Koquillion

LOUISE JAMESON The Doctor and Leela are now reunited in a series of Doctor Who audio productions for Big Finish. For the actress who played one of the series' most distinctive companions it's a welcome opportunity for a fresh start... [Published in Doctor Who 50 Years Issue 2 The Companions (Panini UK Ltd, August 2013), pp.56-9. Posted here by kind permission of DWM editor Tom Spilsbury.] "How do I say this?" muses Louise Jameson, who played the Fourth Doctor's companion Leela in 1977 and 1978. "I adore Tom Baker now. I want that to come across in what you put. But at the time, on the show, he behaved very badly towards me and I was very unhappy." This is surprising given that Leela was perhaps the toughest companion ever to travel in the TARDIS. A fearless warrior from a savage tribe in the far future, she loved to fight the Doctor's enemies and even, sometimes, kill. Indeed, she was named after a terrorist who'd been in the ne

Patrick Troughton ("Dr. Who")

PATRICK TROUGHTON On Saturday 21 March 1986, the Highway Hotel in Concorde, New Hampshire was host to the Doctor Who Festival and Exhibit Tour. Fans paid $12 (or $15 for reserved seats at the front) to watch The Two Doctors – weeks ahead of it being broadcast on Channel 11. They also got to meet the Second Doctor himself. For an hour, actor Patrick Troughton discussed his time as the Doctor and his career more generally. Jeff Lyons, then a journalist for WCFR Radio, recorded the whole thing and posted a sample on YouTube . He shared his recording with me to use in Doctor Who 50 Years Issue 3: The Doctors (Panini UK Ltd, October 2013). But, with Jeff's kind permission, here's the full transcript... (NB I couldn't always hear exactly what other people said.) [General hubbub] All images by Jeff Lyons PATRICK TROUGHTON: Who wants to ask one first? Right, there we are. [Does he like doing conventions?] Well, I do want to do thing

Steven Moffat (head writer)

[Interviewed on stage at the Fairford Festival of Fiction on Saturday, 3 June 2017. Transcript posted here by kind permission of Steven Moffat. Thanks also to Paul Cornell and the team at Fairford Festival.] Steven Moffat and me at Fairford Festival of Fiction Photo by Pea Green Boat Books Steven, I think I'm right in saying that this year's Doctor Who Christmas special has begun production. No, we've got the read-through on Thursday. I'm just doing a new draft at the moment, which I hope to finish tomorrow. I'll get that to the production office for Monday morning and then probably fiddle around with it a bit. Then I think we start shooting a week on Monday. I've misunderstood. So pre -production started a couple of weeks ago. Yes. Once you've finished this draft, what else is there for you to do as head writer on Doctor Who ? Oh, we have to make the show! I mean, it's not that I write it down and we just sort of stop

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