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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] |
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] |
Margot Van Der Burgh
Margot ( , ) is a feminine given name, a French diminutive of Marguerite that has long been used as an independent name. Variant spellings in use include Margo and Margaux. It is also occasionally a surname. Usage An increase in usage of the name in England and Wales was attributed to the popularity of the Australian actress Margot Robbie and the 2023 American film Barbie. The name was among the top 50 names given to British girls born in 2023. It has also increased in use elsewhere in the Anglosphere, including New Zealand and the United States. It has been in regular use in French-speaking countries including Belgium, France, and in Quebec, Canada.https://www.behindthename.com/name/margot/top/england-wales?type=percent Persons named Margot include the following: People with the given name Margot * Marguerite de Valois (1553–1615), known as ''La Reine Margot'', queen of France and of Navarre * Margot Abad, Argentine film actress * Margot Adler (1946–2014), American journa ... [...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] |
Doctor Who (season 18)
The eighteenth season of British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who ''Doctor Who'' is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The series, created by Sydney Newman, C. E. Webber and Donald Wilson (writer and producer), Donald Wilson, depicts the adventures of an extraterre ...'' consisted of seven four-episode serials broadcast from 30 August 1980 with the serial '' The Leisure Hive'', to 21 March 1981 with the serial '' Logopolis''. The season is Tom Baker's final as the Fourth Doctor before his regeneration into the Fifth Doctor ( Peter Davison), as well as Lalla Ward's as companion Romana II and John Leeson's as the voice of K9. For the second time (The first being during Season 4 and third being Season 21), the entire main cast changed over the course of a single season. The season also sees the debut of Matthew Waterhouse as Adric, Sarah Sutton as Nyssa, and Janet Fielding as Tegan Jovanka, the three o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Limb
Roger James Limb is a British composer, specialising in electronic music. He was born in 1941 in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England, UK. He is best known for his work on the television series ''Doctor Who'' whilst at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. He joined the BBC as a studio manager, before going on to become a television announcer. In 1972 he left this position to join the Radiophonic Workshop, where he remained until 1995. Although he had received formal music training, he also spent much time in pop and jazz bands, the influence of which can be heard in much of his music. Limb is best known for his work on ''Doctor Who'', for which, between 1981 and 1985, he composed the music for the serials ''The Keeper of Traken'', '' Four to Doomsday'', '' Black Orchid'', '' Time-Flight'', ''Arc of Infinity'', '' Terminus'', '' The Caves of Androzani'' and ''Revelation of the Daleks''. Limb also contributed music to the television series ''The Justice Game'', ''Aliens in the Family'', '' T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry Letts
Barry Leopold Letts (26 March 1925 – 9 October 2009) was an English actor, television director, writer and producer, best known for being the producer of ''Doctor Who'' from 1969 to 1974. Born in Leicester, he worked as an actor in theatre, films and television before retiring in his early forties and becoming a television director. He then became the producer of the BBC science fiction series ''Doctor Who'' for five years, overseeing almost the entirety of Jon Pertwee's tenure as the Third Doctor and casting Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor. He produced or directed many of the BBC's Sunday Classic drama serials from 1976 to 1986, and returned to ''Doctor Who'' in 1980 to be the executive producer for its eighteenth season. ''The Guardian'' described Letts on his death as "a pioneer of British television" who "served the medium for more than half a century" and "secured his place in TV history" with ''Doctor Who''. He was associated with the series for many years, with acti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Nathan-Turner
John Turner (12 August 1947 – 1 May 2002), known professionally as John Nathan-Turner, was an English television producer. He was the ninth producer of the long-running BBC science fiction series ''Doctor Who'' and the final producer of the series' first run on television (from 1980 until it was cancelled in 1989). He finished the role having become the longest-serving ''Doctor Who'' producer and cast Peter Davison, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy as the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Doctors, respectively. Early life Born John Turner in Birmingham, he adopted the double-barrelled stage name ''John Nathan-Turner'' to distinguish himself from the British actor John Turner. He was educated at King Edward VI School, at Aston in Birmingham, where he showed an early interest in acting and theatre. His earliest television acting work was as an extra in TV productions for ITV, including '' Crossroads'' and '' The Flying Swan''. Both shows were made in Birmingham (the former at ATV ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher H
Christopher is the English version of a Europe-wide name derived from the Greek name Χριστόφορος (''Christophoros'' or '' Christoforos''). The constituent parts are Χριστός (''Christós''), "Christ" or "Anointed", and φέρειν (''phérein''), "to bear"; hence the "Christ-bearer". As a given name, 'Christopher' has been in use since the 10th century. In English, Christopher may be abbreviated as "Chris", "Topher", and sometimes " Kit". It was frequently the most popular male first name in the United Kingdom, having been in the top twenty in England and Wales from the 1940s until 1995, although it has since dropped out of the top 100. Within the United Kingdom, the name is most common in England and not so common in Wales, Scotland, or Northern Ireland. Cognates in other languages *Afrikaans: Christoffel, Christoforus *Albanian: Kristofer, Kristofor, Kristoforid, Kristo *Arabic: كريستوفر (''Krīstafor, Kristūfar, Krístufer''), اصطفر (''ʔi� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Byrne (writer)
John Christopher Byrne (27 November 1935 – 2 April 2008) was an Irish television screenwriter and script editor. He travelled extensively in his youth as a travelling poet. During the 1960s he worked as a literary editor, and wrote short stories that were published in ''Science Fantasy'' magazine. Byrne's other works include the novel ''Groupie'' (1969, co-written with Jenny Fabian), the BBC " Wednesday Play" ''Season of the Witch'' (1971), and the scripts for the films '' Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall'' (1972, co-written with original author Spike Milligan and Norman Cohen), and ''Rosie Is My Relative'' (1976). He was script editor of the TV series '' All Creatures Great and Small'' (1976, 1978, 1985, 1988–1990), writing 29 episodes, and also produced scripts for '' One by One'' (1987). Byrne was the creator of the TV drama series '' Heartbeat'' (which was loosely based on the ''Constable'' books by Nicholas Rhea), writing 23 episodes for 17 series between 1992 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Black (director)
John Black (born 9 May 1940) is a retired British TV director. Among his directing credits include ''Coronation Street'', ''Play for Today'', ''Crown Court'', ''Doctor Who'' (the serials ''The Keeper of Traken'', and ''Four to Doomsday'' plus the spinoff '' K-9 and Company'') and ''The Bill ''The Bill'' is a British police procedural television series, broadcast on ITV (TV network), ITV from 16 October 1984 until 31 August 2010. The programme originated from a one-off drama, "Woodentop (The Bill), Woodentop" (part of the ''Storyb ...''. References External links Living people British television directors 1940 births {{UK-TV-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Morse (actor)
Ralph Theodore Morse (October 23, 1917 – December 7, 2014) was a career staff photographer for ''Life'' magazine. He photographed some of the most widely seen pictures of World War II, the United States space program, and sports events, and was celebrated for his multiple-exposure photographs. Morse's success as an improviser led to his being considered ''Life'' magazine's specialist in technical photography. FOTOfusion 2008: Palm Beach Photographic Center/Instructor Biographies Retrieved May 28, 2008. Former managing editor George P. Hunt declared that "If heequipment he needed didn't exist, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Bloomfield
Philip, also Phillip, is a male name derived from the Greek (''Philippos'', lit. "horse-loving" or "fond of horses"), from a compound of (''philos'', "dear", "loved", "loving") and (''hippos'', "horse"). Prominent Philips who popularized the name include kings of Macedonia and one of the apostles of early Christianity. ''Philip'' has many alternative spellings. One derivation often used as a surname is Phillips. The original Greek spelling includes two Ps as seen in Philippides and Philippos, which is possible due to the Greek endings following the two Ps. To end a word with such a double consonant—in Greek or in English—would, however, be incorrect. It has many diminutive (or even hypocoristic) forms including Phil, Philly, Phillie, Lip, and Pip. There are also feminine forms such as Philippine and Philippa. Philip in other languages * Afrikaans: Filip * Albanian: Filip * Amharic: ፊሊጶስ (Filip'os) * Arabic: فيلبس (Fīlibus), فيليبوس (Fīlībū ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
