"Golden Jubilee" @ Adina Apartment Hotel, Railway Square

This was the DWCA's nine-hour "Doctor Who" 50th anniversary par-tay. I lasted until mid-arvo. The highlight was the presence of Viktors Ritelis, who worked on '60s stories "The Crusade" and "The Daleks' Master Plan", and kept directing for the next 40-odd years. His discussion of how TV was crafted then vs. now was most enlightening. The best thing we watched, better even than the smoking Dalek cigar ad, was the Beeb-televised Brian Cox lecture "The Science Of 'Doctor Who'". Imagine the winsome, infectiously passionate prof giving a TED Talk on scientific principles...interspersed with clips of him hanging out with Eleven in the TARDIS.