#hartnell

On this day last year, Tom Hartnell's playlist dropped & boy. If Gibson's playlist was a strong start, I can't think of a better one to follow that. Since then, I've been honored to listen to 14 other wonderful playlists and these are my results. My raw data can be found here, with each playlist attributed to each creator.

The Hartnell Davechella playlist got 591 saves on Spotify.

A few other artists that overlapped: The Flaming Lips, Nick Drake, Mumford & Sons, Wilco, The National, and more.

Listen to Hartnell's Wrapped! Spotify / Youtube

Not sure what The Terror Wrapped Is? Click here

Missed Gibson's analysis last week? Click here

it's party time! for @cold-boy-tapes day 6, you're invited to Colossal Record's Halloween party. curated by store owner Ned Little, staff member Tom Hartnell, and some friends of the shop. based on the modern AU i've been cookin' up in collaboration with the lovely @bossboo. :)

this can be listened to in order or shuffled. no tracklist for this bad boy because it's hours long and will probably get even longer, but have some featured tracks per character under the cut.

Cadet Sweets' Cards: Doctor Who and the Daleks - Miscellaneous

The Cadet Sweets' Cards are consider by most historians to be the first official Doctor Who merchandise ever sold. Cadet Sweets made candy cigarettes and inside each pack came a trading card. These fifty Doctor Who themed collector cards, when read in order, created an ongoing story. Or two stories really....

It starts off on Marinus with the Voords fighting the Daleks. They then call for an uneasy truce when the Daleks discover that the Voord are planning on invading Earth, and they join forces to find a rare mushroom that's supposed to give you physic powers. The Doctor, oh sorry, "Dr. Who" sneaks aboard the Voord ship to sabotage their plans.

Long story, short, the Doctor teams up with the Chief Voord and together they double cross the Daleks by tricking them into eating poisonous mushrooms instead. It's a thin plot but nothing too egregious; it's the second half that gets real weird.

In the second part of the story a lone Dalek allows himself to be captured by Earth forces in order to seek an audience with "Dr. Who". Turns out the Emperor Dalek wants the Doctor's help in defeating a super computer they've built that has gained sentience and is attempting to destroy Sarko. The Doctor agrees to help, but only because a planet blowing up might damage other planets in it's blast radius.

This super computer controls a super nuke and is, for some reason, programed to shoot anything on site that comes near it, including Daleks... even though the Daleks would have no reason to program something that would kill other Daleks.... Even dumber, the Doctor can walk through the lasers without getting hurt because the lasers are built to only harm Daleks... even though Daleks are the ones who built the lasers... What?

Oh and the whole thing ends with the Doctor having a celebratory dinner with his most hated enemies, and him mentioning that he's half human on his mother's side or something.

 You'll also notice that each card comes with illustrations. The artist does a decent enough job at portraying aliens, monsters, landscapes, and spacecrafts, but at no point does the Doctor ever actually look like Hartnell. 

The Tardis and various companions are also mysteriously absent. Making this story hard to place within any timeline. Consulting the Tardis Wiki it's suggested that any First Doctor solo stories might take place after the Five Doctors which, according to expanded media, took place shortly after The Dalek Master Plan. The reasoning being that the rose garden seen at the beginning of the special is at some sort of wellness retreat/memorial and Steven is off getting therapy. 

I guess that's as good of an explanation as any, hence why I chose to review this story after the Dalek Annual featuring Sara Kingdom.

• Ball Gown.

Date: ca. 1950

Designer/Maker: Ralph Samuel; Hartnell of Melbourne PTY LTD.