| 1st Week |
Wednesday 15th October, 8pm
St. John's College Video Room |
- Freshers' Drinks featuring Blink
- We start the term with free wine at Freshers' Drinks! On WEDNESDAY from 8pm in the Video Room of
St. John's College (directions at the bottom) we'll have various wines, juices, and soft drinks along with snacks free to
all (first come, first served, though we've never run out before). The evening is a casual get-together for us all to
meet each other and have a good time. At some point, we'll also put on Blink, a very popular episode from the 2007
season. Technology permitting, we might have some token fan-works from the internet.
|
| 2nd Week |
Thursday 23rd October, 8pm
St. John's College Video Room |
- The Doctor's Daughter & The Edge of Destruction
- A pairing of new and old this week, but with a theme in common. From the latest series we've got
The Doctor's Daughter, where David Tennant's tenth Doctor finds himself unexpectedly a father. (The Doctor's eponymous
Daughter, Jenny, is incidentally played by Georgia Moffett, real-life daughter of fifth Doctor Peter Davison.) Then it's
back to 1964 for a two-parter from the show's very first season. After an explosion in the TARDIS, the Doctor's
grand-daughter, Susan, starts behaving very oddly indeed...
|
| 3rd Week |
Thursday 30th October, 8pm
St. John's College Video Room |
- Pyramids of Mars
- A touch of horror for Hallowe'en eve from perhaps the most iconic Doctor of them all, Tom Baker,
and one of the most popular companions of all time, Sarah Jane Smith (played by Elizabeth Sladen). A Doctor Who twist on
the classic Mummy movies, this 1975 story features ancient evil entombed in pyramids, robot mummies, and the
revelation that the Egypition gods were in facy aliens nearly twenty years before Stargate did it.
|
| 4th Week |
Thursday 6th November, 8pm
St. John's College Video Room |
- David Tennant Night
- A couple of gems from the back-catalouge of the present Doctor, the versatile David Tennant. The
Quatermass Experiment is a 2005 live-broadcast adaptation of the classic 1953 sci-fi series of alien posenssion and
paranoia; Tennant, whoe plays Doctor Gordon Briscoe, was cast in Doctor Who during rehearsals for Quatermass.
And in the BAFTA-winning Takin' Over the Asylum, a drama set in the radio station of a mental health hospital, we find a
very young David in one of his first TV roles.
|
Friday 7th November, 7pm
St. John's College Video Room |
- Season 24 Marathon
- It's this term's marathon extravaganza! This Michaelmas we're going to be watching the whole of
Who's somewhat flawed twenty-fourth season - the first season of Sylvester McCoy's tenure, when the Doctor regenerates
due to tulmultuous buffeting, takes up playing the spoons, and voluntarily spends time with Bonnie Langford. Bring your
own gin, vodka, or rum. Drinking games highly recommended.
|
| 5th Week |
Thursday 13th November, 8pm
North Quad Lecture Room, St. John's |
- The Geek Quiz
- The Doctor Who Society presents the termly Geek Quiz! We invite as many "enthusiastic" societies as
possible to battle for the title of the geekiest in Oxford. As usual this is a bring-your-own-round event, so if you
want, prepare a round of roughly 10 questions and you might get a chance to present it to the room. The more unusual the
format the better, though please try and keep the questions at least vaguely answerable (I aim of an average score
of 7).
|
| 6th Week |
Thursday 20th November, 8pm
St. John's College Video Room |
- Spearhead from Space
- It's back to 1970 this week for a story of important firsts - the first Who story in colour, the
first to star Jon Pertwee and his crushed velvet suits, the first appearance of companion Liz Shaw, the first appearance
of the Autons (who also featured in the first episode of the new series of Who in 2005), and the first of UNIT's regular
appearances. Everyone's favourite UN taskforce recently returned in The Sontaran Stratagem; here they're commanded by
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, soon to appear in The Sarah Jane Adventures.
|
| 7th Week |
Thursday 27th November, 8pm
Makan La, 6 St. Michael's Street |
- DocSoc Meal
- This week we head off for a more social event by having our termly meal (let's say its the 45th
anniversary meal). This term we're heading to Makan La for a Malaysian meal (no, I don't know what that means, but
that's more reason for me to want to go).
|
| 8th Week |
Thursday 4th December, 8pm
St. John's College Video Room |
- Christopher Eccleston Night
- Let us not forget the brilliant (if brief) tenure of The Other New Doctor, Chris
Eccleston. This Thursday from 8pm we're going to be showing the whole of the
2003 miniseries The Second Coming, written and produced by Who writer, executive
producer, driving force, and everything else up to and possibly including
set-painter, Russel T. Davies. Eccleston stars as Steven Baxter, the Son of God,
in this thought-provoking drama. Mankind has five days to produce the Third
Testament, or face Judgement Day.
|
