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Post by mark687 on Mar 4, 2021 15:37:53 GMT
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Post by dannybl on Mar 4, 2021 15:41:25 GMT
As announced on BBC's The One Show!
The first Big Finish release revealed on national television?
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Post by mark687 on Mar 4, 2021 15:51:32 GMT
As announced on BBC's The One Show! The first Big Finish release revealed on national television? Yes Regards mark687 |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2021 16:06:17 GMT
Colin Baker, Bonnie Langford, Scott Handcock and RTD? Together? Count me in!
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Post by number13 on Mar 4, 2021 16:11:31 GMT
This is quite the event announcement isn't it? RTD+BF! And I'm also looking forward to more Sixie+solo Mel, we don't hear anywhere nearly enough from that team imo.
(Spare a thought today for of all those other 1980s 'Doctor Who' fan-fiction scripts sitting in attics around the world, weeping over their typos at this news and wailing ' why not me?'  ) |
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Post by grinch on Mar 4, 2021 16:35:10 GMT
I can only presume this’ll be on list of the best selling releases of 2021 alongside such others as Masterful, Dalek Universe and the first volume of the Ninth Doctor Adventures.
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Post by constonks on Mar 4, 2021 18:03:51 GMT
(Spare a thought today for of all those other 1980s 'Doctor Who' fan-fiction scripts sitting in attics around the world, weeping over their typos at this news and wailing ' why not me?' ) C'mon, Moffat, we know you've got at least one stashed away... |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2021 18:44:53 GMT
No release date or am i missing somthing?
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Post by cwm on Mar 4, 2021 19:01:05 GMT
It's not yet been recorded, going by some comments by Scott, Colin and Bonnie on Twitter, which is probably why there isn't a release date.
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Mar 4, 2021 19:16:07 GMT
Kind of a big freaking deal.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2021 19:33:46 GMT
I've got to say, I love the Lost Stories. Every time it feels as though the range has reached the end of its natural lifespan something pops out of the woodwork to surprise. A 1986 Sixth Doctor and Mel story from the mind of Russell T. Davies and co-authored by Scott Handcock... I just keep turning each part of that sentence around in my head. Pretty cool for a multitude of reasons. They've become a favourite duo over the years, the errant Time Lord and his Pease Pottage programmer, for what Big Finish have been able to do with them. Their adventures feel like glimpsing into an archetypal duo that never was. I think The Mind of the Hodiac will be something like the tenth release for old Sixie and Mel ( *waggles fingers* two seasons). |
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Post by doctorkernow on Mar 4, 2021 19:38:21 GMT
This is quite the event announcement isn't it? RTD+BF! And I'm also looking forward to more Sixie+solo Mel, we don't hear anywhere nearly enough from that team imo.
(Spare a thought today for of all those other 1980s 'Doctor Who' fan-fiction scripts sitting in attics around the world, weeping over their typos at this news and wailing ' why not me?' ) Hello again.
Funny you should say that Number13... I think I still have the standard rejection slip from the Doctor Who production office around 1988. I was about 15 and sent in one episode and synopsis, probably really badly typed on my Grandad's old Royal typewriter. I'm pretty sure the script got lost in a move but it was a Seventh Doctor and Ace story entitled 'Deathbell'. Unlike RTD's it was pretty bad, I find script-writing really difficult so I've never attempted another. I did look at the BBC Writer's Room but I just can't get my head around the discipline.
I'm pleased it's Six Doctor and Mel, every Paul Spragg entry I've submitted has been Sixth Doctor and Mel, I will be very interested to see RTD's take on this pairing. So, not really wailing, I'm pleased to see RTD working with Big Finish and hope he is tempted to do more.
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Post by The Brigadier on Mar 4, 2021 19:44:48 GMT
Way too soon to be thinking about placing a pre-order right now when all we know is the title..but a lost RTD story featuring Sixie and Mel? My debit card stands poised and ready to leap into action the minute the story details and a release date are..ummm..released..
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Post by relativetime on Mar 4, 2021 21:06:19 GMT
Sixie and Mel! And written by RTD too! Ooh, this is too good to pass up! Definitely sounding like a must have for me!
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Post by redsharkJason on Mar 4, 2021 21:35:28 GMT
No release date or am i missing somthing? Some other interesting takeaways that can be noted is that it doesn’t have a BF Lost Story release number, its 100-minute duration is shorter than most of its recent 2-disc peers and this script probably wasn’t even officially submitted to be televised. I do hope that Hodiac does eventually get a LS release number. My indexing OCD isn’t a fan of Big Finish not numbering their products when warranted. For example - The Tenth Doctor and River Song box set and its 3 individual story releases do not have any numbering on their CD boxes, which I find aggravating!  As for the possibility of this story being a shorter one in length...that's fine, quality over quantity and it gives the opportunity for the extra space to accommodate even more retrospective interviews (perhaps if we’re lucky with Russell T. Davies). Reading the BF news article Russell did imply that his found script had only 1 original copy, so it does seem likely that it wasn’t submitted to be produced. A story like Yellow Fever and How to cure It is more commonly known to fans that it was scheduled at one point to be recorded. On the bright side, Mind of the Hodiac wouldn’t have ever been rejected (?), so it could very well be a masterpiece! |
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Post by cwm on Mar 4, 2021 22:04:45 GMT
No release date or am i missing somthing? Some other interesting takeaways that can be noted is that it doesn’t have a BF Lost Story release number, its 100-minute duration is shorter than most of its recent 2-disc peers and this script probably wasn’t even officially submitted to be televised. I do hope that Hodiac does eventually get a LS release number. My indexing OCD isn’t a fan of Big Finish not numbering their products when warranted. For example - The Tenth Doctor and River Song box set and its 3 individual story releases do not have any numbering on their CD boxes, which I find aggravating! As for the possibility of this story being a shorter one in length...that's fine, quality over quantity and it gives the opportunity for the extra space to accommodate even more retrospective interviews (perhaps if we’re lucky with Russell T. Davies). Reading the BF news article Russell did imply that his found script had only 1 original copy, so it does seem likely that it wasn’t submitted to be produced. A story like Yellow Fever and How to cure It is more commonly known to fans that it was scheduled at one point to be recorded. On the bright side, Mind of the Hodiac wouldn’t have ever been rejected (?), so it could very well be a masterpiece! "Yellow Fever" was, AFAIK, never scheduled to be recorded. BF have always been very clear that there simply isn't enough surviving to justify an adaptation. (EDIT: Sorry, just realised I probably misinterpreted your post, but it's not unprecedented for Lost Stories to be based on scripts that were never intended for production -- "The Fragile Yellow Arc of Fragrance", for one) |
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Post by redsharkJason on Mar 4, 2021 22:25:31 GMT
Some other interesting takeaways that can be noted is that it doesn’t have a BF Lost Story release number, its 100-minute duration is shorter than most of its recent 2-disc peers and this script probably wasn’t even officially submitted to be televised. I do hope that Hodiac does eventually get a LS release number. My indexing OCD isn’t a fan of Big Finish not numbering their products when warranted. For example - The Tenth Doctor and River Song box set and its 3 individual story releases do not have any numbering on their CD boxes, which I find aggravating! As for the possibility of this story being a shorter one in length...that's fine, quality over quantity and it gives the opportunity for the extra space to accommodate even more retrospective interviews (perhaps if we’re lucky with Russell T. Davies). Reading the BF news article Russell did imply that his found script had only 1 original copy, so it does seem likely that it wasn’t submitted to be produced. A story like Yellow Fever and How to cure It is more commonly known to fans that it was scheduled at one point to be recorded. On the bright side, Mind of the Hodiac wouldn’t have ever been rejected (?), so it could very well be a masterpiece! "Yellow Fever" was, AFAIK, never scheduled to be recorded. BF have always been very clear that there simply isn't enough surviving to justify an adaptation. (EDIT: Sorry, just realised I probably misinterpreted your post, but it's not unprecedented for Lost Stories to be based on scripts that were never intended for production -- "The Fragile Yellow Arc of Fragrance", for one) The more that I think about it the Mind of the Hodiac must have in some form been rejected as well, because Davies wouldn’t have written it for his shits and giggles amusement. Edit for additional thoughts - I do much prefer the Lost Stories whenever possible to be based on the scripts that we possibly missed out on seeing on television. As you were aware, Yellow Fever was scheduled for Season 23 and as you said, it doesn’t have enough script for it to be (as far as we know) a Big Finish produced Lost Story. |
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Post by number13 on Mar 4, 2021 23:14:57 GMT
(Spare a thought today for of all those other 1980s 'Doctor Who' fan-fiction scripts sitting in attics around the world, weeping over their typos at this news and wailing ' why not me?' ) C'mon, Moffat, we know you've got at least one stashed away... That's more or less what I was thinking... 
Strictly speaking this isn't a 'Lost Story' because (as we understand it) it was never even submitted to the BBC, so wouldn't it be fun if this was the first of an occasional series of stories originated by people who started out as fans and went on to become famous for their 'Doctor Who' work, behind or in front of the camera.
I'm sure many of them wrote stories or storylines just for fun in their younger days as super-keen sci-fi fans often do. I believe the Viyrans originally began their mission that way, and no doubt some other now-famous fans had stories or ideas which would be worth developing and would sell well, given their provenance. If BF put out the call among their many contacts, who knows what other treasures might turn up?
(Most of us never became famous fans but I sometimes think I'm the only 'Doctor Who' fan who didn't write a story at some time! Though I do have a storyline for the Third Doctor, Jo, UNIT and M.R. James...  ) |
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Post by grinch on Mar 4, 2021 23:52:34 GMT
C'mon, Moffat, we know you've got at least one stashed away... That's more or less what I was thinking...
Strictly speaking this isn't a 'Lost Story' because (as we understand it) it was never even submitted to the BBC, so wouldn't it be fun if this was the first of an occasional series of stories originated by people who started out as fans and went on to become famous for their 'Doctor Who' work, behind or in front of the camera.
I'm sure many of them wrote stories or storylines just for fun in their younger days as super-keen sci-fi fans often do. I believe the Viyrans originally began their mission that way, and no doubt some other now-famous fans had stories or ideas which would be worth developing and would sell well, given their provenance. If BF put out the call among their many contacts, who knows what other treasures might turn up?
(Most of us never became famous fans but I sometimes think I'm the only 'Doctor Who' fan who didn't write a story at some time! Though I do have a storyline for the Third Doctor, Jo, UNIT and M.R. James... ) It’s certainly an interesting idea at least. If only for the novelty of such treasures as you said. And c’mon number13, you just have to spill the beans when it comes to that M.R. James story idea. I presume it either focuses on his time as a medievalist scholar or him encountering something that could leapt from the pages of one of his stories? |
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Post by number13 on Mar 5, 2021 1:07:14 GMT
That's more or less what I was thinking...
Strictly speaking this isn't a 'Lost Story' because (as we understand it) it was never even submitted to the BBC, so wouldn't it be fun if this was the first of an occasional series of stories originated by people who started out as fans and went on to become famous for their 'Doctor Who' work, behind or in front of the camera.
I'm sure many of them wrote stories or storylines just for fun in their younger days as super-keen sci-fi fans often do. I believe the Viyrans originally began their mission that way, and no doubt some other now-famous fans had stories or ideas which would be worth developing and would sell well, given their provenance. If BF put out the call among their many contacts, who knows what other treasures might turn up?
(Most of us never became famous fans but I sometimes think I'm the only 'Doctor Who' fan who didn't write a story at some time! Though I do have a storyline for the Third Doctor, Jo, UNIT and M.R. James... ) It’s certainly an interesting idea at least. If only for the novelty of such treasures as you said. And c’mon number13, you just have to spill the beans when it comes to that M.R. James story idea. I presume it either focuses on his time as a medievalist scholar or him encountering something that could leapt from the pages of one of his stories? You are tempting me aren't you.
In very brief, the Brig. and UNIT are called in when something turns up to derail a vital defence project near the coast of East Anglia. And for reasons which become obvious, the Doctor decides the expert to consult is definitely - very definitely - M.R. James during his Cambridge years. Of course, being more than 60 years out of time is, for the Doctor, the merest detail...
(This story would take place during season 10 by which time the TARDIS is being fairly reliable - or so it seems - and they do make it to pre-WWI Cambridge and back again... that's the least of their worries...)
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