Tuesday 26 November 2013

I AM Tom Baker!

With the 50th Anniversary taking place all round us, there’s a lot of amateur photoshop artists making up some nice tribute images.


It’s funny to see the picture pulled together from a variety of sources, spanning many years and different photoshoots, coming together to make one coherent image.

But sometimes they get them from places even I wouldn’t expect.....

Would be nice to be asked next time!


Saturday 23 November 2013

Doctor Who Celebration -
costume exhibition

This weekend’s Doctor Who Celebration has been a feast for the eyes for fans.

As well as catering for those who have come to Who through the relaunch series, there has been a good nod to the history of the show with a wide variety of guests and an extensive exhibition of costumes culled from Cardiff’s Doctor Who Experience.

They had a near complete set of Doctor’s costumes on show (missing was the Eighth and War Doctors) arranged in a circle around Bessie.

The Fourth Doctor costume on show was straight out of the Experience, though it was missing the flying duck brooches I remember it having.


Other Fourth Doctor items on show included a selection of Time Lord robes that first appeared in The Deadly Assassin.

If you want to see the costumes for the other Doctors at the exhibition, click the links below

Thursday 21 November 2013

Bonhams auction - 18th December 2013

With December looming, it is time for another Bonhams Entertainment Memorabilia sale!

The past few auctions have been Doctor Who lite when it comes to items, so there is no surprise that the first post-Anniversary is brimming with costumes and nick backs, dating back to 1968.

Lot 157
DOCTOR WHO: THE KEEPER OF TRACKEN - TWO COSTUME DESIGNS BY AMY ROBERTS, both designs in pencil and coloured chalks, signed by the artist in pencil, one titled Proctor Newman & Fosters the other Katura & Consul, with swatches of material attached and costume details, both framed 17 x 13 inches (43x33cm.)
FOOTNOTES
Olivier nominated costume designer Amy Roberts (born 1949) worked on a number of Doctor Who episodes including the Mawdryn Undead, Time Flight and State of Decay series.

Estimate £800 - 1,200
Sold for £1,000

Lot 158
DOCTOR WHO: THE KEEPER OF TRACKEN - TWO COSTUME DESIGNS BY AMY ROBERTS, both designs in pencil and coloured chalks, signed by the artist in pencil, one titled Consuls, Seron & Luvic and Consul Treamas, with swatches of material attached and costume details, both framed - 17 x 13 inches (43x33cm.)



Estimate £800 - 1,200
Sold for £1,000


Lot 159
DOCTOR WHO: FULL CIRCLE - VARSH'S DAGGER, the prop knife with wooden blade and handle wrapped with metal wire, length 11 inches (28cm)

Estimate £300 - 500
Sold for £325

Tuesday 19 November 2013

Radio Times -
50th anniversary issue covers

The 50th Anniversary week is almost here, and as expected the cover of the latest Radio Times features The Doctor - not just once, but TWLEVE times!

The sources of the images used are quite interesting, the majority of which are from the Radio Times own extensive archive of Doctor Who images. All are out-takes, so are being published for the first time.

The First and Second Doctors come from the 10th Anniversary Special published by the Radio Times in 1973. The Third Doctor comes from a photoshoot in 1970 for the launch of Jon Pertwee in the role.


The Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Doctors are pictured from the shoot for the 30th Anniversary special, which featured in the 1993 Children In Need.

This shows that they were all taken separately before being composited into the group on the cover.

The rest of the Doctors come from bespoke cover shoots done for the Radio Times in more recent years. For example the Ninth Doctor is from the gatefold cover which launched the new series in 2005; and the Tenth from The Next Doctor in 2008. The Eleventh and War Doctors are obviously newly taken.


Here’s the full size version of the Fourth Doctor’s cover.


Finally, have you noticed that all 12 covers join together to form a long single image?

Wednesday 13 November 2013

ADDITIONAL 4th Doctor items on eBay


Fourth Doctor and Romana prints autographed by June Hudson
SOLD FOR £25

This auction is for a colour print of the June Hudson designed alternate costume for Tom Baker, The Fourth Doctor. This one had a pre- printed autograph and June has crossed it out and signed underneath in black ink

The 42 X 30 CM (16.5 X 11.5 Inch) print was bought from June at a Doctor Who event at Longleat around 15 years ago and it has been personally signed by June. It’s on nice quality paper/card and is in mint condition.

The print has a slight indentation at the top, so as a bonus, I have included another print by June of the costume that she designed for Romana (Lalla Ward) for The Horns of Nimon story in 1979. Both would look lovely framed.