Sorry, we have no idea who created these. As always, we're happy to add the names if told.

In case you can't figure out the second one, it's Rory with his head implanted on a Rick Roll.

This io9 exclusive featurette reveals how Captain Jack has stumbled onto the brink of a tragic mistake.



The next video was given to USA Today and features Esther Dummond, played by Alexa Havins.


These videos are only available on these sites (UK compatible):

• TVGuide has Rex Matheson's video.
• NYMag's Vulture has Gwen Cooper's video.
• TV.com has Jilly Kitzinger's video.
• Insider EW has Oswald Danes' video.

Private Eye are claiming Doctor Who is heading for a 2012 hiatus, but the BBC has stated that Series 7 is a done deal. But they haven't actually said when it'll appear, so SFX asked Steven Moffat what's going on.

Here's what the Moff had to say:

"Okay, here it is – the best answer you can have. I don't know. If I did know, I wouldn't tell you. When I DO know, what I know will change, so I won't really know then either. And then it will change again, so I still won't really know. And if, secretly, I'd really known all along, I'd still be telling you I don't know, because everything I said I knew, could be wrong, so I'd never really have known in the first place.

I should point out that Private Eye is a humour magazine, and anything originating from there is to be taken with a large pinch of salt! Of course, other sources are asking this too, but Private Eye is the most obvious. Ultimately, I have faith in Series 7 for 2012, and understand that this creates free publicity for Private Eye. :)

6 new podcasts today

Dirty WHOers's Podcast Tony Lee Interview Special
Fuschia tortures New York Times Best-selling Graphic Novelist and writer Tony Lee, of IDW Publishing's Doctor Who comics fame.
Play it here.

The Happiness Patrol Episode 66: Let's Self Edit!
Time to get the washing done around the old HP HQ, and in doing so, we all make an effort in SELF EDITING! (please feel free to leave us feedback if you think it's working or not...we won't know if you don't!)
Play it here.

Pharos Project 53: Mr Smith Goes to Warrington
It's the mid series finale and all 4 Projecteers are on board to rip it a new one. At last we know who River Song is, thanks to the embroidery of a sexy forest girl, but has it been worth the wait?
Play it here.

Telos AMep. 7: Monks, madness, and other stories
Returning to some level of normalcy, Nick, Lindsey, and Alex gather together to briefly go over what those who were suffering the lurgy last week missed, and then give A Good Man Goes to War a good going over.
Play it here.

The Raggedy Podcast Episode 010: A Good Man Goes to War/Attack of the Cybermen
In this, our tenth podcast, Matt, Ian, and Nuala talk about the series 6.0 finale, "A Good Man Goes to War," and speculate about the Eye-patch Lady, River Song, and the fate of our beloved Rory Williams. In the realm of classic Who, we have a chat about the Sixth Doctor's second adventure, "Attack of the Cybermen." It is often criticized by fandom as being particularly dreadful, but do we beg to differ? Are we won over by Nicola Bryant's charmingly terrible American accent and pink costume?
Play it here.

The Cultdom Collective Commentary: A Good Man Goes To War
With our gangers now just goo - Ian, Mike & daveac borrow three spare heads found all boxed up & talk all over Dr Who Series 6 Episode 7 'A Good Man Goes To War'
Play it here.

As always, thanx to the Doctor Who Podcast Alliance.

All of these promotional photos, as the annoying watermark suggests, are courtesy of Cultbox.

Colin Baker's costume was originally white, but John Nathan Turner forgot to separate his colors and washed it with his Hawaiian shirts!

Based on an original Submission.

This comic and lots more can be found at The Daily Dalek.

TV news site Zap2it briefly interviewed John Barrowman on the set of Torchwood: Miracle Day and revealed that Captain Jack Harkness could always return to Doctor Who.

"I've always said that if I'm asked to go back to 'Doctor Who,' I'll go at the drop of a hat. That's where Captain Jack got his beginnings. And it's already been discussed."

Barrowman says that both "Torchwood" creator Russell T Davies and current "Doctor Who" showrunner Steven Moffat have talked about the possibility of a return for Jack . . .

"It's in the cards, but who knows whether it will happen?" says Barrowman, quick to add that his character does have special ties to David Tennant's version of the Doctor. "I like Matt Smith. He brings his own quirkiness to it... When a new Doctor starts, everybody goes along for the journey because they love the show. But then you attach yourself to that Doctor. There's a whole new generation who are now attached to Matt, and rightly so.... but David Tennant is my Doctor."

Speaking more generally about his work in the US, Barrowman discussed the ties that keep him bound to the UK.

"I run myself like a business, and I enjoy the work I do. Of course I have ambition to work more in the U.S., but I will never turn my back on the U.K. and what I do there. 

"I've always said that I would never just give up and leave the U.K. to come and seek work over here, but if work brings me over here, that's a different story. There are plans in the future for me to branch out a little more in this market, because, hey, you need a big swashbuckling gay man to do things, don't ya?"

Source credit, of course, goes to Zap2it.

In the 1980s, I was a fan of a band called The Cravats, and like being a music fan, my love for them remained, but I moved on. A friend called round, and it resulted in this post. The actor Max Tresillian is from the band The Cravats, but in the band he was called The Shend.

Today I received email from my friend Darren about a video. Have a look . . .


And here's a track by The Cravats.

This has been around for a while, but it deserves another look (its a new upload on DeviantArt though).

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We've only just posted this, but it deserves elaboration.

The initial news about Roy Skelton as reported by BBC News.

Roy Skelton, voice of TV show Rainbow's Zippy & George, has died aged 79. He was also one of the original voices of the Dr Who Daleks

The full BBC News article focuses most of his Rainbow career, but the Doctor Who News Page reminds us of some of his most familiar roles alongside, or rather against, the Doctor.

Born in Manchester in July 1931, Skelton's first involvement with Doctor Who came when he provided voices for the Monoids in the 1966 William Hartnell serial The Ark. He returned to the series later that year to provide voices to the first ever Cybermen in Hartnell's finale as the Doctor, The Tenth Planet. It was in 1967 that he first took on the role he became most associated with on Doctor Who, when he voiced the Daleks in Evil of the Daleks, lining up against Second Doctor Patrick Troughton. He then provided Dalek voices right through until their final classic series appearance in 1988 Remembrance of the Daleks, starring Sylvester McCoy. He also made the occasional on-screen appearance, such as briefly playing the body of the Spiridon Wester, whose voice he had provided, when the character became visible on his death in the Jon Pertwee serial Planet of the Daleks in 1973.

Skelton's ability to provide Dalek voices in different registers which he could switch between as recording was in progress enabled a variety of characterisation and conversation to be played in Dalek scenes.

And here's a mash-up of his work from Doctor Who with "Zippy" from Rainbow.



BBC America's Anglophenia blog has a lovely tribute.

Actor and singer Roy Skelton, best known for voicing puppets George and Zippy in the popular children's programme Rainbow, has died aged 79, from a stroke.

Skelton voiced the Daleks in Doctor Who from 1967 to 1988, as well as the Cybermen and the Krotons.

In 2002, he guest-starred in the audio drama Sarah Jane Smith: Test Of Nerve.

He reprised the role of Zippy in 2008 for the BBC1 series Ashes to Ashes.

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Simpsons-styled art site Springfield Punx has made its greatest accomplishment yet: 12 versions of Fourth Doctor Tom Baker. These are just two of the designs, and they all deserve a look-see. Enjoy!

Compelling evidence.

Rumour has it a secret martian base has been found on Mars, and it just may have been! David Martines announced on YouTube he has discovered an anomaly which is clearly a secret Martian base, just by using Google Maps on the Martian landscape!

As io9 commenters explain, it might be anything from a few stray pixels to an Ice Warrior hideout. So is it alien or NASA? Is it time to start worrying? Here is a video of the fuss.


Personally, I've ordered a couple of rolls of tin foil and instructed Team Combom on how to use them in defense of the alien menace.

So now we're safe from alien mind control, but is it time to start eating each others' brains? I am already peckish. Mmmmm . . . brains . . .

Colin Baker was born in London on 8th June 1943, and so is celebrating his 68th birthday today. All of us at Team Combom wish him a very happy birthday, and as a birthday gift Combom has agreed to never make rude jokes about him ever again… probably.

To celebrate his birthday, Colin has invited his greatest friends to sing the following song about Doctor Who:

Let me know what you think. 192 Click on image to start.
And there are a lot more of the same here.

Doctor Who fans are to be plunged into one of the Time Lord's adventures in an "immersive" theatre show created by the acclaimed company Punchdrunk, who are famous for transforming entire buildings into mysterious locations which audiences explore as the action unfolds around them.

They had kept details of their latest show The Crash of the Elysium, which opens in Salford on 30th June, secret, but it has now been revealed that will be based around the BBC time traveller.

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"I Need a Doctor" by Enoch Ko. Thanks for pointing it out to us!

This is copied straight from The Sun [additions by me].

Plans for a new Dr Who series are in crisis as the show approaches its 50th birthday, The Sun can reveal. Boss Steven Moffat wants to make two "specials" of the hit instead of a long run.

[Yesterday a 13-part Series 7 was confirmed, plus a Christmas special.]

Rumours about the BBC1 show's future circulated after one of its three main producers, Piers Wenger, quit last month.

[Just because someone left for another job doesn't mean anything. People do leave for other jobs. Always have, always will.]

The Beeb yesterday played down ideas of a rift between Moffat - who axed the Daleks - and BBC controller Danny Cohen. A BBC source said: "Steven's the boss. At this stage we have no idea if there will be two episodes or if there will be ten."

[We have already covered why the Daleks are taking a break, and it sounds like a good reason to me!]

Bosses have commissioned 14 new episodes with Matt Smith as the timelord. But they've been given no timeline as to when they will air, despite 2012 being Dr Who's 50th anniversary.

[It's NOT "timelord", it's Time Lord. 2013 is the Doctor's 50th anniversary, NOT 2012. Don't you just despise amateurs? It seems the gutter press can't even use Wikipedia. Quote— "Doctor Who first appeared on BBC television at 17:15 GMT on 23 November 1963." If The Sun look at their masthead, they can see the date. Here is a calculator so they can work out the 50th anniversary. And we don't have a transmission date for Series 7 yet, as the BBC don't work them out a year ahead, but as always it should premier around Easter 2012.]

Read the original Sun article

IDIOTS!

Here we have a DVD cover and matching label for Doctor Who 607 "A Good Man Goes To War".

You can see it here. Or go here for all series 6 covers so far and a load of other Doctor Who stuff too. :)

Ghost Light had working titles of The Bestiary and Life-Cycle.