Doctor Who Club of Australia

[charlie]

[Theta Sigma]

This morning on the original edition of The Legend I was reading up on Survival in which Justin Richards wrote this about Ace:
"Sergeant Paterson says the police let Ace off with a warning (though she told the Doctor, "You're not my probation officer", in Ghost Light").

I am thinking that Ace meant that figuratively rather than literally and if I had written the book I probably would not have included that in.

[Theta Sigma]

Finished reading the DVD notes for Part 3:
A working title for Survival is Cat-Flap. It has been said that Survival served as a template for the current TV series with the domestic situation. Well a cat-flap was seen in Rose and it even has Rose complaining to Jackie about stray cats getting through the cat-flap.
Reveals that Shreela and Squeak later turned up in the New Adventures novel Cat's Cradle: Warhead by script editor Andrew Cartmel (one of the vast majority of New Adventures book that I have not read). Did not know that before.

Playing the little girl Squeak in her first acting job was Adele Silva. The notes reveal that these days she can be found in magazines like Maxim and FHM. Oh my she certainly has grown up since then.
Perhaps an oversight but the notes did not mention Geoffrey Beevers when it mentioned all the actors who played the Master prior to Anthony Ainley. After Peter Pratt played the Master in The Deadly Assassin the notes mentioned Ainley had then taken over the role. In fact Beevers came after Pratt and before Ainley.
The notes mentioned that Lisa Bowerman (Karra) is well known to Doctor Who fans as being the voice of Professor Bernice (Benny) Summerfield in the Big Finish audios. I did not expect this fact to be included but it was nice that it did.
The notes say that the woman whom the Doctor talks to, towards the end of the episode was played by Kathleen Bidmead. The credits however says Michelle Martin. It is two different people and it is a case of cast confusion as Bidmead did appear in the serial briefly at the beginning in Part 1 not at the end in Part 3.
The notes mentioned about a funeral pyre included in the script by saying it is very Return of the Jedi. Very baffled on why this Star Wars reference was included in Part 3 when the notes did not say anything about a plumber nicknamed Darth Vader who got mentioned in Part 1 by Ace. I would think that the Star Wars reference in the notes would have been better placed about the said plumber in Part 1 rather than about the funeral pyre in Part 3. A funeral pyre is something that occurred in history way long before the Star Wars films came along.
The notes said that the classic series ended with 694 episodes. It is actually 695.
The final line delivered by Sylvester McCoy was recorded, the notes said, on November 23 1989 the day after the original transmission of Part 1. It is too bad it did not mention as well that November 23 1989 was the 26th anniversary of Doctor Who. After all it did bring things full circle.

Speaking of that particular date I noticed that the time index when the credits rolled in was at 23:11 which incidentally is the numerical term for November 23.

[Sulp Niar]

[Theta Sigma]

In the Endgame documentary on disc 2 of the DVD release Sylvester said that he liked the Chris Eccleston and David Tennant Doctors. In regards to the latter the subtitles correlated to his remarks as being read "new tenant in the TARDIS". It is quite obvious that Sylvester was having a wordplay on David Tennant's name and the subtitles should really been read as "new Tennant in the TARDIS".

[slazza]

This was the first Sylvester McCoy DVD I got and I was amazed by how good the storyline was. I was thinking that seeing in was the last episode of Doctor Who and then they axed the show it must have been terrible but I was wrong. This was a great episode.