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I suppose he was 'my' Master too, but even at 10/11, I realised his portrayal was too over-the-top. Not that I ever for a minute thought it was his 'fault', or that he was a bad actor, he plainly wasn't.
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I suppose he was 'my' Master too, but even at 10/11, I realised his portrayal was too over-the-top. Not that I ever for a minute thought it was his 'fault', or that he was a bad actor, he plainly wasn't.
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I can never watch Ainley's master without thinking of Blackadder II nowdays.
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The dr was like his grandkid but he was intelluctaly better than the dr in some ways but usd his power to do evil , the dr could be at times self sacfring and less fair to himself axI liked he master being greedy and eating burgers
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The dr was like his grandkid but he was intelluctaly better than the dr in some ways but usd his power to do evil , the dr could be at times self sacfring and less fair to himself axI liked he master being greedy and eating burgers
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[quote=tingramretro;39963046[B]]I'm...not sure I can ever remember Anthony Ainley doing that, in fact...
[/[/b]QUOTE]Neither do I! Have I missed something or have I shifted sideways into a parallel universe somewhere?! ![]()
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For anyone who complains about Ainley, I point out that as my Doctor was Paul McGann, my Master was Eric Roberts...
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For anyone who complains about Ainley, I point out that as my Doctor was Paul McGann, my Master was Eric Roberts...
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I loved Ainley's Master when I was growing up and always looked forward to his appearances, so have a huge soft spot for him - had a big grin on my face when they used his laughter in Utopia. Have to agree with the people who say he worked best with Davison, I always thought of him as Davison's Master, as Delgado was Pertwee's. Quote:
...he was the grandson of the great Edwardian actor-manager Sir Henry Ainley.
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Anthony Ainley was a smashing actor. I caught him by chance in a recent repeat of "Upstairs Downstairs" playing a very smooth aristocratic politician on the make to the life. I remember also a late 60s spy series on ITV called "Spyder's Web" where he wa co-lead.
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I liked Anthony Ainley as the master but after Roger Degaldo it was always going to be a hard act to follow for anyone taking the role.
In fact I have liked them all (although I was never too keen on Eric Roberts). Roger was my personal fave out of all the actors playing this wonderful renegade timelord. Hmm, I don't know. I was never sure Gordon Tipple really nailed it...
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Oh, he was in a good few things over the years. I remember him being in The Land That Time Forgot, a rather over-complicated "lost world" fantasy from the 70s where the crews of a British ship and a German U-boat are stranded together in a land of dinosaurs. Anthony was one of the German crew.
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Wasn't he second-in-command to the U-boat captain?
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JNT, who over the course of his ten years made a lot of mistakes as producer.
JNT was not perfect, but he lived and breathed DW. |
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Let's not forgot the number of things that John Nathan-Turner got RIGHT, and also not forget that it was his commitment to the show that kept it on telly. He forfeited a much more diverse career, staying with DW forever, because there was nobody else to make the show! If he had quit and gone elsewhere, DW would have ended.
JNT was not perfect, but he lived and breathed DW. One of the things I did credit him for was during the hiatus in '86 when he was working behind the scenes to save the show. I also said he did care for the show and yes, some things were out of his control. Unfortunately, I stand by what I said about Anthony Ainley and Colin Baker. The latter in particular.
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The dr was like his grandkid but he was intelluctaly better than the dr in some ways but usd his power to do evil , the dr could be at times self sacfring and less fair to himself axI liked he master being greedy and eating burgers
