Monday, January 21, 2013

BFI's Doctor Who at 50

Hi all!

I have just stumbled upon this neat article from the Radio Times' website:

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-01-14/the-bfis-doctor-who-at-50

As part of the 50th anniversary celebrations, the British Film Institute (BFI) has launched Doctor Who at 50. Every month they’ll be holding a screening of a classic story - each month a different Doctor - and reuniting many luminaries from the world of Doctor Who.

The first screening was the very first serial, from 1963, "An Unearthly Child". Guests at the screening included William Russell and Carole Anne Ford, who played Ian Chesterton and Susan "Foreman" of the original TARDIS crew, and Waris Hussein, the director of the serial. (I have put Foreman in quotation marks because Foreman was, so it would appear, a surname simply borrowed by Susan, who was of the Doctor's own race, so she could enroll at the local school. I.M. Foreman was the name on the gate of the junkyard in which we first see the TARDIS).

The Radio Times' Patrick Mulkern attended the event.

Apparently the February event is a screening of the Troughton classic "The Tomb of the Cybermen", a four part serial believed lost until recovered in 1992, and it looks as though it has already sold out!

I have also found this, a great piece of artwork depicting scenes from the very first episode: 

Artwork by Shawn Van Briesen: http://shawnvanbriesen.deviantart.com/
More soon,

Nick.

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