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Silver Nemesis (Doctor Who)
''Silver Nemesis'' is the third serial of the 25th season of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. It was first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC1 in three weekly parts from 23 November (the 25th anniversary) to 7 December 1988. In New Zealand, all three parts were broadcast on TVNZ on 25 November. In the serial, the neo-Nazi De Flores (Anton Diffring), the 17th-century sorceress Lady Peinforte (Fiona Walker), and the Cybermen fight for control of the Nemesis, a statue containing a living metal which crash-landed near Windsor Castle in 1988. The serial marks the final appearance of the Cybermen in the original run. Plot In the year 1638, the Doctor launched a statue into space, that was created by the Lady Painforte in her likeness. A statue made of a living metal, validium, that was created by Omega and Rassilon as the ultimate defence for Gallifrey. Lady Peinorte is a sorceress, who is in possession of a silver arrow from the statue, and usin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doctor Who Magazine
''Doctor Who Magazine'' (abbreviated as ''DWM'') is a magazine devoted to the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. Launched in 1979 as ''Doctor Who Weekly'', the magazine became a monthly publication the following year. In 1990 it switched to a four-weekly schedule, publishing 13 issues a year, along with triannual deluxe Special Editions (2002–) and Bookazines (2013–). Regular issues include interviews, behind-the-scenes articles on television episodes and ''Doctor Who'' in other media, as well as producing its own comic strip. Its founding editor was Dez Skinn, and the longest-serving editor was Tom Spilsbury who served from 2007 to 2017. He was succeeded by Marcus Hearn, who took over from Spilsbury in July 2017. The incumbent editor is Jason Quinn, who took over from Hearn in September 2023. ''DWM'' is recognised by ''Guinness World Records'' as the longest running TV tie-in magazine, celebrating 40 years of continuous publication on 11 October 2019. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dolores Gray
Dolores Gray (June 7, 1924 – June 26, 2002) was an American actress and singer. She was nominated for the Tony Award for Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical, Best Lead Actress in a Musical twice, winning once. Early life Both her mother and father were vaudeville actors, which is how they met. Gray's parents divorced when she was a young child. She had an older brother, Richard Gray who also had a career in Hollywood. While attending John H. Francis Polytechnic High School, Polytechnic High School she was in the Girls' Glee Club. She was discovered by Rudy Vallee, who gave her a guest spot on his nationwide radio show. Career Her career commenced as a cabaret artist in restaurants and supper clubs in California and in Reno, Nevada.''Who's Who in the Theatre'' (1981) Gale, ''Gale Biography In Context'' In Los Angeles in 1941 she appeared at the Pirate’s Den and Hollywood Playhouse. Later that year San Francisco engagements included one at Stairway to the Stars. Gray re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keff McCulloch
Keff McCulloch (born 8 July 1954) is an English composer best known for his electronic music for ''Doctor Who'' in the late 1980s. In 1987, he was employed by producer John Nathan-Turner to arrange the ''Doctor Who'' theme music for the Seventh Doctor, Sylvester McCoy. The theme, drawing on the original composed by Ron Grainer and arranged by Delia Derbyshire, was used for three years until the series was cancelled by the BBC in 1989. The new theme music was accompanied by new titles and logo. McCulloch also contributed incidental music scores to six stories during the McCoy era, namely: ''Time and the Rani''; '' Paradise Towers''; '' Delta and the Bannermen''; '' Remembrance of the Daleks''; '' Silver Nemesis''; ''Battlefield''; and also the later ''Dimensions in Time'' and '' Shada''. McCulloch also played a role on screen as one of the Lorells (a backing group) in ''Delta and the Bannermen'' (1987). Alongside his work on ''Doctor Who'', McCulloch was a musician and sou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Cartmel
Andrew J. Cartmel (born 6 April 1958) is a British script editor, author and journalist. He was the script editor of ''Doctor Who'' during the Sylvester McCoy era of the show between 1987 and 1989. He has also worked as a script editor on other television series, as a magazine editor, as a comics writer, as a film studies lecturer, and as a novelist. Biography Raised in Canada, Cartmel returned to England in order to complete his education. He took a post-graduate course in computer studies and worked on computer-aided design for Shape Data Ltd (now UGS Corp) in Cambridge, England during the mid-1980s. He then turned more to writing and managed to gain an agent on the strength of two unproduced scripts, also attending workshops run by the BBC Television Drama Script Unit. In late 1986, when he was in his late twenties, Cartmel was hired as the script editor for the Doctor Who (season 24), twenty-fourth season of the science-fiction programme ''Doctor Who'', having been recommende ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Clarke (writer)
Kevin Clarke is an English playwright and screenwriter of film and television. Early life Kevin Clarke spent his early childhood in care. He grew up in Birkenhead, Merseyside and left school at 16 to work as a guitarist. After busking in Paris he studied Drama at Bretton Hall, Leeds, and taught Drama in London for five years, writing in the evenings. He directed his first play '' The Jackpot'' at the Finborough Theatre; as a result he was invited to join the first BBC Television Writers training course and commissioned to write for the BBC TV series ''Casualty''. Career His subsequent theatre play ''Translantic'' written with Josh Goldstein ran for three months at the Dramatis Personae Theater in New York City, and his third, ''Charity's Child'' played the Riverside Studios. His original comedy screenplay, ''Albert and the Lion'' was produced by ITV. He has written more than 150 episodes of television drama, including scripts for ''Minder'', ''Wish Me Luck'', ''Doctor Who'', '' W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Clough
Chris Clough (born 9 March 1951 in Harrogate, Yorkshire, England) is an English television producer and director. Early life and education Clough studied English literature at Leeds University. He went there because they had a television studio available for the students. He used the material he created there to apply for jobs and he got a job as a researcher at Granada Television. He then started directing. In 1982 he went freelance and in that decade he directed episodes of the television soap operas ''Brookside'' and ''EastEnders''. Career While working on ''EastEnders'', Clough got to know one of the assistant directors, Gary Downie, who had also worked on ''Doctor Who''. He got an interview with ''Doctor Who'' producer John Nathan-Turner and he later directed six serials of the series — ''Terror of the Vervoids'', ''The Ultimate Foe'', '' Delta and the Bannermen'', '' Dragonfire'', ''The Happiness Patrol'' and ''Silver Nemesis''. In the 1990s, Clough directed several ep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Tontoh
Frank Tontoh (born 22 May 1964) is a Ghanaian percussionist. Life and work Born into the world of music, his father being trumpeter Mac Tontoh, Frank began his musical studies at MIT in Los Angeles. Afterwards, he completed a degree in composition and arranging with school friend and fellow musician Courtney Pine at Trinity College London. In 1982, Tontoh toured with his father's band Osibisa, touring the world for four years. On returning to London in 1986, he formed the Jazz Warriors with Pine, the first of many bands he would become associated with. The friends also appeared as part of the jazz quartet in the first instalment of ''Doctor Whos twenty-fifth anniversary special ''Silver Nemesis''. Afterwards, Tontoh went on to form his own band, Desperately Seeking Fusion. He has worked for, and performed with, many others including Aztec Camera, Level 42, Tasmin Archer, Jason Donovan Jason Sean Donovan (born 1 June 1968) is an Australian actor and singer. He initiall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |