I usually ignore the BBC's Doctor Who Adventure/Advent calendar because, being a lowly non-UK resident, most of the good stuff can't be viewed outside Britain (someday the BBC - and their lawyers - will understand what World Wide Web means).
Feeling in a mood to complain I went to take a look and see what they have that we can't see here. There are a few things, like a followup to Dreamland and some interviews that are "forbidden knowledge". But I was pleased to see that there's an exclusive on-line short story called The Advent of Fear which has been posted and which IS viewable outside the UK. (Will wonders never cease).
Actually, to be fair, the BBC website has posted several of these stories over the last few years, and they aren't geolocked. The question remains whether they will be available after the switch over to Matt Smith as presumably the website will be overhauled in the coming months.
The Advent of Fear by Mark B. Oliver
Part 1: http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/s4/features/stories/adventure_091206
Part 2: http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/s4/features/stories/adventure_091210
Additional online stories are available here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/s4/features/stories/
The list includes the original short story upon which Blink was based, as well as a prologue to the Season 3 episode "42".
Of particular note is the Writer's Comics section. The BBC website had something called a Comic Maker or something like that. It was one of the many features geo-locked for UK users only where you could use Doctor Who-related clip art to do your own stories. The BBC got a number of professional Doctor Who writers (TV episodes and novels) to do original short stories in this format. Surprisingly, it's viewable outside the UK.
It's not listed on the above site, but completists may also wish to check out The Feast of the Stone, an online short story featuring the Richard B. Grant version of the Ninth Doctor who was featured in Scream of the Shalka. It's a rather "out of the way" story as it's posted on the BBC's "Cult Vampires" website rather than Doctor Who. Amazingly it's still up some 5 years after it was posted:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/vampires/newstory/scottwright.shtml
Alex
Feeling in a mood to complain I went to take a look and see what they have that we can't see here. There are a few things, like a followup to Dreamland and some interviews that are "forbidden knowledge". But I was pleased to see that there's an exclusive on-line short story called The Advent of Fear which has been posted and which IS viewable outside the UK. (Will wonders never cease).
Actually, to be fair, the BBC website has posted several of these stories over the last few years, and they aren't geolocked. The question remains whether they will be available after the switch over to Matt Smith as presumably the website will be overhauled in the coming months.
The Advent of Fear by Mark B. Oliver
Part 1: http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/s4/features/stories/adventure_091206
Part 2: http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/s4/features/stories/adventure_091210
Additional online stories are available here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/s4/features/stories/
The list includes the original short story upon which Blink was based, as well as a prologue to the Season 3 episode "42".
Of particular note is the Writer's Comics section. The BBC website had something called a Comic Maker or something like that. It was one of the many features geo-locked for UK users only where you could use Doctor Who-related clip art to do your own stories. The BBC got a number of professional Doctor Who writers (TV episodes and novels) to do original short stories in this format. Surprisingly, it's viewable outside the UK.
It's not listed on the above site, but completists may also wish to check out The Feast of the Stone, an online short story featuring the Richard B. Grant version of the Ninth Doctor who was featured in Scream of the Shalka. It's a rather "out of the way" story as it's posted on the BBC's "Cult Vampires" website rather than Doctor Who. Amazingly it's still up some 5 years after it was posted:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/vampires/newstory/scottwright.shtml
Alex
