Eleventh Doctor Matt Smith appeared tonight on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, making the first appearance of a current (or any?) Doctor on a US talk show.
A 2005-style (bronze) Dalek appeared on tonight’s episode of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson — I found out about it literally 10 minutes before the episode started thanks to Twitter and was able to set my DVR to record it in time.
I took several screen shots which I’ll post below, but first here is a video of the opening for the show, which featured Craig waxing enthusiastic about the Daleks:
And below I’ve posted a quick gallery of screen grabs, including Craig hugging the Dalek, playing with its eye stalk, plunger & gun, and even guest Dennis Miller touching a Dalek bump:
I can’t wait until tomorrow’s episode with guest eleventh Doctor Matt Smith…
It’s been ages since I’ve had a chance to update the site so I thought I’d just add a quick post with a short video of my parakeet Sutekh The Destroyer, named after the classic Doctor Who villain of the same name from Pyramids of Mars.
Being the silly geek that I am, when I got him a few years ago I thought to myself “what’s the most ridiculous thing I could name a parakeet?” — given parakeets are small, harmless & friendly animals I figured the exact opposite would be an ancient and powerful god of evil, and so immediately thought of Sutekh from Pyramids.
Not one for half measures, I decided I also needed to train him to talk and quote his namesake. Here’s a short video of him quoting the original Sutekh saying “Identify yourself, plaything of Sutekh”
He quotes Doctor Who quite a bit, including not just Sutekh from Pyramids of Mars, but also the Roger Delgado version of the Master. If you’d like me to post more in the future, let me know in the comments below…
At the end of last week’s episode, the Beast Below, the Doctor gets a call on the new TARDIS phone from a certain historical Prime Minsiter of Britian, who needs the Doctor’s help.
Since then, the BBC has released 3 teaser clips from Victory of the Daleks, the first Dalek story to feature the eleventh Doctor (but I imagine not the last).
In this clip, the Doctor introduces Amy Pond to Winston Churchill who apparently has known the Doctor (and coveted the TARDIS) for some time.
In the second clip, the Doctor and Amy are on a roof looking out upon… history. They witness an impossible (by 20th century Earth technology) display of destructive force during a military test. The Doctor recognizes the sound of Dalek gunfire, and a Dalek with an unusual paint job…
Here’s the second clip:
For newer fans who may not get the reference: the “I am your soldier” line (including inflection) is a reference to the very first story with the second Doctor: Power of the Daleks — except then it was “I am your servant”. Looking forward to finding out how much of a connection there is between the classic Troughton story and this new one penned by Mark Gatiss (writer: The Unquiet Dead, Idiots Lantern, also appeared as Professor Lazarus in The Lazarus Experiment)
In the third clip, Amy brashly walks right up to a Dalek and starts asking it questions. Its reaction is very much unlike a usual Dalek response, which confirms my assumption that this story may be linked (at least in general plot) to Power of the Daleks.
But I think the interesting thing is that Amy doesn’t seem to know who the Daleks are… Which (along with a clue in The Eleventh Hour) seems to suggest the Doctor may not have picked her up in the present day… But this is pure speculation at this point, and not just on my part.
Here’s the clip:
It’s so nice having Doctor Who back on the air for a proper series again instead of the scattered specials of last year. I’m really liking the new Doctor and Amy so far and can’t wait to see how the series progresses…
The cool thing (or another cool thing) is, I’m actually looking forward to a new Dalek story, which hasn’t really been the case for the last 3-4 years now. Roll on Victory of the Daleks!
Shown on CBBC at 11:30 GMT – not half an hour ago – got to love the speed of the Internet.
This brand new clip features the newly regenerated eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond (presumably no relation to the duck pond in the clip) debating whether the pond in question can really be a duck pond even if it never has ducks.
The two are interrupted as the Doctor clutches his chest as he seems to be having some kind of physical problem with the regeneration (which we know from The Christmas Invasion can take fifteen hours to “set”).
Watch the new clip from the upcoming Doctor Who series opener: The Eleventh Hour below…
OK, it’s not as bad as it sounds. I found this very funny article which seems to prove that at least *some* school administrators have a sense of humor in these days of overreactions and overzealous protection against theortecical physical or psychological harm.
It seems a Doctor Who fan asked his daughter if she’d like to pose in her kindergarten photo wearing a Cyberman voice changing helmet which she was fond of (despite not being old enough to watch the show yet).
She was very into the idea, and the school said yes, leading to what has to be the most awesome school photo ever. Click the link below for the picture and the story as written by the proud father in question…
Matt Smith appeared today on the Jonathan Ross show in the UK. For those of us who missed the broadcast (or who, like me, couldn’t see it due to a pesky ocean being in the way) I’m collecting the clips here.
First off we have a new version of the Doctor Who series 5 trailer (or series 31, or “series fnarg” as some people are calling it). This is substantially similar to the second BBC trailer I posted a few days ago, but has a slightly different voiceover and a few new bits of footage for us to pause and geek over.
Here’s the new Doctor Who trailer:
Next up, we have a premiere clip from the sixth episode of the new series, “Vampires in Venice”. This is great — just loving the new Doctor:
“How are you doing that?? I’m loving it! You’re like Houdini, only five slightly scary girls.”
Make sure you watch this full screen and check the photo on the ID he holds up — wrong Doctor!
“I’m thrilled. Oh, this is Christmas!” Awesome.
Here’s a clip of Matt Smith on the Jonathan Ross show, showing off the new sonic screwdriver, and talking about the new TARDIS. Matt mentions it has more than one level, as has been mentioned before, but he also reveals there’s a library and a pool! Maybe a return of the “bath room” last seen in Invasion of Time?
Here’s the clip:
Ah, and as I was putting this post together, someone kindly uploaded a full 10-minute video of what appears to be the entire segment of Jonathan Ross with Matt Smith:
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: I’m psyched to see the new series and can’t wait to see the eleventh Doctor in action!
The official BBC website has been updated with a new look to go with the new Doctor and series. With the premiere of the first episode, The Eleventh Hour, set to materialize on Saturday, April 3rd, the Beeb has promised us a taste to whet our appetites for the full story.
This Saturday, March 27th, the first minute of The Eleventh Hour will “air” on the BBC site. Unfortunately, I assume it will be region locked to the UK only as usual, so the American and other overseas audience will be left out as usual.
If/when it inevitably posts to YouTube, I’ll post it to the TARDIS Databanks. For now you can visit the BBC site to check out the new look and wait impatiently, or if you’re reading this from the UK after 6:30pm on the 27th, go and watch the preview.
BBC America has started airing their own trailer for the new series of Doctor Who, featuring Matt Smith as the eleventh Doctor and Karen Gillan as Amy Pond. This new trailer includes new footage not seen in the recently released BBC trailer, so more freeze-frame fun for us fans to over analyze the footage to tide us over until the series begins in April.
From the voice over:
“The Universe is vast and complicated. Sometimes, impossible things just happen and we call them miracles.
All of time and space… Everything that ever happened or ever will… Where do you want to start?”
New episodes of Doctor Who begin with “The Eleventh Hour” Saturday April 3rd on BBC One in the UK, and Saturday April 17th on BBC America. WooWho!
New Doctor Who series producer Steven Moffat had a chat with the folks on BBC Breakfast this morning about the new series and has a few words to say to calm the fears of fans who are worried the new Doctor can’t be as good as the old one.
Moffat also talks about some of the returning monsters we’ll see this series, including the Daleks, the Cybermen, the Weeping Angels, and confirms the long-standing rumor that the reptilians you see in the first trailer are indeed the Silurians.
He also briefly touches upon his work on the upcoming Tintin film, as well as confirms the air date in the UK for The Eleventh Hour will be Saturday, March 3rd.
