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@dakrontu 7 сағат бұрын

15th doctor standing on a land mine: I seem to recall the same happening many years ago in a Doctor Who episode. Does anyone else remember?

@TheWatcherOnWho 5 сағат бұрын

Genesis Of The Daleks

@Book-Mark Күн бұрын

So confusing today with all the correctness and affirmation. Here we have female let production, tiny. budget, balanced casting. Equality before it became political. AND wonderful writing.

@gerrymite 2 күн бұрын

A true and pure Whovian knows and never forgets.

@user-tn1rs9tg9k 2 күн бұрын

I grew up with Doctor Who, first seeing William Hartnell as the grouchy, mysterious initially morally ambiguous alien, then Patrick Troughton's so-called cosmic hobo

@michaelpillingnow 2 күн бұрын

I wonder how the actors playing Barbara, Susan and David felt about the show's precarious existence and what that meant for their careers.

@DMSProduktions 2 күн бұрын

Oh how FAR the Doctor has fallen!

@benflay6038 2 күн бұрын

I always wanted the TARDIS to be huge and beyond sets a cathedral a leisure centre a restaurant a gothic library que gardens as a arboretum, a huge laboratory anything ypu can imagine with cgi and outside filming should be easy. When you have the right people who care enough the program was ingenious outside problems like strikes did not help and comedy writer's Horror of fang rock was a good example to

@digipeeper 3 күн бұрын

There is a 1987 action movie called Extreme Prejudice which ironically mirrors Caves of Androzani. With the plot about Drugs, Money, Profit. Two parties at each other’s throat and a lone hero stuck in the middle of it(Nick Nolte as a Ranger and he fights back).

@PaulHFleming 3 күн бұрын

BBC never really gave Collin Baker chance to make Dr Who character his own from very beginning. My favorite of his tenure was Two Doctors with Patrick Througthn as guest Star. The entire storyline was delightful especially Jacqueline Pierce performance.

@PaulHFleming 3 күн бұрын

Rumour has it that first Doctor Who you see turns out being your favorite. John Pertwee was first one I saw, yet my favorite always Tom Baker.As always it was more about writing and storyline which helps or hurt the series

@PaulHFleming 3 күн бұрын

Would be possible for a review of 1960s Dr Who movies featuring Peter Cushing?

@TheWatcherOnWho 2 күн бұрын

Something I can look into.

@paulashe61 3 күн бұрын

Season 7 was totally different to anything that came before in 70’s realism.

@paulashe61 3 күн бұрын

Plus the family aspect with Jo made it friendly

@paulashe61 3 күн бұрын

After watching dr who all my life it was amazing to see early stories and articulate and animated Daleks. Every coat of paint made them heavier and more crap to move. Plus the dancer operators got older

@ralphhathaway-coley5460 4 күн бұрын

The early version of the Doctor was not a clear cut character, and definitely not your normal 'hero' character and was not very likeable. at least that is how I remember it.

@user-lt9py2pu6u 3 күн бұрын

As I remember it he was certainly a bit of a grumpy old man, but I always liked him, For me the first four doctors will always be the best probably because that's who I grew up with.

@PaulHFleming 2 күн бұрын

@@ralphhathaway-coley5460 The early Dr Who years with William Hartnell were directed more towards youth audience. The Doctor and Susan, his grandfather were mostly traveling through Earth history with Susan"s teachers that boarded Tardis by accident.

@ralphhathaway-coley5460 2 күн бұрын

@@user-lt9py2pu6u That is probably a better description, I agree he was the best doctor. He did bring that air of the Drill Sergeant/otherness that William Hartnell did so well.

@Gothic55 4 күн бұрын

You have rightly identified this story as playing a major role in evolution of Dr Who. It is not one of my favourite stories but it is an important one. Thank you for your thoughtful and insightful insights.

@davidthedeaf 5 күн бұрын

I’d love to have Dr. Who version that is a futuristic British family who travels through time more than space and we could see history through his eyes.

@TalmidAndy 5 күн бұрын

Well researched and written unfortunately the presentation makes it painful to complete viewing

@TheWatcherOnWho 5 күн бұрын

My apologies if you don't find my style engaging enough.

@GardnerGoldsmith 6 күн бұрын

This was a fantastic video! Thanks, man! I used to fly to the UK to attend Doctor Who cons when it was in hiatus, and loved being with kindred spirits as fans worked to push the Beeb to bring back the show! So many of the people involved with the programme were guests at the cons, and all were wonderful people! Thank you, again!!

@rtex2020 6 күн бұрын

From all I've heard, Colin Baker is a very nice person. I'm willing to concede that he is an excellent actor. But, this is not about the actor - it's about the show... and therefore, I blame JNT, and not Colin Baker. The Doctor's costume was awful - I believe CB has said that he wanted something like Christopher Eccleston wore, but JNT pushed for what he did wind up wearing. I find it hard to forgive the Doctor trying to kill Peri: they went too far, and his rather self-obsessed persona was not admirable at all. Comparisons to ET or StarWars are, as was pointed out, unfair - but in addition, it is the STORY that is SO MUCH MORE important than special effects. The best Doctor Who shows (or any shows or movies) are loved for the story, not the effects. I think that perhaps executives may prefer to blame effects as being primitive rather than admit their poor work on stories.

@mrterrymoore1 6 күн бұрын

I think you’ve forgotten the cave man episodes immediately after the in earthly child. I do remember the edge of destruction but only that I watched it and didn’t really understand it. My excuse. I was 10

@TheWatcherOnWho 5 күн бұрын

Cavemen episodes are part of the An Unearthly Child serial. 4 episodes in total.

@mrterrymoore1 5 күн бұрын

@@TheWatcherOnWho oh never knew that. Wow

@macsnafu 6 күн бұрын

Sure. Edge of Destruction was a "bottle episode" before that term had been created.

@josefschiltz2192 6 күн бұрын

I cannot understand how The Edge of Destruction is so undervalued. David Whitaker wrote a two episode classic. If my mind goes back to Hartnell, then these two are the very first that come to mind. Also The Web Planet - and that was the first novelization that I picked up in a newsagent at Newport Pagnell in 1971 for 25p. In my imagination, I would love to see TWP reproduced with the production values of the Henson Creature Workshop. The production team did brilliantly with what they could afford and the techniques of the time. A truly imaginative effort.

@eichelbergergary 6 күн бұрын

I endorse the posts from many here who laud the Sixth Doctor's Big Finish era. He is great with this material. Big Finish is now the "real" Doctor Who to many classic fans. If you haven't participated in the Big Finish portion of the Whoniverse, you are missing most of the story.

@robinburn4974 7 күн бұрын

And now it's been destroyed, RIP Doctor

@waynetarry9043 6 күн бұрын

it has turned into the biggest monster ever ( WOKE ) !

@jend80 6 күн бұрын

@@waynetarry9043 Doctor Who's been 'woke' whatever the fuck that means these days, since it did a whole 4 episode story explaining the real savages were the self proclaimed superior race/species (The Savages, 1966) , Dr Who's been woke since an actual socialist/marxist/communist wrote stories that were anti-violence/anti-war, pro commune living hippies, pro-left wing protest & direct action/anti-instrustral sabotage & anti-corrupt, polluting corporations - one even includes Pertwee in drag - and how well meaning liberals get exploited by people wanting to recreate the far-right ideal of the imaginary glory age (Malcolm Hulke around the early - mid 70s) . Dr Who's been woke since the late 80s equivalent of showrunner wanted to use the programme to overthrow Thatcher and had stories directly attacking her and what she stood for and explicitly feature the direct & indirect effects racism has and how our tiny seemingless meaningless everyday choices can have massive negative consciences for other people, even the story revisiting the year the show started called out racist discrimination as wrong.

@gerardsweeney9063 5 күн бұрын

@@waynetarry9043 Can you define "WOKE", please? Give specific examples, and why they offend you.

@paulashe61 3 күн бұрын

It’s gone as we said it would from lack of creativity Disney suits destroy another universe.

@paulashe61 3 күн бұрын

It should be part of the story

@unfundedopportunities7278 8 күн бұрын

The concept of the Tardis being much larger inside than outside, occupying different planes of existence, is ingenious. Being so compact, the Tardis can appear anywhere. An army could fit inside. A commandeered Tardis could appear within a city, during the night, and the army would spill out and capture the city by dawn.

@cateclism316 4 күн бұрын

""Why, it's bigger on the inside than it is on the outside!" "Of course! You see, the TARDIS is dimensionally transcedental." "What does that mean?" "That means that it's bigger on the inside than it is on the outside!"

@PaulHFleming 3 күн бұрын

@@unfundedopportunities7278 I think Doctor also mentioned upon several occasions that Tardis is Icisimorohic which means link with him telepathaly. Although several times the Master and even Rani have stolen his Tardis

@mAiSiEbOOOO Күн бұрын

In The Last Battle, the final book in the Chronicles of Narnia, the characters seek refuge inside a stable standing on a hill, but instead of finding themselves inside a small, enclosed space, to their amazement, they have entered what seems impossible - "It seems, then," said Tirian... "that the Stable seen from within and the Stable seen from without are two different places." "Yes," said the Lord Digory. "Its inside is bigger than its outside". The concept of an infinite space occupying a finite object was introduced earlier in the Chronicles when the world of Narnia is discovered inside a wardrobe. It's possible Sydney Newman had read them, and it was this concept of something extraordinary and infinite both in size and possibilities hidden inside an ordinary, mundane object that inspired in him the novel idea of a time machine disguised as a police box.

@simonwicks8275 8 күн бұрын

JNT 'Now Colin, did you see Peter's swan song? Bloomin' fab wasn't it? One of the best adventures the show has ever produced! I'm rightly proud of that! Right, what have we got for you, eh? You'll love this Colin. Giant slugs, bird men and a couple of brothers that are going to be next BIG thing I'm sure. Oh you're going to act totally bonkers and attempt to strangle Peri. What could possibly go wrong!!!'

@DoctorWhoNose 8 күн бұрын

This is great, but some enthusiasm or inflection may improve your presentation. Great content, but the narration is a bit of a monotone snoozefest. Sounds like someone reading their masters thesis.

@sbatty65227 8 күн бұрын

It's always been one of my favourite Hartnell era episodes.

@PaulHFleming 3 күн бұрын

@@sbatty65227 I just couldn't get into William Hartnell, he always looks like reading teleprompter. his facial expressions rarely changes

@amancalledkev 8 күн бұрын

Having grown up on Doctor Who since a kid in the 70’s, I have to say how disappointed I am with the more contemporary choices and meddling with the character overall. The chosen actors, the personal agendas and the gay leanings….. ffs….. Russell T(wat) Davies…. You haven’t a clue, just like anyone who supports you and your one-track brain cell. Take a GOOD look at the original Doctors, their characters….. not a SINGLE warped leaning or political message to be seen… just a mysterious eccentric old man in a box travelling time and space….. Don’t ever mess with beloved ideas just to make yourself look good and to pander to agendas or tick boxes.

@alexbernard8907 4 күн бұрын

Same with me my first Doctor was Jon Pertwee, as I was born in the sixties and although I gave it a chance with Chris Eccleston, is just didn't look right, and then they turned the Doctor into a transsexual freak, as if they couldn't do a spin off about a female timelord, like Romana, or even a series about the exploits of the Doctor's Granddaughter Susan, or another female timelord.

@PictureHouseCinema 9 күн бұрын

Time, budget and resource constraints are faced by every amateur film makers and the results often are much more creative. Having everything at your disposal doesn't guarantee a good show. What so many of us enjoy in Doctor Who nis what they attempted to do rather than how it actually looked when complete.

@NealHunterHyde 9 күн бұрын

As one of a handful of stories we had taped off tv during the 80’s PBS repeats (and 1 of 3 from the B&W era), my little brother watched this short omnibus many MANY times and is one of my favorite stories - it left me wanting more installments set in and exploring the TARDIS.

@stevecardiff444 7 күн бұрын

If you still have the recordings you should check whether they are 'missing'.

@ianclark934 9 күн бұрын

Excellent review!

@TheWatcherOnWho 9 күн бұрын

Thanks

@NealHunterHyde 10 күн бұрын

@Gary-Seven-and-Isis-in-1968 10 күн бұрын

Classic Who = Great story telling with limited funds. Recent New Who = Rubbish, made with practically unlimited funds (by comparison)

@acewickhamyoshi8330 10 күн бұрын

At first . a fan of all chreatures great & small accepted the Davidson Doctor especially with the cricket puns . Over 4 years it did feel like he was on tv for 400 years . In sn Ustralian perspective we had doctor who on weekdays on repeat as well as new drwho episode offset by 6 months as it was mostly an august to xmas timeslot as our sports took over most scifi timeslots but then as they put it at 6pm /news time we would need two TVs in the house as parents would watch the news snd us kids had drwho in another room . Tom Baker was always the anacdotal doctoke.more theatric.

@acewickhamyoshi8330 10 күн бұрын

Yes the edge of destruction was the start of the drwho companion trope . The new companions feel like last place but get excepted as co-pilots when they talk to the tardis and realise the Rhetoric of history.

@crimsonorc 10 күн бұрын

The Twin Dilemma is not the best but I can't fault Colin/6 or the chemistry he had with Peri. I have great memories and hes one of my favourite Doctors. I don't attack his costume as well. Flamboyance and a bold choice. I cant imagine him wearing anything but that outfit. He had a great first season and I prefer it to the very inconsistent McCoy era. I met Colin a couple of times as well and he's a very friendly and sincere chap.

@MirlitronOne 10 күн бұрын

Back in the day when the BBC was tight on cash but oozed quality, because those involved cared.

@martintremethick8370 10 күн бұрын

That is a fabulous story, I’ve watched it many times. When Doctor Who was entertaining and a bit educational, not trying to ram the director’s and team’s ideas down your throat.

@davidharding1299 10 күн бұрын

I've always really liked "The Edge Of Destruction".

@KismetMulhaneski-to3wg 11 күн бұрын

This is the most iconoclastic and daring argument as it seems to be lending equal status for the serial to that of The Dalek serial. 💣💥 Btw (not totally related or unrelated) you could probably do a similar video about how "Underworld" (and "Meglos") influenced 3 decades of technical TV/Film production - particularly Hollywood/George Lucas' use of "Green Screen" - apparently according to the original DVD Extras the specific gadgetry (rather than broad idea not using actual scenery) was either developed experimentally for the serials or were presently being perfected by the BBC tech-heads 20 years ahead of Hollywood.

@daveofyorkshire301 11 күн бұрын

Underrated? Miscast I think. Peter Davison played the character Tristan Farnon in the BBC television series “All Creatures Great and Small” from 1978 to 1990, he also played Dr Who 1981 to 1984 these two parts could not have been more different. In Dr Who he was just a shouty out of breath character, not helping being partnered with the worst most annoying companion Adric.

@gladiator652004 11 күн бұрын

I like the character development. Jodie's "fam" could have done with something like that early on.

@paulbeardsley4095 11 күн бұрын

I disagree on some minor points but on the whole I think you've nailed it. I can't remember if it was Terry Pratchett or Douglas Adams who said, "Ingenuity can make up for a lack of money, but the reverse is not usually the case." I love the earliest episodes for their sheer conviction. By Tom Baker's era there was too much laughing at itself, but in the early days I could believe they really were on Skaro, they really were trapped in prehistory with little prospect of getting home, or the time ship really was an eerie haunted castle.

@paulashe61 3 күн бұрын

Douglas Adam script editor took over after the horror of Philip hinchcliffe

@paulbeardsley4095 3 күн бұрын

@@paulashe61 Yes I know. I don’t think the quote was related to Doctor Who.

@digipeeper 11 күн бұрын

The McCoy era wasn’t just effected as a Dear John letter to fans with its cancellation but unlike most Who season. It was short with only 4 stories whereas most were 7 stories per season. The Cartmel team was so innovative with their ideas that it needed more. The proposed Season 27 would have been fun but the pace killer is McCoy would have opt out of the show and would have needed to cast a 8th Doctor on a Show that is questionable in longevity for the 90s forward pre 1996. The WILDERNESS YEARS did help with fans ,creativity and hope. The 7th and Ace would have a great mystique of the continuity alone. What Cartmel delivered in the return of the Mystery. Chibnall Destroyed the Who legacy with the Timeless Child(there were rumors that during his tenure as executive, Steven Moffat was going to reveal the Doctor by his actual real name?!?!) It is a great dilemma here of what could have been. I think it is good that in 1989 it ended with the 80s alone and the closing speech in Survival matches.

@saltwell 11 күн бұрын

I think you need to re-edit this video to bring up the sound. It's so low and muffled that I gave up trying to hear it after a minute.

@markjones-gu2fj 13 күн бұрын

Colin Baker's era is a golden age compared to how it is now

@falconer15138 13 күн бұрын

It got the production team through a difficult time. Job done, well done 👍

@newyewtoob 13 күн бұрын

Colin Baker wasn't my favourite Dr Who - in fact I've always listed him as the worst Doctor, with Tom Baker the best (ever), and Troughton, McCoy and the others as great. However, I've now revised my opinion. I think that Colin had to cope with some dodgy storylines, and was kinda 'boxed-in' with the 'Trial of a Timelord' episodes. So all respect to you Colin - you did your best with the material you had to work with. Sil was a great adversary, and you shone in those episodes.

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