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15th Jan 2008, 4:33 PM #1
Doctor Who Fans Required For Secret Project...
I just saw this on the RT forum and thought it mght be of some interest to everyone on PS:
Hey all,
I am currently searching of some Doctor Who fans who really know their stuff
for a forthcoming Doctor Who DVD Documentary.
I cannot say what release this is for, but, its a documentary called "The
Frighten Factor" the topic mainly covers - what is it that makes Doctor
Who so scary?
I am after people who are comfortable in front of camera, confident, know
the show backwards and forwards, can get to (or live in) London, and have
a clear memory of something that scared them whilst watching on the sofa or
from behind it.
I have decided to split this up into categories:
1) 1960s
2) 1970s
3) 1980s
4) New Series
Please get in contact via the email below, please write in the subject
header of your email "FRIGHTEN FACTOR DOC" and in the email tell me which era of 'Who' you feel more comfortable 'remembering' and what is your SCARIEST memory from the shows history.. I'm looking forward to hearing from you!
Special thanks to the RT for letting me post this here.
Brendan Sheppard
brendansheppard@yahoo.co.uk
I sent an email!
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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15th Jan 2008, 4:38 PM #2
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15th Jan 2008, 4:39 PM #3Pip Madeley Guest
I never hid behind the sofa/got scared, so that rules me out.
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15th Jan 2008, 4:43 PM #4
I used to be scared of it as a kid but I can't name any specific stories which scared me - it was more the theme music and Tom's first title sequence which are memorable for frightening me.
However, I still find the Mr Oak & Mr Quill sequence from Fury From The Deep really creepy - I suppose that's the closest thing to actually being scared I can think of but it's the 'wrong' era for me to have grown up with.
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15th Jan 2008, 4:56 PM #5Pip Madeley GuestHowever, I still find the Mr Oak & Mr Quill sequence from Fury From The Deep really creepy - I suppose that's the closest thing to actually being scared I can think of but it's the 'wrong' era for me to have grown up with.
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15th Jan 2008, 5:04 PM #6
Not really "hide behind the sofa" scary, but the Empty Child ("are you my mummy?") and Blink are definitely up there.
Geoff
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15th Jan 2008, 5:33 PM #7
Well I can certainly confirm scariest moments for the early 70s: Spearhead (the autons crashing through the shop windows), Terror of the Autons (the plastic chair), The Daemons (Down the pit in Devil's end)
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15th Jan 2008, 5:53 PM #8
I probebly found the big Malus head scary, but I don't exactly have a clear memory of it. That's probably about it.
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15th Jan 2008, 6:35 PM #9
I wonder what story it's for? Presumably one of the notoriously 'scary' ones - Terror of the Autons or Deadly Assassin perhaps?
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15th Jan 2008, 6:58 PM #10
That's 'cause you've never been a kiddie watching Dr. Who! Think yourself lucky, Pip! 11 years old (which I think you'd be when the TVM aired) is kind of 'kiddie' I suppose, but my really frightening memories are from way before that age.
A scene involving a skull freaked me out, which I now believe must have been "Image of the Fendahl", and I found "The stones of blood" a bit freaky. I found Davros quite creepy In "Destiny of the Daleks", and I have a vivid memory of the Daleks' shock entrance making me jump (although that doesn't count in my book, as it wasn't sustained fear!) I didn't much like Scaroth either, in "City of death". The fact that I was convinced that Julian Glover was actually TV presenter Stuart Hall just added to the fear! I can't see a great resemblance between them both these days, but there you go...
But it was actually much later that I had my bona fide "can't bear to look at the TV screen" moment. It was an episode of "Meglos", where Meglos impersonates the Doctor and becomes a cactus faced version of him. For some reason that really scared me!
I saw it for the firsttime since 1980 last year, and (contrary to popular opinion) I thought it was a decent enough story (although far sillier than I remember of course), but it didn't scare me....although there was a hint of something!
By th etime peter davison took over I was perhaps too old to be truly frightened by the show, or so you'd think...Just when I thought I had nothing to fear I saw "Kinda", which wasn't always scare free viewing! Down right weird infact.... even the open-the-box cliffhanger was disturbing back then.
But "Kinda" was the very last time! ...well, until "Blink"!
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15th Jan 2008, 7:02 PM #11
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15th Jan 2008, 8:58 PM #12
My scariest memories pretty much echo Carol's (especially Stones of blood), however I'm in no position to be in front of a camera at the moment - the scariest thing on that DVD would be my face if they filmed me now!!!!
Also my drain bag looks like a cathata to going out in public is still a no no for me
Otherwise I might have been up for this!!!
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15th Jan 2008, 10:31 PM #13
My e-mail is on the way....
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15th Jan 2008, 10:52 PM #14
I hope somebody from PS gets included! Good luck Jason.
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15th Jan 2008, 11:24 PM #15WhiteCrow Guest
As I've mentioned many a time, Davros screaming and the Daleks turning on the Kalids had me terrified as a kid of 4. Even today I won't watch Genesis on my own at night.
Glad to see the new series provides this with the creepy "Are you my mummy", "Don't turn around" (I don't want you seeing me crying?), and "Don't blink ... blink and you're dead2
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16th Jan 2008, 12:16 AM #16Pip Madeley Guest
I hope they get Ian Levine and Chris Chinballs to contribute. They can talk about how frightened they were when 'Time And The Rani' was broadcast to the nation.
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16th Jan 2008, 12:33 PM #17
Seeing Ian Levine on screen is about as frightening as it gets...
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16th Jan 2008, 8:37 PM #18
No one will be surprised to hear that I won't be sending an e-mail. I neither know Doctor Who forwards or backwards & I was never scared enough to hide.
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16th Jan 2008, 8:40 PM #19
I definitely recall hiding behind the sofa when I was very, very young (the sofa was situated in the middle of the room as I recall rather than up against a wall) but I can't recall what story it was! Most stories were scary to me then (from Spiders to Fang Rock chiefly) so for me it was more the overall feel of the show rather than specifics. Though the scene of the Mummies crushing the poacher was a definite vivid image, along with much of the Matrix scenes in Deadly Assassin.
I'm guessing the DVD will be Terror of the Autons.
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19th Feb 2008, 2:05 PM #20
Just had an e-mail about it. Bloody annoying to find that the only thing keeping me off it at the moment is geography!
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19th Feb 2008, 4:08 PM #21Pip Madeley Guest
Geography?
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19th Feb 2008, 4:26 PM #22
well I certainly won't be sending any e-mails as I was never really scared about any thing in Doctor Who.
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19th Feb 2008, 4:29 PM #23
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19th Feb 2008, 4:31 PM #24Pip Madeley Guest
Surely London's not too difficult for Jason? He manages it for the meets...
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19th Feb 2008, 4:31 PM #25
They have decided to come to people's homes to record the documentary interviews, but they are restricting it to homes within the M25. Gillingham ain't within the M25, though I can get to London really easily from here.
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