Review Classic Doctor Who

Bonnie Langford/Paul McGann Interviews

TV50 (1986) -That's Television Entertainment (Excerpt) - Quatermass/Doctor Who

That's Television Entertainment was a three hour programme broadcast in 1986 which celebrated some of the best moments from the first fifty years of BBC television. This excerpt features clips from Quatermass II and Doctor Who.

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What a great few moments of Doctor Who history! It still grips me even after all these years! Day of The Daleks grabs my attention immediately unlike anything the BBC make today!
JB

Doctor Omega said:

Bonnie Langford/Paul McGann Interviews

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Is this an eighth Doctor Doctors release or something else again? either way it was very interesting!

JB

Yes, I think they are releasing it as a Paul McGann solo interview special,

Doctor Who - Blue Peter, 17 May 1979 -Absailing the BBC East Tower (Voc Robot)

A brief clip from Blue Peter, transmitted on 17 May 1979 showing Chris Wenner absailing the East Tower at the BBC Television Centre and meeting a Voc Robot.

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Doctor Who | Season 18 Blu-ray UNBOXING

Doctor Who - Downtime - Video Launch

I think that all of these fan-made productions were a load of rubbish, looking back now.

But lovely to see all of those familiar - and now many of them gone - faces at this launch.

Those actors were so nice and so devoted to the fans!

Doctor Who's ex-script editor says classic series was 'made up as they went along'
"You didn't sit down and plan a season – you had to write the next script!"

https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/a26881652/doctor-who-season-18-blu-ray-buy/





"We were writing this stuff as it came... there was no serious planning of how the whole thing would be shaped," said Bidmead, speaking at a BFI event.

"It's not how you'd do the thing today, with a writers' room and proper planning of how the different stories were going to interweave with each other, and the through-line. We were really making it up as we went along!"

Bidmead was script editor for just the one series and said he finds it "extraordinary" that there's still continued interest in the work he did almost 40 years ago.

"You didn't sit down and plan a season – you had to write the next script!" he revealed. "You got that done, and then you had to do the next script... the turnover was so enormous that there was none of that sort of forward planning.

"It would've been amazing, but we never had that – we never had the budget, or the time... we were just kind of rushing it out."

Any 'themes' allegedly present during season 18 in particular can actually be credited to the fans, Bidmead insisted.

"The fans come along and they put the structure in for you!" he said. "That's so exciting, that's wonderful."

(In case you were wondering, season 18 "revolves around the theme of entropy, linking together all of its stories" according to the Doctor Who fan wiki – so now you know!)

Doctor Omega said:

"It's not how you'd do the thing today,

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Christopher Bidmead on New Who

That must have been harder to do. They did a good job of it though!

Doctor Who's ex-script editor says classic series was 'made up as they went along'

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And probably why I enjoyed it so much.

If there's one thing I disliked about New Who, it was the over-arching season plot every fucking year.

Once in a while is one thing, but it gets old very quickly.

Christopher Bidmead has some interesting points. I wonder what he would have said about Moffat. I’ve never seen an episode written by him though.

The Seeker said:

Christopher Bidmead has some interesting points. I wonder what he would have said about Moffat. I’ve never seen an episode written by him though.

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LOGOPOLIS is on dailymotion.

ant-mac said:

LOGOPOLIS is on dailymotion.

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And it is a brilliant episode.

Give Us a Clue 1981 Pertwee Davison & Jon Pertwee

A documenary that caused a stir amongst fandom at the time of broadcast, owing the the "anorak" narrating it......


Doctor Who Resistance Is Useless Documentary 1992

It's apparently been confirmed that THE FACELESS ONES is the next one up for animation......

THE FACELESS ONES (1967)........

https://www.imdforums.com/threads/the-faceless-ones-1967.3656/


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