This week's roundup inlcudes a new Panic Moon fanzine, a call to amateur musicians for an ambitious project, a Faction Paradox short stories book and an interview with Toby Hadoke.

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Panic Moon - April 2011

In this issue:

• Nicholas Courtney tribute
• Review of the Comic Relief episode and the series six prelude
• Moffat vs. Davies - Steven Moffat’s version of Doctor Who pitched against Russell T Davies’s
• A look at October 1966's other Cyberman debut story
• Introducing a young child to the series
• The most unsuitable story ideas ever commissioned
• An exploration of the character of the other ninth Doctor
• Thoughts on gods in Doctor Who
• A look at American documentary The Making of Silver Nemesis;
• Nomenclature for the new and old series
• Big Finish and fanzine reviews
• Fresh perspectives on The Beast Below, The Seeds of Death, Carnival of Monsters, Resurrection of the Daleks, Kinda and Snakedance.

It's the biggest issue yet at 40 A6 pages and is fully illustrated. Prices, inc P&P:

UK: £1.20
Elsewhere in Europe: £2.00
Outside Europe: £2.50

Visit the website for more information or email panicmoonfanzine@googlemail.com

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Doctor Who Fan Orchestra

Stephen Willis is calling on fans of Murray Gold's Doctor Who music to take part in an ambitious project. He explains in this video and on the Galiifrey Base Forum:

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Faction Paradox: A Romance in Twelve Parts

Faction Paradox: A Romance in Twelve Parts, is first ever collection of FP short stories which will be released in hardback on 31 May 2011.

Faction Paradox: A Romance in Twelve Parts is edited by Stuart Douglas and Lawrence Miles, with cover art by Lawrence Burton and design by Cody Schell.

• Alchemy - James Milton
• Holding Pattern - Scott Harrison
• Storyteller - Matt Kimpton
• Gramps - Jon Dennis
• Mightier than the Sword - Jay Eales
• The Story of the Peace - Ian Potter
• Print the Legend - Daniel O'Mahony
• Nothing Lasts Forever - David N Smith and Violet Addison
• Library Pictures - Stuart Douglas
• There or there abouts - Blair Bidmead
• Tonton Macoute - Dave Hoskin
• A Hundred Words from a Civil War - Philip Purser-Hallard

You can pre-order the book from the Obverse website and all good retailers.

Faction Paradox is a fictional time travelling cult/rebel group/organized crime syndicate, originally created by the author Lawrence Miles. The Faction's belief-system as portrayed has some similarities to voodoo, and is sometimes described as such. The family/organization were originally featured as recurring antagonists in the BBC Doctor Who Eighth Doctor Adventures novels, but have since featured in their own continuing tales. Although the Faction Paradox stories outside of the BBC Books share situations and characters in common with the Doctor Who universe, the two continuities are presented as similar but distinct. [Wikipedia]

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The Peverett Phile - Pheaturing Toby Hadoke

Today's guest is the author of Running Through Corridors: Rob and Toby's Marathon Watch of Doctor Who, which the 14th book to be pheatured in the Peverett Phile Book Club, and is an English actor, writer and stand-up comedian, who is known for his one man show Moths Ate My Doctor Who Scarf, was a critical and popular success at The 2006 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Please welcome to the Phile, the one and only... Toby Hadoke.

Head over to The Peverett Phile website for the full interview.

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If you would like us to cover your fan production, you can email us: submissions@doctorwhonews.net

A roundup of recent fan productions includes new issues of fanzines and a request for submissions to a new book!

Whotopia - Issue 20

In this issue:

• The Tennant Legacy - Ian Wheeler considers what Doctor number ten has given to the series
• Ten Again Thomas - Willam Spychalski take us on an overview of the Doctor's tenth persona
• Tennant's Ladies - Emily Jones reflects upon the Tenth Doctor's female companions
• Martha Jones: Is She The Worst Companion Ever? - A fresh critique of the Tenth Doctor's lovelorn companion by Steve Tomporowski
• The Perfect Tennant - Kenny Smith investigates whether the Tenth Doctor was the perfect Doctor
• Romance In Doctor Who - Grant Bull tackles one of the series' more contentious aspects
• How The Mighty Fall - A look at the apparent end of the Time Lords by Matthew Kresal
• The Stephen Wyatt Interview - Jez Strickley keeps an eye out for lethal cleaners and sinister circuses as he chats with the writer behind Paradise Towers and Greatest Show In The Galaxy.
• Target Trawl - A mammoth installment in Nick Mellish's reading marathon.
• Screwdrivers, Scaries and Scarves: Regeneration - Jez Strickley offers some thoughts on this unique sci-fi creation.
• The Better The Devil You Know - Richard Farrell looks back the Tenth Doctor's face-off with an ancient evil as he reassess The Impossible Planet / The Satan Pit.
• Dalek's Advocate: Love and Monsters - Jez Strickley takes up the Skarosians case for this much debated adventure.
• The Memory of Darkness: Part Four - The concluding installment of our original fiction story by Julio Angel Ortiz.

Plus all our regular columns: Screwdrivers, Scaries & Scarves/ Target Trawl/ Parallel Lines, features and more!

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The Third Zone - Issue 2

In this issue:

• Merchandise reviewed From Big Finish we have The Feast of Axos, The Perpetual Bond and Andy has tackled both The Mutants and The Ark on DVD. Note – we were going to include the latest eighth Doctor audio Lucie Miller but we have decided to review the two-part storyline as a whole.
• Matter of Perspective - Steve Lyons' popular New Adventure, Conundrum come under the limelight. Reversing our roles from last month, Andy has been reading away and has a good grilling by yours truly.
• The Evelyn Escapades seems to have been one of the most popular elements on the site with the most hits (the reviews excepted) and this month we have completed The Spectre of Lanyon Moor.
• Charlotte and Simon, our non-fan cohorts have been watching the William Hartnell classic, Planet of Giants.
• Amy Pond, heavenly or floozy? Andy stands in defence of the Doctor’s latest companion whilst I try and convince you that she doesn’t quite work.
• Interviews with two of Big Finish’s most exciting writers, Jacqueline Rayner (Wolfsbane, Dr Who & the Pirates) and Simon Guerrier (The Perpetual Bond). They share their thoughts on their latest work.
• Who Online this month praises the Big Finish review and voting site, The Time Scales.
• I look back at Nicholas Courtney's contributions to Doctor Who and include my top five favourite Brigadier stories.

All this plus part two of our exciting three part fiction piece, The Shadows Makers written by Joe Ford and an essay looking at the delightful Big Finish spin off The Companion Chronicles Seasons 1-3

Issue three will be released April 15th.

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The Hub - Issue One

One of the first of its kind The Hub promises to bring content from all era’s of Torchwood- from Season One to the upcoming fourth season Miracle Day. Each issue is packed with nearly thirty pages of content, offering opportunities to any article and fan fiction writers.

In the debut Issue, we bring you...

• We look at Torchwood Through Time
• Brand new action packed fiction The Five Jacks begins
• The Fandom Zone features a review of popular online spoof show Doothcrow.
  
• The Torchwood Debate discusses which is the better season format.
• We see if Gwen Cooper is either a “Hore” or “Heroin”.
• All the latest from the set of Miracle Day.
• All the Latest News in the Torchwood Universe.
• A preview of forthcoming Torchwood anthology: Time for Change.
• And two free posters!

All this is free to download this now!

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The Best Doctor Who Poems in the Universe

It’s June 2011 and Series 6 is in its mid-season break and a unique new Doctor Who book has been published - but it needs your contributions NOW otherwise it will never happen and could cause no end of wibbly wobbly timey wimey problems!

Just like the Tenth Doctor and Shakespeare used the power of words to defeat the Carrionites, this book needs you to use the power of words to create poems about Doctor Who. They can be about the Doctor, his companions, his enemies or even what Doctor Who means to you and is open to everyone.

For example:

Daleks, Daleks, everywhere
On the ground, and in the air.
You hear their voice and you know your fate
Because they are only here to exterminate!

But I’m sure you can do a lot better than that!! There will also be a special mention to anyone who can rhyme Raxacoricofallapatorius!


Deadline for entries: 14th May 2011

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The Tides of Time archive

The eighth Doctor can be dismissed merely an embodiment of lost hopes and promises unfulfilled or broken. However, he was salvaged by the fans of Doctor Who and has enjoyed innumerable adventures across a fractured multiverse of print, audio and comic strip. Coverage of the books and audios will feature in later releases, but for now here are some responses to his one television appearance, in the 1996 TV Movie, as well as some original fiction with different takes on the eighth Doctor’s fate. These articles were published in The Tides of Time between 1996 and 2002, except for one which though dealing with the Oxford Doctor Who Society’s viewing of the TV Movie in 1996 was published in the last (to date) issue of Skaro in 1997. All the PDFs bar Independence Day (which has been reset for this release) are scans from the original photocopies or printouts of Tides, and reflect the technology used to make the originals.

Reportage

• West Coast Story. An optimistic outlook on Doctor Who‘s prospects written shortly before the broadcast of the TV Movie, misreading some of the auguries, by Matthew Kilburn. Published in Tides 19 (1996)
• Independence Day. An account of the society’s reception of the TV Movie’s broadcast, by Matthew Kilburn. Published in Skaro [vol. 5 no.] 13 (1997)

Fiction

• An End to Things by David Bickley. A new psychologist at the Institute is drawn to patient number eight. Published in Tides 25 (2000)
• Have We No Workhouses? by Derek Haywood. The eighth Doctor enjoys a post-TVM career as a media executive in the age of Cool Britannia, while his previous selves suffer. Published in Tides 27 (2001)
• Reliquary Man, part one by Alexandra Cameron. The Doctor and his goddaughter Chandra meet Alexis de Tocqueville – but what are Polaroids and automatic weapons doing in mid-nineteenth century France? Published in Tides 28 (2002)
• Reliquary Man, part two by Alexandra Cameron. An old foe waits for the Doctor. Published in Tides 28 (2002)

Retrospective

• I can’t make your dream come true forever… The strengths of the TV Movie, by Saraquazel. Published in Tides 28 (2002)
• …but I can make it come true tonight. The TV Movie as missed opportunity and catalogue of errors, by John Amos. Published in Tides 28 (2002)

Eighth Doctor fiction by Alex Cameron can also be found in Tides 30 (2005), Tides 31 (2005) and Tides 32 (2006), all of which can be downloaded in full as PDFs.

The Third Zone

In this issue:

• Reviews; We have reviews both by myself [Andrew Weston] and by my esteemed colleague Mr Joe Ford, covering all the latest releases in the worlds of DVD and audio.
• The Evelyn Escapades; A look at the Big Finish audios in the manner of ‘The Time Team’, taking one character at a time. No prizes for guessing who’s first up!
• Fiction; There’s fiction in the form of The Shadow Makers, part 1 of a 3 part tale, this month featuring the First Doctor and written by yours truly.
• A Matter of Perspective offers a new look at the world of Who in print, as I quiz Joe this month about Steve Lyons’ The Witch Hunters.
• Interviews; We have not one but two exclusive interviews this month with Big Finish producer David Richardson, and Bernice Summerfield actress and director of Big Finish audios Lisa Bowerman.
• Debate The Seventh Doctor’s era comes under the spotlight in our debate section this month.
• Who Online takes a look at ‘The History of the Doctor’.
• Non-Who Opinion; as both mine and Joe’s other half watch a Doctor Who story and share their thoughts. Be warned, there may be some colourful language!
• Essay Last, but by no means least, Joe has written an essay on the joys of the Hartnell historicals – and if that doesn’t convert you, nothing will!

We hope you enjoy reading issue 1 as much as we enjoyed putting it together. Any comments can be added on the site or be sent to thethirdzone@hotmail.co.uk, and we’ll post some next issue.

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Rassilon's Rod: Issue 3

• Christmas Carol assessed
• The Third Doctor
• Delgado
• Matrix Data ****; your queries answered by Salateen and Chellak
• Opening Nights; what makes a good first episode
• Reconstructed; fan recons and The Web Of Fear
• The Krotons part 3
• Philip Hinchcliffe's Production Notes

Plus toons and daft gubbins.

20 pages, A4

UK - 'Gift' £1.50 by paypal to davidmacgowan@hotmail.com

REST OF WORLD - 'Gift' £3 by paypal to davidmacgowan@hotmail.com

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Fish Fingers and Custard: Issue 4


In this latest Issue:

• Reviews of A Christmas Carol
• The Third Doctor
• RTD: Genius or Mad Man?
• An In Depth Look At Dalek Empire
• The Secret Diary Of A Whovian
• Hots and Nots - The Doctor Who Fandom Style Guide
• An Unearthly Child: 2010AD

And Much More!

As always, please paypal the payment which applies to you as a gift to: fishcustardfanzine@googlemail.com

UK: £2.00
Worldwide: £3.00

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Doctor Who Appreciation Society's Celestial Archive: Voices from the Past

• Ian Scoones Interviewed - Ian Scoones (1940-2010) contributed Visual Effects to many Doctor Who stories inclusing City of Death, Curse of Peladon and The Invisible Enemy.
• Interview - Gerry Davis - Gerry Davis (23 February 1930 - 31 August 1991) was a British television writer, best known for his contributions to the science-fiction genre. He also wrote for the soap operas Coronation Street and United! From 1966 until the following year he was the script editor on Doctor Who, for which he co-created the popular cybernetic monsters the Cybermen.
• Interview - Verity Lambert - Verity Ann Lambert, OBE (27 November 1935 – 22 November 2007) was an English television and film producer. She is best known as the founding producer of Doctor Who and for her many credits including Adam Adamant Lives!, The Naked Civil Servant, Rock Follies, Minder, Widows, G.B.H., Jonathan Creek and Love Soup.
• Michael Craze - Ben Jackson - Michael Craze (29 November 1942 – 8 December 1998) was a British actor noted for his role of Ben Jackson, a companion of the Doctor, in the long-running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. He played the part from 1966 to 1967 alongside both William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton.
• The Direction - Peter Moffatt - To tie in with the 20th Anniversary special The Five Doctors the DWAS produced a large format commemorative booklet called The Making of the Five Doctors. This is an interview with director Peter Moffat about taken from that publication.
• The John Wiles Interview - Part 1 - John Wiles (20 September 1925-5 April 1999) was a television writer and producer, now best known for being the second producer of Doctor Who, succeeding Verity Lambert. He was credited as producer on four serials between 1965 and 1966, namely The Myth Makers, The Daleks' Master Plan (which lasted for twelve episodes), The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve, and The Ark.
• The John Wiles Interview - Part 2

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Oxford University Doctor Who Society - Tides of Time archive: First Doctor special


Fiction

• A Pescatorial Conundrum, or A Fishy Problem by Corinne Berg - The Doctor influences some literary giants of Anglo-Saxon England. From Tides 16 (1995)
• Brought to Book by David Bickley - Susan’s reading matter was even less innocent than it appeared. From Tides 27 (2001)
• The Picture of Doctor Who by Matthew Peacock - Ben and Polly begin to discover the complexity of the relationship between the Doctor and his craft. From Tides 28 (2002)

Reviews

• The Aztecs reviewed by Matthew Kilburn. From Tides 5 (1991)
• We Are the Masters of Earth! A review of The Dalek Invasion of Earth by Paul Dumont. From Tides 6 (1991)
• The Tenth Planet reviewed by Alistair Harrison and David Bickley. From Tides 22 (1998)

Other

• Beyond Our Vision by Matthew Kilburn. A tribute to Sydney Newman. From Tides 21 (1998)
  

The January 2011 issue of the fanzine Panic Moon is now available.

Included in this issue:

• Reviews of the Christmas special, the recent series of The Sarah Jane Adventures, Doctor Who Live, Wiped!, the latest fanzines and Big Finish audios;
• A look at what the recent changes at the BBC mean for Doctor Who;
• Articles giving fresh perspectives of the recently/soon to be released on DVD stories The Mutants, The Ark, Meglos and The Seeds of Doom;
• A reappraisal of Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks;
• A examination of the TV career of Don Taylor, the man who was first offered the producership of Doctor Who in 1963, and how the series would have differed if he’d accepted;
• A guide to writing a Steven Moffat episode and an old fashioned letters page;

The zine is A6 format, black and white, 32 pages and lavishly illustrated with original art. The price and ordering details are the same as for previous issues:

UK: £1.20
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Outside Europe: £2.50

All prices include P&P. Please pay using paypal (www.paypal.co.uk) to panicmoonfanzine@googlemail.com. Please use the ‘gift’ rather than ‘goods’ option, and add the address for the fanzine to be sent to in the comments section.

The Finished Product.

Issue seven of The Finished Product, the unofficial companion to the Big Finish audio series, is released this week.

This issue looks at the audio adventures of two Doctor Who icons from the seventies, Sarah Jane Smith and Davros.

The issue starts by examining the making of series two of Sarah Jane Smith, with extensive interviews with writer David Bishop and producer/director John Ainsworth, as well as actor Jez Fielder who played Josh, newsreader Shaun Ley, guest actor Nicholas Briggs, plus sound designer and composer Steve Foxon.

The second half of the zine is an in-depth examination of I, Davros, with director and producer Gary Russell, while star Terry Molloy gives his views on the series. Writers Gary Hopkins, James Parsons and Andrew-Stirling Brown, Lance Parkin and Scott Alan Woodard reveal what went into their thought processes when crafting their tales, along with contributions from actors Sean Connolly, Sean Carlsen, Daniel Hogarth, Katarina Olsson, David Bickerstaff, and young Davros himself - Rory Jennings. Cover artist Stuart Manning gives his thoughts on designing the covers, plus Steve Foxon talks about the post-production on the series.

Also, writer Nev Fountain reveals all about the Mervyn Stone Mysteries!

Emailthefinishedproduct@hotmail.co.uk for more information and ordering details.

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Blue Box

Issue 3 of Blue Box has now been published.

Articles include

• Finding Fandom by Jez Strickley
• Fan Fiction 'The Prison Hiss' by Robin Bell
• More Films for Who Fans by Ian Wheeler
• Interview with The Doctor Who Reprint Society
• For the Love of Who by Grant Bull
• Target Book Review by David MacGowan
• Spearhead from Space Revisited by Richard Farrell
• Doctor Who The Adventure Games Reviewed by Willaim JP Turner

The magazine features a cover by J.F Wilson

Orders by Paypal (Gift) to dalek82@hotmail.co.uk

£1.50 - UK
£2.50 - Rest of World

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Part Two of audio adventure The Chattath Factor is now available to download from Fineline Productions.
 

Charity group Hyde Fundraisers are staging some displays of their replica Doctor Who characters to raise funds for BBC Children In Need and their other nominated charities. Characters will include Judoon, Ood, Scarecrows, Clockwork Droids, Auton and their latest addition, The Smiler.

The special displays take place at

• Ladysmith Shopping Centre, Ashton-under-Lyne - Saturday February 26th and Saturday March 5th.
• The Pitt Building, Cambridge Science Festival, Cambridge - March 19th & 20th.

A booklet looking into the early life and Ancestoral History of the First Doctor, William Hartnell has been created by Stephen Bray.

The 31 page booklet, WHO Do You Think You Are? - A Genealogical Enquiry Into the Ancestry of William Hartnell, TV's First Doctor Who digs into the most cobwebbed of corners illuminating Hartnell's earliest years and those of his ancestors, going right back to the 1500s. There's a few surprises and a couple of scandals throughout the journey!

The booklet is fully illustrated throughout with maps, contemporaneous photographs and genealogical charts.

The author is offering privately printed copies from the auction site Ebay.

Tor.com is publishing a series or articles entitled The Twelve Doctors of Christmas, in which a host of special guest writers celebrate the many men (and one woman) who are known of as The Doctor.

The series starts 26th December.

• George Mann the author of The Affinity Bridge, The Osiris Ritual and Ghosts of Manhattan, celebrates the First Doctor, William Hartnell.
• Nick Abadzis the Eisner Award-winning graphic novelist and children’s book author, celebrates the Second Doctor, Patrick Troughton.
• Paul Cornell the writer of the Hugo-nominated Doctor Who episodes, Father’s Day, Human Nature, and The Family of Blood, celebrates the Third Doctor, Jon Pertwee.
• Nicholas Whyte who works as the Brussels representative of Independent Diplomat, celebrates the Fourth Doctor, Tom Baker.
• Pia Guerra winner of an Eisner Award in 2008 for her illustration work on the multiple award-winning Vertigo comic series Y: The Last Man, celebrates the Fifth Doctor, Peter Davison.
• Josiah Rowe writer for our very own Doctor Who News Page, celebrates the Sixth Doctor, Colin Baker.
• Seanan McGuire whose work spans the fantasy, romance, and science fiction genres, celebrates the Seventh Doctor, Sylvester McCoy.
• Steve Mollmann who reviewes the Big Finish audio adventures for Unreality SF, celebrates the Eighth Doctor, Paul McGann.
• Graham Sleight who has an extensive backlog of reviews and critical essays regarding science fiction and fantasy works, celebrates Ninth Doctor, Christopher Eccleston.
• Nasty Canasta who performs original burlesque shows in New York City, celebrates the Tenth Doctor, David Tennant.
• Lynne M. Thomas and Tara O’Shea, who curated and released Chicks Dig Time Lords in early 2009, an essay collection from female viewpoints along with Mark Waid who is Boom Studios! editor-in-chief, celebrate the Eleventh Doctor, Matt Smith.
• Jason Henninger who is a Tor.com blogger, celebrates the Twelve Doctors That Very Briefly Were.

A new Doctor Who fanzine was released earlier this month. Planet of the Ming Mongs takes a satirical look at Doctor Who fandom.

You can follow updates from the fanzine on Twitter and Facebook.

Fineline Productions have released the first part of a new Doctor Who adventure in their original story series:


The Chattath Factor has been a long time in development, with author Will Hadcroft commencing work on the story in 2002 after publication of his children's book, Anne Droyd and Century Lodge. On developing the story, Hadcroft recounts the influence of the successful partnership of Barry Letts and Terrance Dicks on his approach:
It has been produced and directed by Gareth Preston:
The story was recorded in 2006, but with other projects taking priority, it wasn't until last year that it was finally mixed; since then, music has been especially written by Peter Dudley for Will Hadcroft in the style of Dudley Simpson, with part two in preparation for release in the next month or so.


You can find the first and successive episodes of The Chattath Factor from the Fineline Productions website, along with the previous stories in the series.

The Third issue of the fanzine Fish Fingers and Custard is out now, and can be downloaded or purchased in print from the website.

In the Issue:

• Interviews with the Absolute David Tennant Fangirls
• Drunken Adventures At A Convention
• The Sarah (Jane) Awards
• Stageplays Overview
• Computer Games Overview
• The Doctor vs. Edward Cullen – A Fight For A Girl's Attentions

And Much More.