Editor's bit...
(Dave Lewis 'The Mad Man with a Blue Blog')
Todays picture is Third Doctor and Liz by garam81. Image of the Third Doctor (played by Jon Pertwee) and Liz Shaw (played by Caroline John).
The sad news of Caroline John' death on the 5th June has been released today, she played the role of the Doctor's companion Liz shaw in 1970 opposite Jon Pertwee's Third Doctor. Unlike many of the preceding female companions of the Doctor, Shaw was a scientist and understood much of the Doctor's technobabble. My sympathies go out to her family and friends, a great loss to fandom.
Whovian News....
BBC Doctor Who has Caroline John
It’s with great sadness that we confirm the death of Caroline John who played the Doctor’s companion, Liz Shaw, in 1970. She passed away earlier this month.
Caroline starred in Doctor Who throughout Jon Pertwee’s first season, meaning she was an ever-present at a crucial time in the show’s history. Not only were viewers getting used to a new and very different Doctor, they now had adventures set exclusively on present day Earth and in colour for the very first time! Caroline helped ensure the new era got off to a great start and years after her exploits with the Time Lord, the character of Liz Shaw – feisty, independent and a great friend to the Doctor - remained well-remembered and much-loved.
Caroline John was born in 1940 and studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama. She was an accomplished stage actress, touring with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre and her television credits include Z Cars, Agatha Christie’s Poirot, A Perfect Spy and the BBC’s 1981 adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles, playing opposite Tom Baker. She also returned to the world of Doctor Who making brief appearances in The Five Doctors and Dimensions in Time.
In recent years she appeared in the hugely successful Love Actually and to the delight of many fans she recorded DVD commentaries for most of her Doctor Who episodes. She will be greatly missed.
Caroline John, 1940 – 2012.
The Doctor Who Site has Monsters Escape from Doctor Who Experience. Five monsters escaped from the Doctor Who Experience in a dramatic break out this morning. At 8am there was a loud explosion within the building and a Cyberman; Ood; Silent and Scarecrow were caught on camera fleeing the building. The escape is believed to have been masterminded by one of the Daleks who have recently relocated to the new Doctor Who Experience in Cardiff....
Outside the TARDIS.....
- Anglophenia - Life Outside The TARDIS: David Tennant (Part 2)
So let’s start with the overlap years, the stuff David did in between battling Weeping Angels and scarecrows and suchlike....
WhoTube....
CrashOfTheElysium has The Crash of The Elysium Schools Reaction. Here's what the schoolchildren think of the 2012 remount of Punchdrunk's The Crash of The Elysium.
SFX has Doctor Who Monsters Cardiff Invasion. What did those monsters get up to in Cardiff after they escaped the Doctor Who experience.
Podcasts...
Beware most podcasts are of an adult nature and are not suitable for children.
Drunken Time Travel has 3.02 Mission To The Unknown. On the planet Kembel, Space Security Service agent Marc Cory is investigating a recent sighting of a Dalek spaceship. His suspicion that the creatures may have established a base here proves well-founded.
Earth Station One has Episode 116: Doctor Who Companions – The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. This week, the Earth Station One crew once again takes a timey-whimey ride in the TARDIS for a look at those lucky enough to share a ride with The Doctor. Join Mike, Mike, Bobby, and William along with Jason and Rita from the Transmissions from Atlantis podcast and Mary Lou Who as we discuss our favorite and least favorite Who companions. Plus we also chat with Daniel Emory Taylor and Jim O’Rear about their latest project and Jim gets caught in The Geek Seat! All this, plus the usual Rants, Raves, Khan Report, and Shout Outs!
Tin Dog Podcast has TDP 248: Dragonfire. Iceworld is a space-trading colony on the dark side of the planet Svartos. It is a mysterious place of terror and rumour ruled by the callous and vindictive Kane, who buys supporters and employees and makes them wear his mark iced in to their flesh. Kane’s body temperature is so cold that one touch from him can kill.
Tid-Bits...
Nothing Tra La La? (Simon Guerrier) has AAAGH! and the Toyshop! Another AAAGH!, this time from Doctor Who Adventures Nomber 273 and featuring a monster from Rose, the first episode of "new" Doctor Who in 2005. (I still think of the Seventh Doctor as new, so am a little weirded out that next year's 50th anniversary jamboree means that Silver Nemesis is halfway.)
Doctor Who Crafts has Bored this summer? Build a TARDIS! Infinitely faster than growing one.
Review's Roundup...
Chair With A Panda On It has Doctor Who: Prison in Space. A relaxing break for the Doctor and his companions Jamie and Zoe becomes something decidedly more sinister when they are arrested for trespass. But what has happened to the planet Earth? And how has the malevolent Chairman Babs gained control? As the Doctor and Jamie are incarcerated in a prison that they can never escape from, Zoe is forced to change sides…
