Doctor Who: Classic or Dud?

Such a shame this episode is missing, you really want to be able to see this stuff. pic.twitter.com/zG4pa1MiEn

— Jonny Morris (@jonnymorris1973) July 26, 2021

Was talking to this piano player the other day who was totally into Dr. Who music, especially by that Australian composer… Dudley Simpson?

Dudley was an occasional freelancer from 1964, but did nearly every story from early 1969 to early 1980 - so nearly 1/3 of Troughton, very nearly all of Pertwee, and nearly 6/7ths of Tom Baker. (JNT fired him and his various chamber groups in favor of various one-bloke-with-a-synth cheaper options more modern approaches.) He’s definitely the most-heard Who composer by both viewing figures and total minutes of output. And iirc maybe one or two stories, if that, exist as separate recordings?

A Dutch version of the Paradise Tower Cleaners .. only much friendlier ! pic.twitter.com/qdP7s7IJ1I

— Sylvester McCoy (@4SylvesterMcCoy) July 27, 2021

best ex-Doctor

is that sticker bragging about its ass

If you've got the junk, it's got the trunk.

parjty in de fröönt
altijd in de bak

New blu-ray trailer, for Season 17:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwv3-PGCw8o

K-9 co-creator (and Gromit writer) Bob Baker has popped his big clay clogs, leaving Chris Boucher as the only living ‘70s Who writer.

The Season 17 Blu-Ray includes Douglas Adams' "Scriptwriter's Guide to Who Storylines" in PDF.

and 6,866 other pages of documents.

I saw this very odd profile of a 14-year-old Lalla Ward the other day:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TczNORJu7Vk

She would have just quit school to be home-schooled is the angle, I suppose?

Lalla Ward went onto being Mrs Richard Dawkins didn't she?
I think she illustrated some of his work.
found that out a few years ago

Next blu-ray trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dspgDvP7pA8

Such a labor of love for that shit

Grade, still a c*nt

I really want them to do a series of specials that are just these one-off "where are they now" adventures with old companions, it would be so great

Jon Pertwee and a teenage fan:

https://i.imgur.com/Ln4P8s9.jpg

capaldi?

ding ding ding

Someone found the whole article, in Capaldi's local weekly:

Here we go, people - it's #PeterCapaldi in a newspaper. Look at the pics! What an amazing read it is too!

A wee bit of digging involved, but here we go - #DoctorWho! pic.twitter.com/8fCrcKrx3o

— Kenny Smith 🇺🇦 (@FinishedZine) April 12, 2022

https://i.imgur.com/W97hKPy.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/uXlvu87.jpg

link to the full page in case anyone can't see the twoot

re:

https://i.imgur.com/BjX6YLL.jpg

turns out he'd know

https://i.imgur.com/XEJj9F7.jpg

Hmm
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15661864/?ref_=tt_eps_nxt

The future is here! Ncuti Gatwa is the Doctor. ❤️❤️➕🟦 #DoctorWho

Read more here ➡️ https://t.co/KoxPmoNAdL pic.twitter.com/peKsH6gCjI

— Doctor Who (@bbcdoctorwho) May 8, 2022

Cool!

first time that the actor playing doctor who is younger than me :'(

it's also the only time apart from Matt Smith when they've announced the new doctor and it's someone I don't recognise and have never seen in anything else? (I've heard of that Sex Education show but I've never watched it).

I know Russell T Davies is returning to the show, does that mean it's him who made the decision to cast Gatwa? Has RTD matched JNT's record by casting three doctors who?

good choice if well directied, he's very funny in sex education

(tho it does step on future series of SE a bit)

It's always been the way with NuWho that the outgoing showrunner never has a say in casting the next Doctor after they've gone (why would they, it's not their job anymore), I'm sure this will entirely have been the call of Davies and his production team.

Rumour has it the outgoing showrunner was told to make sure the sort didn’t hit his arse on the way out the door, and of course RTD was on Insta this morning with a cryptic post which simply read: ❤️❤️➕🟦

sort? Autocorrect switched away from DOOR

I'm guessing that's just two hearts and blue box?

well good that we get the 2nd black doctor I guess. May be a little cliched/tokenist that they went to him after first female one, but good taht it's happening. & not sure what other circumstances would be better. Is the first black doctor and 2nd female one canon or was that established?
Not see him act in anything other than Sex Education so not sure how much of that was him and how much was character . So when do we get to start answering things like that. Do hope he gets some good writing, feel like Jodie was a little shortchanged.

Never heard of him, seems like a mensch from
Interviews though

Seems well-cast on the all-important “handsome but funny-looking” axis following Tennant and Smith

what a fantastic choice. writing aside, his performance on Sex Education alone proves he can play a character who is funny and vulnerable and kind and intimidating all at once, so I think he's gonna be great.

quick question while I'm here: I stopped watching DW at the end of Chibnall's first season - is it worth catching up on or reckon it's safe to skip everything and just jump back in next year? any particular must-see episodes?

yeah I'd like to tknow that too. I didn't even make it through the first season.

I bailed at the end of his first season. Friends told me Flux started really well but ended so poorly that the whole thing was ruined.

It’s quite enjoyable B-minus/C-plus Doctor Who, and the only thing in Chibnall’s run that achieves the meagre distinction of being better than the worst of the Moffat & Davies shows, but you could easily skip it. It’s only five episodes mind.

The ending is balls but not prohibitively so

I'd probably recommend Fugitive of the Judoon, it introduces Jo Martin's Zeroth Doctor, who might (might?) re-occur in RTD's run - I can definitely see the rest getting tipped into a bin. And it's also really good - written by the writer of the previous series' Demons of the Punjab.

TIL that Chuck has mind-wiped himself regarding the sixth episode of Flux (which would explain the B-minus/C-plus rating) :)

This Ncuti Gatwa news really does definitively prove that there's an affirmative action bias in the BBC's casting.

I mean, a fourth Scottish Doctor?!

Oh and Eve of the Daleks is good fun too.

gallifrey is is clearly in scotland the clue is in the name

Concur with skipping Chibnall except MAYbe Fugitive Of The Judoon, although if you've been told to watch it specifically because of its big secret twist, you're probably covered.

It's always been the way with NuWho that the outgoing showrunner never has a say in casting the next Doctor after they've gone

Always = twice :) (and it's been the outgoing person's choice.)

But yeah, of course RTD has cast his own Doctor. Who else would have?

Rumour has it the outgoing showrunner was told to make sure the sort didn’t hit his arse on the way out the door, and of course RTD was on Insta this morning with a cryptic post which simply read: ❤️❤️➕🟦

That is definitely two hearts and a blue box.

And I can think of better ways to say "don't let the door hit your arse" than "please come back for another year just to make a big anniversary special episode with lots of promotion," but I guess I don't have the executive mind.

amazing "first photocall" energy here, even without the last three disasters

Ncuti and Russell hit the red carpet!#BAFTATV #DoctorWho pic.twitter.com/1dlbGj9LP8

— lizo mzimba (@lizo_mzimba) May 8, 2022

two short videos: casting kept secret since Feb and go off 👑

seems cool and i trust rusty

strangely low key announce tho?

Low key preferable to special show with Zoe Ball. Perhaps they were heading off a leak?

OTOAH announcing at and overshadowing the BAFTAs is not super low-key! When news travels this quickly the inciting incident doesn't have to that big, I guess

thanks everyone for the episode recs, or non-recs rather, lol. will check out Fugitive of the Judoon. might read some recaps of Flux.