Showing posts with label Time and the Rani. Show all posts
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Sunday, March 30, 2014

Doctor Who - Kate O' Mara Who Played The Rani Has Passed Away


Kate O'Mara who played the Rani in two Doctor Who stories with two different Doctors has passed away at the age of 74 after a short illness.  She first appeared in the Colin Baker story the Mark of the Rani where along with Anthony Ainley's Master tried to disrupt the Luddite Rites by taking the power of sleep from the miners.  She would later return 2 seasons later in Sylvester McCoy's debut story Time of The Rani.  There she shoots down the TARDIS and triggers The Doctor's regeneration making him become the 7th Doctor.  She is most famously known for her role in Dynasty and also had a reoccurring role in Absolutely Fabulous.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/showbiz/467714/Kate-O-Mara-Dynasty-and-Doctor-Who-actress-dies-aged-74

http://www.itv.com/news/story/2014-03-30/dynasty-and-triangle-star-kate-omara-dies-aged-74/

 http://www.itv.com/news/story/2014-03-30/dynasty-and-triangle-star-kate-omara-dies-aged-74/

 http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/dynastys-kate-omara-dead-live-3301850
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Monday, July 1, 2013

Doctor Who 50th Anniversary: Time and The Rani





Doctor Who:

Time and The Rani

By Pip and Jane Baker



“I don't believe it. A time manipulator. This monstrosity will give you the ability to change the order of creation.”



The TARDIS is under attack and bombarded with lasers being shot from The Rani. The TARDIS crash lands on Lakertya and as a result from that crash The Doctor is injured enough to cause him to regenerate.   The Rani enters the crashed TARDIS and takes the newly regenerated Doctor back to her base to help her with a project of hers.  The Doctor regains conscious and is alert that he is in the company of  The Rani when one of her Tetraps shoots him with a net gun and stuns him.  The Rani gives The Doctor a shot that will induce amnesia and disguises as Mel to get The Doctor to help her with her project.





Meanwhile Mel is wandering Lakertya and causes the death of one of the Lakerishans.  Ikona doesn’t rust Mel and blames her for his friends death.  After much confusion and the pair saving one another Mel and Ikona decide to try and save The Doctor from The Rani’s base of operations.   Once there Mel does not recognize The Doctor and he thinks Mel is The Rani.   Once the two realize that they are who they say they are prepared to stop The Rani from making a Time Manipulator and to mold creation as she sees fit.
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Saturday, June 29, 2013

Doctor Who Debuts: Time and The Rani by @ThePlanetHarris



Time and the Rani: 
Sylvester McCoy’s Debut As The Doctor 
By Steven Harris


September 7th 1987 saw Sylvester McCoy take over from Colin Baker as the world’s favourite Timelord. Baker himself was not on hand to film the regeneration scene, however. Having been unceremoniously sacked by the show he refused to come in and do the traditional handover. Instead McCoy himself substitutes for Baker in an obvious wig.

Written by Pip and Jane Barker who had previously written three 6th Doctor stories, and directed by Andrew Morgan, the action starts pre-titles with a computer generated scene of the Tardis being zapped by something big and zappy whilst spinning around in space and time. Wibbly wobbly stuff happens and then the Tardis lands in a quarry, sorry, on Lakertya, having left a rainbow trail in its wake. The rainbow annoys me, as if it is there to further prove that Doctor Who is no longer family entertainment but a kid’s programme. 




 Anyhoo, a scaly, feathery Lakertyan watches the landing from the ground but is patently nothing to do with the Rani who enters the Tardis in the next scene with some kind of creature on hand to carry the unconscious Doctor wherever it is the Rani wants the Doctor carried. She has no interest in Mel who is also out cold on the floor, in which respect she echoes the sentiments of pretty much all viewers who had surely tired of the squealing Bonnie Langford during her time with Colin Baker’s Doctor. The creature – I’m going to call him Batfink as he is later revealed to be one of the batlike Tetraps whom she has subdued, along with various Lakertyans – Batfink rolls the Doctor over, McCoy’s wig slips, his face goes all out of focus, regeneration begins and the new Paintbox titles start up accompanied by a new, more lethargic version of the theme tune (as arranged by Keff McCulloch). Oh dear, more kid’s stuff – the image of the Doctor during the titles not only smiles, it winks.

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