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4 February 2024 at 12:02 #75364
I don’t know what to make of the viewing figures in the UK for the four recent specials, or the news that Millie Gibson has already left and been replaced! What do people on here think of all this news? Of course, there are also some YouTube channels saying that Doctor Who is dead.
8 December 2023 at 08:13 #74848This sounds like great news! I don’t know what to make of the UK viewing figures, though. It sounds to me like lots of traitors who abandoned Doctor Who because there was a female Doctor haven’t returned to watch these specials. I watched “The Star Beast” and “Wild Blue Yonder” both live. It sounds like a big shakeup is coming. “Timeless Child V2” is a great idea. I hope this will increase Doctor Who’s popularity. Of course, TV series such as “I’m a Celebrity” and “Strictly Come Dancing” are total crap made for morons! One of my fantasies is for some Daleks and Cybermen to invade the set of Strictly, killing all the contestants and judges.
30 November 2023 at 09:45 #74712@janetteb what the cut to nine episodes per year means that there will be fewer stories per year! Russell T Davies said this was because it was so expensive, after being given loads of money by Disney! Of course, this is no excuse.
Star Wars films are very expensive, but the main things about Star Wars is that it’s a series of films which come out occasionally, so there are only a few stories and they spent a fortune on special effects. Of course, years later one or two Star Wars TV series were made. IMHO Star Wars is crap! Star Wars was even used as an excuse by Michael Grade for having an 18 month break in Doctor Who before the Seventh Doctor’s Era started. He had the cheek to compare the amazing story “Warriors of The Deep” to Star Wars, complaining about the lack of special effects, then showing a clip of Doctor Solow trying to fight off The Merkur sea beast. Obviously, Star Wars can’t compare with Doctor Who stories.
Russell T Davies also said in this interview that the reduced number of Doctor Who episodes could be made up by spin offs, but I’m not sure exactly what spin offs will be made. One chance of a spin off from the classic series was missed years ago with “Warriors’ Gate”. Romana said she’d stay in E-Space with The Tharils and do what she and The Doctor had always done. The Doctor asked how how this would be possible without a TARDIS. Romana replied that she’d learn to use the gateway, like the Tharils. I started to write some stories based on this, then tried to get the BBC interested in the concept before I was allowed to send them any of my stories. They just wrote back saying they didn’t plan to make a series of “K9 and Company”, then that was the end of that!
29 November 2023 at 13:17 #74702TERRIBLE NEWS! As predicted by me some time ago, the number of episodes in future series has been cut down instead of being restored to 13 or more per year. I thought this would happen because it was being financed by Disney Plus. Russell T Davies has announced in SFX magazine that from now on Doctor Who will have only NINE new episodes per year!
I was RIGHT! Doctor Who has been forced to fit into a Disney Plus type length.
24 November 2023 at 05:23 #74591@janetteb @mudlark Well, I’ve watched the new COLOURISED version of “The Daleks” and here’s what I thought of it.
In general, the colours used worked quite well. Some of them looked very bright and lurid, though. This might just have been because of the colour schemes the Daleks themselves actually liked. Of course, it’s an alien planet with different tastes. I thought the colours used for the Doctor, his companions and the TARDIS were more subdued. Of course, the sky was red, not blue. This was either due to different chemicals in the atmosphere on Skaro, or the radiation.
I also realised that a lot of the original video had been cut out. I was chatting to a friend about it who I’ve been slowly educating about Doctor Who. I told him that I noticed the following scenes had been deleted. The details about planning routes to get into the Dalek city, details about the plan to ue mirrors to disrupt Dalek communications, as well as details about the Thals’ history, including a star chart. The order of some of the scenes was also changed.
It seems that about 60 minutes was cut from the original 175 minutes, but I haven’t worked out how much of this time was theme music from the beginnings and ends of 5 of the episodes.
I think the new incidental music was a welcome addition. I’ve already posted that I don’t really like the usual BBC Wales Orchestra music which is used in the modern series and I’d really love to hear BBC Radiophonics style music instead. This music was somewhere in between those two styles and sounded 1960s style. I’m not sure which TV series or films have used something similar. Obviously, the music in Star Trek TOS is quite different to this. I’ve seen lots of classic TV series, including Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), The Prisoner, and Department S, but I can’t think of a series with this type of music.
So, overall it was very good, but I wish they hadn’t cut out any of the video at all.
After this, I went out to do some quick shopping, then I looked for and chose anothe classic Doctor Who story to watch for the rest of the Anniversary. This was “The Monster of Peladon”. This is a six part story. Unfortunately, I fell asleep while watching it on BBC iPlayer, then I couldn’t work out during which episode I fell asleep! I’ll continue watching it later today.
As for various equipment and problems, I found out that the BBC iPlayer Android app, which can run on Amazon Fire TV sticks requires a mouse. I was using a mouse emulator app, but I couldn’t scroll the main part of the page down to select any Doctor Who episodes! This meant I couldn’t use it with my Fire TV stick. I have used the mouse emulation for other apps, though. I actually watched “The Daleks” using my Zattoo TV Switzerland subscription. I think this is a good alternative to the isolationist, Anglophone services such as Freeview. I regularly use this to watch TV series in German, French, and Italian.
Everyone should now realise why my name is Translator Circuit!
23 November 2023 at 14:40 #74574Reposted due to messy tabs, etc.
Hello Janet B! I am here anyway! This morning I watched the very first Doctor Who episode “An Unearthly Child” as I do on every Doctor Who anniversary day. I followed this up with the original rejected pilot episode of the same story. After that I watched “Tales from The TARDIS: Earthshock” Which included an intro and Outro from Peter Davison and Janet Fielding.
It’s a pity there are no live events I can attend at around this date. Tonight I might go to a Doctor Who themed pub social in London, though.
As for people who are not going out anywhere tonight they could watch the original Dalek story “the Daleks” tonight at 19:30 GMT on BBC Four, which is in a COLOURISED version! I am sure people in various countries will be able to watch this either Live or streaming later on BBC iPlayer.
I have noticed that BBC Four is available perfectly legally on Zattoo TV Switzerland. People not living in Switzerland can use this service using the techniques described in The video use apps from any country on YouTube channel UGT. You may need the app stream locator to install the version of statue for Switzerland on an Amazon Fire TV stick. Your first step should be to set up an account on Amazon Germany using the techniques described in the UGT video. There is no Amazon Switzerland website.
I’ve also noticed that the German TV channel called “One” Is now showing some fourth fifth and sixth Doctor stories With German and English language soundtracks.
https://www.ardmediathek.de/suche/Doctor%20Who
I’ll be back later today or tomorrow (GMT).
Happy 60th Anniversary!!
23 November 2023 at 14:32 #74573<p class=”p1″>Hello Janet B! I am here anyway!<span class=”Apple-converted-space”> </span></p>
<p class=”p1″>This morning I watched the very first Doctor Who episode “An Unearthly Child” as I do on every Doctor Who anniversary day. I followed this up with the original rejected pilot episode of the same story. After that I watched “Tales from The TARDIS: Earthshock” Which included an intro and Outro from Peter Davison and Janet Fielding.<span class=”Apple-converted-space”> </span></p>
<p class=”p1″>It’s a pity there are no live events I can attend at around this date. Tonight I might go to a Doctor Who themed pub social in London, though.<span class=”Apple-converted-space”> </span></p>
<p class=”p1″>As for people who are not going out anywhere tonight they could watch the original Dalek story “the Daleks” tonight at 19:30 GMT on BBC Four, which is in a COLOURISED version! I am sure people in various countries will be able to watch this either Live or streaming later on BBC iPlayer.</p>
<p class=”p1″>I have noticed that BBC Four is available perfectly legally on Zattoo TV Switzerland. People not living in Switzerland can use this service using the techniques described in The video use apps from any country on YouTube channel UGT. You may need the app stream locator to install the version of statue for Switzerland on an Amazon Fire TV stick. Your first step should be to set up an account on Amazon Germany using the techniques described in the UGT video. There is no Amazon Switzerland website.<span class=”Apple-converted-space”> https://youtu.be/CLhEYUBuN9g </span></p>
<p class=”p1″>I’ve also noticed that the German TV channel called “One” Is now showing some fourth fifth and sixth Doctor stories With German and English language soundtracks.<span class=”Apple-converted-space”> https://www.ardmediathek.de/suche/Doctor%20Who </span></p>
I’ll be back later today or tomorrow (GMT).
<p class=”p1″>Happy 60th Anniversary!!</p>2 November 2023 at 09:17 #74469My thoughts about Doctor Who recently are as follows.
I’m happy that at long last there will be some more Doctor Who episodes, so long as the World doesn’t end before then, if Putin decides it should.
I’m very annoyed that the BBC isn’t showing any of the three specials on the actual anniversary! I think they need some severe punishment for this, such as all their channels being taken off air on November 23. I don’t know how to do that, though.
I think that the events in these specials might all turn out to be a dream, which would explain how The Doctor looks like David Tennant again, as well as how Donna remembers him.
As for Ncuti Gatwa, my thoughts about him are similar to Jodie Whittaker, Peter Capaldi, and Matt Smith. By this I mean “Who’s HE?!” I’ve never seen him in anything before.
I think I mentioned before that I think Ncuti Gatwa’s Doctor will suffer from severe amnesia to enable the series to reboot by returning to a very basic formula of The Doctor travelling around in space and time, but without any mention of the history, so no Time Lords, no Daleks, no Cybermen, no Master, no UNIT, etc.
I’m in the process of educating a friend about Doctor Who. He has only a 4G Internet connection at home, although he could have WiFi. I’ve recently managed to introduce him to The Third Doctor’s Era, including “The Three Doctors”. The latest thing I showed him was the 50th Anniversary drama “Adventures in Space and Time”. I might show him some Fourth Doctor stories later this month. If he watched the 50th or 60th Anniversary Specials, then I think these would be massive spoilers for him.
2 November 2023 at 08:53 #74468@impuredalek I found there were lots of Doctor Who audio adventures on Spotify, but I don’t seem to be able to find them now I’ve unsubscribed. Have a search.
16 October 2023 at 06:52 #74440Here’s a soundtrack from one of the lasr stories from the Fourth Doctor’s Era “Warriors’ Gate”! How could anyone not love it?
16 October 2023 at 06:39 #74439Sorry, but I don’t think anything much of Murray Gold’s music!
What I really want is some special electronic music, as produced for the BG/Classsic series of Doctor Who!!
I’ll never forget these amazing BBC Radiophonics Department themes, which were sometimes reused in different stories as variations on a theme, being revamped from one story to another. I really loved the incidental music from the Fifth Doctor’s Era (Peter Davison) story “Arc of Infinity”, for example!
The BBC Radiophonics Department has been closed down. I wonder why? However, why can’t there be a special group doing this music now? Why should it be left to the BBC Wales Orchestra?
I think the answer is just to save money!!
How can anyone say that Doctor Who is better without this kind of dramatic, electronic music which is different for each story?! I think the answer is if they’re a BBC Accountant!!
20 September 2023 at 14:43 #74415@nuwhovianjean I hope you’ll take my advice earlier on in this topic about how to watch Doctor Who on BBC iPlayer from outside the UK, just by using a VPN and looking up a residential address, then inputting at least the Post Code. The BBC website has no news for Doctor Who dated after 2021. I demand a new series of Doctor Who with 26 episodes of 50 minutes each immediately! Down with BBC News, Eastenders, Strictly Come Dancing, etc, etc! I’ve recently been seeing banner advertising for something with a BBC logo called “Henpocalypse” on my Amazon Fire TV stick, depending on what my VPN settings are at the time, so down with “Henpocalypse” as well! BTW, it’s sometimes possible to watch various episodes of Doctor Who in German (sometimes on One, Germany), French (sometimes on France4), and sometimes even in other languages, which makes it even more educational! I must advise everyone against watching Doctor Who on Fox Germany, because this channel is owned by Rupert Murdoch! Keep checking the links below to find out when any more episodes will be shown there.
https://www.ardmediathek.de/serie/Y3JpZDovL3dkci5kZS9vbmUvZG9jdG9yIHdobw
https://www.france.tv/recherche/
15 September 2023 at 14:30 #74407Here’s some more details about the production of future Doctor Who episodes, dated October 25, 2022. Read what it says under the pic of Ncuti Gatwa.
As for the scripts lined up for Ncuti Gatwa, based on a clip of him as well as some rumours of a reboot, I think they will be as follows.
The Doctor suddenly develops amnesia. This means he can’t remember who he is or where he’s from, but he remembers how to fly the TARDIS. Later on, he might find some clues to his identity in the TARDIS, such as a 500 Year Diary, or the TARDIS telepathic circuits. No stories featuring the Daleks, the Cybermen, or the Master will be made for some time. The Doctor will be travelling through space and time as if it’s all new to him! Eventually, he will meet the Daleks, the Cybermen, or the Master, or two or all three of them, because it would be very strange if he kept travelling but never happened to meet them. When he meets them, he won’t remember ever meeting them before, though.
15 September 2023 at 14:05 #74406@janetteb I don’t think the American writers’ and actors’ strikes will affect these specials at all, for the following two reasons.
1. Filming of these specials must have finished ages ago! They’ve had enough time to make two whole series by now!!
2. Doctor Who isn’t a US production. They’re just getting funding from Disney+.
8 September 2023 at 11:52 #74390@nuwhovianjean I assume you’re outside the UK, otherwise you’d be using BBC iPlayer for this. I’ve just had a quick look round on bbc.co.uk/iplayer so I can confirm that the episodes from Series 1 and Series 13 are still there and marked that they will continue to be available for “over a year”. All other series are listed there and Series 8 also says the episodes are available for “over a year”. The BBC has been making as much money as possible out of Doctor Who from merchandise, as well as BD and DVD sales while refusing to make a new series with a reasonable number of episodes (i.e. AT LEAST THIRTEEN) in various years since the series returned in 2005. Now they’re trying to make people round the World subscribe to Disney+ to watch it, making them even more money!! I can give you the following advice about watching BBC iPlayer from outside the UK.
1. Use a good VPN, such as NordVPN or ExpressVPN, and watch on your computer, preferably while connected to a large TV or monitor using a compatible cable, or Bluetooth if that works on your TV. You need to look up a UK Post Code and input that while setting up a BBC account, though.
2. Use a VPN and watch on an Amazon Fire TV stick or another Amazon Fire TV device. This feels like using a TV instead of a computer. You need to use a good VPN as mentioned above. Set up an account on amazon.co.uk so you can use their appstore, download the BBC iPlayer app, then set up an account on there with a UK Post Code. For more details about this, please watch the video on how to do this from Canada on https://youtu.be/CLhEYUBuN9g I can also confirm that this same method works from the UK for watching lots of individual or groups of TV channels and paid subscription packages of lots of channels from various other countries in Europe, but you still have to pay the subscriptions. You can also install an app called Aptoide Appstore which is an independent Android appstore with apps not restricted by country, because Google Play store is now blocked on all Amazon devices.
3. Use a VPN and watch on an Android TV box. This is similar to using an Amazon Fire TV stick, but I haven’t used one myself.
Please only watch Doctor Who and Red Dwarf on BBC iPlayer! This is because the UK is now an isolationist state, ruled by corrupt politicians, bankers, and tax dodgers. Watching other BBC programmes made after 2019 (i.e. Eastenders) would give you a false impression that everything’s OK in the UK and you might even want to visit.
Unfortunately, the rest of Europe is seriously lacking in Sci Fi TV series. However, I can recommend “Missie Aarde” by NPO (Netherlands) which is a Sci Fi comedy (clips on https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBvGnghCtxJHavyamDqdcL2_ltG75OPb4 you can watch it on the streaming service NLZIET with a free trial) , as well as “IT Planeet” (TV3 Estonia) https://play.tv3.ee/series/it-planeet,serial-2574321 . I don’t speak Estonian, which isn’t an Indo-Euopean language, but I managed to work out what was going on. This series features some aliens who land in Estonia, accompanied by Laika the Cosmonaut dog from Sputnik 2, thinking it’s still in the USSR, but the mad scientist they meet soon brings them up to date. The series is mainly in Estonian, with some of the aliens’ language subtitled in Estonian, as well as a bit of English when they go to meet a con man who sent them an email from Nigeria or Ghana.
17 July 2023 at 13:13 #74308@devilishrobby Star Maidens wasn’t a Gerry Anderson co production! Gerry Anderson was never mentioned. As anyone can look up in a few seconds it was produced by Portman Productions for ITV and partly financed by the organisation Werbung in Rundfunk, using revenue from the limited TV commercials (before 20:00) on the German channel ZDF. There were some German actors in it as well, including Christiane Krüger, who also appeared in several episodes of the German detective series Derrick, which used to be shown on ITV. As for Lexx, I can’t remember which channels it was ever shown on in the UK. Wikipedia only says that season 3 debuted on the Sci Fi Channel UK. This wasn’t owned by Sky, but was part of their package. Part of the story of Lexx was that a woman called Zev was supposed to be transformed into a “Love Slave” which involved both physical and mental transformations. She went through a machine and her whole body was turned into Eva Habermann, who is one of my ideal women. Before this she appeared amongst other things in the series Küstenwache (coastguard) as well as the medical series Klinik unter Palmen and OP Ruft Dr. Brückner. She put a robot head into the part of the machine that was supposed to reprogram her mind making her desperate for sex all the time, then the robot head got this programming instead and kept telling Zev that he loved her. Fellow crew member Stanley was also in love with Zev, but she didn’t care about him. There was also Kai, who was undead and was killed thousands of years before Zev and Stanley were born. Zev is sort of in love with Kai, but he doesn’t really care about her, or has no emotions. I don’t know what all of this has to do with Barbarella.
16 July 2023 at 09:33 #74303@janetteb I’m not talking about any productions by NETFLIX in German, I’m talking about productions by any of various German TV channels, and/or by other TV channels based in the EU. You’ve probably never herd of these TV channels, because you’ve been brainwashed! Most of them have “Mediatheken”, meaning streaming services similar to BBC iPlayer. Some of these channels are ARD, ZDF, SAT.1, RTL, and Pro7. There are other channels which only or mainly show series which are at least a few years old, usually older, so they won’t be affected by this strike, at least not for years. These channels include SAT.1 GOLD, Kabel 1, RTL Up, and Tele5.
German channel ZDF got off to a good start in 1966 with the series “<i>Raumpatrouille – Die phantastischen Abenteuer des Raumschiffes Orion” </i>which translates as “Space Patrol – The Fantastic Adventures of the Spaceship Orion”, but this only had seven episodes. It was a bit like Star Trek TOS. Years later there were some German co productions, such as Star Maidens (1976), and Lexx: The Dark Zone (1997).
During my research in recent years, I’ve found “Missie Aarde” (“Mission Earth”, NL) a sci fi comedy about a search for a new planet that the surviving humans can move to, after the whole World apart from the Netherlands has been submerged, and before long even the Netherlands will suffer the same fate! I’ve also found “IT-Planeet” an Estonian sci fi comedy series about some aliens who land in Estonia. Unfortunately, their information about Estonia which seems to be from Earth TV signals that have reached deep space is out of date, because they think it’s still in the USSR. I think a probe needs to be sent into deep space immediately to try and capture the original broadcasts of missing Doctor Who episodes from the 1960s. A mad inventor who they greet in Russian and by playing the USSR anthem soon tells them otherwise, then they immediately switch their translators to Estonian. This series is almost all in Estonian with some English when the aliens go to meet an African conman. Estonian isn’t an Indo European language and I can’t speak it, but I somehow managed to work out almost everything that was going on!
I hope to see lots more European sci fi productions, NOT productions in Europe by US companies, in the very near future!
15 July 2023 at 07:38 #74299The Guardian article just says “Doctor Who, which is now being produced in partnership with the streaming service Disney+, is also likely to be affected by strike action”. AFAIK Disney+ is only giving lots of money to the production company Bad Wolf. I think this means it won’t be affected. The good news is that because of this strike by writers and actors in the USA we should be seeing lots of TV series and films produced by other countries apart from the USA! I hope to see some amazing new German Sci Fi series as a result of this. You’ll be able to see them wherever you live in the World by subscribing to the recording and streaming service youtv.de or by buying an Amazon Fire stick, getting a VPN, then setting up an account on Amazon Germany and downloading all the German TV apps from there. You just use the same techniques as in the video on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLhEYUBuN9g where a man in Canada downloads apps from the USA and the UK.
Of course, the BBC has already done lots of damage to Doctor Who in the past, by cutting the number of episodes produced per year from about 40-45 in the 1960s, down to 25 for the beginning of the Third Doctor’s Era in 1970, then up to 26 later in that era in 1972. The number of episodes produced each year remained fairly stable at about 23-26 each year, apart from the strike in 1979, which was obviously caused by Mrs Thatcher becoming Prime Minister. This led to the cancellation of the amazing six part story “Shada”, cutting that series down from 26 episodes to just 20. New Producer John Nathan-Turner could easily have completed this story the following year, when he took charge after years of working on the series, but he obviously just didn’t care. The BBC made lots of money from this later on by releasing it first of all as a VHS video with a book of the original script. Following this, the production schedule for Doctor Who was decimated in the Seventh Doctor’s Era, when they cut the number of episodes produced down to 14 for his final series. Just the sales of Doctor Who merchandise was enough to finance the series, but the BBC stole this money and used it to produce crap like “Eastenders”! There are also series much better than “Eastenders” such as “Casualty” and “Holby City” which have been showing a new 50 minute episode almost every week of the year, so Doctor Who could have had the same treatment. Of course, “Warriors of The Deep” was a fantastic story which wiped the floor with Star Wars, without spending lots of money on special effects.
After the amazing success of the modern series of Doctor Who, the BBC couldn’t wait to limit the production to just specials for some years, with no new series at all. The main problem with Doctor Who is the BBC not giving it enough priority!
10 December 2022 at 08:35 #73824@thane16 No, I’m not high, not an actor, and not a writer either. When I say I’m not a writer, I mean that I don’t write any short stories, books, or scripts, although I might be able to. My favourite TV programmes are “Doctor Who” and all Star Trek series except the animated ones. I’ve recently been watching some other series on Britbox, such as UFO, “Space 1999”, “Captain Scarlet”, and “The Tomorrow People”. I’m subscribed to Amazon Prime for quick deliveries and on Prime Video I watch “Starhunter: Redux”, and “Metal Hurlant Chronicles”, while on Amazon Freevee I watch “Dark Matter” and “Andromeda”. I also like most Sci Fi and anything to do with alternative history, such as “Timeless”, “The Man in The High Castle”, and “For All Mankind”.
I don’t want to wish my life away that it was already November 23, 2023 so I could watch yet another Doctor Who special, not even a series. I hope I’ve got lots of living to do before then!
I think the best possible news about Doctor Who would be a group of hackers taking some or all BBC TV channels off air, then playing either a leaked 60th Anniversary Special or one of their favourite Doctor Who episodes. I think the best time to do this would be during an episode of Eastenders or Strictly.
7 December 2022 at 03:00 #73821@janetteb it actually says “Gatwa will take control of the TARDIS as the fifteenth Doctor with his first episode airing over the festive period in 2023.” When people say “the festive period”, this means Christmas and New Year or the Twelve Days of Christmas. I don’t think for one moment that it means the return of the Christmas episodes. We were told years ago that the Christmas episodes had stopped because the writers couldn’t think of any more Christmas themed stories. If I was one of the Doctor Who writers, then I could easily knock up a story which mentions Christmas a few times, but it wouldn’t be all about Christmas. I think that’s what they should do! I don’t want to be a Doctor Who writer or play The Doctor, for the simple reason that in either case I’d know in advance what was going to happen, so this would be a massive spoiler. I don’t think any technology such as retcon exists yet. I really hope someone leaks the three David Tennant specials, like with the episode “Rose”, which I saw about two weeks before it was shown.
6 December 2022 at 13:10 #73819The Disney+ deal actually reduces the number of potential viewers for Doctor Who to approximately 150,000,000 in all the countries where they operate! Australia alone has nearly 26,000,000 people nowadays, while Canada has nearly 39,000,000. Do you expect most of them to subscribe to Disney+? If so, when might we see this sudden surge in Disney+ subscribers?
I actually logged on here today because I got a message about some news from @blenkinsopthebrave with a link to https://www.darkhorizons.com/gatwas-doctor-who-series-begins-filming/ with the news that Ncuti Gatwa has actually started filming his first series as The Doctor! This link contains the following important news…
1. Russell T Davies confirmed that this series will have more than six episodes, in spite of being shown on Disney+, in his quote “I sit here with ten scripts in front of me – four Specials and six episodes of the New Series, so far, with Episode Seven blinking away on the screen.”
2. Unfortunately, this quote also says there are FOUR SPECIALS planned for production! When will these specials be shown?! Does this mean that fans will be deprived of yet another year’s series of Doctor Who after Ncuti Gatwa’s first series?
Unfortunately, all these plans are in the distant future for people like me, who are no longer used to making long term plans thanks to various crises. The whole thing may be cancelled by Vladimir Putin pressing the nuclear button!
25 November 2022 at 15:25 #73789@dentarthundert OK, here’s a revised version…
DOCTOR WHO (2005) ENDS
The BBC have confirmed in their usual ambiguous style (i.e. “having a rest”, “having a longer than usual wait”, etc) that the revived series of Doctor Who is ending. It nearly finished in 2021, but not many people noticed, due to deliberately confusing ambiguous statements from the BBC. There are now just a few specials left to show in 2023. These will be followed by a mainly Disney+ funded new series, expected to be only six episodes long, in line with their other series. No further series of Doctor Who are expected to be produced after that, the same as with other Disney+ series such as “Wandavision”, “The Falcon and The Winter Soldier”, “Loki”, “Hawkeye”, etc, as well as the BBC/Universal co produced Doctor Who TV movie in 1996.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Cregeen
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2022/doctor-who-bbc-and-disney-branded-television
25 November 2022 at 05:03 #73785@devilishrobby I can assure you that I AM a true Who fan! I’ve been watching Doctor Who since I was a little boy. Doctor Who is the only thing that remains in my life while other things keep changing, coming and going. My whole attitude is that Doctor Who must take priority for the actors playing The Doctor, as well as for the BBC. What this means is that whoever is the current actor playing The Doctor must be committed to playing The Doctor and give that role priority. Their contract should state this implicitly and they must stick to this or be regenerated with another actor playing them for the regeneration Sylvester McCoy style. If the BBC had actually discussed this with David Tennant in enough detail, then they should have known he was unreliable, then regenerated him in the Christmas Special “The Next Doctor”, leading to a new Doctor a year earlier than it actually happened. I don’t think Jodie Whittaker went off to play some other part, though. I think it was COVID-19 restrictions as well as a hate campaign against her which led to a six episode series, followed by three specials.
The production values I support are what I came to expect from Doctor Who as well as other series in the past. It’s a TV series, NOT a film, with lots of stories, instead of just a few stories. Michael Grade didn’t understand this! I don’t particularly care about special effects. Star Wars is crap! I care mainly about the stories being told. I think there should have been another (non animated) Star Trek series made in between Star Trek TOS and Star Trek: TNG, as they were planning, instead of the Star Trek films featuring the cast of Star Trek TOS. There were six of these, not counting “Star Trek: Generations”, so those stories could all have been told in about 12 episodes of about 50 minutes each. I admire the fan made productions of Star Trek, such as “Star Trek Continues” because these show just what small groups of dedicated people can do!
I would welcome a return to the Doctor Who production schedule of about 40-45 new episodes of about 25 minutes each per year, as with the first two Doctors in the 1960s. AFAIK there have always been some TV series with only about 6 episodes each year (e.g. “Only Fools and Horses”, “Porridge”, “Open All Hours”, and “Sink or Swim” which even starred Peter Davison managing to fit in the filming with Doctor Who!), but Doctor Who shouldn’t be one of them. I thought I’d seen details of co production credits on lots of “Nu Who” episodes, but at the moment I can’t find details of these, although I thought I remembered seeing CBC (i.e. Canada). What I expect is a new series of Doctor Who each year without fail. Not only that, but each new series must have at least 13 episodes of at least 50 minutes each and there should be a Christmas or New Year special as well, because lots of or even most BBC series have these, so why shouldn’t Doctor Who? I think the answer is because there are lots of people working for the BBC who hate Doctor Who and will do anything to undermine and kill it off again, which they’ve made a pretty good job of so far! Of course, I’d also like to see Eastenders cancelled immediately for siphoning off Doctor Who money when it started, as well as for having a decimated crossover for the Doctor Who 30th Anniversary instead of the amazing planned story “The Dark Dimension”, and being a graveyard for former Doctor Who actors. I eventually saw a fan animated version of “The Dark Dimension” on YouTube, which I thought was fantastic!
As for the Disney+ agreement, I don’t think that all the money they’re investing in Doctor Who comes without strings. How can a Doctor Who series of 13 episodes of about 50 minutes each fit in with all the series they’re streaming already? Will they just split the next Doctor Who series into two series released on Disney+ at different times of the year, or will they insist on annual series of 6 episodes only, otherwise they’ll withdraw their funding? I think they’ll do the latter.
24 November 2022 at 09:05 #73780DOCTOR WHO (2005) ENDS
The BBC have confirmed that the revived series of Doctor Who is ending. It actually finished in 2021, but not many people noticed due to ambiguous statements from the BBC. There are now just a few specials left to show in 2023. These will be followed by a Disney+ funded new series, expected to be only six episodes long, in line with their other series. No further series of Doctor Who are expected to be produced after that, the same as with other Disney+ series such as “Wandavision”, “The Falcon and The Winter Soldier”, “Loki”, “Hawkeye”, etc.
21 November 2022 at 06:43 #73770@captainlando Jodie Whittaker was fantastic as The Doctor! Of course, whenever there’s a new Doctor I can’t help thinking if it really is The Doctor, but I certainly remember feeling in Jodie’s second episode “The Ghost Monument” that she was The Doctor, saying the type of things The Doctor would say.
Unfortunately, lots of people started a propaganda and brainwashing campaign against Jodie! I think one of the nastiest critics was bowlestrek on YouTube, whose account has now been “archived”! It’s not difficult to imagine why. He criticised her facial expression and everything imaginable. I wouldn’t have been surprised if he’d made a video saying that Supergirl should be played by a male actor and the character name changed slightly to Supergale, using super breath lots of the time, or Supergael, originally from Ireland, or whatever, just so long as the role was played by a male actor. He also hates Star Trek: Discovery.
I also think that The Timeless Child storyline is a stroke of genius to make the whole concept of The Doctor progress and refresh the series. Of course, lots of people who gave up watching Doctor Who during The Thirteenth Doctor’s Era have never heard of this, so I think it must be mentioned in some future stories, so they have to go back and watch what they’ve missed then re assess it. I think the relevant episodes are “The Ghost Monument”, “Fugitive of The Judoon”, “Ascension of The Cybermen” and “The Timeless Children”, although it was mentioned or at least hinted at in a few other episodes.
I’m very disappointed at David Tennant returning. This is because it’s just playing it safe, even though it’s only for a few episodes.
At the moment I’m cheering myself up by watching as many classic Doctor Who episodes on Britbox as possible. This has reminded me that in the First and Second Doctor’s Eras the BBC actually managed to produce 40-45 episodes of Doctor Who each of about 25 minutes per year! What happened to change this? Who made the decision? It was cut down to 25 episodes per year with the beginning of The Third Doctor’s Era. People might say that nowadays it’s impossible to produce even 40 episodes of any TV series, but the BBC manage to do this with Eastenders (which has featured lots of Doctor Who actors), Casualty, and Holby City, so obviously it’s not impossible. Of course, these series don’t have many special effects, but I’d prefer less special effects if it meant more Doctor Who. Later on classic Doctor Who was cut down to just 14 episodes per year before being axed completely!
I think there should be a spin off series from the classic Doctor Who featuring the further adventures of Romana, who told The Doctor as she was leaving that she’d continue to do what they’d always done. The Doctor replied “What, with no TARDIS?!”, then she said she’d learn to use the Gateway, like The Tharils in this story did. I think this would be a much better series than the adventures of Nyssa, which I heard a rumour about earlier in 2022.
6 November 2022 at 16:42 #73705Hidden news! As Doctor Who will be financed by and shown on Disney+ , doesn’t that mean that in future each Doctor Who series will be only six episodes long, as this is the standard length for a Disney+ series?
2 November 2022 at 11:59 #73675I’m sorry about all the HTML tags in my last post! I copied this post from my email after getting an error message there, but then added a few more words. Some time ago, I edited a message to remove the tags, but then found the message got hidden and I couldn’t repost it. Perhaps a moderator could remove the tags.
2 November 2022 at 11:55 #73674<div dir=”auto”>@Oblique The expression clean slate applied to Doctor Who may only be a rumour. I think what it might mean is The Doctor having all his memories wiped, then being left to wander round space and time without meeting any Daleks, Cybermen, The Master, Sontarans, Autons, Silurians, Sea Devils, Ice Warriors, Mara, or any other alien races from the series’ by then 60 year history. Some people might think this is a good idea, but I don’t.</div>
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<div class=”yj6qo ajU”></div>1 November 2022 at 15:17 #73662So, after this spectacular episode “The Power of The Doctor” coming late in yet another year with only three specials and no new series, not even one with only six episodes, it looks like the BBC have pretty well killed off Doctor Who as a TV series! They started doing this in 2009 when David Tennant was allowed to go off and play Shakespeare, ending his era with just a few specials. We now know they’re planning to do the same thing next year. What a disaster! How were things ever allowed to get to this stage? Why aren’t fans staging massive protests against it?! I never watch any other programmes on any BBC TV channels any more. I think it would be a great idea if the soap opera “Eastenders” (which started during a forced Doctor Who gap year, financed with Doctor Who money, and with a former Dalek Trooper/Agent Leslie Grantham in one of the original main roles) suddenly had an episode where the set was invaded by Daleks, the whole cast was exterminated, then titles and an announcement tells viewers to watch Doctor Who to see what happens next. As for “Strictly Come Dancing”, a series which had an episode shown immediately before “The Power of The Doctor” on BBC1 I read that there were about eight million people watching it. I only saw the last several minutes before Doctor Who started. They announced at the end that Jodie Whittaker’s final Doctor Who episode was coming on next, then millions of sick people stopped watching BBC1 instead of continuing with Doctor Who! I think that “Strictly Come Dancing” needs the same treatment as “Eastenders”! The BBC should be closed down, their assets seized, then these as well as the money they’ve diverted from Doctor Who videos and merchandise must be used to make some more Doctor Who episodes!
30 October 2022 at 18:27 #73644One thing I forgot about which should have been explained in this episode if not in a previous episode, but it never has been. The Thirteenth Doctor’s hair. After a regeneration, the Doctor’s whole body and hair are changed. The colour, type or hair, and hairstyle can all change. One thing still remains a mystery, though. Just after regenerating into the Thirteenth Doctor, The Doctor had blonde hair with dark roots. These dark roots have appeared thoughout the Thirteenth Doctor’s Era. There was even a doll made of her, complete with dark roots. As the whole process of regeneration is a natural thing, what possible explanation can there be for these dark roots?! Don’t forget than the explanation must fit in with the story.
29 October 2022 at 14:02 #73635@bluesqueakpip I think everyone should take care of their appearance. As for the Classic Doctors who appeared in this episode, I think that at least they should have been wearing wigs that looked like their hair when they played The Doctor.
I’m very, very disappointed that only four million people in the UK (or who seem to be in the UK, but watched on iPlayer with a VPN and some of them watching live) watched “The Power of The Doctor”. This is only about half the number of people who watched Jodie Whittaker’s first full episode “The Woman Who Fell to Earth”. BTW, I never mentioned Britbox, because Doctor Who episodes are also available elsewhere.
I think that from various stories and comments I’ve read over the years, the Doctor Who Fandom is made up of a few different groups, as follows, in no particular order.
1. People who only watch the Classic Doctor Who series
2. People who only watch “Nu Who”
3. People who watch the classic series and “Nu Who”
4. People who only watch “Nu Who”, but stopped watching Doctor Who when or just after Jodie Whittaker became The Doctor
5. People who watch Classic and “Nu Who”, but stopped watching Doctor Who when or just after Jodie Whittaker became The Doctor
6. People who watch Classic and “Nu Who” and continued watching Doctor Who all through Jodie Whittaker’s Era
7. People who only watch “Nu Who” and continued to watch Doctor Who all through Jodie Whittaker’s EraThere might even be some other groups that people can suggest, but it’s very complicated!
According to the list above, I’m in groups 3 and 6. I’m disgusted with the people in Group 4, because I think they’re traitors who want the series Doctor Who to end, or at least don’t care if it does end. THey’re either totally opposed to a female Doctor or have been brainwashed by people running hate campaigns against Jodie Whittaker and/or Chris Chibnall.
I think that Doctor Who has a status of a classic character or hero, similar to the way some people think of Sherlock Holmes, Peter Pan, or James Bond. Fans should be interested in and watch stories from the eras of all thirteen Doctors. They’re not allowed to object to any particular Doctor or say that they despise them and won’t watch their stories on TV, because at the end of the day, it’s still The Doctor. People might say “I think the sixth Doctor was very bad tempered”, but they should still watch his stories.
As for where the Classic Doctor Who episodes are available to stream, the ways people can watch them include Pluto TV, and on https://www.ardmediathek.de/suche/Doctor%20Who (episodes available in in German and English!)
28 October 2022 at 19:13 #73632@bluesqueakpip Sarah Jane Smith still looked recognisable in “School Reunion” (2006) although she hadn’t been in Doctor Who since “The Hand of Fear” (1976), as well as in “The Sarah Jane Adventures”, although she hadn’t appeared in Doctor Who for 30 years in between appearances! I also thought that all the Doctors were easily recognisable apart from Paul McGann.
As for “the current audience” who you think are watching, I don’t know where you get your information about them. I haven’t read Doctor Who Magazine recently, which I think has to be full of lots of rumours and half truths to fill it up, because of the lack of new episodes. Obviously most of the classic Doctor Who episodes are still available. Lots of them, or even most of them, are streaming, and I think most of them have also been released on VHS, DVD, and/or Bluray. I streamed “The Hand of Fear” only last week. I’ve got a friend who I introduced to Doctor Who about 18 months ago and he’s just nearing the end of the First Doctor’s Era. Apart from this he’s only seen The Twelfth to Thirteenth Doctor’s regeneration sequence and “The Woman Who Fell to Earth”. BTW, the last Doctor Who story I watched was “The Highlanders” (reconstruction), which I’d never seen before.
I’ve also been to some meetings where the other people attending have extensive knowledge of Doctor Who, both modern and classic series.
This problem with actors looking unrecognisable isn’t just confined to Doctor Who, though. I went to a Star Trek convention last year, where one of the actors signing autographs was a little old lady with grey hair and glasses. I was shocked to see a poster behind her showing her former role as Commander Elizabeth Shelby from ST:TNG “The Best of Both Worlds” (Parts 1 and 2). I think at least she should have got contact lenses or laser surgery, and dyed her hair blonde!
28 October 2022 at 11:08 #73628@devilishrobby I’m afraid I don’t agree with your comment on my post. I think that Janet Fielding now looks like a totally different person. I saw a short video of her taken at a convention years later where she looked similar to how she looked in Doctor Who, though. As for Paul McGann, he later appeared in the short video “The Night of The Doctor” in 2013, but he was still recognisable. I mentioned Nyssa (Sarah Sutton). I’ve seen some pics of her from 2022 and at least she still looks recognisable. So does Peri (Nicola Bryant).
27 October 2022 at 13:08 #73622“The Power of The Doctor”. I was really looking forward to this special episode, especially after being deprived of new episodes for six months. I knew it was a regeneration episode, so that alone should make it exciting. I did enjoy it, but the question is how much? I was often thinking “What IS this?”, or “What’s happening now?”, which are good signs!
I thought that the multiple locations and different time zones, including a bullet train, Russia, volcanoes, a new planet near the Earth, and the time zones 1916 and 2022 were a nice touch, creating a multi faceted story.
Unfortunately, even in the preview six months before, when I first saw a clip of Tegan Jovanka from this episode, I thought to myself “Who the Hell’s that?!” I thought she looked absolutely nothing like her old self, meaning totally unrecognisable. Due to this, I thought a different companion should have been chosen. It could have been any other companion who is still recognisable, although I’m not sure who that would be. Perhaps it should have been Nyssa (Sarah Sutton) whose time as a companion coincided with Tegan, apart from in the story “Arc of Infinity”, when they reunited before the end. Tegan continued after her Nyssa’s departure rof course. I got a similar feeling with Paul McGann. I think it was only because he appeared with some other versions of The Doctor that I recognised him. Apart from this, how did Ace and Tegan actually meet and find out that each of them had once been a companion of The Doctor’s? This may have happened in a book I’ve never read or a Big Finish audio story which I’ve never listened to, but I don’t think that’s canon and I’ve even heard that Ace appearing in this special contradicts something that happened in a book or audio production.
It was great having The Daleks, The Cybermen, The Master, as well as various versions of The Doctor all in the same episode! I also thought that the idea of having three regenerations in one episode created more suspense about how the story would end. We now know that The Doctor has an unknown number or even infinite regenerations, so that means they may never run out of regenerations.
When I watched “The Timeless Children” for the first time, it sent shivers of excitement down my spine. I didn’t think this episode was as good as that. The whole timeless child storyline is a stroke of genius, so I’m glad it was continued with Jo Martin’s Doctor making an appearance in this story. I think it should even be used as a spinoff series which might be called “Doctor Who: The Missing Era”. In this series we could see more of Jo Martin’s Doctor, as well as some other Doctors before the Doctor played by William Hartnell.
It was great to see so many other Doctors, including from the classic Doctor Who series. Previously the BBC wouldn’t allow them to appear because they would look older than when they regenerated, so it wouldn’t fit in with the story. Now they’ve decided to allow this, but the BBC have got lots of money, especially from all the Doctor Who merchandise combined with the lack of new episodes, so they should have used some of this money to digitally de age them!
After Ace told Graeme she’d been fighting Daleks in 1963, I think it was pretty stupid of him to reply “1963?! How old are you?”, especially when he’d visited 1816 in the episode “The Haunting of Villa Diodati”.
I think it was amazing that The Master had once more escaped from what seemed to be certain death, but of course we’re never allowed to know how he does this.
I though that the scenes showing past incarnations of The Doctor in a desert reminded me a bit of the Star Trek TOS episodes “City on The Edge of Forever” and Star Trek: Discovery “Terra Firma” Parts 1 and 2. Of course, it looked different. There was no obvious gateway we could see, but it was a place they had to pass through. You could also say it was similar to the final episode of “Quantum Leap”.
The ending was still a surprise to me, in spite of all the rumours. The Doctor has never before regenerated into a previous form. I think that Jodie Whittaker has been fantastic as The Doctor, but unfortunately there was a lot of propaganda gainst her which people believed. This included claims that she can’t act, can’t remember her lines, and it’s not her fault it’s Chris Chibnall. One channel on YouTube seems to have been closed and archived for this hate campaign against Jodie. I now know that The Doctor will only be played by David Tennant for three episodes, but I don’t know if this is a good idea. I’m also supposed to wait a whole thirteen months to see this! During that time there should be a whole 13 episodes of Doctor Who, but we’ve been conned out of it!
27 October 2022 at 12:46 #73621I think this is the first time I’ve posted in Dr Who News. In the past I’ve posted in other parts of this forum, though. I’d like to confirm that I mean everything I say in this post. I can’t help thinking that other people have been slowly brainwashed by the BBC’s plans for Doctor Who, which weren’t announced all at once.
<p class=”p1″>Unfortunately, the BBC seem to have killed the TV series called Doctor Who, which I’ll explain. I’m talking about the original showings on BBC1 and BBC iPlayer, which anyone should be able to watch with a little bit of effort.</p>
<p class=”p1″>Doctor Who is a TV series, not a set of occasional “specials” with months in between each episode. The format that was established in 2005 was a series each year containing 13 episodes of about 50 minutes each. Not only that, but we had an added bonus of a Christmas Special each year to look forward to! That adds up to about 11 hours 40 minutes per year, or even a bit more, depending on the length of some episodes!</p>
<p class=”p1″>Regardless of the content of any special, the BBC started messing around with Doctor Who only a few years after the modern series started. In 2009, there were only Doctor Who specials instead of a new series. I heard this was so David Tennant could swan off to play Shakespeare! I think any Doctor who does that must just be regenerated Colin Baker/Sylvester McCoy style! By this I mean replaced by another actor who is given a wig, dressed in the same costume as the previous Doctor, then told to lie face down for the start of the regeneration scene. Colin Baker hadn’t even done anything wrong when this happened to him! He was sacked after a forced 18 month gap with no new Doctor Who series. He turned down a contract for one story only leading up to the regeneration.<span class=”Apple-converted-space”> </span>I was disgusted when the BBC chose to allow this change of format to a year of specials just to fit in with David Tennant’s plans!<span class=”Apple-converted-space”> </span></p>
<p class=”p1″>Unfortunately, it didn’t stop there. The BBC also skipped some other years by having no new series in those years either. This includes the years 2016, 2019, and now 2022 as well!</p>
<p class=”p1″>By now there should have been 17 series of “Nu Who”, but according to BBC iPlayer there have only been 13! They include the Specials as part of actual numbered series. This shows that what’s actually happened is that fans have been conned out of a new series in four separate years.<span class=”Apple-converted-space”> The years are 2009, 2016, 2019, and 2022! They’re even planning the same for 2023!!</span></p>
<p class=”p1″>The situation now is that after only about 3.5 hours of new Doctor Who episodes this year, instead of 11-12 hours, fans are being forced to wait for over a year for the next new episode! I think it will add up to being conned out of 5 years of new series over a period of 18 years. Everyone should be up in arms about this! It’s worse than anything Michael Grade did BG! At this point I’d like to point out that it was Peter Cregeen at the BBC who decided to have another break in Doctor Who BG, but then the break became indefinite and the series never returned until 2005. I think that Michael Grade is sick! He even made comments about Doctor Who having to compete with Star Wars, which was just a series of films, meaning that it was only made up of a few stories or episodes. I think that Star Wars is crap! I eventually watched the first three Star Wars films to be released, but I’ve never bothered to watch them again. I have always watched and enjoyed Star Trek, but as you’ve guessed I prefer the series to the film versions.</p>
<p class=”p1″>The situation is so serious that I think the soap “Eastenders” (which started during Michael Grade’s Doctor Who gap, possibly financed with Doctor Who money) should be cancelled immediately, then the BBC closed down, their assets seized, then used to produce lots more Doctor Who episodes.</p>
So, in short, up with Doctor Who, down with the BBC!!!!
<p class=”p1″><span class=”Apple-converted-space”> </span></p>5 January 2021 at 09:33 #71322I’ve just read all your posts after waiting some time for my original post to reappear.
Of course, there are always things that happen which you’re not supposed to notice. I wonder what the neighbours thought when a new house (the spare TARDIS in disguise) suddenly appeared right next to theirs all of a sudden?
I also seem to remember something about Captain Jack shooting Dalek creatures with a gun, but then suddenly not shooting them anymore. Did he run out of ammunition?
The two human refugees just settled on Earth in the 21st Century and that was the end of their stories, apart from where they got the necessary ID.
Of course, a TARDIS is a sentient being, but that simply doesn’t matter in this case, because there was no other way to get rid of all those Daleks!
2 January 2021 at 03:00 #71286Craig, where is my long post which appeared here before, but after I deleted some tags it disappeared? Please can you sort this problem out ASAP? I”m not even allowed to post it again, because this is detected,l then I get an error message!
1 January 2021 at 23:41 #71282This New Year’s special was yet another excellent example of a constantly twisting plot as we have seen with Showrunner Chris Chibnall in the past! There were references to so many Doctor Who episodes from the era of the thirteenth Doctor, as well as the return of Captain Jack from the ninth Doctor’s era.
Ever since Series 12 ended, I thought this episode would be mainly about the Doctor being in prison and escaping with some involvement from the Daleks in achieving this. I was sadly mistaken and things soon moved on from prison to another setting.We got flashbacks to the 2019 New Year’s Special “Resolution”, as well as the character Jack Robertson from Series 11 episode “Arachnids in the UK”. His mad lust for power gave the Daleks a better opportunity to take over the planet Earth. He was working with a politician called Jo Patterson, of an unnamed party which was the governing party, but of course they never said which party it was. She was wearing red, whi8ch suggested Labour. She started out as Secretary for Technology, then was elected party leader, immediately becoming Prime Minister after that. This is something that has happened in real life during 2019, as well as in 2016, 2007, 1990, and 1976. This turn of events gave Jack Robertson the opportunity he needed to build Daleks based on stolen technology, although he claimed not to know what Daleks were.
it seems like The Doctor spent about 30 years in prison but as we know from the Classic Series story “Attack of The Cybermen”, that’s just “a handful of heartbeats to a Time Lord”! I don’t know why the Doctor was sentenced to life imprisonment but it seems it may have been because of evading the Judoon for lots of generations, dating back to the Ruth Doctor, who we saw in the series 12 episode “Fugitive of the Judoon”.</span>
Jack Robertson’s company has somehow been corrupted by the Daleks as if it wasn’t corrupted enough already! The situation has become so confused that even Jack Robertson doesn’t know what’s going on!</span>
The Prime Minister announces a brilliant new scheme of security drones, which are based on Dalek designs.
The Dalek creatures start to carry out some kind of Star Trek Borg type assimilation on The Doctor’s companions in Osaka, Japan, but Captain Jack shoots them down.
The Doctor has been separated from her companions for 10 months instead of hardly any time at all. This brings back memories of Series 1, when The Doctor and Rose arrived back at Rose’s home 12 months after leaving instead of 12 hours.
Jack Robertson’s employee Leo managed to to set up a Dalek creature clone factory in Osaka, Japan but it’s not clear when he did this because he was only recently taken over by the Daleks at the time when he reveals this factory has been set up.</span>
The Doctor is suffering from an identity crisis! This has been caused by the revelations of “The Timeless Children”, as well as spending about 30 years in prison.
Jack Robertson seems to go from bad to worse where he will do anything to make a profit. This includes making a deal with the Daleks, so long as as he can become the leader of Earth and make as much money as possible out of it!
One mystery is that the Daleks know who the Doctor is, although their memories of this were deleted during the episode “Asylum of The Daleks” and I don’t know when they ever got them back. Perhaps that episode was set in the future relative to 2021, when this episode is set. Who knows?
I thought there was something for everyone in this Doctor who story!</span>
3 January 2020 at 05:45 #68777I’ve avoided reading any previews of this story, or reading any of your comments before posting this.
I certainly must say, what a welcome and long awaited return for Doctor Who! I was totally disgusted for this year long wait for the return of the BBC’s flagship programme. More than that, it’s the only BBC programme I still watch, after deciding that BBC Click was no longer as interesting as it used to be.
I didn’t like the title, indicating it was based on James Bond. I was really annoyed when a caption came up saying that Sheffield is in Yorkshire, a county which was abolished around the beginning of the Tom Baker era in 1974! I immediately decided to complain to the BBC about this for spreading disinformation. Not only that, but in “The Woman Who Fell To Earth”, Yas said she was with Hallamshire Police. There’s no such place as Hallamshire, but Sheffield Hallam is the constituency where Nick Clegg used to be the MP.
Obviously, I wasn’t surprised to see the James Bond type theme running throughout the whole episode. One thing that did make me wonder early on was how come The Doctor is still able to use what looks like the same workshop in Sheffield where she built her latest sonic screwdriver after the owner was murdered by The Stenza? Did he own the workshop outright? Didn’t he have any surviving family members, such as cousins who would have claimed it?
I was surprised to see Steven Fry as “C”, the head of MI6. He was once tipped to play the part of The Doctor. I thought C was killed off too quickly, though.
Obviously, the company VOR is hinting at Google getting too big and action needing to be taken against it. I think I’ve been using Google and all their services too much myself recently, so I plan to cut down on that, by using other search engines, as well as possibly installing Linux onto my phone.
I can’t help wondering exactly who these aliens are and the extent of their powers. Have we ever seen them before? Could they be the Vardans with more advanced technology?
Former MI6 spy O tells Graham that he first met The Doctor when she was a man. Graham replies that he thought she was joking about that, even though C said that in the files it said The Doctor was a man. Why was he surprised after hearing this so many times?
What or where is the strange realm which Yas is transported to? Could it be a microscopic area filled with alien DNA? Could it be her standing on the skin of a giant covered with massive hairs?
O is revealed to be The Master! What a twist! How did he or she ever survive being killed by an earlier incarnation of himself using a gun which was supposed to prevent regeneration?
At the end of this episode, The Doctor is transported to the same other worldly realm as Yas was transported to earlier. We already know it’s possible to escape, but who will activate the equipment and how? Obviously, she will escape, otherwise that would be the end of the series.
So, all in all, an exciting first episode, with lots of twists in the plot to keep the viewer guessing. God only knows what bowlestrek the Season 11/Jodie Whittaker AND Star Trek: Discovery hater on YouTube will make up to explain why it was total crap! I think he should be exterminated!
4 January 2019 at 09:03 #67064I posted my last comment before reading any of your comments, but now I’ve read them, so I can comment on them. Unfortunately, I write my comment in Libre Office, then copied and pasted it onto this forum, only to find lots of formatting tags visible. I edited them out, but then found my post had disappeared, so then I had to copy and paste again, complete with tags. It seems tardigrade had a similar problem with editing, in spite of ending up with a tag free post.
I think Rels are mentioned in the very first Dalek story. I think they’re a very short time unit of a similar length to a second. I think the total number mentioned at first was about 9,800 Rels, meaning about 163 minutes, or 2 hours 43 minutes.
I don’t see what the suspension of UNIT could have to do with Brexit, for two reasons. 1. Brexit hasn’t happened yet and I hope it never does. This episode has the date given as as 01-01-2019. 2. In the BG episodes UNIT stood for United Nations Intelligence Taskforce, which had offices in Geneva, but in the AG episodes although it stands for UNified Intelligence Taskforce, a lot of its personnel are from the USA.
I don’t know if there’s any definnite information about the Doctor’s family in any episodes prior to AG Series 11, except that Susan was his Grandaughter. She reappeared in “The Five Doctors”. Apart from this, The Doctor is a member of the house of The Prydonians, but I’m not sure if that means they’re related.
Of course, during Series 11, The Doctor has mentioned various details about her family after saying in “The Woman Who Fell To Earth” that they were all dead, which seems to have rewritten history. This included having seven Grandmothers, but I’m not sure what else, as I didn’t notice at the time. I think I need to go back and watch all the Series 11 episodes again.
4 January 2019 at 00:11 #67062<span style=”font-size: medium;”>DOCTOR WHO “RESOLUTION“</span>
<span style=”font-size: medium;”>So, the Daleks are back! It‘s a pity that information was given out in advance. Even so, I couldn‘t have predicted what type of Dalek we‘d see in this episode, so I thought it was good that we saw a Dalek trying new tactics. I don‘t think I‘d ever seen a Dalek take over a human before. It was more like the BG “Planet of the Spiders“, or AG “Turn Left“ when I saw the Dalek creature on Lyn‘s back. </span>
<span style=”font-size: medium;”>As the story unfolded, I couldn‘t help feeling something new was happening and a feeling of excitement. I think this episode was as good as, if not better than, any episodes in Season 11. </span>
<span style=”font-size: medium;”>We get a date reference for the Daleks when it‘s revealed that the Dalek has been on Earth since the 9th Century AD. Does this fit in with any dates mentioned before, though? </span>
<span style=”font-size: medium;”>Who would‘ve expected Ryan‘s Dad Arron to suddenly appear after all this time, which included him missing Grace‘s funeral? He‘s been working on oil rigs, but is now trying to sell a combi microwave/conventional oven which he helped design, so he knows all about it. </span>
<span style=”font-size: medium;”>I thought it was a really amazing twist to have a Dalek blown up by Arron‘s oven, although I‘m not sure that part was scientifically sound. </span>
<span style=”font-size: medium;”>Sadly, I don‘t know if or when I‘ll be able to see another new Doctor Who episode, but at least it‘s finished with a bang! I don‘t plan to watch any BBC TV channels now for the foreseeable future. </span>
14 December 2018 at 21:44 #66644@pedant I don’t care about the BBC and their budget which refuses to give enough funds to Doctor Who! Recently the only BBC TV programme I’ve watched is “Doctor Who”. I used to watch BBC Click as well, but that seems to have gone downhill. As far as I’m concerned the BBC is closing down on January 2, 2019.
BTW, I’ve written a brilliant script for Eastenders (started during the first Doctor Who gap with Doctor Who money), which goes as follows…
“There’s a big event taking place in Albert Square. Due to some documents which have recently been discovered, someone who lives or has ever lived in Albert Square is entitled to receive £1,000,000,000. However, they can only receive this money if they return to Albert Square in time for an announcement about who is entitled to the money, otherwise it will be given to someone else. This causes all former residents who have moved away to return. Suddenly, a plague type disease breaks out, then Albert Square is put under quarantine by the authorities. Den Watts (who has previously died twice) suddenly reappears and is revealed to be a Dalek agent, reprising his role as Kiston from ‘Resurrection of The Daleks’. He says this plague is part of a Dalek plan to take over the Earth. The Doctor’s TARDIS materialises in Albert Square. The Doctor and her friends come out wearing spacesuits to avoid infection. The Doctor throws a force field around Albert Square to prevent the plague from spreading any further. Some Daleks turn up and start attacking the force field to put it out of action. In the ensuing battle, the whole of Albert Square and everyone inside the force field is incinerated, so there are no buildings or survivors left except The Doctor and her friends, who leave in the TARDIS. Finally, Den Wats wakes up in an old people’s home. The whole series of Eastenders from 1985 to the present is revealed to have been just his dream. Den is given some medication by a member of staff, then he goes to bed. THE END”. (Following this series finale the entire BBC budget for Eastenders, as well as the produczion crew are transferred to Doctor Who).
14 December 2018 at 09:06 #66631I was planning to post comments about each episode in Series 11 just after they were shown, but unfortunately I didn‘t get round to it. I haven‘t read any of your comments for this episode or several previous episodes before posting this, so they haven‘t influenced this post. I hope you reply to me.
What can I say?! There were so many concepts to try and come to terms with.
The Doctor and friends arrive on another alien planet. That‘s good! It‘s obvious to me that too many stories in Doctor Who have been set on Earth, especially in this series. They have to wear neural balancers to prevent the planet from driving them mad.
They meet up with a ship‘s Captain called Poltracky (SP?) who seems to have lost his mind, then a neural balancer from The Doctor enables him to regain it.
The Ux (SP?) are a species which has only two members living at any one time! How is that possible? I want to know more! Perhaps they‘re born pregnant, a bit like the Tribbles in Star Trek: TOS, but then when giving birth they die.
Tim Shaw, The Stenza from “The Woman Who Fell To Earth“ actually reappears in this episode! This means there is a sort of series arc, although that was denied previously. This was probably just to surprise the viewers.
I‘m glad that during Series 11 there were lots of new enemies. I don‘t think that new enemies have appeared frequently enough before now. In spite of this, I hope that in Series 12 we‘ll see the return of some old enemies, such as The Daleks, The Cybermen, Missy/The Master, The Zygons, The Autons, The Slitheen, The Rani, The Mara, or even Omega, who has already died twice, although that‘s fewer times than The Master.
Tim Shaw was collecting whole planets, then miniaturising them, but I‘m not sure how that‘s possible. He wasn‘t killed, but I think he should‘ve been. Lots of people and aliens have been killed in previous Doctor Who stories, dating back to a Cyberman in “The Tenth Planet“ (1966) by companion Ben Jackson, who wasn‘t dumped by The Doctor immediately afterwards.
I‘ve now heard that the BBC says that there will be no Doctor Who series 12 until 2020! I don‘t know how they dare to even suggest this! It all seems to be with taking too long in post production. I think that the Production Team on Doctor Who needs to find a quicker way of working, as well as having more more people working on Doctor Who. As for the number of episodes in Series 12, I think it must be restored to at least 13 episodes. Without checking my classic series Target Books Programme Guide by Jean Mark l‘Officier, in the 1960s, it seems that Doctor Who was showing one episode per week for most of the year. My reaction to this disgusting news from the BBC is close down Eastenders now! It‘s a waste of valuable resources! Make 2019 an Eastenders gap year!!
12 October 2018 at 22:42 #64407@Tempusfugit yes I noticed the dark roots as well. Not only that, but there’s now even a 13th Doctor doll at The Forbidden Planet with dark roots! This indicates it’s intentional, but I don’t know why.
12 October 2018 at 09:55 #64400I’ve noticed something in this episode which seems to be impossible, so I wonder if anyone can explain it.
As we all know from past regenerations, The Doctor’s hair can change colour, can become curly if it was straight, or vice versa. Hair is made of DNA, although hair and nails are made of dead cells.
One thing that doesn’t change during regeneration is the clothes, because they’re not part of The Doctor’s body, so they have to be changed by removing them and putting on different clothes. Just after the latest regeneration, The Doctor’s ring fell off. That Doctor wasn’t wearing any other jewellery AFAIK.
Near the end of “The Woman Who Fell To Earth”, THe Doctor’s left ear is clearly shown with two earrings, which both require piercings. I’ve seen this before in publicity photos, but now that I’ve seen the episode, I must ask the following question. How did those earrings and the piercings for them get there?!
8 October 2018 at 16:24 #64275It’s been great to read all these replies! I think my first post about “Rose” disappeared after I edited it, so I won’t edit my last post in this topic.
I watched this episode on BBC1 on a TV, then again on a laptop with headphones. I noticed that some of the dialogue was unclear on the TV, which was set to Voice mode, then I only found out what it said when I watched it again on my laptop with headphones. One example of this was when Ryan said he was a “warehouse worker”. Perhaps that TV just isn’t very good, but I don’t know. I felt I had to watch it on a TV because, as I noticed during Series 10, the Internet “live” streaming on he BBC website actually has a delay of what seems to be about a minute! It was the same delay with this episode, which I noiced as I had my laptop streaming it in case I lost the TV signal from a quite basic indoor aerial.
I thought this episode was generally quite good. One thing I noticed was when Jodie jumped from one crane to another, then said that she though her legs used to be longer. If they actually were, then how come her trousers weren’t longer as well? I didn’t think the trousers were really short on the 12th Doctor, but of course Jodie’s new blue trousers are quite short. The 12th Doctor’s outfit seemed to fit her quite well.
I liked the new theme. I thought it was better than previous versions of the theme in the current series. I was very disappointed with the theme that was used in 2005 by the BBC Wales Orchestra, but I’m not sure how long that continued. I listed to a playlist of all the themes since 1963 yesterday on Spotify. Some of them were so similar I didn’t notice when they changed in the as I was watching the series on TV. Now I’ve forgotten again! I remember thinking that the theme should definitely be electronic or with some weird sounding instruments. I think the BBC should have formed a new Radiophonics Workshop for that reason alone. Of course, it was all to do wih money!
8 October 2018 at 07:45 #64255Hello, I‘m new here. I tried to post a comment about the first ever new Doctor Who story “Rose“, but it somehow disappeared.
Here‘s what I think about the latest episdoe “The Woman Who Fell To Earth“, which I‘ve now seen twice, although I‘ve seen the last few minutes three times. I haven‘t read any reviews yet which were posted after the episode was shown on TV, so they haven‘t influenced me at all.
The title of this episode is obviously inspired by the film “The Man Who Fell To Earth“, featuring David Bowie. Some big differences between the two are that Bowie didn‘t actually fall to Earth, but J0die Whittaker certainly did, as well as this Doctor Who episode took place in Britain, not the USA. Don‘t forget how disastrous the Americanised Doctor Who: The TV Movie was!
The episode started without playing the theme tune. I kept wondering when it was going to be played. I was a bit disappointed that the regeneration sequence wasn‘t repeated. For some time I kept wondering where The Doctor was and how long it would take for her to appear. I can‘t remember at the moment how long this took.
The beginning of the episode was quite spooky and I kept asking myself if it was actually Doctor Who because of the style, as well as the length of time it took for The Doctor to appear. The series is supposed to have a new cinematic appearance, but this just means that it‘s not in the 16:9 format because it has narrow black bars at the top and bottom of the picture when seen on a 16:9 screen.
I kept looking for any trace of personality showing that this was Tee Doctor. I thought she shouod say or do something that a previous Doctor had done, but not Peter Capaldi. Eventually, we saw Jodie Whittaker telling an alien off and ordering it to leave Earth. This reminded me a bit of Matt Smith‘s debut “The Eleventh Hour“, but has also featured in “Twice Upon A Time“, as well as “Rose“.
The Doctor‘s pockets were empty. I wonder how this happened. The Doctor was shown actually making a new sonic screwdriver. This was something we‘ve never ever seen The Doctor do before. The Sonic Screwdriver first appeared during the Troughton Era, then was destroyed during the Davison Era. It seemed quite difficult for The Doctor to make a sonic screwdriver, as it was never replaced until Doctor Who The Movie, but Romana seemed to find it quite easy to make one. I couldn‘t help wondering how it was possible to make a sonic screwdriver using Earth technology, though.
I think we can safely say now from a preview, as well as the actual episode, that The Doctor‘s latest catchphrase is “Let‘s get a shift on!“ I‘ve never heard this expression before, but it‘s more or less the same as David Tennant‘s “Allons-y!“
After wearing Peter Capaldi‘s old outfit for almost the whole episode, The Doctor finally goes into a charity shop to put a new outfit together. In the past, The Doctor always get a new outfit from the TARDIS Wardrobe.
The TARDIS was absent for the whole story. I can‘t help wondering when was the last time this happened, for a whole story whether in the classic or the modern series. All I can think of is the story “Mission To The Unknown“, which didn‘t include The Doctor at all. A quick search brings up “Love and Monsters“, but I haven‘t seen this episode recently. I couldn‘t help thinking that the TARDIS should at least materialise somewhere on Earth instead of on another planet, as in the story “Cold War“.
The episode ends with The Doctor and all three companions being teleported into space. According to the Series 10 episode “Oxygen“, this means they should all fall unconscious in 15 seconds, so I can‘t help wondering how they‘re going to get out of that one! Obviously, they will escape from this fate, as we can make out from clips that have already been released, and if they didn‘t then that would be the end of the series.
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