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Two rumours for the price of one for 50th Anniversary
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Special to include all previous incarnations of the Doctor including those who have passed away and Christopher Eccleston
see http://www.airlockalpha.com/node/9506/report-christopher-eccleston-returns-for-doctor-who-anniversary.html
see http://www.airlockalpha.com/node/9506/report-christopher-eccleston-returns-for-doctor-who-anniversary.html
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I think Dimensions in Time was 1993 or thereabouts?
Nothing solid in the article airlock alpha are using for the source of their story though.
http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/tv/eleven-time-lords-to-feature-in-50th-1228442
The bit about Hartnall being dead for the Three Doctors seems to have been added by Airlock Alpha.
Just mix in clips from other productions. Hartnell's Doctor becomes embroiled with Brighton gangsters, Troughton's becomes a Punch & Judy man from pagan times, Pertwee's obsession with the Master leads to him adopting the Mark of the Rani scarecrow disguise.
So (if their source is genuine) seemingly just flashbacks rather than them interacting with the current Doctor.
To be fair, cramming eleven leads into an hour or so of television does raise some serious narrative difficulties.
William Hartnell had filmed his scenes in 1972 but was very ill so had to rely on 'idiot cards' to remember his lines. He died in 1975.
I was under the impression that they'd assumed he'd need idiot cards based on sound medical advice but on the day of filming he was having a good day versus his arteriosclerosis and didn't really need them.
Well that would just ruin it, it wouldn't be the first doctor unless he fumbled a line or two.
I always thought it was a crime that Eccleston only did one series. He had so much more to contribute to the franchise.
Jacqueline Hill, the actress who played Barbara, is sadly no longer alive, so that character cannot return unless she is recast. William Russell, who played Ian, is alive but now in his eighties, so if he feels fit and able he could certainly reprise the role.
I take the whole "Ian and Barbara haven't aged since they left the Doctor" remark with a pinch of salt and believe it to be hearsay rather than fact, and a William Russell as Ian return would certainly prove it to be false.
I just took that line to mean that the Ian and Barbara around then hadn't took "the long route" to get there.
So while more time may have passed on Earth than they actually aged it wasn't that much more, certainly not enough to start rumours that they had not aged.
*Unless you're suggesting they went off and travelled with the Doctor again and skipped a lot more years.
Maybe the automatic destruction mechanism didn't work on that Dalek time machine they went home in? They cleared off on the bus then Ian realised he'd left his favourite shirt behind or whatever, went back just to check and was surprised to discover the machine only a little singed but still fully functional...
Maybe during their travels with the Doctor they had adventures in which they traveled to 2010 and they encountered friends of theirs from the 60s who were now old and couldn't believe Ian and Barbara hadn't aged. So that's how the 'rumour' started. Once they return to Earth after The Chase, they actually age normally. But at some point in 2010 there are both the old Ian and Barbara and briefly a younger version of them during an adventure with the First Doctor.
^^^this^^^
"50th anniversary will feature the living Doctors, the dead Doctors, and Christopher Eccleston"