Barry Newbery, Doctor Who Designer, Has Passed Away

Barry Newbery, who worked on Doctor Who as early as the first episode in 1963, worked on designs for various stories including "Marco Polo", "The Aztecs", "The Crusade", "The Time Meddler", "The Daleks' Master Plan" and "The Gunfighters".  He also worked on a few stories up to 1984 with his final work being done on "The Awakening."

Newbery worked with Raymond Cusick on various set designs in the early years and concentrated most of his work on the historicals.  With the town of Tombstone and the city of Jaffa has two of his highlights, Newbery, with a limited budget, managed to complete believable settings for Doctor Who.

He passed away on February 25, 2015. He was 88.  Our thoughts and prayers for his family and friends.

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Trailer For BBCA Doctor Who The Doctor's Revisited Airing This Sunday

Classic Doctor Who Returns to America!

BBC America will be airing previous Doctor Who episodes all year in celebration of the 50th Anniversary.  "The Doctors Revisited" series will air one story from each Doctor each month and will start with the First Doctor story, "The Aztecs."  The debut of this first story will be Sunday January 27 at 9pm.

While some PBS Channels still show Doctor Who in America, it is less common than ever.

Doctor Who 50th Anniversary: The Aztecs

Doctor Who:

The Aztecs

By John Lucarotti

"But you can't rewrite history! Not one line!"

The Aztecs is the second trip to the past for the TARDIS crew and this time it is to one of the more hostile or maybe barbaric in Earth’s history.  The TARDIS lands in 15^th century Mexico at the height of The Aztec society.  Barbara is mistaken for the Priestess Yetaxa who the Aztecs believe has returned from the dead and thus is a god.  Barbara sees her chance to try and save the Aztec people by trying to get rid of sacrifices against the advice of The Doctor.  Now they have a bigger problem as the High Priestess of Sacrifice Tloxol has his doubts if Barbara is who everyone thinks she is.