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Back in the 1980s, Doctor Who fans would spend many days-on-end labouring over two cable-linked VHS Players and a pile of off-air recordings to create Doctor Who clip videos like this. Then they'd premier them at DWAS Local Group meetings, much to the delight of their fellow fans. My dad created a load as a teenager back then, a few of which have survived the passage of time and sit on a shelf at home among his massive VHS collection.

Anyway, he encouraged me to have a go at making one. Clips are from digital sources, of course, and cobbled together in a few hours on a PC one wet Wednesday afternoon. Enjoy.

Music - Forty Years of a Timelord (Theme from Panopticon). Arranged By A. Lock, A. Beech (2003)

I was in the audience for the Doctor Who stage play The Ultimate Adventure, on Saturday 15th July 1989, in Wolverhampton, UK. It was Colin Baker’s turn to play the Doctor, and the whole show was rather wonderful.

There’s a site dedicated to the stage play here: The Ultimate Adventure

I remember some merch was available in the Grand Theatre’s foyer, posters and pin-badges if memory serves me right, but I distinctly remember that there were no tee-shirts.

 So, almost 33 years later, I decided to create my own Doctor Who - The Ultimate Advanture tee-shirt. The logo and captioning are accurate impressions of the ones used for the play’s publicity, and the Daleks are faithful digital re-creations of those unique, bespoke props used in the production.

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Real Police Box Location: Bradgate Park, Newtown Linford, Charnwood, Leicestershire, England. LE6

A Leicestershire Police telephone box of around 1931, moved to its present location in 1952. Timber panels with riveted metal brackets to the sides. Rectangular, approximately 1.8m by 2.4m. Four sides under a very shallow, nearly flat pitched roof over a frieze and cornice. The box sits on a low brick and concrete plinth, which it slightly overhangs.

Description from britishlistedbuildings.co.uk Photos by Chloe "Cleo Who" Mortimer (top two) & Morris-Henshaw (lower pic feat. Chloe).