The Other Eighth Doctor?

The Other Eighth Doctor? | Doctor Who

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11 жыл бұрын

After Doctor Who left television screens in 1989, many possible routes were investigated for the show's return. In 1991, Doctor Who Magazine reported on claims that an independent production company had made pilots for a new series, starring an actor called David Burton as the eighth incarnation of the Doctor...Subscribe: bit.ly/SubscribeToDoctorWho
With contributions from current and former DWM editors Tom Spilsbury and Gary Russell, and David Burton himself, this clip is taken from Dr Forever! Lost in the Dark Dimension, which can be seen in full on Doctor Who: Inferno Special Edition DVD release
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@jacksykes2519 10 жыл бұрын

A weird old man with shoulder length white hair pushing two kids inside a phone box with blacked out windows.

@willscomix 9 жыл бұрын

Doctor Whotree

@The8thDOCTOR 9 жыл бұрын

If you are not a writer for BBC comedy already then they should definitely hire you.

@marcjoseph9448 8 жыл бұрын

Doctor Lew-d

@theburgerking746 7 жыл бұрын

Jack Sykes no shaded red glasses though

@SteveCowlishaw 7 жыл бұрын

I thought it was Jimmy Saville

@fodsaks 4 жыл бұрын

"I had to sign a confidentiality agreement." Drives around in a car with 'The New Doctor Who' written on it.

@BenNightHound 4 жыл бұрын

Underrated comment

@davidroberts5250 Жыл бұрын

Lol 🤣

@minglin2814 6 жыл бұрын

I wish Paul mcgaan has a normal proper series as the doctor he would be great

@jeanmichellelaurent 6 жыл бұрын

Mich Lin he has big finish

@Paccyd33 4 жыл бұрын

God yes

@oliverasensio9429 4 жыл бұрын

Me too.

@jamess9855 8 ай бұрын

👀

@mikebasil4832 Жыл бұрын

I’m glad that David Burton can still get his Doctor Who recognition thanks to this interview.

@Shadowkey392 10 жыл бұрын

David Burton as The Doctor...I could see that actually working.

@tubian323 7 жыл бұрын

Nothing against David Burton but I'm really glad the TARDIS wasn't turned into a phone booth.

@iNREEk 6 жыл бұрын

tubian323 hahaha but it kind of is a phone booth lmao

@NitroIndigo 5 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't that make it Inspector Spacetime?

@NoahAG 4 жыл бұрын

It is a phone blue...

@kademcarthur5362 3 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of Bill and Ted.

@dunebasher1971 10 жыл бұрын

For anyone who thinks this was a real production - how come David Burton is the only person who's ever claimed to work on it? If they really did make a couple of episodes it will have needed a full production team - director, producer, camera, lights, sound, wardrobe, effects etc - and yet nobody else has ever admitted to having worked on it in any capacity whatsoever. Burton is literally the only person in the world who is saying that this project was for real. Draw your own conclusions...

@jaidanielparker 6 жыл бұрын

David Burton is full of it. Richard Bignell researched this quite extensively and there's no evidence of this pilot being filmed. Director Paul Bernard supposedly initiated work on the pilot yet there is nothing in his work diaries from this time to indicate work on any independent Dr Who production and neither Paul's Widow or his long-standing PA had ever heard of him working on it either. The early Dr Who Magazine interview with Burton makes claim to have worked with "Millennium Productions" on the pilot, but company director Vijay Amarnani confirmed they never had anything to do with a Dr Who pilot. In one interview Burton claimed to have filmed in Vienna yet in another seems unaware of any foreign location filming. There's more on the Nothing at the End of the Lane website, if you still think this is anything more than an attention seeker telling tall tales give it a read.

@SamJLance 5 жыл бұрын

Jai Parker This should be the top comment, it’s one of the few with an actual educated response.

@dylanlarge11 3 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure the BBC and Doctor Who wouldn't post this if there wasn't some truth to it.

@coolsomeXD 4 жыл бұрын

Someone tell him he's probably canon now.

@tlgames3294 10 жыл бұрын

Thank god they never used the red boxes. Inspector Spacetime almost got copyrighted maybe 0.0

@mgthestrange9098 6 жыл бұрын

There used to be a police box painted red in Glasgow’s merchant city but luckily someone saw sense and returned it to blue, no idea why it was red to begin worth. Mental!

@mgthestrange9098 6 жыл бұрын

The Tardis as a red phone box!!?? Fetch the smelling salts, Marcel!

@BlueManIan Жыл бұрын

I have been looking for this video for YEARS! I thought I'd dreamt it!

@jasondale7920 8 жыл бұрын

Would be interesting to have him in a future episode, they may even accept him as a future doctor.

@nigelwalker6103 3 жыл бұрын

I remember reading about this in Doctor Who magazine and being intrigued by the possibility of course back then I jumped at rumours of the show coming back as it seemed for many years it wouldn't. Judging by what we now know it probably was a hoax that got out of hand as no evidence exists that anything was actually filmed but if anyone has any evidence I would love to see it. Alternatively David Burton seems a nice guy so if any fan film makers have the urge to give us a glimpse of his version of the Doctor why not.

@phenomenlogische 8 жыл бұрын

The back roads of Doctor Who hold such treasures. What a nut.

@theblitzkrieggamer3196 6 жыл бұрын

Without hope, without witness, without reward...

@oddball9732 10 жыл бұрын

I think it would be quite nice if he had a small part in a future episode

@thedoctor101fez 9 жыл бұрын

Well they might have to, I mean there r only so much British actors :P but I hope he plays a scientist for uni, oh & he took the doctors position a bit :P hahaha, that'd be great

@BenNightHound 4 жыл бұрын

@@thedoctor101fez Doctor Who doesn't have to feature all British actors, what if there's an American or Russian character, they're not always going to be played by a brit

@DrErikNefarious 11 жыл бұрын

That picture of him with the kids in swimsuits is kinda creepy

@UnseenBubby 11 жыл бұрын

Plus, it read as "Doctor Who" in the closing credits in the revived series until David Tennent requested it to be read as "The Doctor"

@johngalantini6910 6 жыл бұрын

I've never heard of this before, ever. No footage, no photos, no scripts, no evidence at all? Bit of a bold claim.

@LarryLeeMoniz 9 жыл бұрын

This man is completely off his rocker!

@ButlerWho 11 жыл бұрын

There's an extended version of the interview on the DVD if you know where to look...

@darkhall8227 4 жыл бұрын

what dvd

@039dalekmoore2007 10 жыл бұрын

interesting i never heard this story before i think he would of been an interesting doctor who pity there is no footage !

@StuartTheGamerNerd 10 жыл бұрын

there is now, look what I wrote :D

@StuartTheGamerNerd 8 жыл бұрын

Robo9400 Hah now that i've tried desperately searching for all the info on it, you could be right

@Yogurt1701 4 жыл бұрын

Interesting story. But surely other people involved in the production would have stepped forward by now to lend some weight to it, the twins Hart & Diamond, for example. But to be fair, if it was around the time of Paul Mcganns Doctor Who tv movie, its quite possible as the franchise was in limbo for a while I believe.

@brendannahor1460 8 ай бұрын

I remember reading about him in the Doctor Who magazine! According to British newspaper "The Daily Star," Daniella Nardini filmed a pilot for a female fronted Doctor Who in the 1990's! It also once reported that Doctor Who veteran actor Michael Sheard (4 different stories across 26 years) had also filmed a pilot as the Doctor! (the things the tabloids will print!!) 🤔

@stephenmurphy2212 10 жыл бұрын

David Burton looks like he's dressed in Capaldi's costume in that interview... Spoilers!

@obscureentertainment8303 9 жыл бұрын

How is that a spoiler?

@kylenetherwood8734 7 жыл бұрын

Stephen Murphy He has his best suit and a hair cut

@Domihork 6 жыл бұрын

Only shows how boring and unoriginal Capaldi's "costume" really is...

@PlantaWho 7 жыл бұрын

say, its been years...bring him back and make him the actual Doctor. it will be a fun fact, and moment when a backfired idea had some ashes rising

@sipodge 10 жыл бұрын

His name on the credits was "Doctor Who / Dr Who" for almost 20 years. You might want to re-think your comment.

@nightowl8477 3 жыл бұрын

0:35 that cut jesus christ 😂

@doctorwhofan1989 11 жыл бұрын

I have a feeling that this is the only "Eighth Doctor" video I will be able to see this month.

@fellowcitizen Ай бұрын

He'd've been convinncing as the Third Doctor.

@axelsteel21 10 жыл бұрын

I'd love to see this guys footage if its outbthere

@twilliamspro 8 жыл бұрын

+CupidStunt I was meaning anything from the pilots

@twilliamspro 8 жыл бұрын

+CupidStunt it says in the video description a independent production company made pilots

@RialVestro 8 жыл бұрын

+CupidStunt I agree that it's most likely all a lie. Why would they not name the production company? Just because they're independent doesn't mean they're nameless unless they don't exist. Plus his claims that everything was destroyed and how quickly everything was destroyed just makes it sound like an excuse for why there's no evidence what so ever that any of this had ever actually happened. There has to be some evidence between the Production crew and the rest of the cast that this actually happened but all he has is a car. And that car also has the name of the manufacturer on it. It's in big giant letters above the New Doctor Who. There's no production company but there was a car shop trying to drum up business with this fake story.

@BrotherJosephus 11 жыл бұрын

Perhaps he could have played the "secret Doctor" if John Hurt didn't do it.

@Wastelander121 11 жыл бұрын

Possibly a Doctor in an alternate timeline? I'm sure they could find a way to have him as The Doctor.

@criceto 9 жыл бұрын

Looks like a doctor

@1963eamonn 11 жыл бұрын

There is a slight resemblance to William Hartnell (the first Doctor). I would love to see this.

@therestorationofdrwho1865 8 жыл бұрын

Dammit I hate hearing things were wiped or destroyed! GRRRR, one thing I HATE about tape and filming back the .

@ssp6186 8 жыл бұрын

well not as bad as most of the 60s storys's

@AshleyTMDW 5 жыл бұрын

Late reply but David's story is sketchy, I'd recommend taking a read of www.endofthelane.co.uk/burton.html at some point if you havent already

@StuartTheGamerNerd 10 жыл бұрын

Search for "The Night of the Doctor" here on youtube, PAUL MCGANN FINALLY CAME BACK! thumbs up for finally showing his regeneration! :D

@obscureentertainment8303 9 жыл бұрын

UGh

@StuartTheGamerNerd 8 жыл бұрын

***** It's related to Doctor Who and it was big news at the time, so there's that.

@PhilDrury 7 жыл бұрын

I remember this. Well, bits of it.

@apoch003 11 жыл бұрын

They could. But, right now he's playing The Great Intelligence!

@BenNightHound 4 жыл бұрын

No he didn't play the Intelligence, the only actors to play that role in NuWho are Sir Ian McKellen and Richard E. Grant

@apoch003 4 жыл бұрын

@@BenNightHound And Richard E. Grant played the ninth Doctor in "Scream of the Shalka". Look it up!

@BenNightHound 4 жыл бұрын

@@apoch003 no he played the 9th Doctor in it and the 10th Doctor in Curse of Fatal Death

@apoch003 4 жыл бұрын

@@BenNightHound This conversation is six years old. I made a typo. Sue me.

@BenNightHound 4 жыл бұрын

@@apoch003 but the comment you made a mistake in is 9 minutes old, lol

@timrob12 11 жыл бұрын

Hearing this story, it seems very likely that Burton would be playing a Doctor that was very similair to Peter Cushing.

@connorharrison723 11 жыл бұрын

Most people i know, know of doctor who, in all time periods, they especially love me. And they also love me the most for the next 50 years

@iNREEk 6 жыл бұрын

Wow never knew this. Amazing

@peedfarded 10 жыл бұрын

He seemed like he would have been a good Doctor.

@danielsanderson4926 7 жыл бұрын

Checks to see if this was uploaded on the 1st of April.

@Sparrow9612 10 жыл бұрын

I agree. He reminds me a lot of him.

@mathieuleader8601 11 жыл бұрын

I think it would be great if they found the lost 90's pilot or reshot it and showed it as a speical

@Whofan06 11 жыл бұрын

This guy looks more like Doc Brown than a Doctor ._______.

@BetaLink64 10 жыл бұрын

They were gonna make the TARDIS into a red phone booth? Dang son, Inspector Spacetime would've sued.

@garethmorgan8326 9 жыл бұрын

It would have been fascinating !

@IanDack 10 жыл бұрын

He used to be Dr Who in the end credits.

@skillwho1 10 жыл бұрын

Like Batman it was the car, with the New Doctor Who! :)

@HollowBoy04 Жыл бұрын

The fact he lied about everything to get a free car 💀

@GPHemsley 11 жыл бұрын

I'm surprised this is official. It reeks of an April Fool's joke, even though it's August.

@stephenmurphy2212 11 жыл бұрын

Here's something to make up for it David.... If the First Doctor returns in the 50th Anniversary.... Play him!

@fett226 6 жыл бұрын

not just the 'weird stuff' , 'Doctor Who' got axed in 1989. Why would it come back 1 year, 5 months later, or even 2 years 6 months later, it was the right decision to bring it back in 1996 with Paul Mcgann as 'The Doctor' , but because it had aimed at 'American' audiences to bring the viewings up instead of being an British-American thing where it would be both aimed at audiences at either side of the globe, everything failed, common, Eric Roberts as 'the Master'. San-Francisco as the 'end of the world' on new-years eve 1999. Paul's audition was the setting where, we (the audience) find more about the ''Doctor's' past, including his age, 'The Master's' age, his father's age and so on

@RiveryJerald 11 жыл бұрын

50 years

@TheManInBlueFlames 6 жыл бұрын

Reasons to indicate he could be lying: -Burton looks to the corner of his eyes which is a sign of lying -Burton repeats a few things after e.g. 'initial contract was for 3 months' which is a sign of lying -Literally no photographs or any evidence whatsoever other than his word Reasons to indicate he could not be lying: -It was a long time ago, so his memory could have faded -Why was it put on the official dr who channel on KZfaq? -Why was it put on a Dr Who DVD for the Third Doctor? -Why would he make this stuff up? -The evidence could have simply been destroyed I mean it would have had to be very secretive -There are photos of the car with 'the new doctor who' and people have had photographs with the man when they were told he was going to be the next one

@damiangray725 5 жыл бұрын

Small footnote : looking to the corner of your eyes is only a sign of lying if you look to your right side. Left side is associated with recalling a memory, as does David Burton here. Besides, given the lapse of time since he first made that claim, any lie he could have told at the time became memory to him, and so could be recalled as a memory.

@U2QuoZepplin 11 жыл бұрын

Hmmmn... that's really interesting. The idea of going for a more William Hartnell type Doctor again after Sylvester, would've been really interesting. It seems it's only now that they've cast Peter Capaldi in the part that they are thinking about having The Doctor as an older man like his first three incarnations and The Doctor of the classic Who movies.

@retrocomputerkidkris 5 жыл бұрын

David burton a parallel dr

@WinEntity 11 жыл бұрын

That poor "local company"...

@johndamanda5285 10 жыл бұрын

when you absorb my time energy i have a pill for that

@zombiegnomes1 9 жыл бұрын

Is it weird that I think he's better looking now? I would love to see him in a episode perhaps as a relative of Clara. Maybe he had a clash with a past Doctor who and he has just found out by accident about her travelling with him and has a very, very bad idea of how to get back at him.

@JavierPerez-cx4jw 6 жыл бұрын

zombiegnomes1 Well, imagine if they brought him in for that 10th doctor episode with the Fake Doctor Who. Would that be too meta?

@JayDragonarcProductions 11 жыл бұрын

This is on the Inferno Special Edition DVD

@jamesfan2 11 жыл бұрын

amazing resemblance to the Paul McGann doctor

@adameastment 10 жыл бұрын

He was credited as Doctor Who up until about 2006/07. Please get things right.

@TheScrollsOfGaming 11 жыл бұрын

Watch the whole video.

@ingentingfilmen 10 жыл бұрын

Whilst I haven't researched this subject enough it seems like he has no reason to lie, as he hasn't gone around talking about it at all

@mrgarypaterson 11 жыл бұрын

Considering the movie they ended up with in the end was also done largely externally I'd say that your probably right... clearly there wasn't a desire from the BBC to run this series at the time.

@Yogurt1701 4 жыл бұрын

And the movie they went with sucked! Shame, as I liked Mcganns Doctor.

@mathieuleader8601 10 жыл бұрын

Considering that they found lost doctor episodes in Ethopia then is it not possible that a lost episode could be found

@KiddsockTV 11 жыл бұрын

Wow that is some really cool info.

@Fitzroyfallz 7 жыл бұрын

How have I never heard about this?!

@joeluker1319 11 жыл бұрын

Though it was changed for a reason.

@Ravaloxianthunderbird 11 жыл бұрын

stop complaining. For 18 years they called him Doctor Who in the closing credits. Do your Who-History.

@UltimateKyuubiFox 5 жыл бұрын

It’s weird how the man is better-looking now.

@JustJohn85 10 жыл бұрын

That person who wanted to hear the interview must be out a lot of money lol.

@AKindChap 11 жыл бұрын

He thinks it's all been destroyed/wiped. He says this in the video.

@davincent98 10 жыл бұрын

I would like to see him play the first doctor

@haileyshannon7548 11 жыл бұрын

Is that Alexi Sayle in the Lock Up Your Daughters cast photo?

@DokkaChapman 9 жыл бұрын

shame the evidence was destroyed. Oh to be a fly on the wall, thanks again BBC -_-

@Trek001 9 жыл бұрын

***** Actually, there might be a chance something was sent either to the British Library or the F&T Archives in Bradford

@DokkaChapman 9 жыл бұрын

well fingers crossed it sees the light of day.

@AshleyTMDW 5 жыл бұрын

www.endofthelane.co.uk/burton.html This is worth a read at some point, covers the thing in greater detail

@VadersFist95 3 жыл бұрын

He might be lying

@JasonTDolan 10 жыл бұрын

All lies......

@berserkbroadcasting7834 7 жыл бұрын

well it is on the official doctor who page . . .

@dylanlarge11 3 жыл бұрын

@@berserkbroadcasting7834 Exactly so there must be some truth to it.

@Dajara 11 жыл бұрын

He should at the very least have a small part on Doctor Who now!

@DeadlyAssassin-fr6ti 5 жыл бұрын

I’m glad the TARDIS didn’t become a red phone box but I would’ve liked to see the episodes they filmed

@sweiland75 11 жыл бұрын

I will believe you, after I see Peter Capaldi on one of your late night talk shows as a guest. :)

@henryjsteen2166 7 жыл бұрын

This is so strange

@smileyfacex0 11 жыл бұрын

They should let him have a role in Doctor who now :( even for just one episode.

@thornofsociety6857 7 жыл бұрын

So did they get the $100 million? xD

@jimodonnelly7762 11 жыл бұрын

From the various publicity shots, it's obvious he was working as a children's entertainer, and it's probably the reason he was chosen.

@darkhall8227 5 жыл бұрын

lets see them then. i dont belive him especially the red phone box with blacked out windows and why would it be filmed without the bbc

@adriantownsend2317 2 жыл бұрын

... Given what was happening at the time with Doctor Who, Coast to Coast looking at a movie, The Last of the Timelords, Adrian Riglesford's The Dark Dimension and the eventual McGann movie, it is not beyond the realms of possibility this was'nt a reality. Maybe everyone else involved in the project is honouring the confidentiality agreement and not willing to discuss it!

@PoliticalWeekly 11 жыл бұрын

kinda wish any 8th doctor could have some more episodes. Still, I wish the Beeb had not killed all evidence of this.

@ibtrumpet513 11 жыл бұрын

No. If they were to do that, which they won't since the 50th was already filmed, they would cast David Bradley since he is William Hartnell in "An Adventure in Space and Time". Besides. Have you seen a David Bradley/William Hartnell comparison? It is astonishing!

@U2QuoZepplin 11 жыл бұрын

It just shows you that they didn't know what the hell to do with the programme back then. They probably would have tried any thing! that's the terrifying thing. Maybe it's good that the show ended when it did , before they had the chance to damage it any further.