For anyone wanting to get in to film/TV, I’ve put together a series of lunchtime talks from Wednesday to Sunday next week on directing, design, composing, producing & locations with fantastic guests. Free for under 25s. Do share! Part of From Page to Screen festival. @bridportarts.bsky.social

This might be the most Doctor Who that Doctor Who has ever Doctor Who’d.

@benaaronovitch.bsky.social Hi Ben, I write for Doctor Who Magazine. I’ve just sent you a DM on Instagram and Facebook. Would love to chat! Hope you don't mind me trying here too.

Is it correct to say that neither “The Nightmare Begins” nor “Devil’s Planet” has been broadcast, ANYWHERE in the world, since their original UK transmission in November 1965? (CC: @nothinglane.bsky.social @tobyhadoke.bsky.social @themindrobber.bsky.social @missingepisodespod.bsky.social)

Actor and Film United Peter Purves, actor, and star of both the recovered episodes of Doctor Who, posses with the original can in which the 16mm film was found, and Film is Fabulous! founder, John Franklin.

EXCLUSIVE First Look! “The Nightmare Begins” and “Devil’s Planet”. youtu.be/QvwUrJAuAHks...

“Oh, I gave up long ago.” Reminded of what Peter Purves said when I interviewed him for DWM last year about the chances of missing episodes being found. “I think the fans want ‘The Daleks’ Master Plan’. Not a chance! I doubt it’ll EVER turn up.” 👀😅

Further information on the two recovered episodes of Doctor Who can be found on the Film is Fabulous! website: filmisfabulous.org.uk/missing-doct...

Missing Doctor Who Recovered! The Film is Fabulous! team are pleased to announce the recovery of two missing episodes of Doctor Who, from the serial entitled, ‘The Daleks’ Master Plan’: The Nightmare Begins (Broadcast: 13th Nov 1965) Devil’s Planet (Broadcast: 27th Nov 1965)

FUCKING HELL GET IN www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Having such a visceral, joyous reaction to the #DoctorWho lost episodes news. What a feeling.

There’s something atavistic, almost shamanistic, about the discovery of missing episodes. The realisation that you can suddenly look into the past – hear from the dead and the lost – sends a faint, primal shiver down the spine.

I’m on BBC Breakfast tomorrow. About 7.50am. Fun to be had.

“They are out there, I know it! And they’re getting closer.” 🚨 BREAKING! 🚨 Missing #DoctorWho episodes FOUND!! After 61 years, “The Nightmare Begins” & “Devil’s Planet” (Eps 1 & 3 of “The Daleks’ Master Plan”) are BACK, thanks to @filmisfabulous.bsky.social. Available on iPlayer in April!

Five Zero Alpha to Charlo Charlo Egan, come in. Charlo Charlo Egan, this is Five Zero Alpha, can you read me?? Come in!

Saw Peter Capaldi at the 100 Club tonight, thanks to @biiilyedwards.bsky.social (who shot this video). 🎸 Didn’t expect a mash-up of “All the Young Dudes”, “Don’t Look Back in Anger”, and Shakespeare’s “Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow” soliloquy from Macbeth to hit so hard. But it did.

What if #DoctorWho’s The War Between the Land and the Sea had been made in the 1970s? A retro-style film poster by Oliver Arkinstall-Jones (@ ArkyJono on X). for the unreleased, big-screen #TheSeaDevils epic! 🌊😈

If you want to know how the British print news industry ends (which is, de facto, amazingly still what supports most newspaper websites) it's the distribution channels getting banjaxed. When you lose "TG Jones" etc even people who want a paper can't get one. That'll be the real start of the ending.

“A genuinely impressive piece of work… the best of the classic Who edits to date.” Catching up on this month’s @DWMtweets. Belated thanks to @evilrobotbill.bsky.social for his kind words about “The Sea Devils” (2025) omnibus. 💙 Hey, it’s OUT NOW on The War Between DVD, Blu-ray, and Steelbook. 🌊 😈

Out today! The War Between the Land and the Sea + many extras including the new 90-minute edit of "The Sea Devils" Blu-ray Steelbook: amzn.to/4kd2uZr Blu-ray: amzn.to/4ap4yKG DVD: amzn.to/49UWMbr #ad Also available at Rarewaves: tidd.ly/4kd37SN

After the success of "The Daleks" and "The War Games" it was perhaps inevitable that @benjamincook.bsky.social and colleagues would get round to "The Krotons in Colour".

Amazing coda here.

Design nerds, here's the new @radiotimes.bsky.social logo as revealed at their covers party this evening.

Love this letter in the latest Doctor Who Magazine. James’ 10yo son has excellent taste.

Hear me out. Could you ask, “Name 10 fellow players who are DEFINITELY Traitors.” 😏 Traitors can’t break the vow “to keep the identity of your fellow Traitors a secret”, so this question forces their hand: they can’t NOT lie! Meaning every name they give is guaranteed Faithful.

Some good writerly advice from Steven Moffat, published in Doctor Who Magazine #471.

In a few weeks, Tess Daly will be revealed as the Secret Traitor, and the takeover will be complete. #TheTraitors

“Mr Whatsit, you have received the most votes…” #TheTraitors

Well, I enjoyed the Stranger Things finale. Mostly, though, I’m grateful for the reminder that Doctor Who fans are – and I can’t believe I’m saying this – comparably sane.

What did I get up to in 2025? The year started and ended with charting the edits for two omnibuses on TV. First The War Games cut down to almost a third the length but now IN COLOUR!

Current deal - 15% off! Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour Steelbook Blu-ray Currently only £15.16! (cheaper than the regular blu-ray edition, which is currently £16.99) amzn.to/4qwANgi #ad

Beatles boffins! What can you tell me about this photo of Ringo? Found in a box of ’60s things (!) in my parents’ attic. It’s from – I think? – A Hard Day’s Night, but is it a well-known shot? Or something a bit more obscure? (I’m betting @samiraahmed.bsky.social will know.)

The single greatest piece of acting in Doctor Who history, and I profoundly regret cutting it from our 2025 “The Sea Devils” omnibus. 🌊😈 Merry Xmas, everyone.

Glad to see the new edit of The Sea Devils still passes the Bechdel Test.

The incredible Paul MC Smith has made this infographic of all the edits we made to “The Sea Devils” for its 2025 omnibus. wonderfulbooks.co.uk/data I am in awe (of him, not us. Although, also us)… 🧵 The rest of the thread is amazing too.

For everyone asking whether our 2025 cut of “The Sea Devils” 🌊😈 is getting a DVD/Blu-ray/Steelbook release (yes, it is, on this)…

“The communist who turned Doctor Who into an eco-warrior.” A great article on Malcolm Hulke by @0tralala.bsky.social in yesterday’s Telegraph: www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2025/12/1...

It knows what it did.

Warriors of the Deep, sulking in the corner.

“The Sea Devils” (1972) and “The Underwater Menace” (1967) getting primetime BBC One promos in the space year 2025. 🫡

My thoughts on the Sea Devils Re-edit.🐵🌊😈 Honourable shout out to @benjamincook.bsky.social and @markayresrws.bsky.social, who I don't mention in the vid but also worked on this mighty fine re-working of an old classic.

Wow, the 2025 edit of The Sea Devils is quite something: whopotterviansmediamayhem.wordpress.com/2025/12/09/t... #DoctorWho

“They’ve gone, sir. Everything’s gone.” Nice Easter egg in #TheWarBetweentheLandandtheSea: Corporal Jane Hart (played by Catherine Garton) takes her name from “The Sea Devils” power couple 3rd Officer JANE Blythe (June Murphy) and Captain John HART (Edwin Richfield)! 🌊 😈

REVIEW: Doctor Who: The Sea Devils - a nostalgia powered magic trick, this is The Sea Devils as you think you remember it, full of fast paced action and moments of charm. @benjamincook.bsky.social @bbcdoctorwho #DoctorWho #TheSeaDevils #TheWarBetween Full review:

Well, this is a pretty special way to start the week: a gorgeous email from the great Michael E Briant (director of “The Sea Devils” in 1972!), with some very kind words about last night’s omnibus edit. What a gent. I’m very aware we’re only here because of the work of people like Michael. 🙌

Turn on BBC Four. RIGHT NOW! Can’t believe I’m tweeting this at 2.30am. But some Doctor Who I’ve edited is on the telly. Um, again. 🌊 😈

My favourite meme of the evening. ⬇️ 😏 Thanks for watching “The Sea Devils", everyone. It’ll be on iPlayer till this time next year: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis... And on TV – yes, AGAIN! – at 2.30am tonight/Monday morning, on BBC Four! Shall we knock back the scotch Pertwee-style and rewatch? 🥃

Feel a bit sorry for the sea devils, being all shot up #DoctorWho