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Bob Ayres
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Writer/Producer/Educator - Big Finish, Anderson Entertainment, BBC Studios, BBC Bitesize, BBC Teach, CTVC, TrueTube - and Children’s BAFTA winner.
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Yesterday was a bad day for Skynet... just saying...
February 20, 2026 at 10:55 AM
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ICYMI: The 1996 Doctor Who TV Movie comes to 4K
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McGann comes to 4K
The 1996 Doctor Who TV Movie is to be released in 4K later this year. For the first time, all 219 reels of original film (totalling almost 200,000 feet!) have been pulled from deep storage in the U…
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February 19, 2026 at 4:37 PM
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dailytombaker.bsky.social
Tom Baker and John Leeson. #TomBaker #DoctorWho #FourthDoctor
February 17, 2026 at 2:35 AM
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kentonhall.bsky.social
Only 26 backers from our first stretch goal. Tom Baker IS Sir Sherlock Holmes. John Leeson is Doctor John Watson. Check out SIR SHERLOCK - The Red Letter Day by AUK Studios on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/152...
SIR SHERLOCK - The Red Letter Day
The beginning of a brand-new, full-cast audio series and novellas, starring Tom Baker MBE and John Leeson as Holmes and Watson.
www.kickstarter.com
February 8, 2026 at 1:43 PM
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stephencollins.bsky.social
[Scene is a domestic kitchen. Night time. The room is all blue apart from warm orange-pink light streaming in from a streetlight outside. In the center of the room stands a woman named BRANDI, standing in pyjamas looking contemplative, the light cast dramatically on her face. At the doorway, leaning against the frame, her partner JOEL stands has woken up and found her in the kitchen.] JOEL: Honey… what are you doing? BRANDI: Can’t sleep Guess I just like standing in the kitchen at 3am thinking about the supernatural threat we temporarily defeated last year. While saying that out loud in a manner which sounds casually ironic but is actually just blatant exposition. JOEL: Brandi… you're talking strange... BRANDI: Dammit Joel. It’s time you knew. You're a Netflix character. [Joel looks shocked] BRANDI: Everybody you know has been forced to speak to you in second screen dialogue. Second screen dialogue helps the people scrolling their phones in front of the TV to follow the - JOEL: Stop explaining, Brandi! [Hands on head, emotional expression, warm pink light cast on his face against the cool blue darkness of the room]. JOEL: So that's why my entire life has looked so glossy and... BRANDI: Yep... Warm/cool colour graded. [Cut to a TV show TITLE SCREEN]: SECOND SCREEN - A Netflix original - [Ends]
February 16, 2026 at 7:30 AM
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scott1gray.bsky.social
Sal Buscema's Spider-Man was off-the-scale brilliant in the 80s. Only the original Ditko version tops it in my book.
#comics
Spider-Man by Sal Buscema.
February 16, 2026 at 3:15 PM
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Oh aye, "Squids" is it? Next up in the #DoctorWho 'Beyond War Games' listenalong is 'The Shroud' by Bob Ayres. Try pulling that one me, eh?
Blurb for The Shroud by Bob Ayres, basically says a human colony is under attack by a mysterious creature known to the locals only as The Squids. A screenshot of Jamie. I've added the ficticious subtitle "now, listen here, ye cheeky bastard".
February 9, 2026 at 10:48 AM
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Great cliffhanger endings from 1960s Doctor Who, one per season:

Plunger enters frame. Barbara screams!

“The Monk’s got a Tardis!”

“They’ve finished the statue!”

“I am your servant! I am your servant!”

“Why, hallo, Bruce. What are you doing here?”

“It's the Time Lords! We must get away!”
February 6, 2026 at 3:55 PM
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jaythechou.bsky.social
I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1784
Paddington in Star Trek
February 1, 2026 at 6:55 AM
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kentonhall.bsky.social
Tom Baker IS Sherlock Holmes. John Leeson IS Doctor Watson. Somebody (it's me!) has written the official novelisation. Support SIR SHERLOCK from AUK Studios and... WHO knows, further games may be afoot. www.kickstarter.com/projects/152...
January 23, 2026 at 4:45 PM
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sihart.bsky.social
“I no longer feel an obligation to speak purely of peace”
a woman wearing a necklace and earrings looks at the camera
ALT: a woman wearing a necklace and earrings looks at the camera
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January 19, 2026 at 7:25 PM
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quiteamess.bsky.social
"I don't know much about art, but I know what I like"
...and now I have the Botcherby shrine I didn't realise I needed until @rablackart.bsky.social saw potential and turned his amazing talents to one of my very favourite #DoctorWho stories, #TheTwoDoctors
January 17, 2026 at 9:57 AM
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Cover reveal! Out 7th May 2026

Doctor Who: Circle of Memory
By Bob Ayres

Dan Starkey reads this audio original adventure for the Eleventh Doctor, Amy and Rory

CD: amzn.to/3N9zTrT
Audible: amzn.to/49zCGSs #ad
January 12, 2026 at 5:50 PM
bobayres.bsky.social
Excited to get a mention in this month's Doctor Who Magazine!

Coming soon...
An announcement in Doctor Who Magazine of BBC Audiobooks' release of the Eleventh Doctor story "Circle of Memory" in May.
January 10, 2026 at 3:13 PM
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benjamincook.bsky.social
LIVE NOW on @BBCiPlayer! THE SEA DEVILS – our 90-minute 2025 re-cut, with new music by Lorne Balfe, fresh sound by @markayresrws.bsky.social, and a few surprises. 👀 Perfect Sunday-morning viewing, before its TV debut on BBC Four tonight at 7pm. 🌊😈 GO, GO, GO!!! www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Doctor Who (1963–1996) - Season 9: The Sea Devils
A re-edited, feature-length version of the classic 1972 Doctor Who story that introduced audiences to the formidable aquatic species the Sea Devils.
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December 7, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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lbflyawayhome.bsky.social
Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar
Window 7
‘Frost’
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
A view over a ploughed field towards an ancient barn topped with snow. There is a hard hoar frost tracing cobwebs and making the going hard for the corvids in the field
December 7, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
A small child approaches his scientist father who is working at a large, strange, contraption. His face pressed to a viewing tube. “Are you looking forward to Christmas, papa?” Asks the child. “Yes,” replies the scientist“ turning round, “that is exactly what I am doing” then he adds “Thank you for the socks.” We can now see that the viewing tube breaks the border of the comics panel, passes through complicated machinery and allows the scientist to see into the next comic panel: Caption: December 25th A Christmas scene. The child and father-scientist open presents before a Christmas tree. The father has just unwrapped some socks.
December 7, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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lbflyawayhome.bsky.social
Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 6
‘Lane in Winter’
Artist: Rowland Hilder
The early winter light over snow has created and almost apricot coloured sky. The country Lane is probably in Kent and we see a small farm yard with oast houses
December 6, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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🌊😈NEW EPISODE!🌊😈

Want to know more about the new version of #DoctorWho - The Sea Devils? We've got all the facts you want! We're joined by @benjamincook.bsky.social and @markayresrws.bsky.social, plus @petercrockersvs.bsky.social to discuss its restoration.

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466: The Sea Devils (2025)
The Sea Devils return to our TV screens this weekend - but in a new way! The Third Doctor tale is being given a new lease of life through a 90 minute new edit, and Benjamin Cook tells us about it. Plu
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December 2, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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Nine years ago Mike Fitzgerald wrote up an extraordinarily fascinating breakdown of the differences between the Tom Stoppard shooting script and the original Jeffrey Boam draft of Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade.

It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: Learning from Stoppard By Mike Fitzgerald, June 13, 2016 Comparing two drafts of a script can be hugely instructive, revealing point-by-point how a writer went about improving the story. When I stumbled upon an earlier draft of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, I discovered a dazzling, glittering trove of lessons as nourishing as eternal life itself. Well, nearly so. Last Crusade was written by Jeffrey Boam, from a story by George Lucas and Menno Meyjes. So say the opening credits. Boam’s final draft, dated March 1, 1988 (ten weeks before production) differs drastically from the published script which reflects the released version of the film. Differences come as no shock, but with Last Crusade they aren’t just a few deleted scenes and some line changes. Whole sections of the Boam draft were reimagined, major set pieces were added, and the pacing and tone were markedly transformed. Whoever made these changes possessed a profound grasp of story craft. Screenshot from https://www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jones-and-the-last-crusade-learning-from-stoppard/
July 2, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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kjd42.bsky.social
Had fun remembering my so-called “student film” with Kenny in this podcast. SHAKEDOWN (1994)
#DoctorWho
November 26, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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🥔NEW EPISODE!🥔

Having discussed the outer space potato people in the Shakedown novel last week, today we turn our eyes to the #DoctorWho spin-off video from 1994, with director @kjd42.bsky.social.

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464: Shakedown with Kevin Jon Davies
Last week, we brought you a look at the New Adventure, Shakedown. Part of it novelised the video release of the production from DreamWatch Media, written by Terrance Dicks. So, in a sequel to that epi
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November 26, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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markayresrws.bsky.social
Yep. Dun this. One of the best Doctor Who stories ever. I love Malc’s music.
benjamincook.bsky.social Benjamin Cook @benjamincook.bsky.social · Nov 14
Starring Jon Pertwee & Katy Manning!

🎶 With NEW MUSIC by the legendary Lorne Balfe! 🙌 – woven together with Malcolm Clarke’s groundbreaking 1972 score – and updated sound design by the genius @markayresrws.bsky.social! 🔊

Graphic design by @georgieoboy.bsky.social!

And… action by HAVOC!! 💥
November 15, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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benjamincook.bsky.social
Accidentally walked into a cupboard. It’s bigger on the inside. WHERE ARE WE? Send help!

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November 22, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Flash Doctor Who Sale! ⚡ Click https://bgfn.sh/1DA25 to grab a great deal on selected First Doctor Adventures starring Stephen Noonan.

Hurry! These offers expire no later than 23:59 (UK time) on 04 November 2025.
A collage of various First Doctor cover artworks with various illustrations of William Hartnell as the Doctor.
October 31, 2025 at 2:01 PM