Andrew Orton
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Writer, artist, 33% of @MulgraveAudio , @cutawaycomics colourist. Author of books about Doctor Who, Blake's 7 and Robin of Sherwood. Solvitur ambulando. Durham.
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The trailer for Fellfoul, a new audio drama for
@mulgraveaudio
!
When Eleanor Wood discovers a lost 1980s fantasy film, she doesn't quite know what she's letting herself in for... Watch out for dragons!
Pre-order for vinyl and download now:
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The Third Doctor's politics: a thread🧵. It's been suggested that the Third
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is a massive Tory. He certainly looks the type: goes to a gentlemen's club, likes his wine and cheese, works with the establishment: a patronising and arrogant mansplainer. 1/
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That's the punchline, surely?
What's the difference between a woven rug and a treacherous gangster?
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Invasion of the Dinosaurs - with a new T REX!
(Tweeting again with inline video for the algorithm)
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THREAD 1/18 A little present: a guide to each TARDIS interior used in Season One. It's great fun to see the difference in the size of the set each time. This is built on the great work of
@claytonhickman
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There's bound to be at least one mistake in all this...
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#DoctorWho
: So we've got this new machine, Paintbox, that can colour images on the screen. Colour-grading on a BBC budget!
BBC: Amazing! You could do fantastic stuff. I guess you'd have to use it subtly so it didn't look like a toddler had knocked over a paintpot, eh?
Doctor Who:
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Paradise Towers has some banging on-set photos. Don't know who took them but they were brilliant. A thread. Here's the Doctor and Mel, being cool as.
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‘This doesn’t roll along on wheels, you know!’ An Unearthly Child, Lime Grove D, Friday 18th October 1963.
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He's nothing of the sort. He is in fact one of the greatest voices of left-wing politics in early 1970s television. 2/
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Here's a side-by-side of my
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Invasion of the Dinosaurs T-Rex and the original, for those who have asked!
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In The Silurians, a race of intelligent reptiles wakes from hibernation. They inhabited Earth before man. It's a about immigration: is there enough room for them here? In our land? The Doctor argues there is, they can live side-by-side, integrate. 3/
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Right, important question: what is
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's best ever set? I'm going to start with this. Am I wrong?
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Thread 1/ This is the TARDIS set for the Doctor Who TVM under construction. It has three concentric semi-circles of columns. But why are two of the red-brown wooden columns really tall?
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Hartnell's last day: The Tenth Planet 4, 8th October 1966. Bit of a work in progress. 'Thank you. It's good. Keep warm.'
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When he's not looking, the army commits genocide and blows them up. The Doctor is appalled. 4/
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'You're phantoms, illusions of the mind!' The Five Doctors in TC6, Day 1, 29th March 1983.
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Don't vote Tory. And don't vote Reform. Think of the future. Don't be scared. Don't go for the populist because it's easy. 'Take the world that you've got and try and make something of it.'
Free will is not an illusion. 23/
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In The Claws of Axos, the Doctor wants an alien wonder food to be for all. The government wants it for Britain. The Doctor, an immigrant, is quizzed. His response is searing: 'England for the English? Good heavens, man!' 8/
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In Inferno, the Doctor falls into a parallel universe: Britain as Nazi state. He's been trying to warn the establishment that their drilling for gas will damage the environment. 5/
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Lots of great moments last night, but I particularly like Catherine subtly putting Gavin off with her mind.
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The third Doctor is a left-wing, liberal icon, discussing and deconstructing climate change, fossil fuels, immigration, pollution, and nationalism 50 years before their time. Fear, xenophobia, rampant capitalism, resource-stripping: all interrogated and found wanting. 22/
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Whenever I hear a young actor say they used to love watching Doctor Who as a child, I picture them catching the end of the McCoy era or nabbing the VHS of Robot from WH Smith in the wilderness years. Then I realise they meant they watched Tennant’s last series when they were 12.
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Utterly fascinated by the Acton Hilton photo
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. How long was it used for? Where did it go? Are there any more pictures of it?
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The Nazis threaten to shoot him, but he's right: the world is destroyed, and he escapes to try to pass the message on to our world and save it from harm. 6/
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The Mind of Evil, meanwhile, rejects capital punishment, investigating toxic masculinity and male emotions, over the background of an international peace conference. 7/
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Mac Hulke wrote Colony in Space. He was a Communist and his script deals with anti-capitalist, anti-colonialist commentary. An Earth corporation has strip-mined a colony; the indigenous inhabitants are called savages and have their culture attacked. The Doctor stops it. 9/
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Thinking about that time in
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where they shaved Peri's head, performed major brain / mind surgery on her, but didn't take her earrings out.
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In the Curse of Peladon, the Doctor advocates strongly for Peladon to join the Federation, a parallel to Britain's membership of the EU in the early 1970s. It's obvious that federalisation and diversity makes the planet stronger. 10/
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The Mutants is about racism, because writer Dave Martin had a neighbour who moved to South Africa to be 'a kind of master' over black people. The script is about apartheid and the cost of maintaining a crumbling (British) Empire. The Doctor argues for indigenous rights. 11/
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The Green Death is pollution discourse: a chemical firm is putting slime into a pit - it could easily be shite into a river - and it's creating monsters down there. The Doctor, meanwhile, encourages a local scientist to pursue his mushroom-based alternatives to meat. 12/
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The death of multi-camera TV: a thread. I know most of you will know the technical parts of this, but bear with me. 1/
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In essence, the villains had some positive ideas - and some less so - but took things too far and caused destruction. As the Doctor says, 'There never was a Golden Age, Mike.' 15/
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The Time Warrior has Sarah Jane being thrust back into the past to teach the medieval folk about female emancipation. It's a bit classist - most of the characters are ruling class - but Sarah's skills are loud and clear. 'There's always something you can do!' 13/
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The third Doctor regenerates because earlier he took a valuable treasure from another culture, which the culture wants back. He eventually realises his error, gives it back, accepts his arrogance in taking it, and dies as penance. Those Elgin Marbles look nice, don't they? 18/
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'It's the end, but the moment has been prepared for...' Logopolis, in TC3, 8th January 1981.
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Invasion of the Dinosaurs has the Doctor's ally falling for a conspiracy theory which wants to revert the world to a Golden Age, before overpopulation took over. 14/
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The fourth Doctor continues the themes. In Robot, a right-wing jingoistic thinktank is plotting: they steal nuclear codes which the Brigadier state the UK hold because only they can be trusted. The Doctor sarcastically replies, 'Naturally. The rest were all foreigners.' 19/
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Terror of the Zygons is about fossil fuels shortages. The Doctor thinks it's a waste of time. 'Oil, an emergency? It's about time the people who run this planet of yours realised that to be dependent upon a mineral slime just doesn't make sense.' 20/
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'We must look after you, you know. You're very valuable!' The Edge of Destruction! 17th January 1964, in Lime Grove D.
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Set placement in the studio on this one is by deduction rather than documentation, though I think it's the most likely place.
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Also, forgot:
@andreworton
You forgot Alpha Centauri being androgynous and 3 correcting Jo when she misgendered it.
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The Monster of Peladon is a parable of unionisation in pit communities. A right-wing rabble-rouser is arranging false-flag attacks to make it appear that the workers are unhappy with immigrants on the planet. 16/
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Look how absolutely glorious this is. It’s genuinely a magnificent achievement. I’m so happy some folk can now experience the series for the first time! Nothing in the world can stop it now.
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I should point out too that the neo-Nazi villains in Robot are the scientific Reform society.
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There is some genuine discontent leading to a strike, but it's largely confected. It transpires that the populist leaders are agents of a rival bloc trying to disrupt the mining by creating a false moral panic. It fails. 17/
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'Susan. Surely, it’s Susan!' The Five Doctors in TC6, Day 2, 30th March 1983.
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'See how the atoms are arranged here? They have meaning, purpose!' What might have been: Shada, TC6, 19th November 1979.
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Marco Polo: The Roof of the World - the Himalaya in all its 405-line glory! A new tour of amazing
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sets from 1964.
Enjoy - and do like and share it for more in future.
#InStudio
#CGSets
Tips via Ko-fi: x
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By Planet of Evil he's advocating, 'deriving energy from the kinetic force of planetary movement,' which, it transpires in The Deadly Assassin, is how his own planet is powered. 21/
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‘I’m happy you’re glad!’ The Happiness Patrol in TC3, 26th July 1988. Might be the last one of these for a little while at least!
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Where are the Imperial
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today?
They're tinkering with the Time War in the Time Lords' War Room!
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#DrWho
#Dalek
#Blender
(Like and follow for more tomorrow...)
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I promised you some Troughton! The Tomb of the Cybermen Episode 1, in Lime Grove D, 1st July 1967. Thanks to
@NothingLane
for assistance with this one!
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'There is some evil in all of us Doctor, even you...' The Trial of a Time Lord Part 13 in TC1, 16th July 1986.
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Okay, so
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question for you all: what's the best individual performance by a Doctor Who actor in a particular story? Do you like Tom in Robot? McCoy in Ghost Light? Eccleston in Boom Town?
I'm going to start with Hartnell in The Romans: a magnficent, hilarious turn.
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Disco TARDIS! Impossible to find a bad angle in this set. Must finish that console...
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I've been doing a very slow two-year pilgrimage through
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and I'm delighted to announce I've finally reached the greatest 12-shot in the history of television. It's like an anti-Caravaggio.
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Exciting! The Remembrance of the Daleks prologue with new FX (and an HD BBC COW ident)! A little something I made...
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I've been doing The Research. New
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fact. The trains from The Deadly Assassin still exist!
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'Oh, undergraduates talking to each other, I expect. I've trying to have it banned.' Shada, TC3, 3rd November 1979. Shada fans might want to stay tuned tomorrow.
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My
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pilgrimage recently reached Season 11, and after Inferno, Green Death and Dinosaurs it's amazing how forward-thinking it is. They're literally talking about climate change 50 years ago. 'Take the world that you've got and try and make something of it.' I love it.
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I made a little diagram showcasing the full details of the Doctor's lengthy helicopter journey in Dimensions in Time.
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‘We have a power-boosted, open-ended transmat beam!’ The Capitol Council Chamber on Gallifrey, The Five Doctors, 29th March 1983, TC6.
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'A cold, high place, overlooking the universe...'
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: Logopolis in TC6, 24th January 1981
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Where are the Imperial
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today?
Well, it seems after 30 days and 30 images they made it home! Back on the bridge of their Imperial mothership. Hope you all enjoyed the journey!
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#DrWho
#Dalek
#Blender
(Like and follow for more CG nonsense in future...)
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The Black Guardian Trilogy – the studio sessions, with CG set recreations! (Part 6)
Enlightenment Block 1, TC1, 16-18th January 1983 (designer Colin Green)
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After strike action in November, a planned Dalek story was axed to allow Enlightenment to use its studio. 1/6
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'Please do not throw hands at me.'
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: The Robots of Death, in TC8, 23rd November 1976
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END 18/18 - And that's it. A quick note to say how impressive the work is from the hard-working folk who designed, built, erected and shot the sets, in a small-ish room at Lime Grove. Great stuff, Mr Brachacki.
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A1 - An Unearthly Child: The full control room set, with all furniture. The ormulu clock, armillary sphere and Chinese dragon (the latter two not yet seen) will periodically rotate between the eagle lectern and the pedestal in future eps (though the dragon doesn't last long).
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The Khan’s summer palace in Lime Grove D! Marco Polo: Mighty Kublai Khan, 6th March 1964.
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Where are the Imperial
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They're floating around in the Zero Room!
#DoctorWho
#DrWho
#Dalek
#Blender
(Like and follow for more tomorrow...)
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#DoctorWho
: Invasion of the Dinosaurs - New Triceratops FX!
Ko-fi tips appreciated:
I think that's probably enough dinosaurs to be going on with :)
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'I always drezzz for the occasion!' The TVM Cloister Room, in need of more leaves and smoke.
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Putting the entire series online, for free, with subtitles, audio description and sign language for 800 episodes is absolutely game-changing. This might be the best thing the BBC have ever done with the series. I love it
🚨Attention all Doctor Who fans! 🚨
The TARDIS doors are being thrown wide open as
@BBCiPlayer
welcomes the biggest collection of Doctor Who to the platform
Over 800 episodes of Doctor Who programming will launch on the 1st November! 🤩
More here➡️
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