An image from production of The Daleks showing William Hartnell, Carole Ann Ford and William Russell, playing Dr Who, Susan and Ian Chesterton, respectively, confronted by three Daleks in their metallic city on Skaro.

My book about the #DoctorWho story The Daleks (Serial B, whatever you like to call it) came out this week in Obverse Books’ Black Archive range. Here’s a short thread explaining what it covers, in the hope that it might interest a few of you. Link to buy the book and discount code at the end. (1/9)

Today’s Wordle was a lesson in early confidence ebbing away

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This will put a smile on your face 😂

@writersguildgb.bsky.social we need to go to work against this.

I suppose it’s useful if you want to check your phone during a meeting…

(From FT style section)

Sounds a good plan - and that’s still the best part of a 1000 words a week.

Baffling that they didn’t develop and provide software for this. “We need you to jump through hoops but we won’t provide the jumping shoes” or something…

Have you tried taking out all the vowels?

Sounds a great day! Congratulations!

The Brothers (1972) had Colin Baker, Kate O’Mara, Lisa Goddard and Richard Easton who all were in Doctor Who. Do I win a fiver?

Today’s Wordle is an eduction - again highlighting the difference between US and UK English. I’d never heard of this one…

For me, I got one from my website provider saying I still had 500 credits for AI creation. And that’s the way it’ll stay.

Sainsbury’s giving a burn to the acting profession

Glad you got tickets Ian and had a great time. I was on the waiting list’s waiting list I think (left it too late). Amazing to see those eps!

Sounds like an ideal day to me!

Aw lovely foreshadowing. Wish they’d included that. And it would have shown that the whole arc was planned (and not a reaction to the character ‘not working’).

At least no one threw away a cell phone after a bad call.

Pat Coombs was only 51 when she played a retired character in You’re Only Young Twice.

Sorry I don’t know the answer.

“Batman v Superman: Dawn of Martha” 😂😂😂

@googleworkspace.bsky.social emails are some of the worst customer communications I’ve seen. Full of unexplained terminology, repetitive text and confusing. I guess they’re written using AI.

Lovely spoiler-free review on Cultbox. Glad you liked it Ian.

Toploader’s song.

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A kid down the road convinced us that he had a life size Batmobile. We biked to the hangar where his parents kept it and saw a tarpaulin covered car. He wouldn’t let us look under the tarp, but we believed him.

That’s very kind of you. I’d like to say that the references to 83 pay off in a major way - but that one was just coincidence.

Unless Devis was monitoring Alice’s account and the number lodged in his head… 🤔

Thanks so much Matthew. Sorry to destroy you and hope it’s still a good listen second time around.

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Added anti-spam to the contact form on my website. Now I’m expecting a fall in the number of ‘your novel is breathtaking but let me market it’ submissions.

So glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for posting about it.