PLEASE NOTE: These caches were originally all letterboxes, with stamps that I personally painstakingly made. Unfortunately, they have proven quite popular, and with that comes muggling. Apparently a number of the stamps have gone missing, and as some have complained about this, and I haven't the time to go and check all 100+ of them on a regular basis, I will be converting them to Traditional caches as needed.
It pains me to make this decision, but it must be done. I recognize that with a powertrail, caches are bound to go missing (that is the nature of the beast), and I appreciate that many of you have helped out by bringing along spares. However, your average cacher does NOT carry around spare stamps, and even if you did, it wouldn't be the one that I originally and personally made for the cache.
So, I am asking for your help: please let me know in your logs which ones are indeed missing their stamps, and I will be changing them to Traditionals (the alternative is archival, unfortunately). Thanks for your assistance in this endeavor, and thanks for supporting this series. I am glad that I spent the many hours needed to create these. However, I cannot justify consistently having to make and then replace all the stamps, due to time constraints.
Sincerely, the CO, josephaw
9/27/15
First off, let me thank you for finding this geocache! I hope you enjoyed the experience of finding it as much as I enjoyed creating and hiding all of these letterbox caches.
This is just one of many such caches in my Dr Who Letterbox Series, made with the help and inspiration of friends. As a Letterbox cache, please leave the stamp for others to see and use, thanks! Each cache has a unique stamp, so bring an inkpad and collect them all! Have fun, and be safe!
"The Idiot's Lantern" is the seventh episode of the second series of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, first broadcast on 27 May 2006 on BBC One. It was written by Mark Gatiss and directed by Euros Lyn.
In the episode, Mr Magpie (Ron Cook) sells overly cheap television sets because he is held hostage by The Wire (Maureen Lipman). She blazes rays from screens to take faces and soul energy from victims, including Rose Tyler (Billie Piper). The Doctor (David Tennant) must save millions of endangered viewers before they watch the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
Plot
The Doctor, intending to take Rose to an Elvis Presley television appearance in New York, accidentally lands the TARDIS just outside London in 1953. While looking around they see that most of the houses have TV antennas on them, which Rose recalls should be rare in this time. They question a local merchant, Mr Magpie, about the TVs and are told that the TVs are on sale to celebrate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. While they are talking, the Doctor and Rose witness someone being taken from their home with a sheet over their head and driven away by the police. The Doctor and Rose question the Connollys, a local family. They are introduced to Tommy Connolly's grandmother, whose entire face is missing. Before the Doctor can learn more the police burst in and remove the woman. The Doctor follows where the police are taking her while Rose investigates Magpie's shop. At the shop Rose discovers an entity calling itself "the Wire", an alien that managed to escape execution by its people by turning itself into an electrical form. The Wire seeks to consume enough minds to recreate a body and plans on using the broadcast of the coronation to do so. Rose is unable to flee before the Wire steals her face as well.
The Doctor locates a holding pen where the police are keeping the victims. He speaks to the police, who bring in a faceless Rose. Angered at Rose's condition, the Doctor and Tommy confront Mr. Magpie at his store. The Wire reveals herself and tries to consume the Doctor and Tommy, but the Doctor is able to use his sonic screwdriver to stop her. The Wire then retreats into a portable television built by Mr. Magpie and escapes, heading for the Alexandra Palace television station transmitter. The Doctor and Tommy use equipment from Magpie's shop and the TARDIS to create a device to capture the Wire. The Doctor pursues Magpie as he connects his portable device to the transmitter, allowing the Wire to start to consume minds while killing Magpie. The Doctor connects his device to the transmitter, and The Wire is captured. The faces of those who were consumed by the Wire are returned to normal. The Doctor shows Tommy that he has captured the Wire on a Betamax cassette, which he tells Rose to remind him later to tape over. The Doctor gives Tommy the scooter he was riding throughout the episode, and he and Rose celebrate the coronation with the rest of town.
Continuity
One of the police officers mentions that the faceless people will get "Torchwood on our backs, and no mistake." Torchwood is the story arc for the second series.
The story is set at the time of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, due to its significance as the first key event televised across the United Kingdom putting the story date as 1–2 June 1953. Elizabeth II appears here in archive footage; she previously appeared (played by an impersonator) in the Seventh Doctor story Silver Nemesis (1988). According to a late 1980s interview with former Doctor Who producer John Nathan-Turner published in Doctor Who Magazine, an attempt was made to get the Queen herself to appear in Silver Nemesis but the plan fell through.[citation needed] She is again portrayed in "Voyage of the Damned".
The Magpie Electricals logo has been seen several times in Doctor Who since "The Idiot's Lantern" was first broadcast. It is seen on Martha Jones' television in "The Sound of Drums", aboard the Starship UK in "The Beast Below" and even within the TARDIS itself from "The Eleventh Hour" onwards. Additionally, Magpie's television sets appear in the "Hub" from the spin-off series Torchwood,[1] and the Magpie branding is seen on Sarah Jane Smith's computer in The Sarah Jane Adventures story The Mark of the Berserker.
Source: www.wikipedia.org