Originally Posted by cynthia:
“Newman wanted Dr. Who to be started up again, but did not live to see it. He must not have minded all the changes made to his doctor from his first inception during the early discussions in 1962 and the first program aired in 1963. They were looking for a children's program to fill up a particular time slot and the BBC children's section was particularly angry with the scenes in which Susan starts wielding a knife in The Edge of Destruction. But I don't think Newman intended to be strictly a history-teaching program. Certainly the episode The Dead City with the Daleks was not one of those, tho it garnered 7 million viewers. I think there is no difference in the first doctor going to visit the Aztecs and the 10th doctor going to visit Pompeii.
Everything the doctor became was laid out in the Hartnell years; Newman should have been proud I think and stunned at the technical advances made since he had to cobble together a TARDIS.”
“Newman wanted Dr. Who to be started up again, but did not live to see it. He must not have minded all the changes made to his doctor from his first inception during the early discussions in 1962 and the first program aired in 1963. They were looking for a children's program to fill up a particular time slot and the BBC children's section was particularly angry with the scenes in which Susan starts wielding a knife in The Edge of Destruction. But I don't think Newman intended to be strictly a history-teaching program. Certainly the episode The Dead City with the Daleks was not one of those, tho it garnered 7 million viewers. I think there is no difference in the first doctor going to visit the Aztecs and the 10th doctor going to visit Pompeii.
Everything the doctor became was laid out in the Hartnell years; Newman should have been proud I think and stunned at the technical advances made since he had to cobble together a TARDIS.”
I think it's great the historicals have come back in the New Series. I wouldn't say I've a big fan of them all but it's great The Doctor goes back in history more than he did during large parts of Classic Who.
I agree that effects-wise, Newman would have undoubtedly have loved that side of the programme.
