I've noticed in the Pertwee episodes that whenever an actor fires a gun in studio, the picture gets all staticy. I'm curious why this happens?
I'm really enjoying Pertwee; his has been the most believable portrayal of the three. His Doctor seems to have drastic mood swings though, from delightful and charming one moment to downright ornery and arrogant the next. It certainly keeps him interesting! I find interviews with him to be delightful.
Roger Delgado was wonderfully debonair and pulls off the Master's single-minded calculating with great panache. The Brigadier is a welcome recurring character, although I'm not entirely sold on Liz or Jo. And I've come to simply adore John Levene as Benton just due to his modern interviews.
Since my last technical question was so popular, I thought I'd post another.
Several episodes feature a very large transparent screen through which you can see background actors, which then seems to "light up" and becomes an opaque blue screen for use as a video monitor effect. What are these magnificent screens made of, and how does it go from being nearly transparent to being an effective blue screen?
Since my last technical question was so popular, I thought I'd post another.
Several episodes feature a very large transparent screen through which you can see background actors, which then seems to "light up" and becomes an opaque blue screen for use as a video monitor effect. What are these magnificent screens made of, and how does it go from being nearly transparent to being an effective blue screen?
I think both your points are because of issues with making drama on video instead of film. The gunfire issue happens a lot. Such noise seems to interfere with both sound and visual equipment in the studio.
Your second point without specific examples sounds like something to do with Classic Who fan's biggest bug bare, our old friend CSO. Colour Separation Overlay (aka Chromakey) was a cheap and efficient (if troublesome quality-wise) way to mix pictures from different sources, such as model work (including monsters) and live action, but also with scenes where folks are talking to each other on scanners etc.
BBC Studios have annnounced that the next release in their Doctor Who: The Collection will be the tenth anniversary series of advantures, starring Jon Pertwee as the Doctor:
In 1973, Doctor Who celebrated its tenth anniversary with a very special story reuniting the first two Doctors – William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton – with Jon Pertwee’s then-current Doctor. The Three Doctors kicks off an explosive, colourful series of adventures across all of time and space as the Doctor and Jo Grant (Katy Manning) encounter the rogue Time Lord Omega, the terrifying Drashigs, the noble Draconians, fearsome Ogrons, deadly Daleks and slithering giant maggots. Season 10 also includes the final appearance of Roger Delgado as the Doctor’s arch nemesis The Master, plus adventures alongside Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (Nicholas Courtney) and UNIT.
The six disc Blu-ray collection includes all five of the stories comprising this season, plus a bonus disc of extras. As well as features previously available on the DVD releases, the set will include:
A brand new feature-length documentary examining the Third Doctor’s Era, with archival contributions from Jon Pertwee, Barry Letts and Terrance Dicks plus all-new interviews with Katy Manning, Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, presented by Matthew Sweet.
Updated special effects and surround sound mix for Planet of the Daleks.
Five new instalments of Behind the Sofa, featuring Katy Manning, Richard Franklin (Captain Yates) and John Levene (Sergeant Benton), along with 21st century Doctor Who panel Phil Collinson (Producer/Executive Producer), Pete McTighe (Writer) and Joy Wilkinson (Writer).
Looking for Lennie, a documentary investigating the life of director Lennie Mayne.
Keeping up with the Jones’, which sees Katy Manning with Stewart Bevan (Cliff Jones) pay a return visit to the Welsh locations from The Green Death.
Plus: a repeat omnibus of The Green Death unseen since Christmas 1973, rare Panopticon convention footage, Blu-ray trailer, HD photo galleries plus scripts, production files and rare documentation provided as PDFs.
The set will also include Death Of The Doctor, which featured Katy Manning reprising her role as Jo in The Sarah Jane Adventures.
Doctor Who: The Collection: Season Ten is due to be released on Monday 8th July 2019 (the day after what would have been Jon Pertwee's 100th birthday)
Actor Stephen Thorne has died, age 84. Thorne played Azal in The Dæmons, Omega in The Three Doctors; in the Tom Baker era, the male version of Eldrad.
How sad. He was the only Omega for me. "It is not truuuuuuue"! That booming voice also found it's way into Middle Earth as he played Treebeard in the classic BBC Radio 4 serial. John Rhys Davies' whispering in the Jackson films was a disappointment after that, though I realise that's the differing needs of an all-sound vs a visual medium.
Terrance Dicks has died at the age of 84. He was script editor for the whole Pertwee era, co-wrote the Troughton finale The War Games with Malcolm Hulke, plus Robot, The Brain Of Morbius, Horror Of Fang Rock, State Of Decay, and The Five Doctors. He also wrote two stage plays, and, most importantly for me, many, MANY Target novelizations which I read as a child. He was the man most responsible for me becoming a Doctor Who fan.
Without doubt one of the Who greats. Man's a legend in my book, along with David Whitaker and Robert Holmes. I'm slightly biased being a Pertwee era fan, but as you say, there's all the other work before and after including the massive amount he did for those Target novels. Met him a few a couple of times.
He and his producer Barry Letts were one of the classic teams.
Terrance Dicks has died at the age of 84. He was script editor for the whole Pertwee era, co-wrote the Troughton finale The War Games with Malcolm Hulke, plus Robot, The Brain Of Morbius, Horror Of Fang Rock, State Of Decay, and The Five Doctors. He also wrote two stage plays, and, most importantly for me, many, MANY Target novelizations which I read as a child. He was the man most responsible for me becoming a Doctor Who fan.
RIP.
Indeed, R.I.P., Mr. Dicks. With Terrance's passing, the only writer from the Pertwee era who remains with us is Bob Baker (I think all others are deceased).
Malcolm Hulke, with whom Dicks had collaborated multiple times (and not only on Doctor Who), died in 1979. Terrance D., ironically, has also passed in a year ending with a "9" - and not long after the 40-year-mark of Hulke's departure.
This curio has popped up on YouTube. Jon Pertwee in character as the Third Doctor doing a corporate video for Zanussi in 1981. Judging by his extremely unwise last line, I can only assume that he thought it would never be shown to the public. Some here may be slightly disappointed. It's very much 'of its time'.
Look out for appearances by future sitcom stars Gorden Kaye, Diana Weston and Patrick Murray.
This curio has popped up on YouTube. Jon Pertwee in character as the Third Doctor doing a corporate video for Zanussi in 1981. Judging by his extremely unwise last line, I can only assume that he thought it would never be shown to the public. Some here may be slightly disappointed. It's very much 'of its time'.
Look out for appearances by future sitcom stars Gorden Kaye, Diana Weston and Patrick Murray.
Doh! That last bit is a bit much isn't it? Yeah, there's no doubt it wasn't meant to be seen by the public at large, and sadly as well as being bad in the proper sense, it's not even 'funny' in the old fashioned 70s way. I.e. Carry On/ Benny Hill style. Saying it straight laced like that makes it sound especially creepy.
As disappointing as seeing Pertwee in one of those Confessions films (Pop Performer I think) where I'm fairly sure if memory serves he's being ridden by a topless 'bird' in some sort of casting couch scenario, but at least he's doing the cross -eyed face bit he often did in comic situations. Here it's said pretty straight.
