Richard Bignell

@kingsmillirving Urm, no. It was shown on film, on a 16mm projector.

I love researching the Doctor Who Missing Episodes, because what do you mean the last reported screening of The Macra Terror was in a New Zealand School on the 1970s equivalent of one of these

@dcrowleyprod @NicoGFr It doesn't mean that you're right, though. Which you aren't.😀

@NicoGFr booklet design, disc art, looks very much like a collection set

@DPatz13 @clairemnash So, you’re not going to concede on the other point on which you were also wrong? 🤣

@clairemnash The last part I will concede, forgot he appeared on the special

Emma Willis is a fantastic, natural presenter of any show. Josh Widdicombe is an AWFUL choice - a comedian with no background of presenting or anything connected to dancing. Johannes Radebe will be wasted as a presenter when he still dances SO well #Strictly

@thoscheitrash @WeaselFidget It's only done for a laugh, got a few light-hearted boos from the audience for even daring to mention AI, and it got quite a few giggles from the audience. The whole thing only took a minute or two. Hardly problematic in a 3½ hour presentation.

@WeaselFidget Each time they’ve only read AI questions to try to make people laugh with how long and confusing they are, and then they don’t actually get the guests to answer them. But like, it only gets a little bit of a laugh and quite a lot of boos, so you’d think they would be embarrassed

When are the BFI guys going to STOP doing ai questions, the entire audience has groaned and/or booed both times they’ve done this, you can’t celebrate creatives then turn around and use something that steals their work

@CyberJef28 Gary Russell shared an out-of-the-box image of his set on Bluesky yesterday.

First look at the Dark Water Cybermen figures from Al Dewar at the BFI today

@DoctorWhoPix @legwhobrix Absolutely no evidence for that.

@legwhobrix Skin colour.

Louise Jameson's first publicity photograph as Leela Yes, they really did this. #DoctorWho #DrWho

@the_questmaster @lewispringle Yes, they must be. Cura's photographs were always flat-sided, even in his very early ones, not showing any of the screen curvature.

@lewispringle That's very interesting - obviously they can't be actual Cura telesnaps from an unbroadcast production, so presumably an in-house Granada job?

May have just stumbled onto something extremely rare and significant. Typing Coronation Street 1960 into Shutterstock, they have telesnaps via ITV of what is called Episode 1 of Coronation Street which looks to be the first dry runs/pilot episode. This is incredible to see!

@kevinjondavies @PatrickMulkern @DWASonline Ah, the details were in Celestial Toyroom, not TARDIS!

@NothingLane @PatrickMulkern @DWASonline Jan V-R just messaged me - the screening of the BFI clip at Westfield College I went to with pals was apparently on Thurs 14th October 1976.

🟦Happy 50th anniversary, DWAS! 🟦Today marks 50 years since the official launch of the Doctor Who Appreciation Society by my dear friends Jan Vincent-Rudzki and Steve Payne, alongside other key founders. 🥂 @DWASonline

@kevinjondavies @PatrickMulkern @DWASonline They advertised the meeting that would include the BFI clip in the September 1976 issue (No.10), saying that it would happen in October. The details of the meeting were supposed to be in the following issue, but it doesn't appear that they remembered to put them in.

@PatrickMulkern @DWASonline Ta! I distinctly recall Jeremy B was at the clip screening with blueprints of the 'new' Tardis set. He'd just visited the Hand of Fear studio with Sue Moore in July. My friends and I must have been at a later meeting, that summer. Jan & Stephen were very kind to we schoolboys!

@philwithadrill Yes. The series was just called ‘The Daleks’. ‘The Destroyers’ was the title of the first episode.

@NothingLane Is that “The Destroyers”? I don’t know whether Terry Nation called it that, or it’s become known as that.

As Sir David Attenborough turns 100 today, here's his memo from December 1966 as Controller of BBC2 to Dennis Scuse at Television Enterprises, turning down the idea that Terry Nation's planned colour Dalek series could find a home on his channel.

@NotImportantUs1 @dcrowleyprod They didn't.

@dcrowleyprod The fact they destroyed the only tape of an early Dr Who Christmas special literally THE WEEK AFTER is just bonkers to me. What on earth were they smoking?! Especially since nearly EVERY early season episode is gone at their hands!

BBC in the 1970’s:

@KirstieMAllsopp @pattisonpaula1 @spectator No, it really wasn't.

@pattisonpaula1 @spectator No, at first it was sticky back plastic, later on it was sticky tape.

I know that from watching the BBC as a child, when two linguistic absurdities drove the seven-year-old me practically insane. One was the Blue Peter habit of referring to Sellotape as ‘sticky-backed plastic’, a phrase unspoken by anyone else in any other circumstances, except in parodies of BBC children’s programmes. Worse still was the practice of BBC continuity announcers maintaining the pretence that a cartoon which was obviously called Top Cat, which featured a theme song which made repeated reference to its protagonist as Top Cat…was somehow called Boss Cat. ✍️ Rory Sutherland Article | spectator.com/article/the-bb…

@DoctorWhoPix Seeing this in TV Comic back in 1976 was the most exciting thing ever. I think I must have looked at that advert a hundred times that day. The thing I was most excited about was the small line down the bottom - "And you won't see it on TV."

Doctor Who Meets the Pescatons #DoctorWho #DrWho

@StevenFlavell1 @Rob_Watkins @archives1963 Yes, the collector who has them allowed DWM to print the image of Celation back in 1998. A few others in the collection of 16 have...slipped out over the years.

@NothingLane @Rob_Watkins @archives1963 I have a vague memory of someone from DWM saying that they were only allowed to publish a small section of one of those photos and then only in black and white. I assume the original source has been found?

DID you know? These photos — including a bird’s eye view of the various sets — from The Daleks’ Master Plan: Volcano was from a collection of colour pics that was never supposed to be made public by request of their owner, of which several (below) slipped out?

@Rob_Watkins @archives1963 In order of asking, some did, and we don't know. 🙂

@NothingLane @archives1963 Hi Richard, What is the story behind these photos? Did they get published and which magazine?

@Rob_Watkins @archives1963 No, they're photographs taken for a 1960s magazine.

@archives1963 Someone who worked on the show?

@Topinka222 @eveofthedaleks Except when it wasn't.

@eveofthedaleks Classic Who was always distributed on a serial by serial basis, "seasons" is a label applied to it retroactively

Why do we call Classic Who ‘Seasons’ and New Who ‘Series’ Has it always been a thing??

@AMadmanNotABox rcs.ac.uk/news-stories/s…

Right, so I’m the only one who remembers he’s had one before, I’m guessing? And sadly like last time, the idiots in the comments are idioting in the comments.

@Zhu_Zhanji @tardisdrwho1962 @la_riviere I know full well what's written in Wiped! That still doesn't mean that it's not a nonsense. BBC Ents weren't any sort of permanent archive, just a sales store until their rights ran out. They were also the ones who were giving Engineering the go-ahead to wipe master videotapes.

@NothingLane @tardisdrwho1962 @la_riviere Most of the politics & cockups arr recalled in WIPED! I would advise people to read it themselves. There are many moving parts but it reminds me of the time someone came to me with a seismic cube for which they lost the corner points- £40m to shoot & you don't know where it is?