Aware that not everyone has had a good Christmas, not by a long chalk - with illness, COVID, leaks and terrible snow storms - I just want to wish you all, allover the globe, a very merry remaining ten days of Christmas.
In my own wider family, my brother and nephew have been struck with Corona, sending them into bedroom isolation. In my immediate family, my Missus, Son in Law. Grandson and granddaughter were all felled by a really nasty cold virus. They powered through and we did spend Christmas together but our Granddaughter was too ill to join in. She went to the Docs this morning and is now on antibiotics and hopefully on the mend for New Year.
Me and the Missus are enjoying Boxing Day at Moonbase, watching first that musical morality tale Oliver Twist, a Victorian Christmas classic and now Peter Cushing's Dr. Who and the Daleks, where Peter C also dresses like a Victorian!
Produced by AARU - who were they? - we've never seen this Dalek movie before. I wuz 4 in 1965 and never caught it up and my Missus was 2. It seems to be universally disliked according to Wikipedia but we're enjoying it. The Dalek planet landscape of mountains looks great! Is that Skaro?
Seeing a colour Doctor Who flick at the cinema must have been thrilling for young Who fans at the time. Unless of course you were a Thal! Did any of you see it?
Even the Eagle comic gets a look-in at the start, the Doc reading one in his living room. I wonder which edition it was?
Enjoy the rest of Boxing Day. If you can.
As the Daleks would say: one day we will climb those stairs too!
I'm pretty sure I've done posts on the Dalek films in the past. I'm surprised you're not aware of AARU, as it is actually Amicus films, notable for their portmanteau horror films, like Dr Terrors House of Horrors, Vault of Death etc.
ReplyDeleteThe Eagle comic seen on screen is from 20th March, 1965, although oddly enough the film, Dr Who and the Daleks did feature heavily in an edition of TV Century 21 at the time.
Although the films are frowned on by the more serious Dr Who fraternity, they are remembered with affection by most..
Thanks for that Scoop. I thought you'd know it well. So AARU are Amicus. Good to know. It makes sense with Peter Cushing and Roy Castle in the cast. Dr. Terrors House of Horrors is quite brilliant.
ReplyDeleteI'm gobsmacked you missed this in the 60s Woodsy !
ReplyDeleteIt was huge for Dr Who fan kids, even though the cast were all different.
Daleks on the Big Screen and in Colour. Fantastic !
It was up there with the 'Thunderbirds Are Go' and 'Batman' movies as a must see.
I'm presuming you've never seen 'Daleks Invasion Earth 2150' either.
Not well thought of by Who fans for many years, it is remembered more fondly now, and with the likely coming Dr Who 'Multiverse', could even fit into Dr Who canon.
I'm pretty sure I never saw these two Who films as a kid Mish. I've seen Invasion since. I'm quite good at recalling the films I've seen, unlike most other things, so I reckon I can trust my memory on this. I was a fairweather Who fan I'm afraid. I only had eyes for monsters!
DeleteThe best part of the film was that the budget provided for a number of Daleks to be built which ended up with the BBC to increase their 'fleet'.
ReplyDeleteMaybe that was the Daleks plan all along Terran? Ha ha. A slow but steady occupation!
DeleteI never saw any of these films at the time, and had to wait many years for them to turn up on TV. I now have both of the Dr Who films on a DVD set. It was weird how they changed so many things about the show, and made the Doctor a human, who really is named Who, and make him the inventor of the Tardis. Still, it was the first time anyone got to see the Doctor in colour.
ReplyDeleteYou must have a big DVD collection Paul. Is it in storage with your other stuff?
DeleteAt the moment I still have the DVDs at home, and not in storage. But I really do need to organise the collection, so all the material of the same type is together in one place, and not all mixed up. That makes it difficult and time consuming to find anything.
ReplyDeleteI have the same problem with the DVDs we have left Paul. The only ones immediately to hand are those for the Grandkids like Charlottes Web and Ice Age!
DeleteBelieve it or not, I am familiar with the Dr Who franchise primarily through the two Amicus features, which were shown on TV all the time here in the U.S. Never caught any incarnation of the TV series until much later, and I have to say I prefer Cushing as Who! Probably because I saw him first...
ReplyDeleteInteresting. Sounds like imprinting that Anonymous. Your WHO is Cushing!
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