Doctor Who memories

[jonesy_GU42 @jonesygu42]

Hi,

I was a bit of a latecomer to the Doctor, only really starting to watch in my 20s, been a fan for almost 40 years now, wthout ever really looking into it more than watching on TV.

From looking online now and various online services it’s a mixed bag of where you can watch, Britbox, iplayer etc, is there a definative place where they all are, or does that not exist? Does anyone have a full list of every episode ever broadcast?

 

Apologies if this is the wrong thread to put this on!

B

[Dentarthurdent @dentarthurdent]

@jonesygu42
Hi. I don’t know the best place to find episodes (I just use DVD sets), but the best place for a list of all Dr Who episodes is probably Tardis.fandom.com

From the front page, you follow the link TV -> Doctor Who -> Main Episode List
(or I think https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Doctor_Who_television_stories should take you straight there).

This is an exhaustive list of every single episode ever screened, with their screening dates, plus ‘specials’ and ‘webisodes’ and so on. Clicking on any particular episode takes you to a page for that episode with a detailed episode synopsis, cast list etc – it’s a fantastic resource.

My other favourite go-to site is Chrissie’s transcripts site at chakoteya.net, which has a full transcript of the dialogue of every episode – another fantastic resource. (I often have the transcript up on my laptop when viewing an episode, since my hearing seems to be a bit dodgy when there’s background noise going on, it makes it much easier to catch snatches of dialogue that I’ve missed).

HTH

[TwelveIsMyDoctor @twelveismydoctor]

@jonesygu42

If you are in the US, HBO Max has all NuWho episodes (except The Power of the Doctor…they generally take about 6 months to add new episodes to their lineup) and Britbox has all Classic Who. Hope this helps!

[jonesy_GU42 @jonesygu42]

Thank you so much! It was right there all along, that’s the rest of my day sorted. Much appreciated

[Clara Oswald @thetimelordwizard]

I first came across it when I heard voices downstairs at night and came halfway down the stairs to see my mom and older sibings watching The Ribos Operation.  I started watching with The Power of Kroll.  That’s probably why one of my favorite Doctors is Tom Baker.

[janetteB @janetteb]

Hi @timelordwizard. I started watching Dr Who when my brother, on a uni break was watching The Terror of the Zygons and so Tom Baker is my favourite Doctor too.

Cheers

Janette

[auntie8nay6 @auntie8nay6]

I’m loving reading everyone’s memories about when they discovered Doctor Who.

Being from the U.S., I didn’t know the show existed until my 30’s with the 2005 reprise; and I honestly don’t know how I lived without the show before then. I was in bed with the flu and ran across an episode with the Tenth Doctor. He was fiddling with the TARDIS console, and I was immediately intrigued. I loved the combination of complexity and playfulness. I watched episode after episode, and I will swear to anyone who asks that it made me get well faster.

That’s what Doctor Who continues to do for me to this day … lifts my spirits and makes me feel great.

I’ve gone back and watched every episode I can get my hands on, including classic Doctor Who. I call the Tenth Doctor “my doctor,” because he introduced me to the show, but I love them all.

[blenkinsopthebrave @blenkinsopthebrave]

@auntie8nay6

Welcome to the site. I am ancient enough to have discovered Doctor Who as a small child around the time when the very first  episode with William Hartnell was shown in the UK in November 1963. I was in Australia then, and I suspect it may have screened a few months after that in the colonial wilds of Australia. I do remember my mother thinking it might have been too scary for a little nipper like me. But I was made of sterner stuff and have been a fan ever since.

 

[winston @winston]

@auntie8nay6   Hi!  I am a fellow Whovian and your northern Canadian neighbour. Glad you found the site, we all love The Doctor here so it is a very nice place to be. I watched a few episodes of old Who when I was young but like you I started with new Who in 2005 and I have never stopped watching and loving the show.I watched the first episode because I had seen Christopher Eccleston in another show and I was curious. I was immediately entranced and I didn’t move till it was over. So because he was my first Doctor and the one that pulled me into the Tardis, the 9th Doctor is my Doctor. I do love the 10th Doctor and all of the rest of them too.

stay safe

[auntie8nay6 @auntie8nay6]

@blenkinsopthebrave, Hartnell is one of my faves. He kicked off the legacy with such a fascinating personality. And @winston, Eccleston did such a great job carrying that legacy forward.

Thank you both for responding and making me feel so welcome.

[janetteB @janetteb]

@auntie8nay6 Hi Welcome to the site.

I began watching during the Tom Baker years when I was in my teens though I think I might have been frightened yb an old episode when I was very young, watching TV at my grandmother’s. My family did not have tv at the time.

Tom Baker is “my Doctor” though I really love all the re-boot Doctors. I was very wary when I heard the show was coming back after the trainwreck attempt in the mid 90s but by the end of Rose I was totally convinced. My beloved Dr Who was indeed back and in excellent hands

Now we await the new series once again under the helmsmanship of RTD with all digits crossed.

cheers

Janette

[Dentarthurdent @dentarthurdent]

@auntie8nay6 I think I saw the first few episodes of Doctor Who. I remember I was ‘too young’ to be allowed to watch Quatermass and the Pit – which was a truly scary BBC sci-fi. ‘Who’ came along four years later. Patrick Troughton was my favourite early Doctor. I sort of lost interest after Jon Pertwee, though.

I became a fan of Blakes 7, which had some marvellously sarcastic dialogue, particularly Avon. I’m a sucker for well-written and original dialogue.

It wasn’t till NuWho in 2005 that I recovered an interest. Eccleston was good and Billie Piper was fabulous. So I followed it again until midway through Season 5 when I sort of lost track. More recently (and I can’t remember what prompted me) I took it up again, all on DVD’s, about the same time as I ‘joined’ this forum I think, so I now have all the series from ‘Rose’ up till the last one. My favourite new Doctor is Capaldi. Favourite companion – Rose or Clara, though Martha and Amy are close behind.

And I’ve since back-tracked to get the last few stories of Seven (McCoy) – very witty guy, McCoy, and there’s definitely a rapport between him and Ace.

Currently on my third sporadic re-watch from ‘Eleventh Hour’ onwards, currently towards the end of Season 7.

Welcome to the site (though I have to say, your profile pic is a bit inauspicious – ‘moisturise me!’)

[Missy @missy]

@auntie8nay6. Welcome. I am not on very often, but I read all the posts.

Unlike @dentarthurdent, I saw the very first episode of Doctor Who. Unfortunately it went to air the same day that JFK was assassinated, however they showed it again on the Saturday and I watched that too! 🙂 Love at first sight.

I liked all the Doctors except for the last two, but watched them anyway. When they brought it back, I loved ALL the Doctors, but Peter Capaldi was definitely my favourite. Favourite companions were Rose and Bill and Clara sometimes. Amy and Martha got on my nerves! then of course we had River Song – brilliant!

As all on this great forum knows, as far as I am concerned the series finished with him, the last lot was a farce, and I didn’t watch any of them.

Now, thank goodness, sanity has prevailed and we have a male Doctor again. Right, off my soap box and roll on the end of the year.

Missy

[Missy @missy]

How could  have forgotten Donna Noble? I preferred her to Clara.

Missy

[Dentarthurdent @dentarthurdent]

@missy I think you misread my post, I did see the first few eps of the original Doctor Who. And as much as I could catch intermittently for the next few years.

I lost track sometime around the Pertwee years. I have since gone back and watched the last few McCoy stories and I do like him and Ace. If only they could have had the benefit of NuWho’s effects budget. And I think McGann would make a marvellous Doctor though I’ve only ever seen him in the short episode Night of the Doctor (haven’t seen the movie).

Most of the rest I agree with you on, except I did like Amy and Martha (though not as strongly as Rose and Clara). Oh I said that, didn’t I? Donna I never warmed to, largely because of her unfortunate first appearance – shouting at the Doctor who was in shock after losing Rose – gave me a strong prejudice against her. I feel a little more charitable on re-watching.

[Who-Fan-ByProxy @who-fan-byproxy]

Hi everyone as a new Whovian by proxy I need some advice, but can I first start with a tentative link and say that my first memories of Doctor Who are from spending time with my father who avidly watched every episode and read every book he could get his hands on.

This passion was passed on to my younger brother for around the last 40+ years. However, following the sudden passing of my younger brother at the end of 2022, I have found myself responsible for sorting his large (In my opinion) collection SCIFI of memorabilia. This covers everything from Doctor Who Books, magazines, Videos, DVDs, Audio CDs, Characters, and even many non-Doctor who items such as Marvel & DC, etc.

I’m sad to say that I don’t have the space to keep and display these items and although I have watched a great many Doctor episodes myself, I really don’t believe I am the right person to hold on to them. So, I would appreciate any pointers as to how best I can find new appreciative owners for such a large volume of different items either in small blocks or individually.

Rightly or wrongly, I have created an online database and have recruited my daughters to help with the daunting task of logging every item in the hope that I can share the list securely with interested parties. So if I’m not breaking any forum rules any ideas you can share other than eBay would be very much appreciated.

[Dentarthurdent @dentarthurdent]

@who-fan-byproxy ‘fraid I can’t point to any special places (maybe others here can?). I’d just suggest Ebay (yeah I know). Listing on the Internet does vastly widen the market and also targets interested customers who might be searching. I can’t answer for Dr Who stuff, but a while back my bookshelves were overflowing (estimated 1500 books) so I sorted out ~150 surplus books – everything from science to gardening – and I couldn’t give them away! Biggest local second-hand bookshop was overstocked and didn’t want them even for free, biggest charity book fair didn’t want them because they were too old. (Apparently 50 Shades of Grey is the only sort of thing they think they can sell…) So I bit the bullet and photographed them all and put them on Trademe (our local eBay) at $1 each plus postage and within three weeks 80% of them were gone, in less total time than I’d spent trying to give them away.

Probably my low price helped, but I just wanted the space and hate to throw anything away that somebody, somewhere might find of interest.

[Who-Fan-ByProxy @who-fan-byproxy]

@dentarthurdent Thank you for the response. I agree it can be very difficult to get any interest in used items even from charity shops especially in the UK as I know very well as this is the 2nd time in 2 years that I’ve had to clear a relatives’ home. I’m inspired by your achievements to give it a go even if I only get £1 + postage 😉 because there are many interesting items in his collection and there really must be new owners for most of these items.

[Dentarthurdent @dentarthurdent]

I’m an inveterate hoarder of ‘things that might be useful to somebody’ (as Mrs D rightly says, “Too many things!”) So I can never just throw away a book because somebody, somewhere, might be looking for just that book. If somebody wants it, that’s great and I don’t care whether it’s worth anything (in monetary value). I take the slightly optimistic view that anything interesting is likely to get snapped up and anything unsold after a few weeks is probably common enough that there isn’t a ‘somebody, somewhere’ desperately looking for just that thing.

There was a (very small) chance that one of my used books was ‘collectable’. The answer to that would be to check before I listed it but personally I didn’t bother, because my objective was to clear bookshelf space, not make a profit. (And I never check the value after the sale, what would be the point? Actually I do have a few books that are probably worth something – not huge amounts but in the tens of dollars – but they’re not surplus at the moment). I guess you could do a quick check on Ebay prices for some of your Who items if you feel inclined and have the time to spare.

I did (just once) have a lucky sale. My quite nice woodgrain belt-drive Yamaha turntable that sat in a corner of the lounge, never used, for forty years and I eventually stuck it on Trademe – somebody might want it for something – shot up to $400. Apparently vinyl is back in fashion. Who knew? (Well I didn’t). So then I sold my stack of long-obsolete 12″ LP’s that I had never quite got round to throwing away. But the odds of that happening again are – small. (I kept Dark Side of the Moon though, purely for decoration 🙂

Anyway, however you proceed, best of luck with your Who memorabilia.

[TranslatorCircuit @translatorcircuit]

The Mandela Effect in Doctor Who! This is where some people remember history totally differently, such as that Nelson Mandela died in prison instead of years after being released and serving as President of South Africa. This is supposed to mean that they’re originally from a parallel universe. My memory is amazing. I’ve just been watching some classic Doctor Who again. I mean the Fifth Doctor story “Enlightenment”. I remember clearly a villain called Captain Wrack saying to the companion Tegan “Have you heard of a stitch in time?” However, in the version I’ve just seen on BBC iPlayer at 18:51 into the video Captain Wrack says “Have you heard of time standing still?” I think this is an example of the Mandela Effect. Does anyone else here remember Captain Wrack saying “Have you heard of a stitch in time?” Did the BBC somehow edit this part of Enlightenment episode 3? If so, why? I’ve checked that my memory of David Cameron, Barack Obama, and Helle Thorning-Schmidt taking selfies, laughing and joking at a memorial for Nelson Mandela actually happened although I thought it was his funeral, and the Lib Dems still didn’t insist on Proportional Representation after the UK General Election of 2010 either. Events before 1983 might have changed, although I haven’t found any yet. I hope someone can explain this discrepancy.

[ps1l0v3y0u @ps1l0v3y0u]

@translatorcircuit

I know that Mandela did not die in prison and that he became president of South Africa. These are strange times. There may be people out there, right now, who can’t accept that truth. I know Harry Enfield’s Mandela sketches are now considered unbrosdcastable. A lot has changed in 15 years. They actually mocked celebrity endorsement, but their creator doesn’t consider the point worth disputing.

Obama and Clinton taking selfies? Was this before or after Barak told Trump ‘I’m something you never be… POTUS’. Hmm was that really a good move? Maybe the liberal elite did appear that entitled and arrogant, depending on your specs, at the time.

A stitch in time is an old saw, oft abused by literary idiots. It’s not in Chrissies Transcripts, and I’m happy that Wrack always said ‘time stands still.’ It’s The Doctor’s miraculous survival in Eternity that taxes me, like Timelash. Weak scripting. But no Myrka.

[Dentarthurdent @dentarthurdent]

@translatorcircuit  @ps1l0v3y0u

Memory can be very misleading.   Things get conflated, or attributed to the wrong person.   I once attended a party where the host had a huge Union Jack as a bedspread.   Years later I met him on a bus and he invited me to his wedding reception in a couple of weeks.  I reminded him that last time I saw him he was walking down the road wearing his Union Jack (it was that sort of party).   I would have sworn to that on oath.   Come the reception, he had dozens of old photos tacked to the walls – including one of ME wearing the Union Jack.    I know what my memory did – it remembered ‘Terry’ and ‘Flag’ and linked the two.   (A psychologist called Daniel Simons later described this sort of thing but I thought of it first   🙂

Eyewitnesses are famously fallible; psychological studies have been done where phony bank raids have been staged and the unwitting ‘witnesses’ have happily described the shotgun one of the robbers had when *none of them had any sort of gun*.   And so on.

Sometimes I get so used to modern developments I forget how sci-fi they seemed in past decades.   I remember how strange/spooky The Village looked in The Prisoner, with hidden CCTV cameras and doors that opened by themselves – that really impressed me at the time.   Come the present, I recently absent-mindedly walked into a glass sliding door because it *didn’t* open for me.   Really.   And, I was just reading a thriller set in the 60’s where the subject told his office to phone him back at the hotel desk at exactly 2p.m. with some detail or other, and I thought ‘why don’t they ring him as soon as they find it out?’.   Then I realised that nobody had mobile phones.

[camdudetenger2018 @camdudetenger2018]

for me the best doctors ever from the 2005 era was 10th and 11th

[nerys @nerys]

I’m not sure of the correct place to post this question. This thread seems as good a place as any. It’s regarding Jodie Whittaker’s 13th Doctor:

So, this was the first female incarnation of the Doctor. And yet, I’m racking my brain trying to recall if there was ever any actual reference to her, in any storyline, being female. I don’t remember one. Which is … odd.

I’m not saying I’d want to be beaten over the head with it (which RTD might well have done). And, having the Doctor being female – just the simple fact, without leaning into it – was a relief. But not even one reference? They could’ve had such fun, for example, in the obligatory period piece, with the Doctor having to wear a corset and losing her mind over what women had to endure in the name of fashion.

If there was a direct reference to the Doctor being female, and I’ve forgotten it, I apologize … and would be happy to be reminded of those instances.

[TranslatorCircuit @translatorcircuit]

@nerys Yes, there were a few references to The Doctor being female. In her first full episode “The Woman Who Fell to Earth” Yaz called her “Madam” on the train. She asked why, then Yaz replied “Because you’re a woman”. In another episode during her first season she said something about having been a sister before.

In the episode “Rosa”, the character Rosa Parks called her “Ma’am” on the bus, telling her they weren’t allowed to sit next to each other.

In the episode “The Witchfinders”, set in the 17th Century, she was downgraded from Witchfinder to Witchfinder’s Assistant when she was with Graham, because she was female.

In the episode “Spyfall, Part 1” the spymaster played by Stephen Fry thought that Graham was The Doctor because he knew The Doctor was a man, but then it was pointed out to him that The Doctor had turned into a woman.

In another episode, which I think may have been “Can You Hear Me”, Captain Jack Harkness appears briefly and Graham, Ryan, or Yaz tell him The Doctor is now female. He replies “This I gotta see!”

Finally in “The Power of The Doctor”, the classic series companions Tegan and Ace are reunited with The Doctor by Kate Lethbridge-Stewart, then one of them says something like “We were told it was a woman, but YOUNG!”

There may be a few other mentions of the Doctor being female, but I can’t remember them at the moment. As for wearing a corset, this Thirteenth Doctor travelled to various time periods on Earth, but never had to wear one, although I think the women of some of those time periods in those episodes did.

[ps1l0v3y0u @ps1l0v3y0u]

@translatorcircuit @nerys

@whohar (i think) mentioned that Chib didn’t tell the (other) writers in series 11 that 13 was a female Doctor. Not seen this source myself. Was the female doctor really a secret that long? Also Chib wrote or co-wrote all but 4 eps anyway.

Series 12 of course has the ep with Byron behaving badly: that was NOT a corseted era and Jodie wore sans culottes, rainbow top and trench coat. BUT it was fun: thanks for dialogue Martine, I’d forgotten you could do that.

Chib may have been exercising his own puritanical impulses but, yes, I suspect he had been told quite strictly what he could had couldn’t do. And the result was deadening.

[nerys @nerys]

@translatorcircuit @ps1l0v3y0u Many thanks to both of you, who have better memories than mine. I really couldn’t remember a single reference … but then again, I’ve forgotten significant chunks of the 13th Doctor’s storyline because so much of it was unmemorable. And I don’t feel inclined to go back and watch it again.

[WhoHar @whohar]

@nerys @translatorcircuit @ps1l0v3y0u

 

@whohar (i think) mentioned that Chib didn’t tell the (other) writers in series 11 that 13 was a female Doctor

Yes, twas I.

Even before I’d heard this rumour, my view was that Chibnall had really wasted an opportunity to do storylines that reflected the change of sex/gender. There’s so much potential there but instead we got “The Fam”.

[ps1l0v3y0u @ps1l0v3y0u]

@whohar @nerys @translatorcircuit

I suppose you have to say Chib and… what would you call it… gender avoidance (?) was a reasoned response to a particular narrative problem. The Doctor is always challenged by regeneration. He’s never the man he’s assumed to be, so SHE might not turn out to be convincingly feminine… uh. This is a case in point isn’t it? But I am reminded of JNT shooting the show in foot with the choices over Colin Baker.

Anyway both RTD and Moff went to great lengths to sidestep or disarm the question of gender after Rose. Most recently the whole question was retconned quite differently for Gatwa. But getting Whitaker wrong COULD have been the source of much controversy and/or bad taste, leading to show imperilling criticism. I don’t HAVE to invoke suspicion of Corporation censorship, but I’m sure it was there.

So can you blame Chris? Yes, cos the writing and production decisions he did make were woeful. OK anything more daring would have been a tightrope. We obviously don’t think it was unwalkable. At any rate it was disappointing and appeared to  justify all those who said it couldn’t/shouldn’t be done. Quite a fail.

[nerys @nerys]

@whohar @ps1l0v3y0u Thanks, and yes, I agree. In many ways, Chibnall’s tenure was a disappointment. But I always have it in the back of my mind that the blame may not land squarely on him, because I don’t know what was going on behind the scenes. Still, in most cases, the writing just did not come together for me, and since he did most of it, it seems natural to hold him responsible.

It was especially disappointing during the Flux buildup, because finally, that seemed to be going somewhere … and then we got yet another episode of endless exposition, with little in the way of a satisfying conclusion. It was a real disservice to Jodie Whittaker, who I think, with better scripts, could have been a great Doctor.

Having said that, after having watched Ncuti Gatwa’s first season as the Doctor, RTD might have gone the opposite direction and really hammered it home that the Doctor was a woman. I’m not sure I’d want that, either. I just wanted a middle ground in which it was acknowledged, sometimes with humor, other times as some form of discrimination the Doctor faced, which limited her ability to solve a problem (in much the way, for example, racism backed Gatwa’s Doctor into a wall in “Dot and Bubble”).

[janetteB @janetteb]

@ps1l0v3y0u re the corset, women did wear corsets in the Regency period but not the tight lacing variety that most people think of when they think corsets. In fact tight lacing only became a thing after the introduction of metal grommets in the mid 19th century. Before that a corset was basically the female undergarment/support. It was the bra of the time. there was a degree of body shaping involved but not requiring the kind of gruesome lacing that we see in films like Pirates of the Caribbean. that simply could not have happened then (on historical costume sites there are frequent discussions about corsets, how they changed over time and how they should be worn. According to some costume people a properly fitted corset is not uncomfortable to wear.)

& @nerys What did annoy me was when the Doctor was in a historical setting and nobody commented on the way she was dressed. Companions certainly got comments. WE have just watched Ghost Light where Ace’s attire is remarked upon and she has to dress according to the period. N.G. Doctor did dress for the time and his appearance was remarked upon. The Tardis conveys a language translation filter but not a perception one as far as I know. The chibnell era implied that it did without ever saying so.

J.W. also could have done with better companions. I just hope that we will see more female doctors in the future.

Cheers

Janette

 

[nerys @nerys]

@janetteb Thank you for that clarification on corsets. I did not know that!

You also make a good observation about the TARDIS’s perception filter, whose primary purpose, as I recall, is to cause people not to notice it. But it seems like it’s been invoked as a kind of deus ex machina to conveniently explain away what would strike the audience as a problem. Wardrobe, for example, which enables the Doctor and companions to fit in with the people of the time they’re in. Like you, I was sometimes struck by the way the 13th Doctor was dressed, not at all in keeping with the way a woman would have dressed in that period, yet no one remarked upon it. Of course, I can’t think of a specific example now.

[TranslatorCircuit @translatorcircuit]

The series has a long tradition of the Doctor wearing their usual outfit when visiting any time period, but people not commenting on it. I think some of the most extreme examples were BG “An Unearthly Child”, in episodes 2-4 when the Doctor and companions travel back to the Stone Age, but not many comments are made about their clothes being made of materials and techniques unknown in that time when everyone else is wearing animal skins and even shoes haven’t been invented. One of the locals comments “they wear skins on their feet”. In “The Visitation” a Terrileptil says that the companions are wearing clothes made of materials unknown in that time period (i.e. 1666). In “The Mark of The Rani” set in the 19th Century, the Sixth Doctor is wearing his multicoloured, multi fabric coat as usual which sticks out like a sore thumb anywhere, but Peri is wearing clothes from that time period. So after all this, it’s no real surprise that people living in the 17th Century, the 1950s, etc didn’t comment on what the Thirteenth Doctor was wearing.

[ps1l0v3y0u @ps1l0v3y0u]

Safe to say, the historical costume thing is a mixed bag. Queen Victoria made a lot of assumptions about Rose on the basis of some rips if I remember. 6 wearing his full regalia in late Georgian Geordieland is quite funny: but he wouldn’t be entirely sane again until Terror of The Vervoids. I’m sure someone should have said something: like ‘wahay! Is tha Circos in toon?’

Sarah Jane managed to scrounge some suitably ragged drab gear for the early Middle Ages but that was not preplanned. Bill DID plan for the same time period, but then there were other aspects of Thin Ice which were a tone deaf.

Aside from JNT’s ludicrous sartorial instincts, there’s not much consistency. They say time moves at the plot. Maybe fashions do too.

More concerned about why 14 COULD NOT wear 13’s clothes. Anybody understand that? This before 15 DID NOT get 14’s trousers. Do we know if 14 still have his shirt or… let’s not go there…

[TranslatorCircuit @translatorcircuit]

Of course 14 should have worn 13’s clothes, because clothes can’t regenerate and no explanation has ever been offered. Apart from this, why did 13 have dark roots right from the time she regenerated until the end? Even Barbie dolls were made of her with dark roots! Which psycho had the idea of the dark roots? There’s no excuse.

Jodie: “I’m sorry but my hairdresser’s just dropped dead, so I couldn’t get my roots done in time for this shoot!”

Producer: “Never mind, just put this short blonde wig on for the moment”.

NO EXCUSE!

 

 

[ps1l0v3y0u @ps1l0v3y0u]

@translatorcircuit

Dharwanmaster got 13’s clothes. The revived 13 got his! 14 in that clobber would have been hilarious, but they went for the long goodbye didn’t. Fairly sure that’s the hand of Chib. RTD wouldn’t have turned that chance of a laugh.

[WhoHar @whohar]

@ps1l0v3y0u @translatorcircuit

 RTD wouldn’t have turned that chance of a laugh.

Tradition on Who is for the new showrunner to write the regeneration scene.

Apparently, it was RTD’s choice.  He made a comment that he didn’t want to have a man in women’s clothes as he didn’t want to offend (IIRC) people in the trans community.

There is precedent. When 4 regenerated in 5, his shoes changed from boots to trainers. Never explained either and widely viewed as a continuity error.

[WhoHar @whohar]

@ps1l0v3y0u @nerys @translatorcircuit

I suppose you have to say Chib and… what would you call it… gender avoidance (?) was a reasoned response to a particular narrative problem.

Maybe. Noting that Chibnall also told Jodie Whittaker not to watch any previous Who, maybe he was trying to do a soft reboot type-of-thing.

[ps1l0v3y0u @ps1l0v3y0u]

@whohar

Ok. I knew about new showrunners choice and the rationale. My response was a bit Carry On.

Though coming straight after Dharwan stepped out in Whitaker’s it was uh… THERE.

Really, 13>14 WAS more loaded than 12>13. Again, does this reflect the unrelenting blandness of 13?

[WhoHar @whohar]

@ps1l0v3y0u

My response was a bit Carry On

Carry on Cyber

Carry on up the Tardis etc.

13>14 WAS more loaded than 12>13.

100% agree. Strange really. Probably due to the return of Saints David and Russell.

[nerys @nerys]

This isn’t exactly a Doctor Who memory, but it’s related to Doctor Who. My husband found this hilarious Rowan Atkinson sketch that was remarkably prescient:

The comments are pretty funny, too.

[janetteB @janetteb]

@nerys. We have or had the video of Curse of Fatal Death. I am going to be bringing it to our Cult TV podcast next year. I really enjoyed it and it is interesting to watch now post Moffat because there are so many of his ideas in there. At the end of our original recording there was an interview with Moffat and he was asked if he would work on Dr Who were it ever to be revived and his eyes lit up. You could see the love in his face. It made me very happy when Dr Who was revived and he was such a big part of it.  (that reminds me that I have a podcast about McCoy to edit. So much to do, so little time.I wish I could borrow a time machine right now.)

Cheers

Janette

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