K9 Stole My Trousers - an autobiography by Bob Baker

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Release Date 30 June 2013

Category: Autobiography

Bob Baker, co-writer of three Oscar and BAFTA winning Wallace & Gromit films, creator of K9, and writer of numerous Doctor Who episodes, releases his autobiography this June.

A stalwart of HTV, Bob has worked with Sir Laurence Olivier, Leonard Rossiter, Ron Moody, Toyah Wilcox and Trevor Eve. Among his many TV credits, Bob wrote a number of episodes of Doctor Who with co-writer Dave Martin, several seasons of Bergerac starring John Nettles (now of Midsomer Murders fame) and the smash hit children's show, Into the Labyrinth; Bob also script edited the popular crime series Shoestring.

Bob is perhaps best known for his work with Nick Park on Aardman Animations' Oscar and BAFTA-winning shorts, The Wrong Trousers, A Close Shave and A Matter of Loaf and Death, and the feature film The Curse of the Wererabbit.

Among his recent work, Bob has just finished the first 26-part series of the regenerated K9 Adventures, currently showing on the Disney Channel and Channel 5 and is gearing up for a second series in the coming year.

Bob’s life has been rich and varied; his adventures outside of his illustrious career range from a wine-tasting tour of France and mad sea voyages with the legendary Keith Floyd to playing jazz with John Fortune of Bremner, Bird and Fortune. K9 Stole My Trousers is a tribute to some of the finest talents in TV in the last fifty years, both people Bob worked with and people he considered himself lucky to know in his personal life.

The hardback edition of 'K9 Stole My Trousers' will be released in June 2013. Pre-order today and receive your copy signed by Bob Baker himself.

Jaunt: An Unofficial Guide to The Tomorrow People

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Release Date 30 June 2013

Category: Cult Titles

An unofficial guide to The Tomorrow People

JAUNT! - by Andy Davidson

Shape-changing robots, military masterminds, ITV technicians.  It's a deadly universe out there, but the Tomorrow People are here to help.

The Tomorrow People are man’s next step up the evolutionary ladder…Homo Superior.  From their secret base deep below the streets of London, they offer hope for a better future for the human race as members of the all-powerful Galactic Federation.

The Tomorrow People is the bête noire of cult television.  Regarded unfairly by many as a rival to the BBC’s Doctor Who, it inevitably comes off worse in comparison to its bigger budget, mainstream opponent.  The Tomorrow People was made by the children’s department of Thames Television, a company which really didn’t have all that much experience of making sci fi drama.  

The Tomorrow People is a staggeringly ambitious children’s adventure with a deeply philosophical foundation.  But it was produced by a team beset by inexperience, roller-coaster budgets and a decade of industrial tension which culminated in the total shut-down of ITV.   The result was a programme that was as good as it was almost in spite of itself.

For every bold political statement, there’s an alien commander who looks like a Tiki glass.  For every beautifully realised space battle there’s a plastic cup sprayed silver and glued onto a mop handle.  The Tomorrow People giveth with Geoffrey Bayldon, Michael Sheard, Trevor Bannister and it taketh away with Ali Bongo, an alien boy channelling Douglas Bader and Ray Burdis, twice.  

Jaunt follows the adventures of the Tomorrow People from their origins in a forgotten era of children’s programming to a publishing phenomenon, where the show and its stars were front page news.  It rejoins the Tomorrow People in the 1990s for some light-hearted Avengers action and returns once more a decade later as a series of bold, challenging audio plays.  Homo Superior has been with us for forty years and Jaunt chronicles the phenomenon that is again preparing to return to our screens in a big-budget US adaptation.

Jaunt features exclusive interviews with series creator Roger Price, producer Ruth Boswell and the Tomorrow People themselves; Nicholas Young, Peter Vaughan Clarke, Elizabeth Adare, Mike Holoway and Misako Koba.  

With an introduction from Roger Price Jaunt also features the complete script of the lost series nine adventures Mystery Moon and tells the previously untold story of the plans to continue the Big Finish Tomorrow People audio adventures.

Fourth Doctor 2:6 The Dalek Contract

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Release Date 30 June 2013

Category: Fourth Doctor Audios

Tom Baker (The Doctor), Mary Tamm (Romana), John Leeson (K9), David Warner (Cuthbert), Toby Hadoke (Mr Dorrick), Nicholas Briggs (The Daleks)

'These creatures have ravaged half the cosmos. They're experts at this kind of thing. Nothing can stand in their way.'

The Doctor and Romana find themselves in the Proxima System, where enigmatic Conglomerate CEO Cuthbert has been conducting his infamous 'experiment'. An experiment which might accidentally rip the universe apart.

Meanwhile, living conditions on Proxima Major have become harsh and hostile. Climate change has turned the landscape into a freezing wasteland and an alien power has condemned much of the population to life inside internment camps. For those still clinging to their freedom, the struggle for survival is now beyond desperate and outsiders such as the Doctor and Romana are only seen as a threat.

What is Cuthbert really up to in the Proxima System, and just how does he expect the dreaded Daleks to fit into his plan?

Written By: Nicholas Briggs
Directed By: Nicholas Briggs

Companion Chronicles 7:12 The Council of War

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Release Date 30 June 2013

Category: Companion Chronicles

At the Doctor's request, Sergeant Benton is investigating ghosts and missing people in Kettering, while undercover as a local councillor

And that's how he comes to meet Margery Phipps.

An alien incursion in the town hall leads them on a journey to a terrible future – where Margery discovers how she changed a world, and the life of a whole civilisation hangs in the balance…

Written By: Simon Barnard and Paul Morris
Directed By: Lisa Bowerman

Cast

John Levene (Sergeant Benton), Sinead Keenan (Margery Phipps)

174: Prisoners of Fate

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Release Date 30 June 2013

Category: Doctor Who Monthly Dramas

Twenty-five years ago, with Richter's Syndrome running rampant throughout the galaxy, the brilliant biochemist Nyssa, formerly of Traken, bade a painful farewell to her young family... and set off into the space, in search of a cure for this deadly disease.

She never returned.

Now, her grown-up son continues her work on the penal colony of Valderon, still desperate to make the breakthrough that eluded his presumed-dead mother.

So when the TARDIS lands on Valderon, bringing the Doctor, Tegan, Turlough and Nyssa to its fortress prison, the scene is set for a painful reunion... but not only for Nyssa. The Doctor's past is about to catch up with him too...

Written By: Jonathan Morris
Directed By: Ken Bentley

Cast

Peter Davison (The Doctor), Janet Fielding (Tegan), Mark Strickson (Turlough), Sarah Sutton (Nyssa), Sarah Dougles (Sibor), Alistair Mackenzie (Galen), Anjella Mackintosh (Mahandra), Jez Fielder (Kartis)

Classic Audio Book: Leisure Hive

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Release Date 1 July 2013

Category: Classic Audio Books

Unabridged reading of the Target book.

Read by Lalla Ward

Destiny of the Doctor 07: Shockwave

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Release Date 4 July 2013

Category: Destiny of the Doctor

Written by James Swallow

Spearhead from Space Blu ray

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Release Date 15 July 2013

Category: 3rd Doctor DVDs

Starring Jon Pertwee

Originally shot in film Spearhead in Space has now been restored for HD and is the first Classic Doctor Who story to be released on Blu-ray. Starring Jon Pertwee as the Doctor, the TARDIS arrives on Earth in the middle of a meteorite shower and the Doctor is found by UNIT troops and taken to a nearby hospital. The Brigadier is faced with having to cope not only with the mysterious meteorites but also with Ransome, an ex-employee of a local plastics factory, who claims he has seen a walking mannequin

Mary Tamm: Second Generation (Paperback)

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Release Date 17 July 2013

Category: Autobiography

Fantom Publishing will be releasing the second part of Mary Tamm's autobiography in early 2013.

The book written before her tragic death from cancer earlier this year, picks up from where First Generation ends, with the inside story of the filming of her final three Doctor Who stories as the Time Lady Romana.

"We want to make this book the ultimate celebration of a wonderful person who we so sorely miss" explains publisher Dexter O'Neill. "We are presenting the entirety of her writings together with tributes and anecdotes from Mary's closest friends and colleagues."

Mary Tamm: Second Generation (Hardcover)

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Release Date 17 July 2013

Category: Autobiography

Fantom Publishing will be releasing the second part of Mary Tamm's autobiography in early 2013.

The book written before her tragic death from cancer earlier this year, picks up from where First Generation ends, with the inside story of the filming of her final three Doctor Who stories as the Time Lady Romana.

"We want to make this book the ultimate celebration of a wonderful person who we so sorely miss" explains publisher Dexter O'Neill. "We are presenting the entirety of her writings together with tributes and anecdotes from Mary's closest friends and colleagues."

Counter Measures Box Set Volume 2

On Order £35.00

Release Date 17 July 2013

Category: Big Finish Mini-Series and Specials

Simon Williams (Group Captain Gilmore), Pamela Salem (Rachel Jensen), Karen Gledhill (Allison Williams), Hugh Ross (Sir Toby Kinsella)

Counter-Measures is set in 1964, and centres on the titular specialist organization that is charged with investigating strange phenomena and dangerous new science.

The four hour-long dramas are written by Paul Finch, Matt Fitton, Ian Potter and Justin Richards. The series is produced by David Richardson, script edited by John Dorney and directed by Ken Bentley. The five-disc box set also includes an hour-long documentary that goes behind the scenes with the cast and crew.

Masterpiece Collection First Doctor Maxi Bust

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Release Date 19 July 2013

Category: Masterpiece Collection Maxi Busts

Three-quarter 8" tall maxi bust