Sarah and the Doctor

As you probably know, The Sarah Jane Adventures returns this week with the two part story Prisoner of the Judoon - and later in the series, David Tennant joins the show for highly anticipated crossover story The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith!

Having Tennant appear as the Doctor in one of the spinoff shows is of course pretty marvellous - and also sees the character return to the traditional 25 minute format of (the majority of) the classic series.

The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith stars Lis Sladen as Sarah Jane, David Tennant as the Doctor and the usual cast of Tommy Knight as adopted son Luke, Daniel Anthony as Clyde Langer, Anjli Mohindra as Rani Chandra. Veteran actor Nigel Havers appears as Sarah's fiance Peter Dalton...

We'll not give too much away until closer to the date - in the meantime, here's a smashing photo of the Doctor and Sarah Jane!

(Via Den of Geek)

Doctor Who Museum to Close

 

 

Experience Design have announced the last chance to see the classic collection of Doctor Who items at the Doctor Who Museum in Blackpool, which will close on November 8th after 5 years.

 

With the Museum - the biggest Doctor Who exhibition in the country - closing its doors for the last time at the end of the traditional Blackpool visitors season, some of the collection will be re-distributed to other Doctor Who Exhibitions around the UK.

The Doctor Who Museum in Blackpool features a unique collection of props, monsters and costumes from throughout the long history of Doctor Who, Britain's best loved Science Fiction Drama. Closing the museum marks the end of one of the UK's two permanent museums to Doctor Who and potentially the end of a long relationship between the series and the North West seaside resort which dates back to the original exhibition opening on Blackpool's Golden mile in 1974.

The Exhibition will be open every day from 10.30am to 8.00pm until close on the 8th of November.

Sadly, although there is a shop on site, none of the display items will be made available for sale.

Find out more by visiting www.doctorwhoexhibitions.com.

(Thanks to BBC Worldwide)

Sonic Screwdriver Explodes (SPOILERS?)

 

On-location snaps of Matt Smith recording Doctor Who last week revealed a key moment in the life of the sonic screwdriver. 

It's had so many shapes over the years that it would be foolish to try and list them all here - however it's fair to say that there have been two key designs.

In the original series, the Doctor's faithful tool - first seen in the hands of Patrick Troughton's Second Doctor - was a silver device similar to a GP's otoscope.

With the return of Doctor Who in 2005 however, the Time Lord had found the time to rebuild the device into a porcelain tube with a blue light and a variety of uses way beyond opening locks.

Fans are generally in agreement that the location work in Llandaff in South Wales recently is the Eleventh Doctor's first episode - and if photos published in the Daily Mail are anything to go by, he has a bit of trouble using the multi-function sonic tool.

Given that we've already seen Smith and Karen Gillan snapped on earlier location shoots with Alex Kingston - who appeared in 2008's Silence in the Library as Professor River Song - could this mean the end of the famous sonic screwdriver as used by the Ninth and Tenth Doctors and the beginning of the "future sonic screwdriver" we saw in that story...?

and a awful lot of running to doooooooooooooo ooooo oooooooooo

Harper on Waters of Mars

October 6, 2009

Christian Cawley

Top Doctor Who director Graeme Harper has been revealing all on the next installment of the Tenth Doctor's adventures - The Waters of Mars airs before Christmas, and SFX have an interview with the man who directed 1980s classic The Caves of Androzani as well as many more recent adventures including the 2008 series finale.

Naturally, "the Guv'nor" isn't giving anything away - obviously we're not going to either. If you want to read the interview, hop over to the SFX website and take it in. Some choice cuts here, however, beginning with Graeme Harper's thoughts on whether or not The Waters of Mars is scary...

“I’m not sure if it’s as scary as Blink, but it’s quite frightening – because it’s so real, I think. I hope so!”

Harper also gives an overview on how the water is made to fire out of the monsters mouths and hands:

“There was a very complex system of tubes and piping that they all had to wear within the prosthetics – and water was squeezed and pressurized through the tubes to give the volume of water we required to come out of the actors’ mouths on a continuous basis.”

Finally, an insight from the director of the penultimate David Tennant era adventure of what's going through the Doctor's mind...

"...here he’s terrified. But I think that’s good, and I think most people will be interested to see how he gets out of this one. That what I think they think every time. But here, he really is in a very fearful state – and doesn’t want to die, obviously.

"I don’t think he wants to regenerate..."

We don't want him to either...

Post Regeneration Threads (Mild Spoilers)

The first look for Matt Smith's Eleventh Doctor Who is a long way from the tweed and bow tie we were introduced to in July, if recent snaps from location shooting in South Wales are anything to go by.

SFX have feature a small selection of images of the new Doctor on location, kitted out in what appears to be the last wardrobe change of the Tenth Doctor.

Faded Converse, pinstriped trousers, blue shirt and swirly blue tie - all torn and singed, suggesting that the recent regeneration has been a close call.

That's an interesting expression on his face too - I wonder that the Doctor is thinking...?

It certainly seems as though the current production block features the first episode of the Eleventh Doctor's run, with Smith appearing alongside a Karen Gillan kitted out in a rather fetching interpretation of a policewoman's outfit.

Of course, the real question is how do the two of them get thrown together? We'll have to wait until 2010 to find out...