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Doctor who 50th anniversary
Cheeseburger_Addition wrote:
Funny I made a post on sci fi fans unite post about the 5 doctors and no one reply but some how on here someone mention get better reply. Anyway What I think if they done it right and showed past doctors it would be fanboy wet dream but if done right it would be pure awesomeness. I wouldn’t think age wouldn’t play big factor you could always do a thing like parallel universe were it show past doctors. However or you could think outside the box and make past doctors not doctors per say and make them different time lordsunited to fight the Daleks in time battle or something like that. But that just my five cent view.
Funny I made a post on sci fi fans unite post about the 5 doctors and no one reply but some how on here someone mention get better reply. Anyway What I think if they done it right and showed past doctors it would be fanboy wet dream but if done right it would be pure awesomeness. I wouldn’t think age wouldn’t play big factor you could always do a thing like parallel universe were it show past doctors. However or you could think outside the box and make past doctors not doctors per say and make them different time lordsunited to fight the Daleks in time battle or something like that. But that just my five cent view.
If they could do it right I'd be cheering with the best of them, believe me, I'm just thinking it from the producers points of view.
Even when they just reference the older Doctors (like that bit near the end of The Eleventh Hour where they had shots of them all leading up to Matt Smith) it gives me fanboy joy. It'd also be fun to get Paul McGann back on the screen (especially as he's developed the character more in the Big Finish audios), though I think the amount he'd have to be paid to don that wig again might just bankrupt the BBC
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Doctor who 50th anniversary
I'm ridiculously excited too, and I'm old enough to remember The Five Doctors... eeek! 
However I'm going to assume the only old Doctor to appear will be Tennant, since Eccleston has turned it down (gutted), and McCoy has gone on record as saying none of the older Doctors are appearing...
Even so I think it will be brilliant, and maybe not having too many Doctors appearing might help the story, in that there won't be loads of old actors with nothing to do!
However I'm going to assume the only old Doctor to appear will be Tennant, since Eccleston has turned it down (gutted), and McCoy has gone on record as saying none of the older Doctors are appearing...
Even so I think it will be brilliant, and maybe not having too many Doctors appearing might help the story, in that there won't be loads of old actors with nothing to do!
12 years
Doctor who 50th anniversary
The teaser trailer for the 50th anniversary special, if anyone hasn't seen it
11 years
Doctor who 50th anniversary
clive2007 wrote:
Since we're in Dr. Who mode here - man its good to immerse in British TV nostalgia being remote as I am in USA. But yes, I know this is going to show my age - but which Dr. can any anyone relate to as being their first real experience with Dr. Who....I don't mean from repeats but actually out of the box on the air material.
For me, I can just about remember Patrick Troughton's regeneration into Jon Pertwee. Tom Baker was who I grew up with and have best memories of, then of course Peter Davison, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy.
That was when the BBC officially cancelled the series. Although Peter McGann was able to revive Dr. Who in the film version, to me it was pretty good but never really the same. I've not been able to see the more recent actors in the revival through I think is it Big Finish(?) that I have seen referred to.
Whether or not a new official Dr. Who reunion will take place with the remaining actors who played the character, I don't know. In fact, was it not in the 5 doctors (call me out if I'm wrong) that William Hartnell had already passed away and was portrayed albeit very well by another actor (don't know the name) trapped in some time cage(?)
Patrick Troughton and relatively recently Jon Pertwee left our fold to that time lord dimension in the sky somewhere. Tom Baker is 79 now so there is no way he could play an active roll as one of the previous doctors, but I am sure if he was interested he could have a more less laborious roll if invited to do so. Peter Davison is still in his early 60's and Sylvester McCoy just turned 70 so could still be possibly considered for suitable roles.
Clive
Since we're in Dr. Who mode here - man its good to immerse in British TV nostalgia being remote as I am in USA. But yes, I know this is going to show my age - but which Dr. can any anyone relate to as being their first real experience with Dr. Who....I don't mean from repeats but actually out of the box on the air material.
For me, I can just about remember Patrick Troughton's regeneration into Jon Pertwee. Tom Baker was who I grew up with and have best memories of, then of course Peter Davison, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy.
That was when the BBC officially cancelled the series. Although Peter McGann was able to revive Dr. Who in the film version, to me it was pretty good but never really the same. I've not been able to see the more recent actors in the revival through I think is it Big Finish(?) that I have seen referred to.
Whether or not a new official Dr. Who reunion will take place with the remaining actors who played the character, I don't know. In fact, was it not in the 5 doctors (call me out if I'm wrong) that William Hartnell had already passed away and was portrayed albeit very well by another actor (don't know the name) trapped in some time cage(?)
Patrick Troughton and relatively recently Jon Pertwee left our fold to that time lord dimension in the sky somewhere. Tom Baker is 79 now so there is no way he could play an active roll as one of the previous doctors, but I am sure if he was interested he could have a more less laborious roll if invited to do so. Peter Davison is still in his early 60's and Sylvester McCoy just turned 70 so could still be possibly considered for suitable roles.
Clive
I'm going to show my age here, though in a different way. Being born only a few years before the original show was cancelled, my first on the air experience was probably the Paul McGann film, though I was a fan of the show well before then, originally via the Peter Cushing films, then onto the show proper via tapes from the local library.
William Hartnell's role was portrayed by a different actor (I think his name was Richard Hurndall) for The Five Doctors as Hartnell had died, though the time cage thing was an earlier reunion (the three doctors) where he was still alive but too ill to be involved in the main filming.
I've probably geeked out over Big Finish here before, but never explained what it is I was raving about! They're a company that produces (among other things) an ongoing line in audio adventures as CDs and downloads using surviving actors from the old series + Paul McGann. They've been going since about 1999, I think they're very good, and some of their people now also work on the TV series.
I should probably stop now
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