Welcome to Type40TT website for general sci fi discussion.
A group of like minded individuals have decided to start a general sci-fi community site. This site is by the people for the people. If you have an interest in sci-fi and would like to contribute, then please join the forums. The site will have a forum, reviews, articles and hopefully podcasts. We will also offer either a type40tt or zygons email address to the first 50 contributors.Series that we would like to cover are Doctor Who, Blakes 7, Torchwood, Star Trek, Red Dwarf, The Prisoner, infact any sci fi that you can think of!
The Doctor is gone, the TARDIS has been destroyed, and the universe is collapsing. The only hope for all reality is a little girl who still believes in stars.The Big Bang is a dramatic finale to the Eleventh Doctor's first incredible series.Discuss in the forum
The Doctor's friends unite to send him a terrible warning; the Pandorica - which is said to contain the most feared being in all the cosmos - is opening. But what's inside, and can the Doctor stop it?The Pandorica Opens is one of the most eagerly anticipated stories of the year - the dramatic season finale.Discuss in the forums
There's a house on Aickman road with a staircase that people go up, but never down... To solve the mystery of the man upstairs, the Doctor must pass himself off as a normal human being, and share a flat with Craig Owens.Discuss within the forum
The Doctor and Amy learn more about the art of terror in this new adventure where they meet Vincent Van Gogh!The TARDIS travels back in time but terror lurks in the cornfields of Provence and only a sad and lonely painter can see it... The Doctor and Amy join forces with Van Gogh but can the three of them defeat a powerful and deadly alien?Vincent and the Doctor was written by Richard Curtis and stars Matt Smith as the Doctor and Karen Gillan as Amy. It also stars Tony Curran and Bill Nighy and was directed by Jonny Campbell.
The Doctor battles to prevent an all out war between the Silurians and the humans. But as a potential apocalypse looms, the Doctor discovers an even more horrifying danger waits for him...
It's been five years since Amy Pond last travelled with the Doctor and when he lands in her garden again, on the eve of the birth of her first child, she finds herself facing a heartbreaking choice - one that will change her life for ever.Discuss it in the forum
Next series of Doctor Who to be split transmission
Written by Administrator
Saturday, 28 August 2010 00:00
The BBC and Steven Moffat have announced today that the transmission of the next series of Doctor Who, in 2011, will be split into two blocks, transmitting in spring and autumn.
The split transmission is the result of a request from Steven Moffat to write a new Doctor Who story arc which involves a big plot twist in the middle of the series. By splitting the series Moffat plans to give viewers one of the most exciting Doctor Who cliffhangers and plot twists ever, leaving them waiting, on the edge of their seats, until the autumn to find out what happens.
Steven Moffat said: "The split series is hugely exciting because viewers will be treated to two premieres, two finales and more event episodes. For the kids it will never be more than a few months to the next Doctor Who! Easter, Autumn, Christmas!!"
In the Big Finish production, The Lost Stories: The Nightmare Fair, Colin Baker's Doctor says he knew "a person who liked to knock down walls ... in Paris", a reference to Duggan.
This is a good story full of action and amazing special effects . Im sure there must be an adventure somewhere that ruins the cannon of this one with the Scaroth creating life on earth through the explosion.
I loved the scenes filmed at wookey hole doubling up as the earth 400-million years ago.
Duggan is an amazing character and should have had a spin off show called Duggan Strikes back , With him solving more art crimes with the cafe as his base and the two french men in the background as his sidekicks.
John Cleese pulled me out of it a bit and would rather an extra would be reviewing the Tardis as a piece of art.
Why did the Doctor park his Tardis so far away ?
This was never actually filmed in paris and most of the exteriors were boreham wood.
Extras
The comedy with the Scaroth should have lasted one minute.
great story, definitely my favourite from season 17. julian glover is great as scaroth, up there with magnus greel and harrison chase for classic of the classic baker villains. so suave and calculating but utterly ruthless
Re:Review: City of Death [1979] Mar 01 2010 13:59:42
City of Death has to be one of my favourite story lines of the classic series. A plot that if closely scrutinised would fall apart but as a watch is intriguing and spanning 3 periods of earth's history. These periods were crucial in the development of human society ,the big bang, Leonardo da Vinci and the crucial period in 1979!
Duggen in a supporting roll is genius and its clear to see that this was expanded on by Douglas Adams for the Dirk Gently novels. "You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs! " was backed up by Duggan smashing a bottle of wine to open it, pure genius.
Baker and Ward dash around Paris in the utmost urgency (almost as if they are trying to evade getting caught for filming without a permit).
But the sets are not too bad and all the actors do a great job at moving the story on.
All in all a great story and a thoroughly enjoyable 2 hours of entertainment
Having recently been bought the Doctor Who - Dalek War boxed set I have started to watch for the first time in a long while the classic story featuring, The Doctor, Jo Grant, Ograns, Draconians, the Master and the Daleks. I will write the remaining review when I have finished my viewing.
Having recently been bought the Doctor Who - Dalek War boxed set I have started to watch for the first time in a long while the classic story featuring, The Doctor, Jo Grant, Ograns, Draconians and the Master. I am currently on episode 4 and will write the remaining review when I have finished my viewing.
i'm reading a really geeky but funny doctor who book at the moment as it happens. it's part 4 of the 'about time' books which covers 1975-79. some of the articles are really funny and random. might give me some ideas for material for the site
i like this chart in the book, see if you can throw any of your favourites into the mix
bad effects: what are the highlights?
10. None-Zap Guns - morgaine's troops in battlefield - "what with the bizarre 'knights falling from the sky' effect, the disco music and the knight commanders lipstick and eyeliner the whole story feels like the video for 'ant rap' by adam and the ants"
9. The Bandrill Ambassador in Timelash - "a rubber sooty"
8. any spider in classic who
7. kroll from the power of kroll - "best stop motion animation of the programme's history ruined by a crude split screen that cuts off krolls tentacles"
6. the skarasen from terror of the zygons - "a sock-puppet stuck over CSO footage of westminster made worse by baker, sladen and marter all looking in completely the wrong direction"
5. the cyber fleet of the tenth planet ("paper-plates-on-a-string"), the moonbase ("wobbly, dangly ships clearly the size of pizzas") and the invasion ("rocket stock footage, some dating back to the 1930's").
4. zap guns of the late 70's and early 80's - "with K9's arrival human anatomy is rewritten and the kneecap becomes the place to aim lethal blows"
3. bok from the daemons - "a little bloke in a body sock"
2. the rubber tree from mark of the rani - "on-screen this looks like a man in a rubber tree-trunk groping nicola bryant"
1. the dinosaurs from invasion of the dinosaurs - "CSO toy model hell shot on film, made worse by a brontosaurus and tyrannosaurus appearing to be making out just outside Marylebone station in episode 6"
i would add the toy tank from robot and man revealing his android self in four to doomsday. can't think of anything witty to say about them though :(
Having recently been bought the Doctor Who - Dalek War boxed set I have started to watch for the first time in a long while the classic story featuring, The Doctor, Jo Grant, Ograns, Draconians, the Master and the Daleks. I will write the remaining review when I have finished my viewing.