Showing posts with label Shameless Profiteering. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shameless Profiteering. Show all posts
Saturday, 25 July 2015

Great Unreleased Doctor Who Merchandise of the 20th Century - part 256

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The Whomobile Action Pursuit Set - Palitoy - c1974 How cool would this have been?  Okay. It might be adapted from an old James Bond Thu...
Saturday, 27 June 2015

The Official Doctor Who Garden Fete is Go!

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Seems that BBC cutbacks have affected the forthcoming official Doctor Who Festival planned for this November.... Oh..... and NO autogra...
Friday, 26 June 2015

Great Unreleased Doctor Who Merchandise of the 20th Century - part twelve

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The Sara Kingdom Action Doll -  circa 1965 I had one of these as a kid - unfortunately it didn't aged well! 
Sunday, 3 May 2015

What's this thing for badly drawn Jon Pertwees on advertising stuff?

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J on Pertwee 's face appeared on quite a few products during his tenure as the Doctor.  Some - like the one on the left - are quite di...
Saturday, 2 May 2015

Untranslatable Overseas Doctor Who Novel

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Possibly ' Doctor Who and the Invisible Enemy '.  I dunno...
Friday, 27 March 2015

A Doll To Die For...!

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Click for larger Hot on the heels of the Taran Wood Beast teddy bear comes this delightful little product from those lovely people at t...
Saturday, 31 January 2015

The Question of BBC Question Time's Questionable Merchandise...

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Back in the 1970s, the BBC's Question Time was one of the popular television programmes in the UK. Millions tuned in to see a studio au...
Friday, 30 January 2015

Great Unreleased Doctor Who Merchandise - part nine

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In 1965, the popular children's toy manufacturer Chad Valley released a Doctor Who version of its popular 'Give-A-Show' projec...
Thursday, 29 January 2015

Doctor Who Video Nasties

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Back in the 1980s when the video market was getting off the ground, there were dozens of video labels that produced some r eally weird relea...
Saturday, 17 January 2015

When Doctor Who hit US news stands in the 1960s

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It seems - from recently undiscovered paperwork at the BBC - that Doctor Who WAS nearly sold to US television in the mid sixties.  A deal...
Tuesday, 23 December 2014

Great Unreleased Doctor Who Merchandise of the 20th Century - part eight

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Doctor Who Slipback - Viewmaster Reels  GAF - 1986 - Price £1.99 (Woolworths exclusive) Back when Mich ael Grade put 'Doctor Who...
Sunday, 21 December 2014

The BBC's Early Attempts at Doctor Who DVDs

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Doctor Who fans don't know how lucky they are. Every available story from the show's 50 year run is now available on digitally rest...
Tuesday, 4 November 2014

More From Those Robot People of the Planet Skaro

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Here's a few more pages of Dalek madness from the 1960s.... Click for larger Click for larger (If ...
Sunday, 26 October 2014

Happy 60s Dr Who Halloween!

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Kids love Halloween and dressing up as their favourite ghost, ghoul, monster or Marvel superhero. Back in the 60s, there was a couple of Dal...
Monday, 20 October 2014

Peter Capaldi: An Apology

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Following my posting of an embarrassing photo of the Scottish actor and current star of TV's Doctor Who , I would like to unreservedly a...

Capaldi's Catalogue of Disaster...

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The Scottish actor and TV's long running Doctor Who once modelled for a catalogue...  Honest!
Saturday, 11 October 2014

Crossroads novels.... Lots of 'em!

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Click for larger Malcolm Hulke   - the television writer who created the Silurians and the Sea Devils on 'Doctor Who' -...
Thursday, 2 October 2014

Breaking News: ITV Announces Doctor Who Themed Edition of Popular Quiz Show Revival

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Odds stacked against contestant
Friday, 26 September 2014

New: Build Your Own Dalek in Weekly Parts

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I love part works - especially the very cheap first issues.  Thanks to their lovely price tag, I now own a rather nice little figurine of ...