a Big Finish 50th celebration in their 3 part 1963 series while none of the Cave People has yet to return everywhere

u/MikaelAdolfsson — 10 days ago
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Which classic Doctors would you say you like the most and what do you love about those incarnations?

u/HomarEuropejski — 10 days ago
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A Dalek and Tardis disguising themselves during this hiatus

Spotted this gorgeous Dalek and punny Tardis in Matlock this weekend. The “Punnydukes” shop seemed fun. Very lovely town too!

u/ctsmclovinsya — 10 days ago
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Which story has the best supporting characters in your opinion

I'll always really enjoyed everyone in The Caves of Androzani every character is either morally gray or completely evil so it gives the actors a lot of good material to sink their teeth into.

I particularly like Christopher Gable as Jek who has a lot of grand operatic energy and Maurice Roeves as Stotz who has this very threatening aura and vindictive glee.

u/Helloimafanoffiction — 10 days ago
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Help identifying two photos of Colin Baker

Can anyone shed any light on where these two photos of Colin come from, in which he's wearing his 6th Doctor waistcoat:

The waistcoat means this post-dates the beginning of his time on Doctor Who (plus, he looks slightly older than he did in season 23), so it's presumably from the late 80s/early 90s. Elsewhere, commentors have suggested that it could be from a play, or a children's TV series called Cuckoo (though this has been disputed).

Any thoughts welcome! (But note that, as a picture-hosting platform, Alamy doesn't accept AI submissions, so to my knowledge they are real photos; commentors elsewhere also say that these pictures have been kicking around since before commercial AI image-generation was possible.)

Thank you

u/ToshirosMyHero — 12 days ago
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If i was to pick the missing episodes of Doctor Who from The First Doctor era, i would pick The Episodes 2 and 4 of The Crusades, Episode 4 of The Daleks' Master Plan and all 4 episodes of The Smugglers cos i think these 3 stories need much more appreciation.

u/Serious_Meaning5220 — 9 days ago
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What do you think of the idea of the show having a more “anti-empire” theme for an entire season?

Apologies in advance for the long stream-of-consciousness babble.

Doctor Who is unabashedly British. It’s built into the DNA of the show and the character. The character of The Doctor is a big ol’ fanboy of the human race, especially the Brits, through all of space and time and it adds a certain “tea and fish fingers” flavour to the series, and I am in no way saying to get rid of that aspect.

But what if there was a version of The Doctor that had reason to be angry with the humans - plenty of storylines go down that route for a few eps at a time. But what if instead we went with this resentment being a slow build up of repeated abhorrent actions of the British Empire being shown through a series of adventures one after the other (past and future)?

E.g: an episode touching on The Great Hunger in Ireland, an episode delving into the dark history of the Crusades, an storyline following an Aboriginal tribe during the “settling” of Australia.

Of course, the monster of the week would still be an alien or a monster of some sort, and there would be enough sci fi adventure high-jinks to keep the tone from getting too depressing, but the running theme would be this backdrop of the British Empire at its worst points - and for any of the stories that would be too morbid for the show to dig into (à la Irish Famine) then it could just be set in future/space Britain (eg the Plutonian Harvest Locust swarm on the tech/human hybrid colonies of the 17th British Empire).

I feel like the right writer with a talented actor/actress at the helm could make a great season/series of The Doctor slowly becoming disillusioned with this core part of his identity - with the undercurrent of subtext leading to the real heart of their disillusionment (and the reason the TARDIS has been bringing them to these terrible points of history) is not with the Human British Empire, but with his standing as a noble Time Lord, and what that means for the regard held for other species/peoples.

Which could maybe lead into a big finale where Time Lord supremacy mixed in with a bit of modern day “Britain for the British” bigotry plays the villain in the present. The companion(s) would be able to pull together some good ol’ Dr Who cheeseball motivations (recollecting all the heroes of the dark episodes) to save the day while also paving a way forward for The Doctor to deal with his Time Lord history in a positive way without whitewashing.

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Side-note: A nice way to begin this arc, or book-end it, would be a space-age retelling of The Sword in the Stone, in some future rebirth of The British Kingdom, with The Doctor taking the role of Merlin.

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u/10p_Freddos — 14 days ago
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Question about the Doctor’s physiology, can the individual incarnations get scars?

I’ve always wondered this, can the Doctor get scars? I know that they would disappear once he regenerates. But if he gets a slash across the face, would it heal as scar tissue or would it not scar at all?

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u/takaboi218 — 13 days ago