Doctor Who 50th Anniversary |OT| Splendid Chap, All Of Them

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How many times have they done just 2 doctors angle? Not including when there were 2 docs in a episode where theyd regenerate

From memory, so please correct me if I'm wrong:

Edit colin baker (i meant not PD) and parrick troughton (the two doctors)

David tennant and peter davidson (childreen in need short special)

David tennant and david morrisey ( the next doctor xmas specal. Although technically DM was ot really a offical drwho only a pretend one, and technically there were clips of the other doctors in there i know, but it mostly focused on the 2 of them)

And now the two doctors 50th anniversary special featuring
David tennant and matt smith

Have i missed out any other (2 doctors episodes inc specials?)

I suppose technically the three doctors episode is technically 2 offical doctor who actors ( plus the head of william hartnell LOL )
 
Got to love it..

"Let's celebrate Dr. Who's 50 year history by not having anyone from anything prior to NuWho in it"

God damn NuWho.
 
I dunno how they'd do it... but I want Jo Grant back. She looked kinda scary when she appeared in Sarah Jane, but now that Elisabeth Sladen has passed she's sort of the go-to classic companion.

A cameo alone would be nice.
 
She looked kinda scary when she appeared in Sarah Jane.

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I want Ian back, even for a minute. I won't care about any previous Doctors, as long as there's Ian.
 
William Russell (Ian) is in An Adventure in Space and Time playing a character named "Harry" (some people speculate this is cover and he'll actually be playing himself, at his current age, as a framing device) so he can hardly slag off modern Who considering they're paying him at the mo. He has slagged modern Who off in the past though, but in a polite/complimentary "I appreciate what they're doing, but TOO SEXY" way.
 
RTD fucked it up anyway as there's now a line in the 'canon series' saying Ian and Barbara hadn't aged in 40 years ;) (In SJA, as well as references to Ace, Harry & others.)

Unless they recast!
 
Does Susan seem pretty likely? If she's his hereditary granddaughter I guess you wouldn't have the problem of getting an actor back because... regeneration. But then you have the "Last of the Time Lords" issue.
 
William Russell (Ian) is in An Adventure in Space and Time playing a character named "Harry" (some people speculate this is cover and he'll actually be playing himself, at his current age, as a framing device) so he can hardly slag off modern Who considering they're paying him at the mo. He has slagged modern Who off in the past though, but in a polite/complimentary "I appreciate what they're doing, but TOO SEXY" way.

Didn't Sarah Jane said that he's forever young?
 
Fuck RTD, just say Sarah was chatting rubbish. BRING BACK IAN.

I had no idea he was still alive until I watched the First Doctor special. He still seemed spry! One of my all-time favorite moments was when Ian killed a Dalek, popped it open, hopped in and drove it around like a car.
 
I'm excited to see David Tennant and Billie Piper again, but having Davies as a co-writer would make me so much more interested. As it is, my excitement's a bit tapered, as I disliked the bits I've seen of Matt Smith's run as well as Sherlock season two solely because of the writing, and I'm not confident that this'll be any different.
 
I'm excited to see David Tennant and Billie Piper again, but having Davies as a co-writer would make me so much more interested. As it is, my excitement's a bit tapered, as I disliked the bits I've seen of Matt Smith's run as well as Sherlock season two solely because of the writing, and I'm not confident that this'll be any different.

This thread is about to get interesting!

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Does Susan seem pretty likely? If she's his hereditary granddaughter I guess you wouldn't have the problem of getting an actor back because... regeneration. But then you have the "Last of the Time Lords" issue.

She would fit perfectly...IN THE FLASHBACK TO THE TIME WAR starring McGann and Eccleston!!11

(no she can't. No she won't. Cue sad Peanuts music)
 
I'm excited to see David Tennant and Billie Piper again, but having Davies as a co-writer would make me so much more interested. As it is, my excitement's a bit tapered, as I disliked the bits I've seen of Matt Smith's run as well as Sherlock season two solely because of the writing, and I'm not confident that this'll be any different.

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I'm excited to see David Tennant and Billie Piper again, but having Davies as a co-writer would make me so much more interested. As it is, my excitement's a bit tapered, as I disliked the bits I've seen of Matt Smith's run as well as Sherlock season two solely because of the writing, and I'm not confident that this'll be any different.

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A good way to weasel out Matt Smith era haters;

Step 1) Listen to how David Tennant was the best Doctor ever and was irreplacable for a few minutes or so
Step 2) Ask if they liked Blink/Family of Blood/The Forest of the Dead
Step 3) If yes, tell them Steven Moffatt wrote them
Step 4) Gloat profusely

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A good way to weasel out Matt Smith era haters;

Step 1) Listen to how David Tennant was the best Doctor ever and was irreplacable for a few minutes or so
Step 2) Ask if they liked Blink/Family of Blood/The Forest of the Dead
Step 3) If yes, tell them Steven Moffatt wrote them
Step 4) Gloat profusely
Is this actually directed at me? I didn't say any of those things, and didn't extrapolate on what I disliked enough for all of your assumptions to be valid in any way whatsoever. I'm not claiming that Moffat's an actively bad writer (I might not like him, but he's clearly effective for everybody else) or that Matt Smith is a poor casting choice, just that I wish the 50th anniversary also brought back RTD.
 
Is this actually directed at me? I didn't say any of those things, and didn't extrapolate on what I disliked enough for all of your assumptions to be valid in any way whatsoever. I'm not claiming that Moffat's an actively bad writer (I might not like him, but he's clearly effective for everybody else) or that Matt Smith is a poor casting choice, just that I wish the 50th anniversary also brought back RTD.

No, not directed at you, just reminded me of people back in 2010 who were going crazy... Moffatt keeps asking RTD back for episodes, if that helps, but he turns him down.
 
RTD couldn't write big event episodes to save his life. The first two season finales were great, but then...

I'd love RTD to come back and write another episode like The Waters of Mars, though.
 
A good way to weasel out Matt Smith era haters;

Step 1) Listen to how David Tennant was the best Doctor ever and was irreplacable for a few minutes or so
Step 2) Ask if they liked Blink/Family of Blood/The Forest of the Dead
Step 3) If yes, tell them Steven Moffatt wrote them
Step 4) Gloat profusely

NOPE. Paul Cornell wrote Family of Blood and Human Nature. You probably wanted to mention Girl in the Fireplace, instead.
 
Aside from some Douglas Adams/Hinchcliffe etc, a Moffat/RTD joint-helmed Who, with RTD doing the bigger stuff would be god like.

One's strength is the other's weakness, basically.

What can't be understated is how large an impact RTD had on every script (except Moffat ones) delivered in his era. By the standards of most other shows he'd have taken a co-writer credit on every single one, but they set a precedent earlier on and couldn't reverse it. A vast majority of Human Nature, for instance, was him - Cornell admits this, and always says he gets too much credit for those episodes - and it's fairly common knowledge that when the writer of The Impossible Planet (an ex Doctor Who Magazine writer) couldn't hack it, RTD basically rebuilt the whole story from the ground up.

Nobody's really sure how much of this Moffat does by comparison - I'd be interested to know.
 
Got to love it..

"Let's celebrate Dr. Who's 50 year history by not having anyone from anything prior to NuWho in it"

God damn NuWho.

We've had one week of filming. We've had about 5 actors confirmed. You think that's all?

Besides, we've seen a Fourth Doctor scarf and a Zygon on set already, so HA.
Nobody's really sure how much of this Moffat does by comparison - I'd be interested to know.
We don't know, but I think it's interesting that Moffat has mainly opted for showrunners on other shows to pad out his writing staff; the exact same people who RTD opted not to rewrite.

On the other hand, I saw Tom Spilsbury saying on Facebook a few weeks back that the majority of what we saw of Vincent and the Doctor and The Doctor's Wife was Moffat's work, so it's hard to say really.
 
Something that confused me is something I read on a comment section (I know, I know, I did it by accident) where someone said that they were worried Moffat was going to "ruin" Ten. It was as if she'd completely forgotten that he's written for Ten multiple times, and that the episodes he's written were some of the best of his run.

Aside from some Douglas Adams/Hinchcliffe etc, a Moffat/RTD joint-helmed Who, with RTD doing the bigger stuff would be god like.

One's strength is the other's weakness, basically.

Was it someone here who said that a co-helmed Moffat/RTD Who series would be awesome - "Because Moffat did the better episodes, but Davies was the better showrunner"? Because I'd watch the shit out of that run.
 
Plus you can't ruin a Doctor that had a little cry before he regenerated.

What? That didn't happen. The Doctor got shot by a Dalek in the middle of the street, regenerated inside the TARDIS, all the Daleks and Davros fell into a crack in time, 11 drops off Rose/Jack/et al back home and then crash lands into Amy Pond's back garden.

This is canon.
 
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