In Memory of Elisabeth Sladen Pt III - The Classic Series

The next few posts will all be in memory of Elisabeth Sladen and this one will be a few of her classic most memorable classic moments and the moments that we all love and know her from when she started in Doctor Who.

Why are Daleks frightening?

Back in 1967 the Doctor was tasked with identifying the Human Factor, which was to ultimately revealed as a plan to unveil the Dalek Factor (The Evil of the Daleks). But what is the Dalek Factor in reality? Fan wisdom states that the Daleks are the first of the Doctor's adversaries to warrant the "behind the sofa" moniker, but now a Cambridge academic has written a paper on what he believes really makes the Doctor's greatest enemy so frightening.

Doctor Robin Bunce has researched how the Daleks have been used over the years and the perceived effect on viewers, eventually arriving at the conclusion that our 'fear' of them is based upon how they challenge us on what it means to be human ourselves:

The reason the Daleks are evil is because we recognise that they were once better. They are the nightmare future we dread.

According to their back-story, once they were capable of genuine emotion and real moral good. Now they are sexless, heartless brains, shut up in machines incapable of intimacy, who have forgotten what it means to laugh and no longer think of themselves as individuals. We recognise the Daleks as evil because they have lost all that we hold most dear.

Tom Baker Wallpaper by DV8R71 Classic Doctor Who

First Look of Planet of the Spiders

Here are three exclusive First Looks from the official BBC Classic Doctor Who youtube channel, the three are showing us a bit from a Planet of Spiders from the third doctor, John Pertwee.

New Doctor Who Yeti

According to the Eye of Horous's character options internal source, the merchandise company will be releasing a toy of the Patrick Troughton and a robot Yeti by the end of the year, and will be made as seen in the 1967 episode The Web of Fear.

This is following the successful sales of the Master and Axon alien from the classic episode The Claws of Axon.

The detail and sculpture of the classic toys are amazing considering how old the episodes where but the one thing they could of done to improve the Yeti is to give it glowing eyes.