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12:38, Jun 17 2021 Youtube Damaris Hayman was known for her brief but memorable role in Doctor Who in the 1970s. Damaris Hayman, who has died aged 91, was one of those instantly recognisable comedy actresses who took walk-on and bit parts in numerous films and television series; she became something of a cult figure among Doctor Who aficionados for her role as Olive Hawthorne, the White Witch of Devil’s End in The Daemons (1971), a five-parter, starring Jon Pertwee as the Time Lord, that is...

Tuesday, 1st June 2021 at 3:02 pm Minding my own beeswax in the kitchen a while back, my ear was drawn to the popular broadcasters Zoe Ball and Sara Cox discussing the hot button topic of Doctor Who’s hair. Advertisement Not in the way us Who diehards might discuss it, you understand – which would probably be in the context of, say, the continuity nightmare caused by Peter Davison’s temporally unreliable barnet during season 19, or whether it might be possible to digitally remove David T...

A new series of Doctor Who audio adventures from Big Finish appear to take place during the fabled "Season 6B" continuity error.

ENTERTAINMENT venues that have closed to the public tend to be gone for good. So the plan to reopen Bournemouth’s Palace Court Theatre – also known as the Playhouse – constitutes a dramatic comeback. It is 35 years since a lack of public support seemed to have brought down the curtain on the buildings days as a theatre and cinema. It became a place of worship, over the objections of Bournemouth council and many supporters. Now Arts University Bournemouth (AUB) has acquired the ve...

Assisted dying may be exceptional at first, but thats what they said about abortion Policies which empower people to end life are based on naive assumptions about humanity 3 May 2021 • 6:30am Inevitable because that’s our direction of travel since the Sixties, towards full bodily autonomy; because we’re living longer, suffering and want a dignified end; and because religious conservatism has all but collapsed in Parliament. There are MPs who have qualms about legalisation, Danny Kruger wr...

Back in the Seventies, ITV, our third channel, had a reputation for vulgar populism that was even worse than it has today. ITV was the go-to place for in-yer-face cop shows, boorish sitcoms, and sequinned variety knees-ups. It wasn’t the channel you’d have expected to find anything as conceptually ambitious and strange as Sapphire And Steel. That  Sapphire And Steel is remembered so vividly now is a testament to its blazing originality. Whether it’s the ghostly sight of a World War One ...

Teenage Fanclub’s Norman Blake: ‘My first band was the Spanking Newts’ Norman Blake with some of his teenage influences: (clockwise from left) Terry Hall, ice skating and the novels of John Wyndham. Composite: Getty/Redferns Norman Blake with some of his teenage influences: (clockwise from left) Terry Hall, ice skating and the novels of John Wyndham. Composite: Getty/Redferns Back with a new album, the Fannies frontman remembers his teenage years, from the kindness of the Special...

John Simm as The Master The Master has taken many forms over the years... The Master is one of Doctor Who’s most iconic enemies. Ever since their arrival in season 8 of classic Doctor Who, the Master has been just as important a villain as the Daleks or the Cybermen. Next to those alien races, the Master really has become the Doctor’s archnemesis. They’ve cropped up again and again over as a constant threat both to the Doctor and to the universe as a whole.  Before the Doctor stole t...

BBC News By Peter Shuttleworth media captionSuperTed started with a teddy, a tea towel and a bedtime story He was the teddy bear with magic powers who was a cartoon favourite among royal princes and a generation of children - and now SuperTed is being brought back to life once again. More than 35 years since his last show, his creators are set to sprinkle magic dust over SuperTed again and recreate him for a new audience. Work on new episodes is expected to start later this year. It is hoped Su...

Doctor Who classic series Blu-rays on sale now Justin Harp Replay Video Doctor Who adventures from throughout time and space are on sale now. Our friends at Zavvi have put a TARDIS treasure trove of iconic series stories on discount for a limited time, spanning the early original run of the BBC science fiction show. Included in this massive sale are restored classics with perennial classic Doctors Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker, as well as reconstructions of lost episodes from the 19...