Without him the revamp of the show wouldn't have worked. He won awards for his performances, David Tennant didn't.

Yet with all the repeats, his series is never repeated. With the top 10 enemies shows on BBC 3 at the moment, not one features Christopher Ecclestone.

I confess, he is my favourite of the 3 most recent. I think his portrayal of the Doctor as a lonely, soul-sick warrior gradually brought back to life by his relationship with Rose is at first compelling and finally stunning.

That moment Rose after looked into the heart of the Tardis to save him and he looks at her with a crooked grin and says "you're not supposed to do that", full, at last, of love and gratitude and sorrow, my heart almost breaks.

Why won't they show it anymore?

erm, thats not certainly not correct.



They do show it, but he did less series than Tennant and Smith so obviously there are less of his episodes to show.

Look I do think at times Eccleston gets the rough end of the stick and I do think some people fail to realise how important he was to the series being relaunched. but threads like this, based on factually inaccurate information which seek to run down other people in order to build Eccleston up are really not helpful.

His season is currently being repeated on Watch. CEs season was the beginning of the new era and as such, the stories were not as epic as those for DT or MS but some of the enemies/monsters in his era have been some of the best, The Empty Child for example! He has been the only Doctor in NuWho who has been up against the 'named' Autons. In MSs era, I'm pretty sure they weren't named.

In terms of him being airbrushed out! Really! I think he is talked about as much as any other Doctor but if you're referring to the 50th, who knows , no ones seen it yet, we were surprised with Night of the Doctor, so who knows what other surprises are round the corner!

I want to know why Donna was the only NuWho companion not to have her own "segment" in the The Companions show on Watch? Thought it was strange.

Did I blink and miss it?

No, she blinked and got erased from time!

Weeping Angels *shakes fist*

Bloody fuming. Rose hogging the screen time again, don't get me started on Martha. Grrrrr!!!

Christopher Ecclestone's Doctor has been airbrushed from history and replaced with Christopher Eccleston's Doctor.

Agree. What happened there?

Don't watch, er 'Watch' but if they're 'dissing' Donna by not including her I'm going to write a very strong letter of complaint! How very DARE they!

Maybe not. Just another excuse to post how much I adore the character. (Series 4 re-watch definitely coming up in the new year. )

Heaps of praise was thrown on Eccleston on The Doctors Revisited.

It amazes me still now that so many people can incorrectly spell his name when claiming he was one of their favourites.

I do think he does get overlooked a fair bit of the time, though I appreciate the difficulty in focusing on those 13 episodes when there are now 102 full length episodes of Nu-Who about. It's a bit of a shame, as Series 1 remains one of my favourites and I think is the only series to have got it tonally spot on. It also has my still-favourite finale, with that Dalek Emperor and the Empty Child from earlier in the series ranking as some of my favourite 'villains'.

It always used to annoy me when BBC3 would only repeat Series 2 onwards. Eccleston was my first Doctor and Series 1 has some great episodes. Now days it doesn't really bother me as much as i've seen them all but it still seems a bit unfair that he's brushed over, despite his attitude towards the show.

I rewatched it very recently. I don't think CE's performance is as good as Smith or Tennant, though he probably had a harder time 're-imagining' the part.

And, as I said in another thread, RTD's new monsters don't have any of the gravitas you'd want. In fact, I'd say that 2005 is aimed at a younger audience than what followed.

It's far too much 'what would 8-year olds' want?

Number 1 Monsters and villains will be the Daleks maybe they will show Dalek as the episode

Ecclestons terror at seeing a dalek in "dalek" is one of the finest performances by any doctor EVER!

That's true! That was true fear wasn't it!! Yeah I'm sure they will show that tonight. I'm not watching these particular shows this weekend to be honest, they are all Nu-Who - I've got the first four series on DVD already! I was hoping for some Classic scenes of the original series.

Never mind.....more to come next week!

it shows how much the Doctor both hates and fears them!

I don't like Eccleston's Doctor much, but I agree that he's had a poor deal as regards repeats. They used to show all Tennant's series a lot on BBC 3 but Eccleston's never got repeated.

Some of his episodes are among my favourites - The Empty Child 2 parter for instance.

As for spelling names wrong, it's easily done. Unbelievably, I spelt Tennant's name wrong inadvertently on here a few weeks ago. I had to iron my hands as self-punishment.

I tend to agree with you, last broadcast of Series 1 on BBC was July 2009, Series 2 by comparison was Feb 2012.

There was a time when they only wanted people to think about Tennant's Doctor. These days it's not the case as much.

Bingo

Yeah, "Airbrushed from history"

No idea but I sat through the baloney of the Martha section and then... nothing.

I think it was made by a US production company, don't know why they'd exclude her.

Rights issues?
(Not that it matters to anyone who taped them on original transmission or has the boxsets!)