I kind of like Dr Who (nostalgically only), The Avengers (TV), random Cult TV nonsense, interested in production/behind the scenes, odd bit of silliness
#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
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⭐️
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.
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!]
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.😂
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]
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:
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]
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".
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]
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.
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😁
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.
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.
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]
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.
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
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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"."
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.
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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#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..?]
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
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.
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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. 🤨😉
#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
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😇
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🤩
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 -
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.