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| Marco Polo |
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36 | 20.69% |
| The Myth Makers |
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10 | 5.75% |
| The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve |
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45 | 25.86% |
| The Savages |
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2 | 1.15% |
| The Smugglers |
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2 | 1.15% |
| The Highlanders |
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45 | 25.86% |
| The Macra Terror |
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21 | 12.07% |
| Fury from the Deep |
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13 | 7.47% |
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The_Doctor posted:
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Aug 30, 2016 13:24
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Good News Everyone!
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If this is true, and a completely missing serial is being animated and released officially, then the BBC must have gotten a surplus of funding that makes the Tories angry.
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Aug 30, 2016 14:32
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CobiWann posted:Awesome! This'll be the best Christmas Walford's ever seen! What's wrong with you?!
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Aug 30, 2016 14:45
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The_Doctor posted:What's wrong with you?! I'm secretly Nick Cotton.
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Aug 30, 2016 17:56
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I've decided to start watching through most of the Pertwee era, skipping past the stories I've heard are worse than war crimes (or that I've watched before). Just finished Ambassadors of Death and jesus it was a slog. At least I've had a chance to experience the title sequence and the bizarre upbeat UNIT theme.
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Aug 31, 2016 21:39
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cargohills posted:I've decided to start watching through most of the Pertwee era, skipping past the stories I've heard are worse than war crimes (or that I've watched before). Just finished Ambassadors of Death and jesus it was a slog. At least I've had a chance to experience the title sequence and the bizarre upbeat UNIT theme. Counterpoint it's fantastic Also there's very very few bad Pertwee stories (like maybe 2 or 3), let alone really awful ones; nothing akin to The Invasion of TIme or Timelash. MrL_JaKiri fucked around with this message at 22:05 on Aug 31, 2016 |
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Aug 31, 2016 22:01
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Pertwee's first season is all great, too. Liz Shaw was the best.
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Aug 31, 2016 22:14
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cargohills posted:skipping past the stories I've heard are worse than war crimes As you should know by now, there's no such thing as a consensus opinion for Doctor Who episodes, it's very possible the ones you've heard are bad you'll actually enjoy. Or even if you found it bad, if you mentioned that then plenty of people would say,"Actually it's good!" ..... just like The Ambassadors........ OF DEATH (MrL_JaKiri is right, it's fantastic).
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Aug 31, 2016 22:44
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Counterpoint it's fantastic Have you ever heard of a little something called Death to the Daleks? I'd agree that Pertwee is generally pretty good, but I'm honestly just skipping as many stories as I feel like I can so I actually manage to watch a decent amount. I've decided to do this until I get to the end of Peter Davison at the very least and I want to get there before the next Doctor is cast. cargohills fucked around with this message at 22:50 on Aug 31, 2016 |
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Aug 31, 2016 22:48
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cargohills posted:Have you ever heard of a little something called Death to the Daleks? It's not brilliant, but it does have some good ideas in it; 3/5 is what it says in my Doctor Who ratings list! Also it had KHS's favourite sound effect
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Aug 31, 2016 22:50
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For reference, I'd say the poor Pertwees are Curse/Monster, Planet of the Daleks and one of either The Time Monster or The Mind of Evil if I'm feeling uncharitable to either story.Jerusalem posted:MrL_JaKiri is right Goes without saying
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Aug 31, 2016 22:51
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I just have such little patience for boring Dalek stories. Guess that's what I get for Remembrance and Revelation being some of the first Doctor Who I ever saw. e: out of those I'm skipping Time Monster and Mind of Evil. Also Death, Colony in Space and The Mutants.
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Aug 31, 2016 22:52
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Pertwee might have the best first season of any Doctor that still exists.
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Aug 31, 2016 22:53
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Timelash. 
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Aug 31, 2016 23:00
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Burkion posted:Pertwee might have the best first season of any Doctor that still exists. Man if this was 1995 this would be a really dark comment
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Aug 31, 2016 23:32
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MrL_JaKiri posted:The Mind of Evil This one really suffers from being able to watch it all in one go. I'm sure the constant taking and retaking of the prison probably was masked a bit better by having to wait a week between episodes.
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Sep 1, 2016 00:00
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Burkion posted:Pertwee might have the best first season of any Doctor that still exists. I still think it's the best for sustained quality with almost no missteps.
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Sep 1, 2016 00:21
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Someone British needs to explain BBC Three to me ahead of Class - does it have a linear channel, or is everything On Demand?
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Sep 1, 2016 00:24
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CaptainYesterday posted:Someone British needs to explain BBC Three to me ahead of Class - does it have a linear channel, or is everything On Demand? It used to be a linear channel that was on real TV, but budget cuts have forced the content online so it's basically all VOD now, with some micro-vid, social media and blog content on top of the longer form video
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Sep 1, 2016 00:33
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I've been working through the first Short Trips anthology...Colin Baker's story was absolutely delightful and he needs to write more posthaste
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Sep 1, 2016 00:35
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Gaz-L posted:It used to be a linear channel that was on real TV, but budget cuts have forced the content online so it's basically all VOD now, with some micro-vid, social media and blog content on top of the longer form video Interesting. Do new episodes debut weekly or all at once? I'm hoping it's the former, so BBC America can show them on a same-day delay.
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Sep 1, 2016 00:39
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Fil5000 posted:Pertwee's first season is all great, too. Liz Shaw was the best.   Speaking of 3, I started listening to the Tim Treloar stuff tonight. I see what everyone was saying, he's close, but doesn't *quite* nail it the way Frazer does with 2, or even Peter Purves with 1 (or say the way Mark Elstob uncannily imitates Patrick McGoohan on the new Prisoner audios). He can get the quieter parts of Pertwee, but so far I'm not hearing him being able to do the shouty and more emotional bits when Pertwee got his dander up. Still though, I can forget I'm not hearing someone else and just hear the Third Doctor, and of course the period perfect dialogue and music go a long way. Katy Manning is in fine form doing her 20 year old voice as well. I'm not too far in though, but so far so good.
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Sep 1, 2016 05:20
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If you're in Australia, JB HiFi currently has classic Doctor Who dvd's on special for about $12-15AU apiece AND 2-for-1. They also have the two and three-serial DVD sets for about $24AU apiece. Those are also 2-for-1.
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Sep 1, 2016 07:47
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Neddy Seagoon posted:If you're in Australia, JB HiFi currently has classic Doctor Who dvd's on special for about $12-15AU apiece AND 2-for-1. They also have the two and three-serial DVD sets for about $24AU apiece. Those are also 2-for-1. Wow that's pretty great, I'm gonna move to Australia! looks up Australia's immigration policy Nevermind.
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Sep 1, 2016 08:23
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This month's Big Finish Listener's Title is the 6th Doctor Lost Story The First Sontarans, discounted to $2.99 on download for the whole month. Edit: So I had that same issue again where I checked out and got a BF site error page. I received a paypal confirmation email, but not a receipt from Big Finish. I have discovered that going to my account page and hitting "refresh my download list" will pop up the stories, but it was still a disconcerting couple of minutes. jivjov fucked around with this message at 12:18 on Sep 1, 2016 |
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Sep 1, 2016 11:10
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Can someone give me a cliffnotes on Sara Kingdom? Tardis wiki says she was only ever in one story, yet there are Companion Chronicles and Early Adventures where she was traveling with Steven and the Doctor?
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Sep 2, 2016 01:29
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jivjov posted:Can someone give me a cliffnotes on Sara Kingdom? Tardis wiki says she was only ever in one story, yet there are Companion Chronicles and Early Adventures where she was traveling with Steven and the Doctor? It was one massive, massive story - the Dalek's Master Plan. It's 12 parts long and is at least two stories smushed together (three if you count Feast). There's as much room in there to have stories involving her as there are other characters from that era, as stories at that point flowed into each other much more.
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Sep 2, 2016 01:32
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Anyway, short version: she's an intergalactic spy from the future
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Sep 2, 2016 01:33
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Gotcha. So there was some implied "and they travelled around for a bit" baked into the story itself?
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Sep 2, 2016 01:45
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The audios with Steven and Sara are particularly good!
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Sep 2, 2016 01:57
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Astroman posted:The audios with Steven and Sara are particularly good! I'm two episodes in to An Ordinary Life (so no spoilers please!) and I'm really enjoying it! Steven has fast been becoming a favorite of mine, and he seems to play well off of Sara.
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Sep 2, 2016 02:01
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jivjov posted:Gotcha. So there was some implied "and they travelled around for a bit" baked into the story itself? Quite the opposite, but they ignore that happily for the other characters so why not this one? (Back in the day, the programme - while broken up into serials - was broadcast as individual episodes rather than Planet of the Wombats Part II or whatnot. The last shot of a story would be the first of the next one, a habit which was used to create one of the top three cliffhangers in the programme's history* in The Ark) *The other two being the countdown in Inferno and the obvious one from Dragonfire
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Sep 2, 2016 02:57
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Quite the opposite, but they ignore that happily for the other characters so why not this one? Oh I'm familiar with the old broadcast strategy. I just figured that if they were going to bring back a literal one-serial companion, there would be some manner of narrative space for her to fit into.
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Sep 2, 2016 03:00
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Sara Kingdom's one story was extremely memorable (even in spite of being mostly non-existent now!) and the way she left the show is absolutely terrifying.
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Sep 2, 2016 04:12
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jivjov posted:I'm two episodes in to An Ordinary Life (so no spoilers please!) and I'm really enjoying it! Steven has fast been becoming a favorite of mine, and he seems to play well off of Sara. [spoiler[Steven is absolutely awesome and you should buy every audio Peter Purves does! His Hartnell is fantastic too.[/spoiler]
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Sep 2, 2016 05:17
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Big Finish Sara is her own thing, which is why everyone needs to listen to Home Truths, The Drowned World, and Guardian of the Solar System like, yesterday.  Also because they're very good and actually do something with the framing narrative and ohmygod Jean Marsh.
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Sep 2, 2016 05:46
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And again the prophet jivjov speaks and blesses us with a bargain, this time on The Companion Chronicles range.
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Sep 2, 2016 08:56
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After The War posted:Big Finish Sara is her own thing, which is why everyone needs to listen to Home Truths, The Drowned World, and Guardian of the Solar System like, yesterday. Just saw that Jean Marsh was Mombi in Return to Oz. Nope. Nope nope nope. Noooooooope.
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Sep 2, 2016 09:15
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Box of Bunnies posted:And again the prophet jivjov speaks and blesses us with a bargain, this time on The Companion Chronicles range. This is dangerous. There are too many CCs and I want to buy them ALLLLL because they are cheap. How little food can I eat for two weeks and still live? Edit: I once again lament the inability to use PayPal Credit internationally. jivjov fucked around with this message at 11:38 on Sep 2, 2016 |
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Sep 2, 2016 11:24
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Okay, so apparently a workaround would be to have someone send me a PayPal invoice/payment request, which I would then pay with my PayPal credit. Then that person sends the money back to me as a simple Friends and Family transfer that would put the money in my account as PayPal balance, which I could then spend on sweet sweet audio dramas. Any trustworthy goons willing to help me move money around? EDIT: got a coworker to help me....I own all the companion chronicles now. All of them. Send help. jivjov fucked around with this message at 18:08 on Sep 2, 2016 |
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Sep 2, 2016 12:38
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