Last year (or rather Christmas 2018), there wasn't a Doctor Who Christmas special. It actually went out on New Year's Day. It didn't feel right. Over a decade of Christmas teatime specials and suddenly it was gone.
Well, you know my attitude. If you want something that you can't get then make it yourself... and sod 'em.
Which is what I did - producing the Radio Times cover and Blu-ray packaging for my own made-up Doctor Who Christmas Special 2018 in which the thirteenth Doctor and her fam battle the Weeping Angels who are using their images on Christmas cards to bring terror to the festive period. "The image of a Weeping Angel IS a Weeping Angel!"
Fast forward to Christmas 2019 and we don't even have a New Year's Day special. Actually, it's just the first episode of the new series - special but not special in a SPECIAL way.
So i did another one. This time featuring the Daleks who are using the front of a travelling festive holiday fair to infiltrate the US defence system during Christmas 1962. (And the DW producers say they've ran out of Christmas ideas for the specials...)
Here is the visual result in the form of the Radio Times and the official Blu-ray release.
Happy Easter folks. x
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Just before Christmas, I had an idea to do an update of the 1976 Doctor Who Monster Book featuring Jodie Whittaker's first series as the Doctor.
I managed to do a cover quite easily - fudged with a circa-Matt Smith Cyberman (remember the Cyber Warriors and the Cyber Lords hadn't been revealed back then.)
The original book included black and white versions of many of the original Target book covers used to flesh out the sparse text. So I also created some Target-inspired artwork to illustrate this new version. I even managed to get as far as writing up and laying out a few pages before the festive holiday.
Then the new series started and I was presented was a quandary - should I keep to the original idea and just feature JW's first season or should I expand it to include the 2020 one too? Given the amount of new monsters debuting this series, I decided to put it on hiatus for a bit. (I was also busy doing proper Target book covers for the new episodes as they aired!)
I will return to it shortly but will no doubt have to redo the cover to include some newer elements... which is a pity really as I quite like it as it is.
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The ever active Big Finish Twitter account is always asking its followers which TV shows they would like to see the company bring to audio next. Each time they do, it sets me off thinking of the most inappropriate properties to get that treatment.
I did a few covers last year and posted them... but since then, I did three more.
You'll never get these made by Big Finish...
Ever...
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I'd already done a few of those Jodie Whittaker vintage Radio Times covers by the time the twelfth series had started in January 2020. Indeed, I'd even made up postcards for two of them. I did a few more and before the series ended, I'd done a full run of them.
Some work, some don't.
But at least it's a complete set...
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Apologies for the lack of updates since last year.
This will be remedied shortly. I have a backlog of material to post.
I had a complete PC failure last year resulting in the loss of around six months of original material - stuff previous to that was safe on a separate hard-drive.
This didn't stop me from producing new stuff and this will be added to the blog over the next week or so...
After all, I like so many other folk, have plenty of time on my hands as we all face the realities of domestic lock-down due to the worldwide Covid19 outbreak.
Andydrewz
March 2020
