Tuesday 23 September 2014

DOCTOR WHO - BEHIND THE SCENES (1974)...


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Having dug out my 1974 VALIANT Annual to scan KELLY'S EYE for a previous post, I thought I'd see what else it contained before I tucked it away again.  And you're in luck - if you happen to be a DOCTOR WHO fan, that is.  What follows is a six page feature on JON PERTWEE's incarnation of the TARDIS-travelling Time Lord - so hang on to your hats - we're about to jump back forty years into the past.

Incidentally, TERRY NATION later confessed that his account of how he thought up the DALEKS' name was a 'creative fib'.  Which should've been obvious right from the start, really, as no encyclopaedia covers the letters DAL to LEK - they're not even in proper alphabetical sequence.  See, you learn something new on this entertaining and educational blog every day (unless you knew it already, of course).






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4 comments:

  1. John Pitt23 September 2014 at 13:28

    So glad you took another look. Thanks for sharing!

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  2. Kid23 September 2014 at 13:41

    A pleasure, JP. Still got at least one more story to run.

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  3. DeadSpiderEye23 September 2014 at 17:27

    Roger Delgado has been heavily retouched, looks suspicously like they clipped some artwork from a strip, of a 16th Century Spanish nobleman perhaps, he even looks like he's wearing a ruff.

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  4. Kid23 September 2014 at 18:22

    I suspect, DSE, that it was a poor photo that needed a bit of re-touching to make it clearer. Perhaps Roger wasn't wearing his syrup.

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