bbc.co.uk - 11/20/2008
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Document - A report on the BBC's plans for potential new science fiction drama serials.
bbc.co.uk - 11/19/2008
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bbc.co.uk —
Explore the origins of a TV legend with
this collection of documents and images. It's now the...
number one family favourite, but 'Doctor Who' had a difficult birth, emerging from the imagination of some of BBC Drama's top minds. Here, we tell the story ...
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Archive Project - The Genesis of Doctor Who
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BBC Archives - Doctor Who
Watching Doctor Who —
... have released documents from the conceptual beginning of the show. Did you know that The Doctor’s granddaughter Susan was originally a human girl named Biddy? The BBC Science Fiction Report at the time noted that “Inherently, SF ideas are short-winded. The interest invariably lies in the activating idea and not in character drama.” …I expect that they’ve learned differently by now. ...
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Torque Control —
... It’s a while since the last link-dump, so some of these are a little stale now, but since this is as much for my future reference as your benefit:
New Scientist’s science fiction special includes views of the future of sf by Kim Stanley Robinson, William Gibson, Margaret Atwood, Ursula K Le Guin, Nick Sagan and Stephen Baxter
From the BBC Archives: a report on science fiction, March 1962
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Book View Cafe: “a consortium of over twenty professional authors ...
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