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Toy Robots
The little tin and plastic robots that came off the production lines in the US and Japan were technological mini-me's...representations of an artificial intelligence we hoped to create in our own image. True, they were only toys...but the concepts from which they were drawn were real enough.
33 commentsvideoSecret Hand Language for Doctor Who Fans
Do you like Doctor Who? Do you wish you weren't always out of the loop when people flash obscure hand gestures? Suffer no more, my friend!
22 commentsDoctor Who - The Seventh Doctor
After the sudden departure of Colin Baker's Sixth Doctor, a new regeneration appeared in 1987. The Seventh Doctor, played by Scots actor Sylvester McCoy, plays a very different sort of Doctor and has the dubious distinction of being the only Doctor to have been cancelled.
3 commentsDoctor Who - The Fifth Doctor
With a new producer and a new Doctor, the series fully entered the new decade in 1982 with a young cast and an updated look. Very much unlike his predecessor Tom Baker, Peter Davison was already something of a star when he was selected to become the Fifth Doctor in 1981. Not quite yet 30 when he accepted the part, he is the second youngest actor to play the title character.
6 commentsDoctor Who - The First Doctor
Based partly upon the success of the Quatermass Experiment in the early 1950s, the BBC began developing a science fiction series for children in the early 1960s, mainly due to government regulations requiring a minimum number of hours of programming for children. With the help of writer David Whitaker and young producer Verity Lambert, the series Doctor Who was launched on BBC 1 in November of 1963 as a part science fiction, part adventure, part horror and part educational programme. It went on
16 commentsDOCTOR WHO: DAVROS- The creator of the Daleks
Welcome to our page on Davros, the creator of the Daleks from the BBC's Doctor Who series. A character that became an icon of the classic era of the show, he is now returning to our screens at the climax of...
3 commentsDistrict 9 Review
A disjointed and overly eclectic movie, District 9 offers just enough apartheid allegory to pretend it's intelligent when it isn’t, a sci-fi plot written for people who have never seen sci-fi before and enough action, gore and ray guns to fluff it all out to an appropriate cinematic length.
2 commentsDoctor Who - The Tenth Doctor
Perhaps the best-loved and most recognisable Doctor since Tom Baker's famous Fourth, the Tenth Doctor David Tennant has proven that the success of Series One was not a fluke. In fact, if anything, the young and handsome Doctor has brought in fans from all across the spectrum. NOTABLY - Women!
0 commentsBuild it, and the worms will come: what I've learned from my year of home composting and container gardening
A guide to home composting and container gardening, based on a year's first-hand experience in a tiny back garden.
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