The great Dean Jones (Robert) and Susan Browning (April) at the recording session for the original cast album for the Broadway musical Company perform “Barcelona.” (1970)
ROBERT: Where you going? APRIL: Barcelona. ROBERT: Oh.
APRIL: Don't get up. ROBERT: Do you have to? APRIL: Yes, I have to.
ROBERT: Oh. APRIL: Don't get up. Now you're angry. ROBERT: No I'm not.
APRIL: Yes you are. ROBERT: No I'm not. Put your things down.
APRIL: See, you're angry. ROBERT: No I'm not. APRIL: Yes you are.
ROBERT: No I'm not. Put your wings down and stay. APRIL: I'm leaving.
ROBERT: Why? APRIL: To go to-- ROBERT: Stay. APRIL: I have to--
APRIL & ROBERT: Fly-- ROBERT: I know--
APRIL & ROBERT: To Barcelona.
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Doctor Who companions summarised in ten words or less (classic edition)
Susan Foreman: Gallifreyan teenager abandoned on post-apocolyptic earth because love.
Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright: Married schoolteachers educate grumpy alien about morality.
Vicki Pallister: New granddaughter acquired!
Steven Taylor: Future Blue Peter presenter enjoys double act with adoptive sisters.
Katarina: She's lovely- oh, wait, now she's dead.
Sara Kingdom: She's cool- oh, wait, now she's dead.
Dodo Chaplet: Northerner loses accent due to BBC classism, more at ten.
Ben Jackson and Polly Wright: Opposites attract couple near-immediately overshadowed by new companion.
Jamie McCrimmon: Himbo highlander as gay as sixties television will allow.
Victoria Waterfield: Nineteenth century teenager has worst week of her life.
Zoe Heriot: Master martial artist knows one (1) throw.
Liz Shaw: Scientist is too competent for this nonsense.
Jo Grant: Cinnimon roll has no self-preservation instinct.
Sarah-Jane Smith: Feminist journalist surrounded by idiotic military men.
Harry Sullivan: Otherwise-sensible medical professional becomes world's biggest imbecile.
Leela of the Sevateem: Knife lady kicks ass, takes names.
K9: Robotic dog malfunctions for ninety minutes.
Romana: Sheltered Gallifreyan has surprisingly good fashion.
Adric: Math kid go boom!
Tegan Jovanka and Nyssa Of Traken: Hypercompetent space girlfriends have unintentional homoerotic subtext.
Vislor Turlough: Universes most incompetent assassin accidentally becomes friends with intended target.
Kamelion: BBC producer gets tricked into buying cursed prop.
Peri Brown: Dubiously-accented botanist struggles with sexism and BBC wardrobe department.
Mel Bush: Health nut weaponises volume of scream.
Ace McShane: Awesome butch bisexual pyromaniac hits things with baseball bat.
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Random Doctor Who Facts You Might Not Know, Part 36
The Eighth Doctor has referred to Time Lord society as "bitchy" before. (Audio: Seasons of Fear)
Maximelos and the Three Ogrons was a children's fairy tale on Gallifrey that the First Doctor heard as a child before being initiated into the Academy. (Short Story: Nothing O'Clock)
Peri once turned the song "Wild Boys" up in order to drown out the Sixth Doctor's opera singing. (Short Story: A Star is Reborn)
Susan failed her maths exam because she had forgotten that Britain hadn't moved to the metric system yet (despite the fact that the First Doctor had tried to get her to remember at least that). (Short story: Extracts from the Doctor’s 500 Year Diary)
The Doctor had a bear when he was young but had to release it when it started eating all the furniture. (Audio: Cuddlesome)
Jo and Cliff Jones frequently work with David Attenborough (Short Story: Greyhound)
The Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler got caught in 1914 Belgium in a battle between Germans and an alien Warfreekz. Rose stopped the war by singing "Angels" by Robbie Williams, which made all sides think she was the Angel of Death come to take their dead to Heaven. (Comic: Warfreekz!)
When the Fifth Doctor broke his spine and was subsequently paralyzed, he thought he would regenerate. (Audio: Devil in the Mist)
The Toymaker once turned the Eighth Doctor into a doll. (Audio: Solitaire)
Chancellor Delox was a lecturer at the Academy who expelled the Doctor from her class after discovering he had not returned to his House for Otherstide. (Novel: Divided Loyalties)
The Second Doctor remembered being something of an acrobat in his First body before age had taken its toll. (Novel: Heart of TARDIS)
The Doctor's TARDIS has an entire snowy mountain range inside of it. (Audio: The Settling)
The console room of the Monk’s TARDIS has a comfy chair covered in comic books in it. (Audio: The Black Hole)
The Tenth Doctor recovered from his regeneration in part because of tea but also in part because he took energy from his Third incarnation, who was nearby. (Short story: The Christmas Inversion)
The Sixth Doctor continued to try to fix the TARDIS chameleon circuit after Attack of the Cybermen. This caused the outer shell to shift to all sorts of odd forms, such as Nelson's column, a giant strawberry, a train engine, a clock, a Christmas tree, a giant Radio Times, and more. (Comic: Quick Change)
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