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White Guardian
The White Guardian is a character in the long-running British science fiction television series '' Doctor Who''. He was played by Cyril Luckham, with the exception of a vocal message in '' The Stones of Blood'' which was performed by Gerald Cross. The White Guardian is an anthropomorphic personification of order and the counterpart of the Black Guardian who represents evil, chaos and entropy. The two Guardians balance out the forces in the universe, although the Black Guardian seems to desire to upset the balance in favour of chaos and evil while the White Guardian prefers to maintain the status quo. The Guardians both appeared in Season 16 of the programme, where all six serials of that season were linked together in the quest for the Key to Time, an artifact of immense power that would give the wielder supreme power over all existence. The White Guardian had concerns that the universe was descending into chaos. As a result, he asked the Doctor to find and assemble the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doctor Who
''Doctor Who'' is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The series depicts the adventures of a Time Lord called the Doctor, an extraterrestrial being who appears to be human. The Doctor explores the universe in a time-travelling space ship called the TARDIS. The TARDIS exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. With various companions, the Doctor combats foes, works to save civilisations, and helps people in need. Beginning with William Hartnell, thirteen actors have headlined the series as the Doctor; in 2017, Jodie Whittaker became the first woman to officially play the role on television. The transition from one actor to another is written into the plot of the series with the concept of regeneration into a new incarnation, a plot device in which a Time Lord "transforms" into a new body when the current one is too badly harmed to heal normally. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solar Sail
Solar sails (also known as light sails and photon sails) are a method of spacecraft propulsion using radiation pressure exerted by sunlight on large mirrors. A number of spaceflight missions to test solar propulsion and navigation have been proposed since the 1980s. The first spacecraft to make use of the technology was IKAROS, launched in 2010. A useful analogy to solar sailing may be a sailing boat; the light exerting a force on the mirrors is akin to a sail being blown by the wind. High-energy laser beams could be used as an alternative light source to exert much greater force than would be possible using sunlight, a concept known as beam sailing. Solar sail craft offer the possibility of low-cost operations combined with long operating lifetimes. Since they have few moving parts and use no propellant, they can potentially be used numerous times for delivery of payloads. Solar sails use a phenomenon that has a proven, measured effect on astrodynamics. Solar pressure aff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Chaos Pool
''The Chaos Pool'' is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. Plot Chaos and Order, old friends and old enemies and beginning and end of time come head to head at the conclusion of the search for The Key to Time. Cast * The Doctor – Peter Davison *Amy – Ciara Janson *Zara – Laura Doddington *Astra of Atrios / Romana – Lalla Ward * The Black Guardian – David Troughton * The White Guardian – Jason Watkins (uncredited) *Captain Pargrave – Ben Jones *Commander Hectocot – Toby Longworth Toby Longworth is a British actor who has appeared on film, radio and television. He is originally from Somerset, where he attended King Edward's School, Bath. He has worked most often as a voice actor, however, notably in several science-fictio ... *The Voice – Cate Hamer External linksBig Finish – ''The Chaos Pool'' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Destroyer Of Delights
''The Destroyer of Delights'' is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series '' Doctor Who''. Plot The search for The Key to Time brings the Doctor to 9th century Sudan, where he meets a treasure-hoarding Djinni. Cast * The Doctor – Peter Davison * Amy – Ciara Janson * The Black Guardian/ Lord Cassim – David Troughton David Troughton (born 9 June 1950) is an English actor. He is known for his Shakespearean roles on the British stage and for his many roles on British television, including Dr Bob Buzzard in ''A Very Peculiar Practice'' and Ricky Hanson in ''Ne ... *Legate of the Caliph – Jason Watkins *Nisrin – Jess Robinson *Prince Omar – Bryan Pilkington *Hassan – Paul Chahidi *The Djinni – Will Barton *The Vizier – David Peart External linksBig Finish – ''The Destroyer of Delights'' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Drama
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 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 museums, as w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Finish Productions
Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces books and audio plays (released straight to compact disc and for download in MP3 and m4b format) based, primarily, on cult science fiction properties. These include ''Doctor Who'', the characters Judge Dredd and Strontium Dog from '' 2000 AD'', '' Blake's 7'', '' Dark Shadows'', ''Dracula'', '' Terrahawks'', '' Sapphire & Steel'', ''Sherlock Holmes'', ''Stargate'', ''The Avengers'', '' The Prisoner'', '' Timeslip'' and '' Torchwood''. History Founded in 1996, Big Finish in late 1998 began releasing audio plays adapted from the New Adventures, a series of novels from Virgin Books which had originally been licensed ''Doctor Who'' stories, but by then had become officially independent from the show and were based around the character of Bernice "Benny" Summerfield. In 1999, Big Finish obtained a non-exclusive licence to produce official ''Doctor Who'' plays, beginning with the multi-Doctor story '' The Sirens of Time' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celestial Toymaker
The Celestial Toymaker is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series, '' Doctor Who''. He was played by Michael Gough, and featured in the 1966 story ''The Celestial Toymaker'' by Brian Hayles. Character overview The Toymaker is immortal, having already lived for millions of years. Having been cast out from an alternative universe, he obeys a different set of physical laws. The years of isolation have driven him mad, and he seeks distraction in the playing of games. If the Toymaker loses a game, his world is destroyed (although he is powerful enough to rebuild it). If a contestant loses, he is added to the game as a toy, and if he wins, he is destroyed with the world. Either way, the contestant cannot win; the reward for both failure and success is the same: eternal existence at the Toymaker's side. The Toymaker is manipulative and can turn people, as the First Doctor comments, "into his playthings". As he demonstrates, he is a being ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Russell
Gary Russell (born 18 September 1963) is a British freelance writer, producer and former child actor. As a writer, he is best known for his work in connection with the television series '' Doctor Who'' and its spin-offs in other media. As an actor, he is best known for playing Dick Kirrin in the British 1978 television series '' The Famous Five''. Biography Russell was born in Maidenhead, Berkshire. His on-screen acting career included leading roles in the BBC's adaptation of E. Nesbit's novel '' The Phoenix and the Carpet'' as Cyril, ITV's adaptations of Enid Blyton's Famous Five novels (as Dick) and the BBC's ''Look & Read'' schools series, playing Lord Edward Dark in ''Dark Towers''. He also spent seasons performing with Prospect Theatre Company and the Royal National Theatre. He has written guide books, under the pseudonym Warren Martyn, to '' Frasier'' and ''The Simpsons'' for Virgin Publishing. He was editor of ''Doctor Who Magazine'' between 1992 and 1995. He wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Divided Loyalties (Doctor Who)
''Divided Loyalties'' is a BBC Books original novel written by Gary Russell and based on the long-running British science fiction television series '' Doctor Who''. It features the Fifth Doctor, Tegan Jovanka, Nyssa, Adric and the Celestial Toymaker. The book is divided into four rounds, each named after the title of an Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) are an English electronic band formed in Wirral, Merseyside, in 1978. The group consists of co-founders Andy McCluskey (vocals, bass guitar) and Paul Humphreys (keyboards, vocals), along with Martin ... song, as well as all the chapters within each round. Premise The Doctor dreams about a familiar voice calling to him for help, and awakens to find that the TARDIS has materialized aboard an Earth space station orbiting the planet Dymok. The Dymova have cut themselves off from the rest of the galaxy, and refuse to communicate with anyone beyond their planet apart from a repeat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Power (social And Political)
In social science and politics, power is the social production of an effect that determines the capacities, actions, beliefs, or conduct of actors. Power does not exclusively refer to the threat or use of force ( coercion) by one actor against another, but may also be exerted through diffuse means (such as institutions). Power may also take structural forms, as it orders actors in relation to one another (such as distinguishing between a master and a slave), and discursive forms, as categories and language may lend legitimacy to some behaviors and groups over others. The term '' authority'' is often used for power that is perceived as legitimate or socially approved by the social structure. Power can be seen as evil or unjust; however, power can also be seen as good and as something inherited or given for exercising humanistic objectives that will help, move, and empower others as well. Scholars have distinguished between soft power and hard power. Theories Five b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Quantum Archangel
''The Quantum Archangel'' is a BBC Books original novel written by Craig Hinton and based on the long-running British science fiction television series '' Doctor Who''. It features the Sixth Doctor and Mel, the Master, and an appearance by an alternate version of the Third Doctor The Third Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the BBC science fiction television series '' Doctor Who''. He was portrayed by actor Jon Pertwee. Within the series' narrative, the Doctor is a centuries-old alien Time Lor .... Plot The Doctor and Mel must work through personal problems in order to defeat Kronos, a powerful being seeking revenge on the Master. Continuity * The story is a sequel to the 1972 television serial '' The Time Monster''. * The Master and the Doctor are the only Time Lords who have survived a time ram. * Previous to this book, the Doctor and Mel have fought the Daleks, the Nestenes, rogue Bandrils from Timelash, and the Quarks from The Dominators. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doctor Who Spin-offs
''Doctor Who'' spin-offs refers to material created outside of, but related to, the long-running British science fiction on television, science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. Both during the main run of the series from 1963 to 1989 and after its cancellation, numerous novels, comic strips, comic books and other material were generated based on the characters and situations introduced in the show. These spin-offs continued to be produced even without a television series to support them and helped keep the show alive in the minds of its fans and the public until the programme was revived in 2005. This entry mainly concentrates on "official" spin-offs, that is to say, material sanctioned by the British Broadcasting Corporation, which produces the series, as well as material sanctioned by the copyright holders of characters from the series. One aspect of ''Doctor Who'' spin-offs which makes them different from many spin-offs from other science fiction Media franchise, fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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