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A blog about planets (and more) of Doctor Who.
AS VISITED BY THE DOCTOR
The Sixth Doctor: Unknown date. [Timelash, C22.5.]
LOCATION
Universe: Normal space.
Galaxy: Unknown.
System: Karfel’s system. [Karfel orbits two suns, Rearbus and Selynx. This information is from the Target novelisation.]
Human Colony: No.
Following the previous entry which was about Doctor Who Magazine, speculation appears here in response to the very mild spoiler information about the 2008 Season, from Gallifrey Guardian, the bottom of page 5, and also RTD’s Production Notes on the last page.
However, the spoilers and speculation appear in a comment to this entry, so if you want to read this, click on the comments of this entry, or on the title of this entry.
(Any other spoiler information will appear on this blog in a similar way. Please note that once an episode has been broadcast, it will be described as normal.)
Doctor Who Magazine number 385 appeared in newsagents today.
The cover is great and emphatically communicates “Martha is here to stay.”
(Also, other news on the bottom of page 5 is very interesting for the concerns of this blog… there is the title of one of the 2008 Season episodes, with other information, which you may, or may not, want to read about.)
The recent Doctor Who episode 42 made a plot point out of the Doctor reaching close to absolute zero.
BBC4 tonight and tommorow has the story of the science behind this idea (link).
Further to writing about the recent rerelease of White Noise’s debut album (An Electric Storm), here is more on Delia Derbyshire: Mark Ayres’s excellent article A History of the Doctor Who Theme.
Delia Derbyshire created the original version of the Doctor Who theme tune in August 1963, from Ron Grainer’s composition.
Ron Grainer was so impressed he tried to get a co-composer credit for her, but without success as the BBC would not agree.
Delia was also in a band in the sixties, White Noise – whose debut album was rereleased last week, (link to review).
What is it with the Tenth Doctor?
First there was Rose…
Then there was Martha…
Why do his companions “just happen” to be in these situations?
Who is next? The answer is:
Today a Contact page for the blog has been added, and a link to it appears at the top right of the screen.
Douglas Adams, writer or co-writer of three Doctor Who stories, and Script Editor for the whole of Season 17, was an amazing man.
”Affirmative!”
Thought-provoking references to religion feature quite prominently in the 21st Century revival of Doctor Who (and in Torchwood). Here are some thoughts from Douglas Adams on the subject, a lecture from 1998: “Is there an Artificial God?”
Link to transcript of lecture.
Brought to you by “the fourth age of sand”, as Douglas Adams describes in his lecture.
(via Boing Boing)
As NASA ready their robotic Phoenix Mars Mission for an August 2007 launch – the European Space Agency’s Mars Express Orbiter has provided surprising information about Martian ice, The Register reports.
(The other part of the Mars Express mission, the British robotic Beagle 2, was perhaps the inspiration for this Mars mission featured on Doctor Who…)
Astronomers have detected, for the first time, signs of water on a planet beyond the solar system.
The water is believed to be super-hot vapour, so no Spiridon-like alien ice-planets found – yet!
Launched today is an amazing new website.
How could you refuse their offer: “you’ll view parts of the Universe that literally no-one has ever seen before”?
More galaxies than even Glitz (from Dragonfire) has seen!
(via Radio 4’s Today.)
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