It's rare we stray off the reservation , especially in season as it were, but the THT Brain Wizards stumbled across this on Deviantart yesterday. Too cute for words.
BTW Doctor, how many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop? The world may never know.
Through the months of 2009, the Tour led a life of peace and ordered calm, protected against all threats from the WWW by our great power. But all this was to change. Suddenly and terribly, the Tour faced the greatest threat in it's long history.
Well that was certainly un-fun wasn't it. About 10 days ago the web host which housed the main hub of the site decided to do some server maintenance which, to put it mildly, went a little ka-ka. After exhausting the patience of the THT Brain Trust, we've relocated and are hopeful much of the functionality of the site came along for the ride. We appreciate the notes wondering what was going on and ask for more patience as the kinks are still being ironed out.
As for the near future, in the run-up to Season 5, there are two site updates a-comin. The first shapes up to be the last all-Tennant update to the site, and the second will be an anyone-but Tennant update before Season 5 roll at the end of March/early April.
Once again a big thank you to everyone for their patience during this transitionary phase.
When this fan was of an age to appreciate such things, there were three main pillars of British television which formed the basis for life-long Anglophilia, namely Doctor Who, The Prisoner, and The Avengers. The first two were helpfully served up by PBS back when these stations took an interest in such fare, The Avengers was a show obtained, at least in the 80's, by tape-trading. The Avengers was fun and stylish, The Prisoner subversive and strange, and Doctor Who… well it was all of that and more. And there was so much of it.! In any event these three formed the bedrock. Other shows followed (Secret Agent, The Saint, Department S, Man in a Suitcase and so on) but now and again–certainly not as often as this fan would like as the years pass, it good to go back and re-watch these series as a touchstone.
Now on Sunday the 15th the at 7pm the Tennant era begins the final phase in The Waters of Mars whilst, here in the central US, at 7pm the re-imaging of "The Prisoner" begins its limited run on AMC (and before you recognize the obvious about time-zones and the like–accept the premise and enjoy the bit, okay?). As much as I cherish the original McGoohan version of The Prisoner, there is a latent curiosity about what this could be like, so I'll be watching. (Incidentally I had much more confidence in RTD to bring back Doctor Who properly back in 2004-05 than I do in respectfully moving The Prisoner up to 2009).
Now all we need as for an obscure cable channel to show "A Touch of Brimstone" (IFC or OVTV anyone?) at 7pm Sunday and the THT Collective Brain Trust will summarily explode.
