Planet of the Facts #2: Open-top TARDIS

FACT No.2: Open-top TARDIS

You might think that The Doctor and Idris’ makeshift TARDIS travelling would be suicidal with a distinct lack of protective walls, but The Doctor has travelled this way before.

In the 1970 serial ‘Inferno’, the Third Doctor (Jon Pertwee) broke the mould by also travelling via ‘open-top’ TARDIS with the disconnected console of his time machine, in order to travel between our universe and the infamous parallel universe featured in the story.

Series 6 Soundtrack – Cover & Track Listings

The cover and full list of track names of the Doctor Who Series 6 Original Television Soundtrack have been released by Silva Screen – the music company who have distributed all of the previous Series 1 – 5 soundtracks. As with all the 2005+ episodes, this series' music was composed entirely b the very talented Murray Gold, and I cannot wait to buy and listen to this soundtrack myself!

UPDATE: The final track - "35. The Majestic Tale (of a Madman in a Box)" is NOT a bonus track or iTunes exclusive, and has now been corrected here accordingly. Murray Gold has said he "hates" iTunes exclusives because, as he says, "they encourage people to buy MP3s, which are not a good way to listen to music."

DISC 1 The Impossible Astronaut / Day of the Moon: 01. I Am The Doctor In Utah 02. 1969 03. The Impossible Astronaut 04. Trust Me 05. Help Is On Its Way 06. Another Perfect Prison 07. Greystark 08. Apollo 11 09. Day of the Moon 10. I See You Silence The Curse of the Black Spot: 11. You’re A Dead Man 12. Deadly Siren 13. Perfect Reflection 14. All For One 15. The Curse Of The Black Spot The Doctor's Wife: 16. I've Got Mail 17. My TARDIS 18. Run, Sexy 19. Locked On The Rebel Flesh / The Almost People: 20. The Chemical Castle 21. Which One Is The Flesh? 22. Scanning Me 23. Ransacked 24. Always With The Rory 25. Double Doctor 26. Tell Me The Truth 27. Loving Isn’t Knowing (The Almost People Suite) A Good Man Goes To War: 20. River's Waltz 21. Pop 22. Tell Me Who You Are 23. Melody Pond	_____	DISC 2 Let's Kill Hitler: 01. Growing Up Fast 02. The Blush of Love 03. Terror of the Reich 04. The British are Coming 05. A Very Unusual Melody 06. When a River Forms 07. Pay Attention Grown Ups 08. The Enigma of River Song Night Terrors: 09. Bedtime for George 10. Tick Tock Round The Clock 11. A Malevolent Estate 12. Night Terrors The Girl Who Waited: 13. Apalapucia 14. 36 Years 15. Lost In The Wrong Stream The God Complex: 16. The Hotel Prison 17. Rooms Of Your Dreams 18. Fear Enough 19. What's Left To Be Scared Of? 20. Rita Praises Closing Time: 21. Stormageddon, Dark Lord Of All 22. Definitely Going 23. Over Your Shoulder 24. Ladieswear 25. Fragrance 26. My Time Is Running Out The Wedding of River Song: 27. Tick Tock (Vocal Track) 28. 5:02PM 29. The Head Of An Enemy 30. My Silence 31. Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart 32. Forgiven 33. Time Is Moving 34. The Wedding of River Song Day of the Moon: 35. The Majestic Tale (of a Madman in a Box)

The two-disc Doctor Who: Series Six Original Television Soundtrack is due for release in the UK on 19th December 2011 for £8.99 RRP.

> Silva Screen

> Pre-order @ Amazon.co.uk

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Ralf Little talks The Gunpowder Plot – Part One

The official BBC Doctor Who website have released a further interview-based video in the run-up to the release of the fifth instalment of the Doctor Who Adventure Games, which has been promised to be the biggest and best of them all. And this time, they’re talking to Ralf Little (The Royal Family, Two Pints of Lager…).

Find out how Ralf Little brought the 3D animation of Guy Fawkes to life in the first of a two part interview talking about his starring role in the Doctor's latest adventure, The Gunpowder Plot.
The new Adventure Game will be released from this site on 31 October but check back soon for the second part of Ralf's interview as well as many more exclusives.

The Doctor Who Adventure Games ‘The Gunpowder Plot’ is released on Monday 31st October for FREE to UK residents. It will, presumably become available to those overseas at a slightly later date with a fee (since overseas customers don’t pay the UK licence fee).

> BBC Doctor Who website

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‘The Wedding Of River Song’ Prequel

Following the broadcast of tonight’s exciting twelfth episode in ‘Closing Time’, the official BBC Doctor Who site have revealed the prequel for next Saturday’s series finale episode ‘The Wedding of River Song’, and boy it’s looking promising….

Doctor Who The Prequel to Episode 13 The Wedding of River Song

Doctor Who ‘The Wedding Of River Song’ airs next Saturday 1st October on BBC1/HD at 7:05PM (UK) and BBC America at 8/9c (US).

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‘The God Complex’ Unreleased Music

TheSkaroRevenger has uploaded a series of tracks of unreleased music from last night’s episode, ‘the God Complex’. From the theme of the “Praise him” speech, to the Ponds’ final fate, you can hear the music all on his YouTube channel DrWhoUnreleasedMusic, and listen to them in this playlist…

Track Listing: 01: Leaving Behind The Ponds  02: The Death of Rita 03: Somebody Hit Me!  04: My Name is Lucy  05: Corridors and Stairs  06: Run Away and Hide  07: This is not Earth  08: Praise Him

> Dr Who Unreleased Music – YouTube Channel

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Imelda Staunton in ‘The Girl Who Waited’

RadioTimes television and radio guide has revealed that the BAFTA award-winning and Oscar-nominated actress Imelda Staunton (well-known for her roles in Vera Drake, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and MUCH more) will voice the “Voice of Interface” in Saturday’s upcoming Series 6 Episode 10 ‘The Girl Who Waited’. Also featuring in the episode will be Josie Taylor as “Check-in Girl” and Stephen Bracken-Keogh lending his voice as the “Voice of Handbots”.

Imelda Staunton, is best known for her performance in the 2004 Mike Leigh film, Vera Drake, where she played a working-class woman in London in 1950 who performs illegal abortions. The role won her the BAFTA and Venice Film Festival Award for best actress in a leading role. She was a regular in the Harry Potter film series playing Professor Dolores Jane Umbridge.

The RadioTimes has also confirmed now that actor Simon Callow will be returning to the series in the final episode of the current series, ‘The Wedding of River Song’. Callow last appeared in Doctor Who alongside Ninth Doctor, Christopher Eccleston, in the 2005 story ‘The Unquiet Dead’, where he played Charles Dickens. No details of his character in the upcoming story have been released.

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Confidential: Matt’s New Coat

Doctor Who Confidential have released a new behind-the-scenes video online, this time focussing on Matt Smith’s new coat (first seen in ‘Let’s Kill Hitler’) and the reactions to it, as well as the usual crazy little banter between the current TARDIS trio, including Matt and Karen also discussing their involvement in Twitter…

Matt's New Coat - Doctor Who Confidential - Episode 10 - BBC Three

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‘Let’s Kill Hitler’ Unreleased Music

TheSkaroRevenger has uploaded a series of tracks of unreleased music from last night’s episode, ‘Let’s Kill Hitler’. From the Melody Pond’s metaphorical penny dropping, to the Tesalecta’s theme, and the childhood flashback into the Ponds’ past, you can hear the music all on his YouTube channel DrWhoUnreleasedMusic, and listen to them in this playlist…

Track Listing: 01: Previously on Dr Who 02: Crop Circles 03: Childhood Secrets 04: Shut Up, Hitler! 05: Mels' Song 06: You Are Unauthorised 07: The Child of the TARDIS 08: Next "Terror" Time

> Dr Who Unreleased Music – YouTube Channel

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‘Let’s Kill Hitler’ 11 Teasers

Since it is THE day, finally, that ‘Let’s Kill Hitler’ broadcasts in the UK and US, let’s take this last-minute chance to whet our appetites for it with a few teasers! To any spoiler-phobes who may be reading, none of these teasers are very spoilery (if at all) so you’re safe…

1. “You never said I was hot!?”
2. The Doctor’s new jacket needs no introduction
3. Rasputin was green?
4. Hitler returns the favour
5. Keep an eye out for Benjamin
6. “You ***** **** daughter ***** your ********”
7. The penny drops more than once
8. “You are not a psychopath!”
9. “Is killing you going to take all day?”
10. 32 minutes until…
11. River is armed for shopping

Very excited for today’s opening episode! Let’s hope the hours pass by unbelievably quickly, though something tells me the wait may feel slower than ever.

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Australian ABC1 to air Series 6 Part 2

News has been announced that the second half of Doctor Who Series 6 will be broadcast in Australia on the channel ABC1 on Saturday 3rd September at 7.30pm, following just one week after the UK and American TV premieres of opener episode ‘Let’s Kill Hitler’.

ABC1 have also compiled a rather brilliant and handy recap video of the important events of part 1 of the series:

Doctor Who | Series 6, Part 1 Recap | Returns 3 September, 7.30pm, ABC1

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Series 6’s Five Biggest Mysteries

What are the five biggest mysteries and questions of Doctor Who that are yet to be answered by Mr Moffat? Well, ahead of tomorrow’s Series 6 Part 2 opener, Yahoo TV have put their best Doctor Who fanatic reporter on the case (they have their facts right as well! Take note, Daily Mail). So ye be warned of the spoilers ahead if you have yet to watch ‘The Lodger’ or any of Series 6 (if that applies to you then ye also be damned)…

1. Who killed the future Doctor?
We saw the Doctor from 200 years in the future being killed by an astronaut – but who was inside the spacesuit? The Doctor said he knew and appeared to be expecting to die. Is there any significance to the way he said "I'm sorry" to his friends before being killed? What was he apologising for?

2. Whose spaceship was above James Corden's flat?
In the episode 'The Lodger', the Doctor stayed with a character called Craig (played by James Corden) while trying to figure out what was going on in the flat upstairs. It turned out there was a broken spaceship - with a primitive time engine - trying to fix itself. In 'The Impossible Astronaut' we saw this spaceship again, in a network of tunnels under Florida in the 1960s with the memory-wiping Silence hanging around in it. Is it a time machine? Who built it? Where did it go when it vanished from above Craig's flat? We know Craig is back in the second half of the new series so maybe he'll have some answers.

3. Who is Madame Kovarian?
This mysterious woman with an eyepatch kidnapped a pregnant Amy and replaced her with a doppelganger in order to steal Amy's Time Vortex-enhanced baby... who we now know grows up to be River Song. She says she wants to turn the baby into a weapon for use against the Doctor – but why? Who is she working with? What is her eyepatch for? And why do we see River wearing one in the teaser trailer for the rest of the series?

4. Who was the young girl we saw regenerating?
At the end of 'Day of the Moon' we saw a young, injured girl begin the Time Lord regeneration process, transforming in a burst of orange light. Was this Amy's daughter or a full Time Lord? If it was Amy's daughter, this means River Song can regenerate – and if that's the case, maybe she didn't really die when we first met her during David Tennant's time as the Doctor.

5. Who was the 'best man I ever knew' that River killed?
We know that in the future River is in a maximum-security prison for murder - she says for killing “a good man...the best man I ever knew”. This implies it could be the Doctor, possibly even the future Doctor we've seen killed by the mysterious astronaut. But could the 'good man' actually be Rory, who we now know was River's father? Did the episode title 'A Good Man Goes to War' refer to the Doctor or to Rory, who became a warrior to save his wife and baby?

Yahoo article written by Ed Lomas
> Read the full article

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Series 6 Episode 12 Title

BBC America have revealed confirmation in a recent press release for Doctor Who Series 6 what the official title of episode 12 is – something previously kept secret by the production crew, possibly since it reveals a great deal about the plot.

In case there are any spoiler-phobes out there, just highlight the text in the box below…

The title of Series 6 Episode 12 is... 'Closing Time'

So, is time messed up again? Who knows?

> Read the full press release


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‘Let’s Kill Hitler’ UK Broadcast Time Confirmed

The BBC have finally confirmed not only the broadcast date of the opening episode of Series 6 Part 2, ‘Let’s Kill Hitler’, but also the time it will be shown as well! The official BBC Doctor Who website have said this in one of their latest news posts:

“The Doctor returns on Saturday August 27th at 7:10pm in Let's Kill Hitler, an amazing adventure which begins a run of six incredible episodes.”

So, we in the UK finally have a date and time set down! The second half of Series 6 of Doctor Who will begin with ‘Let’s Kill Hitler’ on Saturday 27th August at 7:10PM on BBC One & HD.

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Karen Gillan on Series 6 Part 2

The official BBC Doctor Who site has released a new video to promote the new start of the second half of Series Six, in which Karen Gillan gives us a few hints and teases about the upcoming series…

Karen Gillan talks about Doctor Who Series 6 Part 2

Video courtesy of Doctor Who Media

> BBC Doctor Who site

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‘Let’s Kill Hitler’ Introduction

As part of the run-up period up to the opener episode of Doctor Who Series 6 Part 2, ‘Let’s Kill Hitler’, the official BBC website have today released their obligatory introduction video for the next episode. This time round, the introduction is done by none other than Amy pond herself, Karen Gillan…

Doctor Who Karen Gillan Introduces Let's Kill Hitler

Video courtesy of Doctor Who Media 

> BBC Doctor Who site

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‘Let’s Kill Hitler’ Preview Clips

Update: videos are now work internationally.
Two exciting new preview clips have been released just today of ‘Let’s Kill Hitler’, the eighth episode of Series 6 and the opener of the second half of the series…

Doctor Who Series 6 ‘Let’s Kill Hitler’ premieres on August 27th on BBC One and airs later the same day in the US on BBC America.

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‘Let’s Kill Hitler’ Promotional Photos

The BBC have tonight released a set of promotional photos of the first episode of Series 6 Part 2 (and eighth episode of the series) ‘Let’s Kill Hitler’…

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‘Let’s Kill Hitler’ Prequel

UPDATE: The video now works internationally

The BBC has revealed the compelling prequel to the eighth episode of Series 6 of Doctor Who and first episode of the second half, ‘Let’s Kill Hitler’, (and sort of sequel to ‘A Good Man Goes To War’). Which you can watch now – 30 minutes before the BBC post it officially!

Thanks to Rob! ;)

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Series 6 Part 2 BBC Launch Trailer

The very first official BBC launch trailer for the second half of Doctor Who Series 6 has just been released online and is now playing on UK BBC channels between programmes…

 

Doctor Who 2011 Part 2 - New Launch Trailer - BBC One

 

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Series Six Part 2 – Premiere Date

After barrages of Doctor Who news, trailers and clips from out of the blue tonight, the Doctor Who panel at this year’s San Diego Comic Con also saw the announcement of the start date of the second half of Series Six as…

27th August 2011

This is confirmed as the same broadcast date in both the UK (BBC One) and the US (BBC America).

The exciting news was revealed on stage by the Doctor Who panel, made up of Matt Smith and Karen Gillan, Toby Whithouse (writer of ‘The God Complex’ and creator of BBC Three’s Being Human), Beth Willis and Piers Wenger (executive producers alongside Steven Moffat for Series 5 - 6).

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