That Moffat impression is uncanny 😂

Hello, im apart of DC63’s cast and crew. Big thanks for the shout out, love your work :)

I loved how accurate this short was in predicting Who's future. Also the comedy is perfect.

Even though this is a comic relief sketch this is a loving tribute to the original era by a true fan of Doctor Who like Steven Moffat

Rowan Atkinson being one of my favourite comedians as a kid while growing up as well and watching this made me wish of a what if reality in which he was cast as the real Doctor, and if we’re making Blackadder jokes, Baldrick and George would be his companions and Melchet and Darling would be the main villain threat. The series opener, “The Doctor’s Cunning Plan”.

Jonathan Pryce doing so much research on the character for a comedy skit shows his professionalism, and it shows, I genuinely like his version of the Master. Would be awesome to see Pryce in the show proper.

This could be an awesome Unbound pick up idea for Big Finish, taking the comedy to the next level and bring back some of the cast. Curse of Fatal Death is always one of my favorite go to videos to watch when I need that lighthearted pick me up!

current mindset: Jonathan Pryce being in the same room as Steven Moffat

Saying Clara is nothing more than your typical feisty Doctor Who companion is such a weird and blatantly incorrect take that I'm pretty shocked it came from you. She's a narcissistic, codependent control freak who becomes suicidal after her lover dies, and starts actively seeking dangerous situations that might give her a chance to die. The whole point of her arc of the series is that she and the Doctor are bad for each other and exacerbate each other's worst traits. That is undeniably a new direction for a companion (at least as far as TV goes, I don't know enough of expanded media companions to say it's _never_ been done before), even if you don't like that direction.

Also fact the Planet Tesrus is a call back to deadly assassin where the master makes a deal with chancellor goth.

I have seen the sketch on KZfaq cause there is a full version on KZfaq and it’s feels like with a few tweaks it could slip onto the classic era that’s how much love and respect for the show went into it even though they went a more comedic direction with it by highlighting the more comedic elements of the classic era

Hey, nice to see Rex The Runt, the wobbly, bobbly, dribbely, squiggly dog

Great review and just as great part of Doctor Who’s history. Kinda funny how this review and special’s anniversary would come out at around the same time as Steven Moffat returning to the show for next era. It truly is timey wimey.

The ‘3 settings’ joke kills me every time and, honestly, I think it’s only gotten funnier because 13 and 15 both have sonics that look very much like products I’ve seen while browsing

An excellent special giving Doctor Who the skit it deserved.

13th Doctor: "I've still got my trusty sonic screwdriver, oh it's got three settings" 😂

The use of Scooby-Doo in the companion’s pleas for the Doctor not to die is interesting because THAT franchise was still in the midst of its own decade-long TV hiatus, but the direct-to-video movies had JUST come back with Zombie Island (Witch’s Ghost to follow in October). When What’s New Scooby-Doo! premiered in 2002 it would run and then be followed pretty consistently by new iterations. While the franchise isn’t in its best spot right now, it’s still got something going and I think that it’s an interesting if unintended acknowledgment rather than just a “this is a silly thing people love”

Thanks for the shout out at the beginning! (This is The Lower Decker BTW) I really appreciate that!

Still have the vhs.

I'm maybe a bit late to bring this up, But as you all know this special marks the last time the late Roy Skelton voices the Daleks, Also voicing the Daleks is Dave Chapman who has done a lot of work on British TV including The Slamma and his most well role Otis the Aardvark.

I love your videos. And your take on episodes you review and The big fish audio books

I remember this back in the day! :) I was born in 1990, one year after Dr Who was cancelled. I watched Dr Who on UK GOLD and VHS tapes. So this was a very special comic relief sketch for me. Great review and entertainment as usual Mr TARDIS. My favourite part was the Master falling down the sewers! Very entertaining.

That brought back some memories for me. I was smiling throughout so thank you ❤

Omg. I went to see the Memory of Water with Julia Sawalha in 1999. What a blast from the past. Thank you 😊

Hello! As part of the Devious gang, thanks for showing a few clips of Devious. We have almost finished episode 5. (Being shown at DWAS the capitol convention next week 😊) Episode 6 due next year for the 25th anniversary of the filming of the Pertwee stuff for devious. Bit of fun, the time rota broke when filming Curse, so the master had to step over Stephen Cranford, who was holding the wires together to make the console work. Keep up the terrific work 👍

Thank you for doing what you do! ❤

Rowan Atkinson really wanted to play The doctor but apparently it never came to anything sadly.shame as he would have been great as the doctor.

Great video as always! Thanks for the promo!

Anyone else think they should randomly get Mark Ayres or someone to score a modern episode? I do miss the corny synth scores.

Ah yes. The template for the Moffat era.

I remember watching the first three parts of this when it first aired; I think I'd gone to bed before part four came on. I remember my dad saying at the end of part three, “How many parts has this thing got?”

this actually might of been the first piece of doctor who media I watched, it was either this or the movie I remember watching both of them as a child but I can't remember which one I watched first. Then I got into it during David Tenant's era.... in 2023

Moffat was 100% correct about Ainley's Master. He's an unbelievably naff villain

“Steven Moffat, the one handed writer strikes again.” Save that in case Boom has any questionable Moffatisms. 😂

A female as the 13th doctor how scary accurate

Yes please to a video about devious!

Did the dalek exterminate people after he couldn't get a doughnut or cheeseburger if not I feel bad for the darek

Anyone know how to watch the Victoria Wood Jim Broadbent Doctor Who sketch?

Great work! I hadn't known about the original part two cliffhanger, but it's absolutely perfect. I've always considered that cliffhanger in the otherwise brilliant Genesis to be kind of the epitome of everything great and awful about Who all at once! LOL at "Ainley laugh" in the captions. And yeah, Moffat writing women.... sigh. The Doctor gets a long, descriptive paragraph of his character in the script, and Emma gets three words: "a young woman", which is about all the character she gets in the rest of the script. I'm just surprised she wasn't more feisty. At lest Lumley is great, even with what she's given. Looking forward to your video on Devious.

I love this thing, the gag with the Master falling down that hole and being increasingly disgruntled at having to take all that time off-screen to get back into the scene will never not be funny to me. And the plunger on the hand is just cute.

Joanna Lumley always sort of has that kind of cool mom/grandma vibes and pulls it off better than Jodie.

I was Pryce’s “guest liaison” at the Oxford Union. He did not disappoint - totally nuts, brilliantly good company, twisted, deranged, and really doesn’t take himself seriously. I adored every moment of hosting him.

Dalek Bumps!

Overall the best thing that Moffat ever wrote for Doctor Who, a tight and funny 20 minutes of tv except the female Doctor gap that hasn't aged well, but then Big Finish also did the same thing a few years later. It's just a shame that after series 5 most of Moffat's actually era felt a lot of time like 20 minutes worth of good ideas stretched out over 6 years.

Going back to this, it's a bit off-putting to see it present the idea of the Doctor regenerating as a woman as such an obviously ridiculous idea that it can stand as the whole joke, given certain fan responses when it really did happen. Otherwise, I still love the hell out of it.

Jonathan Pryce is on dream guest cast list for proper doctor who. It's a short list just him and Julie Waters.

The year this was broadcast I turned 30 I wish I had turned 35 or 36 or even 40

LoL I like this episode

A Dalek whispers in Daleks’ Masterplan

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Doctor Who comedy series would work be funny rather than thrillery good night sweetheart was good

I like Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death

It might be a bit dated, but there are some really good gags in it and it's clearly made by people who loved the classic series. Sadly this sketch and Blackadder Back and Forth are the closest we ever got to a Rowan Atkinson Doctor.

Its canon. FACT!

Crazy how long Davina has been a mainstream presentet.

Grdto Lchso

25 years later and Moffat's writing isn't any less creepy.