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[newmoonstar]

I think I'm going to have to have a mid-winter houseclean, because I need a more organized workspace for sewing. I've already got most of my cosplays planned out for next year's Doctor Who convention, and I'd like to get them done early so that I don't end up finishing last minute sewing in my hotel room all night during the con again

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[lost_spook]

It's rather amusing to pick out actors who have been in other Doctor Who stories and play the 'where do I know them from?' game.

If you watch almost any British TV and get into this, it becomes a neverending source of amusement. All the typecasting (oh, look, David Collings breaking down again; Peter Jeffrey is always evil, why are you trusting him?), random coincidences (I've seen two actors play three different variations on being related by marriage in different ways within the space of about 4 years in real time) and the directors who really love that actor. Sometimes the TV is entertaining, too, of course. And I do hope you'll be inspired to more dw_allsorts fanworks, for purely selfish reasons, because the world can always use more good Ian & Barbara.

[newmoonstar]

I'm a massive British TV nerd, and playing the 'where do I know them from?' game is one of the best parts! Golden Age whodunnits are especially good for that, since they have huge casts and everyone seems to have been in one at some point. And generally I find British TV is less about type-casting than American TV actually, which I like. There was a really fun mystery series with Diana Rigg as a 1920s detective and my mum and I were totally shocked that Peter Davison turned out to be the killer in one of them. You'd never suspect Peter Davison would be cast as a baddie! It's nice when they do that because then you haven't figured it out just based on casting alone, which would defeat the point of watching a mystery

[lost_spook]

Ha, Peter had a whole run of being cast as baddies - he did this brief turn in a drama as a headteacher who lost it and all the casting directors seemed to sudddenly draw in breath and go, ooh, look, Peter Davison does evil - and so he did quite a bit for a while. And, yes, they do like having the unlikely person as the baddie, too, though. (He was the murderer in a 1980s Agatha Christie, too

[newmoonstar]

Well, during my childhood I'd seen Peter Davison as Albert Campion and the Doctor, so he was pretty firmly established in good guy roles in my mind. Back in the day the only British TV we could get here in the US was what aired on PBS, so there wasn't the variety to choose from that we have now, now that so many things are available on DVD. As soon as I got my first DVD player the first thing I did was raid the public library for every British period drama I could find, and I've never really stopped! I don't really watch much current TV, so I'm usually alone geeking out over whatever old show I'm binge watching. Watching Classic Who has been really amazing because it's the first old British show I've watched where there's a huge fandom and other people to talk to about it! I've kind of neglected other shows because there's just SO MUCH of Classic Who to get through, but there's still a few titles on my list that I haven't crossed off just yet