h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

"Ooh, should we call Sophie Aldred? What is she doing these days, anyway?"

Voice overs and Who conventions last I heard. But she has indicated her willingness to return if asked and is appropriate. Wouldn't hold my breath though.

This weeks Grey's Anatomy was great fun for Doctor Who fans. The plot centred around a disaster at a comic convention. Classic line of the show: 'HE'S STEALING MY TARDIS!' from someone dressed as the Doctor.

If you missed it the episode is called 'What Is It About Men' (Season 8 Episode 4) and it's repeated in the UK on Living, Sunday night at 10pm.

I missed that. And I'm a little surprised that we didn't have a single comment about Children in Need.

<BB<

"These are Ultra-trousers. They're just like normal trousers, but with the word 'Ultra' in front."

How's that do?


Geggs

Was there a Children in Need Dr Who piece last week?

There was. The skit itself just to announce the auction of a set of the current costume, though it does finish with a topless Matt Smith.

At which point the trailer for the Christmas Special was shown, and title revealed at the end. It is 'The Doctor, The Widow, And The Wardrobe'.


Geggs

Are you aware the TV-show Community is featuring a show called Inspector Spacetime, about a man travelling around in a British phone box? The latest episode was a holiday special, about the Inspector Spacetime holiday special.

Several of my friends keep raving about Community, and I like the couple of episodes they've shown me. I suppose I'll check out more at some point.
Amusingly, one of them has no time for Doctor Who at all. Haters gonna hate, I suppose.

The BBC keep saying that two episodes from the sixties have been discovered, but none of the radio 4 news reports say which episodes they are. Further investigation (of the BBC website)reveals that one is Episode 3 of Galaxy Four, and the other, Episode 2 of The Underwater Menace.

Odd. The news report on Radio 2 not only said which ones they were but played a brief audio clip from the Underwater Menace!

Well, to be fair, I was listening at 6am. It's possible they hadn't found anyone they could ask at that time of the morning.

Hm... the announcement went out yesterday evening though so it's not like they can say they didn't have access to the info!

The 8am Radio 4 Today News mentioned both episode names and played a clip from the Pat Troughton one.

They probably had a load of emails about it.

Moffat is mildly trolling again:
(involves major plot point of next season, but not when/how and isn't *that* surprising)
URL gives it away so scroll past if you don't want to know, but I can't see how you'll avoid it over the next year...













http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/dec/15/doctor-who-amy-leaves

The discovered episodes are very exciting - any further details on how they came to light?

Gif

Interestingly, I have heard aboslutely nothing about them, except here.

Apparently the guy was having dinner with someone in the know and happened to casually mention these two Doctor Who reels he'd picked up in the 80s. By all accounts he had no idea they were missing until that moment.

I heard about it first here:

http://www.sfx.co.uk/2011/12/11/two-more-lost-episodes-of-doctor-who-recovered/

Extract from same:

Both episodes were returned by former TVS engineer Terry Burnett, who bought them at a school fête in Marchwood, Southampton in the 1980s! Restoration Team member Ralph Montagu told the Radio Times how they came to his attention:

“I occasionally meet up with a group of film collectors and retired TV engineers at a café in Hampshire. A few months ago I spoke to Terry Burnett, who used to be an engineer at [former ITV station] TVS. Somehow Doctor Who was mentioned in passing, and Terry said, ‘Oh, actually I think I’ve got an old episode.’ I thought it was bound to be something we’ve got already. I tried not to get too excited, but he came back the next day and brought this spool with him. It had no label, so I had a look at the film leader and it said ‘Air Lock’. I thought, ‘What’s that?’ I checked online and saw that ‘Air Lock’ was an episode of ‘Galaxy 4’ – a missing Hartnell serial. So then I got very excited.

“And he said, ‘Guess what I’ve got?’ It was another episode of Doctor Who! Again not labelled on the can, but it turned out to be The Underwater Menace part two.”


Geggs

(but I had more detail!)


Geggs