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...these were my 5 choices of the top 50 my friend... I'm tipping the last image to win it outright... this has been great fun indeed... cheers.
BigBrotherCritic
Like working a job 24/7, for 2 days on the trot
Like a Babbel Fish 
...that was bloody brilliant!... cheers.
BigBrotherCritic
Like working a job 24/7, for 2 days on the trot
HOLY SHIT
http://www.cultbox.co.uk/news/headlines/bbc-planning-new-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy
BBC planning new ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy’
The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy is set to return to BBC Radio 4.
More than a decade since the show last aired in 2005, a new season of the sci-fi comedy series has been commissioned.
The sixth season is expected to be titled ‘The Hexagonal Phase’, the British Comedy Guide reports.
The new episodes will apparently be based on And Another Thing…., author Eoin Colfer’s 2009 book featuring the characters created by Doctor Who writer Douglas Adams, who died in 2001.
The original radio cast is expected to return for the six episodes, which will again be overseen by director Dirk Maggs.
http://www.cultbox.co.uk/news/headlines/bbc-planning-new-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy
BBC planning new ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy’
The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy is set to return to BBC Radio 4.
More than a decade since the show last aired in 2005, a new season of the sci-fi comedy series has been commissioned.
The sixth season is expected to be titled ‘The Hexagonal Phase’, the British Comedy Guide reports.
The new episodes will apparently be based on And Another Thing…., author Eoin Colfer’s 2009 book featuring the characters created by Doctor Who writer Douglas Adams, who died in 2001.
The original radio cast is expected to return for the six episodes, which will again be overseen by director Dirk Maggs.
Meglos
HAVE A NECTARINE, GONK
I didn't like the movie at all, but anything that continues on from the books, radio and tv series is very exciting!
I found this to be quite clever... I love it!... cheers.
kxk
SAPIOSEXUAL
So, apparently they have been trying to get a black actor to play the Doctor...& rejected
One of Doctor Who’s best-known writers, Neil Gaiman, said three years ago that the Doctor role had been offered to a black actor. “Would I like a person of colour as the Doctor? Absolutely. I have no doubt there will be,” he wrote on his blog. “I know one black actor who was already offered the part of the Doctor, and who turned it down,” he added. “You can ask [who it is], but seeing that it was something I was told in confidence by the actor in question, you won’t get an answer.”
Moff confirms -
The starring role in BBC1’s Doctor Who was offered to a black actor but it “didn’t work out” according to the series showrunner, Steven Moffat. Moffat said it would be “amazing” to have two non-white leads after Pearl Mackie, whose father is from the West Indies, was cast as the Doctor’s companion earlier this year.
He said the producers took a conscious decision to cast a non-white actor as the companion “because we need to do better on that. We just have to”.
One of Doctor Who’s best-known writers, Neil Gaiman, said three years ago that the Doctor role had been offered to a black actor. “Would I like a person of colour as the Doctor? Absolutely. I have no doubt there will be,” he wrote on his blog. “I know one black actor who was already offered the part of the Doctor, and who turned it down,” he added. “You can ask [who it is], but seeing that it was something I was told in confidence by the actor in question, you won’t get an answer.”
Moff confirms -
The starring role in BBC1’s Doctor Who was offered to a black actor but it “didn’t work out” according to the series showrunner, Steven Moffat. Moffat said it would be “amazing” to have two non-white leads after Pearl Mackie, whose father is from the West Indies, was cast as the Doctor’s companion earlier this year.
He said the producers took a conscious decision to cast a non-white actor as the companion “because we need to do better on that. We just have to”.
BigBrotherCritic
Like working a job 24/7, for 2 days on the trot
And Martha w/ that bloke who was a Doctor during Saxon's reign. Married and happily living together
oddjob
Well-Known Member
Hmmm. She was engaged to the white doctor Thomas Milligan, after being rejected by the Doctor, but (I must have blinked when this happened) she ends up married to Rose's Mickey in The End of Time. Another interracial relationship bites the dust.
BigBrotherCritic
Like working a job 24/7, for 2 days on the trot
Holy shit I totally forgot about Mickey and her. But damn, you're still right, Doctor Who can't handle racial diversity between relationships apparently.
And in classic Doctor Who? Well I don't think there were more than 10 black actors throughout the whole of the 7 Drs.
...please everybody... please don't think that I am a racist because I can assure you... I'm not... but I just think that The Doctor should remain as he is... a white male... it's just that if we go down the road of having a black Doctor because in the future there would probably be calls for an Indian Doctor... an Asian Doctor and perhaps a Mexican Doctor etc...etc... in the end The Doctor as we have grown up with and have known all of our lives will eventually lose his identity as we knew him... (I know that is an extreme exaggeration but I think that you will know what I'm meaning by this)... it's like when there were calls for The Doctor to become a female... again... the same reasons... leave The Doctor be and concentrate on other characters being of all colours and creeds and nationalities...
...there would've been massive outcries if Hans Solo in Star Wars was suddenly re-incarnated as and Indian or Mexican or a black man wouldn't there?... it would just not have been accepted would it?... I love all of the 'Star Trek' TV series for instance... they have had all different sexes and nationalities Captaining Starships... they were great in their roles but they never replaced any of them with a reincarnation of any of the Captains with a different nationality to pass them off as the same character... it just wouldn't have worked in my opinion...
...the Greatest surprise was obviously The Master/Missy transformation... that was a fantastically good twist... I so enjoyed that but changing The Doctor?... I just don't think that should ever happen to be honest... although... I really do hope that The Doctor finally gets his wish and is 'a Ginger' in his next reincarnation lol!... as I said at the beginning... I am definitely not being racist in my opinion of this but just believe that The Doctor should remain as he is... a white male... just saying... cheers.
...there would've been massive outcries if Hans Solo in Star Wars was suddenly re-incarnated as and Indian or Mexican or a black man wouldn't there?... it would just not have been accepted would it?... I love all of the 'Star Trek' TV series for instance... they have had all different sexes and nationalities Captaining Starships... they were great in their roles but they never replaced any of them with a reincarnation of any of the Captains with a different nationality to pass them off as the same character... it just wouldn't have worked in my opinion...
...the Greatest surprise was obviously The Master/Missy transformation... that was a fantastically good twist... I so enjoyed that but changing The Doctor?... I just don't think that should ever happen to be honest... although... I really do hope that The Doctor finally gets his wish and is 'a Ginger' in his next reincarnation lol!... as I said at the beginning... I am definitely not being racist in my opinion of this but just believe that The Doctor should remain as he is... a white male... just saying... cheers.
Meglos
HAVE A NECTARINE, GONK
Thanks coops