The long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who has since its beginnings in 1963 generated many hundreds of products related to the show, from toys and games to picture cards and postage stamps. This article is not an exhaustive list of merchandise but attempts to present a flavour of the type of material that has been produced. This entry mainly concentrates on "official" spin-offs, that is to say, material sanctioned by the British Broadcasting Corporation, which produces the series.

Board games

 Dodge The Daleks (Christmas 1964)
Featuring William Hartnell as The Doctor. Gameplay involves players attempting to avoid the Daleks while travelling around the gameboard. If players encounter a Dalek, he or she would be out of the game. This was the very first Doctor Who board game produced.
 The Dalek Oracle (Christmas 1965)
Featuring William Hartnell as The Doctor. Gameplay involves players answering a series of questions while a plastic Dalek model reveals the answers magically. This game now fetches up to £350 on the second hand market.
 The Dalek Shooting Game (Christmas 1965)
Featuring William Hartnell as The Doctor. Gameplay involves players using a small plastic gun, loaded with plastic pellets, to shoot Daleks and be the first to arrive home safely on the gameboard. This game is also rare on the second hand market.
 Daleks: The Great Escape (Christmas 1966)
Featuring William Hartnell as The Doctor. Gameplay involves players using a pinball-type machine to move a tiny Dalek model around a set course, avoiding obstacles along the way. According to Howe's Transcendental Toybox, this game was terrifically hard.
 Doctor Who (May 1975)
Featuring Tom Baker as The Doctor. Gameplay involves players moving around the universe, using the TARDIS to skip time streams and move from planet to planet. The game was produced by Denys Fisher, who also made a range of Doctor Who toys.
 The Planet of Monsters (October 1975)
Featuring Tom Baker as The Doctor. Updated version of the 1975 Doctor Who game, with the addition of a large Tom Baker full-colour sticker on the box, the subtitle The Planet of Monsters and revisions to the gameplay and equipment.
 War of the Daleks (October 1975)
Featuring Tom Baker as The Doctor. Gameplay involves players attempting to fight off a Dalek invasion by collecting cards and building specialist weapons. Extra playing pieces for the game were available to buy separately, depending on how many players were in the game.
 The Game of Time And Space (June 1980)
Featuring Tom Baker as The Doctor. Gameplay involves players collecting pieces of the Key To Time that are scattered around the gameboard. During the game, players may encounter various aliens and villains from the series – but don't worry, as the doctor's companions are on hand to help.
 The Doctor Who Role Playing Game: 1st Edition (December 1985)
Featuring Tom Baker as The Doctor. Gameplay involves players assuming the roles of The Doctor, his companions or agents of the Celestial Intervention Agency, while carrying out tasks and completing missions, some of which were available as separate gamebooks that had to purchased as 'extras'.
 The Doctor Who Role Playing Game: 2nd Edition (October 1986)
Featuring Tom Baker as The Doctor. Updated version of the game, removing all references of the Sixth Doctor due to copyright issues, and with the addition of a range of 25mm white metal miniatures, designed and released by Citadel Miniatures.
 Battle for the Universe (January 1989)
Featuring Sylvester McCoy as The Doctor. Gameplay involves players assuming the roles of The Doctor, Davros, The Master or the Cyber Controller, while moving around the board and challenging other players to battles in Hyperspace.
 Chess Set (Early 1996-Late 1998)
Featuring All Eight Incarnations of The Doctor. Gameplay involves the typical rules of chess, with the addition of Doctor Who playing pieces (priced at £9.99 per piece), and a twist in the rules to incorporate the given characters. Collectors were given the game board free of charge upon a purchase of playing pieces. An expansion set of playing pieces was issued later at the same price.
 Invasion Earth (March 1999)
"Doctor Who: Invasion Earth" was a miniature wargame designed by Daniel Faulconbridge and released by Harlequin Miniatures. The game allowed players to create or re-enact scenarios involving characters from the Doctor Who universe. The rule book came with an initial scenario of UNIT pitted against the Daleks in an invasion of Earth. Additional scenarios were produced, as well as an extensive range of 28 mm pewter miniatures for the game which covered the first eight Doctors, the Peter Cushing movie Doctor and all of the television companions (except for Katarina) in the original series and the 1996 television movie. In addition a wide variety of monsters, foes and guest characters from a number of the original television stories were produced. Harlequin later became Icons Miniatures, and are currently known as Black Tree Design. Scenarios, miniature statistics and information about the game and miniatures can be found on the site listed below (see below).
 The Interactive Electronic Board Game (November 2005)
Featuring Christopher Eccleston as The Doctor. The game involves players representing the Ninth Doctor in an attempt to defeat the daleks. An electronic TARDIS piece provides instructions for the players throughout the game. This is the only game released to feature the Ninth Doctor.
 Test Your Trivia (June 2006)
Featuring David Tennant as The Doctor. The game involves players asking each other questions related to the TV series, including questions based on both series. The game continues until one player answers ten questions correctly, earning themselves a Who-shaped chocolate.
 The Time Travelling Action Game (August 2007)
Featuring David Tennant as The Doctor. The game involves players attempting to capture The Doctor's enemies by collecting tokens from various areas of the board. However, the board can rotate at any time during gameplay, making collecting the tokens much harder.
 Operation (September 2007)
Featuring David Tennant as The Doctor. Doctor Who provides its own personal twist on 'Operation', with players attempting to carry out an operation on Dalek Sec. If any of the players fail during play, one of several famous Dalek phrases, such as "Exterminate!", will be heard.
 Doctor Who & The Dalek (September 2007)
Featuring David Tennant as The Doctor. The game involves players representing one of four Doctor Who characters (The Tenth Doctor, Martha Jones, Captain Jack Harkness or K-9), while completing three laps around the gameboard without being caught by a Dalek.
 The Time Travelling Game (Christmas 2007)
Featuring David Tennant as The Doctor. Exclusive to supermarket chain Marks & Spencer, the game involves players exploring different parts of the Doctor Who universe, while collecting tokens and completing laps. The winner of each round receives a Doctor Who-shaped chocolate prize.
 Three in One (Easter 2008)
Featuring David Tennant as The Doctor. Issued as part of the Doctor Who Easter promotion in 2008, this set includes three different playabale games, including a dalek adaption of Tic Tac Toe, a game involving press-out characters from the series and a cybermen adaption of Solitaire.
 The Dalek Battle Through Time (April 2008)
Featuring David Tennant as The Doctor. The game involves players maneuvering around the gameboard, attempting to evade capture from a motorised Dalek that can detect players' playing pieces in front of it. The winner is the first to reach the end of the gameboard.
 The Facts And Trivia Board Game (April 2008)
Featuring David Tennant as The Doctor. The game involves players answering a series of questions based around the TV series, with the TARDIS revealing the answers. The winner is the first player to reach the end of the gameboard with at least eight correct answers.
 Exterminate Wire Buzz Game (June 2008)
Featuring David Tennant as The Doctor. Exclusive to high street chain Woolworths, the game involves an adapted version of children's classic "Beat The Bleep". Players may be required to change the Dalek cardboard cut-out or movable wire during gameplay, all while keeping their nerve.
 Scene It? (October 2008)
Featuring David Tennant as The Doctor. The game involves players watching clips, bloopers and deleted scenes from the TV series using an interactive DVD, all while attempting to answer questions and keeping ahead of their opponents on the gameboard.
 The Time Wars Game (July 2010)
Featuring Matt Smith as The Doctor. The game involves players completing a mission to capture a selection of The Doctor's worst enemies, all while keeping themselves safe from the mercy of the Time Vortex and flip-action gameboard. This was the first game to feature Matt Smith as The Doctor.
 Battle To Save The Universe (July 2010)
Featuring Matt Smith as The Doctor. The game involves players collecting statuettes of The Doctor's worst enemies, in an attempt to foil their opponent's plans to do the same. This was the first game to feature characters which had not featured with the relevant Doctor (IE Slitheen appeared with Christopher Eccleston, not Matt Smith).

Card games
 The Doctor Who Collectible Card Game (1996)
Published by MMG, this collectible card game involved players building a deck of cards from their collection and playing that deck against each other. The object of the game was to remove the opponent's six Time cards before they removed yours. This would be accomplished by attacking the other player using cards representing the various Doctors, Assistants and monsters that had appeared in the original 26 series of Doctor Who.
 Doctor Who – Battles in Time (2005–2009)
Featuring Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant as The Doctor. This fortnightly magazine and trading card game partwork from GE Fabbri lasted over four years, with five sets of cards being released within that time. The first set, "Exterminator", featured 275 cards including characters from both the first and second series, as well as the 2005 Christmas special. The second set, "Annihilator", included 100 cards featuring characters from the second series and the 2006 Christmas special. The third set, "Invader", included 225 cards featuring characters from the third series. The fourth set, "Ultimate Monsters", included 225 cards and was the first set to venture back into Classic Who, featuring monsters and villains featured with all ten doctors. The fifth and final set, "Devestator", included 250 cards featuring characters from the 2007 Christmas special and the fourth series. In addition to these 1075 cards, a further 31 cards were produced – an exclusive 18 card "Daleks vs. Cybermen" mini-set, issued with issue 18; an exclusive 10 card "Sarah Jane Adventures" mini-set, issued with issue #62; the 'Dalek Blaster' bonus card, issued with the Invader launch issue; the 'Psychic Paper' bonus card, issued with the very first issue; and 'Super Rose', the ultimate "Gold" card, found in only 1 in every 1000 packs of cards.
 Alien Armies (2009)
Featuring David Tennant as The Doctor. This collection, which included characters from all four series, the 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 Christmas specials, as well as "Planet of the Dead" and "The Waters of Mars", was released in late 2009 as a replacement for the discontinued Battles in Time range. These cards were considerably less expensive, giving them a wider market for fans. The set also included limited edition cards of all ten doctors.
 Monster Invasion (2010–2014)
Featuring Matt Smith as The Doctor. Now issued by BBC magazines, this card collection is an up-to-date revamp of the Battles in Time series. The test set, released in the South East region in April 2010, featured 90 cards including characters from all five series of the show. The official set, containing 375 cards featuring characters from series five, will be released in April 2011 nationwide.

The collection was test marketed in the South West of the UK ahead of a nationwide release. The test set included seven magazines and a set of 90 trading cards. When the magazine and trading card collection were launched nationwide the card set was increased to 165 cards and a planned run of 52 magazines.

Card collection and gameplay Website info and online code All-time top 10 Alien slamdown (different monster or alien head-to-head) Episode guide Where's the Doctor? (Search & find) A-Z of aliens Puzzles. The first set of cards featured 165 cards (Doctor: 5 Blue, Villain: 11 Purple, Ally: 13 Turquoise, Monsters: 26 Red, Gadgets: 9 Green, Adventure: 24 yellow & the infinite card). The set included common, rare, super rare 3D and ultra rare. Included in the first Monster Invasion tin was also an exclusive exploding TARDIS bonus card. The second set titled Monster Invasion Extreme was launched September 2011 and consisted of 180 cards including three exclusive cards: Doctor autograph card (came with issue 11), Amy autograph card (came with subscriber tins and Rory autograph card with standard tins. The card game ended in 2013, with issue 52 being the last issue of the magazine.

 Alien Attax (2013–2014)
 Doctor Who Fluxx published in 2017 by Looney Labs.
Takes the basic gameplay of Fluxx and merges it with multiple regenerations of the Doctor, various companions, Gallifreyan technology, K-9, Cybermen, Daleks, Weeping Angels, and the Master.

Doctor Who: Worlds Apart is a virtual card collecting game set to be released in 2021

Game books
These were a series of six gamebooks featuring the Sixth Doctor, released during the 1985–86 hiatus. The books were published by Severn House in the United Kingdom and by Ballantine in the United States; at least three were also published by the ABC in Australia, using the British titles. The stories also feature many familiar old companions and enemies including K-9, Peri, Turlough, the Rani and Omega. With the exception of Michael Holt, all the books in the series were written by scriptwriters for the television series, and at least one book, Mission to Venus, was a reworking of unused scripts, in this case Emms' unmade Second Doctor serial The Imps. Despite this, some of the books broke from the continuity of the series, particularly Crisis in Space which features Vislor Turlough, even though he did not travel with the Sixth Doctor. The six books were:

FASA also published two books similar in format to the "Make Your Own Adventure" books listed above, the first ('The Vortex Crystal by William H. Keith, Jr.) featuring the Fourth Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith and Harry Sullivan, and the second (The Rebel's Gamble also by William Keith, ), set during the American Civil War featuring the Sixth Doctor, Peri and also Harry Sullivan, even though Sullivan was not a companion during the Sixth Doctor's era, although there is a brief reference to Sullivan having rejoined the Doctor. A further gamebook, entitled Time Lord, was written by Ian Marsh and Peter Darvill-Evans and published by Virgin Books. The game is totally unrelated to the previously released Doctor Who RPG by FASA. It has different, simpler, mechanics and is considered faithful to the original television show. However, it was marketed with other Doctor Who books and not other role-playing games. In addition, Virgin was unknown in the gaming market. As a result, it did not sell well and aside from a few articles in Doctor Who Magazine, no supplements were published. Since 1996, it has been made available for free on the Internet by the authors.
 Doctor Who – Adventures in Time and Space: The Roleplaying Game (December 2009)
Featuring David Tennant as The Doctor. The game involves players incorporating a brand new game system, designed featuring characters from the relaunch of the show. As of November 2010, a core rules box set, a Game Master's screen, and a supplement entitled "Aliens and Creatures" had been released, with more due to follow in 2011.

Computer games
 Doctor Who: The First Adventure (1983), The Key To Time (1984), Doctor Who and the Warlord (1985) and Doctor Who and the Mines of Terror (1985)

These games were produced and released for the BBC Micro, Amstrad CPC 464, ZX Spectrum and C64. The games featured the characters of the Fifth And Sixth Doctors, with the games becoming very hard to obtain on the second-hand market. New characters for the games included feline robot called Splinx. A sequel for the series, entitled 'Doctor Who 2', was planned but was later cancelled due to production problems.

 Pinball (1992)
In 1992, Midway (under the Bally label) released a Doctor Who pinball game, designed by Bill Pfutzenreuter (also known as "Pfutz") and Barry Oursler (designer of the 1986 classic Pin*Bot). The theme of the game was "Time Streams", and featured a rearrangement of the Doctor Who theme tune by Jon Hey. Sylvester McCoy provided voice work for the game. The machine features a Dalek on top of the scoreboard. This Dalek was designed to move along with the game; however, the electronics were not always attached.

 Dalek Attack (1992)
A computer game published by Admiral Software, it allowed the player to play either the Second, Fourth or Seventh Doctors, with the option of a second player taking the role of Ace or Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. The object of the game was to navigate through several environments, ranging from sewers to devastated cities and defeat the Daleks and their assorted minions.

 Destiny of the Doctors (1997)
Published by BBC Multimedia, this was a CD-ROM based computer game in which the player took the role of the Graak, a creature of mental force created by the Fourth Doctor. The Master has imprisoned all seven of the Doctor's incarnations in a dimension known as the Determinant and the player must undergo a series of quests and puzzles to free each of them. The game featured extensive new clips of Anthony Ainley as the Master (playing the role for the final time) and the voices of all the surviving actors to play the Doctor as well as that of Nicholas Courtney as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart.

 Top Trumps (2008)
Featuring David Tennant as The Doctor. This computer adaptation of the popular card game featured the Doctor and companions attempting to defeat a wide range of enemies by competing in card battles against them. This game was released on PlayStation 2, Nintendo DS, PC, and later, the Nintendo Wii.
 The Adventure Games (2010)
Featuring Matt Smith as The Doctor. The first official Doctor Who video game features Matt Smith and Karen Gillan in five interactive episodes with Arthur Darvill only featured in the fifth episode, the first of which released in June 2010. Entitled "City of the Daleks", "Blood of the Cybermen", "TARDIS", "Shadows of the Vashta Nerada" and "The Gunpowder Plot", each game is available to download from the Doctor Who website exclusively for PC and Mac. The series was discontinued after five games, due to budget cuts and to focus more on the Eternity Clock game.
 Evacuation Earth / Return To Earth (2010)
Featuring Matt Smith as The Doctor. These two video games, the first of which is for the Nintendo DS, and the second for the Nintendo Wii, are two parts of the same story. Involving a mass evacuation of Earth, the doctor and Amy discover something terrible is afoot. But can they defeat the world's worst villains to make the Earth inhabitable again? Both games were released in October 2010. They will not be released on any other format, says showrunner Steven Moffat. Return to Earth was released with a sonic screwdriver shaped Wii Remote
 The Mazes of Time (2010)
A third person maze game release for the Apple iPhone and iPad. The Doctor and Amy land on a spaceship that is broadcasting a distress signal and must race through time to defend them from a lone Dalek and other creatures from the Doctor Who universe.
 Worlds in Time (2012-2014)
A massively multiplayer online role-playing game released on 12 March 2012. Players are able to control the player and the TARDIS as they complete challenges set by the Doctor to save the universe from various enemies and is free to play. The game closed on 3 March 2014.
 The Eternity Clock (2012)
A third person adventure game released on PlayStation 3, then later PlayStation Vita and PC. Featuring Matt Smith and Alex Kingston, The Doctor and River Song as they travel across space and time encounting the Cybermen, Daleks, Silurians and The Silence to save Earth by gathering pieces of the eternity clock.

 Doctor Who Legacy (2013)

A puzzle role-playing game initially released as part of the 2013 anniversary celebrations published by Tiny Rebel Games. It was closed down in 2019.

 Doctor Who and the Dalek (2014)

A mobile platform game published by BBC Digital. It was written by Doctor Who writer Phil Ford and centers around the Doctor teaming up with a Dalek to save the universe.

 Doctor Who Game Maker (2015)

A web game for making platform games. Developed by Aardman Animations and published by BBC Digital.

Action figures and costumes

Scorpion Automotive
Widely considered by collectors to be the 'holy grail' of BBC authorized Dr Who merchandise. The 1964 Scorpion Automotive Dalek costume was a joint venture between the BBC & Scorpion to capitalize on the 'Dalek craze' sweeping the country at the time. Released for sale in the run up to Christmas 1964 in limited numbers, An extensive fire at the Scorpion Automotive factory in Nottingham, England destroyed all remaining stock of the Dalek costumes & also the injection moulding tools required to fulfill any further orders.

Of the several hundred Dalek costumes that made it into the shops in 1964 only a handful survive today with the last known sale of a Scorpion Automotive Dalek costume (at a London Toy auctioneer) seeing a hammer price of £5,000 in 2014.

Denys Fisher
Denys Fisher/Mego released a selection of 9" figures in the mid-1970s, including the Fourth Doctor, Leela, K-9 (released in 1978 after the first six), the Giant Robot, a Cyberman, a Dalek, and a TARDIS. The Dalek and K-9 have friction drives to allow for movement. The TARDIS has a self-propelled spinning top. The Doctor could be inserted into the TARDIS and the "light" on top was spun. If the red button was hit while the top was spinning, the Doctor "disappeared". If the green button was hit, the Doctor re-appeared. These toys are all extremely rare and difficult to find, especially in near mint or mint condition. The Tom Baker figure is the most common and can be found in an English or Italian box. A mint (or near mint) Baker figure with the box is worth between $150–500, depending on quality of the figure and the box. The Tom Baker figure with the Italian box is more common (and may sell for as little as $75–200). The other figures, excluding the TARDIS, are worth $500–1200 if they are in near mint quality and have their original box, even if the box is damaged. In May 2006, a Denys Fisher Dalek with box sold for over $1150 on eBay. The TARDIS is usually a bit cheaper at $200–350 (provided it has no damage or any repairs are not noticeable and the box is included). Of course, this is relative and eBay auctions can vary considerably. While a mint Leela may sell for $500–600, one without a box may only sell for $150–200. That said, some items are so rare that even a damaged item, or one with missing pieces, is worth a fair amount. For example, in May 2006, a Leela doll without her loin cloth (and correspondingly, without the attached pouches and knife) but with her original, but highly damaged box, sold for over $350. It really depends on competition, timing and if serious bidding is occurring. Nonetheless, considering these toys sold in the UK for under GBP £10 in the 1970s, their value has gone up nearly 10- to 100-fold and will most likely continue to rise due to the popularity of the new Doctor Who series. Some stress cracks due to time and cannot be avoided, but more serious cracks or discolouration will decrease the value considerably. The more damaged the item is, obviously, the less it is worth. These are very simple toys, as none require batteries, have any flashing lights or speak, but they have become quite collectible. The rarity of the boxes (or high quality boxes) has led to people selling box reproductions. These reproduced boxes can be an alternative as they are less expensive than finding a figure with the original box, although true collectors may not appreciate them. Be sure to ask if the box is original or a reproduction. Along those lines, some of these toys can be repaired. The TARDIS "light" and doors easily broke, but repairs by those with ingenuity or toy-repair skills can be done. Simply re-glueing the light or the doors rarely works for this toy, so more advanced repairs are needed. Flaking damage on the Cyberman suit can be repaired using a high quality silver paint for fabric. Dust on many figures can be removed by air-blown sprays or delicate washing. Leela's hair can be repaired by combing, conditioning and steam-cleaning. Delicate repainting can also be done on some figures. The key is to do just enough repairs, without ruining the essence of the original. Any repair work should be noted in ads (often a seller will simply sell the damaged item and leave repairs to the buyer). If unsure, ask the seller. The Denys Fisher K-9 or Dalek may be initially confused with the talking Palitoy K-9 or Dalek toys. The Palitoy talking toys were released around the same time and are also quite collectable. Finding a good quality talking K-9 or Dalek, that speak at a "normal" speed and have their original boxes, can cost anywhere from $200–500. Even without the box, the toy could be worth $100–150 if in good speaking condition. If the toys do not speak, their value drops considerably (not more than $50–100 for a non-speaking Dalek). A working Palitoy K-9 is more rare and may be more costly. Both toys speak via a small vinyl record that is inside or near the battery compartment. The K-9 record is inside the battery compartment and the record can be flipped over, giving K-9 more phrases. The Dalek record is buried within the toy and cannot be removed. The Palitoy K-9 is considerably larger than the Denys Fisher line, so the two cannot be confused when visually compared. The Palitoy Dalek is considerably different from the Denys Fisher Dalek, although it is similar in size. The Palitoy Dalek came in red with black Dalek "spots" or "bumps" and in silver-grey with blue "bumps". The silver/blue Dalek is a bit more rare. Both Palitoy Daleks had black extremities, with a red end on the eye and red suction cup. The Denys Fisher Dalek is also silver/blue, but has a red head and a blue eye piece (with silver gun and suction cup). Palitoy toys also tended to rust and crack.

Dapol
For the series 25th anniversary in 1988 the BBC commissioned model train manufacturers Dapol to release the first line of Doctor Who action figures since the Denys Fisher toys of 1976. The first wave of the line was composed of current Doctor Sylvester McCoy, already departed companion Melanie Bush (in a pink top), the Doctor's iconic ship the TARDIS, the Fourth Doctor's robotic pet dog K9 and a Tetrap monster from Time and the Rani. The first wave had numerous errors such as the TARDIS console featuring the wrong amount of sides and a green painted K9 as opposed to the correct metallic grey, apparently because the photo given by the BBC to Dapol gave the impression K9 was green as it allegedly reflected the grass. Half a year later a second wave of the first series was released featuring an Earthshock Cyberman, Dalek variants and the Fourth Doctor, surprisingly without his trademark long scarf and hat. The next batch of figures released in 1989 featured costume variants for the Doctor and Melanie, current companion Ace, an Ice Warrior story and a two-armed Davros. At first the way to readdress this mistake was simply to snap the offending hand off but later models took more care to readdress the balance. The final editions of this wave were three more Dalek colour variants. In 1990 the Dapol factory suffered serious fire damage and no new Doctor Who figures were produced until 1998. Dapol's third series of action figures mainly focused on the early 1970s era of the programme, including two types of Silurian, a Sea Devil, the Master as portrayed by Roger Delgado and the Doctor as portrayed by Jon Pertwee. The series also featured a Dalek based on the Peter Cushing film series and a gold Dalek from Day of the Daleks, which was only available in the Third Doctor box set. In 1999 Dapol released six more Daleks, the Melkur and two types of Sontaran. The next year Dapol discontinued the figure range and made 4-inch statues of the Second Doctor and a cyberman from The Moonbase. Though the company planned to continue this range with the First Doctor and a Yeti the BBC opted not to renew Dapol's licence. The company also hosted the Doctor Who Experience exhibition, which showed props and costumes from the original series and ran until 2003. Dapol also produced gift sets containing common figures, typically with one rarity included, and dozens of special edition Daleks, usually to coincide with the latest theme at the exhibition.

Corgi
In 2003 die-cast model makers Corgi released a model Bessie with The Three Doctors DVD and in early 2004, still for the 40th anniversary, released a limited edition (5,000) TARDIS set featuring an Earthshock Cyberman, Davros, The Fourth Doctor in Bessie, K9 and a Light Gold Dalek. Essentially the same set was re-released months later in a commemorative film can, the differences the inclusion of a Fourth Doctor figure, a figure of the Fourth Doctor peering through the TARDIS and an early silver/blue Dalek. Corgi then released eight different types of Dalek and Davros in sets of three with runs of 7,000, and re-released every figure from the box sets in packs of two. Corgi's final release was a limited edition (2,000) UNIT set featuring a jeep, helicopter and Supreme Dalek.

Character Options
Since 2005, Character Options (CO) has held the master toy license for producing merchandise primarily inspired by the revived series of Doctor Who. This includes action figures, play sets, electronic variations of the Doctor's sonic screwdriver accessory, an electronic TARDIS-shaped money box, 12-inch and 18-inch radio-controlled Dalek models, electronic masks depicting monsters from the series, and other toys and accessories.

Action figures
CO's first Doctor Who releases were two Dalek Battle Packs – two 5-inch radio-controlled model Daleks that included either a Ninth Doctor or Rose Tyler action figure – released in 2005. This led to the production of further, more detailed, action figures depicting characters and monsters from the programme, with three 'waves' of posable 5-inch scale figures and RC Dalek and K9 models were released in 2006. New figures were released regularly alongside broadcast of the programme, along with larger 'deluxe' and 'Collect & Build' figures, an electronic TARDIS control room play set and other models. From 2007 to 2009, instead of waves, figures were marketed under Series banners based on which series the character depicted appear in. Limited edition and retailer-exclusive figure sets were also released while certain figures have received re-releases featuring new sculpts, paint-apps and accessories. The figures received high praise and won Character the 2006 Toy Retailers Association's Boys Toy of the Year Award.

In 2008, Character Options expanded the range to include figures the programme's classic series. While there was an initial lack of interest from major retailers after the release of the first wave, further releases were commissioned by Forbidden Planet and Underground Toys, making 5-inch classic Doctor Who figures exclusive to those retailers. As well as villains, classic-era releases include the first eight incarnations of the Doctor, Dalek and Cyberman variants and various TARDIS exterior play sets.

In 2012, Character Options announced the semi-discontinuation of their 5-inch Doctor Who action figure line in favour of figures produced in a new 3.75-inch scale to match toys from other brands, allowing further playability for children. The first 3.75-inch figures were released in 2013 depicting characters from the seventh series as well as re-releases of certain 5-inch figures in the new scale. Connectable 'Time Zone' play sets including exclusive figures and accessories, an electronic spinning TARDIS exterior and electronic gliding Dalek models were also released. The range was halted in 2015 due to low sales. The 5-inch figure range is currently continuing as a limited collectors' series, with B&M being CO's lead retailer as of 2023.

Other
Additionally, Character released a series of 12-inch Doctor Who dolls between 2006 and 2007. 10-inch dolls depicting the Eleventh and Thirteenth Doctors were also released in 2011 and 2018, respectively. The company also released the Doctor Who Micro Universe game series in 2007 featuring collectible miniature figurines and ship models based on characters from the programme's first, second and third series. The series was succeeded by the Doctor Who "Time Squad" range – highly stylised (cartoonish) 2-inch figures with variable levels of articulation that came in sets of one to five figures – first released in 2009.

In November 2007, CO released merchandise related to the Doctor Who spin-off series The Sarah Jane Adventures. Originally launching with a Sarah Jane Smith and Star Poet action figure set, the range expanded to include a sonic lipstick & wrist watch scanner set, an electronic Alien Communicator accessory, and twin packs of Sarah Jane Smith action figure variants with various aliens from the first series of the programme. The range was discontinued shortly after due to a lack of customer interest.

The London-based collectables company Sci-Fi Collector also released a range of figures based on the mature Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood. This was an exclusive license granted to the company in favour of mass-production by Character Options.

In 2010, Polish construction toy company COBI teamed up with Character Options to produce Doctor Who construction toys. The line mainly consisted of characters and buildable playsets from the Eleventh Doctor's era of the programme. Figurines were released as collectibles in blind bags that also came with clear stackable cases to display them. Rare and hard-to-find figurines were also released. The line ended in 2014, around the time of the Twelfth Doctor's TV debut.

Micro-Universe
Doctor Who Micro Universe is a very simple collectable miniatures game similar to Top Trumps except with a die. Each figure has a number of characteristics with a numerical value. Choose a characteristic, roll the spinner (a die replacement shaped like the TARDIS console) and add the result to the characteristic's value. Your opponent rolls and adds the same characteristic from his figure and the highest wins that combat. No movement rules included despite this being a miniatures game. They were sold in semi random starters of 7 figures and boosters of 3 figures, plus a TARDIS-shaped carrying case was also released. 26 in the main set and 6 special packs that contain 1 ship (not to scale with the rest of the figures) and one special figure not available in the starters or boosters.

Commemorative stamps
During 1999, the Royal Mail issued twelve sets of postage stamps known as the "Millennium Series". One set of four stamps was issued every month, and each had a common theme. The set issued on 1 June 1999 was named "The Entertainers' Tale", and the 44p stamp featured a Dalek. The others of this set depicted: Freddie Mercury on the 19p stamp; Bobby Moore on the 26p; and Charlie Chaplin on the 64p.

In March 2013, the Royal Mail issued a set of eleven first class stamps in honour of the shows 50th anniversary featuring the faces of the eleven Doctors. There was also a set of five second class stamps that feature the Tardis, a Dalek, an Ood, a Weeping Angel and a Cyberman

Bakeware
In 2013, Kitchenware company, Lakeland, created a range of bakeware, decorations and party products, including cookie cutters, cake moulds, cupcake accessories, napkins, plates, and straws produced under licence.

See also
 Doctor Who books (category)
 Doctor Who magazines (category)
 Dalek comic strips, illustrated annuals and graphic novels

References

External links
 Howe's Transcendental Toybox – A reference guide to Doctor Who merchandise.
 doctorwhotoys.net – a fansite for Doctor Who Toys.

Merchandise
Merchandise
Works based on Doctor Who

Doctor Who merchandise


Kamen Rider 555 (officially Masked Rider Φ's, also read Kamen Rider Faiz or Phi's) is a Japanese tokusatsu television drama. It is the 13th installment in the Kamen Rider Series. It is a joint collaboration between Ishimori Productions and Toei, and was broadcast on TV Asahi from January 26, 2003, to January 18, 2004. It aired as a part of TV Asahi's 2003 Super Hero Time block, alongside Bakuryū Sentai Abaranger.

Story
The Smart Brain corporation, the world's most powerful corporation, is trying to take over the world using Orphnoch, the "next stage in humanity's evolution", to covertly kill off the human population. In pursuit of this, they develop three suits of power armor, called Rider Gears (each for Delta, Faiz, and Kaixa), to find and protect the Orphnoch King,  who can fix a defect within Orphnoch DNA which causes their genetic structure to break down, leading to death.

The Rider Gears are stolen by Hanagata, the Goat Orphnoch and former chief of Smart Brain. He sends them to his foster children (dubbed the "Ryuseiji", after the school they attended) so they can stop the Orphnoch from achieving their goal. However, Rider Gears were designed to be worn by Orphnoch, and humans are unable to activate the systems without undergoing genetic generation.

A young loner, Takumi Inui, is unwittingly drawn into the conflict between the Orphnoch and humans and becomes Kamen Rider Faiz to save the life of Mari Sonada, one of the Ryuseiji. Smart Brain begins training him in an attempt to retrieve the Faiz Gear.

However, there is division amongst the Orphnoch, as those who wish to co-exist with humans rather than kill him, begin resisting the Smart Brain, who in turn targets them as well. Most of these "renegade" Orphnochs are either killed, remain neutral or begin siding with the Ryuseiji against the Smart Brain.

When the Tokyo police discover the Orphnoch are behind a series of bizarre murders, they begin operations to defeat the creatures, largely unaware of the various factions involved. They even begin performing experiments on captured Orphnoch in an attempt to find ways of destroying them, though this does not go well.

The Orphnoch King eventually awakens within a young boy named Teruo Suzuki, whom Naoya Kaido and Keitaro Kikuchi saved and befriended. Now, it is up to the holders of the Rider Gears to band together and fight for humanity's survival.

Cast
 Takumi Inui / Kamen Rider Faiz: Kento Handa
 Mari Sonada: Yuria Haga
 Keitaro Kikuchi: Ken Mizorogi
 Yuji Kiba: Masayuki Izumi
 Yuka Osada: Yoshika Kato
 Naoya Kaido / Riotrooper: Mitsuru Karahashi
 Masato Kusaka / Kamen Rider Kaixa: Kōhei Murakami
 Shuji Mihara / Kamen Rider Delta: Atsushi Harada
 Rina Abe: Rie Kasai
 Kyoji Murakami: Katsuyuki Murai
 Kazufumi Mizuno: Kengo Ohkuchi
 Aki Sawada: Gō Ayano
 Teruo Suzuki: Kayato Watanabe
 Sawamura: Koji Iwakawa
 Hikaru Soeno: Manami Miwake
 Masahiko Minami: Atsushi Ogawa
 J: Kenneth Duria
 Itsuko Takuma: Jun Yamasaki
 Saeko Kageyama: Waka
 Kitazaki: Ray Fujita
 Smart Lady: Hitomi Kurihara
 Narration, Driver Voice: Takehiko Kano

Guest actor
 Chie Morishita (1, 2): Mika Katsumura

Paradise Lost cast
 Mina: Mei Kurokawa
 Mina (Childhood): Mirai Shida
 Mizuhara: Mocomichi Hayami
 Leo / Kamen Rider Psyga: Peter Ho
 Keitaro Kikuchi / Kamen Rider Kaixa: Ken Mizorogi
 Yuji Kiba / Kamen Rider Orga: Masayuki Izumi

Songs
 Opening theme
 "Justiφ's"
 Lyrics: Shoko Fujibayashi
 Composition: Kazuto Sato
 Arrangement: Kōtarō Nagakawa
 Artist: ISSA (of DA PUMP)
 Episodes: 2 - 49
 Insert themes
 "Dead or alive"
 Lyrics: Shoko Fujibayashi
 Composition: Katsuya Yoshida
 Arrangement: Akio Kondo
 Artist: Shinichi Ishihara
 Episodes: 2 - 20
 "The people with no name"
 Lyrics: Shoko Fujibayashi
 Rap Lyrics: m.c.A.T
 Composition: Cher Watanabe
 Arrangement: RIDER CHIPS
 Artist: RIDER CHIPS featuring m.c.A.T
 Episodes: 21 - 32, 39
 "EGO ~ eyes glazing over"
 Lyrics: Shoko Fujibayashi
 Composition & Arrangement: Cher Watanabe
 Artist: ICHIDAI (of ROLL DAYS)
 Episodes: 33 - 38, 41 - 48
 "Justiφ's -Accel Mix-"
 Lyrics: Shoko Fujibayashi
 Composition: Kazuto Sato
 Arrangement: Kazunori Miyake
 Artist: ISSA (of DA PUMP)
 Episodes: 40, Movie

Japanese science fiction television series
2003 television series debuts
2004 television series endings

Kamen Rider 555


Linda Nolan (born 23 February 1959) is an Irish singer, actress and television personality. After moving with her family to Blackpool, at the age of three in 1962, she attained fame as a member of the girl group The Nolans in 1974, along with her sisters Anne, Denise, Maureen, Bernie and Coleen. As a member of the Nolans, she toured with Frank Sinatra in 1975, won the Tokyo Music Festival in 1981, and had seven UK top 20 hits between 1979 and 1982.

Soon after leaving the group, she supported Gene Pitney on his 1984 UK tour. She then went on to perform in theatre, including an eight-season residency as Maggie May on Blackpool's Central Pier (1986–93), where she clocked up over 1,000 performances, followed by two seasons as Rosie O'Grady on Blackpool's South Pier (1994–95). She reunited with the Nolans for the 2009 I'm in the Mood Again album and tour, and in 2014, she took part in the 13th series of Celebrity Big Brother. In 2018, she was a recurring guest panellist on Loose Women.

Early life
Linda Nolan was born in Holles Street Hospital in Dublin, Ireland, the sixth of eight children born to Tommy and Maureen Nolan. The family lived in Raheny, a suburb of Dublin. They lived there until she was three before moving to Blackpool in 1962, at which point Tommy and Maureen formed the Singing Nolans of which Nolan was a member. She went to school at Blackpool's St Catherine's Catholic Secondary School, and also attended The Cardinal Wiseman School in Greenford, West London.

Career

Singing career
In 1981, she scored a minor hit with her sister Coleen as part of the Young & Moody Band, with "Don't Do That" (UK No. 63) which also featured Lemmy from Motörhead and Cozy Powell.

She left The Nolans in December 1983 and quickly gained the label "Naughty Nolan" due to her posing in risqué publicity photos. The Nolans reunited as a five-piece (Bernie, Anne, Coleen, Maureen and Linda) for one-off performances of "I'm in the Mood for Dancing" first for BBC One's All Time Greatest Party Songs, hosted by Tess Daly, which aired on 17 December 2005 and again on 9 August 2007 on Loose Women.

Four of the sisters (Linda, Bernie, Coleen & Maureen) reunited in 2009 for a successful tour of the UK and Ireland. They also released an album I'm in the Mood Again, which reached No. 22 on the UK Albums Chart.

Musicals
On leaving the group, Nolan went on to play the role of Maggie May at Blackpool's Central Pier for eight summer seasons (1986–93), clocking up more than 1,000 performances. She then starred for two seasons in a similar show on Blackpool's South Pier called Rosie O' Grady's (1994–95).

From 1996 to 1997, she starred as the prison governor in two UK tours of Prisoner: Cell Block H – The Musical, alongside Paul O'Grady.

From 2000, she starred as Mrs Johnstone in Blood Brothers for three years in the West End, and regularly played the role in the UK touring production until 2008. She was the third Nolan sister to play the role, after Bernie and Denise. Maureen Nolan has also since played the role in the West End on the UK tour for several years, earning the sisters a place in the Guinness World Records, as the most siblings to play the same role in a musical.

Other
Nolan has also appeared on Blankety Blank, with Anne and her daughter Alex on Celebrity Pressure Pad and with Bernie on Pointless Celebrities.

Celebrity Big Brother

In January 2014, Nolan participated in the thirteenth series of Celebrity Big Brother. Prior to this, her sister Coleen had participated in and achieved second place in the tenth series.

Upon learning that she was to be handcuffed, she confirmed her "Naughty Nolan" nickname by saying "I like a bit of bondage".

Jim Davidson, who was also a contestant in the house that year has history with Nolan; in 1995, Nolan's husband Brian Hudson was caught red-handed stealing money from comic Frank Carson's dressing room at the South Pier Theatre Blackpool. This raised the ire of Davidson, who was playing up the road at the time and promptly lost his temper, yelling "no one steals from my mates" and threatened to punch him. Davidson was promptly thrown out of that nightclub. On Day 15, Nolan was reminded by Davidson of his antics, prompting an argument. She was evicted on Day 22.

Personal life
Nolan met Brian Hudson in 1979 and they married in 1981. He was the Nolans' tour manager until 1983 and became his wife's manager after she left the group. They were married for 26 years until his death on 21 September  2007, from liver failure.

On 7 July 2014, Nolan claimed that she was sexually assaulted by Rolf Harris in 1975 while The Nolans were supporting Harris in a tour of South Africa.

Health
In 2006, Nolan was diagnosed with breast cancer. As part of her treatment, she underwent a single mastectomy. She was given the all-clear from cancer in 2011. In 2007, she was diagnosed with cellulitis and lymphedema in her arm.

In 2017, Nolan fell on her hip and was taken to hospital, where doctors discovered a form of incurable secondary breast cancer on her pelvis. She began undergoing regular radiotherapy treatment to make sure that the cancer would not spread, but has said that she would reject chemotherapy if the cancer was found to be terminal, after seeing how Bernie was in pain from her chemotherapy in 2013. On 27 March 2023, Nolan revealed that the cancer had now metastasized to her brain, with a tumor discovered on the left side of her brain, resulting in balance loss on her right side and forcing her to use a wheelchair. She also expressed interest in trying out a new drug that was released in 2022 to treat the brain cancer.

Discography

Studio albums

EPs and mini-albums

Singles

Filmography

Selected theatre

References

1959 births
Living people
Irish pop singers
Musicians from Dublin (city)
Irish emigrants to the United Kingdom
Irish women singers
Musicians from Blackpool

Linda Nolan


Storm Over Arnhem is a 1981 board wargame designed by Courtney F. Allen, published by the Avalon Hill game company, and depicts the battle for Arnhem bridge over the Lower Rhine river during Operation Market Garden in World War II. This battle was fought between elements of the British 1st Airborne Division and elements of the German Bocholt Battalion and 9th and 10th SS Panzer Divisions. The plan was for the airborne forces to seize and hold the Arnhem bridge for two days, before being relieved by the British XXX Corps. However, Operation Market Garden failed in numerous places, and the airborne troops were never relieved. They did however achieve more than their objective by capturing and holding the northern end of the Arnhem Bridge with some 700+ men for four days.

Game-play

The game recreates the fighting around the northern end of Arnhem bridge during the days of September 18 through September 21, 1944. One player controls the British units, while a second player controls the Germans.

Initial unit deployment is semi-free. For example, a certain number of SS units must be placed in each initial deployment zone, but the German player is free to choose which units he will put there.

The game is divided into a number of turns. A day turn is 6 hours, and a night turn is 12 hours, and there are three turns in a single day, 2 day turns and 1 night turn. Each turn is divided into 5 phases: Reinforcement & Reformed Units Phase, Random Events Phase, Movement/Fire Phase, Close Combat Phase and the Victory Point Determination Phase.

The Movement/Fire Phase consists of a number of player impulses, which means that during this phase a player can move or attack with his uncommitted units in a single area. An uncommitted unit differs from a committed unit by the fact that the latter is a unit that has already moved or attacked on that same turn, or that the unit has taken casualties or was forced to retreat on that turn. Players alternate impulses until there are no more uncommitted units, or both players pass their impulse. Next the close combat phase is played out for each area containing both British and German units.

The objective of the game is for the Germans to gain at least 22 victory point by the end of the last turn, to win a marginal victory, or for the British to withhold the Germans from those victory point. Victory points are allocated for every victory point area the German player occupies.

Game-board

The game-board is a map of the surroundings of the northern side of Arnhem bridge on a 1" = 100' scale and is divided into 30 areas of various size and shape to represent the unique characteristics of both the build-up in the area (such as buildings and trees) and the line of sight, which determines and limits the possibilities of attacking and moving units across the board. This system is known as the area movement system, as opposed to the hexagonal boards, where units attack and move through a number of hexes. Storm Over Arnhem was the first game to use the area movement system, which was later used in such games as Break Out:Normandy and Thunder Over Casino. Axis & Allies and Risk are also examples of area movement systems. Surrounding the Arnhem map are five movement zones, depicting the areas outside Arnhem, which can be used to quickly move units from one side of town to the other side.

Variant

The game came with a number of counters (playing pieces) which were not used with the basic game, but could be used for playing a variant game of Storm Over Arnhem. That variant game would be published in a future issue of Avalon Hill's The General Magazine. The variant was called The Crossing, and let the players recreate the famous and costly assault by Viktor Graebner's reconnaissance unit (of the German 9th SS Panzer Division) across the Arnhem bridge, where they suffered heavy losses. Also, the variant game begins on the evening of September 17, instead of the afternoon of September 18. The British units start out in the movement zones, and the only German units in Arnhem consist of a small Arnhem Garrison.

General Magazine

Avalon Hill's The General Magazine published a series of articles on Storm Over Arnhem, including a variant to the game, as mentioned above. A two-part series replay was also printed.

Volume 19, Number 1
"The Combatants of Arnhem" (contrasting approaches to Storm Over Arnhem)
"The Crossing" (variant rules)
Series replay
Design analysis
Volume 19, Number 2
Series replay (part II)
Volume 21, Number 1
"The Nieuwe Kade Gambit" (defensive set-up for the British)
Volume 22, Number 3
 "A Bridge Not Too Far" (British strategy for the variant)
Volume 25, Number 3
"Prelude to the Storm Over Arnhem" (a historical perspective)

Reception
Storm Over Arnhem was awarded the Charles S. Roberts Award for "Best 20th Century Boardgame of 1982".

Reviews
 Casus Belli #25 (April 1985)
Casus Belli #79
1982 Games 100 in Games
1983 Games 100

References

External links

Avalon Hill games
Board games introduced in 1981
Origins Award winners
World War II board wargames

Storm Over Arnhem


Werner Kaegi (February 22, 1901 – June 15, 1979) was a Swiss historian. He is best known for a single work, a biography of Jacob Burkhardt. This appeared in seven volumes, from 1947 to 1982.

He was the recipient of the Gottfried-Keller-Preis and the Erasmus Prize.

His wife was the Catholic mystic and stigmatist Adrienne von Speyr (1902–1967). Her spiritual director and friend, the theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar, kept a journal during many years about her life in which details regarding her relationship with Werner Kaegi can be found. This journal was later edited in 3 volumes under the name "Erde und himmel" ("Earth and heaven").

Kaegi became a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1948 and a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1976.

References

1901 births
1979 deaths
20th-century Swiss historians
Swiss male writers
Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
20th-century male writers
Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy

Members of the American Philosophical Society

Werner Kaegi


A belly cast is a three-dimensional plaster sculpture of a woman's pregnant abdomen as a keepsake of her pregnancy. It can also be known as a belly mask, pregnancy belly cast, a pregnant plaster cast, or prenatal cast.

Belly casts are most often made toward the end of the third trimester of pregnancy, though a series of casts may also be made during the pregnancy. They are made by preparing the skin with a coating of Vaseline or a similar lubricant and adding strips of wet plaster gauze over the abdomen to make the cast. Some women also cast their breasts, arms, hands and thighs into a full torso sculpture. The plaster sets in about 20–30 minutes but some fast-setting strips set in five minutes. Once set, the cast is gently removed by the mother using a wriggling motion. It takes one or two days for the cast to dry completely.

Gesso can be painted onto the mask after drying to stop it absorbing moisture from the air. Gesso also works as a surface primer for painting and preserving it. The cast can be decorated with any number of finishes or designs including the baby's hand and foot prints, or left in its natural state. Most popular decorations include painting and decoupage, while some belly casts are mosaicked.

References

External links
Examples Of Belly Casts
Make Your Own Belly Cast - Instructions
The Best Comforting Partner In Pregnancy: Massage Chair

Human pregnancy

Belly cast


Anubias gilletii is a plant in the Araceae family. It was first described for science in 1901 by Émile Auguste Joseph De Wildeman and Th. Durand.

Where it grows
The plant is found in Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Republic of the Congo, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Description
The plant's leaves are medium-green and spear-shaped. They grow on long stalks. They may grow to about  in length. The plant grows in muddy areas near, or in, streams. Sometimes it even grows completely under water.

Growing conditions
This plant grows best when only partly under water and when not crowded by other plants. It needs a lot of nutrients. The substrate should be loose and have a lot of iron. The light should be moderate to strong. It prefers a temperature range of 22-26 degrees C (72-79 degrees F). It can be propagated by dividing the stolon or by its seed.

References

Anubias

Anubias gilletii


Rodrigo Olivares Aramburu (born July 31, 1976 in Santiago) is a retired Chilean swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events. Olivares competed only in a sprint freestyle at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. He achieved FINA B-standards of 23.32 (50 m freestyle) and 52.31 (100 m freestyle) from the Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. In the 100 m freestyle, Olivares placed sixty-two on the morning prelims. Swimming in heat five, he rounded out the field to last place by almost a full second behind Zimbabwe's Glen Walshaw in 53.50. Two days later, in the 50 m freestyle, Olivares participated in heat five against seven other swimmers, including three-time Olympians Richard Sam Bera of Indonesia and Allan Murray of the Bahamas, top 16 finalist in Atlanta four years earlier. Failing to improve his standard, he settled only for seventh place and fifty-fifth overall in 54.50, a 1.38-second deficit behind winner Ravil Nachaev of Uzbekistan.

References

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Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Santiago
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21st-century Chilean people

Rodrigo Olivares


The 2004 Iranian seizure of Royal Navy personnel took place in the Shatt al-Arab (Arvand Rud in Persian) waterway on 21 June. Six Royal Marines and two Royal Navy sailors were captured.
The British servicemen were seized while training Iraqi river patrol personnel after Iran said they had strayed to the Iranian side of the waterway. They were threatened with legal action initially but released three days later following diplomatic discussions between Jack Straw, then British Foreign Secretary, and Kamal Kharazi, then Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs. The weapons and boats of the British personnel were confiscated and have not been returned.

They were released unharmed three days later, on 24 June, after the British and Iranian governments agreed there had been a misunderstanding. Their equipment was not returned and a rigid inflatable boat (RIB) was put on display in a museum in Tehran. During their detention, according to former detainee Marine Scott Fallon, they endured a mock execution in which they were marched into the desert and made to stand blindfolded in front of a ditch while their captors cocked their weapons. They also appeared blindfolded on Iranian TV, where they were forced to apologise for their "mistake". The Royal Navy boats were operating close to the northern coast of the Persian Gulf in the mouth of the Shatt al-Arab waterway which divides southern Iran and Iraq. The weather was bad causing negligible visibility which may have contributed to a potential crossing of the Iranian border by the Royal Navy. After the crew were returned and events analysed the British government affirmed its belief that the personnel were actually still in Iraqi waters, however they consigned the incident to a misunderstanding and requested the return of the equipment. In 2015, an FOIA request released a redacted report.

See also
 2007 Iranian seizure of Royal Navy personnel, in which 15 personnel were seized and held for 12 days

References

Seizure of Royal Navy personnel
Iranian seizure of Royal Navy personnel
International maritime incidents
Diplomatic incidents
Maritime incidents in 2004
Iranian Seizure of Royal Navy Personnel, 2004
Iran–United Kingdom military relations
21st-century history of the Royal Navy
Battles and conflicts without fatalities
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Earth Defense Force 2017 is a third-person shooter developed by Sandlot, and published by D3 Publisher, for the Xbox 360. It is the follow-up to Global Defence Force, and is the first game in the Earth Defense Force series (as well as the first game based on D3's Simple series of budget games) to be released in North America. Earth Defense Force 3 was the best selling Games on Demand game in Japan for 2009. The game was released on the PlayStation Vita in Japan on 27 September 2012. It was released digital-only in North America on January 8, 2013 and in the PAL region on January 16, 2013. A port of the game was released for the Nintendo Switch in Japan on October 14, 2021.

Story
During year 2013, radio waves from deep space are received by scientists, showing people an alien race. During year 2015, the Earth Defense Force, a unified multinational military organization sponsored by nearly every country, is established in case these space aliens are proven to be hostile. Two years later, (during 2017) first contact is made because suddenly hundreds of unidentified flying objects soon arrive and hover over major cities across the globe, led by a massive mothership positioned over Tokyo, Japan. As the EDF is mobilized, giant acid spitting insects resembling ants begin assaulting many civilians. And this main character is an unnamed Captain in Storm 1, and is a Japanese unit regarded as the best in the EDF, and helps in fighting back at these ants in Tokyo. These UFOs soon release more ants, showing these such hostile intentions. An air assault is attempted on this mothership, but is destroyed by alien UFO gunships. And because this operation becomes a failure, surviving EDF forces abandon cities and begin a guerrilla campaign in rural areas.

While patrolling the Japanese countryside, Storm 1 is informed by command that an extensive alien nest is being built underground. From this nest, the aliens will be able to spawn an infinite number of bugs and bypass EDF defenses. Intelligence provided by Scout Teams shows that a single alien Queen is at the center of the nest, and its destruction will stop the production of the rapidly multiplying bugs. Storm 1 assaults the nest with the help of all available Ranger Teams, and successfully kills the Queen. A few days later, Storm 1 assists a Scout Team with monitoring the mothership, which has landed on the Japanese coast and appears dormant, damaged, and defenseless. Oddly, it is observed sucking in huge amounts of air and releasing carbon dioxide, implying that the ship is more than a synthetic machine, and may be the hive intelligence controlling the aliens. Command orders the Teams to assault the mothership with heavy weapons, but it re-activates and wipes out the Scout Team.

Before the alien mothership retreats, it drops a massive four-legged mecha on the coast, which uses a powerful plasma cannon to assault EDF positions. Storm 1 destroys the mecha before it can cause too much harm, and later neutralizes several cyborg creatures of Godzilla proportions. While the Japanese contingent of the EDF continues to hold out, the rest of the world is soon overrun and enslaved. Japan stands as the last unoccupied territory. All remaining insects and mechs on the ground make a beeline to the bombed-out ruins of Tokyo, where the mothership has stopped to repair and arm an enormous cannon, capable of destroying anything in its path. The remaining EDF forces move to block the alien advance so Storm 1 can destroy the mothership. Storm 1 focuses fire on the mothership and destroys it. The remaining alien forces become disorganized and flee.

Gameplay
The player takes control of an EDF soldier who is part of the elite unit Storm 1. To fight these alien forces the player can access over 150 weapons in the game, ranging from assault rifles and sniper rifles to rocket launchers, grenades and laser weapons. Only two weapons may be selected for each mission. Some levels also contain vehicles which can be commandeered; a tank, a helicopter, a hoverbike and a bipedal mecha are available. The game takes place across 53 levels featuring destructible environments, taking place in settings such as cities and caves. There is no penalty for collateral damage that is inflicted on the environment by the player, for instance buildings will crumble after sustaining a single hit from a rocket launcher or grenade. Other EDF soldiers can be recruited or followed, and attack enemies on sight, as well as provide radio chatter.

There are five difficulty levels. More effective weapons are dropped by the enemies in the game at the higher difficulty levels, encouraging players to repeat the missions. In addition to weapons, armor enhancements which function as permanent maximum health bonuses are dropped along with healing items.

PlayStation Vita port
A PlayStation Vita version of the game was announced on June 5, 2012 as Earth Defense Forces 3 Portable. The new version includes both local and online co-operative play, as well as the return of Palewing from Earth Defense Force 2. The game was released on September 27, 2012 in Japan. It was released digital-only in North America on January 8, 2013 and in Europe and Australia on January 16, 2013 as Earth Defense Force 2017 Portable.

Reception

The game received "average" reviews on both platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.  In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of two sevens and two eights for the Xbox 360 version, and three eights and one seven for the Vita version; while Famitsu X360 gave the former console version a score of one seven, two eights, and one nine.

Reviewers pointed out that the Xbox 360 version suffered from relatively poor graphics, a lack of many standard features and characteristically poor voice acting. However, said console version still received solid reviews from western critics, whose general consensus was that it is "inexplicably fun". Some advocate it as a "gamers' game" with nothing in the way of the pure game, like Kieron Gillen in his Eurogamer review; the console version's strong emphasis on arcade-style gameplay, with massively destructive weapons and hordes of enemies, suggests that this may have been the driving philosophy behind its design. Some outlets, however, claimed that said console version paled in comparison to its predecessor, which had a larger range of enemies, missions, weapons and a second playable character. Edge, for example, gave it six out of ten and said, "The illusion of epic-scale warfare remains a powerful and entertaining one, broken most significantly by the player's need to avoid overexposing themselves to its fundamentally tedious nature."

Notes

References

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Alien invasions in video games
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Guingamor is an anonymous medieval lai about a knight who leaves the court of his uncle, a king, because the queen has sent him off to hunt for a white boar. By offering a reward for the boar's head, she hopes to get rid of the protagonist Guingamor, who has refused her sexual advances.

Guingamor crosses a river and passes into a mystical kingdom. Returning with the boar's head after what seems to him like three days, he encounters a common charcoal-maker, who tells him that many years have passed since the king's faithful nephew never returned from a hunt for the white boar. Guingamor's return is triumphant and he is immortalized in a lai.

The story was once presumed to have been written by Marie de France, but is now considered anonymous. However, it draws on Marie's Lanval, and the anonymous Graelent:

The definitive view of these three lays, chronologically and thematically, is that of R. N. Illingworth, who concluded that they were composed in the order Lanval, Graelend, and Guingamor, with Graelent and Guingamor (both anonymous) drawing on Lanval, but Guingamor also drawing on Graelent. Moreover, although the narratives were taken largely from Marie, the two anonymous lays integrated into their stories, independently of Marie, material stemming from "a nucleus of genuine Celtic tradition".

References

External links
Full English text at archive.org: Guingamor, Lanval, Tyolet, Bisclaveret; four lais rendered into English prose from the French of Marie de France and others  by Jessie L. Weston. Illustrated by Caroline Watts. Published by London D. Nutt (1900).

Anglo-Norman literature
Anonymous lais
French poems

Guingamor


Karl Ricks Anderson (born 1937) is a Latter-day Saint historian whose specialty is the Kirtland period in the history of the Latter Day Saint movement. He is a brother of Richard Lloyd Anderson and they were the second recipients of the Junius F. Wells Award from the Mormon Historic Sites Foundation in 2006.

Anderson was born in Salt Lake City, Utah and grew up in Ogden, Utah. He served as a Mormon missionary in the Swiss–Austrian Mission of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1957 to 1960.

Anderson earned a bachelor's degree and a masters in business administration from the University of Utah.  He has spent most of his life since that time in the eastern United States, particularly Michigan and Ohio.  He spent most of his career working for Borg-Warner.

In the late 1970s, Anderson served as president of the LDS Church's Cleveland Ohio Stake when its boundaries included Kirtland.  Anderson later served as a regional representative of the Twelve. For a time, he served as a counselor in the Ohio Cleveland Mission presidency.  He has also served as the area family history advisor for the North America North East Area of the church.

Anderson has been involved heavily with the Church Educational System (CES), having taught early morning seminary for 15 years and institute for about 25 years.

Anderson has also served as the secretary of the Joseph and Hyrum Smith Foundation.

Anderson has been key to the acquiring of many of the properties the LDS Church owns in Kirtland. He has also written the following books about Kirtland; Joseph Smith's Kirtland: Eyewitness Accounts and The Savior in Kirtland. He has also written many articles that have been published in such works as the Encyclopedia of Mormonism.

Anderson currently serves as the stake patriarch of the Kirtland Ohio Stake.

References

 Church News, November 11, 2006; September 27, 2003; January 4, 1997; July 17, 1993.
 Mormon Historic Sites foundation interview with Anderson
 Janet Brigham, "Kirtland Today: History with a Future",  Ensign February 1979, p. 50

1937 births
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Writers from Salt Lake City
20th-century Mormon missionaries
American Latter Day Saint writers
American Mormon missionaries in Austria
American Mormon missionaries in Switzerland
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Patriarchs (LDS Church)
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Regional representatives of the Twelve
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Ca' Foscari University of Venice (), known simply as simply Ca' Foscari, is a public university in Venice, Italy. Since its foundation in 1868, it has been housed in the Venetian Gothic palace of Ca' Foscari, from which it takes its name. The palace stands on the Grand Canal, between the Rialto and San Marco, in the sestiere of Dorsoduro.

Ca' Foscari became a full-fledged university in 1968. It currently has eight departments and almost 21,000 students. Ca' Foscari's teaching and research is centred around economics & business, humanities, and modern languages. In 2017 Ca' Foscari's economics department was ranked as Italy's 3rd best, surpassed by University of Bologna and University of Padua, while it in general ranked 5th out of 89 universities.

History

Ca' Foscari was founded as the "Regia Scuola Superiore di Commercio" (Royal High School of Commerce) by a Royal Decree dated 6 August 1868, and teaching commenced in December of the same year. The idea of establishing such a school had arisen after the annexation of the Veneto to the new Kingdom of Italy in 1866, and was promoted by three people in particular: the Jewish political economist Luigi Luzzatti, later Prime Minister of Italy; Edoardo Deodati, senator of the Kingdom of Italy and vice-president of the province of Venice; and the Sicilian political economist Francesco Ferrara, director of the school for its first thirty years.

The school was the first institute of higher education in commerce in Italy. It also had a diplomatic section to train and educate Diplomats and commercial consular staff for overseas service and international law. In addition, Ca' Foscari was also created to operate as a training college for secondary school teachers of commercial subjects. Foreign languages were taught from the start as well as the study of foreign cultures. The school was parallelled only by the Institut Supérieur de Commerce d'Anvers, founded in 1853 in Antwerp, Belgium. Today, Ca' Foscari is still a specialised university for the study of business economics, humanitites and international affairs, and teaches over 40 languages.

Following the establishment of a national syllabus for university teaching in 1935, the Istituto Superiore di Economia e Commercio di Venezia, as it was by then called, was authorised to award four-year laurea degrees. In 1968 it obtained university status, and the name was changed to Università degli Studi di Venezia. In the following year two new faculties were created, of industrial chemistry and of philosophy and letters.

Currently, Ca' Foscari hosts eight strategic research centers: the Center for Cultural Heritage and Technology, the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, the European Centre for Living Technology, the Center for Humanities and Social Change, the Institute for Global Challenges, the Marco Polo Centre, the Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities, and the Venice Centre in Economic and Risk Analytics for Public Policies.

Organisation
The university is divided into eight departments:
 Economics
 Philosophy and cultural heritage
 Management
 Environmental science, computer science and statistics
 Molecular science and nanosystems
 Linguistic and comparative cultural studies
 Humanities
 Asian and Mediterranean African studies

It also hosts the European Centre for Living Technology as well as a Law Center.

Rankings

Ca' Foscari is ranked among the best universities in Italy, ranking 5th in 2017 out of 89 universities.

The QS World University Ranking by subject has placed Ca' Foscari of Venice among the top 100 universities in the world for modern languages, among the top 150 in the world for humanities, and among the top 200 in the world for economics and management.

The university also ranked as the third best public university in Italy for their quality of research according to ANVUR (the National Agency for the Evaluation of University Research Systems) in 2018.

Notable alumni
Among the alumni of the university are:
Michele Boldrin, economist
 Carlo Carraro, economist and Ca' Foscari's president between 2009 and 2014
 Paolo Costa, economist and politician
Enrico Dallavecchia, businessman
Giuseppe De'Longhi, businessman
Giuseppe Durato, manga artist
Barbara Frale, historian
Massimiliano Frani, pianist
Lilli Gruber, politician, author, journalist and TV-personality
Beatrice Leanza, curator
Ugo La Malfa, politician
Roberto Meneguzzo, banker and investor
Damiano Michieletto, opera director
Lionello Perera, banker, patron of the arts
Flaminio Piccoli, politician
Renzo Rosso, businessman, founder of the clothing brand Diesel
Paolo Tasca, economist and professor
 Paul Watzlawick, philosopher and psychologist
Lella Vignelli, architect and designer

See also
List of universities in Italy

References

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Georg Janny (20 May 1864, Vienna - 21 February 1935, Vienna) was an Austrian landscape painter and set designer.

Life
He worked as a scene painter in the studios of Carlo Brioschi and Johann Kautsky, alongside Alfons Mucha, and was a member of the Dürerbund.

In 1898, he participated in painting the "Eisernen Vorhang" (Iron Curtain) at the Vienna Volksoper for the 50th jubilee of Emperor Franz Joseph I. In 1904, he exhibited in the Austrian Pavilion at the St.Louis World's Fair with scenes from the Imperial Royal Austrian State Railways (now at the Technisches Museum Wien). Two years later, he designed the stage for The Queen of Sheba by  Karl Goldmark, one of the most popular operas of the late 19th century. Pictures from the second and third acts have been preserved.

He also painted landscapes and figures, including scenes from fairy-tales or imaginary worlds that are reminiscent of the works of Arnold Böcklin or Gustave Doré.

The contents of his estate are now in the possession of the Bezirksmuseum Hernals (Hernals District Museum) in Vienna

Selected paintings

References

Further reading
 Karl Schreder: 17. Ausstellung des Albrecht Dürer-Bundes. In: Deutsches Volksblatt. Morgenausgabe. Vienna 26 January 1918, Nr. 10439, pgs.2-3 (Digitalized)
 Heinrich Fuchs, "Janny, Georg", in Die österreichischen Maler des 19. Jahrhunderts, Vol. 2,  Self-published (1972–1974)
 Christopher Wood, "Fairy illustrators After 1900", in Fairies in Victorian Art, Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge (2000)

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David Henry Chase (born August 22, 1945) is an American writer, producer and director. He wrote and produced the HBO drama The Sopranos which aired for six seasons between 1999 and 2007. Chase has also produced and written for shows such as The Rockford Files, I'll Fly Away, and Northern Exposure. He created the original series Almost Grown which aired for 10 episodes in 1988 and 1989. He has won seven Emmy Awards. Chase's film debut came in 2012 with Not Fade Away, followed by The Many Saints of Newark (2021), a prequel film to the TV series The Sopranos.

Early life and education
Chase was born into a working-class Italian American family in Mount Vernon, New York, the only child of Henry and Norma Chase. His paternal grandmother had changed the family name from "DeCesare" to "Chase". His father owned a hardware store. He grew up in a small garden apartment in Clifton, New Jersey, and in North Caldwell, New Jersey. He grew up watching matinée crime films and was well known as a creative storyteller.

He has stated that he had many problems with his parents when he was a child. He says that his father was an angry man who belittled him constantly, and his mother was a "passive-aggressive drama queen" and a "nervous woman who dominated any situation she was in by being so needy and always on the verge of hysteria." A character he created for The Sopranos, Livia Soprano, is based on his mother.

Chase struggled with panic attacks and clinical depression as a teenager, something he dealt with into adulthood. He graduated from high school in 1964 and attended Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where his depression worsened. "I slept 18 hours a day," he has stated. He described his problems as "normal, nagging, clinical depression." He also worked as a drummer during this period and aspired to be a professional musician. After two years, he transferred to New York University where he chose to pursue a career in film—a decision that was not well received by his parents. He went on to attend Stanford University's School of Film, earning a Master of Arts degree in 1971.

Career
Chase started in Hollywood as a story editor for Kolchak: The Night Stalker and then produced episodes of The Rockford Files and Northern Exposure, among other series. He also worked as a writer of 19 episodes while on The Rockford Files—a show which he worked on in various capacities for more than four years. He won several Emmy awards, including one for a television movie, Off the Minnesota Strip, the story of a runaway he scripted in 1980. His first original created series was Almost Grown in 1988, with Eve Gordon and Timothy Daly. Although the one-hour series was well received by critics, only 10 episodes aired from November 1988 to February 1989.

The Sopranos
Chase worked in relative anonymity before The Sopranos debuted. The story of The Sopranos was initially conceived as a feature film about "a mobster in therapy having problems with his mother". Chase got some input from his manager Lloyd Braun and decided to adapt it into a television series. He signed a development deal in 1995 with production company Brillstein-Grey and wrote the original pilot script. He drew heavily from his personal life and his experiences growing up in New Jersey, and has stated that he tried to apply his own "family dynamic to mobsters". For instance, the tumultuous relationship between series protagonist Tony Soprano and his mother Livia is partially based on Chase's relationship with his own mother. He was also in psychotherapy at the time and modeled the character of Jennifer Melfi after his own psychiatrist.

Chase had been fascinated by organized crime and the mafia from an early age, witnessing such people growing up. He also was raised on classic gangster films such as The Public Enemy and the crime series The Untouchables. The series is partly inspired by the Richard Boiardo family, a prominent New Jersey organized crime family when Chase was growing up, and partly on New Jersey's DeCavalcante family. He has mentioned American playwrights Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams as influences on the show's writing, and Italian director Federico Fellini as an important influence on the show's cinematic style. The series was named after high school friends of his.

Chase and producer Brad Grey pitched The Sopranos to several networks; Fox showed interest but passed on it after Chase presented them the pilot script. They eventually pitched the show to Chris Albrecht, president of HBO Original Programming, who decided to finance a pilot episode which was shot in 1997. Chase directed it himself. They finished the pilot and showed it to HBO executives, but the show was put on hold for several months. During this time, Chase, who had long experienced frustration at being unable to break out of TV and into film, considered asking HBO for additional funding to shoot 45 more minutes of footage and release The Sopranos as a feature film. In December 1997, HBO decided to produce the series and ordered 12 more episodes for a 13-episode season. The show premiered on HBO on January 10, 1999, with the pilot "The Sopranos".

Thirty episodes of The Sopranos are explicitly credited to Chase; however, as the show's creator, showrunner, and head writer, he had a major role in all the scripts, including producing and touching up each script's final draft. He also directed the pilot episode and the series finale (both of which he also wrote).

Of the controversial final scene of the series finale, Chase said, "I have no interest in explaining, defending, reinterpreting, or adding to what is there."

In 2022, Chase and Phil Abraham created a 2022 Super Bowl spot for Commonwealth / McCann with two characters from the show who appear in a 2021 New York City/New Jersey setting.

Not Fade Away
Not Fade Away (2012), Chase's feature film debut, was released on December 21, 2012. It centers on the lead singer of a teenage rock 'n' roll band (played by John Magaro) in 1960s New Jersey. Described as "a music-driven coming-of-age story," the film reunites Chase with James Gandolfini (former star of Sopranos), who co-stars as Magaro's father. Other cast members include Bella Heathcote, Christopher McDonald, Molly Price, Lisa Lampanelli, Jack Huston and Brad Garrett. Chase himself has described the film as about "a post-war, post-Depression-era parent who has given his kid every advantage that he didn't have growing up, but now can't help feeling jealous of the liberated, more adventurous destiny his son is able to enjoy." Another former Sopranos cast member, Steven Van Zandt, served as music supervisor and executive producer.

The Many Saints of Newark
Although Chase was "against [the movie] for a long time", Deadline Hollywood reported in March 2018 that New Line Cinema had purchased the script for The Many Saints of Newark, a prequel to The Sopranos written by Chase and fellow screenwriter Lawrence Konner. Chase said of the storyline, which centers on the 1967 Newark riots and racial tensions between the Italian-American and African-American communities, "I was interested in Newark and life in Newark at that time... I used to go down there every Saturday night for dinner with my grandparents. But the thing that interested me most was Tony's boyhood. I was interested in exploring that." Chase served as producer, and in July 2018, Alan Taylor, who previously directed episodes of the series, was hired to direct the film. The film was initially scheduled to be released on September 25, 2020, however, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, its release date was rescheduled to March 12, 2021 and later September 24, 2021 before ultimately being released on October 1, 2021.

In October 2021, he and his Chase Films production company struck a deal with WarnerMedia.

Unrealized projects

A Ribbon of Dreams
Chase has previously developed A Ribbon of Dreams, a miniseries for HBO. According to an HBO press release, the series' pilot would "begin in 1913 and follow two men, one a college-educated mechanical engineer, the other a cowboy with a violent past, who form an unlikely producing partnership and together become pioneers and then powers for a time in motion pictures." Specifically, the two men would "begin as employees of D.W. Griffith, and then cross career paths with John Ford, John Wayne, Raoul Walsh, Bette Davis, Billy Wilder and others who gave shape to Hollywood as it grew from the age of rough-hewn silent Westerns, to the golden era of talkies and the studio system, to the auteur movement, to television, and finally to the present day." In 2021, Chase revealed that HBO agreed to proceed with the production of the miniseries but with "a cheesy budget", to which Chase refused to agree. Therefore, Chase and HBO parted ways on the project and A Ribbon of Dreams fell through.

Personal life
After graduating from NYU in 1968, Chase moved to California and married his high school sweetheart Denise Kelly. He is the father of actress Michele DeCesare, who appeared in six The Sopranos episodes as Hunter Scangarelo.

Chase once stated that he "loathed and despised" television shows, watching only The Sopranos and movies. However, he said in later interviews that he watched Boardwalk Empire and Mad Men, the work of former Sopranos writers and producers Terence Winter and Matthew Weiner, respectively. He said that he previously made those negative comments in part because he had been frustrated working within the confines of 1990s network television.

Select filmography

Television

Film

Other credits

Awards and recognition
1978 Emmy Award Winner, Outstanding Drama Series (The Rockford Files)
1979 Emmy Award Nomination, Outstanding Drama Series (The Rockford Files)
1980 Golden Globe Award Nomination, Best Television Series – Drama (The Rockford Files)
1980 Emmy Award Nomination, Outstanding Drama Series (The Rockford Files)
1980 Emmy Award Winner, Outstanding Writing in a Limited Series or a Special (Off The Minnesota Strip)
1992 Golden Globe Award Nomination, Best Television Series – Drama (I'll Fly Away)
1992 Emmy Award Nomination, Outstanding Drama Series (I'll Fly Away)
1992 Emmy Award Nomination, Outstanding Writing for A Drama Series (I'll Fly Away – "Pilot")
1993 Golden Globe Award Nomination, Best Television Series – Drama (I'll Fly Away)
1993 Emmy Award Nomination, Outstanding Drama Series (I'll Fly Away)
1994 Emmy Award Nomination, Outstanding Drama Series (Northern Exposure)
1999 Golden Globe Award Winner, Best Television Series – Drama (The Sopranos)
1999 Emmy Award Nomination, Outstanding Drama Series (The Sopranos)
1999 Emmy Award Winner, Outstanding Writing for A Drama Series (The Sopranos – "College")
1999 Emmy Award Nomination, Outstanding Writing for A Drama Series (The Sopranos – "Pilot")
1999 Emmy Award Nomination, Outstanding Directing for A Drama Series (The Sopranos – "Pilot")
2000 Emmy Award Nomination, Outstanding Drama Series (The Sopranos)
2001 Golden Globe Award Nomination, Best Television Series – Drama (The Sopranos)
2001 Emmy Award Nomination, Outstanding Writing for A Drama Series (The Sopranos – "Funhouse")
2001 Emmy Award Nomination, Outstanding Drama Series (The Sopranos)
2001 Emmy Award Nomination, Outstanding Writing for A Drama Series (The Sopranos – "Amour Fou")
2002 Golden Globe Award Nomination, Best Television Series – Drama (The Sopranos)
2003 Emmy Award Nomination, Outstanding Drama Series (The Sopranos)
2003 Emmy Award Winner, Outstanding Writing for A Drama Series (The Sopranos – "Whitecaps")
2004 Golden Globe Award Nomination, Best Television Series – Drama (The Sopranos)
2004 Emmy Award Winner, Outstanding Drama Series (The Sopranos)
2006 Emmy Award Nomination, Outstanding Drama Series (The Sopranos)
2007 Emmy Award Winner, Outstanding Drama Series (The Sopranos)
2007 Emmy Award Nomination, Outstanding Writing for A Drama Series (The Sopranos – "Kennedy and Heidi")
2007 Emmy Award Winner, Outstanding Writing for A Drama Series (The Sopranos – "Made in America")
2008 Laurel Award for TV Writing Achievement

References

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Kathryn Posin (born March 23, 1943) is an American choreographer  known for her musical and sculptural fusing of ballet and modern dance genres. In addition to choreographing, she has also taught technique and composition at several American universities. Her most recent season with The Kathryn Posin Dance Company  commissioned by 92nd Street Y in February 2016 received  an award from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and an Arts Works Grant from the NEA in 2017.

Biography

Born in Butte, Montana. Posin went to the University of Chicago Laboratory High School and received her BA in Dance at Bennington College (1965) and her MA in Interdisciplinary and World Dance at New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study (2004). She studied composition with Louis Horst, Anna Sokolow, Merce Cunningham and Hanya Holm. She has made ballets for Netherlands Dance Theater 1 and 2 (1980),  the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and Ailey 2 (1981 & 82),  five ballets for the Milwaukee Ballet from 1991-2016,  On a Fulbright Fellowship she staged her Stepping Stones and Scheherazade for the Bulgarian National Ballet. She was the first international choreographer to make a work for Cloud Gate Dance Theater of Taiwan, in 1981. In 2000 she created the Joffrey/New School BFA and was named founding chair.

Awards
The Kathryn Posin Dance Company founded 1973, has received a Guggenheim Fellowship 1979, a Jerome Robbins Award 1969, The Doris Humphrey Fellowship 1979, and a Bennington College Choreographer's Grant 1981 .The company was also awarded 14 NEA Fellowships and Company Grants from 1974 to 1987,  Kathryn was awarded two Jewish Studies Grants from the Gallatin School of New York University  in 2010 & 2011.

In theater Posin has choreographed the hit rock musical, Salvation (1975) and The Cherry Orchard directed by Andrei Șerban at Lincoln Center (2002), The Boys from Syracuse at American Repertory Theater (2002).

Personal life

Posin is currently Professor of World Dance and Choreography at the Gallatin School at NYU. The next scheduled performance of the Kathryn Posin Dance company will be in 2018 at New York Live Arts.

Choreography and staging credits

 Scheherazade revival (third time) 2016 for The Milwaukee Ballet
 The Kathryn Posin Dance Company 2016 Meredith Monk and Waves at 92Y
 Voices of Bulgaria and America 2014 at the 92Y at 92Y
 Scheherazade 2014 National Ballet of Bulgaria in Doha, Qatar Opera House
 Fly, Fly My Sadness 2013 for UN and Bulgarian Consulate and board members
 Scheherazade 2012 Fulbright Fellowship, National Ballet of Bulgaria at New Bulgarian University
 Minotaur and its Labyrinth 2012 Filming at the Palace of the Minotaur on Crete
 Two Dylan Songs 2011 Jewish Studies Grant commission Gallatin School of NYU
 Stepping Stones 2011 National Ballet of Bulgaria, with Sara-Nora Krysteva, Artistic Director
 New Work for Students 2010 Syracuse University, Summer Dance
 Time 2 Tango 2010 Eglevsky Ballet of Long Island, Marina Eglevsky, Artistic Director
 You Are Variations 2010 The Yard, Martha's Vineyard, Wendy Tauscher Artistic Director
 You Are Variations 2010 Gallatin School of NYU, Jewish Studies Grant commissioned
 Time 2 Tango 2009 Boston Conservatory commissioned, Artistic Director: Yasuko Tokunaga
 Time to Tango Excerpts 2009 Rocky Mountain Ballet Theater, Artistic Director: Charlene Campbell
 Bach's Lunch 2008 Ballet ensemble of Fairfax, Virginia, Artistic Director: Benn and Debra Savage
 Bulgarian Wedding 2007 Ballet Grandiva, Artistic Director: Victor Trevino, tour of Japan
 Scheherazade 2006 Sacramento, Ron Cunningham, Artistic Director
 Scheherazade 2006 Nevada Ballet Theater, Bruce Steivel Artistic Director
 Four World Songs 2006 Utah Regional Ballet, Artistic Director: Jackie College
 Scheherazade 2004 The Milwaukee Ballet, The Nevada Ballet, The Sacramento Ballet
 Scheherazade 2004 The Louisville Ballet, Bruce Simpson, Artistic Director
 Stepping Stones 2003 Kansas City Ballet, Artistic Director: William Whitener
 Waves 2002 Repertory Dance Theater of Salt Lake City Utah
 Thou Shalt Dwell with Me 2002 Ballet Builders, New York City
 Scheherazade 2002 Milwaukee Ballet, Director: Michael Pink
 The Seasons 2002 Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, Director: Marcia Dale Weary
 Stepping Stones 2001 Kansas City Ballet, Director: William Whitener
 John Adams Violin Concerto 2000 The Sacramento Ballet, Director: Ron Cunningham
 Stepping Stones 2000 Kansas City Ballet, Director: William Whitener
 Bridge of Song 1999 Milwaukee Ballet, Director: Simon Dow
 Tehillim 1999 Milwaukee Ballet, Director: Simon Dow
 Crossroads and Stepping Stones 1998 The Hartford Ballet, Director: Enid Lynn & Peggy Lyman
 John Adams Violin Concerto 1997 Ballet Builders, New York City
 Bach's Lunch 1996 Milwaukee Ballet, Director: Basil Thompson
 Four World Songs 1996 The Sarasota Ballet, Director: Robert De Warren
 Stepping Stones 1995 Ballet Met, Columbus, Ohio, Director: David Nixon
 Stepping Stones 1995 Milwaukee Ballet, Director: Basil Thompson
 The Rainforest 1994 Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble, New York City, Director: Sylvia Waters
 Reconstruction of Waves 1994 University of Massachusetts, Director: Andrea Watkins
 The Rainforest 1994 City College of New York Dance Department, Director: Dawn Horwitz
 Stepping Stones 1993 Milwaukee Ballet, Milwaukee, Director: Dane La Fontsee
 Repercussions 1991 Cloudgate Dance Theater, Taipei, Taiwan, Director: Lin Hwi Min
 Of Rage and Remembrance 1990 Milwaukee Ballet, Director: Dane La Fontsee
 Hunger and Thirst 1990 Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble, Director: Sylvia Waters
 Harmony of Leaves 1989 Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut
 Shock Crossing 1988 University of California, Los Angeles
 Hurts Too Much To Stop 1987 Royce Hall, University of California, Los Angeles
 Waves 1986 Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Director: Alvin Ailey
 Later That Day 1981 Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, NYC commissioned Director: Alvin Ailey
 Brandenburg 1981 Ballet West, Salt Lake City, Utah, Director: Bruce Marks
 Ich Ruf Zu Dir and Waves 1980 Netherlands Dance Theater, The Hague, Director: Jiri Kylian
 Waves 1979 Eliot Feld Ballet, New York City, Director: Eliot Feld
 The Closer She Gets The Better She Looks 1979 Juilliard Dance Ensemble, Director: Martha Hill
 Waves 1975 American Dance Festival, Connecticut College, Director: Charles Reinhart

References
Lower Manjhattan Council Grant

External links
 at Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University
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