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Quotable Dr Who on Blue Eyed Books
Blue Eyed Books
Amazon UK
Category:
Arts/Entertainment
Publisher: Blue Eyed Books
ISBN-10: 1907338152
Type: Non-Fiction
Pages: 250
Copyright: Dec 7, 2010
ISBN-13: 9781907338151
Volume One: A Cosmic and Comic Collection of 2000 'Biographical' Quotes about Doctor Who - The World's Favourite Time Lord
THE QUOTABLE DOCTOR WHO - Volume One covers all eleven TV incarnations of the Doctor - both character and actor - William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann, Christopher Eccleston, David Tennant, Matt Smith as well as other Film and TV Doctors such as Peter Cushing & William Hurndall.
This deeply-researched and well-presented compendium also includes comments and quotations about all The Doctor's companions (from Susan Foreman to Amy Pond), the show's behind the scenes support cast (producers, directors, writers, designers, etc) and as well as quotations by and about the show's fans and critics.
There are also special sections on The Doctor's accessories from the TARDIS to the Sonic Screwdriver, the Doctor Who movies and TV spin-offs such as Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures with comments from other TV shows, movies, etc and from fictional characters.
Volume One includes quotes about The Doctor and his Doctor's Companions.
To be published on 7th Dec 2010
Volume Two includes quotes about the Doctor's Enemies, Monsters & Minor Characters.
To be published in 2011
Volume Three includes quotes about the individual TV episodes (comments from cast & crew, and reviews and views from fans & critics).
To be published in 2011
Excerpt
Sample Chapter Quotations
from The Quotable Doctor Who
Volume One ...
THE BBC TV SHOW
"Doctor Who needs no introduction ... indeed, right from the very first episode it has relied upon that elusive quality to convince its audiences that even the most far-fetched adventures are as acceptably believable as any down-to-earth example of cinema verite."
Jeremy Bentham, Doctor Who: The Early Years (1986)
"Star Wars is adolescent nonsense; Close Encounters is obscurantist drivel; Star Trek can turn your brains to puree of bat guano; and the greatest science fiction series of all time is Doctor Who! And I'll take you all on, one-by-one or all in a bunch to back it up!"
Harlan Ellison (1975)
On the global appeal of the show - "Because it's the best idea ever invented in the history of the world!"
Russell T. Davies on BBC Wales Today (2004)
"I love this show as much as ever. It has not diminished as I feared it would. I can still catch a Jon Pertwee repeat on UK Gold and be happy as a Zygon."
Russell T. Davies (2005)
"The new Doctor Who turned out to be a surprise. Nobody expected it to be this lousy ... The special effects were neat, but couldn’t disguise the black hole where the show’s brain should be."
Garry Bushell in The People (2005)
"The dialogue was rarely vital to the old Doctor Who: the single word to resonate in it was 'exterminate' "
Mark Lawson in The Guardian (2005)
"It’s basically a teatime kids show - a bit like My Parents Are Aliens, but not half as funny."
Ian Hyland in The Sunday Mirror (2005)
"I hadn't understood the beauty of sci-fi before Dr Who came into my world."
Billie Piper, Growing Pains (2006)
"The cliché about Doctor Who - that it had us 'hiding behind the sofa' - is more telling in its tone than its questionable factuality. It connotes nostalgia, and a pleasurable mixture of fright and fascination - but above all it connotes domesticity. It united fear and soft furnishings in the British mind."
Sam Leith in The Daily Telegraph (2008)
"Doctor Who has to be proper Doctor Who scary. There is nothing scarier than watching Doctor Who as a child. Scarier than Tomb of the Cybermen or Terror of the Autons? Are you mad? No, those are truly terrifying."
Steven Moffat (2010)
"Doctor Who has never pretended to be hard science-fiction. At best, Doctor Who is a fairytale, with fairytale logic, about this wonderful man in this big blue box, who at the beginning of every story lands somewhere where there’s a problem."
Neil Gaiman (2010)
"Despite the new Doctor Who being shot in Wales, partially financed by Canada, and licensed in Australia, New Zealand, the US, and much the rest of the world, Doctor Who is simply British."
Shawn Shimpach, Television in Transition (2010)
"Whenever I catch an episode I find myself thinking, 'Hmm. Matt Smith’s amusing. The girl looks good. But the plots, the villains, the deus ex machina endings … I’m sure I would find these scary and suspenseful and unpredictable if I’d just grown out of rusks' ... Sadly I don’t suppose I’ll ever get to find out what so many adults see in Doctor Who unless I suffer a serious brain injury."
Michael Deacon in The Daily Telegraph (2010)
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