Author: Phil Friel
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Another Doctor Who Night In
(Part Two)[I]n my last post I detailed my latest recent DVD-watching binge of Doctor Who stories, the recent choices all being Tom Baker stories. Last night I watched a couple more Doctor Who stories, switching this time to Jon Pertwee and the two Auton classics, Spearhead from Space (Special Edition) and Terror of the Autons, as…
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Another Doctor Who Night In
[W]e had another nice Doctor Who night last night at our place, watching several classic Who DVDs. Again, like last time out, they\’re all Tom Baker stories, two from the Philip Hinchcliffe era and the third from the Graham Williams era. We started off with The Seeds of Doom, one of my favourite stories from…
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Some New Doctor Who Books (Part Two)
Back at the end of January, I made a start on listing some of the Doctor Who related books that I\’ve been picking up over recent months. Here are a few more, focusing specifically on the excellent fan-oriented publications of Mad Norwegian Press: ABOUT TIME: THE UNAUTHORIZED GUIDE TO DOCTOR WHO – BOOK 7, 2005…
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Some New Doctor Who Books (Part One)
The books have been rolling in (don\’t they always – I need a bigger house), from Amazon.co.uk, Ebay.co.uk, and my regular comics and books supplier in the US. So I\’m going to start listing the new stuff that has landed on my doorstep during the past few months, starting off with the books based on…
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Classic Sci-Fi Cinema: Alfred Hitchcock\’s \”The Birds\” (1963)
I\’m sitting here in the (very) early hours of Boxing Day, watching Alfred Hitchcock\’s classic 1963 horror/fantasy thriller The Birds on Film4. I haven\’t seen this one from beginning to end in many, many years, so I\’m enjoying it a lot. The main characters are played by Rod Taylor (three years after his role in…