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Bring Back....Classic Doctor Who
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There's a thread over in the TV forum section about last nights Bring Back...Dallas programme on channel 4. Hosted by Justin Lee Collins it followed the same format as his previous Bring Back shows. These reunited some cast members of Grange Hill and The A Team, both staple progs of my youth(I'm 30).
Any way it got me thinking, as a new and classic DW fan, which actors would you like JLC to track down, maybe for a future program. I know he's making a Bring Back....Star Wars show this summer and that'll be very ambitious. Closer to home though, I'd love to see a show where they reunited the largest Tardis crew in DW history of Davisons Doctor, Nyssa,Tegan,Adric and Turlough. Out of interest, if such a programme were made, whcih former DW characters would you like to see reunited.
Any way it got me thinking, as a new and classic DW fan, which actors would you like JLC to track down, maybe for a future program. I know he's making a Bring Back....Star Wars show this summer and that'll be very ambitious. Closer to home though, I'd love to see a show where they reunited the largest Tardis crew in DW history of Davisons Doctor, Nyssa,Tegan,Adric and Turlough. Out of interest, if such a programme were made, whcih former DW characters would you like to see reunited.
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they already tried this before and didn't go so well,
the only chance is if BBC4 think about regularly repeating Classic Doctor Who
Can't see that happening - it'd hit DVD sales.
could do ones that aren't on DVD then :cool:
At a push, they could add Nicholas Courtney, John Levene, Roy Skelton, John Leeson and perhaps a few of the Dalek operators and guys in rubber suits. They may not have all appeared together at the same time, but it would be really easy to find clips featuring various combinations of these performers.
Lalla Ward (Romana), whom he was married to for 16 months, hasn't spoken to him for over 20 years. She suggested she might be willing to do an audio commentary with him a while back, but the restoration team's steve roberts has said 2entertain wouldn't book it.
My favourite anecdote is when Tom Baker tells the above story, flashes a grin, nods sadly and says "Very true, too."
AIUI Ward has said she has no problem meeting up with Baker for some convention/event but he always avoids her. The general tone of interviews with him on the subject of Ward seem to suggest that it's not that he dislikes her but that he feels rather bad about how he treated her and can't face her.
Would it hit DVD sales - I very much doubt it, the majority of DVD sales are to hard core fans who would probably buy them anyway. (Some buy every release and some buy their favourites.) This is not because of the stories but because of the wonderful extra's that are provided by the Restoration Team. I was watching Survival over the weekend and the documentary on what would have happened had Season 27 been commisioned was fascinating (The Cartmel Masterplan!!).
I think the main problem is most of the older B&W episodes are now pretty much below broadcastable quality. I taped most of them during the last run on UK Gold and I really cannot watch them now.
As for a bring back - unlike most of the shows in the C4 series, the majority of the Dr Who cast do get together on a regular basis whether it is to record commentaries for the DVD's or for the Big Finnish audio releases. There are also many interviews on the DVD's that are worth watching. For example a really good insight in Tom Baker's departure on Logopolis during which he talks about Lalla Ward.
In reallity I would love BBC 4 to do a theme night or weekend (rather like the one they are doing with Kid's TV at the moment) and feature some of these interviews. They deserve a wider audience and may encourage sales of the DVD's. (Of course this would then help provide budget with such things as colouring some of the B&W only episodes and animating some of the missing episodes as they did with The Invasion)
They're regularly reunited to do the commentaries for Davison era DVDs
Troughton is dead, but Michael Gough (the Toymaker) is still happily with us aged 93 according to imdb!
But the second doctor never had a story with the toymaker
They might be confusing him with The Master of The Land of Fiction who Troughton did meet
Do you mean Michael Grade?:)
Are you sure? I was very very young at the time - was it the first Doctor then?
Yep, first doctor. Episode 4 of the story, the only one of the four that still exists, is on the lost in time DVD set.
Thanks - I was younger than I remember