Review Classic Doctor Who

Gavin

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I've mostly enjoyed PC's episodes, both from a performance and story perspective. But regardless of individual opinions about the quality of this particular era, I think we can all hope that it's only the end of PC's Doctor from a television perspective and that we can look forward to his continuing adventures on Big Finish.
 
Doctor Omega

Doctor Omega

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I get the impression that Peter might want to dive straight away into Big Finish, more or less.

Hopefully some wonderful stories will result. :emoji_alien:
 
Janine The Barefoot

Janine The Barefoot

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if Peter Capaldi is as privately disappointed as you are with his own era?
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I believe I read one very small blurb about his feelings on the subject (but again kept them quiet as with TE, I wasn't completely sure I should talk about it given only one source) and think they were along those lines.... I believe, personally, it was one of the reasons he stepped down. I got the feeling he himself has too much respect for The Doctor to believe he was serving the legacy as well as it deserved. In the end, I found myself with even more respect for PC himself as the interview wasn't so much about his personal disappointment as it was that he was sad for the character himself. I thought he showed great integrity and thoughtfulness in everything he said and it only served to convince me even further that he truly deserved better from all of them. He had more respect for the show than they did at that point.

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Doctor Omega

Doctor Omega

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Deborah Watling, Doctor Who companion, dies aged 69



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Actress Deborah Watling, who played one of Patrick Troughton's companions in the early years of Doctor Who, has died at the age of 69.

Watling played Victoria Waterfield in 40 episodes between 1967 and 1968, most of which were wiped after transmission.

Her father was the actor Jack Watling, who appeared alongside her in two Doctor Who adventures.

Her brother Giles Watling, Conservative MP for Clacton, said she would be "sorely missed".

"She was a lovely, lovely girl, bubbly and vibrant," he said of his sibling.

Born in Loughton in Essex in 1948, Watling made her first TV appearance as a child in William Tell.


She went on to appear in a TV version of HG Wells' The Invisible Man and played Alice Liddell in a Wednesday Play by Dennis Potter about author Lewis Carroll.

Watling made her first appearance in Doctor Who in the second part of 1967 serial The Evil of the Daleks, the only episode of that adventure that still exists.

She went on to appear in six more serials, only two of which - The Tomb of the Cybermen and The Enemy of the World - still exist in their entirety.

After Doctor Who, Watling appeared in The Newcomers, Rising Damp and World War II drama Danger UXB.

In 1993 she reprised her companion role for a Children in Need short called Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time.

Earlier this week it was announced that Jodie Whittaker will be the first female Doctor when Peter Capaldi relinquishes the role at Christmas.



 
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Doctor Omega

Doctor Omega

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As regards the state of the franchise, well, I kinda miss the days when it was a virtual cottage industry.

A quiet stream of novelisations.

A completely unfaithful and eccentric comic strip - singular - running in some obscure comic or other.

No spin offs except one about a robot dog, with a terrible theme tune.

Barely any merchandise anyway - which was easy on the wallet/pocket money.

No tone meetings with the writers and directors.

No episodes made to sell toys, (Hello new Cybermats!)

It just seems to have gotten a little too big for it's own good i.m.o.

I also, truly, believe that, when the entirety of New Who is on a metaphorical shelf, alongside the original series, that it will be mainly Classic Who that is being pulled off the shelf and watched again and again, despite it's tiny budget. That will be the ultimate proof. The great leveller.

I honestly suspect that a large proportion of "New Who" episodes will be nice to own, but will, in comparison, be rarely pulled down off the shelf as much as the classic ones.

Just a gut feeling, but I honestly think the new series makers blow their own trumpet so much a lot of the time that their conceit spoils the very product that they are making.

The original creators of the classic show were just jobbing whatevers, doing the best they could, in an air of quiet budgetary and time-crunched desperation.

And desperation is, of course.......

Now everything is done with much more freedom of time and a bigger budget.

But I don't think it is necessarily better.
 
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