There's always been talk of a third sixties Dr Who movie. Be it Disney's early attempts to secure 'Marco Polo' as a film project or the madness of 'The Chase' being adapted into a 'Daleks Vs. Mechons' epic...
But a recent discovery of a promo poster in a disused public lavatory just outside Shepperton Studios suggests that popular 'Giant Rubber Dinosaur' studio Toho in Japan had plans for an epic co-production with Aaru (or Amicus depending on which account you read).
Intriguing isn't it?
Isn't it...??
Remember Fotonovels? Back in the late seventies, before the advent of domestic video tape recording, they were a popular way of reliving your favourite movie or TV show - especially if the latter was Star Trek.
A company called Mandala Productions produced the majority of these little paperback visual treasures. The books used what we today would call 'screencaps' and comic-strip style speech bubbles to tell their tales as dynamic colourful photo stories.
Twelve episodes of the original Star Trek were given this treatment as well as the first two motion pictures - though the Wrath of Khan one was a very disappointing black and white version.
Sadly they were short-lived; no doubt replaced by then fledgling video tape market in the early eighties. They were also dominated by US material and the chances of any British TV show - let alone Doctor Who - getting the 'Fotonovel' treatment were minuscule to say the least.
Until now...
Oh and this one was probably highly unlikely as well...
I'm very sorry.
I've not added to the blog over the past week or two. I've been very busy. Honest. (Timeslip stuff if you must ask... but that's another website altogether.)
In the meantime, I thought it would be okay (and a service to new followers) to collect together all of the 'Doctor Who Collectors Item' magazine ads I've done over the past year or two on one post.
I love these ads. The real ones, I mean. Be they for Elvis Presley handbags or Star Trek Cuckoo Clocks. Everyone knows they are TAT. That's TAT. In block capitals. Yet we (the royal 'we' of course) still buy them.
Here are all the ones I've done including a new one...
I hope you like them enough to send me your money. Now. (Easy payment plans available subject to status.)
Here's the final three issues of 'BBC's Legend of Yesterday'.
It seems a lot of people wish this little effort was a reality judging from the feedback I've had following the posting of the first three covers.
I'm not sure I'd get away with the last issue though...
DC recently launched a new TV series in which a bunch of forgotten super heroes are recruited to save the future from an evil immortal tyrant.
It stars Arthur Darvil (from TV's Dr Who) as someone who isn't the Doctor. Honest.
It seems the BBC have fired a salvo back at them. Rather than suing, which is the American way, Auntie Beeb has done the British thing and given them a taste of their own medicine.
Meet Adam Adamant, Servalan, Barlow from Z Cars, Tom Howard, Juliet Bravo, Professor Quatermass and the Chinese Detective. Seven forgotten heroes destined to become legends.
Or something like that.
There's always been talk of a third sixties Dr Who movie. Be it Disney's early attempts to secure 'Marco Polo' as a film project or the madness of 'The Chase' being adapted into a 'Daleks Vs. Mechons' epic... 
