• RIP John Scott Martin

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    The Historian here. One of the biggest stars of Doctor Who you’ve probably never heard of, John Scott Martin passed away this January 6th. He probably appeared in more episodes of the show than any other actor, mainly playing various monster roles. He was most famous as a Dalek operator–indeed, it is fitting that we remember him at the same time the TARDIS Project is in the process of covering his first appearance on the show during the original Dalek serial.

    And so, we raise our flagons high to John Scott Martin, 1926-2009–the greatest Exterminator of them all!

    Until next time, I remain

    THE HISTORIAN

    The image is that of Mr. Martin “exposed” behind the scenes of the season four story “Power of the Daleks,” which we will get to! Eventually!


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  • Weather Delay

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    Hello everyone, the Historian here. I felt that I should let those few, those valiant few who are following the progress of the Project know that it looks like our viewing of “The Dead Planet” will be delayed by a few days at the very least. Here at TARDIS Project central, we are in the middle of a series of winter storms that are limiting (among other things) travel, and thus Ketina and I have been unable to meet to view the episode. We have hopes to do so, if not before Christmas, then hopefully shortly after. I apologize for the delay, but even the Doctor can sometimes be at the mercy of atmospheric disturbances, now, can’t he?

    Hopefully, we shall resume the Project soon, but until then, I remain

    THE HISTORIAN


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  • Wrapup – 100,000 BC

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    The Historian here. As we end each story, I think I’ll try to include a few links that talk about the production and such. In the future, I’ll try to get Ketina (and whoever else is interested) to engage in a discussion of the story as a whole and how we think it helped to develop the series from our perspective. Obviously, that’s a little difficult when discussing the first story, though I think we did an all right job in the episode posts themselves. As always, if you’d like to engage more, please feel free to comment and we’ll do our best to keep the conversation going.
    Continue reading → Post ID 182


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  • Clarification to the broadcast dates of “An Unearthly Child”

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    In my “Cave of Skulls” post, I mentioned that (due to both the Kennedy assassination the day before and a widespread power outage on 23 November, the day it first aired) “AUC” was reshown on 30 November. It had been my understanding that this caused a delay in transmission of the second episode, but my research for last night’s review claimed that “The Cave of Skulls” was also first aired on 30 November. My curiosity was piqued; was the “repeat transmission” story just old fannish myth? So I did a bit of checking and discovered both stories were correct. The first episode was repeated on 30 November…with the second episode immediately following! It’s not clear to me whether “An Unearthly Child” was shown at an earlier time with the second episode in the regular timeslot or whether “Cave of Skulls” was aired quite late, but…I think I’m going to let that one go.

    While I have all five of you who read this blog here, I do have a question. Ketina and I would find some feedback about our episode postings very informative. What do you like about them? What don’t you like? Would you like to see more information about the production or the story? Would you like a different format? (My section is a bit more free-flow than I’d like right now, so I’d certainly appreciate any ideas you have.) Do you like that we seperate our sections or should we integrate things more? Essentially, what do you like or dislike and what might you like to see? I await any comments with baited breath. Until next time, I remain

    THE HISTORIAN


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