Dr Who: Bernie Ecclestone evokes memories of Doctor Who and Davros

BERNIE ECCLESTONE

Formula One supremo and Doctor Who villain in waiting?

BEN CARTER on TheRoar.com.au posted an article about Formula One supremo and "the now silver-haired 80-year-old Bernie Ecclestone from Suffolk." Nothing new about an Australian motor racing blog taken a pot shot at old Bernie. But, Ben shows he's a long-time Doctor Who fan as he makes several allusions to Dr Who characters and storylines ...

Bernie aka Dr Who #1 William Hartnell

"Ecclestone, who variously appears to be considered as either a genial-looking type in the mould of an early incarnation of Doctor Who or challenging Wikileaks’ main main Julian Assange for best-James-Bond- villain-in-waiting-for-MGM-writers, has been ruling the sport of Formula One racing with a maniacal streak matching Who baddie and Dalek creator Davros for the last few years."

The main thrust of Ben's post was about Bernie's idea for introducing artificial rainfall during F1 races to make the action more exciting in the wet. Such climactically questionable thinking put Ben in mind of the evil creator of the Daleks ...

"This is a man clutching at straws. Like Cricket Australia – and, in some ways, the AFL – it’s structural changing of the game for the sake of a short-term wide-eyed impulse, with little thought of the consequences. Just like Davros and his best-ever rants at his arch-enemy, the Doctor, really. Some thirty years later, Davros, almost inexplicably after falling into a black hole, was back in The Stolen Earth."

For the full article, go to TheRoar.com.au.

btw Bernie is no relation to Christopher Eccleston - the 9th Doctor.

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New cover designs unveiled for The Quotable Doctor Who quotes book series Volumes Two and Three.

On the day that Blue Eyed Books officially publish the First volume of their Quotable Doctor Who series of quotes books, they have also revealed the next two cover designs for Volume Two (to be published in Spring 2011) and Volume Three (to be published in Autumn 2011).

Volume Two covers the Doctor's Enemies, Monsters and Other Characters, and
Volume Three covers the Classic Who Episode Guide from 1963 to 1989.

Both new designs follow the same winning formula as the original - an artistic impression of a TARDIS outline with superimposed faces of the subjects featured in the books themselves.

While Volume Three reprises the eight Classic Who Doctors from Volume One, the second volume features a dozen faces representing enemies, monsters and other characters. How many of the 12 half-faces can you recognise? 

The cover design for Volume Four will be released at a later date. Once Blue Eyed Books have agreed on a suitable colour scheme.

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