Probic Vent Ood for thought

6Feb/120

Doctor Who Unbound: The Talons of Wang Chung

Old Doctors. New Dimensions. A series of blurry VHS stories outside of accepted Doctor Who continuity in situations that might have been, if only...

That's my version of Big Finish's Unbound series. First up, can the Doctor escape the deadly talons... of Wang Chung?

NB. I've just noticed that I'm not the first person to notice the similarity between Wang Chung ad Weng Chiang. But I am the the first person to spend 30 minutes fashioning what looks like a new Arial Rounded letter U out of an original letter O. So who's the real idiot here?

6Feb/122

Change my dear…

Probic Vent has regenerated. You might notice that the site looks different. Whether you regard this as a complete Tom or an utter Colin is rather moot, due to the lack of decent themes you can use on a self-hosted blog.

Here are some highlights you can expect over the coming year on the all-new Probic Vent:

  • An interview with Tom Baker (dependant on whether I can, by some miracle, make this happen - I calculate the chance of this happening as being in the low single figures.)

  • The Geek Clique tackling Season 3 of the new Doctor Who.

  • Preview of Nick Briggs' new Big Finish play, The Nick Briggs of the Daleks.

  • Increasingly anguished Caves and Twins reviews of the new series as I realise I don't really like Doctor Who any more.

  • Feverished, vaguely pitiful reporting of whatever 50th anniversary stuff is coming up.

  • The second episode of my review of The Prisoner episodes (at this rate I'll be finished by 2036).

  • My 54-part retrospective on the work of Christopher H Bidmead (currently seeking publisher).

  • Something about Blake's 7.

  • Something slagging of Murray Gold
  • NB. Here's a banner I was going to use. I'm not going to as it doesn't look as funny as I thought it would. Still, I think it's quite funny, so here you go:

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    1Feb/120

    Three Kinds of Shit

    If you ever wondered what it would look like if the Seventh Doctor machine-gunned Romana I to death, then look no further.

    This is from a film called Three Kinds of Heat, which featured Sylvester McCoy and Mary Tamm. Judging by this short clip it's surely the worst film ever made.