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“THE WILD WORLD OF DOCTOR WHO” 

One of the odder “missing stories” from Who is a very early radio pilot for a proposed series written by Malcolm Hulke, the series was ultimately passed over for being too “juvenile,” with BBCs head of sound remarking in the most BBC manner possible 

“As a typical commercial production for unsophisticated listeners in Australia or even some parts of the United States, it stands up quite well. As a piece of science fiction, however, it strikes me as extremely feeble.” Allegedly, at an early stage, they attempted to get Boris Karloff for the role of the good Doctor, but the final product featured work by Peter Cushing, however the entire thing seemed to be separate from his film Who work, seeing him travel alongside yet another version of Susan and that all time classic Dr.Who companion “Mike.” 

But the concept of Boris Karloff as Dr. Who is pretty great, and in conjunction with the BBCs BBCness I like to picture a Karloff lead Who series that willfully embraces trash cinema for its world building, the sort of Dr. Who you could only ever find by watching TV in a motel at three in the morning. If the Cushing films are Who as vintage pulp sci-fi this would be Who as exploitation cinema. 

*edited to remove a frankly bullshit spelling mistake on the photo, fuck me I hate dyslexia. 

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the GREAT AND WONDERFUL DAVID McCALLUM!!! (born. September 19th, 1933)

“I knew my father felt that music would give me a better standard of living than the vicissitudes of the theatre, but he didn’t say it openly.                               Then I did a film called Robbery Under Arms and my name was up in huge letters on the Odeon Leicester Square. He and I walked by, and he said, ‘I think you have made the right choice after all.’ It was a lovely moment.”

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