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nwhyte

The Tenth Planet

Jul 19, 2006 23:35

I know, I know, I said I was finished with the First Doctor a while back, and today a whole load of Second Doctor goodies arrived for me from Amazon - audio versions of The Power of the Daleks, The Evil of the Daleks, The Abominable Snowmen/The Web of Fear, The Ice Warriors, and Fury from the Deep, and also the DVD of Tomb of the Cybermen. But my ( Read more... )

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shsilver July 19 2006, 21:50:10 UTC

It is interesting to note an obit I posted yesterday in light of your most recent Dr. viewing:

Actor Peter Hawkins (b.1924) died on July 8. Hawkins was aboard the HMS Limbourne when it sank in 1943, but survived. In the 1960s, he created the voice of the Daleks in “Doctor Who,” most noted for the phrase “Exterminate,” as well as providing the voice for the Cybermen. He appeared on screen on the show “Dave Allen at Large,” as well as in numerous other television shows and films.

nwhyte July 20 2006, 06:55:41 UTC

Yes, I noticed that in WikiPedia, which is where I tend to get my obituary news these days...

pgmcc July 20 2006, 14:29:45 UTC

Thanks for that bit of information. Its amazing how something like the Daleks' voice that is familiar to thousands, nay, millions of people, has its origin with someone whose name few people would know.

I have added the SF website to my favourite list now.

wwhyte July 19 2006, 22:14:53 UTC

Thanks for the link to all the regenerations. As you say, it's not technically a regeneration, but I love the bit when the central Patrick Troughton face disappears. Shame the Jon Pertwee/Tom Baker one is so lame...

nwhyte July 20 2006, 06:58:04 UTC

I really think the Hartnell/Troughton change is better done than any other during the first run of the series. For Tom Baker and Peter Davison's departures you did have the gimmick of the past companions' (and villains') voices, which was fun, but the visuals didn't really match - overdone for 4th/5th doctor, underdone for 5th/6th.

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nwhyte July 20 2006, 06:59:14 UTC

As shsilver notes above, they were done by the same team who did the Daleks, and it does show. But I found them at least as comprehensible as the 2006 Cybermen, and they sound as if they are in discomfort doe to their cybernetic adaptations.

tanngrisnir July 20 2006, 08:26:59 UTC

As I recall, the voices of the Cyberman in The Tenth Planet aimed to imitate then-current experiments with computer speech synthesis, which I gather basically involved taken recordings of syllables and mixing them together as needed to make words. I found them quite unsettling.

tanngrisnir July 20 2006, 08:34:08 UTC

which nobody can recognise through a telescope?? (Except Polly???)

It is a while since I watched this, but I thought that when she looks at it and recognises the land masses, this was the first clear view people had had of Mondas?

the mind-set of the 1966 viewer for whom there had only been one Doctor, and suddenly we were in a whole new situation - a feeling of both bereavement and renewal.

I remember that transition well. It was a shock. Hartnell was the Doctor, and then he was gone and there was this strange wee guy in his place. There was no immediate sense of renewal, and I wonder if the production team had not had the sense to make Troughton's first story a Dalek one would the audience have kept watching? Certainly I hated Troughton's Doctor for some weeks, he was an imposter and I wanted Hartnell back, but I wasn't going to miss a Dalek story. By the end of Power of the Daleks, I had been won over by Troughton. The transition could so easily have been a disaster ( ... )

pgmcc July 20 2006, 14:26:17 UTC

Once again you transfer me back 30 years. I remember that first change of Doctor and it was traumatic. Took a while to get used to.