Thread: Who Pics.
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1st Nov 2013, 8:18 AM #1
Who Pics.
In an idea stolen from the much missed WhoPix from the TV Cream crew, I'm going to start my own version.
Over the last 50 years there's been some amazing Doctor Who pictures- photos, art, montages the whole lot. Over the next few weeks I'll be sharing some of my favourites- a new one every day.
If there's one you'd like included, please message me, and I'll do some requests throughout the month.
So, to get us started, we're going back nearly 30 years to a tremendous piece of art from Andrew Skilleter. Painted for the 20th Anniversary Radio Times cover, our first piece is The Five Doctors.
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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1st Nov 2013, 11:32 AM #2
Nice idea & a nice start. I had that as a poster on my bedroom wall about 20+ years ago.
Luckily it didn't put Angela off.
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1st Nov 2013, 11:46 AM #3
Yes, indeed a great start! I still have that copy of RT - the oldest issue I own.
I'd like to request one of my earliest memories of Who art which was on the cover of a hardback compilation of material from Annuals circa 1976 - is it called The Amazing Worlds of Doctor Who? It's Achilleos at his best.
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1st Nov 2013, 12:07 PM #4
If the sublime Tomb of the Cybermen VHS cover doesn't make an appearance I shall demand an explanation...
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1st Nov 2013, 2:18 PM #5Tomb of the Cybermen VHS cover
That Five Doctors pic is totally glorious anyway.Although looking at it, the composition is totally crazy...
Pity. I have no understanding of the word. It is not registered in my vocabulary bank. EXTERMINATE!
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1st Nov 2013, 6:26 PM #6
We have a poster of that RT cover on the lounge wall. You can get them on eBay from America!
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1st Nov 2013, 6:50 PM #7
At the risk of being a bit... anoraky, isn't the Hurndall-version from the video cover. I think the Radio Times version had a more Hartnelly picture of the first Doctor...?
But a great idea for a thread, I really look forward to you choices Si!
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2nd Nov 2013, 9:18 AM #8
My choice today is probably not one anyone else would have chosen, but it's one that I adore.
Dave Gibbons is one of the finest artists to ever work on the DWW/ DWM comic strip. Responsible for some of the best comic strip art seen in the magazine and creator of the iconic Beep The Meep.
The panel below is the first page of a comic strip I really loved when I was 5. It's probably not one of the best ones ever, but the first page is amazingly atmospheric. A TARDIS materialisation on an autumn evening, and an incredible likeness of Tom grinning, it's the first page of The Collector.
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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2nd Nov 2013, 10:04 AM #9
I love the bit of paper swirling around the box as it arrives - which didn't happen on TV until much later I think...? Is that the first 'Vworp Vworp' Si?
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2nd Nov 2013, 10:07 AM #10
Do you know, I think it might be the first Vworp Vworp, Andrew. Mr McCow may know this for certain.
I too love the swirling paper. It's just so atmospheric and done so wonderfully.
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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2nd Nov 2013, 1:25 PM #11This is the first time ever that ‘VWORP! VWORP!’ is used to describe the TARDIS materialisation noise, starting a comic institution. After the ‘Wheezing and groaning sound’ that Terrance Dicks used to describe the TARDIS materialisation, ‘VWORP! VWORP!’ is the second most popular way to put it into print. It’s still used in the comic strip today (check out issue #369).Pity. I have no understanding of the word. It is not registered in my vocabulary bank. EXTERMINATE!
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2nd Nov 2013, 3:55 PM #12At the risk of being a bit... anoraky, isn't the Hurndall-version from the video cover. I think the Radio Times version had a more Hartnelly picture of the first Doctor...?
Or am I, as in fact I mused on another thread recently, going mad?
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3rd Nov 2013, 5:24 PM #13
Today's image needs no introduction really. One of the most famous Doctor Who photos ever. Recreated in 1993, 2005 and for An Adventure in Space and Time, one of the iconic images from the show...
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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3rd Nov 2013, 6:30 PM #14or did Skilletter later redraw it for some reason?
Recreated in 1993, 2005 and for An Adventure in Space and TimePity. I have no understanding of the word. It is not registered in my vocabulary bank. EXTERMINATE!
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3rd Nov 2013, 6:33 PM #15
Well actually, I can answer it now I come to think of it. Here is the original Radio Times cover:
It looks like Skilleter may have repainted some of the Doctors later on to sharpen up the likenesses. As it released as one of his profile prints in the 80s, maybe it was repainted, or touched up for that?
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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3rd Nov 2013, 6:43 PM #16
Andrew Skilliter touched up Richard Hurndall.
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3rd Nov 2013, 6:44 PM #17
That's how rumours start!
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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3rd Nov 2013, 7:44 PM #18
No it's alright, I'm not going mad. Well, only sort of. Who was it that said, they all get mixed up in my tired old mind...?
What's happened is I've somehow mashed together (a) having read that Andrew Skilleter later reworked the likeness of Hurndall from the Radio Times cover (but still definitely Hurndall NOT Hartnell); and (b) the presence inside that edition of the Radio Times of a black & white drawing of the Doctors which was a likeness of Hartnell. (It's actually the illustration that accompanies a 'Who's Who's Who' article written by some bloke called Ian Levine...)
Phew, well we got there in the end!
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4th Nov 2013, 7:27 AM #19
Great idea for a thread, Si! Some great choices so far, and I'm looking forward to seeing what else you're going to chose. Any chance of the VHS covers of DIOE making an appearance? I love those! Failing that, any early Achilleos Target covers would be nice...
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4th Nov 2013, 10:01 AM #20
Today's photo means a lot to many fans, as it's the cover of the first ever magazine to cover the show's history. Yes, Jon Pertwee sees off some of his biggest enemies on the cover of the Radio Times 10th Anniversary Special. Somehow, while collecting stuff for this thread I came across a rather rare clean version of the photo, so here it is:
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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4th Nov 2013, 12:33 PM #21
Doctor Who says: "Good grief! Am I in a Steven Moffat story?!"
Pity. I have no understanding of the word. It is not registered in my vocabulary bank. EXTERMINATE!
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4th Nov 2013, 12:47 PM #22Assume you're going to Win
Always have an Edge
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4th Nov 2013, 12:49 PM #23
That pic has always made me laugh. Not only are there clearly toy Daleks in the background but the full size Dalek seems to be far too interested in Pertwee's groin.
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5th Nov 2013, 9:00 AM #24
Today we have my all time favourite picture of Tom Baker as the Doctor. What a grin!
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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5th Nov 2013, 11:15 AM #25
Ah yes - this is the photo that Tom signed for me back in the day - and which my dog subsequently chewed. I still have it somewhere...
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