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Iris Wildthyme (audio Drama Series)
''Iris Wildthyme'' is a series of audio plays from Big Finish Productions, featuring Katy Manning as Iris Wildthyme, a character from the spin-off media based on the long-running British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. Episodes Series 1 (2005) Featuring Ortis Deley as Tom and David Benson as Panda. Artwork for both releases in Series 1 was by Stuart Manning. Series 2 (2009) Featuring David Benson as Panda. Each individual release parodied Doctor Who from one decade between the 1960s and the 1990s. Special (2009) Featuring David Benson as Panda. Series 3 (2012) Appearing in "Midwinter Murders", Stewart Bevan had previously appeared with Katy Manning in the Doctor Who story, ''The Green Death ''The Green Death'' is the fifth and final serial of the tenth season of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast in six weekly parts on BBC1 from 19 May to 23 June 1973. It was the last regular appe ...' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Audio Plays
Radio drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play, radio theatre, or audio theatre) is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance. With no visual component, radio drama depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine the characters and story: "It is auditory in the physical dimension but equally powerful as a visual force in the psychological dimension." Radio drama includes plays specifically written for radio, docudrama, dramatized works of fiction, as well as Play (theatre), plays originally written for the theatre, including musical theatre, and opera. Radio drama achieved widespread popularity within a decade of its initial development in the 1920s. By the 1940s, it was a leading international popular entertainment. With the advent of television in the 1950s radio drama began losing its audience. However, it remains popular in much of the world. Recordings of OTR (old-time radio) survive today in the audio archives of collectors, libraries and mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cavan Scott
Cavan Scott (born 18 April 1973), is a New York Times bestselling comic writer and author. He is best known for his work on a variety of spin-offs from both ''Doctor Who'' and ''Star Wars'', as well as comics and novels for ''Teen Titans'', ''Black Adam'', ''Ghostbusters'', ''Transformers'', ''Back to the Future'', ''Vikings'', '' Pacific Rim'', ''Sherlock Holmes'', and ''Penguins of Madagascar''. Cavan Scott, along with Justina Ireland, Claudia Gray, Daniel Jose Older, and Charles Soule are crafting a new era in the ''Star Wars'' publishing world called '' Star Wars: The High Republic''. Cavan's first contribution to the era was a comic book series released through Marvel Comics titled ''Star Wars: The High Republic''. and he has also written two novels in the series, the ''New York Times'' bestseller, ''The Rising Storm'' and ''Path of Vengeance'', numerous short stories in ''Star Wars Insider'' and the ''Life Day Treasury'', a four issue mini-series for IDW, ''The Monster of Te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Audio Plays Based On Doctor Who
Audio most commonly refers to sound, as it is transmitted in signal form. It may also refer to: Sound *Audio signal, an electrical representation of sound *Audio frequency, a frequency in the audio spectrum *Digital audio, representation of sound in a form processed and/or stored by computers or digital electronics *Audio, audible content (media) in audio production and publishing *Semantic audio, extraction of symbols or meaning from audio * Stereophonic audio, method of sound reproduction that creates an illusion of multi-directional audible perspective * Audio equipment Entertainment *AUDIO (group), an American R&B band of 5 brothers formerly known as TNT Boyz and as B5 * ''Audio'' (album), an album by the Blue Man Group * ''Audio'' (magazine), a magazine published from 1947 to 2000 *Audio (musician), British drum and bass artist * "Audio" (song), a song by LSD Computing *, an HTML element, see HTML5 audio See also *Acoustic (other) *Audible (other) *Aud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Handcock
Scott Handcock (born 8 November 1984) is an English writer, director and producer who has been involved in a number of audio plays for Big Finish Productions, the audio production company perhaps best associated with the Doctor Who franchise. Handcock has attended fan conventions in New York City, Swansea, California, Germany, and recently worked for BBC Wales as a production runner on the third and fourth series of ''Doctor Who Confidential'', the animated ''Doctor Who'' adventure ''The Infinite Quest'', and the second series of ''The Sarah Jane Adventures''. Most recently, he has worked on the sixth series of ''Doctor Who'', beginning with Matt Smith's first Christmas special, " A Christmas Carol", and directed ''The Confessions of Dorian Gray'' series for Big Finish Productions. He has also contributed features to the official ''Doctor Who Magazine''. Audio dramas *'' Dark Shadows: The Book of Temptation'' (released September 2006) *''Bernice Summerfield: The Oracle of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Goss (producer)
James Goss (born 1974) is an English writer and producer, known both for his work in cult TV spin-off media, including tie-in novels and audio stories for ''Doctor Who'' and ''Torchwood'', and for his fictional works beyond ready made universes. ''Doctor Who'' Online content In 2000, Goss was made a BBC senior content producer and put in charge of the BBC's official ''Doctor Who'' website. Originally the site was part of the BBC's Cult TV website. Goss slowly expanded the content to include ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV series), Buffy the Vampire Slayer'', ''Farscape'', ''The Simpsons'', ''24 (TV series), 24'' and ''Doctor Who''. He was subsequently voted Number 19 in TV Cream's 2004 poll of Top 50 Media Movers and Shakers. With the return of Doctor Who in 2005, the Cult site was slowly wound down in order to concentrate solely on the show. Goss moved to BBC Wales to oversee the production of the new show's web site, expanding the contents to include cast and crew interviews ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Bryher
David Bailey is a British editor and author whose published output to date comprises a combination of short stories, audio dramas and magazine articles. Biography Both before and since being professionally published, Bailey contributed to a number of Doctor Who fanzines in writing and editorial capacities, including ''Matrix'', ''Silver Carrier'' and ''Cottage Under Siege''. As an editor, he worked for the British magazine publisher Titan from 1997 to 2000 during which time he edited their ''Simpsons'' and '' Xena, Warrior Princess'' titles among others. His first professionally published writing was a number of articles for the magazine ''Cult Times'', starting in 1996. Since that time he has contributed articles to a wide range of factual publications, including consumer guides and television listing magazines. Subsequently, he co-authored a number of guidebooks to television series such as ''Friends'' and ''Frasier''. These were produced by Virgin Publishing. The body of D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warwickshire
Warwickshire (; abbreviated Warks) is a county in the West Midlands region of England. The county town is Warwick, and the largest town is Nuneaton. The county is famous for being the birthplace of William Shakespeare at Stratford-upon-Avon and Victorian novelist George Eliot, (born Mary Ann Evans), at Nuneaton. Other significant towns include Rugby, Leamington Spa, Bedworth, Kenilworth and Atherstone. The county offers a mix of historic towns and large rural areas. It is a popular destination for international and domestic tourists to explore both medieval and more recent history. The county is divided into five districts of North Warwickshire, Nuneaton and Bedworth, Rugby, Warwick and Stratford-on-Avon. The current county boundaries were set in 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972. The historic county boundaries included Coventry, Sutton Coldfield and Solihull, as well as much of Birmingham and Tamworth. Geography Warwickshire is bordered by Leicestershire to the nort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Mann (writer)
George Mann is a British author and editor, primarily in genre fiction, and is best known for his alternate history detective novel series ''Newbury and Hobbes'' (2008-2019) and ''The Ghosts'' action science fiction noir novels (2010-2017), a book series set in the same universe. Mann works in Nottinghamshire and lives in Lincolnshire, England. He is a former editor of ''Outland Magazine'', and has also edited a number of anthologies including '' The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction (Volumes 1, 2 and 3)'', ''The Solaris Book of New Fantasy'' and two retrospective collections of Sexton Blake stories, ''Sexton Blake, Detective'', which has an introduction by Michael Moorcock and ''Sexton Blake, Crime Fighter''. Mann is the author of ''The Human Abstract'', ''The Severed Man'', a novella in the series the ''Time Hunter'', and co-author of the series finale, ''Child of Time''. He has also written numerous short stories, and original ''Doctor Who'' novels. In 2011 he wrote a ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Adams
Guy Adams (born 6 January 1976) is an English author, comedian, and actor, possibly best known for the novel ''The World House''. Adams is also a regular writer for Big Finish productions, who produce audio plays based on ''Doctor Who'', as well as several other properties. Biography Adams has also written several books for the Doctor Who franchise, including the BBC Books ''Torchwood'' novel, ''The House That Jack Built''. Adams's second book in his The Heaven's Gate Chronicles series, entitled ''Once Upon Time in Hell'' was published on 31 December 2013. The first book was also published in 2013 and was entitled ''The Good, The Bad and the Infernal''. He starred as a mugger on British soap opera, ''Emmerdale'' and has also tried stand-up with his own material. Adams has also portrayed Sherlock Holmes before embarking on creating his own original novel featuring Holmes. Bibliography ''Clown Service'' * ''The Clown Service'' (2013) * ''The Rain Soaked Bride'' (2014) * ''A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jo Grant
Josephine "Jo" Grant, later Jo Jones, is a fictional character played by Katy Manning in the long-running British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. Jo was introduced by Barry Letts and Terrance Dicks in the first episode of ''Doctor Who''s eighth season (1971) as a new companion of series protagonist the Doctor, in his third incarnation (Jon Pertwee). After the Doctor's previous companion Liz Shaw (Caroline John), a scientist and intellectual, the production team looked to introduce a less experienced companion to act as an audience surrogate. Jo appeared in 15 stories (77 episodes). Within the series narrative, Jo is a junior civilian operative for United Nations Intelligence Taskforce, an international organisation that defends the Earth from alien threats, assigned as an assistant to the Doctor, who is initially stranded on earth. Once he regains use of his time machine, the TARDIS, she accompanies him in travels across time and space. Jo departs the Doctor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Green Death
''The Green Death'' is the fifth and final serial of the tenth season of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast in six weekly parts on BBC1 from 19 May to 23 June 1973. It was the last regular appearance of Katy Manning as companion Jo Grant. In the serial, the alien time traveller the Third Doctor (Jon Pertwee) and the organisation UNIT investigate a South Wales mine where waste from an oil plant has killed miners and made maggots grow to giant size. Plot The Third Doctor is making adjustments to the TARDIS' coordinate programmer in preparation for a visit to Metebelis Three, when Jo reads in a newspaper about the mysterious death of a miner named Hughes in the abandoned coal mine in Llanfairfach in South Wales. The miner was found dead and glowing bright green. Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and Jo go down to investigate the miner's death. The Doctor agrees to follow the Brigadier, but is determined to go to Metebelis Three fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stewart Bevan
Stewart John Llewellyn Bevan (10 March 1948 – 20 February 2022) was a British actor, best known for his performances in both film and television. His extensive career includes the films '' Brannigan'' (1975), '' The Ghoul'' (1975), ''House of Mortal Sin'' (1976), ''Ivanhoe'' (1982), ''Chromophobia'' (2005) and ''The Scouting Book for Boys'' (2009) while on television, he played Clifford Jones in ''Doctor Who'' (1973) and Ray Oswell in ''Emmerdale'' (1977). Early life Bevan was born into a Welsh family, his parents being Ray Bevan and wife Gwen. He spent his early years in Southall, Middlesex. After leaving school at the age of 15, he became a young manager in Pierre Cardin's menswear shop. At around this time he met the first love of his life Jackie, at the local Youth Club who encouraged him to join the local Amateur Dramatics society. Bevan participated in a festival at The Questors Theatre where he won an award for Best Actor. Shortly after this he decided to enrol at the C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
