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re: regenerations, those familiar with the Tom Baker era may remember the scene in Brain Of Morbius, where The Doctor and Morbius are doing the mind bending thing, where you see the faces flashing on the screen. I think in the audio commentary, Phillip Hinchcliffe, I think, says that they intended at least some of the faces to be past Doctors. In other words, William Hartnell, according to them, was not the First Doctor.

 

So, really, Matt Smith was something like the 25th Doctor, not the 13th. Of course, that’s only if you go along with Hinchcliffe’s thinking, which apparently nobody else has bothered with. But of course, there’s lots of anachronisms in classic Doctor Who, some way more obvious than who the unfamiliar faces we see during the mind bending scene are.

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My favorite companion has always been Sarah Jane. I started watching the show in the early 80’s, when PBS in the US was running the first three years of Tom Baker’s run. I remember being heartbroken the first time I saw Sarah Jane’s last scene at the end of Hand Of Fear. I tear up when just about any of the companions leave, but that was first time really gutted me.

And I was so happy when she came back for School Reunion, though I’ll always been upset with the BBC (for announcing it ahead of time) and the Sci-Fi Channel (for being a year behind on running those first few seasons of the revived show, before it switched it over to BBC America). I always thought it would have been great to tune in, not knowing that they were bringing Sarah Jane back, and to be just blown away to see her. But everyone went out of their way to make a great big, unavoidable spoiler on that one. So bollocks to the BBC for that one!

 

 

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Hello, I’m new. My name is Chris. I’m from the US, so you may have to speak slow-ly and clear-ly (ya know, if you put a ring modulator on that, it’d sound like Dalek speech). I’m looking for some specific information, and I don’t know where to ask, but this seems like this might be a good place to do so. So,:

1. Why are some of the Doctor Who DVD’s outrageously overpriced on Amazon? Are they now out of print?

2. Is there a website anywhere that can give me specific information about what’s on the “special edition” DVD’s? Amazon and Wikipedia are both proving to be lemons in that department. Is it worth repurchasing stuff that I already have in their previous DVD incarnations, or what? If I don’t already have the original DVD edition (e.g. Claws Of Axos), do I need to get both (well, not need, but if they dropped something from the special edition, I’d like to know if it’s worth buying both to get whatever is missing).

 

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