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Book cover for Big Finish Publishing. Available from www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1844352358/wwwdarkshacouk
If you are unfamiliar with the series Doctor Who or the subject bores you, pass on this blog-like entry, which focuses on my recent fascination for the show.
Today I watched the (I now know was a classic) episode from 2007 of Doctor Who called "Blink." The Doctor is hardly in it, but it is a complex and entertaining show about time travel, romance and how information given to the main character (a smart, spunky woman named "Sally Sparrow," played by actress Corey Mulligan) by the Doctor and her best friend from the past reaches her winds up in a paradox. Along the way she meets and eventually falls for a blondish, sort-of dumb guy named Larry Nightingale. By the end of the episode I was struck by how much the two characters reminded me of the two main characters of the latest series with Doctor Eleven (Matt Smith). Did anyone else notice this? Well, as I checked the Internet, of course they did!!!!
"I completely agree with you about the atypical “Blink,” aired during Tennant/Agyeman period, and now that you have me thinking about that episode again I wonder if Sally Sparrow and her dull-but-devoted friend Larry Nightingale weren’t a proto-Amy Pond/Rory Williams.) I was saddened once again when Tennant left, and was initially skeptical of Matt Smith’s Doctor. But I came to appreciate his portrayal much more quickly than I expected, for many of the reasons you note, as well as for the mythos of Amy Pond, the relationship of the Doctor, Amy, and Rory, and the non-sequential (in our time-line, at least) narrative of River Song (Alex Kingston)." - The Moth Chase
"And in the new series, companions Amy Pond and Rory Williams share quite more than a few traits with Sally Sparrow and Larry Nightingale from "Blink", a story Steven Moffat wrote before taking over as the head writer." Expy: Live-Action TV, tvtropes [In researching this I discovered that the term "expy" is slang for a TV character exported from one series or story to another. I didn't know that].
"Sally Sparrow and Larry Nightingale in Blink were definitely Steven Moffat's first attempt at writing Amy Pond and Rory Williams :P" - Wayne Rooney, Twitter
" just watched blink again love that episode!! but I can't help thinking sally sparrow & Larry nightingale are very similar to Amy pond & rory Williams. Any 1 else c it??? x"Sally Casburn Facebook March 13 2012
And now, just as I have a crush on the loveable and sweet Rory (Arthur Darvill), I also have a crush on the loveable and sweet Larry (Finlay Robertson). Both are typical English blokes I could go for!!!!!
11th Doctor: coat button detail. I assumed these were leather but they appear to be some kind of plastic/resin designed to look like wrapped leather buttons.
Okay...think I'm done, except for an accurate BBC catalog number and the total running time, possible corrections in the Special Features (I'm hoping that this year's Proms will be an extra, but possibly it won't), and probably at least one change to the back cover highlight photos.
I changed the number color (and back cover copy and boxes) from Matt's green glow to a somewhat metallic-looking blue (to match the logo), which seems to work better.
But, as always...suggestions? Criticisms of a constructive nature? Mistakes caught? Please feel free to comment!
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Book cover for Big Finish Publishing. Available from www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1844352676/wwwdarkshacouk
Fifth to Seventh Doctors
A project from my website of pictures from the Doctor Who television opening sequences.
Theme music by Ron Grainer and Delia Derbyshire in 1963, new version by Peter Howell in 1980 and Dominic Glynn in 1986.
Big Finishes version of the aborted '79 Tom Baker story, with Paul McGann ably stepping into the Doctor's shoes along side Lalla Ward as Romana and John Leeson as K-9.
I currently have this up on eBay if anyone is interested?
Cover illustration for BBC Audio. Available on CD from www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1408409402/wwwdarkshacouk
Cover illustration for BBC Audio. Available on CD from www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1408409399/wwwdarkshacouk
In the days before the Internet, this cover was something of a scoop for us - the production office managing, somehow, to keep the lid on the Master's appearance in 'Survival' so this dramatic cover would be a surprize to the majority of our readers. At the time Reeltime Pictures were shooting their Doctor Who Magazine documentary and were sworn to secrecy when they shot the issue rolling off the presses.