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Classic Character to Return at Christmas? (Sort of) [Spoilers]
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Am I seeing things or does the puppet character in this photo look like Alpha Centauri?
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/s7/doctor-who/i638102-8/doctor-who-the-time-of-the-doctor-new-christmas-special-pictures-a-doctor-puppet-show.html#a537473
I know one regular poster in particular who will be over the moon when she sees this!
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/s7/doctor-who/i638102-8/doctor-who-the-time-of-the-doctor-new-christmas-special-pictures-a-doctor-puppet-show.html#a537473
I know one regular poster in particular who will be over the moon when she sees this!
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It does but it also looks like a Monoid, which someone else has pointed out. Think I'd prefer it to be alpha centauri.
Ah good point. I'm not familiar with the Monoids.
Yep it is. The first Doctor got caught by the Monoids.
Very painful.
Love 'The Ark'. One of my fave Hartnell stories.
It clearly was a bloke on a wheeled three-legged stool with a piece of curtain around him ... I seem to recall it even had rufflette pleats ... wonderful.
http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Monoid
I think the curtain was only added at the last minute to try and make alpha look less phallic as well
The Doctor supposedly
That's right. It was Curse Of Peladon's director Lennie Mayne who insisted that Alpha be 'dressed' in something, anything, for fear of looking too rude. Mayne was an Aussie, much loved by the cast for his straight talking - he called a spade a spade, and a giant cock with a great big eye a giant... well you get the idea.
The same year the Sea Devils were dressed in string vests at the last minute to avoid them looking too naked. But this obviously wasn't a problem when they created the Silurians just a couple of years earlier, or indeed, getting vaguely back on topic, the Monoids in 1966. Later we had more 'naked' creatures like the Marshmen or the Terileptils, but I guess we were all a bit more broad minded by the 1980s! And we had recently all seen the Creature From The Pit