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Tom N

@aquatics64.bsky.social

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Photoshopper and artwork retweeter. Finance analyst. TV nerd. Helped colourise The War Games. Designs for Big Finish.

'When are you gonna not say no, and make the answer yes?'🌈

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Tom N @aquatics64.bsky.social · Nov 21

First post to say - I do Photoshop artwork, especially Doctor Who related. (Will I post more of it on here? Who knows!)

Artwork for Gallifrey Time War 2 Big Finish audio

Artwork for The Hoxteth Time Capsule (free!) Big Finish audio with Colin Baker

Artwork for Big Finish audio Colony of Fear, also with Colin Baker

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Andrew Orton

@andreworton.bsky.social

'Oh, undergraduates talking to each other, I expect. I've trying to have it banned.' This is Shada, in TC3, 3rd November 1979. #DoctorWho #CGSets

A CG recreation of Professor Chronotis' room from Doctor Who's Shada. It shows the TARDIS police box standing in a wood-panelled study, lined with bookshelves.

A CG recreation of the spaceship cell from Doctor Who's Shada. It shows a grey and white, three-walled room, with the fourth wall open to camera. There are no doors.

A CG recreation of two sets from Doctor Who's Shada in studio. It shows Professor Chronotis' wood-panelled study, alongside the grey control room on the Thinktank space station. This shows a central console with a number of reclined seats built around it.

A CG recreation of the studio from Doctor Who's Shada. It shows the sets for the Thinktank control room, the Professor's study, the spaceship cell, and the Krarg generation chamber: a vat which is able to rise from a horizontal to vertical position. There is also a large area set aside for blue-screen work, with blue floor and wall cloths.

November 24, 2025 at 6:58 PM

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Gary Brannan

@garybrannan.bsky.social

Ok, ok, ONE more

The original scripted ending for The Deadly Assassin, which would have ended with this BRILLIANT roller caption and they should have kept it in!

#doctorwhoday #doctorwho

(THE TARDIS NOISE STARTS.
A STEP.
THEY MOVE BACK
THE TARDIS
DEMATERIALISES)
SPANDRELI: Look!
(THE GOLDEN COLUMN IS ALSO VANISHING)
A Type 42... The Master!
ENGIN:
Can't you stop -
SPANDRELL :
Too late. They've gone...
ENGIN: heading?
Where do you think they're
SPANDRELL :
Co-ordinator.
And, you know, the iniverse,
And, you know,
feeling
it isn't big enough for the two
of them・・・
BACK:
TUPTON:
Grateful thanks are due to the High Council of Time Lords, Co-ordinator Engin, Keeper of the Records, and the Curator of the Capitol Museum, Gallifrey, for their help and advice.
Closing
titLes：
A BIDS:

November 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM

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christhebarker

@christhebarker.bsky.social

Happy Doctor Who day!

Tom Baker's Doctor Who drawn in the style of a classic tarot card for some reason…

November 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM

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John Grindrod

@grindrod.bsky.social

Happy Doctor Who Day, with the incomprehensible blurb from the Target novelisation of Arc of Infinity

When the Doctor returns to Gallifrey, he learns that his bio data extract has been stolen from the Time Lords’ master computer known as the Matrix. The bio data extract is a detailed description of the Doctor’s molecular structure - and this information, in the wrong hands - could be exploited with disastrous effect. The Gallifreyan High Council believe that anti-matter has infiltrated into the universe as a result of the theft. In order to render the information useless they decide the Doctor must die.

November 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM

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Matthew 'Krakatoa' Smith

@teamsmithy.bsky.social

Happy Doctor Who day!

Matthew 'Krakatoa' Smith @teamsmithy.bsky.social · Feb 15

The Busy World of Doctor Who

The Doctors Who in the style of Richard Scarry.

November 23, 2025 at 2:22 PM

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Dan Hollingsworth

@dhollingsworth.bsky.social

Happy #DoctorWho day you lovely nerds!

November 23, 2025 at 2:25 PM

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Andy Lambert

@and-e-roo.bsky.social

The Celestial Toyroom 2026 is available today - focusing on the Fifth Doctor's era, with lots of great articles, reviews, fiction and artwork - some by yours truly.
Get your copy here:
www.dwasonline.co.uk/ct_annual

November 23, 2025 at 11:55 AM

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Anthony Lamb

@antlamb.bsky.social

🚨 Episode 1 of Obsolete is live in 15 minutes! 🚨
I hope you enjoy it, and have a happy #DoctorWhoDay
Link below...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOSP...

OBSOLETE - Episode 1: The Summons (Dalek Fan Series | Full Episode)

YouTube video by Dalek 63•88

www.youtube.com

November 23, 2025 at 9:16 AM

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Si Hart

@sihart.bsky.social

Why do we all love Doctor Who so much?

There's so much fan experience that's the same but different for everyone. We're all fans but in different ways!

Come and hear the stories of Doctor Who fandom and the shared history of us all in The Library of Impossible Things.

3.14 Melvin Pena tells his story

open.spotify.com

November 23, 2025 at 10:13 AM

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Stuart M

@stuartmanning.bsky.social

It's Doctor Who Day. To celebrate, I've edited and designed a new digital bookazine for @radiotimes.bsky.social, collecting the best of the magazine's articles and rare photography from the show's early years. Download it FREE from www.radiotimes.com/doctor-who-t...

Cover design for Radio Times: Doctor Who Insiders – The Early Years.

Internal spread from Radio Times: Doctor Who Insiders – The Early Years.

November 23, 2025 at 10:11 AM

Tom N

@aquatics64.bsky.social

Happy Doctor Who day!

Me back in June standing in a late 80s TARDIS

November 23, 2025 at 10:15 AM

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Michael Seely

@mpseely.bsky.social

My latest article: BBC PA Douglas Camfield, frustrated at not being offered a place on the director's course, investigated joining the SAS via the TA. Until fate intervened. You will also discover the third time he worked for Waris Hussein...
michaelseely.substack.com/p/douglas-ca...

Douglas Camfield in Doctor Who and the SAS

In 1964, BBC PA Douglas Camfield was at a crossroads in his life. Will he become a BBC director or will he join the SAS? Or will he do both? With brand new information, the story can finally be told.

michaelseely.substack.com

November 23, 2025 at 9:27 AM

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Iain Clark

@iainjclarkart.com

Happy Birthday Dr. Who!

#DoctorWho

A sketch with calligraphy marker pen of Peter Cushing from the Daleks movies, resting his chin on his knuckles.

November 23, 2025 at 9:30 AM

Tom N

@aquatics64.bsky.social

Things I liked about Android Invasion -
⭐ Unsettling deserted village
⭐ Evil Doctor and Sarah is a nice twist
⭐ The Kraal spaceship and design is pretty well coordinated and has some character to it.
⭐ Um.. Tom and Lis are really carrying this one.

Tom N @aquatics64.bsky.social · 4d

I've started on The Android Invasion tonight. It's a bit underwritten isn't it?

November 22, 2025 at 2:43 PM

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Anthony Lamb

@antlamb.bsky.social

🎉Tomorrow!!🎉 OBSOLETE episode 1 goes online at 9:30am. I'm really looking forward to releasing it into the world. It's been a labour of love for the past year.

A CG image which shows the silhouette of a Dalek, backed by a large orange circle which floods the whole scene with hot light

November 22, 2025 at 10:35 AM

Tom N

@aquatics64.bsky.social

22nd November.
It's about this time I usually think "shit I haven't made anything for the Doctor Who anniversary tomorrow. Ah well"

November 22, 2025 at 10:26 AM

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Paul Magrs

@paulmagrs.bsky.social

Thank you so much, all at Trap one! I listened to this this morning and was blushing throughout on behalf of me and Steve. And how clever of you to go back 19 years and trace it back to that letter from Zog...! @stevecolewriter.bsky.social

Trap One🎙Podcast @trapone.bsky.social · 3d

On the brand new Trap One🎙Podcast @joshort.bsky.social, @markdodyk.bsky.social, @docoho44.bsky.social & @quarkmcmalus.bsky.social gather round the campfire for a discussion on 1001 Nights in Time & Space:

Apple Podcasts tinyurl.com/52tft26m
Spotify tinyurl.com/yjkdw2a3
Podbean tinyurl.com/537mkm5k

The book cover for 1001 Nights in Time & Space

'STORIES ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT THING OF AL'L
BECAUSE THEY ARE •
JUST ABOUT THE ONLY LIVING
THING THAT LASTS...’

A stunning image of the K1 robot by Paul Magrs

November 22, 2025 at 9:58 AM

Tom N

@aquatics64.bsky.social

I've started on The Android Invasion tonight. It's a bit underwritten isn't it?

November 21, 2025 at 9:35 PM

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Coates is Odd This Day

@oddthisday.bsky.social

In highly important news from history today, it’s the 80th anniversary of the 21st birthday of Christopher Tolkien, notable now for the wording (especially the small print) of the invitation to the party

20 Northmoor Road, Oxford.
Professor and Mrs. Tolkien request the pleasure of your company on Wednesday, November 21st, 1945, to assist them in celebrating the Coming of Age of their Son Sub-Lieut. C. J. R. TOLKIEN, R.N.V.R. 6.30 p.m. onwards. R.S.V.P. if not coming. Carriages at midnight. Ambulances at 2 a.m. Wheelbarrows at 5 a.m. Hearses at daybreak.

November 21, 2025 at 9:55 AM

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Coates is Odd This Day

@oddthisday.bsky.social

It’s also the 83rd anniversary of this diary entry from James Lees-Milne about a feeling many of us recognise. (And I think we can all agree it’s better the other way round – when you get fuck all done, but don’t care)

Saturday, 21st November
I have got through a lot of difficult work this week and should be feeling pleased with myself. Instead I have such a consuming sense of guilt, about nothing particular that I can recall, accompanied by an uneasy queasiness in the stomach, that I can only attribute it to mental instability.

November 21, 2025 at 9:58 AM

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Dr Jamie Gallagher

@jamiebgall.co.uk

Good morning.
Glasgow looking great this morning. So busy yet sleepy. Like me.

A city scene. The distinctive Glasgow university tower visible in the background.

November 21, 2025 at 8:04 AM

Tom N

@aquatics64.bsky.social

I saw the new Running Man movie and was surprised I didn't recognise Sandra Dickinson in a very memorable role! (Yes, Trillian, and Georgia Tennant's mum)