Joining in the love for the Pink Windmill Kids and the wonderful remake of their recent internet meme for Comic Relief....
Here's a selection of novelisations based on the 'later' Doctor Emu adventures. Fans of the the forgotten BBCtv serial DrWHO will no doubt recognise their source... (If not, check out the final image.)
The recent Time Capsule article by Gary Gillette in Doctor Who magazine (508) featured a short but detailed look at the handful of Doctor Who spoofs on Emu's Broadcasting Company in the late 70s.
I used to love these - as well as the show as a whole. There's something about a timid Australian with huge ginger sideburns and a moth-ridden, homicidal emu puppet that appealed to me back then.
Sadly, it must be one of the few Doctor Who-based BBC comedy sketches that didn't turn up as an extra on one the official DVDs - despite the fond memories fans of a certain age have of them.
In honour of my fellow Emuvians, I've knocked these up in celebration of the resurgence of the wirly Time Bird and his never-ending battle with the deadly Dustbins...
I've done three more covers for this promising new comic book series that people seem to like.
Sadly, I can't be arsed to do the insides...
If you want to own the complete series of Classic Doctor Who on DVD then you're pretty much living in cloud cuckoo land. At least, that's the opinion of BBC Worldwide. They have confirmed that the DVD of The Underwater Menace has been officially cancelled. Citing the reasons for this, they stated that it was due to the fact that the company producing the animated versions of the two missing episodes has ceased trading and they do not want to release orphan episodes on their own.
However, a recent tweet from BBC Worldwide suggested that they still planned to release more Classic Doctor Who in the future.
???
What is happening? Has the work experience guy who handles their Twitter account noticed that there are still many Hartnell and Troughton stories that remain unreleased little realising that a quick check of the archives will confirm they are currently missing (or at least in the hands of a madman with a box of magnets)?
Anyhow, closer examination suggests that the new 'Classic' Doctor Who DVDs may be a little desperate to say the least.
Joining in the love for the Pink Windmill Kids and the wonderful remake of their recent internet meme for Comic Relief....
