#bbc class

[theblueboxfiles]

All of time and space, everything that ever happened or will happen. Where do you want to start?

#doctor who #bbc iplayer #tales of the tardis #doctor who confidential #k9 & company #doctor who web comics #the sarah jane adventures #torchwood #bbc class #doctor who at the proms

[intuitive-revelations]

It's one thing adding Classic Who (!!!) and the other spin-offs given all of New Who is already on iPlayer, but adding audio descriptions and sign language to apparently everything is wild!

I assume this implies the same things are going to be on Disney+ internationally too? Would make sense to apply the same work on both platforms.

(Although assuming they brought all the features on there too, I assume they'd do sign language again, for both BSL and ASL? I've never used Disney+ so no idea what accessibility options look like on there.)

#sounds like he's teasing the rumoured new spin-offs with that last line too #for better or worse - depending on what that looks like #sounds like they might indeed go for some sort of connected whoniverse branding? #which isn't necessarily anything new (see eg. the “Worlds of Doctor Who” label Big Finish uses #and has been co-opted somewhat by some of the unofficial direct-to-video spin-offs too #Class did something similar too) #and could honestly be good in some ways #although i fully understand why people are wary given Disney's involvement and the “cinematic universes” trend #Doctor Who #New Who #Classic Who #BBC Class #Torchwood #Sarah Jane Aventures #and I'm particularly excited for #Doctor Who Confidential #Russell T Davies

[lesbicosmos]

since the whole whoniverse is on iplayer, thought id finally watch class since it's the only one of the main spinoffs i haven't seen yet

im on ep4 and

IZZY WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE

#it was so unexpected he just showed up and im like 🫵😯 #doctor who #bbc class #con o'neill #ofmd #izzy hands

[stephadoo]

Countdown to the 60th

↳ Class

#bbc class #doctor who #dwedit #classedit #gifs #sixty

[romansmartini]

one thing i'll never ever forget is how in the first episode of the flop doctor who spinoff class twelve shows up to coal hill and sees clara's name on the teacher board and has a prolonged moment in which he tries to figure out why that name means something to him. probably the top reason for my personal misery in 2016

#doctor who #bbc class #twelveclara #this is so much a latent part of my memory it's crazy. as are so many other things from that time #somebody last night said that con oneill is in a few episodes which i havent seen but it made me say. CLASS?!?!?!?! #havent heard that name in ten years....

[dorian-they-ao3]

gently placing a casting call for a queer-coded dad-shaped character in recovery outside my door to attract any feral Con O’Neills nearby

#con o’neill #val pearson #bbc uncle #huw maclean #bbc class #neil ackroyd #bbc happy valley #joe brierley #ordinary lies #and I’m sure there are more #but I haven’t watched every single thing he’s been in #(yet?)

[clumsyvi]

The fact that over the years i keep fixating on tv shows with small fandom is killing me, why do i do that to myself ?

#i also live in France so finding ppl who watch the same things is just really rare #dirk gently #hbo barry #severance #astrid and lilly save the world #schitts creek #thisisgoingtohurt #kitz #the great north #crashing #black spot #zone blanche #bbc class #doom patrol #bbc wreck #the righteous gemstones

[khruschevshoe]

Y'know, I'm always going to be a little bit sad that 9 and 13 never got to guest star on an episode of one of the on-screen spin-offs of Doctor Who. Like, both 10 and 11 both got to guest star on an episode of the Sarah Jane Adventures and 12 got to show up on BBC Class, but 9 and 13? No such luck.

Now, I totally know and understand why Christopher Eccleston didn't want to have anything to do with the rest of Doctor Who after his run, but I have the feeling that Jodie would have loved to do one spin-off guest starring role. Plus, it probably would have been interesting to see Thirteen under another writer (like we got with 11 and 12 on their one-episode guest turns). Here's me crossing my fingers that Jodie gets to show up in the next anniversary specials! I am dying to see Thirteen interact with any of the other regenerations!

#christopher eccleston #jodie whittaker #ninth doctor #thirteenth doctor #tenth doctor #eleventh doctor #twelfth doctor #bbc class #sarah jane adventures #doctor who

[witchofthemidlands]

HAPPY 60TH ANNIVERSARY DOCTOR WHO

My love for Doctor Who & the Whoniverse, the impact it has had on me & how it has shaped me as a person- An Unhinged Essay by witchofthemidlands

I can definitely say in all honesty that Doctor Who has changed my life, it is my favourite television series of all time. There’s nothing quite like Doctor Who & it's spin offs & there’s not enough words in any language to describe just how much I love this show. It has had such an impact on me. Both of my parents are Whovians, my dad has seen it since Patrick Troughton & my mum started watching it when Jon Pertwee was the Doctor, we have Doctor Who coasters & for a long time, my dad even had a framed card collection of the Doctors 1-8 & aliens just around the downstairs bathroom (imagine going to the bathroom & having pictures of all eight Doctors, Davros, a Dalek, The Master, a Cybermen, an Ice Warrior & more staring down upon you 😂)

Through my love for Doctor Who, I have met two of my best friends in the world, my friend from college & my fantastic housemate from uni. It birthed this channel when I became hyper-fixated on series 10, It has helped me through depression, anxiety & has taught me to accept myself. It has also shown me so many beautiful places, I’ve been to three Doctor Who exhibitions, walked down to Durdle Door & I’ve been to Cardiff five times. I was in Cardiff last weekend & saw the place they filmed scenes from Eye of the Gorgon for the first time & it was BEAUTIFUL 🤩 I am so grateful for the existence of Doctor Who, I would not be the same person without it. I’d like to now share a couple of anecdotes from my personal life about the way in which I came to discover this fantastic show.

My first exposure to Doctor Who, was not in fact, to Doctor Who itself. The year was 2007, I was seven years old & I was just at home, after school, watching CBBC when a beautiful program called The Sarah Jane Adventures started to play. It was the episode Warriors of Kudlak & was it the incredible & wonderful Sarah Jane Smith? The fantastic & lovely Maria Jackson, the brilliant & hilarious Clyde Langer? The socially awkward Luke Smith? I’m not sure what it was about this show that made me become instantly attached but I did & from that day on I watched series one of The Sarah Jane Adventures RELIGIOUSLY. I watched it over & over again. Sarah Jane Smith was my hero & I loved her so much, she was clever, fun, looked amazing & I can just remember thinking she was so cool, I just really loved that character, I still do even now, I will always love Sarah Jane. I watched series one of that show until my parents, got sick of seeing it & decided that it was time that I started watching the show that started it all, Doctor Who.

The exact date I started watching Doctor Who was the 5th of April 2008. I was eight years old & my parents had decided that I would be watching the new season of Doctor Who with them. I did not know what to expect, I was used to Sarah Jane. I’d heard of this Doctor of course but I had no idea what I was in store for but all I can say was that eight year old me's mind was BLOWN & I’ve never looked back. I’ve watched Doctor Who ever since. I saw my first Doctor, the Tenth Doctor played by David Tennant & my first companion, Donna Noble played by Catherine Tate & I just loved them. Their energy, their humour, they were fantastic. The scene where they find each other again at the window is just brilliant. There was so much in that episode, every time I rewatch it I keep thinking to myself, no wonder I became the Whovian i am today after witnessing that masterpiece & IT ONLY GOT BETTER FROM THERE!

Of course, I do have to take a moment to talk about my favourite scene in Partners in Crime which is where Wilfred Mott waves Donna & The Doctor off at the end of the episode. Wilfred Mott reminds me of my own grandad in the way he was so kind, how he supported his granddaughter & was just a really beautiful soul. That moment where Wilfred is cheering is so euphoric, it is pure happiness & is what made me fall in love with Doctor Who. It is one of my favourite moments in the entire Whoniverse.

I would have to say that my favourite scene in the Whoniverse of all time is in my favourite episodes of Doctor Who, The Stolen Earth & Journey's End. Nothing has ever quite captured the joy of Doctor Who for me like that scene where The Doctor, Donna Noble, Metacrisis Tenth Doctor, Rose Tyler, Captain Jack Harkness, Mickey Smith, Sarah Jane Smith, Martha Jones & Jackie Tyler (well, not really 😂) are flying the Tardis, bringing the Earth home, Song of Freedom is playing & on Earth Luke Smith is holding onto K9 & cheering, Gwen Cooper & Ianto Jones are holding on for dear life, Wilfred Mott & Sylvia Noble are watching their house shake & Francine Jones, smartest of them all, has got under the table. & then in the most beautiful, happy moment, everyone on the Tardis is embracing at the end of it. Nothing will ever quite match the joy I felt watching that for the first time & the emotions it makes me feel now.

I got my first exposure to Classic Who when I was nine years old & it had been announced that David Tennant would be stepping down as the Tenth Doctor & Matt Smith would be taking his place. Now, I’d seen the transition between Nine & Ten, I knew other people had played the Doctor & I loved Christopher Ecclestone as the Doctor but I just remember being very negative about the Tenth Doctor regenerating & I went through a phase where I didn’t want to watch Doctor Who & went back to just exclusively watching The Sarah Jane Adventures, of course now, I welcome new regenerations, I’m so excited to see what Ncuti Gatwa brings to the table because I loved him as Eric Effiong but back when I was a kid, regeneration was just not something I was keen on at all.

Now my nana had watched it since William Hartnell was the Doctor, my dad had watched the Doctor since he was Two & my mum, since he was Three so they were determined to show me that other versions of the Doctor have been fantastic in the past & they decided on this random Saturday night that I should be exposed to Doctor Who The Movie.

I loved that film, I really did. I haven’t seen it in a long time & I always think that I must have dreamt up some elements of the plot but NO, the plot of that film is something else, it really is. It’s camp, it’s funny, it has the best Tardis interior ever, it’s absolutely balls to the wall unhinged but IT HAS HEART, Paul McGann is THE Doctor & the fact he didn’t get a season after this I don’t know because he was brilliant. Honestly The Night of the Doctor changed me fundamentally as a person when that aired. If the rumours are true about the Eight Doctor coming back for a show, I am going to be the most annoying person on this site. I am going to lose my mind.

Now I genuinely think the reason I have such love for the Seventh Doctor is because my first real impression of this Doctor & Classic Who was Seven getting shot by a gang outside his Tardis 😭 which is I think why in my teens when I went into my local HMV the first Classic Who DVD's I picked up were Third & Seventh Doctor era serials. The Seventh Doctor is a brilliant, Machiavellian scheming little gremlin & I love him more than anything & I just fell in love with Classic Who, I really did because I’d seen the Third Doctor appear in a flashback in The Sarah Jane Adventures, he was also my mum’s first Doctor & I knew I had to see a full episode of his & he was a wonderful, the first time I saw a serial of his properly, he reminded me of Twelve.

Another story I would like to share is a Doctor Who related moment that brought me & my uni housemate to our knees at 2 O’clock in the morning on 27th of January 2020 when I was twenty year old.

I was just getting ready for bed, casually scrolling through tumblr when I saw a post. Now, I will admit I’d sort of taken a short break from Doctor Who in its 12th season after Spyfall because I was busy with uni so I wasn’t exactly up to date but Fugitive of the Judoon had just aired & I was reading that apparently one of my favourite Doctor Who characters of all time, Captain Jack Harkness had returned to the show now this is the first lgbtq+ character both me & my uni housemate had ever seen on tv, Captain Jack Harkness & Torchwood helped both me & my housemate accept our identities & taught us to not be afraid of who we are & that there’s nothing wrong with us. Captain Jack Harkness & Torchwood were the first positive representation we’d been given in our youth. I knew my friend was doing the bins at the time so I just opened the window & screamed down to him CAPTAIN JACK'S BACK ON DOCTOR WHO!

Both me & my uni friend are still apologising to our other housemate to this day for what conspired next. My friend dropped the bags, ran back inside the house & got the episode going. We recruited another friend of his that loved Doctor Who & the three of us sat & watched Fugitive of the Judoon together & oh my god when Captain Jack showed up, the three of us at half past two in the morning were screaming like it was a sports match, we were cheering, throwing things around the living room, hugging & all in all, losing our minds. Yes, we did wake up our non-Whovian housemate who was not happy but it is a core memory for me & really showed to me just how Doctor Who had brought me & my friends together.

On another note, I will always be so grateful to Torchwood because of that, no it wasn’t perfect & no neither was Doctor Who in terms of representation but it mattered to me, it mattered to my friend, it was important for us to see Captain Jack Harkness kiss a man (alien) on our screens when we were growing up, for Ianto Jones & Captain Jack Harkness's relationship to exist, for me to see Gwen Cooper kiss a alien presenting as a woman & to also see Toshiko Sato also kiss an alien presenting as a woman.

When it comes to favourite Whoniverse characters, I love every Doctor there is no version of the Doctor that I don’t love. I’d have to say that the Tenth Doctor is my favourite version of the Doctor & that Donna Noble is my favourite companion because of their significance to me but all in all if I had to choose, I’d say my favourite Doctor is The Ninth & the Tenth, the transitions between the two are so seamless. The fantastic Christopher Ecclestone & brilliant David Tennant will always be my favourite versions of the Doctor. The same way that Catherine Tate as Donna Noble, Billie Piper as Rose Tyler & Freema Agyeman as Martha Jones are my favourite companions. I have a definite soft spot for Rose Tyler because she was my nana's favourite as well, Martha Jones because she’s so brave, clever & beautiful and of course, Donna Noble because she is brilliant.

I have to mention the spin offs because it’s The Sarah Jane Adventures that began my adventures as a Whovian, other than Sarah Jane Smith herself my favourite character was always Maria Jackson. That girl meant the world to me when I was seven, I loved her, oh I loved her so much she was fantastic, kind, clever, amazing & I was DEVASTATED when she & her brilliant dad, the best tv dad to tv dad ever, Mr. Alan Jackson, went to America at the start of series 2. I’ve always liked to imagine that Maria turned out to be a lesbian like I did because I, very much like Maria was also ��attached✨ to Sarah Jane Smith.

Clyde Langer, Clyde Langer is getting his own paragraph because of how much he means to me. I think I’d had to say that Clyde is my favourite over all because apart from Invasion of the Bane, Clyde was there from the start to the end of The Sarah Jane Adventures & I loved him, he was the funniest character around the stuff he came out with was comedy gold, he was resourceful, sweet & one of the most incredible characters in the entire Whoniverse. He may be my favourite male character in the entirety of the Whoniverse.

Seeing Daniel Anthony as Clyde Langer again in Tales of the Tardis has made the 60th for me, out of everything we’ve been given for the 60th anniversary of Doctor Who, David Tennant & Catherine Tate, new Murray Gold music & RTD back as showrunner, everything I’ve ever wanted & more and yet none of that means as much to me as seeing Clyde Langer again did.

Talking of Whoniverse spin off characters that have my heart in a choke hold I have to talk about my favourite CLASS character. I have to talk to you all about Ram Singh, my SON, my lad who can do no wrong. The sweet boy who loved his girlfriend so much, who suffered more tragedies & pain than any other character in the entire Whoniverse other than the Doctor did in only eight episodes. My guy lost his leg, watched his girlfriend get butchered in front of him, watched another woman get torn apart by an alien in front of him, watched his loving, wonderful dad (who was also one of the tv dads of all time) get killed by an alien & then had to watch his friend kill his new girlfriend who had just professed her love to him. I just love him, I really do, he started off rather mean but he grew as a person over the course of the series.

Now I love EVERYONE in the Torchwood Three team equally, they are fantastic characters who mean the world to me but there’s always that one character who just has something about them that makes me love them the most & that character is Dr. Owen Harper.

I mean this when I say this with my whole chest that Burn Gorman is one of the best actors in the Whoniverse. I mean, I came to Torchwood when I was fourteen for Captain Jack Harkness because I loved him so much & I was so happy to FINALLY get to watch his show but as it turns out, Owen Harper became my favourite character even over Jack who I love more than anything because Owen was just so good. The Dead Man Walking / A Day in the Death storyline is potentially a showcase of the best acting in the Whoniverse. Owen Harper is brilliant, he’s sarcastic, funny, morally questionable here & there, the reason I got into Big Finish, a genuinely good person who did care even if he pretended not to, whose story tore my heart out thew it into oncoming traffic & stamped on it like a herd of wildebeests to the power of mufasa dying in the lion king because oh my GOD the character that Owen Harper was but ABOVE ALL OWEN HARPER IS & ALWAYS WILL BE my favourite ratman. He’s the reason that I met one of the kindest most brilliant people on this site, my mutual, my friend who is so wonderful & WHO UNDERSTANDS the level of feral I reach for Owen Harper & the fact they scrapped his action figure is both of our villain origin stories. @kirstyth you are fantastic, I am so grateful that we started talking, you have shown me some incredible Owen audios & I am on my way to respond to your message now because I haven't done that & I am so sorry but I just wanted to say that I am so grateful that the Whoniverse introduced me to you.

Out of the Classics I would have to say that Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor & Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor own my heart because they were my first Classic Doctors but in this past year I have grown to love the Second Doctor so much, oh he’s just wonderful & so is his companion, Jamie McCrimmon, I mean I’ve only known of this character for a year & I was crying my eyes out during Tales of the Tardis so I can’t even imagine how my dad was feeling watching that when he’d actually seen The War Games when it aired & talking of companions, Ace, Ace McShane, my love. I was still mostly in the closet when I was sixteen & first encountered her but it is undeniable now how much I was attracted to her & I STILL AM! She’s absolutely gorgeous 😍

Of course Elisabeth Sladen as Sarah Jane Smith is my favourite Classic Who companion because she was my first Whoniverse character I ever saw, she was my hero when I was a young kid & quite potentially the reason why I am the deranged lesbian that I am today. I still remember that morning, I was eating breakfast & rewatching The Lost Boy for the millionth time when my mum came in & told me that Elisabeth Sladen had passed away. My mum was devastated too because Sarah Jane Smith was her first companion she ever saw, she’d grown up with her like I had & she’d meant so much to both of us. We were both crying through Clyde & Jo's segment of Tales in the Tardis when they mentioned her. I still haven’t watched Farewell, Sarah Jane Smith in full yet, one day I will.

I can’t finish this essay without thanking Doctor Who for introducing to me to a fellow TimePetals shipper because it is & will always be my favourite Whoniverse ship, the loveliest most wonderful mutual a person could ask for @sallysellsseashellssundays You are brilliant, I am so grateful that Doctor Who brought us together. I love talking to you about Doctor Who & the Whoniverse, it’s one of the highlight of my weeks seeing your messages, they really are fantastic, absolutely fantastic, they are supportive & so kind about my own writing & they are currently writing a fantastic TimePetals fan fiction which has got to be one of the best fanfics I have read in a long time, it’s a masterpiece, they are a genius & one of the greatest writers I know, the way they write the characters & craft the stories are inspired, it’s like watching actual episodes of the show.

Thank you, Doctor Who, I am so grateful that Partners in Crime was the first Doctor Who episode I ever saw & for that (and many other reasons) series 4 will always be my favourite season of Doctor Who, The Tenth Doctor & Donna Noble will always be my favourite Doctor & companion because they were the first & I can’t even begin to explain what it means to me that David Tennant & Catherine Tate are reprising their characters in THREE DAYS TIME 🤩

With all my love to The Sarah Jane Adventures, Doctor Who & Torchwood. I love you so much, thank you for making my life better.

#sarah jane smith #tenth doctor #donna noble #rose tyler #martha jones #clyde langer #maria jackson #ninth doctor #eighth doctor #seventh doctor #owen harper #ram singh #doctor who #the sarah jane adventures #torchwood #bbc class #whoniverse

[spockvarietyhour]

Class S01E01 “For Tonight We Might Die”

#Class #BBC Class #Class 2016 #For Tonight We Might Die #Doctor Who #12th Doctor #Twelfth Doctor #Peter Capaldi #Shadow Kin #Shadow Kin King #dwedit #classedit #GIF #my gifs #Not a DW Rewatch #Danny watches Class #Hide and Queue

[twingeof-cosmic-angst]

My dealer: got some straight gas 🥵🔥👀 this strain is called "the Secret Diary of a Rhodian Prince"😳 you'll be zonked out of your gourd ‼️💯

Me: yeah whatever. I don't feel shit.

5 minutes later: dude I swear the audio just went past the events of season one

My buddy Blair Mowat, pacing: maybe I'm lying to you and we've already started working on s2

#bbc class #im so so so so so so normal about this show okay?

[classongoing]

"School is back in session, but the dark events in Shoreditch are far from over. With the kids' relationships hanging by a thread and a rogue soul on the streets of Shoreditch, will they find it before it’s too late?"

Today, seven years after the premiere of the first two episodes of Class, we begin the Ongoing journey again!

Over the next few months, we will be regularly re-releasing each Class: Ongoing installment so far, as we prepare to finally continue our story.

Each main episode will release fortnightly on Sundays, with our side stories being posted in the alternating weeks, each on the anniversary of the release of episodes of the original series.

Along with providing a chance to catch up on the story so far, for readers both new and old, each main episode has also been updated as a new edition (check out that tweaked cover art, with fancy new DW logo and adjusted colour grading!), fixing some small errors we missed while editing the first time round, as well as making a few other updates.

Expect also to see some new content, with a new multipart side story arc beginning next week!

This story was written by Ally Chancellor (@tinybookgirl) and illustrated by Anne-Laure Tuduri (@liria10) and Matt Jordan (@intuitive-revelations).

Available here.

#Class Ongoing #BBC Class #Class DW #Class BBC #Doctor Who #Fallen Soul #News #Stories #April Maclean #Doctor Who EU #Ally Chancellor #Anne-Laure Tuduri #Matt Jordan #2023 Editions

[thelaziestmotherfucker]

SOPHIE HOPKINS as CELIA ROSSI in THE VENICE MURDERS

#sophie hopkins #shopkinsedit #sophiehopkinsedit #the venice murders #bbc class #class cast #userspicy #classedit #classcastedit

[incorrect-class-quotes]

Charlie: Once, I lost my ex at a party and found him hooking up with some random dude

Charlie: Last night, I lost Matteusz at a function and found him outside trying to befriend a stray cat

Charlie: ✨Upgrades✨

#class bbc #charlie smith #charlie x matteusz #matteusz andrejewski #yeah idk if charlie wouldve had an ex but i like this quote too much to care #bbc class #class dw #matti befriending stray cats if 100% true

[theblueboxfiles]

The Whoniverse has landed!

#doctor who #bbc iplayer #tales of the tardis #doctor who confidential #the sarah jane adventures #torchwood #bbc class

[intuitive-revelations]

There it is!

I noticed the other day playing around with my TV that they had relabeled Doctor Who as "Doctor Who (2005-2022)". I guess that seemingly answers the question of how they'll be grouping episodes on streaming - presumably the new episodes really will be "Doctor Who (2023-) / 'new-new-Who'. Wonder if they'll reset the series numbering to accommodate. I hope not.

Nice to see they included K9 and Company among the spin-offs, as well as the animated stories. Also happy to see the rights for the TV movie worked out for once.

I also love that they're adding some related documentaries etc. to the collection too. I'd never heard of the Delia Derbyshire docudrama until now but am keen to take a look now at some point.

Speaking of docudramas, I'm a little surprised An Adventure in Space and Time isn't here yet... You don't think it's related to the whole Stef Coburn thing? Hopefully it's just being delayed for a re-airing or something.

That being said, the collection seems to stilll be a work in progress. For example, most of the Doctor Who Confidentials don't have proper thumbnails yet.

I hope RTD realises just how much he's opened up the BBC to "what about" requests by doing this! Personal wishlist:

Obviously An Unearthly Child, if the rights can get sorted.

As mentioned, An Adventure in Space and Time.

The minisodes! They're a bit of a glaring absense at the moment, IMHO, especially ones like Time Crash and Night of the Doctor. They're generally available elsewhere but would be nice to be included in this interface. Would be nice if they could dig up some of the rarer ones too, like high quality versions of the Series 2 TARDISodes.

Webcasts. Shalka would be particularly great.

Cushing movies?

The dream would be for some of the non-BBC spin-offs to get licensed too (eg. K-9), though I can't see that happening. From a business sense, I doubt higher-ups would want to acknowledge stuff outside the BBC's copyrights, and for most things the licensing probably wouldn't be financially worth it. Not to mention they probably want to stay as far from the likes of Zygon as possible.

That being said, K-9 did air on DisneyXD didn't it? I wonder if it will show up as part of the collection on Disney+ at some point.

I'm biased, but I hope Class gets a bit more attention from this. Not expecting a revival at this point obviously, but some new fans would probably go a long way for the likes of a Big Finish continuation, as teased with Secret Diary.

#Doctor Who #Whoniverse #Sarah Jane Adventures #Torchwood #BBC Class #Classic Who #New Who #Tales of the TARDIS #BBC Iplayer #K9 and Company