Stop its Ginger Time Trock

Promotion for the BBC's Christmas Doctor Who contest just became adorable:

/via Allegra from stopitsgingertime on YouTube

More details about the contest over at Anglophenia.

Dirty WHOers Podcast - Ep. 36 - Brigadier Special

Pour an extra brandy. You're going to need it at the end.

Our one-off Nicholas Courtney tribute special, with the usual muppets plus contributions c/o Tim Drury, Who director Mr. Graham Harper, series writer and Big Finish chappie Rob Sherman, the inestimable Nev Fountain, myth maker and Mighty Jagrafess of the Holy Hadrojassic Maxarodenfoe Mr. Nick Briggs, and Mr. Frazer Hines talks fond memories and poker.

A labour of editing love and collecting from The Prof and Fuschia. Nicholas and The Brig are sadly missed, and fondly remembered, and we take this time to raise a glass or 3 to the great man's memory.

To The Brig. Forever in Peru.

A look at each Doc

So, I don't write a whole lot here, but this one has been wanting out of my system for a while – much like taco night gone wrong.. When people ask me who my favorite Doctor is, I always have trouble answering. I claim that every Doctor had at least one story that ranks as the best in the show's history. So, to back up that claim, I'm listing my top 11 stories in the show's history – one from each Doctor. Please, feel free to call me a dumb ass, but only if you post your own list :-).

Hartnell – The Edge of Destruction
Sci-fi perfection. Virtually no budget or special effects. Just 100% story with rock solid acting and directing to back it up. Twilight Zone eat your heart out.

Troughton – The War Games
The first of a couple outstanding regen eps. Troughton shows us a Timelord playing the big game for the first time, really. It just all works here, and is brilliant Who. For all his clown act, Troughton's Doctor knows what it means to be a Timelord as well as any.

Pertwee – The Daemons
Perfect ensemble cast. Great story. Great production values (for the era). 'Nuf said.

T Baker – The Deadly Assassin
In spite of all the amazing companions during Tom's era, he is just badass in this serial. The Doctor's character played to perfection, and Doctor Who telling a story that no other venue in sci-fi could ever tell.

Davison – The Caves of Androzani
An ok story completely stolen by Peter Davison, who simply acts the every-living-crap out of every scene. He is just amazing straight through.

C Baker – Attack of the Cybermen
Arrogance tempered with compassion, but on a scale that only a Timelord can appreciate. This is The Doctor as Colin Baker envisioned him, and it was written and played to perfection in this story.

McCoy – The Curse of Fenric
We see the character development cut short in the Colin Baker era played out here. McCoy's Doctor is just damn creepy here, playing a game on a scale that would make the Master blush at his own small mindedness. 10th Doc take notes – this is how you BE a god, and not just play one in the mirror.

McGann – well, duh. We only the one, but it had to be one of the strongest out-of-the-gates performances to date. Oh, what we could have had from him...

Eccleston – Dalek
Our beloved hero got screwed up by the Timewar. And Eccleston plays it brilliantly here. His emotional collapse (recovery?) at the end is exactly what we would expect. The badass-ness we saw develop with McCoy had to come to a head, and the human side of the Doctor we saw in Davison just couldn't cope with what he'd become.

Tennant – Blink
It may be “Doctor lite”, but still outstanding. This is how a Timelord should steer history. A perfect intervention into the course of history, with Tennant's few scenes reminding me of having just a few sips of a fine Scotch and realizing that more would spoil it.

Smith – The Doctor's Wife
Look at the evolution of the relationship between The Doctor and the TARDIS from Edge of Destruction to here. It's simply amazing, and something unique in all of sci-fi and all of TV. I'm a TARDIS freak, and I can't imagine this episode being written, acted, or directed any differently.

Upcycle a Fourth Doctor Scarf - No Knitting Required

Love the fourth Doctor's scarf but don't know how to knit? Not a problem. Make your own knitted Tom Baker scarf with other people's cast offs (knitters: see what I did there?). Use thrift store sweaters and a sewing machine to make a recycled knitted scarf like the fourth Doctor's. That's what this whovian did.

Fully detailed "How To" instructions here, on Instructables, from KBthreads. 

Genesis of the Daleks, by Paul Hanley

Genesis of the Daleks

This may not be Michelangelo but it's pure genius, by Paul Hanley.
/via Quantum T.