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Video: Sutekh the Parakeet Quotes Doctor Who

Sunday, September 19th, 2010

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…

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Obsessive Doctor Who Fan Partially Converts Daughter into a Cyberman

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

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…

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Peter Davison and Steven Moffat Videos From Gallifrey One 2010

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

As I mentioned in my last post, since I wasn’t able to attend the recent Gallifrey One Doctor Who convention in LA, I’m living vicariously by posting some of the great videos which Doctor Who fans at the con have been sharing with the world.

The latest two are recordings of videos they played on the convention screens, so the picture and sound quality isn’t the best. The first one is a greeting from new showrunner Steven Moffat to the fans attending the convention — this one was shared almost immediately online, unlike the second one. (Note: the first video is a Flickr video and won’t work without Flash, unfortunately. It was the only copy of the video I could find after a pretty exhaustive search)

This second video below was finally posted today (I’d been waiting to see it, having heard people posting about it on Twitter) — it was recorded by fifth Doctor Peter Davison, who was originally supposed to be a guest at Gallifrey One, but had to cancel at the last minute due to him performing in Legally Blonde in London’s West End.  He recorded the greeting as a humorous apology for having to bow out of Gallifrey.

I’ll be posting more videos from #gally over the next few days so the rest of us can continue to live vicariously…

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Doctor Who Gallifrey One Brigadier Skit “The Unsung Hero”

Monday, March 8th, 2010

During the Gallifrey One convention held in Los Angeles in February of 2010, I was following the Gally discussion via the TARDIS Databanks Twitter account and noticed a lot of  mentions of this Doctor Who sketch put on during the masquerade.

I also heard a lot of people praising this guy throughout the weekend on his spectacular Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart costume which you see featured during the skit.

Check out the full (and very funny) skit “The Unsung Hero” from the Gallifrey One Doctor Who convention in February 2010:

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5 Gallifrey One Dalek Videos

Sunday, March 7th, 2010

I wasn’t able to make it to this year’s Gallifrey One convention in Los Angeles, but I lived vicariously and somewhat enviously through people tweeting during the convention weekend.

I decided I’d collect some of the videos from the con here on the TARDIS Databanks so some of the best are gathered in one place  and help others live vicariously too.

To get the ball rolling, I thought I’d share a few videos of a fan-made Dalek that was roaming the halls of the LAX Mariott. I’d love to have seen the thing up close (heck, I’d love to OWN the thing!) – it looks amazing from the videos. And clearly, the fan operating it was having a blast, too.

Check out these videos of the Dalek at the Gallifrey One convention in February 2010:

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Doctor Who Comic The Stalker of Norfolk – Part 28

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

Rich has posted the latest page from his ongoing Third Doctor story "The Stalker of Norfolk".

I've been enjoying Rich's work since discovering The Ten Doctors comic strip a couple of years ago. He's clearly a big Doctor Who fan and he does a great job of capturing the different Doctors look and personalities.

Use the link below to view part 28 of The Stalker of Norfolk.

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Doctor Who Comic The Stalker of Norfolk – Part 28

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

Rich has posted the latest page from his ongoing Third Doctor story "The Stalker of Norfolk".

I've been enjoying Rich's work since discovering The Ten Doctors comic strip a couple of years ago. He's clearly a big Doctor Who fan and he does a great job of capturing the different Doctors look and personalities.

Use the link below to view part 28 of The Stalker of Norfolk.

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Tonight’s The Night Doctor Who Scene

Sunday, May 24th, 2009

As many UK residents know, the show Tonight’s The Night, which is hosted by Doctor Who’s own John Barrowan (a.k.a. Captain Jack Harkness) has been running a competition to win a chance to star in a special Doctor Who scene with Barrowman.

Well, the winner has been picked, and the scene aired last night on BBC One. You can find a YouTube video of the scene below, which features a surprise appearance by David Tennant. Considering filming for his final Doctor Who episodes has now wrapped, this is probably about the last thing Tennant filmed on the TARDIS set!

Watch the video of the scene below. Congratulations to Doctor Who fan Tim Ingham for his alien design that earned him this once-in-a-lifetime experience!

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Doctor Who Celebrates 45th Anniversary

Sunday, November 23rd, 2008

First Doctor William Hartnell

Forty-five years ago today, one day after the assassination of US president John F. Kennedy, viewers in the UK witnessed the beginning of a legend — “An Unearthly Child”, the very first episode of Doctor Who.

It’s hard for a modern viewer to imagine what it was like back in 1963, as the first notes of that haunting, unearthly theme music  was first heard.

The episode introduced the mysterious character known only as “the Doctor”, and his ancient, barely-working, but still amazing TARDIS.

By the end of the first episode, all we knew of the Doctor was that he was “from another time, another world,” and indeed that’s all we knew of him for years afterward — it wasn’t until the end of the sixth season that we even heard the name “Timelord”.

There’s no way that the people watching the show back then could’ve imagined that 45 years on, the show would be back on the air again with the 9th, now the 10th (and soon the 11th) actor to play the part, and that the TARDIS, the Daleks, the Cybermen, and more would be names known by millions of fans around the world.

But speaking as a die-hard fan for over 30 years, I am so glad I discovered the show accidentally while flipping channels all those years ago, and I’ve never stopped watching since.

So break out your DVDs or your old VHS tapes, and raise a glass to toast the greatest TV show ever made. Here’s to the next 45 years of Doctor Who.

Happy birthday, Doctor Who!

The beginning: “An Unearthly Child”, first broadcast November 23rd, 1963

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Timelord Rock – The New Genre of Music?

Sunday, August 24th, 2008

A Doctor Who fan named Alex Day has invented a new genre of music… Time Lord Rock, or “Trock” for short.

It seems Alex tried to get into “Wrock” which apparently is “Wizard Rock” for Harry Potter fans. I’d never heard of it before, but then I’m not really into Harry Potter, so there you are.

Alex tells the story of how he invented a new type of music just for Doctor Who fans in his YouTube video below, as well as demos the first Trock song.

Oh, and apparently his band’s name is Chameleon Circuit, which is a great name.

Trock on Alex…

(sorry, couldn’t help myself) :)

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