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Matthew Waterhouse
Matthew Waterhouse (born 19 December 1961) is an English actor and writer, best known for his role as Adric in the BBC science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'' from 1980 to 1982. Early life Waterhouse was born in Hertford, but brought up in Haywards Heath, Sussex. The son of a solicitor, he was educated at St. Wilfrid's Primary School, West Sussex and Shoreham Grammar School. Waterhouse was a great fan of ''Doctor Who'' in his younger days, claiming that he was "obsessed" with the show. ''Doctor Who'' Adric was a companion of Tom Baker and Peter Davison's Doctors from 1980 to 1982. Waterhouse was the youngest actor to play a companion and ''Doctor Who'' was only his second professional acting role. He played the schoolboy Briarley in the BBC2 adaptation of '' To Serve Them All My Days'' with John Duttine, and it was only shortly before he filmed his appearance on the miniseries that he found out he had secured the role of Adric. Waterhouse took part in audio comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gallifrey One
Gallifrey One is an annual North American science fiction convention focusing primarily on the British television series ''Doctor Who'' and its spin-offs, ''Torchwood'', '' K-9'' and ''The Sarah Jane Adventures'', with an additional emphasis on British and American science fiction television media, held each February in Los Angeles. The event bills itself as "the largest and longest-running annual Doctor Who convention in the world". Sponsored by Gallifrey One Conventions and the Institute for Specialized Literature (ISL) Inc., a California not-for-profit organization, Gallifrey One has been held every year since 1990 in the greater Los Angeles area and has featured guests from a variety of genre television programs including ''Babylon 5'', ''Star Trek'', ''Alien Nation'', ''Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda'', ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' and ''Battlestar Galactica''. Gallifrey One is the formal name of the convention; the event has always featured the full name of the event, along w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Keeper Of Traken
''The Keeper of Traken'' is the sixth serial of the Doctor Who (season 18), 18th season of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast in four weekly parts on BBC One, BBC1 from 31 January to 21 February 1981. In the serial, the alien Time travel in fiction, time traveller The Master (Doctor Who), the Master (Geoffrey Beevers) seeks a power on the planet Traken known as the Source which he wishes to use to restore his life. The end of the serial introduces Anthony Ainley as the Master. The serial is also the debut of Sarah Sutton as Companion (Doctor Who), companion-to-be Nyssa (Doctor Who), Nyssa. Plot In the TARDIS, the Fourth Doctor and Adric arrive back in N-Space following the events of ''Warriors' Gate'' in an area known as the Traken Union, an empire of peace and harmony. They are surprised to find a holographic image of the elderly Keeper of Traken appear in the TARDIS, calling on the Doctor's help. The Keeper explains that his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pebble Mill
Pebble Mill Studios was the BBC's television studio complex located in Edgbaston, Birmingham, England, United Kingdom, which served as the headquarters for BBC Birmingham from 1971 until 2004. The nine-acre site was opened by Princess Anne on 10 June 1971, and in addition to the studios contained two canteens, a post office, gardens, a seven-storey office block, and an outside broadcasting (OB) base. As well as being the home of ''Midlands Today'' and BBC Radio WM, programmes produced at Pebble Mill included ''Pebble Mill at One'', ''The Archers'', '' Top Gear'', ''Doctors'', '' Telly Addicts'', ''Howards' Way'', ''Juliet Bravo'' and ''Gardeners' World''. Pebble Mill Studios closed in 2004 and was demolished in September 2005; BBC Birmingham is now located in The Mailbox shopping complex in Birmingham city centre. Early history In the 1950s, BBC Midlands was based in offices on Carpenter Road, Edgbaston. The news studio was in a separate building in Broad Street, which rem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
''The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot'' is a 2013 comedy spoof and homage to the British science fiction television programme ''Doctor Who''. It appeared on the BBC Red Button service after the broadcast of "The Day of the Doctor", the official 50th anniversary special. The programme was written and directed by Peter Davison, who stars alongside fellow former The Doctor (Doctor Who), Doctor actors Sylvester McCoy, Colin Baker and Paul McGann. It features appearances from then-stars of the show Matt Smith and Jenna Coleman as well as former stars David Tennant and John Barrowman. Additionally, then-''Doctor Who'' executive producer Steven Moffat, his predecessor Russell T Davies and numerous others connected to the programme all appear as themselves in a more or less parodic manner. The plot focuses on the fictionalised Davison, Baker and McCoy, who become disgruntled after discovering they haven't been invited to take part in the production of the ''Doctor Who'' 50th anniversary special. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Finish Short Trips
The Big Finish ''Short Trips'' are a collection of short story anthologies published by Big Finish Productions based on the BBC Television series ''Doctor Who'', beginning with the collection ''Short Trips: Zodiac'' in December 2002 and ending with the loss of their license in 2009. The ''Short Trips'' name was inherited from similar collections published by the BBC, who decided in March 2000 that it was no longer financially viable to produce collections of short stories. Big Finish Productions negotiated a licence to continue producing these collections, publishing them in smaller runs and in hardback, thus allowing for a higher cover price and increased profit margins than on the BBC collections. In May 2009 and after 28 collections, Big Finish announced that they were ending the ''Short Trips'' series as the BBC had not renewed it for a second licence, eventually halting sales of the books on the Big Finish Website in December 2009. Even so, the books are still available ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cold Fusion (novel)
''Cold Fusion'' is an original novel written by Lance Parkin and based on the long-running British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. It features the Fifth Doctor, with Adric, Nyssa, and Tegan, immediately after '' Castrovalva''. Also appearing is the Seventh Doctor, with Chris and Roz, from between the Virgin New Adventures novels '' Return of the Living Dad'' and '' The Death of Art''. It was the only one of the Virgin ''Doctor Who'' novels to feature more than one Doctor. Notes The story deliberately contrasts the characterisation of the Fifth Doctor and of the Seventh Doctor in the Virgin New Adventures.FTN interviews Doctor Who writer Lance Parkin 13 January 2013 In an interview for the BBC, in discussing ''Cold Fusion'', P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seventh Doctor
The Seventh Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. He is portrayed by Scottish actor Sylvester McCoy. Within the series' narrative, the Doctor is a centuries-old alien Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey who travels in time and space in the TARDIS, frequently with companions. At the end of life, the Doctor regenerates; as a result, the physical appearance and personality of the Doctor changes. Preceded in regeneration by the Sixth Doctor ( Colin Baker), he is followed by the Eighth Doctor ( Paul McGann). McCoy portrays the Seventh Doctor as a whimsical, thoughtful character who quickly becomes more layered, secretive, and manipulative. His first companion was Melanie Bush (Bonnie Langford), a computer programmer who had travelled with his previous incarnation, and who is soon succeeded by troubled teenager and explosives expert Ace ( Sophie Aldred), who becomes his protégée. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fifth Doctor
The Fifth Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. He is portrayed by Peter Davison. Within the series' narrative, the Doctor is a centuries-old alien Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey who travels in time and space in the TARDIS, frequently with companions. At the end of life, the Doctor regenerates; as a result, the physical appearance and personality of the Doctor changes. Preceded in regeneration by the Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker), he is followed by the Sixth Doctor ( Colin Baker). Davison portrays the Fifth Doctor as having a vulnerable side and a tendency towards indecisiveness, dressed as a boyish Edwardian cricketer. He travelled with a host of companions, including boy genius Adric ( Matthew Waterhouse), alien aristocrat Nyssa ( Sarah Sutton) and Australian flight attendant Tegan Jovanka ( Janet Fielding), who had travelled with his previous incarnation. He also shared later adv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Finish Productions
Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces books and radio drama, audio plays (released straight to compact disc and for download in MP3 and m4b format) based, primarily, on science fiction properties. These include ''Doctor Who'', the characters Judge Dredd and Strontium Dog from ''2000 AD (comics), 2000 AD'', ''Blake's 7'', ''Thunderbirds (TV series), Thunderbirds'', ''Dark Shadows#Audio drama, Dark Shadows'', ''Dracula'', ''Terrahawks'', ''Sapphire & Steel'', ''Sherlock Holmes'', ''Stargate'', ''The Avengers (TV series)#Audio, The Avengers'', ''The Prisoner'', ''Timeslip'', and ''Torchwood''. History Founded in 1996, Big Finish in late 1998 began releasing audio plays adapted from the Virgin New Adventures, New Adventures, a series of novels from Virgin Books which had originally been licensed ''Doctor Who'' stories, but by then had become officially independent from the show and were based around the character of Bernice Summerfield, Bernice "Benny" Summerfield ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Target Books
Target Books is a British publishing imprint, established in 1973 by Universal-Tandem Publishing Co Ltd, a paperback publishing company. The imprint was established as a children's imprint to complement the adult Tandem imprint, and became well known for their highly successful range of novelisations and other assorted books based on the popular science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. Their first publications based on the serial were reprints in paperback of three novels which had been previously published as hardbacks by Frederick Muller Ltd: ''Doctor Who and the Daleks'' and ''Doctor Who and the Crusaders'' by David Whitaker, and ''Doctor Who and the Zarbi'' by Bill Strutton. As these sold well further novelisations of the show were commissioned. In 1975 Universal-Tandem was sold by its American owners, the Universal-Award group, to the British conglomerate Howard and Wyndham. The company was renamed Tandem Publishing Ltd before being merged with the paperback ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warriors' Gate
''Warriors' Gate'' is the fifth serial of the Doctor Who season 18, 18th season of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. It was written by Stephen Gallagher and was first broadcast in four weekly parts on BBC One, BBC1 from 3 to 24 January 1981. The serial is set at an intersection between the universe of E-Space and the home universe of the alien Time travel in fiction, time traveller the Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker). In the serial, the Doctor and his travelling companion (Doctor Who), companion Romana (Doctor Who), Romana (Lalla Ward) seek to free the time-sensitive Tharils from a group of slavers led by Captain Rorvik (Clifford Rose). ''Warriors' Gate'' is the last of three loosely connected serials set in E-Space. It is the last serial to feature Ward as Romana and the last regular appearance of John Leeson as the voice of K9 (Doctor Who), K9. Plot Inside the TARDIS, the Fourth Doctor, Romana (Doctor Who), Romana, Adric, and K9 (Doctor Who), K9, while t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kinda (Doctor Who)
''Kinda'' is the third serial of the 19th season of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast in four twice-weekly parts on BBC1 from 1 to 9 February 1982. In the serial, an alien being from another plane uses the dreams of the time-travelling air hostess Tegan Jovanka ( Janet Fielding) to reach the planet Deva Loka and takes over the body of the Kinda Aris ( Adrian Mills) to attack colonists on the planet. Plot An Earth colonisation survey expedition to the beautiful jungle planet Deva Loka is being depleted as members of the survey team disappear one by one. The three survivors are met by The Fifth Doctor and Adric. The team members have also imprisoned two members of the planet's native tribe, the Kinda. Sanders, the leader of the survey team, ventures into the jungle, leaving his deputy Hindle in charge. Hindle's will is enforced by means of the two Kinda hostages, who have forged a telepathic link with him. Hindle, who plans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
