Post by fitzoliverj on Jun 22, 2024 9:31:17 GMT
Thursday we had "Pyramids of Mars", Saturday we had "Empire of Death", but on Friday we had "Professor Y".
"Sister Boniface Mysteries", the less-than-serious and not-very-good "Father Brown" spinoff on Drama (soon to be renamed "U-and-Drama" for no very good reason) has got into the habit of doing parodies of well-known series. There was an episode where a "Blue Peter"-type series was filmed in the village, an episode where an Ian Fleming-adjacent author was trying to cast a James Bond-esque movie role, and this week they hold a Doctor Who convention. Excuse me, a Professor X convention. No, it wasn't even that, it was "Professor Y".
"Professor Y" is a tv series that, by whatever stage in the 1960s "Sister Boniface Mysteries" is set, has been cancelled but fans keep the spirit alive and are campaigning for it to be brought back. The police inspector and one of the nuns are big fans. Anyway, the clips of the series they show are actually not all that bad - certainly much less silly and far more credible than, say, Inspector Spacetime. Mark Heap was cast as the actor who played the Professor, and while his performance is perhaps closer to nuWho than 1960s DW, it's not that bad. And the Dalek-type creatures look fairly good for Dalek-type creatures. The voice actor isn't Nick Briggs but I thought was trying to sound like him.
Anyway, it gave us three days of DW in a row, sort of.