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Philip Purser-Hallard @purserhallard.com · 14h

It occurs to me that the Doctor's polyethnic identity in recent times recontextualises Peter Davison's casting in quite an interesting way.
(For context, although you'd be unlikely to guess it by looking at him, Davison's paternal family is Guyanese. He has close relatives who are visibly Black.)

Peter Davison, a fair-skinned blond man, as the fifth Doctor, circa 1982.

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Luke Sims-Jenkins @grumpy2eb.bsky.social · 10h

Helllo Everyone! This week on the Maran Chess Club @alexwilcock.bsky.social joins me to talk all about the Big Finish audio adaptation of Cold Fusion!

#DoctorWho

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 10h

Oh, fair enough. Either it wasn’t a Manchester thing, or you caught the years where one was coming in as the other was going out (I’ve definitely not heard the older one in decades) 🤗

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 10h

I was also shaving early. First beard aged 15 or 16 at school.
I was just thin, too, rather than slim. Scrawny and gawky (fortunately I filled out, but always ungainly). And I pre-date twink! The word was chicken in the ’90s…

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 10h

Doctor Who – The Impossible Planet / The Satan Pit
I had intended #HalloweenWho as a distraction from everything going to Hell, but…
The Ood are indelibly Cthulhoid
And Gabriel Woolf’s silkily evil temptation is one of the most terrifying scenes in all Doctor Who:
“Don’t turn around…”

“DON’T TURN AROUND” – Ood in the dark (tentacled face lit by the globe in its hand)

Mild-mannered archaeologist Toby Zed beckons death, his face marked by ancient runes, his smile twisted with Satanic glee

The Devil himself (or so he says, and who could doubt his word?) thrashes and roars in the flames above the relatively tiny figure of the Doctor

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 12h

I wasn’t sure what I’d make of most these, so intriguing and discursive choices (poor twink).
Though I’d definitely have given Tim Combe a handshake to balance Barry’s blacklist but, Jon! Of course the Doctor’s horrified by Koquillion. Think what he *did*! Agree on Zarbi, though.

Rod Brown @whorod.bsky.social · 1d

‼️ NEW NOSTALGIA TOURS ‼️
Join the very lovely @jonarnold.bsky.social and @markdodyk.bsky.social as we explore Mind of Evil, Terminus, Oxygen and Power of the Doctor. Which story will get the most plaudits and handshakes? And who will get the dreaded P45? Find out..

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32. Pale and twinky

Podcast Episode · Nostalgia Tours · 10/10/2025 · 1h 28m

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 15h

You’re right to put your finger on the unlikelihood of this, but miss the third Skeet of three in which I expose my others as made up for comic effect.

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🦇🤘 Rigg-or mortis 🔶️🏳️‍🌈 @rigg.lgbt · 19h

Look at @joswinson.bsky.social and ACH in the middle there. I'm off over to the left with @cajardinemp.bsky.social and @salbrinton.bsky.social - the flag is so long photographers couldn't fit us all in.

LGBT+ Liberal Democrats 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @pluslibdems.bsky.social · 19h

We thought the Brighton Centre looked much better when the @libdems.org.uk had our conference there a year ago.

A picture of a huge crowd of Lib Dems, including Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP and various MPs, standing outside the Brighton Centre, which has a huge Liberal Democrats decal on the main windows, all holding an enormous Trans Pride flag in the sunshine, at their Autumn Conference in 2024.

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 19h

I know this is set at Beltane, not Halloween, but part of my celebrating 31 frightening adventures this month is for strange comfort from life’s real horrors, and – for all its horror theme – this is one of the comfort stories I’ve watched the most.

Illustration by Alan Willow from the novelisation Doctor Who and the Dæmons – Azal rises, towering sexily over the Master (caped, knife raised) and hooded cultists: ‘Azal!’ the Master cried. ‘This life I give thee…’

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 19h

Doctor Who – The Dæmons
Magic vs science, the Doctor vs the Master, and Azal the Dæmon rises over all
Doctor Who does folk horror, where even the Master gets scared under a pretty village church. Then they blow it up.
#HalloweenWho

The Dæmons fan poster, all in red – Azal the Dæmon’s proud, bestially horned head, haloed by a runic pentagram, rises hugely above the Doctor and Miss Hawthorne in the flames

The Master (Roger Delgado) in Satanic robes, cowering on the floor far below a high Dæmon’s-eye view

Azal the Dæmon, striking a pose – appearing as a traditional devil / satyr figure, with horns and cloven hooves, beard, masses of chest hair and even furrier legs. Phwoar. Hairy devil.

Villagers tie the Doctor (Jon Pertwee) to the Maypole

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 20h

OTD 1950 Seven Days To Noon
Gripping nuclear thriller and huge influence on:
The Quatermass Experiment
The Avengers (The Morning After, Sleeper)
Doctor Who (Invasion of the Dinosaurs)

My old review (never trust a vicar!):
loveandliberty.blogspot.com/2012/05/seve...
Plus André Morell & Joan Hickson

Seven Days To Noon poster – a shadowy man with a case, crowds fleeing London
“The Atomic Thriller: An A-bomb is loose… In the world’s largest city!”

A truck full of soldiers on Westminster Bridge (the Houses of Parliament in the background) don’t show much interest in the stranded woman and her dog

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 21h

You look adorable!
But keep to your bedtime and no nibbles.

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 21h

I really liked that one! The reasons you mentioned may just bring a bell.
So I should watch it again and listen to your commentary…
Except it’ll take me a while, as I’ve only just started a Jodie rewatch so I can listen to your commentaries and get more out of them 🤗

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 21h

Thank you! You’ve made my morning 🤗

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 23h

Outspoken radical Liberal.
The Daily Mail had a double-page spread on me headlined “Is This the New Loony Left?”
(QTWTAIN)

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 23h

D’oh!
I meant to say the most important way in which this is a different era:
One month before Richard.

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 1d

Post you from a different era.

I was looking for as twinky as I ever got (not very), but this really is another era:
My not so much 15 minutes as 48 hours of fame, when my big speech got on the news, I did 20 interviews in a day, and was very briefly considered worth monstering by nastier papers.

Me aged 22, in a grainy photocopy from a Times hatchet job on me that was roughly one-third what I’d said, one-third nastily made up, and one-third incompetently inaccurate (such as getting where I’d grown up wrong by 230 miles). But the photographer made me look quite good. I’m beardless and skeletally underweight, standing in D66 T-shirt, badge-festooned bomber jacket and jeans, looking up at the camera through big glasses. I’m shot from above on the spiral stairs of a Brighton hotel (I was staying in a much cheaper hostel, but Lib Dem conference meetings were hosted there).
Caption: “Alex Wilcock, firebrand of the party’s youth wing, who will call for the abolition of the monarchy today.” No-one remembers any other speaker in that debate.

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 1d

Written by Malcolm Hulke
Guest actors from fabulous eccentric Joseph C to Mon Mothma
Look out for young Wanda Ventham and Steven “I must get to that train!” Berkoff (TBH, he doesn’t have much luck with trains…)

“What is that young woman doing tied to the railway line? She’ll break the engine!”

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 1d

OTD 1965 The Avengers – The Gravediggers
Operating 60 years ago today*:
“Forceps…
“Scalpel…
“Blowtorch…”
Steed having lunch on a train journey is one of the series’ most delightful scenes (as long as you’re in first class)
While Mrs Peel is, inevitably, tied to the tracks.

*Some ITV regions

John Steed (Patrick Macnee) struggles to free Emma Peel (Diana Rigg), who is in leather and tied to a railway track.

Steed (in lovely suit, bowler and buttonhole) raises his brolly to salute Sager (Steven Berkoff), who doesn’t look impressed

Nurse Spray (Wanda Ventham) gossips with ‘Nurse’ Peel. She might be conspiratorially eyeing up a male doctor, but she asks Mrs Peel to a dance later.

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 1d

Doctor Who – Can You Hear Me?
Creepy history, nightmares and legendary beings playing with worlds
Yet also one of DW’s more sensitive looks at mental health
#HalloweenWho

[Meant to Skeet this Tuesday. A bit more catching up to go]

The Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) studying through a particularly eccentric lens

Zellin (Ian Gelder) sets his fingers off to do his bidding

The story of Rakaya and Zellin setting worlds at war (in stylised animation)

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 1d

Extra special note:
Only the final fact in those Skeets is true, if you couldn’t f—ing guess.

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 1d

Did you know BRIAN BLESSED’s official birthday is the one day where – by Act of Parliament – you’re not just permitted but required to swear loudly in public?
May not be *entirely* safe for work on other days—
A finely curated selection of BRIAN swearing:
youtube.com/watch?v=UOqQ...

Brian Blessed Swearing Compilation

YouTube video by Bonkersllama

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 1d

It’s BRIAN BLESSED Day!

Special note for #DoctorWho fans:
Enter code BRIANBOLLOCKS in your The Trial of a Time Lord – Mindwarp Blu-ray to unlock his very very slight misdelivery of a line so instead of being bleeped out, on 9th October only it plays:
“Let’s find the Fuckerons!”

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 1d

Love Pains catchy AF
And If There Was Love? Not just Liza with the Pet Shop Boys: it’s bloody Shakespeare, sweetie

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 1d

OTD 1989: Liza Minnelli – Results
Thanks to lovely Roy for alerting me to one that wasn’t on my calendar (it is now)
Now listening as I walk along!
Losing My Mind extraordinary
The best take on Twizt in my Zobriety
I Want You Now powerhouse opening
Don’t Drop Bombs is (So Sorry, I Said) a banger

Liza Minnelli – Results cover: Liza in black and white surging through the mist. It was the ’80s.

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