Showing posts with label Articles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Articles. Show all posts

Thursday, 16 January 2025

The Next Life — Behind the Scenes

Alex Lewczuk interviews Chrisi Pashley, Alan Stevens, and guest star Sasha Mitchell on the subjects of Blake's 7, voice coaching insights, and exciting future projects. Running time: 48 minutes aprox.

Click link here.


Download and explore these free Blake's 7 audios::

Prelude
I,Travis
Gothic
Travis:The Final Line
You Fly, You Die
Scars
Premature Burial

The Next Life

Sunday, 7 May 2023

KING OF THE DALEKS!

 New on the Articles Page, Genocide of the Daleks by Alan Stevens. The highly regarded Doctor Who Magazine comic strip, Emperor of the Daleks!, is widely recognised as a classic -- but few realise how much it draws on, and adds to, the series itself. Alan Stevens forensically explores what it all means for the Daleks, and for the Doctor!

Tuesday, 10 January 2023

A Tribute to Chris Boucher

 

Following the sad news of Chris Boucher's death last month, we bring you Alan Stevens' touching tribute to the modest and ascerbic man behind so many of the things that made Kaldor City what it is. We all miss Chris very much.

Wednesday, 14 December 2022

Twins of Evil: 50 Things About "The Twin Dilemma"

Continuing our tradition of, during the festive season, reviewing the Doctor Who stories which are the wildest, weirdest and most outrageous in the series, we give you 40 Stupid Things About "The Twin Dilemma" (and 10 Cool Ones). There's even a direct festive connection: read on to learn which Doctor Who villain very nearly wound up being named "Aslan".

Sunday, 23 October 2022

Another free issue of Celestial Toyroom!

Continuing our ongoing tradition of sharing complete free PDF editions of Doctor Who Appreciation Society magazine Celestial Toyroom with Magic Bullet fans, this month we provide copies of Issue #520/1 free to download! With items on Barry Letts and the Classic Serials, BBV audio, Cool Things... The Time Monster, a major feature on the making of Kaldor City, and more Dalek articles than you can shake a sink plunger at, this publication has something for everyone! Download it from the Articles Page.

Thursday, 22 September 2022

Finding The Hidden Factor

New on our Articles page, "The Hidden Factor"! In light of the recent release of the animated "The Evil of the Daleks", Alan Stevens has some exciting insights into time travel and the bootstrap paradox. Follow along and gain a new appreciation for a classic story!

Friday, 8 July 2022

New Celestial Toyroom about to drop!

Celestial Toyroom issue 531/2 is now at the printers. 

Contents include: 

Vincent and the Black Archive 
Retro Effects 
Cool Things - Revelation of the Daleks 
Come Visit Skaro: The Greatest Planet in the Universe 
Tracking the Timelines 
Lost in the Dark Dimension 
Psychologies, Paradigms and the Phantom Nature of Continuity 
Space Mountain and Other Conventions 
The Witch's Familiar: Cats in Doctor Who 
Wrap Around Cover 

The magazine also includes a free postcard in our ongoing series and a fresh new look for the interior. This issue's editor is Alan Stevens Visit the CT pages at our website here: http://www.dwasonline.co.uk/node/1508



Sunday, 12 June 2022

Filmed in Glorious Cromer-Key

 New article up on the site: "28 Stupid Things about The Three Doctors (and 22 Cool Ones)". In the year of the BBC's 100th anniversary we take on Doctor Who's 10th anniversary story, featuring not-so-secret organisations, metatextual jokes and the most evil Time Lord to ever feature in the series!

Sunday, 6 February 2022

Yes, but it's not the *real* Minotaur...

New on the site: 33 Cool Things About "The Mind Robber" (and 17 Stupid Ones). Join us for the strangest story to ever feature the Master without actually featuring the Master!

Tuesday, 23 November 2021

Happy Anniversary! Free Celestial Toyroom download

 As a celebration of Doctor Who's 58th anniversary, we're making another issue of the Doctor Who Appreciation Society fanzine, Celestial Toyroom, available for free online. Click here to go to where you can download it in portrait or landscape format!


A Wheezing Groaning Sound!

 Looking for a way to celebrate Doctor Who Day? Why not buy a copy of the new issue of Vworp Vworp! Among the brilliant Doctor Who content are no less than three articles by our own Alan Stevens, mostly about Daleks! Click the link for more.


Sunday, 31 October 2021

The Wheel Turns

With the new season of the year, and the new season of Doctor Who, almost upon us, we present a revised, extended and re-developed version of our article on The Wheel in Space, with Ann Worrall contributing thoughtful insights into the society that produced Zoe Heriot, as featured in the recent Doctor Who Appreciation Society Annual!

Wednesday, 22 September 2021

Mind Yourself

 In these days of uncertainty, we're told mindfulness is important. Therefore, this month we bring you 28 Cool Things About "The Mind of Evil" (and 22 Stupid Ones): A review of a story in which the Master has a more successful time as an Earth exile than the Doctor, and we all learn many interesting facts about Chinese languages! 

Monday, 17 May 2021

Return to Power

Recently, we revisited, revised, and rewrote our article on "The Power of the Daleks" for publication in the Celestial Toyroom 2021 Annual, produced by the Doctor Who Appreciation Society. And we've now made this new version available on the website! If you haven't checked it out recently, click on the title to enjoy.

Wednesday, 24 March 2021

Celestial Toyroom #516 news!


Celestial Toyroom #516, edited by Alan Stevens, is now at the printers'. Preview the contents on the Doctor Who Appreciation Society website here!


Monday, 23 November 2020

Free The Robots!


By special arrangement with the Doctor Who Appreciation Society, we bring you a complete issue of their magazine Celestial Toyroom themed around "The Robots of Death" and Kaldor City, edited and written by Magic Bullet and friends. Right-click to download, or left-click to read in browser:

Celestial Toyroom 506 (portrait)
Celestial Toyroom 506 (landscape)

Tuesday, 6 October 2020

50 Things About "The Web of Fear"

Remember when the only thing we had to worry about was Yeti invasions and takeovers by sinister intelligences from beyond space? We do! Now for your reading pleasure, we have 36 Cool Things About "The Web of Fear" (and 14 Stupid Ones), where the Doctor joins the Underground movement and the Great Intelligence bypasses Victoria!


Tuesday, 4 August 2020

Celestial Toyroom #508/9

The next Celestial Toyroom is another Alan Stevens-edited spectacular, with plenty of interest to Magic Bullet Productions fans: a reminiscence about Peter Miles, a Cool Things... on The Magician's Apprentice/The Witch's Familiar, and an incisive article about why the Cybermen are less rational than they pretend to be! Check out the full contents here.


Sunday, 12 July 2020

Art History of the Daleks

New article this month: "Dalek Art" by Alan Stevens. Do the fascist mutants of the planet Skaro have an artistic side? Are they the ones behind the mysterious carvings on the planet Spiridon? And what is their strange connection with modern British sculptor Barbara Hepworth... and plagiarism-courting American artist Roy Lichtenstein?

Thursday, 2 July 2020

Vworp Vworp compendium now on sale


Missed out on early issues of the awesome Vworp Vworp! zine? No problem! Now you can order the collected, and expanded, Volumes One and Two direct from the source! Go to https://www.vworpvworp.co.uk/ to get yours.