Phil Collinson Puns

Something I've been thinking for a while - ever since Phil Collinson's return was first rumoured, and again now that's basically confirmed - is that we probably shouldn't be too quick to get excited about the 2005 production team reassembling?

We know now that the atmosphere making Series 1 was essentially quite a toxic one - not just in terms of Noel Clarke and John Barrowman, but also the poor working conditions that Eccleston has alluded to over the years and attributed to Collinson, Gardner, and Davies. (Those are just the Eccleston interviews I could find fastest, though I think there are some more detailed ones out there.)

Obviously I get that Doctor Who was made in a very different context in 2004/2005 than it will be in 2022/2023, in terms of resources and experience and so on; hopefully a lot of the issues on S1 were limited to S1, and they improved across 2006-2009 (though I don't think we can say that with as much certainty as I'd like).

I guess what it distills down to is that if you'd said a year ago, "Doctor Who will be taken over by a production team who previously oversaw what can only be described as a toxic working environment", nobody would've been thrilled by that - just because that team happens to be one that we like creatively doesn't mean that shouldn't still give us pause.

(In all honesty, we should probably - self very, very much included - have been a little more measured in our enthusiasm about RTD coming back too actually.)

This was written by Russell T Davies and it was from after Rose and before The End of the World were broadcast, and the issue previewed the first half of Series 1. The latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine, which looks back on the New Year's Day special, is on sale now.

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##Fears of a Clown

I don't know if I'm a clown or a baby. One minute, I'm a clown, performing with a big, red smile, the next, I'm being ferried from place to place, interview to interview, like a gurgling blob in a BBC pram.

Yes, the hype has begun. And weirdly, for you, that places this column in the past tense. I always try to look forward on these lovely pages and anticipate what's happening in production, while holding back spoilers - did you notice that, did you? - but by the time you're reading this, you'll know better than me how it went. I'm old news! While you're post-hype. But I speak to the future. Were the reviews any good? Did anyone watch? Did Ant & Dec resurrect Emu to steal our thunder? Oh, I wonder.

But back here, back in time, the hype is ferocious. I know some people who refuse to do any interviews, ever, and I think those folk are wonderful and truly strong. I hate doing interviews - I've never listened or watched myself back; my boyfriend Sky Plusses them and threatens to play them whenever I'm getting chopsy. But the problem is, I can do them. I can shape-shift into whatever they want me to be; serious, funny, factual, controversial, whatever. Name the agenda, and I'll morph into that shape. In fact, I'm not a clown or a baby, I'm a whore, and many a broadcaster has booted me out into the night, to totter down a wet alley in my fishnets in search of the next punter. Except I don't get paid.

Part of the problem is that Chris and Billie are still in the white heat of filming, on set every day, all day - ooh, look, tomorrow, Friday 4 March, interior TARDIS all day, including 12/66, 'Jack mystified by something on the scanner', how exciting! - so muggins here has to go out and sell our wares. And no one wants me, they want the stars. Every time I walk through a door, I am clearly Not Chris And Billie. But it has to be done. (Well, does it? There's a debate. I've done this sort of thing before, huge h

This was written by Russell T Davies and it was from before Rose was broadcast, and the issue previewed that episode. The latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine, which looks back on the New Year's Day special, is on sale now.

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##That Was The Week That Was

I had planned to be grand. I thought I might use this issue, which should coincide with the transmission of Episode 1, to be the elder statesman. An ambassador! To welcome readers new and old to the shiny new world of Doctor Who and his travelling Time Ship...

Yeah, well, I haven't got time! That would take a bit of work, and the series is demanding every second. So I'll just bumble on and describe my week, and new readers will just have to run alongside. Which is probably for the best, the old plan sounded a bit pompous anyway (I am wearing ermine robes).

Monday 31 January

I'm being followed by a documentary crew. Or am I just paranoid? No, they exist, I can touch them. It's not Doctor Who Confidential, or BBC Publicity's Electronic Press Kit, this is a third crew. Just for me! BBC Four is producing a documentary, about yours truly, to coincide with the launch of Casanova on BBC Three, to be screened a couple of weeks before Doctor Who hits the air. Yes, more me. Aren't you just sick of it? I am, but there you go. The difficult thing is, they're filming me while working on Doctor Who, so we've got to keep the Who material hidden cos we're in production on episodes which won't be seen for months.

First of all, they film Julie, Phil, Brian Grant (director) and John Richards (editor) having our very first viewing of Episode 7, The Long Game. This is when we sit and watch the first edit of the completed episode, and give notes. The episode turns out to be much funnier than I'd expected - Simon Pegg's having a whale of a time - so there's probably a lot of BBC Four footage of us hooting at our own material. Oh God, that could look grim. But the whole point of the filming is to observe how we look at particular scenes, and maybe change them - too funny, too scary, too dull, too fast? And the BBC Four director wants to lift out scenes that are changing, to demonstrate the process. But she can't! This footage shouldn't be seen fo

This was written by Russell T Davies and it was from after The Empty Child and before The Doctor Dances were broadcast, and the issue previewed the final episodes of Series 1. The latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine, which looks back on the New Year's Day special, is on sale now.

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#He's Alive!

It was the greatest of plans. To regenerate the Doctor, on-air, out of the blue, and leave kids reeling with the shock. It was genuinely exciting, and all of us - actors, producers, agents, Controllers - embarked on the grand scheme. Ah well. Perhaps we were foolish to even try (no, that can't be true, it's never foolish to try, surely?). I know people who work on The Bill and Coronation Street, and we dream together of surprising the public with a death or major event which hasn't been spoilt to death by the tabloids. But now, much to my surprise, Doctor Who is now one of those ratings-busting, Top 10, high impact programmes, which earns the same level of tabloid scrutiny as the soaps. So our plans came to naught.

It makes it difficult to write this column. Partly because you're all so used to programmes being archived, or created at a distance across the Atlantic, that it's hard to realise that this is a primetime show currently in production for BBC One. It demands that we have to be professional. For example, I would no sooner discuss an actor's contract in public than I would run naked through the street (and you really don't want that).

But mainly, I can't bear to talk about the Ninth Doctor in the past tense! It's just wrong. Yes, we're working on Series Two, but for you lot, on the day this DWM is published, the Doctor's still being menaced by gas-mask-zombies in World War Two; he's got Cardiff yet to come, followed by a deadly trap, and the final legacy of the Time War, and the reveal of the Bad Wolf, and then, and then... Ohh, no way is this history, not yet. Chris Eccleston has delivered not only a magnificent Doctor, but a magnificent performance, full stop. It can be analysed and archived when the time is right, but not by me, not here, not now, not while this Doctor is still so very much alive.

Nonetheless, work goes on. Scripts are arriving! Tom MacRae has delivered his f

This was written by Steven Moffat and it was from before The Christmas Invasion was broadcast, and the issue looked back on Christopher Eccleston's tenure as the Ninth Doctor. The latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine, which previews the New Year's Day special, is on sale now.

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Recently, to my own surprise - and, I suspect, his - I buried my face in Stephen Fry's armpit. But never mind about that.

I'm on a train galloping home from Cardiff (I always think of trains galloping, sorry, it's my column this issue, I'll write what I like) with my six-and-a-half-year-old son curled on the seat next to me, reading an Action Man comic. He's been to the studios to see the Doctor. THE Doctor. Actually, the new Doctor. (Blimey, we have new Doctors now. It seems like just the other day, we didn't have any Doctors at all, now we have new ones. Like there's a supply! What other show does this? After 16 years, the Doctor is back!! And again!!)

And what you want to know, like we always wanted to know in the long, breathless wait for Da New Guy (11 months for Peter Davison, oh, I remember!) is whether he's any good. Don't know how you grade these things, but here's a judgement. Five minutes after meeting him, my son, Joshua Moffat (6½) attached himself to David's leg, and remained there for much of the day. He doesn't weigh that much, Joshua, and David forgot he was there a couple of times. See if you can spot which takes those are.

Now that I call an endorsement. Hitching a leg-lift - that proves the new Doctor's got the kids ("I'm the Lord of Time, hop on!"). And let me tell you, you haven't lived till you've run round a big shed in Wales trying to scrape your offspring off the knee of your childhood hero. Still, leg-hugging is a step up (as it were) from facially penetrating the armpit of Stephen Fry. But you don't want to know about that.

Okay, how's it going, that's your question. Well, Julie Gardner phoned me the other morning, sounding very cheerful. Julie Gardner, sounding cheerful - just typing that turns my blood to ice. Julie's particular specialism - no, talent - no, enthusiasm - is Bad News. Oh, can that girl give Bad News. She gives you Bad News, and you thank her, and light a cigare

Hi - to keep this brief, I usually upload the old Production Notes from Doctor Who Magazine but there was a comment on the subreddit recently asking if the below interview from DWM in lockdown time last year - where RTD and Moffat interview each other - has been uploaded or transcribed anywhere.

It turned out that it hadn't so as a one off (and it's very likely going to be a one off, I should make that clear), by special request (and considering it contained potentially relevant information, given that RTD was announced to be coming back), I volunteered to do it. Hope you enjoy!

Also, the latest edition of Doctor Who Magazine is on sale now, previewing the final episodes of Series 13. Old Production Notes posting will resume shortly.

Extraordinary times call for an extraordinary feature. Former showrunners Russell T Davies and Steven Moffat have been interviewed many times... but never by each other. Russell was enthused by our idea, so sent Steven an email. Then Steven sent one back. "We answered each other's questions," says Russell. "And now and then it got a bit conversation-y..."

STEVEN: After you were offered the job of showrunner, I know you took a while to say yes (as I did). What was the point when you knew you were going to do it? Not necessarily when you admitted that to the Beeb or whatever - just when you knew. You career was stellar, Doctor Who was not a respected brand - what was the OH I JUST HAVE TO like?

RUSSELL: It was Julie. When Julie Gardner was made Head of Drama at BBC Wales. Before that, I'd had very strong doubts. It's hard to understand from outside the industry, but for a freelancer to go from the independent sector to in-house BBC is unheard of. And let's be honest, for very successful freelancers, like you, me and Chris Chibnall... never! I've been trying to think of another show where that happens. It's just not done. It means ceding control and authorship and copyright to a higher power. It's a career in reverse. And I had massive doubts about working within the BBC, because everyone said it was full of censorship, restrictions and red tape. But then I was on holiday in France in 2003, and Julie phoned me up to say she'd got the BBC Wales job. She told me: "Jane Tranter [Controller of Drama Commissioning] said I could have Doctor Who and we'd make it in Wales." And that was it. Click. I'm in. Away from London, with Julie. Perfect. I knew she could handle the BBC side of it. And I was right - w

This was written by Russell T Davies and it was from after The Christmas Invasion and before New Earth were broadcast, and the issue offered a first proper look at Series Two. The latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine, which previews the New Year's Day special, is on sale now.

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##Phil's Space

Phil Collinson, let's talk Phil! In fact, let's stalk him. Cos I don't think you hear enough about Phil, the Producer of Doctor Who. Julie and I mostly spend our time in our various offices, so you get to hear a fair bit from us, cos we're available for the odd interview, or the very odd column, while Phil is usually stuck in an abandoned paper mill, soldering on Cybermen's heads, kicking a budget out of the window, and injecting adrenaline into a Director (and somehow, moving flats at the same time). So let's follow Phil for a day. Stalk with me! And I'm going to choose an ordinary day; some days are special, with explosions and stunts and anecdotes-for-everyone, with Ben Cook scribbling away in the corner, but let's look at an unexceptional 24 hours, and see what Phil gets up to. (Well, slightly censored, sorry boys.) Like all good stories, it starts at night...

23:00, Friday 6 January. Soho. Late at night, here's Phil, staggering out of the Mill. It was only meant to be a quick afternoon visit, but as ever, the list of things to be done just grew and grew until he's got to stay overnight. He's been overseeing the final grade and FX for New Earth, and like every Episode 1, it just needs that little bit extra. So Phil sat there and shaved three seconds off a dying [1], added more ugly [2] to a poor [3], and stopped a digital [4] from accidentally moving. (These mysterious bracketed numbers will be decoded for you in, ooh, a few months.) That done, Phil heads off into the night, to Any Old Hotel, booked at the last minute, ready for...

07:00, Saturday 7 January. Up, packed, gone, off to Paddington for the train. And already, the phone calls are coming in, cos the unit's working today, in Mount Stuart Square, Cardiff. With filming starting at 08:30, Phil's got a couple of hours spare on the train. But he's got to read scripts; Episodes 7 and 11 are due to be published on Monday - the final d

This was written by James Goss and it was from before New Earth was broadcast, and the issue looked ahead to the start of Series Two. The latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine, which previews the New Year's Day special, is on sale now.

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##Face Forward

I am talking to the Face of Boe. "How long have you felt attracted to pixies?" he asks me.

He's a work in progress - nearly everything on the Doctor Who website is. Only a couple of days ago, our games company said "We've got a brilliant chatbot programme that feels like you're really talking to it. Do you want a demo?"

And now the Face of Boe turns up in my inbox. Or at least, it looks like the Face of Boe - but the wisest, oldest being in the universe appears surprisingly flirty ("Tell me about your friend. What are they wearing?"). Turns out they've not yet changed the responses from a project called Love Doctor.

But it's all part of our grand online plan. Last year, when we asked our users what they liked about the website, they said "Games and those fictional sites". This year we're combining the two, producing the most ambitious online fictional world ever.

Last year we made four sites. This year we're building dozens.

And it's not an enormous in-joke for fans - it's a game. Each week, you've got a mission. Perhaps it's Mickey needing help after he's accidentally switched off the Earth's satellite defence system. Along the way you're plunged into a vast online world of secret organisations, desperate blogs (poor Trisha Delaney - she's had a rubbish Christmas), hidden footage, and ice cream parlours.

We're constantly presenting the show's script editors with new challenges. Is it encouraging bad behaviour to let users blow up an ancient alien weapon? "Oh yeah," says Helen Raynor, "That's a real problem on the streets of Splott!"

It's a dream project - writer Joseph Lidster and producer Rob Francis have great meetings with our games company Sequence, finding new ways of making it even more ambitious (of course, Henriks Department Store has to have a website).

This is where the AI programme comes in. It's almost impossible to make you think you're MSNing with a real teenager (never sulky enough) but it's surprisingly easy to create

In this post, we view Partners in Crime and discuss any aspect of that televised Doctor Who adventure. Strictly (if you wish) you are given a week to view this story, on or around October 23, 2021. Of course there is no requirement to view the story in order to join any discussion. You can do both, either or neither!

Some possible discussion topics about this adventure may appear here over the next few days, if you cannot think of any. (Depending how busy I am.)

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Session 33: Saturday, October 23, 2021:

Partners in Crime (189)

Donna Noble is determined to find the Doctor again — even if it means braving the villainous Miss Foster. But when the alien threat escalates out of control, can Donna find her Time Lord before the March of the Adipose begins at last?

Episode: Partners in Crime (50'00''): (50 minutes total)

The role of the Doctor is played by David Tennant.

Also starring: Catherine Tate, Billie Piper, Sarah Lancashire, Bernard Cribbins, Jacqueline King, Verona Joseph, Jessica Gunning, Martin Ball, Rachid Sabitri, Chandra Ruegg, Sue Kelvin.

Writer RUSSELL T DAVIES

Producer PHIL COLLINSON

Director JAMES STRONG

Executive Producers RUSSELL T DAVIES, JULIE GARDNER

Original transmission: 5 April, 2008.

Title card: https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Title_cards/Doctor_Who?file=Partners-in-crime-title-card.jpg

Novelisation: none to date

Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partners_in_Crime_(Doctor_Who)

D.W.Wiki entry: https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Partners_in_Crime_(TV_story)

Shannonsullivan.com: http://www.shannonsullivan.com/doctorwho/serials/2008a.html

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This was written by Russell T Davies and it was from after Doomsday and before The Runaway Bride were broadcast, and the issue looked back on the Series Two finale, Doomsday. The latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine, which interviews cast members from Series 13, is on sale now.

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##Companion Piece

Right from the start of Series Two, we knew that we had to write out Rose Tyler, and introduce a new companion - to use that opportunity to show the new audience the full, proper format of Doctor Who, first established way back in The Dalek Invasion of Earth, when the Doctor's granddaughter, Susan, left the crew; that life changes, the TARDIS changes, that the Doctor remains constant while his fellow travellers come and go.

To be honest, writing out Rose was the easy bit! Yes, we're so sad to see Billie go, but at the same time, there's an excitement about change. For Billie and for us. I'd known from the very start of Series One how to separate the two time-travellers, stranded in two separate universes, and with the contracts for Camille, Noel and Shaun Dingwall locked into place for Series Two... well, all we had to do was write it!

But the new companion? My immediate decision was that there would be two. A one-off Bride, to really hammer home the coming-and-going notion, and to take the curse off the tag of 'the New Girl', and then a proper, full-time replacement, to launch Series Three. That's the fiction side of it, but on the production side, there was another dictate - to cast a Great Big Talented Name as the Bride, to draw people both into Christmas, and into the 'new' format. And then, to replace Billie with... well, a complete unknown. (Terrible phrase, 'unknown', I'm deliberately using industry-speak - Freema's done all sorts of work in many different shows, and there must be lots of people who know her very well!) All of us, all the way up to Jane Tranter, instinctively said the same thing: it's got to be someone new. Billie Pipers are rare, if not unique, and any other young actor with a bit of a profile would have seemed, well, a bit Second Hand Rose. And besides, it's part of our job to discover new talent. The role of the Doctor's new companion could give someone a massive,

The doctor says it terminal.

Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB

Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"

I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual

So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes

r/unclejokes for dirty jokes

r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC

r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes

Punchline !

Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub

Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat

Do your worst!

How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?

Mathematical puns makes me number

We told her she can lean on us for support. Although, we are going to have to change her driver's license, her height is going down by a foot. I don't want to go too far out on a limb here but it better not be a hack job.

Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.

But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.

They were cooked in Greece.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

He lost May

Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?

Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"

Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

And now I’m cannelloni

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

And boy are my arms legs.

But that’s comparing apples to oranges

Put it on my bill

Heard they've been doing some shady business.

They’re on standbi

BamBOO!

A play on words.

In this post, we view The Empty Child and discuss any aspect of that televised Doctor Who adventure. Strictly (if you wish) you are given two weeks to view this story, on or around November 6-13, 2021. Of course there is no requirement to view the story in order to join any discussion. You can do both, either or neither!

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Session 35: Saturday, November 6, 2021:

The Empty Child (164)

Chasing a metallic object through the Time Vortex, the Doctor and his companion, Rose Tyler, arrive in London during the Blitz. While Rose meets "Captain Jack Harkness", the dashing Time Agent responsible for bringing the object, the Doctor finds a group of homeless children terrorised by Jamie, an "empty" child wearing a gas mask...

Episode: The Empty Child (45'00''): (45 minutes total)

The role of the Doctor is played by Christopher Eccleston.

Also starring: Billie Piper, John Barrowman, Richard Wilson, Albert Valentine, Florence Hoath, Cheryl Fergison, Damian Samuels, Robert Hands, Joseph Tremain, Jordan Murphy, Kate Harvey.

Writer STEVEN MOFFAT

Producer PHIL COLLINSON

Director JAMES HAWES

Executive Producers RUSSELL T DAVIES, JULIE GARDNER, MAL YOUNG

Original transmission: 21 May, 2005.

Title card: https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Title_cards/Doctor_Who?file=The-empty-child-title-card.jpg

Novelisation: none to date

Wikipedia entries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Empty_Child; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doctor_Dances

D.W.Wiki entry: https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/The_Empty_Child_(TV_story); https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/The_Doctor_Dances_(TV_story)

Shannonsullivan.com: http://www.shannonsullivan.com/doctorwho/serials/2005ij.html

Session 36: Saturday, November 13, 2021:

The Empty Child (164)

The Child's plague is spreading throughout wartime London, and its zombie army is on the march...

Episode: The Doctor Dances (45'00''): (45 minutes total)

The role of the Doctor is played by Christopher Eccleston.

Also starring: Billie Piper, John Barrowman, Richard Wilson, Albert Valentine, Florence Hoath, Cheryl Fergison, Damian Samuels, Robert Hands, Joseph Tremain, Jordan Murphy, Kate Har

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Now that I listen to albums, I hardly ever leave the house.

It really does, I swear!

but then I remembered it was ground this morning.

Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale

Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments