tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48919256389127779622024-03-13T19:16:03.594+00:00Shouting into a wellSham Mountebankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03161300511176264370noreply@blogger.comBlogger122125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4891925638912777962.post-59071621307333790982011-01-01T17:02:00.006+00:002011-01-01T17:28:37.815+00:00Peoples of the Universe, please attend carefullyAn importation message from Sham Mountebank, big-hearted publisher of Shouting Into A Well.Since Shouting Into A Well stopped updating in September 2010 several people have starved to death in front of their computer while waiting for this blog to update. This situation cannot be allowed to persist. Media photos of emaciated corpses sitting in front of monitors displaying this blog makes for verySham Mountebankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03161300511176264370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4891925638912777962.post-68575635191238502092010-09-29T10:00:00.001+01:002010-09-29T10:03:38.631+01:00So What Were The Judoon Doing As Part Of The Monsters Alliance?Sham Mountebankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03161300511176264370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4891925638912777962.post-10238104098326031542010-09-22T11:22:00.005+01:002010-09-22T11:46:42.638+01:00Really Should Have Done This While The World Cup Was OnOne of the promotional images for the Doctor Who Live tour is of a Monsters First XI (that's 'XI' Doctor Who Live, not '11'; didn't you even study Roman numerals at school? -CLASSICAL ED.). However, a football team composed of Doctor Who monsters raises many questions.No substitutes are present in the team photo. There is nothing wrong with this, although it seems unfair not to include them in Sham Mountebankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03161300511176264370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4891925638912777962.post-48627765597859424232010-09-15T10:56:00.011+01:002010-09-15T11:34:03.151+01:00MusinewsyTwo new CDs released this month.Melanie Bush States The ObviousAvailable now for the first time on CD. All your favourite moments from Doctor Who when companion Melanie Bush explains things which are already clearly visible on screen to even the most inattentive viewer.This CD contains some material previous released on the albums The Division Mel and Screams In The Key Of Life.Track Listing:1. ASham Mountebankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03161300511176264370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4891925638912777962.post-38804049951737295012010-09-08T10:11:00.004+01:002010-09-08T10:33:07.074+01:00Still Angry After All These YearsLong term, the worst thing about the new Star Wars trilogy is the damage it inflicts on the character of Darth Vader. Now when watching the three older films it is impossible to forget about Anakin Skywalker so where there was once a mysterious iconic evil villain, the audience now sees beyond the black suit to the inner whiny teenager mooning over his lost love.Like this:Sham Mountebankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03161300511176264370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4891925638912777962.post-39026543107762854822010-09-03T09:00:00.001+01:002010-09-03T09:00:03.265+01:00It's Fanzine Focus Friday! Part 2A very delayed plug for a new fanzine Blue Box, edited by Grant Bull. This should have been posted ages ago but wasn't. The minions responsible are now suspended from the Balham Gibbit."I am very pleased to announce that the very first issue of Blue Box – A Doctor Who Fanzine is available to purchase…Issue 1 includes some wonderful articles from a very talented and knowledgeable bunch with such Sham Mountebankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03161300511176264370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4891925638912777962.post-79997455514062958252010-09-01T11:43:00.005+01:002010-09-01T12:03:11.528+01:00Doctor Who News, News!Split Season For 2011 Doctor WhoNew Doctor Who producer Steven Moffat has announced that the 2011 series of Doctor Who will be split between the spring and autumn.Fan speculation has concentrated on how the split will work. For example could the stories be divided into a block of seven episodes in the spring followed by six in the autumn? In fact, as Shouting Into A Well can exclusively reveal, Sham Mountebankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03161300511176264370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4891925638912777962.post-91273312522141114892010-08-25T11:06:00.009+01:002010-08-25T12:04:18.505+01:00General Sontar's Puzzle CornerTen-hut Troopers! General Sontar here to remind you that it's just as important to work on your wits as it is to practice obeying the orders of a superior officer without question, shielding your Probic vent from the enemy, and putting a charged quantum shot through the cyanotic node of a Rutan at 600 Sontaran paces! With that in mind our top strategy boffins have put together this test. It's Sham Mountebankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03161300511176264370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4891925638912777962.post-34420658631248636592010-08-18T12:50:00.003+01:002010-08-18T12:54:04.016+01:00It's Probably A MetaphorSham Mountebankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03161300511176264370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4891925638912777962.post-31004053159527033912010-08-11T21:20:00.007+01:002010-08-11T21:29:36.417+01:00So It's Come To This: Actual Lavatory HumourPeople From Doctor Who On The Toilet*Tobias VaughnThe Tenth Doctor*with apologies to Ted Bovis.Sham Mountebankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03161300511176264370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4891925638912777962.post-27130738162592399382010-08-04T15:04:00.012+01:002010-08-04T16:36:04.992+01:00NewszzzzzEccleston's Bizarre Plot: More Details Revealed!Today Shouting Into A Well reporters can expose more details of Christopher Eccleston's plot to regain the role of Doctor Who.Yesterday we told you how Eccleston, in an attempt to return to the role he left in 2005, tried to convince the BBC that the year was 2006 and that he remained the actor playing the Doctor. The details of this plan involved:-Sham Mountebankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03161300511176264370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4891925638912777962.post-75559784838114641012010-07-28T11:19:00.008+01:002010-07-28T11:51:11.567+01:00Monster MashYou are inMonsters>Planetary Invasions>User Reviews>Daleks>By Roboman2051The original and best...Absolutely brilliant! You can see why they are still the leaders of the planet invading game. Mass exterminations followed by total suppression of the population. We knew this was going to be good when the invasion started with an orbital bombardment by germ infected meteorites. We were helpless! Sham Mountebankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03161300511176264370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4891925638912777962.post-8860793052966739832010-07-21T10:47:00.010+01:002010-07-21T11:55:16.520+01:00Summer Filler WeekIt's The Debate That Is Dividing The Nation: Team Edward or Team Jacob? We Ask The Doctor Who Stars!This week: Christopher EcclestonNext Week: Paul McGann chooses Edward.It is 41 years and 9 days since Star Trek was first broadcast on BBC1. In honour of this anniversary here are five* bad uses for Star Trek technology.1. Use the transporter to beam someone into space for three seconds, as a joke.Sham Mountebankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03161300511176264370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4891925638912777962.post-18519860513679761682010-07-16T13:19:00.005+01:002010-07-16T14:16:16.627+01:00It's Fanzine Focus Friday!Just delivered to Shouting Into A Well's stinking editorial garret is the first issue of Panic Moon a new Doctor Who fanzine. Here's more from the editor Oliver Wake."I’m delighted to announce that the debut issue of Doctor Who fanzine Panic Moon is available now in good old fashioned paper and ink format. It’s small (A6 format and 28 pages) but perfectly formed. Just right for reading on the busSham Mountebankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03161300511176264370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4891925638912777962.post-48885603167226205982010-07-14T09:00:00.000+01:002010-07-14T09:00:02.975+01:00Holiday TimeSham Mountebankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03161300511176264370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4891925638912777962.post-78422511833648223532010-07-07T13:41:00.006+01:002010-07-07T14:37:37.792+01:00The Years BetweenDinosaurs at the North Pole, Polar Bears in Australia, Nile Penguins, Pharaohs in the Himalayas. What else was going on while the Doctor was locked in the Pandorica?FADE IN MUSIC At the Castle Gate.CAPTION SLIDE: A blank black picture, FADE TO another blank black picture, FADE TO another blank black picture.OVERLAY CAPTION: The Sky At NightCUT TO STUDIOSIR PATRICK MOORE: Good evening. Welcome to Sham Mountebankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03161300511176264370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4891925638912777962.post-14928657648537116402010-06-30T10:31:00.010+01:002010-06-30T14:25:14.949+01:00A Very Long StoryThe Pandorica Seen Through Time118AD Taken back to Rome under armed guard420AD Raided by the Franks1120 Prized possession of the Knights Templar1231 Donated to the Vatican1280 Sold by Marco Polo1281 Taken back by the Vatican after Marco Polo sold it without their permission.1492 Given to Columbus as a good luck present. Left on the dock at Palos de la Frontera after proving to be too big to Sham Mountebankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03161300511176264370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4891925638912777962.post-50595305691953687322010-06-23T11:37:00.001+01:002010-09-29T10:09:50.387+01:00General Sontar: He Speaks Sontar ListensAre YOU Thinking What He's Thinking?**If you are not thinking what General Sontar is thinking then please report to Vat 69 for Genetic Reprocessing. Independent thought threatens the Sontaran race.Typical! The Pandorica is barely closed and here comes the namby-pamby liberal non-Sontaran elite crawling out of the woodwork; again! “It’s cruel to imprison The Doctor in a box forever,” they moan. “Sham Mountebankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03161300511176264370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4891925638912777962.post-40270498569359996412010-06-16T09:22:00.007+01:002010-06-16T11:19:49.215+01:00Is YOUR Neighbour A Dalek?Ten Questions That Cut To The Chase1. Some leaves have fallen into your garden from your neighbours tree. You go round to complain. What do they do?a) apologise and offer to sweep the leaves up.b) slam the door in your face.c) try and turn you into a Roboman.2. The sewer in your street is blocked. When the council come round to investigate what do they find it is full of?a) incorrectly disposed Sham Mountebankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03161300511176264370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4891925638912777962.post-67552440763782239432010-06-09T09:27:00.006+01:002010-06-09T09:47:27.435+01:00I See Through YouLast week Shouting Into A Well gave you the first in a set of splendid Doctor Who Invisible Characters And Spaceships Trading Cards and showed you how to build a display stand for those cards as a fun family project (pictured above).Your next two cards are shown belowThere are seven cards to collect in all. Refusians from the story The Ark; Visians from The Daleks' Masterplan; Spiridons from Sham Mountebankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03161300511176264370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4891925638912777962.post-10521511675249114082010-06-04T11:04:00.004+01:002010-06-04T11:43:10.657+01:00It's Reciprocal Links Friday!Just like Apollo-Soyuz, or the fictional “Hands Across Space” mission between the United States and Soviet Union in the 1979 Quatermass serial*, Shouting Into A Well has joined forces with fanzine Venusian Spearmint. In it's latest issue Venusian Spearmint was good enough to print a plug for this blog and your big-hearted Shouting Into A Well publisher has agreed to cross-pollinate in return [subSham Mountebankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03161300511176264370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4891925638912777962.post-82458630912477245982010-06-02T09:56:00.004+01:002010-06-02T10:05:11.738+01:00That's The Problem With Second Hand PlanetsSham Mountebankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03161300511176264370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4891925638912777962.post-53527044288959670442010-05-26T11:51:00.014+01:002010-05-26T14:19:01.999+01:00Why Don't They Call?Doctor Who Monsters Slam Heartless BBC Recasting PolicyScythia the Silurian no longer spends her time sitting by the phone, hope has turned to disappointment. "When we heard that the Silurians were returning to Doctor Who, everyone in my clutch-brood was excited but after a while we realised the BBC were not going to phone and ask us to be in the new series. It was such a shame.”But the SiluriansSham Mountebankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03161300511176264370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4891925638912777962.post-87951074284937721132010-05-19T11:21:00.005+01:002010-05-19T11:38:44.898+01:001963 And All ThatBeing A Nice And Accurate Guide To The Complete History Of Doctor WhoChapter XXVI: The Gathering Storm.Russell T. Davies: The Welsh NightingaleRussell The Davies, often abbreviated to Russell T. Davies, was born in a boat in the small Welsh village of Upper on 23rd November 1963. A figure of great importance in Davies' early life was the local Policeman, Dennis The Potter; known locally as the Sham Mountebankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03161300511176264370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4891925638912777962.post-86138216924223640412010-05-12T11:02:00.005+01:002010-06-04T11:03:46.025+01:00I'm On A Seafood DietSham Mountebankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03161300511176264370noreply@blogger.com