Dr Who writer Louis Marks has died, Matthew Chambers is back in the TARDIS, plus more news, blog roundup and reviews

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The Doctor Who News Page has the sad news Louis Marks 1928 - 2010, the writer Louis Marks has died at the age of 82, he wrote four stories for Doctor Who, in 1965 he wrote the first story of Season Two, Planet of Giants, the first contemporary story in the series since the first episode. He returned to the series in 1972 to plot the return of the Daleks after a gap of several years in Day of the Daleks a story which saw the introduction of the Ogrons, for the Fourth Doctor he penned two stories, Planet of Evil in 1975 was set on the far distant planet Zeta Minor on the edge of the universe, while The Masque of Mandragora a year later was set in 15th century Italy.

DAM Productions has Arrangements, Matthew Chambers is back in the TARDIS as the Doctor, joined by Hannah Wollaston as Sam. Arrangements sees London, the Near Future, the Doctor and Sam encounter a Republic, run by The Leader. The know of each other. Question is, who is the hunter and who is the hunted.

The Happiness Patrol has released Episode Forty-One: Beware The Ghost of Freddy Fender!, this week we talk about The Blackpool Doctor Who Museum, news from Matt Smith, Who in Orlando and the pain of getting a tattoo.

The Doctor Who Podcast has The DWP Quiz - Number 3, fresh from his decisive victory in the last quiz, Tom acts as quizmaster for this episode and pits his devilish questions for Trevor and James. Who will win, who will lose?

Nothing Tra La La? (Simon Guerrier) has posted The fictional facts of June, "a chum has asked how I came up with June, the one-off companion in Doctor Who and the Slitheen Excursion. Figured it might be of interest to a wider audience."

The Confessions of Who has The Invasion!, even though 'The Invasion' is an incomplete story, with episodes 1 and 4 missing. It is, to date, the only incomplete story to be released in audio CD, video and DVD format (I think!). The surviving episodes were all found hidden behind a cupboard somewhere in the BBC (wonderful organisation, crap organising!). The story was sold abroad, so the optimistic Who fan can hope that perhaps one day these missing episodes will be recovered from a foriegn TV station clearing out theri archives... perhaps.

The Oodcast has a Guide to… the Daleks, surely the greatest of all the Doctor’s foes.  Best-known horrors in the universe.   The first villainous creature from Who to get itself snapped by Lord Snowdon for a postage stamp, get its own movie deal, get voted as better than both Godzilla and Gollum in the same poll and to have a small, wheeled library stool named after it.  Also, of course, the first Doctor Who characters to find a regular position both on a condiments tray and in a plumber’s van.

Rich's ComixBlog has Outrage - 15, Eric Raymond presses the Doctor for an answer. The Doctor learns that Raymond isn't Human after all, but in fact the leader of an advance invasion force of Zygons who hold a grudge against their old enemy.

WHOGold has Mummies And Morestrans, Planet Of Evil was screened from Friday 4th to Wednesday 9th July 1997, with fan favourite Pyramids Of Mars  following from Thursday 10th July to Tuesday 14th, all at 7.20pm. Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah Jane Smith) introduced the opening episode of each story. Continuity is presented by Susanna Boccaccio and Glen Allen.

Who Fix has Back on Saturdays, what could possibly go wrong? (from Androzani 2).

Doc Oho's Big Finish audios reviews has Scherzo written by Rob Shearman and directed by Gary Russell, there were two friends, and together they travelled the cosmos. They thwarted tyrants and defeated monsters, they righted wrongs wherever they went. They explored the distant future and the distant past, new worlds and galaxies, places beyond imagining. But every good story has to come to an end... With no times or places left to explore, all the two friends have now are each other

The Daily Drew has "Boom Town", this is the first of six consecutive "Doctor Who" (2005) episodes to be written by Russell T Davies. It's a remarkable run, demonstrating an incredible breadth of styles, tones, and approaches, reveling in the flexibility of this series. By the time these six consecutive episode have run their course, the show will be in a very different place, but it will also be thoroughly entrenched as a modern television institution.

Shadowlocked reviews Pyramids Of Mars, the revered classic and one of the jewels in season 13’s crown. Because in theory, this story throws up so many questions and posers that it could even give Mr Logic a thumping headache. Why does Horus leave Sutekh with a handy potential get-out clause? Why not send Marcus Scarman’s cadaver back home where he wouldn’t cause as much fuss as Ibrahim Namin? Why does Sutekh have a hand underneath his bum?

Blogtor Who has Review: Revisitations DVD box set [Part 3], not only does Talons share a place in the Revisitations box set with The Caves of Androzani  it also shares a number of traits AND writer. Robert Holmes packs memorable duos, poison, sympathetic villains, a facially disfigured lead and the word "jackanapes" into both 'classic' stories. Even back in the Eighties, recycling was an important issue...