Timelord50: 06/21/11

Tuesday 21 June 2011

Doctor Who Destiny Of The Daleks: Collectors Set Signed Edition

Forbidden Planet are delighted to make this Special autographed version of the Destiny of the Daleks' set available to UK and Irish customers.

A Special card has been printed and is housed in the front of the set - it was packed in the factory so no sets have been reopened to accommodate the signed card - it has been signed by actor David Gooderson. David played Davros during the 1979 series which included this storyline.

We think the card makes the set even more attractive to display and adds value for all collectors. The run length is very limited - around 500 and your set is individually numbered on the top right of the inserted autograph card. We hope this will be the first in a short series of signature editions.

The Fourth Doctor and Romana arrive on Skaro and discover that the Daleks are using a group of humanoid slaves and heavy drills to burrow down into the old Kaled city. The Daleks are at war with the robotic Movellan race who have also arrived on Skaro, determined to find out what the Dalek plan is. It’s soon revealed what the Dalek objective is; Davros their creator! The Movellans insist in joining the Doctor in the race to find him. However on being located by the Doctor, Davros revives, his life support systems having held him in suspended animation ever since being exterminated by his own creations centuries before. Davros is soon rescued by the Daleks though, and he quickly surmises that the battle computers of the two races are locked in a logical stalemate, and that he could break it by introducing an element of intuition.

The Movellans, having reached the same conclusion, insist the Doctor to do likewise for them. Knowing this, Davros attempts to destroy the Movellan ship using a suicide squad of Daleks loaded with bombs. The Doctor soon disables the robot Movellans, and returns to the Kaled City and tricks Davros into detonating the explosives before they reach the ship. The defeated Davros is cryogenically frozen until the freed slave workers can take him to Earth and put on trial for his crimes.

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Torchwood - Launch interviews

148: Rat Trap

Peter Davison (The Doctor), Janet Fielding (Tegan Jovanka), Mark Strickson (Vislor Turlough), Sarah Sutton (Nyssa)

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Jago and Litefoot Series 3 Box Set

Christopher Benjamin (Henry Gordon Jago), Trevor Baxter (Professor Litefoot). Louise Jameson (Leela)

Louise Jameson will be joining the regular cast as Leela, reunited with the two investigators of infernal incidents. It is the first time that Louise has worked together with fellow actors Christopher Benjamin and Trevor Baxter since the TV story The Talons of Weng-Chiang in 1977.

“Leela has been sent to Earth by the Time Lords,” says producer David Richardson. “Something is corrupting time on Earth, the planet is in grave danger and Leela again teams up with Jago and Litefoot to urgently locate the source of the problem.”

The series begins with Dead Men’s Tales by Justin Richards, in which the trio are on the trail of mysterious dead sailors that have risen from the murky waters of the Thames. Warren Brown (The Accused, Single Father) guest stars as Johnny Skipton.

Episode two is The Man at the End of the Garden by Matthew Sweet, in which Jago, Litefoot and Leela are menaced by a young girl’s imaginary friend. Eden Monteath (who appeared in the Eleventh Doctor’s first TV adventure The Eleventh Hour) plays young Clara while Joanna Monro (Planet of the Spiders) is Eleanor Naismith.

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