The Tenth Planet - Far from being all over... (18/11/13)

[Nyder]

You should have saved that till April 1st Steve!

[SiHart]

Yes, you may need to take a close look at anything you may have seen...

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[Rob McCow]

Oh haha. How irritating!

[Si Hunt]

It's an April Fools gag someone "sprung" early.

Si.

[SiHart]

A member of PS too!

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[Simon R]

Hilarious. I might do an April Fool's gag in January next year.

[Stuart Wallis]

My life is one April Fool gag, so at least I'm rarely disappointed.

[SiHart]

New clip!

[Si Hunt]

Looking good!

Si.

[Stuart Wallis]

Indeed.

[Dino]

William Hartnell in "If The Wind Changes You'll Stick Like That!" shock!!

[Simon R]

That's lovely.

[Dino]

Tell me to snap out of it man, but... I still want the Regenerations box... But that is one attractive DVD right there.
And two discs!

[SiHart]

Well I think that's a smashing cover. Don't you?

[Si Hunt]

I do, I do, I do, I do, I do.

Si.

[Stuart Wallis]

William Hartnell in "If The Wind Changes You'll Stick Like That!" shock!!

Just as well it wasn't the wind that changed...

[Wayne]

Love the cover!

I've been getting all my Dr Who dvds from the BBC Shop for a while now because of their 10% off promotion codes. Why pay £13.99 when you can pay £12.59? It might not seem much, but it adds up when you think how many Dr Who dvds you buy.

I just preordered The Tenth Planet with 10% discount code: RP0813, in case anyone wants to take advantage of it.
Actually, the last voucher I had was RP0613, which came up as expired, but I tried changing the 6 to an 8, and it worked.

http://www.bbcshop.com/doctor-who/doctor-w...invt/bbcdvd3382

[Matthew T]

I do the same Wayne, and buy through Quidco to get an extra 57p back too.

[Wayne]

I do the same Wayne, and buy through Quidco to get an extra 57p back too.

Ah, thanks for the tip!

[brandynigma]

Thank you. It's good. Keep warm.

[Stuart Wallis]

I do the same Wayne, and buy through Quidco to get an extra 57p back too.

I use Lads With Sticks. That way I'm paid to take them and the goods away!

[Matthew T]

Steve Roberts sets a cat amongst the pigeons:

Originally Posted by Steve Roberts View Post
Sorry, it won't be. But there will be something on there that will knock a few people's socks off, as I don't think it's known to exist.

And no, I don't mean episode four, which to the best of my knowledge does not exist, despite the omnirumour...

His first sentence refers to Michael Craze's links for the original VHS release.

[Simon R]

The 90 episode dream is fading like a flower.

[Stuart Wallis]

If you want to keep believing the omnirumour, TP4 may be one of the 16 that hasn't turned up.

Personally, I'm still going to wait until I see anything before I believe anything.

[Matthew T]

Biggles explains what the surprise is:

Yes, it's our one and only on-screen interview with Mr Grumpy, William Hartnell himself!

A few years ago, I was doing research into the article I was preparing for Issue 3 of Nothing at the End of the Lane on Hartnell's rather disastrous performance as Buskin the Fairy Cobbler in the pantomime, Puss in Boots, which toured around four different venues in December 1966 and January 1967, just three months after he had completed work on The Tenth Planet.

Whilst doing some work at the BBC Written Archive Centre, I checked the respective Programme-as-Broadcast sheets for the period, looking specifically at the local BBC news programmes to see if Hartnell's appearance in panto was deemed worthy of a television report.

He was in fact interviewed twice. Once in the first week of the tour in Ipswich (shown on Look East on 27 December 1966) and again during the final week in Taunton for Points West, shown on 17 January 1967. As I'd built up some contacts in the BBC's regional news libraries working on the DVDs, I dropped the respective archives a line to see if there was any chance the two interviews survived.

The first interview for Look East had long gone, but the ladies in the Bristol News Library very quickly got back to me to say that the interview done in Taunton still survived. We arranged for the footage to be sent over to London, where it was duly transferred. It shows Hartnell in his dressing room doing his make-up for one of his performances, with his "Doctor's ring" on the table and a Berwick Dalek playsuit stuffed in the corner. Hartnell speaks about his problems acting against the Daleks and how pantomime isn't "legitimate" theatre! Enjoy!!