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shame he didn't, yeah they are not connected to show but they were good

I quite like that idea as a way of including him. There's no way you could fit those movies into the canon of the show, as they're just too different (what with the Doctor being a completely different character!) But the idea of making them actually be movies that exist in the doctor Who universe is quite a good way of acknowledging them.

Shame it all came down to a rights issue.

I think there's a short story where the Third Doctor actually goes and sees the films so that idea has been thought of before.


Possibly just a fan theory but it may have also been said elsewhere (audio or book) that the films are based on a book Ian and Barbara wrote.

That would make sense. Ian and Barbara write a book that faithfully depicts their time travelling with the Doctor. Then some studio buys it and an idiot producer comes along and goes "oh we can't have the hero being an alien. Let's change that," and the rest is history.

I always wanted to see an episode where The Doctor comes across a hugely inaccurate movie of his life, perhaps made by humans in the future and pieced together from the myths and legends about him.

I don't know how you'd get a whole plot out of it, but it seemed fun.

And I loved the Cushing movies too... as others have said they're too big a step away from The Doctor to be specifically canon but I always think they're deserving of a mention

I think the X Files did a similar thing but I always had a plot in mind where the Doctor arrives in the 1960s and sees a dodgy fictious version of his life with wobbly sets, naff aliens etc but a real alien is in hiding there. The final scenes involve a huge fire which destroys the mastertapes of the earliest episodes...

Yes, X Files: Season 7...Hollywood AD. The episode was okay, but a bit of a wasted opportunity...Tea Leoni was hilarious as "Scully" though
It also reminds me a little of King Kong, when the gorilla is in the theatre at the end and an actress is playing Ann Darrow... a parody of the films own protagonist.

That would be an absolutely brilliant idea I'd love to see something like that done just the once.

personally, glad they didn't. There would have been many people who, on seeing them acknowledged on the 50th, might have tried to seek them out, and then, on watching them, would believe that the doctor was human at one point, and that his real name is doctor who. Anyone then trying to explain to them that those movies were not real doctor who would be met with 'but they must be, they were referenced in the 50th!'. I shudder to think.

I would have loved that, but can you imagine some of the threads that would have cropped up about how Bernard Cribbins can exist as an actor in The Doctor's universe, but also as Wilf in same universe.

See? I still say that behind Door 11 should have been Bernard Cribbins.

Just sitting there, bold as brass.