DIDDLY DUM PODCAST 177 – Pat Troughton

We finally present the result of our poll of listeners’ Top 5 Fave Pat Troughton stories as part of our retrospective of the Second Doctor era.

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SHOWNOTES

(00:01:15) “Vworp Vworp”, possibly the finest Doctor Who fan magazine ever, can be ordered here.

(00:01:25) Vesuvius was a robot character in “The Iron Legion”, a Fourth Doctor comic strip published in the first 8 issues of “Doctor Who Weekly”. A model of Vesuvius has recently been made by Phil Stevens which can be seen here.

(00:02:13) In 1988 Bluebird Toys UK released ‘Doctor Who in the Domain of the Daleks’. This playset was the shape of a Dalek and when opened it became the Dalek Headquarters. It contained a TARDIS with doors opening outwards and inside you could see the console room, a silver Dalek (with a ball bearing in its base) the 4th Doctor and at the top the Emperor Dalek. You could push back the front of the Emperor Dalek’s dome to reveal Davros (as seen in ‘Remembrance of the Daleks’ 1988).

(00:03:40) “War of the Daleks” was a board game released by Denys Fisher in 1975. Photos can be found on our Tumblr page here. The TV advert from the time for the game can be seen here.

(00:07:35) Danbury Mint issued a Doctor Who themed chess set in 1994. Photos can be found on our Tumblr page here. The pieces can be found listed here.

(00:07:40) “Doctor Who: The Game of Time and Space” was released in 1980. See photos on our Tumblr page here.

(00:09:55) Trextasy is a T-Rex tribute band. Photos of the gig Hayden took his mum to on her birthday can be seen on our Tumblr page here.

(00:11:20) “The Doctor Who Years^“ was a streaming video, charting the history of Doctor Who on BBCi’s official Doctor Who website, where it is no longer available for viewing. It was produced to coincide with the return of the series to BBC Television screens in 2005, and was intended to present a potted history of the original Doctor Who series, broadcast between 1963–1989, in a manner which would be entertaining to new viewers, unfamiliar with the original series. The video was presented in three parts, The Sixties, The Seventies and The Eighties and featured material from every Doctor Who serial, presented chronologically and accompanied by narrative text and pop music that h...