Doctor Who The Second New Series (Season 28)

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Series Two Episode guide:

Christmas Special
The Christmas Invasion
Writer: Russell T Davies
Director: James Hawes
Cast: Penelope Wilton (Prime Minister Harriet Jones), Noel Clarke (Mickey), Camille Coduri (Jackie Tyler), Adam Garcia (Alex Klein), Daniel Evans (Danny Llewellyn), Sean Gilder, Anita Breim (Sally), Chu Ornambala (Major Blake)
On near-future Earth, the newly regenerated Doctor and Rose face Santa Claus... or, rather, the evil Sycorax!
Series Two: 2006

1: New Earth
Writer: Russell T Davies
Director: James Hawes
Cast: Zoe Wanamaker (Cassandra), Noel Clarke (Mickey), Michael Fitzgerald (Duke), Lucy Robinson (Clovis), Dona Croll (The Matron), Adjoa Andoh (The Sister), Anna Hope (The Novice), Sean Gallagher (Chip)
The Doctor and Rose stumble upon a "plague farm" in the far future run by evil cat people... and involving old nemesis Cassandra!

2: Tooth and Claw
Writer: Russell T Davies
Director: Euros Lyn
Cast: Pauline Collins (Queen Victoria), Ian Hanmore (Father Angelo), Michelle Duncan (Isobel), Jamie Sives (Reynolds), Ron Donachie (Steward), Tom Smith (Host), Ruth Milne (Flora), Derek Riddell (Robert).
In a castle in historic Scotland, the Doctor must protect Queen Victoria.

3: School Reunion
Writer: Toby Whithouse
Director: James Hawes
Cast: Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah Jane Smith), Anthony Stewart Head (Mr Finch), John Leeson (K9), Noel Clarke (Mickey), Eugene Washington (Mr Wagner), Caroline Berry (Unknown), Rod Arthur (Unknown), Joe Pickley (Kenny), Lucinda Dryzek (Melissa), Heather Cameron (Nina), Benjamin Smith (Luke), Clem Tibber (Milo)
The Doctor is reunited with old friends Sarah Jane Smith and K9 at a mysterious school overrun by the evil Krillitanes.

4: The Girl in the Fireplace
Writer: Steven Moffat
Director: Euros Lyn
Cast: Sophia Myles (Madame Du Pompadour), Ben Turner (King Louis XIV), Jessica Atkins (Young Girl).
Set in 18th century France.

Episode 5
Writer: Tom MacRae
Director: Graeme Harper
Cast: Noel Clarke (Mickey), Camille Coduri (Jackie Tyler)
Part one of two
The return of the classic villains, the Cybermen, on an alternate Earth!

Episode 6
Writer: Tom MacRae
Director: Graeme Harper
Cast: Noel Clarke (Mickey), Camille Coduri (Jackie Tyler)
Part two of two

Episode 7
Writer: Mark Gatiss
Set in England during the 1950's

8: The Satan Pit
Writer: Matt Jones
Part one of two
The new series finally visits an alien planet...

Episode 9
Writer: Matt Jones
Part two of two

Episode 10
Writer: Russell T Davies

Episode 11
Writer: Stephen Fry

12: Army of Ghosts
Writer: Russell T Davies
Director: Graeme Harper
Part one of two

Episode 13
Writer: Russell T Davies
Director: Graeme Harper
Part two of two

― Davel (Davel), Thursday, 27 October 2005 07:54 (twenty years ago)

K9! Wahoo!

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 27 October 2005 08:17 (twenty years ago)

Episode 11
Writer: Stephen Fry

It will be a letdown if this episode isn't the greatest thing ever.

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Thursday, 27 October 2005 08:40 (twenty years ago)

I'm excited about the new series, but I'm worried I'm not going to like the new Doctor.

― C J (C J), Thursday, 27 October 2005 08:42 (twenty years ago)

Cybermen!

― robster (robster), Thursday, 27 October 2005 08:48 (twenty years ago)

It's David Tennant! How can anyone not like David Tennant?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 27 October 2005 09:15 (twenty years ago)

He is kinda weasel-ish. I imagine it's quite easy to dislike him.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 27 October 2005 09:16 (twenty years ago)

Look, Graeme Harper directing!

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 27 October 2005 09:17 (twenty years ago)

Matt Jones, blimey. well done him

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Thursday, 27 October 2005 09:30 (twenty years ago)

JOHN LEESON IS THE VOICE OF k9 - ROXOR

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Thursday, 27 October 2005 09:31 (twenty years ago)

alternaTIVE earth, not an alternate earth

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Thursday, 27 October 2005 09:33 (twenty years ago)

Lots of Mickey, I see. I quite liked him, but a lot of people on ver Internet seemed not to. Does this mean he was a hit with the "real" public/kids?

― Flyboy (Flyboy), Thursday, 27 October 2005 09:51 (twenty years ago)

It's David Tennant! How can anyone not like David Tennant?
Through no fault of his own, he manages not to be Christopher Eccleston, and can't help but disappoint as a result. Unless there's some very nifty writing, I can imagine me spending the second series thinking how much better all the stories would be with Eccleston instead.
2: Tooth and Claw
Writer: Russell T Davies
Director: Euros Lyn
Cast: Pauline Collins (Queen Victoria), Ian Hanmore (Father Angelo), Michelle Duncan (Isobel), Jamie Sives (Reynolds), Ron Donachie (Steward), Tom Smith (Host), Ruth Milne (Flora), Derek Riddell (Robert).
In a castle in historic Scotland, the Doctor must protect Queen Victoria.

I already love this one.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 27 October 2005 10:14 (twenty years ago)

Who is Derek Riddell? I know the name rings a bell from somewhere - was he in The Book Group?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 27 October 2005 10:15 (twenty years ago)

Todays Daily Record says Trigger from Only Fools & Horses will play a bad guy in a 2 parter.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Thursday, 27 October 2005 10:24 (twenty years ago)

The BBC site is reporting it now
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4381454.stm

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Thursday, 27 October 2005 10:25 (twenty years ago)

Is that Matt "I Would Be An Effective Writer If I Didn't Have This Addiction To Irritating And Misplaced Camp In The Middle Of Screaming Horror" Jones of New Adventures fame (Bad Therapy, Beyond The Sun)?

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Thursday, 27 October 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

yes, Matt "Queer As Folk script editor to Shameless producer" Jones

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Thursday, 27 October 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

Who is Derek Riddell? I know the name rings a bell from somewhere - was he in The Book Group?

Yeah, he played Rab, the footballer's-gay-bit-on-the-side ned with a heart and a brain - the Channel Four viewer's Rab C Nesbitt.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 27 October 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

Yes, he was the one I was thinking of :-)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 27 October 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

ihttp://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/images/cyberman2006.jpg

― Pvt Dave Goes Over The Top (scarlet), Thursday, 10 November 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)

That's a bit annoying. It was supposed to be a pic of the new Cyberman from the BBC website. See for yourself if this still won't work:

ihttp://images.gallifreyone.com/newsgraphics/newcybermen.jpg

― David Merryweather Goes To Far (scarlet), Thursday, 10 November 2005 19:35 (twenty years ago)

that image won't show up on here, it's too big.

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 10 November 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

Ah well.
Anyway. Looks a bit C3PO-ish and none too menacing too me. Glad they kept the carry-handles on the helmet, but not sure about the chisled jawline and ripped torso. Or the "boot-cut" style to his metal trousers. I like the dial thingie on the chest though, I hope it has clear "ON" "OFF" settings.
And where is his big robo-dick? Answer me that.

Big gun, I mean.

― No piccie joy for Pvt. Dave (scarlet), Thursday, 10 November 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

Right now I'm just feeling pathetic that I'm even considering downloading a torrent of "The Christmas Invasion" on Christmas day. Because that's, like, sad.

― KSTFUNS (Ex Leon), Thursday, 10 November 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

New Cyberman:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/images/173/cyberman2006long.jpg

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 10 November 2005 21:44 (twenty years ago)

doh, read back thread properly before posting.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 10 November 2005 21:46 (twenty years ago)

he has bootcut legs

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 10 November 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

That Cyberman is totally on the verge of re-enacting the climactic scene of "Flashdance".

― Dan (What A Feeling) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 11 November 2005 04:45 (twenty years ago)

oh someone said bootcut up above, I cannot read

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 11 November 2005 05:37 (twenty years ago)

http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 11 November 2005 09:36 (twenty years ago)

"a precocious mathematician played by Billie Piper, who helps him to defeat the ghost of Gauss by integrating him over a non-Euclidian manifold"

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Friday, 11 November 2005 09:51 (twenty years ago)

i like the top half of the Cyberman but the legs are terrible. he doesn't look evil enough really either. as long as we get to hear them go 'raaaaaaaargh!' in that techno voice.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Friday, 11 November 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

I dunno, if I came across that in a darkened alley I'd sure shit myself.

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Friday, 11 November 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)

i would bamboozle it with Asimov's Law.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Friday, 11 November 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

tho i suppose it is the Man side of the Cyberman that wants to hurt other men. Curses.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Friday, 11 November 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

Yes, its face looks kind of benign, maybe a bit dopey. That's not terribly scary.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 11 November 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

it always did though didn't it? it IS less ominous somehow though.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Friday, 11 November 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

Why has nobody told me about Uncyclopedia? What a brilliant site!

Excited about Doctor Who, by the way, blah di blah. The Cyberman looks a little too expressive, somehow.

― chap who would dare to tell uninteresting celeb spotting stories (chap), Friday, 11 November 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

i'm sure this has been discussed before but i was just thinking how it's funny that Dr Who was absent during the whole big 90s alien/UFO/greys/Roswell mania. And all that now seems too silly even for Dr Who, although there was one reference to Roswell in Dalek (broadband!). I doubt Dr Who would ever reference Bonnybridge or Lakenheath (famous UFO sites in Britain) now whereas if it had carried on throughout the 90s you might've got loads of material about that (plus crop circles etc.).

This partly inspired by watching rerun of Dark Skies on ITV4.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Friday, 11 November 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

Peh. You only have to throw a gold coin at it. Not scary.

― JTS, Saturday, 12 November 2005 00:30 (twenty years ago)

The only thing that will make Cybermen scary is the voice. And maybe the inevitable sudden immunity to gold (cf. Daleks suddenly being able to go upstairs).

That metal codpiece is GAGGING for an entirely predictable Captain Jack joke, it is...

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Saturday, 12 November 2005 00:39 (twenty years ago)

Have we discussed the Children In Need sketch that's going to be on next week? Apparently set somewhere between The Parting of the Ways and the Christmas Invasion, and not a spoof. There's some excellent speculation on digitalspy.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 12 November 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

T/S: Cybermen Vs. Daleks.

I've always thought Cybermen were WAY scarier.

― chap who would dare to tell uninteresting celeb spotting stories (chap), Saturday, 12 November 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

there is no way in hell they will keep the gold immunity thing - it was embarrassing even then.

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Sunday, 13 November 2005 00:11 (twenty years ago)

Children in need mini-episode, tonight, apparently in the 9.00-9.30 slot. Don't forget!

― JimD (JimD), Friday, 18 November 2005 20:03 (twenty years ago)

(apparently from 9.30 onwards it'll be watchable at this link, which currently has a wee trailer for it).

― JimD (JimD), Friday, 18 November 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

oh...ok, just watched that "trailer" and it's just a general trail for children in need, rather than a Who specific one. But still. I'm excited!

― JimD (JimD), Friday, 18 November 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

This is apparently 'canon' is it not? Certainly a first, and it'll be interesting to see what RTD does with this 3 minutes; a damned sight more than was done in the 10-15 of "In A Fix with Sontarans" or "Dimensions in Time" one presumes!

― Tom May (Tom May), Friday, 18 November 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

I was excited last week (see three messages up from thread revival) but no-one else was. It's David Tennant, people!

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 18 November 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

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"The Shakespeare episode is, without doubt, one of our most ambitious projects to date," said Davies, who is executive producer of the series and the show's main writer.

"BBC Wales got the old Blackadder costumes cheap"

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Monday, 4 September 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

London-based episodes-a-go-go!

Boring.
I hope theres no more shitey london accents either. The Doctors accent is awful.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 4 September 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

I really wish they would visit more planets. It's getting all too predictable.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 4 September 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

i hope they have teh daleks as a surprise season finale again, they've used them so well so far

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Monday, 4 September 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

Dean Lennox Kelly seems like a very odd casting decision as Shakespeare.

(I didn't realise until recently he was Craig Kelly's brother, but it's totally slap-your-forehead obvious when you think about it)

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 4 September 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah I didnt expect the Daleks at all. For once the humour actually worked (in series 2) in that episode(the bitching between the daleks and cybermen had me in stitches).

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 4 September 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

Oh come off it, you're taking the piss, yes? If they turn up AGAIN in the finale, I'll hit things. Use other monsters, please!

Can someone who knows these things tell me if Tennant's accent is actually bad? See, I just don't like his accent because I know what he sounds like normally, and it's nice, and it's not like that. But I don't have this problem with, say, Hugh Laurie in House. So is it my Scottish accent rockism, or does he actually just sound like a Scottish bloke putting on an English accent. Compared to Jane Leeves accent in Frasier (and she IS English), it seems OK to me.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 4 September 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

his 'london' accent is shit, i don't know why they didn't just let him be scottish

perhaps that would be 'rockist'

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Monday, 4 September 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

What I mean is, Scottish/London/whatever, does his Doctor accent sound to others just like a bloke making up an accent? (This may be a question for another thread, but is there such a thing as a "london accent"? )

I have no idea what I mean by scottish accent rockism. Actually I do, but I don't think I expressed it very well at all. Oh well.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 4 September 2006 20:53 (nineteen years ago)

yes and yes

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Monday, 4 September 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

there is no such thing as a london accent. There's a bow accent and a poplar accent and a crouch end accent and a mockney accent and a bromley accent, a singh man accent and a brixton accent. A London accent, fuggedaboutit.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 4 September 2006 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

his accent is technically fine, i don't get why people find it so bad (apart from that we know he doesn't talk like that in real life so it seems pointless, and his natural voice is better).

this Shakespeare thing sounds bad (esp. having done Dickens already) but will be interesting to see Dean Lennox Kelly in such an unexpected role.

I hope RTD finds a part for Dave Boyle's brother.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 4 September 2006 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

his accent is technically fine, i don't get why people find it so bad (apart from that we know he doesn't talk like that in real life so it seems pointless, and his natural voice is better).

See, that's pretty much what I think, but I don't have much of an ear for accents a lot of the time, so I wonder sometimes if he *is* bad.

Billie Piper's accent was put on a bit as well, yes? She's from Swindon!

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 4 September 2006 21:31 (nineteen years ago)

i realise this ILE london accent dilemma will never be solved until peter ackroyd pops in to save us, as we know nothing about london is true unless he says it

or perhaps iain sinclair will drop buy to enlighten us on how dagenham is the new barcelona, "LOLZ"

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Monday, 4 September 2006 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

There's a bow accent and a poplar accent

sorry but i've just read this again and seriously, d00d, what are you smoking?

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Monday, 4 September 2006 22:18 (nineteen years ago)

have you not seen My Fair Lady?

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 07:39 (nineteen years ago)

According to this Ananova article, the next finale could well feature a weepingly lame twist, quite apart from any further dalek returns! If it's right, I suppose it counts as very spoiler-y, but it's such a groaningly lame idea...

http://www.ananova.com/entertainment/story/sm_1948844.html?menu=

― M Carty (mj_c), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 07:55 (nineteen years ago)

Oh for fuck's sake.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 07:58 (nineteen years ago)

There was something on GMTV which I caught briefly this morning about the National Television Awards bash (which I thibnk must have been last night). Billie Piper won the award for Best Actress, and David Tennant got the Best Actor gong. There was a third award for something like "Best Loved Programme" too, but I can't find any reference to in on t'internet. I'm sure I didn't dream it.

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 08:09 (nineteen years ago)

No way I am going to read that!

Ed - whilst there are variations in the London accent I think it's ludicrous to deny that there isn't a "popular perception" of wot a Laahandan accent (and dialogue, innit) could be and the issue IS whether Tennants pulls this off (hur) convincingly! I am used to it now, I must admit, and even got used to Billie glo-al stoppin' all over the place.

Of course all the actors in DW have a pedigree from CASUALTY so have honed their Lunding accents obv.

― Bhumibol Adulyadej (Lucretia My Reflection), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 08:11 (nineteen years ago)

I think this key phrase

"A source told the Daily Express"

Means we're safe.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 08:22 (nineteen years ago)

The [spoiler from link above] thing was on the radio a few weeks ago. I thought it was confirmed.

It would be easier to write around or ignore the 12 regeneration thing than to come up with this bollocks.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 08:24 (nineteen years ago)

Casualty is set in Holby, a fictional analog of Bristol.

I think Tenant pulls of HIS accent well. It does not need to be geographically specific at all. It is perhaps a pity that post mould breaking sith Eccleston that they went estuary, but I think that was probably as much a choice by Tennant than the producers (after all with the early Q.Vic episode he wanders into his Scots accent and they could have easily rationalised why he kept it).

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 08:32 (nineteen years ago)

Well, he is already a grandfather as far back as An Unearthly Child, so you'd think being a dad was implied quite a long time ago.

I do hope this story is completely unfounded, but yes, the Daily Express aspect should undercut any possibility of its being true!

― M Carty (mj_c), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 08:32 (nineteen years ago)

I thought Holby was meant to be in West London! Proof if ANY that you shouldn't trust me on Southern accents, they all sound the same to me ha.

Accent choice was from RTD who wanted Tennants to remain in the accent he used for Casanova, he's said he doesn't want a "doctor's tour of the regions" - estuary is also the common 'English' accent for overseas don't forget - and to me it means 'anywhere in the south' so Pete's point about being non-geographically specific also applies yesno?

But I think that nobody would be complaining if he had his real accent, eh, my own feelings re: BLEERGHH of Estuary notwithstandin'!

The real issue is his SHIRT in those pix with new companion - and his hair! No! Argh!

Have I mentioned the bit in the books where the 8th Doctor has adopted an earth child with two hearts in a series where he's living through the 19th century in real time as an amnesiac, growing his TARDIS back from a splinter when it got destroyed in the destruction of Gallifrey? No?

Well, I hope it's NOT that, those books look dull as arses.

― Bhumibol Adulyadej (Lucretia My Reflection), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 08:52 (nineteen years ago)

the rumour is lame = it's true, let's face it

i'm sure that won't stop you lot going berserk and wanking like chimps over tennant's gurning face though

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 09:09 (nineteen years ago)

He only looks gurny when he has that awful awful beard!

As to London accents there is a marked difference between N. and S. London in that North says 'innit' and South says 'is it?' amongst a plethora of other things. However when I think ESTUARY the name Tony Parsons blights mine brane.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 12:40 (nineteen years ago)

actually usually in south london they say "give me your mobile" whilst waving a knife (but not The Knife sadly) around

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

The rumour is k-lame and so lame as to probably be false. Bringing a son in < bringing a daughter in but isn't too bad in itself (apart from all the Timelords are supposed to be dead).

Continuing the story after the 12th regeneration with the son instead = quadruple k-lame and there are a million easier ways around the problem.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

Just use the old alternate reality ploy.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

I believe the rumour. Tennant's doctor already hinted at it in the previous series so why wouldn't they follow up on that?

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

Holby is supposed to be in the West Country somewhere I think, not London at all.

― chap who would dare to start Raaatpackin (chap), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 13:01 (nineteen years ago)

Dear BBC, stop writing linear plots in a show abt time travel, kthx

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

the twist is going to be he has a son and the mom is A DALEK.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think bringing in a son is a particularly bad idea*. Bringing in a son as an eventual replacement for the Doctor is the lame part.

*In fact, it could be pretty good if the current incarnation of the son is a doddery old William Hartnollesque man.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, with two more regenerations to go they've still got a good number of seasons left. They'll figure out a way to extend the number. Anyway, I don't think the regen limit's been mentioned in nu Who, they could ignore it with a pretty clean conscience.

― chap who would dare to start Raaatpackin (chap), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

Hartnell apparently was very keen on playing the Doctor AND his evil son in a single story. Combined with the fact that the original (discarded) 1963 Who story bible had the Doctor psychologically scarred by a huge space war, it seems like RTD is going back to the show's roots and just cherrypicking the unused ideas!

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

Is there any cannonical evidence that Hartnell was even the first incarnation?

― chap who would dare to start Raaatpackin (chap), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

Yes. Though it wasn't fixed until the Davison era.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

I saw Billie Piper last night, in real life. I wasn't excited though, because I didn't know who she was. I should have got her autograph for Koogy.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 06:30 (nineteen years ago)

Yes. Though it wasn't fixed until the Davison era.

hahaha, what about the morbius doctors?

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 07:19 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, I want Young Doctor Who spin-off series as of NOW. Or replace Tennant as of now, either way's good.

― DavidM* (unreal), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 08:51 (nineteen years ago)

I have the fear about Young Doctor Who. I have a nasty feeling it would be too much like Young Indiana Jones, and in a bad way.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 08:57 (nineteen years ago)

fortunate hazel otm

― kit brash (kit brash), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

Didnt the Morbius doctors get retconned at some point?

My original post yesterday went into detail about how there was a conflict between Mawdryn/Morbius/etc etc but then I thought "ILX WONT WANT TO KNOW ABOUT ALL THAT SHITE" and deleted it. FOOLISH ME.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

"ILX WONT WANT TO KNOW ABOUT ALL THAT SHITE"

you really have become too jaded for the internet

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

SOMEONE MAKE RTD STOP. NOW.

Davies creates new Who spin-off with Sarah Jane Smith
By Staff Brand Republic 14 Sep 2006

LONDON - Russell T Davies has written a new series for the BBC that will star former 'Doctor Who' assistant and fan favourite Elizabeth Sladen.

Davies brought Sladen back to 'Doctor Who' for an emotional return, along with K-9, opposite David Tennant, the 10th Doctor, in an episode called 'School Reunion'. She is the only assistant of the Doctor to ever make such a comeback, having originally starred alongside Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker between 1973 and 1976.

The new programme will appear on BBC children's television channel CBBC and will be called 'The Sarah Jane Adventures'. It stars Sladen as investigative journalist Sarah Jane Smith.

The series begins with a 60-minute special, which will be broadcast in early 2007, with the series due later in the year. Set in present-day West London, the programme stars original Sarah Jane actress Sladen and Yasmin Paige, who plays her 13-year-old neighbour Maria. The two form an unlikely alliance to fight evil alien forces at work in Britain.

Davies said: "Children's TV has a fine history of fantasy thrillers -- I loved them as a kid, and they were the very first things I ever wrote. So it's brilliant to return to such a vivid and imaginative area of television."

Sladden said: "I left Sarah Jane but she never left me. I can't wait to return to Cardiff to find out what's going to happen to her next."

In the special, Maria and Sarah Jane are brought together in their battle against the scheming Ms Wormwood, played by Samantha Bond, who has played Ms Moneypenny opposite Pierce Brosnan in the recent Bond movies.

'Doctor Who' will return with a Christmas special this year and a third series in spring 2007.

Davies has also been working on the hotly anticipated 'Doctor Who' spin-off 'Torchwood' , following the adventures of Captain Jack, begins this autumn on BBC Three.

K-9, Sarah Jane's goodbye present from The Doctor, makes an appearance in the special but will not appear in the series.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 14 September 2006 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

No K-9, no credibility.

― GILLY'S BAGG'EAR VANCE OF COUPARI (Ex Leon), Thursday, 14 September 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5388130.stm

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 28 September 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

mentioned on Doctor who has lost his ways or they seriously need new scriptwriters which is sort of useful as a 'between seasons' thread altho might as well start new one soon for Christmas anyway.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 28 September 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

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