tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64887991953346883262024-03-15T19:14:36.759+00:00The Door In TimeDoctor Who, and the Doctor Who: Adventures In Time And Space roleplaying game. By Craig Oxbrow.Craig Oxbrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16388821789251515974noreply@blogger.comBlogger1808125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488799195334688326.post-87269776071469378102024-03-15T19:13:00.003+00:002024-03-15T19:13:57.350+00:00May 11thWith the first two episodes on iPlayer, and on Disney+ simultaneously.<div><br /></div><div>I will be waiting for the actual telly, as my actual telly is bigger than the monitor I am looking at this on.</div>Craig Oxbrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16388821789251515974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488799195334688326.post-27627821570579795752024-02-15T20:45:00.001+00:002024-02-15T20:48:43.254+00:00Doctor Who scripts onlineVia Reactor, <a href="https://reactormag.com/you-can-now-read-a-whole-lot-of-doctor-who-scripts-courtesy-of-the-bbc-writers-script-library/">You can now read a whole lot of Doctor Who scripts courtesy of the BBC Writers’ Script Library</a>. Over two hundred, including the recent specials, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Class, and <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/documents/doctor-who-2023-15th-doctor-audition-piece-01122021.pdf">the audition piece for the Fifteenth Doctor</a>.<div><br /></div><div>ROBIN We’ve got 100 seconds?!</div><div>THE DOCTOR And I will get you out. You will go home. And see your mum. And your brother. Okay?</div><div>ROBIN How d’you know about them?</div><div>THE DOCTOR They’re in your eyes.</div>Craig Oxbrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16388821789251515974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488799195334688326.post-23083956197602076652024-02-14T00:00:00.001+00:002024-02-15T20:41:37.084+00:00Two hears beat as... let me start again.Craig Oxbrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16388821789251515974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488799195334688326.post-13924494791253723522024-01-23T19:07:00.005+00:002024-01-23T19:10:27.202+00:00101 TARDIS Quirks<a href="https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/101-tardis-quirks.916790/">101 TARDIS Quirks on RPGnet</a>, more than 10% mine for the initial number but carrying on.<div><br /></div><div>Started bizarrely with the thing where it needs to be given a puma, but most are milder. from the same poster, 7 (unpleasantly organic) is disturbing while 8 (really likes neutron stars) is adorable.</div>Craig Oxbrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16388821789251515974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488799195334688326.post-76205888500186610732024-01-09T13:09:00.003+00:002024-01-10T02:19:15.901+00:00Three travellersSince I’m doing <b>Doctor Who</b> revised first edition for the January Character Creation Challenge, I thought I should link them here.<div><br /></div><div><a href="https://thewatchhouserpg.blogspot.com/2024/01/character-creation-challenge-2024-7b.html">Walker</a>, Time Lord</div><div><a href="https://thewatchhouserpg.blogspot.com/2024/01/character-creation-challenge-2024-8b.html">Josh</a>, busker</div><div><a href="https://thewatchhouserpg.blogspot.com/2024/01/character-creation-challenge-2024-9b.html">Amit</a>, temporal physicist</div>Craig Oxbrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16388821789251515974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488799195334688326.post-71805220315552277732024-01-08T20:24:00.038+00:002024-01-08T22:06:17.556+00:00Nine plots from David Bowie's The Buddha Of Suburbia<div>For David Bowie’s birthday, adventure hooks based on his studio albums’ song titles.</div><div><br /></div>After <a href="http://thedoorintime.blogspot.com/2017/01/25-adventure-ideas-inspired-by-david.html">album titles</a>, <a href="https://thedoorintime.blogspot.com/2017/01/seven-plots-from-david-bowies-blackstar.html">★</a>, <a href="https://thedoorintime.blogspot.com/2018/01/fourteen-plots-from-david-bowies-next.html">The Next Day</a>, <a href="http://thedoorintime.blogspot.com/2019/01/eleven-plots-from-david-bowies-reality.html">Reality</a>, <a href="http://thedoorintime.blogspot.com/2020/01/twelve-plots-from-david-bowies-heathen.html">Heathen</a>, <a href="http://thedoorintime.blogspot.com/2021/01/eleven-plots-from-david-bowies-hours.html">Hours</a>, <a href="http://thedoorintime.blogspot.com/2022/01/nine-plots-from-david-bowies-earthling.html">Earthling</a> and <a href="https://thedoorintime.blogspot.com/2023/01/nineteen-plots-from-david-bowies-outside.html">Outside</a>...<div><br /></div><div><div>If I do these annually I will retire before I get to the end. So since <b>The Buddha Of Suburbia</b> is under ten titles, expect another soon...</div><div><br /></div><div>And as the soundtrack to the TV version of Hanif Kureishi’s novel it’s ;already been a BBC drama, so dodging that plot. (And Naveen Andrews would make a great Doctor.)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Buddha of Suburbia</b></div><div>The travellers return to find a philosopher as mayor their home town and people coming from far and wide to learn from him. Oh, and it’s one of the travellers, about five years old than he is currently.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Sex and the Church</b></div><div>The travellers have to help Abelard and Heloise escape some very disapproving church authorities backed by the Censors seeking to stifle inappropriate artistic expression throughout human history.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>South Horizon</b></div><div>The sun rises in the south. This is concerning.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>The Mysteries</b></div><div>A production of a new murder mystery play is interrupted by an actual murder. By laser beam.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Bleed Like a Craze, Dad</b></div><div>1981, and the most famous band in the world is Theda Bara, led by a self-proclaimed immortal vampire queen.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Strangers When We Meet</b></div><div>The Stranger meets an incarnation of herself that she doesn’t recognise.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Dead Against It</b></div><div>A new bypass goes too close to a stone circle and workers start dying horribly. Dangerously zealous protesters or disturbed ghosts?</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Untitled No. 1</b></div><div>The travellers have to team up with the Dadaists to stop the Censors wiping out the 1920s.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Ian Fish, U.K. Heir</b></div><div>The travellers return to the present and the person on all the money looks totally unfamiliar. Who altered the line of succession and why? Also, if we have a King Ian, is this the Ianian era?</div></div>Craig Oxbrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16388821789251515974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488799195334688326.post-91950468601984806872024-01-01T00:00:00.001+00:002024-01-08T20:35:01.715+00:00Happy New Year when the time comes!Craig Oxbrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16388821789251515974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488799195334688326.post-75847244904708382742023-12-26T00:47:00.000+00:002023-12-26T00:47:00.519+00:00Playing the Fifteenth DoctorFifteen is good at talking his way out of mundane situations, especially by being helpful.Craig Oxbrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16388821789251515974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488799195334688326.post-54310666487808886382023-12-25T19:31:00.009+00:002023-12-29T05:32:08.038+00:00The Church On Ruby Road<b>The Church On Ruby Road</b> is the first Christmas special in six years and the first as the first full adventure for a new Doctor since 2005, introducing a new companion as well.<div><br /></div><div>A big goofy singing goblin adventure too. (With a deeply sad bit.)</div><div><br /></div><div>Ruby being established as having heroic tendencies right away.</div><div><br /></div><div>And Davina McCall as well!</div><div><br /></div><div>Lovely little bit with the policeman’s reaction to the Doctor’s assurance, happily ignoring the police box disappearing.</div><div><br /></div><div>Which I thought was going with Mrs. Flood’s equally casual reaction to establish that the Doctor isn’t unknown in this version of the present, but apparently not... Hmm...</div><div><br /></div><div>The reveal of the King reminded me of <b>Wizards Vs. Aliens</b>, which also had a massive power-eating king behind a spaceship door in that case.</div><div><br /></div><div>And a <b>Buffy</b> shoutout when mentioning the musical number in Unleashed!</div><div><br /></div><div>As well as <b>Long Lost Family</b> being a visitor from ITV.</div><div><br /></div><div>I knew Ncuti Gatwa lived in Edinburgh in his youth but I didn’t know he was round the corner in Oxgangs!</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIKeuC3IE9c">Non-Unleashed behind the scenes bit</a></div><div><br /></div><div>See you lot in May!</div>Craig Oxbrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16388821789251515974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488799195334688326.post-67947857471285421582023-12-25T00:01:00.012+00:002023-12-26T00:39:48.194+00:00Doctor Who: The Official Annual 2024A Merry Christmas to all of you at home!<div><br /></div><div>Having a new Doctor and companion debut at Christmas means you can’t have much merch for them, but Ncuit Gatwa gets to share the Annual cover with David Tennant (as well as all the magazines - so many magazines!) and the back pages, after the story and comic section in between features and mostly puzzles.</div>Craig Oxbrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16388821789251515974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488799195334688326.post-30795924939222110682023-12-19T00:28:00.006+00:002023-12-19T01:15:16.553+00:00Imagine Russell T DaviesAlan Yentob talked to Russell T Davies on BBC One arts series <b>Imagine</b>, even with a moment on <b>Dark Season</b>. And a new to me bit about what the 60s episode next year is going to be about.<div><br /></div><div><span><a name='more'></a></span>Abbey Road.</div>Craig Oxbrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16388821789251515974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488799195334688326.post-69800631957135861542023-12-16T00:01:00.016+00:002023-12-17T01:11:53.931+00:00The Goblin SongNo <b>Doctor Who</b> epioode for another ten days! But a <a href="https://www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-features/doctor-who-releases-christmas-single-the-goblin-song">preview</a> of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXgnqGTOXTE">The Goblin Song</a>, on all the music platforms with proceeds going to Children In Need.<div><br /></div><div>(It sounds more big band and less <b>Labyrinth</b> than I would have guessed from the goblins’ look. With their black eyes and pallid greenish skin they actually most remind of the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UqFPujRZWo">Gnome who was so excited to be a monster</a> in <b>D&D</b> 4e!)</div>Craig Oxbrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16388821789251515974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488799195334688326.post-79640602727828380532023-12-15T00:00:00.012+00:002023-12-17T01:20:43.652+00:00Sarah Jane's 50th anniversary<a href="https://gizmodo.com/doctor-who-sarah-jane-50th-anniversary-time-warrior-bbc-1851103695">Sarah Jane Smith</a> made her debut in <b>The Time Warrior</b>, fifty years ago today. A hero in her own right as embodied by Elisabeth Sladen.Craig Oxbrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16388821789251515974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488799195334688326.post-37467190644295451812023-12-09T20:29:00.008+00:002023-12-10T04:19:30.512+00:00The GiggleOne more special and we could have been weekly!<div><br />Still, there’s quite a lot to unpack here.</div><div><br /></div><div>Bear in mind that this is the casual viewer friendly version of <b>Doctor Who</b>. <b>Doctor Who</b> is a weird show.</div><div><br /></div><div>(<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9WI4kZ7Ubk">Extra behind the scenes featurette</a> where the end about what come next repeats the <b>Unleashed</b> episode)</div><div><br /></div><div>The Toymaker!</div><div><br /></div><div>Creepy puppets!</div><div><br /></div><div>The Toymaker having a creepy puppet copy of the Doctor, as seen in the first Eighth Doctor comics!</div><div><br /></div><div>Mel!</div><div><br /></div><div><span><a name='more'></a></span></div><div>Donna smashing the crap out of a bunch f creepy Scottish puppets!</div><div><br /></div><div>The Vlinx! A friendly alien cyborg! Why is there a friendly alien cyborg? Why not?</div><div><br /></div><div>An ending that comes down to a failed Agility check?</div><div><br /></div><div>Wheelchair accessible!</div><div><br /></div><div>The second time they’ve done the Flash Gordon bit with someone picking up something left behind to do with the Master. (The last time being the last time we had a big song and dance around a base by the villain too.)</div><div><br /></div><div><div>A happy ending? A Doctor allowed to have a happy ending?</div><div><br /></div><div>Oh, and a bi-generation.</div></div>Craig Oxbrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16388821789251515974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488799195334688326.post-8810920128877063852023-12-02T20:44:00.005+00:002023-12-02T23:35:36.343+00:00Wild Blue YonderQuite <b>Midnight</b> but also very Eighth Doctor comics. Also showing off the virtual set bit, while also being a bottle episode.<div><br /></div><div>It does feel like we got one “normal” episode in a very compressed season as a result. (Not necessarily a complaint - I wish the nine episode Buffyverse audio drama <b>Slayers</b> had had standalone episodes - but odd when we only have three, like <b>Sherlock</b>.)</div>Craig Oxbrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16388821789251515974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488799195334688326.post-85411512514429535642023-11-27T22:17:00.002+00:002023-11-27T22:17:48.229+00:00The Nobles<a href="https://episodicmedium.substack.com/p/review-doctor-who-the-star-beast">Caroline Siede of Girl Culture and formerly the A.V. Club on The Star Beast, the Doctor’s feelings, and the Nobles in particular</a>.Craig Oxbrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16388821789251515974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488799195334688326.post-76638129598361428292023-11-25T20:23:00.005+00:002023-11-26T00:06:24.985+00:00The Star BeastIt’s so weird seeing such a close adaptation (in the middle of other fun stuff) if a story I’ve loved since I was six. And yes I want a Meep toy.<div><br /></div><div><span><a name='more'></a></span>With nice and nasty faces.</div><div><br /></div><div>The design tweaks from cuddly cartoon to cute animal worked for live-action-ing, though the nasty face is still a bit cartoony.</div><div><br /></div><div>Russell T Davies mentions not being sure why they didn’t do this sooner, probably the effects needed. Of course <b>Smith And Jones</b> had a bit of this, scary-looking aliens hunting a benign-looking monster for legal reasons, but it’s not the same.</div><div><br /></div><div>Yay for new UNIT people, I hope and expect to see them again.</div><div><br /></div><div>The sonic has a heads up display and a shield generator now? Alright.</div><div><br /></div><div>The solution to the tragedy of Donna is equal parts needed-years-to-work and fixed-in-no-time. But hey.</div><div><br /></div><div>Sort of a cheat that the really obvious alien inspired toys Rose made only appear in the flashback. But hey.</div><div><br /></div><div>Worried some might read Rose having Doctor knowledge as being <i>why</i> she’s trans with the “binary” callback, but hopefully not overall.</div><div><br /></div><div>Not sure why <b>Doctor Who Unleashed</b> isn’t called <b>Confidential</b> again, as having a presenter is the only notable change. And it had Pat Mills and Dave Gibbons on set!</div><div><br /></div><div>And a different behind the scenes featurette <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWnPxke0row">here</a>. (Bernard <3)</div>Craig Oxbrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16388821789251515974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488799195334688326.post-40336364094147348942023-11-23T23:59:00.005+00:002023-11-24T00:16:26.619+00:00The Daleks! In Colour!Now in colour and probably on a bigger screen than TVs had in 1963, unless you watch it on a smaller screen which is also an option!Craig Oxbrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16388821789251515974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488799195334688326.post-73022229531192825992023-11-23T20:13:00.000+00:002023-11-23T20:35:29.398+00:00Fifty by Morgan DavieMorgan Davie presents <a href="http://taleturn.com/portfolio/doctor-who-fifty/">Fifty</a>, an adventure written for the fiftieht anniversary, for its tenth anniversary.Craig Oxbrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16388821789251515974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488799195334688326.post-47370856047240899522023-11-23T17:15:00.002+00:002023-11-23T17:15:00.139+00:00Happy anniversary!<div><b>Doctor Who</b> premiered on this day sixty years ago.</div><div><br /></div>An incidentally, a happy Thanksgiving to all of you at home in the USA!Craig Oxbrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16388821789251515974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488799195334688326.post-16360797097308134182023-11-17T22:21:00.004+00:002023-11-18T01:29:50.034+00:00We are, in a very real sense, backDavros presents his Mark III Travel Machine in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfLtAdSgWPQ">the Children In Need mini-episode</a>. It’s about as RTD as RTD can be. This was so Russell T Davies in funny mode that I’m surprised he didn’t narrate it himself.Craig Oxbrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16388821789251515974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488799195334688326.post-25961117338625077852023-11-01T23:46:00.006+00:002023-11-01T23:46:36.597+00:00The WhoniverseWe’re really calling it that now. It has a logo. And short reunion stories highlighting some classics. And nearly everything available on iPlayer.<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB4R3pGP0pvoezrmMhuOdk_6_WHLghtSb9q_ROX7HsQFVjq4KG1yBuEqXej8fkDnJhzmXbaLQEUUMVCCp8jBh61vNYbce42R546P_sEzhe1hkxJqF5P2XOQPEO8YpYfWnPR_bnbXm8kMN3j6R-uSvPVnnSPDpFsHBQjpkrX-mwlDw_iMTtC3DxsHcMCs4/s1456/The-Whoniverse-iplayer-landing-screen-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="712" data-original-width="1456" height="156" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB4R3pGP0pvoezrmMhuOdk_6_WHLghtSb9q_ROX7HsQFVjq4KG1yBuEqXej8fkDnJhzmXbaLQEUUMVCCp8jBh61vNYbce42R546P_sEzhe1hkxJqF5P2XOQPEO8YpYfWnPR_bnbXm8kMN3j6R-uSvPVnnSPDpFsHBQjpkrX-mwlDw_iMTtC3DxsHcMCs4/s320/The-Whoniverse-iplayer-landing-screen-1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div>K9 And Company!</div><div><br /></div>Craig Oxbrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16388821789251515974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488799195334688326.post-29752730546568660112023-10-27T01:01:00.007+01:002023-10-27T01:01:44.477+01:00Big Who Stuff Humble Bundle<a href="https://www.humblebundle.com/doctor-who-megabundle-2023-books">Humble Bundle</a> has the first edition (well, last edition of first edition) RPG rulebook and sourcebooks along with various comics collections and audio dramas to download for about fifteen quid, with a chunk going to Children In Need.Craig Oxbrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16388821789251515974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488799195334688326.post-74585215632869747832023-10-13T02:16:00.003+01:002023-10-13T02:16:36.707+01:00The new theme<a href="https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-theme-music-radio-2-newsupdate/">The new version of the Doctor Who theme</a>, as premiered online and on radio.<div><br /></div><div>I don’t like it!</div><div><br /></div><div>Which delights me, getting to tick off a classic Doctor Who Fan Bingo square.</div>Craig Oxbrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16388821789251515974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488799195334688326.post-88272220156434264142023-10-11T20:23:00.006+01:002023-10-13T02:09:15.090+01:00Doctor Who iPlayer rollout<a href="https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-classic-series-bbc-iplayer-newsupdate/">Want some Doctor Who on streaming? How about all of it that we have?</a> Starting November 1st. Which is nice.Craig Oxbrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16388821789251515974noreply@blogger.com0