Voting Now Open for 2013 National TV Awards

     The 2013 National TV Awards have just opened up voting and none other than your favorite heroes have been nominated.

     Matt Smith is up for Drama Performance: Male; there are 28 other nominations in this category, which include Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman (Sherlock), Kevin Whately (Lewis) and Sir Kenneth Branagh (Wallander). The show itself has been nominated for the Drama category. Even though Doctor Who is up against roughly 35 other shows, our votes over here in the Big Blue Police Box, will always be for The Doctor and his companions!  takes place until Thursday 11th October. Up to four nominees from each of the categories with the most votes will then go forward to be included in the shortlist voting round (date to be announced).

'The Power of Three' Behind The Scenes

This is a behind the scenes look at 'The Power of Three'

Exclusive BBC America Season 7 Trailer

The seventh season of Doctor Who premiered September first, at 9pm/8c.

Watch this exclusive trailer to see look at just a snippet of what is yet to come!

Companions of the Fourth Doctor

Adric

John Benton

Sharon Davies

Tegan Jovanka

K9

(The robot dog... Not the human.)

Leela

Nyssa

Romana (1&2)

Liz Shaw

Sarah Jane Smith

Fenella Wibbsey

Mike Yates

Monster Bio #4

Wirrn

Origin: Andromeda

                                   

Doctor Encountered: Fourth

                                   

Description: Upright insect like creatures, with a lethal sting.

                                   

More Info: The Wirrn live in deep space, and travel to a planet to breed, and lay eggs inside of cattle. When the larvae emerge, they feed on the animal or "host" in which they were laid. 

Monster Bio #3

Peg Dolls

Origin: Georges Imagination

                                       

Doctor Encountered: Eleventh

                                      

Description: Giant dolls made of wood, wearing Edwardian dresses.

                                      

More Info: They were inside a dolls house, inside a wardrobe, banished there by a "child," George. In fact, George was no child, but alien Tenza child, who desperately wanted to fit into his human family. George would banish things to the wardrobe, if they frightened him. Including The Doctor, his dad, Alex, (including a doll house with the Peg Dolls inside). They were all later released when George realized that The Doctor was trying to help him, and that his parents loved him.

Monster Bio #2

The Rutan Host

Origin: Ruta 3
                                                             
Description: In their natural forms, the Rutans resemble large green jelly fish, with long ropy tentacles. They are amphibious and can cling 
to sheer vertical surfaces, with 
decent mobility out of the water. They can generate lethal electrical shocks, and seem to be able to absorb electrical energy, as sustinance.
                                                             

Mary Tamm Loses Her Last Great Battle

    We regret to say that the wonderful companion, Mary Tamm has passed. She played the Time Lord Romana, alongside the Fourth Doctor.

     "She was a darling companion and wonderfully witty and kind, i'm so sorry to hear of her death." Is what Tom Baker said when he heard of Mary Tamms death. She died in a hospital at age 62, following a hard battle against cancer.

     "She played stage parts of such range, parts that would take your breath away. She could play any role and do so wonderfully," commented Bary Langford, who was Mary's agent for 22 years.

     Upon hearing the news, Steven Moffat said, "I remember Mary Tamm's first appearance so vividly- the Ice Queen on the TARDIS. The Time Lady who thought The Doctor was HER companion. Perfectly brought to life by Mary, with such style and wit, you should have thought she could have kicked The Doctor out of the time machine and got on with the adventure herself. A generation of little girls threw away the idea of being an assistant, and decided to fly the TARDIS for themselves."

Monster Bio #1

The Sontarans

Origin: Planet Sontar
                                                             
Encountered Doctors: Second,
Third, Fourth, Sixth, Tenth, Eleventh
                                              
Description: Short, strong creatures
in humanoid form, with rounded,
potato like heads.
                                           

   The race of Sontarans, are extremely dedicated to total war, in fact, they were bred for war. They have been in a epic fight with the Rutan Host for millennia. They even tried to invade Gallifrey, the planet of the Time Lords. The Sontarans will attack any planet or person, if they feel it will give them a strategic advantage over their enemies.

     Their home world (Sontar) is a planet with high gravity,which explains somewhat, the Sontarans, stunted growth. The Sontarans reproduce by cloning. It takes them roughly four minutes to create around 1 million clones. Since they are all clones, all of them are identical. The Sontarans also have a great sense of honour, despite their ruthlessness and brutality.

     The Sontarans can be stunned by a blow to the probic vent. Which is a small hole in their armor at the base of their neck. They believe, because of this, that they always have to face their enemies in battle. Even if it means that they will die.

50 Years of Wibbley Wobbley, Timey Wimey, Stuff

50th Anniversary of The Doctor

      Most of us major Doctor Who fans, already know that we will be seeing the remaining 8 episodes of season 7 in 2013. But putting that to the side for a moment, we begin to ask, what will be happening for the 50th anniversary of our favorite show? In the latest episode of Doctor Who Magazine (DWM) Matt Smith confirms that there will be MULTIPLE specials for this shows 50th anniversary.

     Smith says that Stevens first anniversary episode is, "as brilliant and as mental as you'd expect from Steven." Smith also adds that when presented with the material for the next series, Steven Moffat asked him; "Are you ready to cry?"

     When pressed for more details, Smith replied with; "I know absolutely nothing that I can tell you."

    

 Doctor Who is being more officially recognized because The Royal Mail is coming out with a stamp to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who.

Companions of the fifth Doctor

The Fifth Doctors Companions

Abby

Adric

Antranak

Thomas Brewster

Ian Chesterton

Peri Brown

Maxwell Edison

Erimemushinteperem

(A princess from ancient Egypt)

Angus Goodman

Tegan Jovanka

Sir Justin

Kamelion

Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart

Nyssa

Vislor Turlough

Picture coming soon...

Angela Wisher

Companions of the Third Doctor

Liz Shaw

Jo Grant

Sarah Jane Smith

Check back soon for all of the Fourth Doctors companions!

The Five Doctors (1983)

     In this special episode the first five incarnations of The Doctor are thrust together on their home planet of Gallifrey. This happens because of a forbidden time scoop device. The Fourth Doctor finds himself trapped in the time vortex, but the others find themselves, together with a few of their old companions to help them out. And the Fifth Doctor and his companions are all in the "Death Zone".
     Here they face a Dalek, a Yeti, a Quicksilver Raston Warrior Robot, and numerous Cybermen. The Master also has an appearance in this episode. He is summoned by The High Council of Time lords to help The Doctor.
     It turns out that President Borusa is the mysterious operator of the time scoop device. He wants to use The Doctors to breach the defences of the Dark Tower (Rassilon's Tomb) so that he can enter there and claim immortality. When he does so though, he is condemned by Rassilon to external existance in the form of a living statue.
     At the end of this episode, Chancellor Flavia asks that the Doctor stays on Gallifrey to take up duties as Time Lord President. The Doctor gives Flavia full deputy powers until he returns, then leaves in his TARDIS.

The Dalek Invasion of Earth

Follow up on Susan

         How she came to leave The Doctor

     One of the most notable events of the 22nd century was the invasion of Earth and the Solar system by the Daleks in 2157. The resulting decade-long occupation of the Daleks was ended by the First Doctor and his companions, Susan, Ian Chesterton, and Barbara Wright. Susan fell in love here with David Campbell, ultimately marrying him and leaving behind her life aboard the TARDIS. They eventually had a son, Alex.

More on Susan Foreman

The First of Many

     The first Doctor had many companions. Although he had many, the first of which, Susan Foreman, was special. She was a Time Lord. She played in Doctor Who from 1963-1964. She played in the first season and two episodes of the second. She returned for the feature-length 20th anniversary episode The Five Doctors in 1983.

     As well as being a Time Lord, she was the doctors granddaughter. Susan and The Doctor had been traveling together for an unknown amount of time when they have to stop in London to make repairs on the TARDIS. The name Foreman was an alibi that she picked up from the owner of the junkyard that they stayed in while making repairs. The owners name was "I. M. Foreman".


     Susan eventually leaves The Doctor after The Dalek Invasion of Earth. During the events of that story, Susan falls in love with David Campbell, a young freedom fighter in the 22nd century. However, Susan felt that she has to stay with The Doctor and take care of him. The Doctor, realizing that Susan is now a grown woman and deserves a future away from him, locks her out of the TARDIS and leaves her in London to start her own life.

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Companions of the Second Doctor

Name: Jamie McCrimmon

Actor: Frazer Hines

Name: Victoria Waterfield

Actress: Deborah Watling

Name: Zoe Heriot

Actress: Wendy Padbury

Check back soon for all of the third Doctors companions!

Companions of the First Doctor

Name: Susan Foreman

Actress: Carole Ann Ford

Name: Barbara Wright

Actress: Jacqueline Hill

Name: Ian Chesterton

Actor: William Russell

Name: Vicki

Actress: Maureen O' Brien

Name: Steven Taylor

Actor: Peter Purves

Name: Katarina

Actress: Adrienne Hill

Name: Sara Kingdom

Actress: Jean Marsh

Name: Dorothea Chaplet (Dodo)

Actress: Jackie Lane

Name: Ben Jackson

Actor: Michael Craze

Name: Polly

Actress: Anneke Wills

Check back soon for all of the second Doctors companions!