Superb. Congratulations Reecy!

Let's unbox the copies of my Eighth Doctor history book, Leap of Eighth - with a foreword by Paul McGann!

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(I'm based in the UK so the information within regards this side of the Pond unless otherwise specified)

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The photoshoot was arranged on the spur of the moment in Lanzarote. The story goes that the suit was borrowed from someone who worked at the hotel where the cast and crew were staying.

Cornelius (whom I've known since I was at Uni and he was putting out Razor) tipped Neil off that Bruce had a Doctor Who episode but wasn't sure which one. It was when Neil and I visited Bruce that we positively identified it. Cornelius deserves credit for giving Neil the lead to follow up.

That's hilarious! Neil Lambess and I were bemused to see Bruce on the Lottery Show given that we'd done all the leg work in terms of doing the detective work and arranging the film's return. Bruce, bless him, was completely oblivious to the fact he had a missing episode in his possession.

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In hindsight, no. But at that time I was uncritically absorbing as fact everything I read in DWM, because I had few other sources of information about the series.

Apparently, years later the Doctor Who production office was still receiving letters from fans asking what had happened to The Phoenix Rises story. That hoax pre-dated my exposure to DWM, but I was fooled by the colourised Tenth Planet Episode Four story for a few years.

My wedding anniversary is the same date as the broadcast of The Lion. I swear it's a coincidence!

I'm thrilled to have just uncovered a Doctor Who New Fact!

I now have the name of someone who appears on screen in an old story but has never been identified in any cast lists.

Can't say anymore as the story I'm currently researching hasn't been announced for release yet.

I wrote the production information text subtitles for most of the stories on the Doctor Who Season 21 blu-ray set. You can listen to me talking about my work on these stories here.

His trip to New Zealand in 1986 was to make Worzel Gummidge Downunder.

How many Cyber Leaders have you seen today?

Gambit recorded Feb 1979, Shada Nov 1979.

Details of Doctor Who on New Zealand television here: doctorwho.org.nz/archive/time...
There were usually 1-2 episodes screening each week from 1985-1990.

No credit for Mark Strickson!

Watching regular Star Trek usually does it for me.

So Louise Jameson would have us believe anyway!

Despite many reference works insisting otherwise!

Haining acknowledged various newspapers when he used them as the basis of date entries in the book. I wonder what his reason was for not according DWM the same courtesy.

We really need a Gravis figure.

See (hear) also American fan podcasts.

The second of two takes. The majority of this shot appears in the finished programme, cutting away just before the horse follows them through the gate.

That's certainly the case for me. I really liked Doctor Who and had been a viewer for about six years, but Destiny was when I became obsessed with the series' mythology and started collecting Targets triggered by a desire to find out what had happened in Genesis of the Daleks, a story I hadn't seen.

Australia fared considerably better than New Zealand. Many more stories here were either rejected because of an adult censor rating or not even purchased in the 1960s & 70s. But on the plus side, we did get to see both The Brain of Morbius and The Deadly Assassin when Australian TV didn't!

The New Zealand broadcasts weren't particularly well publicized so it's unlikely that Haining was aware of them. It was research into broadcast dates by Jon Preddle and myself around 1988-89 that brought this information to light.

Likewise! :)

Today's the anniversary of the day that Rochelle and I officially opened our shop, Retrospace Sci-Fi Collectibles, on Hurstmere Road, Takapuna, on Saturday 7 January 2012. Prior to that we'd been selling online and had stands at events for a few years. Still going strong all these years later!

Doctor Who: The Lion film can now, still with the markings it had at the time of its discovery. The "Sedang Cinema" label was stuck over the top of the 1960s NZBC sticker by film collector Bruce Grenville in 1998. Photos courtesy of the film can's current owner.

27 years ago today, my friend Neil and I visited a film collector to follow up a rumour that he possibly had a lost episode of Doctor Who. The rest is history.