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Ruby's Mum struggles to choose the right name

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RIP Sid Sutton - DW Title Sequence Designer 1980-1986 A thread of a few of title sequences and other designs. 1/9

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Happy 77th Birthday to Joanna Lumley

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RIP David McCallum💯 Steel summons The Darkness to make a deal. [Sapphire and Steel: Assignment Two 1979]

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#DoctorWho Troughton offers Pertwee a Jelly Baby.😎 Jon Pertwee: "He's trying to sabotage my performance". Lovely playfulness between Patrick Troughton and Jon Pertwee on the set of The Five Doctors

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This would have been me😂 Some days it’s just really difficult to get out of the TARDIS😂

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[1986 Wogan] Douglas Adams talks about watching An Unearthly Child whilst he was script editor of Doctor Who💯 [BBC Archives twitter video edit]

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@buitengebieden Goes off to sit in the box it came in.

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10th Doctor: "I never would" Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart:😎

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RIP David McCallum❤️ (1933-2023)

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Happy 95th Birthday to Dame Patricia Routledge! My friend who played an extra in an episode of Keeping Up Appearances said how lovely & generous she was. Rushed away from location by car to take her to a theatre role but she made the driver return so she could thank my friend⭐️

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Jon Pertwee recounts the story of escaping death on the HMS Hood during the war. Fired on by the Bismarck, it went down in three minutes and only three survived - 1,415 men died. The Bismarck was sunk 9 day later.

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Happy 93rd Birthday to Colin Jeavons

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Alternative take: Richard Hurndall enjoying pineapple [The Five Doctors]😁

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"Is it just me or is there a giant dog thing in a cloak on top of that blue box..?"

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RIP John Savident Seen here in my favourite Blake's 7 episode "Orbit" by Robert Holmes with Jacqueline Pearce as Servalan.

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In the absence of an appropriate emoji - I shall express my feelings on my trip to Big Tescos through the medium of Bonnie Langford screaming against a CSO screen [You were warned!]

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1986 - Jon Pertwee recalls "The Three Doctors"

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A screenshot from the Centenary special😜

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RIP Pamela Salem (1944-2024)❤️

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Beryl Reid isn't happy. "It's not like movies where they pay you for your time!". [Earthshock]

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I've not seen this before. A 1988 Doctor Who 25th Anniversary DWB cover by Alister Pearson.

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Back in the 80’s fans often used to run into the studio, press buttons on the TARDIS console and then run away again😉

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RIP Doreen Mantle [1926-2023] One Foot in the Grave: "The Affair of the Hollow Lady" Mrs Warboys has a wax model of herself made as the prize in a competition. Victor and Margaret take delivery whilst she's in hospital.😂

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That's a bit better. [Invasion of Time - TARDIS interior]

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It may have something to do with the fact I watched it repeatedly as a kid and used to pause the video so I could draw it but the Dalek Saucer is still one of the best looking spaceships with one of the best sound effect designs!! [DALEKS: Invasion Earth 2150AD]

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I loved Chibnall’s Time-Flight homage: Dan and Yaz completely indifferent to the death of someone they’d spent 3 years with.

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RIP Bernard Cribbins❤️ His 2nd of two appearances, he played comedy writer Bradley Marler in The Avengers season 6 episode "Look - (Stop Me If You've Heard This One) But There Were These Two Fellers...". With one of the best visual gags in the whole series:

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1/ "Grandfather! The Doors! They're opening!!" This is a thread about the view out of the main TARDIS interior doors and when we stopped seeing one🤓 [geek mode activated]

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RIP Bernard Cribbins❤️ His first of two appearances, he played Arkwright of The Arkwright Knitting Circle in The Avengers season 4 episode "The Girl From Auntie".

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Tom Baker on Animal Magic “Oh God, forgive me!”😎

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This is disturbing😂

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“Daleks! Sontarans! CYBERMEN! They’re still in the nursery compared to us!! Ten million years! That’s how long it takes to become really corrupt!!”

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1993 Jon Pertwee’s choice for who would make a good Doctor and which of his predecessors he thought was miscast - [ full video on Youtube - ]

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Happy 33rd Anniversary of Sylvester McCoy returning to the BBC to record these lines of dialogue [23rd November 1989]:

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When Jon Pertwee was filmed having a tantrum over the poor quality of the Dr.Who sets😜 [This is a joke] [The House That Dripped Blood 1971 directed by Peter Duffell]

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Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart on the phone

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The Sixth Doctor and Tegan were so suited to one another. [No comments about the show they're on, please🙏🏼]

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"Did Peter Davison tear up my scarf?!" Tom Baker reacts - 1983 Chicago

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That time when the 4th Doctor left Leela behind to go and have some solo Big Finish Boxset adventures.

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I love this TARDIS scene from the TVM - there's no high drama, it's just a simple transition scene. It's very calm and just feels like business as usual (the Doctor travelling in the TARDIS with companions) With added Davison console thump homage.

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This background artiste clearly can't see where he's going, doesn't want to fall down the stairs to his right and has counted the steps to the next control panel😁

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"Yawn yawn yawn" Jon Pertwee talks Worzel Gummidge but Patrick Troughton interrupts [1983 Chicago Convention]

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I wish they'd taken a photo like this every time the TARDIS set was in studio🥰

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CASTELLAN: The constitution clearly states that when in emergency session, the members of the inner council are unanimous! FLAVIA: Which indeed I am!

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Just imagine if every Pertwee had had his Who is The Doctor song playing over the end credits. Just imagine! These are the things that sometimes fly around my brain.

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RIP Gudrun Ure❤️

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I love this photo of William Hartnell from The Smugglers. Such a shame there isn’t a better quality print around.

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I've never noticed this transition before! Nice work from director Tristan de Vere Cole💯 [Doctor Who: The Wheel in Space]

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"And this is one of me by the Pyramids"

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Some more DW Soundtracks coming from Silvascreen!! Revenge of the Cybermen - Carey Blyton with Peter Howell Time and the Rani - Keff McCulloch

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They're great those 10th anniversary Radio Times photoshoots. I think these are my favourite shots

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RIP William Russell Ian and Barbara return to the villa after their tribulations in Rome. [The Romans - Inferno]

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1/ This is a thread looking at the Doctor Who work (& Beyond) of BBC Costume Designer James Acheson. He designed just a few rather iconic costumes...

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RIP Ron Pember (1934-2022) The kind of career that any actor would dream of - he was practically in everything. The final 1969 Avengers episode Bizarre And for Doctor Who - on radio in Slipback as Seedle.

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Good Morning☀️

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I enjoyed watching Revenge of the Cybermen again after so long but it's always a pleasure to move on to the next story. What a perfect cliffhanger to part one!💯 [Terror of the Zygons]

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[Galaxy 4] First time that director Derek Martinus shot inside the TARDIS and he made it instantly memorable💯💯💯

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Tegan climbs a tree and suffers the consequences😁 [Featuring BBC2's "Mandy"😁]

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The Doctor Jon Pertwee realises that Day of the Daleks has the plot of T2 and explains it to the Guerrilla (not the band). "You did it yourselves!"

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1/ Directors of the Cybermen Derek Martinus: The Tenth Planet Martinus treats the Cybermen as actual characters. He goes for close ups on their faces, which reveals their eyes and adds to their creepiness. He cast actors much smaller than those in the Cyber costumes.

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The Master sums on the first 7 Doctors - Anthony Ainley performing Terrance Dicks's script for The Destiny of the Doctors video game. 1997

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A sequence from Farmergeddon’s Classic Five Doctors video😂 Part One - Part Two -

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I love the TARDIS interior sound effects for this materialisation in Planet of the Daleks (that wonderful echoey effect introduced in the Troughton years). In the 70s, until the 80's ping sound effect, it's mostly just a fade between the travelling & stationary sounds 1/3

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The BBC used to take exceptional care when storing scenery...

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Oh the lovely, much missed Mary Tamm. I bet she would have been brilliant on a blu-ray boxset Behind the Sofa❤️ [The Pirate Planet - blooper]

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Goodnight, Sir Ian Francis Chesterton❤️ RIP William Russell aka Russell Enoch❤️

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The early days of the Dalek Invasion of Earth were such a jolly time. What larks😎

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"In 1986, in a bid to leave Doctor Who Producer Jonathan Turnover produced a sample episode of a soap opera about the everyday lives of the travellers on "Hyperion III". It was rejected by his bosses calling it "Shit"."

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Something I've not seen before: I remembered this Dalek toy playset from 1997 but apparently they were going to do a McGann TARDIS playset follow-up which never happened.

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73 Yards

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The 4th Doctor faces another of the Master's servants in the Matrix!😁 [DW: The Deadly Assassin vs BBC2's "Mandy"]

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Although any humour he suggested was often vetoed (due to JNT's fear of encouraging a return to Tom Baker humour), Peter Davison liked to get in a bit of business involving the TARDIS console -

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The publicity for 1986's Trial of a Time Lord was quite strange at times..🤭

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Same energy

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The Five Doctors Special Special Edition The ice cream cone and the BBC Micro have mated.

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1/3 #DoctorWho Glass shots used in the Davison era - The camera shoots through a glass screen that has a painting added to it. The Visitation/Time-Flight/Snakedance [Pic. 4: Snakedance might be more a matte shot tho..?]

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The Invasion:Ep.1. Oh why couldn’t we have had more Cosgrove Hall animations💯💯💯💯 Not to undervalue the work that goes into current animations but to me this gets it right. The scale feels right and authentic albeit in a highly stylised way

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Susan Foreman had a clear out once she chose a lovely new home for herself and David.

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The McCoy Era. Two TARDISes. BOX ONE built for Snakedance. BOX TWO built for Planet of Fire. [in photo 1 - Box 2 on the left, Box 1 on the right]

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The Doctor's tinkering with time in Day of the Daleks caused some strange things to happen:

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"Rambo Dalek" pushes its Bitch Dalek out the way😎 [No this shot wasn't used]

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K9 and Company Opening Titles ... with a surprise appearance from Lalla Ward on vocals...😉😁

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The Greatest Show in the Galaxy The final appearance of the Malcolm Thornton (The Five Doctors) designed TARDIS interior - set up in a tent in the car park of Elstree Studios. 1/3

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JNT's stunt casting went just too far sometimes!😉😎 I still wish this was actually a thing😁 #DoctorWho

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[Flippant post] How Douglas Camfield shoots the lead character talking to the villain verses how Peter Moffatt shoots the lead character talking to the villain. 🤨😉

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That shop counter in Rentaghost looks familiar [Set spotting]

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RIP Lillias Walker (1930-2023) Lillias was superbly unnerving as Sister Lamont in Terror of the Zygons.

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#WhoAreYouCallingSmall A shout out to Video Effects Designer Dave Chapman. He created the skeletal extermination effect with way less technology than those repeating the effect since. & lots of other wonderful images like the transmatting Daleks and the Doctor's Dalek confuser

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The Telemovie with the Pertwee logo really is such an oddity. Ethereally floating between Classic & Nu DW. It's still a lovely looking production (a shame they didn't manage to get Geoffrey Sax back as director - they tried for series 1) Sylv does look rather awkward on film😇

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Happy 84th Birthday to the Wonderful Waris Hussein🥳💯 Here's one of my favourite TARDIS scenes. Love how beaten up the regulars are. Waris Hussein's direction is so effective plus Geoff Shaw’s excellent moody lighting🤩

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The Kandyman recieves a phone....😁😁😁

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According to AI Luma - The TARDIS dematerialising in Power of the Daleks😂

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It's a shame that this reunion wasn't captured on video - Roy Castle just popped over whilst doing Record Breakers in another studio wasn't it..?

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Sapphire and Steel: Adventure Two. It’s incredible that not much really happens and just when you think you’re nearing the end - there’s always more episodes. Yet it’s utterly compelling and I wouldn’t lose a minute of it😎 Two episodes left -

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100 Years since the birth of Daniel Patrick Macnee (1922-2015) Here's a scene from The Avengers episode A Sense of History where Steed is surrounded by the students of St. Bodes college lead by Duboys (Patrick Mower), they think they can intimidate him - they're wrong.

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