I actually enjoyed Eric Saward's stories in Doctor Who. I also loved 'The Visitation' besides the mentioned ones, at least it's a memorable historical to me. Revelation actually starts as an interesting mystery too and there's some shift in tone between Peri and the Doctor which I think helped the story. Also, I should mention: Those covers look simple but very snazzy.
@John Ross I know where you're coming from but I think production issues hindered much of that era too. I loved Earthshock. We'll say nothing of the 5 Doctors! I was hoping someone with some experience would help improve the latest version of the Doctor. I love Jodie but the writing has been poor.
@John Ross "Why? He's a bad writer and a terrible script editor. There are reasons 80s Who is regarded so poorly and he's one of them. " Good point. In my opinion, it says something that Saward has never written ANYTHING else for TV except Doctor Who in the '80s. Check his imdb page.
What, because it was recently released remastered in HD with new effects and 5.1 surround sound on the Blu-ray boxset which also got a cinema premier over The Green Death.
@@HOTD108_ Some serials do benefit from "tampering"; "Day of the Daleks" is much more watchable when the Daleks actually sound like Daleks and not someone's dad doing an imitation for their kid, and Adric's death in "Earthshock" is much more impactful when it's not rendered like an Atari 2600 game. Doctor Who always had a reputation for bad effects, but some are less tolerable than others (a sentiment that longtime fan Colin Baker agrees with). I'd only have an issue with the added effects if the original versions were removed from print entirely, but the people who produce these altered releases are wise enough to keep the original versions alongside the new ones. It helps for the sake of comparison, and can both let you appreciate what the production team could to within the budgets of their times and allow you to see effects that haven't aged as gracefully in a new light. For what it's worth, there are a number of serials that I do prefer unaltered, such as "Kinda" and "The Five Doctors".
Not quite sure you can qualify Saward's comments here as genuine 'praise' for Colin: "Peter Davidson is a very good actor and it's a joy to hear him delivering lines I'd written, or certainly edited. And Colin Baker... a force of nature that's interesting, always interesting." A comparison that's damning for Colin in its faint praise.
It seemed like praise for both actors, yeah. Some people prefer a skilled performer like Davison and some prefer a force of nature who explodes onto the screen like Colin Baker. I like both. And Resurrection is my favorite story.
My three most terrifying Dr Who episodes as a kid and still today were Earthshock, Ressurection, and Revelation. Still is today at 46. It makes sense now that he wrote all three! I never knew this.
@Xtra Spice Mikey The millions in ratings, high AI, mainly positive feedback online, and the consensus of the general public that it's still good, if not great, says otherwise.
@Xtra Spice Mikey My stats are correct. Yes S11 did drop by 4 million viewers, before rising for the finale. This drop is characteristic of many series of Doctor Who especially New Who series. Plus a drop of 4 million isn't exceptional as both S1 and S5 dropped by over 4 million each. Also the worst rated show of S11, 'It Takes You Away', still did better than all but one of S10's episodes. And there are reports that S11 is the highest rated series since 'The Day Of The Doctor' special. Plus we do have to take into account that it was broadcast on a Sunday, which doesn't seem to do well for BBC1 as Strictly Come Dancing has 2 million more viewers for its Saturday show than it does for its results show on Sunday. Now as for online, I don't know where you've been getting this idea that the DW fans hate S11, as on Twitter and TH-cam the replies to the official DW feed and channel has been mainly positive. S11 may not have been the best series of Doctor Who, yet it was far from being the worst. So just get over it and accept it's going to be around for years to come.
@@FreeTheDonbas Please don't be offended if I tell you that I have a full grip of the plot and understand its order in terms of Jo Grant stories. But to answer your question directly: What more could I ask for? I think every Hulke script surpasses it and with one or two exceptions, is among the weakest Pertwee productions. Oh, and before I forget, my 386 still hasn't loaded Windows 10, but its still pacier than 'Colony'.
@@FreeTheDonbas Attack of the Cybermen is not Saward's best of course but it might be one of the most underrated stories in the show's history. It's a little convoluted but it has has great characters and dialogue in my view. It also sees the show, arguably for the first time since season 17 actually daring to play with humour and fun again, even while telling a serious story. It is the blood brother and semi-sequel to Resurrection (which other than the music and Terry Molloy making a good Davros is terrible on every level imaginable) but despite that particular story having all the perceived flaws of Attack (and then some), fans will call it a classic without hesitation.
@@FreeTheDonbas Well then who does? Gary said he didn't write a turkey and you said to him 'you'd probably consider Attack of the Cybermen a turkey, no?'. After you said this he stood by his original point - so how could that be interpreted any other way than you being the one that dislikes the story?
I miss when doctor who gave us lots of trailers and teaser trailers to get us hyped for new series (Like Series 8 in 2014), for series 11 we only had 2 teaser trailers and 2 trailers and for series 12 we haven’t had anything yet apart from the Judoon announcement and that was more than 2 months ago
It's a deliberate marketing decision not to reveal too much too early Many previous seasons flat out made announcements of things that were supposed tobe secrets
I would love to read a purely historical Doctor Who novel by Eric. Actual pure historicals (as opposed to sci-fi laced pseudo-historicals) tend to be rare beasts.
"Actual pure historicals (as opposed to sci-fi laced pseudo-historicals) tend to be rare beasts." They were common in the Hartnell era but were phased out around 1966 by Innes Lloyd because they didn't perform well in the ratings.
@@MALONEYCAMFIELD They didn't perform well in the audience surveys. It was only The Gunfighters that convinced Innes Lloyd that pure historicals were a ratings issue.
@@BlueSkyBS I didn't know The Gunfighters was a particular ratings disaster, but I knew it wasn't popular with fans and Innes Lloyd didn't like it because he'd inherited it from the previous team. I think I'm right that after The Highlanders in 1966, there wasn't another purely historical story until Black Orchid in 1982 (which Davison REALLY didn't like) and there were no more until the show ended in 1989.
Never say never but might Eric Saward write his own novelisation of Earthshock (like David Fisher penned his own novelisations of The Stones of Blood and The Androids of Tara for AudioGo)?
Revelation by far. It's a well written dark comedy. Resurrection is a bit of mess. Too much going on, too many characters and the actual plot gets lost. Whilst both stories might be grim, Resurrection crosses over into uncomfortable areas.
It's tricky, as they're both excellent stories, and both are very well cast, acted and directed. I think that Revelation is a more interesting concept, however, and the writing is very skilful indeed, interweaving various subplots and managing to achieve a perfect balance between no less than _five_ double acts: Kara/Vogel, Orcini/Bostock, Natasha/Grigori, Takis/Lilt and of course the Doctor and Peri. We also have two memorable solo performances from Clive Swift as Jobel and Alexei Sayle as the DJ. There's a lot of delicious dark humour running through the story, too, which I love - even Davros gets some genuinely witty lines, and Terry Molloy is excellent as ever. With all these plus-points going for it, it's no wonder that I revisit Revelation the most often out of the two stories, but I enjoy them both.
Resurrection is my fave of all time. It sets up so many intriguing characters and situations related to the Daleks and confronts the Doctor with such dark and powerful choices that I find it endlessly fascinating. The Daleks, his biggest headache, are literally on the verge of extinction... or resurrection... it's a situation where he can tilt it...all he has to do is become an executioner...as Tegan tells him... it's murder... and the way it plays out is brilliant, but so much is left unsaid in the end. You get to take it away with you and think about it. Love that.
I believe that was a decision by the director, Graeme Harper, who wanted them to sound more like humans because they were supposed to be Daleks made from humans.
@@IllusivePrime That's a good question and one I can't explain. It might be that they just forgot to set up the usual "ring modulator" device to differentiate them. It is a bit odd, I agree. The old series was usually shot very quickly in the studios and mistakes were sometimes left in the programmes.
@@MALONEYCAMFIELD I don't know how the ring modulators work, but I thought that when the dalek operators inside speak they talk into some mic and the modulator is inbuilt to the casings. If their was a remastered version, they could keep the orignal voices of the Necros Daleks as they are and Dalek-fy the Renegades, it's a good episode, to me, I would rather want the show runners to spend time on episodes makeing them look and sound good rather than rushing it.
@@IllusivePrime "I don't know how the ring modulators work, but I thought that when the dalek operators inside speak they talk into some mic and the modulator is inbuilt to the casings." The Dalek voices were never performed by the Dalek operators, they were performed by voice actors like Roy Skelton in a corner of the studio speaking into the ring modulator, which distorted their voice and made them sound more mechanical.
So excluding the Daleks, planet of the Daleks, Death to the Daleks Earthshock, Resurrection of the Daleks remembrance of the Daleks, Silver nemesis The Daemons , the Awakening The tenth planet, Moonbase What Stories do people think owe similarities to other stories? --
Sixth Doctor serials were great; it was scrapping them for Trial of a Time Lord which was ill-advised. Although McCoy has his charms, I consider the first axing of DW to be the end of the Classic series.
@@fellowcitizen If they'd taken Doctor Who off completely in 1985, I would never have been a fan, as my earliest memory of the show is the cliffhanger to episode one of Remembrance of the Daleks.
Just FYI she's not the 13th Doctor she's the 14th doctor because there was the old man who wanted to press the button and blow up his Homeworld but the image of bad wolf talk to me out of it 15 if you count the partial regeneration in which he dumped the excess energy into his spare hand
@Vitex2002 ...and a fine novelisation it is too. The audiobook is also great, with Peter Davison's excellent narration and cyber-voices by Nicholas Briggs.
It's for marketability's sake, kinda like how classic series merch throughout the 2000's used the Third Doctor's logo, which had previously been reused for the 1996 telemovie.
they did that since forever, when 1st Doctor novelisations had the neon 80s logo on them the only reason the "classic series" got a separate logo was because the BBC didn't want this old embarrassment of theirs having the same logo as their fancy new show, let's be honest I think everything should have the era appropriate logo, but it's better to have one logo for everything than 2 different arbitrary logos
He famously said Baker was miscast in his Starburst interview in 1986. Over 20 years later (which meant he had plenty of time to think about it) he said pretty much the same thing in the documentary "Trials and Tribulations". So it might be a bit late for him to say different today and convince anybody.
Personally, I didn't like Colin Baker as the Doctor. But then I didn't like Eric Saward much as a script editor, or John Nathan-Turner as a producer. I think they all played their part in the decline of the show. I agree with what the likes of Terrance Dicks, Philip Hinchcliffe and Mark Gatiss said about what happened to the show in its later years.
@@TolNoodle - you may find series 11 'a very bland excuse of writing', but this is 80's writer Eric Saward interviewed by Matthew Sweet about stories broadcast 35 years before Series 11. Got any comment about that?
@@sadako24 no but Eric purposely went out of his way to hire writers and sign off scrips that he wasn't happy with just because he didn't agree with JNT and colin baker becoming to the doctor, anyone is that situation would of just left
@@sadako24 sadako has got it about right. Neither JNT nor Saward were good on the show in my view. JNT was not a fan of science fiction (Cartmel mentions that on the DVD commentary for Greatest Show in the Galaxy) and, according to both Bidmead and Saward in interviews, JNT had no particular interest in scripts. Davison has said pretty much the same thing. Janet Fielding said variety entertainment was JNT's great love. Saward, meanwhile, had never written a script for television before The Visitation, and on the basis of that story alone was - incredibly - made script editor of the show. The pairing of JNT and Saward was a recipe for disaster. They were never really on the same page and neither were good enough.
Knight Chime I love Colin Baker as a actor. And as much debate the Extreme Whovian love SLAGGING JNT casting a “big name actor” for the 6th Doctor. JNT for once did something ingenious in casting Colin Baker as the 6th Doctor!!!! I love his patchwork outfit as it is unique and his smooth sounding voice and his blond curls. As much “Slagging” I am doing. I though Time Lash, which is the most unpopular episode is the 6th Doctor at his finest. The First is the one that started it all and he is the original so no one in their Right Mind will Slag the First. The one we and every one should Slag is a bloke named Eric Saward!!!!
@@FreeTheDonbas He's likely referring to casting a woman as the Doctor, which some people think was done just to be PC. But as the for "DW has always been 'woke'", I'm not sure I really agree with that. The portrayal of female companions in the original show is usually considered pretty sexist, Talons of Weng-Chiang (one of the most popular stories) was about as un-PC as it gets, Terrance Dicks has never struck me as "woke" with his comments on women being "strapped to the circular saw" and on the British Empire. There was also a chronic lack of representation of "people of colour" in the show until Cartmel made a point of introducing more of them at the very end of the run. And don't forget that Dr Judson in Curse of Fenric was intended by the writer to be gay but this was vetoed by JNT (himself gay) because he thought it inappropriate. So I'd say compared to New Who, the old show was not woke at all and they've made a particularly a big effort to fix that with the 21st century series.
Why does no one ever question the Tardis itself? In almost every "redecoration" of the Tardis it has some sort of either bumps or lights dotting the walls. It almost always looks like you are standing inside a Dalek looking at the outer shell????
Resurrection of the Daleks has a higher kill count than Terminator
Terminator supposedly has 39, Resurrection has 59.
I actually enjoyed Eric Saward's stories in Doctor Who. I also loved 'The Visitation' besides the mentioned ones, at least it's a memorable historical to me. Revelation actually starts as an interesting mystery too and there's some shift in tone between Peri and the Doctor which I think helped the story. Also, I should mention: Those covers look simple but very snazzy.
*No dislikes as all things should be with these video's* . Eric Saward is up there as one of the best writers for Classic Who in the 80's
Well he did treat Colin badly by shortening his role in his stories just because he didn’t approve of the casting Colin
Earthshock and Revelation Of The Daleks were agreeably your best, Eric. I enjoyed The Visitation too. Thank you very much. 👏🏻
Thank you Eric for answering my question, I'm looking forward to reading your book now even more! 😁
would love for him to write for the latest series, especially since it has been announced the next series will be darker.
@John Ross I know where you're coming from but I think production issues hindered much of that era too. I loved Earthshock. We'll say nothing of the 5 Doctors! I was hoping someone with some experience would help improve the latest version of the Doctor. I love Jodie but the writing has been poor.
I would love to see this. I still haven't recovered from Moffat's Editorship.
@John Ross "Why? He's a bad writer and a terrible script editor. There are reasons 80s Who is regarded so poorly and he's one of them.
" Good point. In my opinion, it says something that Saward has never written ANYTHING else for TV except Doctor Who in the '80s. Check his imdb page.
Resurrection of the Daleks is my all time fave. The way Tegan leaves after the events of the story is amazing. Haunting storytelling.
@@sadako24 Maybe... I guess I'll find out.
Unpopular opinion I know but, my personal favourite classic Dalek story is ‘Planet of the daleks’
What, because it was recently released remastered in HD with new effects and 5.1 surround sound on the Blu-ray boxset which also got a cinema premier over The Green Death.
MrTARDISreviews no. Because it was the second classic story I saw, pertwee is my favourite classic doctor and I just genuinely like the story.
Adore Planet.
Great great story.
That episode is awesome.
@@HOTD108_ Some serials do benefit from "tampering"; "Day of the Daleks" is much more watchable when the Daleks actually sound like Daleks and not someone's dad doing an imitation for their kid, and Adric's death in "Earthshock" is much more impactful when it's not rendered like an Atari 2600 game. Doctor Who always had a reputation for bad effects, but some are less tolerable than others (a sentiment that longtime fan Colin Baker agrees with).
I'd only have an issue with the added effects if the original versions were removed from print entirely, but the people who produce these altered releases are wise enough to keep the original versions alongside the new ones. It helps for the sake of comparison, and can both let you appreciate what the production team could to within the budgets of their times and allow you to see effects that haven't aged as gracefully in a new light.
For what it's worth, there are a number of serials that I do prefer unaltered, such as "Kinda" and "The Five Doctors".
Praise for Colin Baker - awesome! :D
Ol' Sixie getting some LOVE.
Not quite sure you can qualify Saward's comments here as genuine 'praise' for Colin: "Peter Davidson is a very good actor and it's a joy to hear him delivering lines I'd written, or certainly edited. And Colin Baker... a force of nature that's interesting, always interesting." A comparison that's damning for Colin in its faint praise.
It seemed like praise for both actors, yeah. Some people prefer a skilled performer like Davison and some prefer a force of nature who explodes onto the screen like Colin Baker. I like both. And Resurrection is my favorite story.
Eric has always hated colin baker, in previous interviews hes shown that pretty clear
5:34 "Force of energy", not force of nature...
Ultimate Force Of Energy?
My three most terrifying Dr Who episodes as a kid and still today were Earthshock, Ressurection, and Revelation. Still is today at 46. It makes sense now that he wrote all three! I never knew this.
Thank you for answering my question!
Wonderful little interview! It's great to see the last 2 classic who serials getting the novel treatment at last! And about time too!
It’s a brilliant book. I can’t wait for the audio.
So many memorable characters in Revelation of the Daleks.
doctor who is the best!!!!
@@MichaelM28 Is!
@Xtra Spice Mikey The millions in ratings, high AI, mainly positive feedback online, and the consensus of the general public that it's still good, if not great, says otherwise.
@Xtra Spice Mikey My stats are correct.
Yes S11 did drop by 4 million viewers, before rising for the finale.
This drop is characteristic of many series of Doctor Who especially New Who series.
Plus a drop of 4 million isn't exceptional as both S1 and S5 dropped by over 4 million each.
Also the worst rated show of S11, 'It Takes You Away', still did better than all but one of S10's episodes.
And there are reports that S11 is the highest rated series since 'The Day Of The Doctor' special.
Plus we do have to take into account that it was broadcast on a Sunday, which doesn't seem to do well for BBC1 as Strictly Come Dancing has 2 million more viewers for its Saturday show than it does for its results show on Sunday.
Now as for online, I don't know where you've been getting this idea that the DW fans hate S11, as on Twitter and TH-cam the replies to the official DW feed and channel has been mainly positive.
S11 may not have been the best series of Doctor Who, yet it was far from being the worst.
So just get over it and accept it's going to be around for years to come.
Two great stories
Eric's the only multi-story writer (3+ stories) from the classic series who _didn't_ write a turkey.
Good guy, but so unfairly underrated.
@@FreeTheDonbas Colony In Space.
@@FreeTheDonbas Please don't be offended if I tell you that I have a full grip of the plot and understand its order in terms of Jo Grant stories.
But to answer your question directly: What more could I ask for?
I think every Hulke script surpasses it and with one or two exceptions, is among the weakest Pertwee productions.
Oh, and before I forget, my 386 still hasn't loaded Windows 10, but its still pacier than 'Colony'.
@@FreeTheDonbasTo answer your question on 'Attack Of The Cybermen', I refer you to my original point.
@@FreeTheDonbas Attack of the Cybermen is not Saward's best of course but it might be one of the most underrated stories in the show's history. It's a little convoluted but it has has great characters and dialogue in my view. It also sees the show, arguably for the first time since season 17 actually daring to play with humour and fun again, even while telling a serious story. It is the blood brother and semi-sequel to Resurrection (which other than the music and Terry Molloy making a good Davros is terrible on every level imaginable) but despite that particular story having all the perceived flaws of Attack (and then some), fans will call it a classic without hesitation.
@@FreeTheDonbas Well then who does? Gary said he didn't write a turkey and you said to him 'you'd probably consider Attack of the Cybermen a turkey, no?'. After you said this he stood by his original point - so how could that be interpreted any other way than you being the one that dislikes the story?
9:24 Well over 800 episodes now, Eric.
I think you'll find that 800 is over 500. 😉
@@karlmortoniv2951 Yeah I know, just needs to do 149 more episodes to reach 1000.
Matthew sweet is amazing. Keep him doing these please!
e loves him
Yes, I could listen to him all day!
My brain always goes directly to 90s power pop artist matthew sweet
It will be interesting to see if they ask Eric Saward to either write for the new series or an original Doctor Who novel now. He's clearly interested.
😊 Thanks, Matthew! Thanks, Eric!
Love all his stories. Can he please elaborate on Major Phalanxes as mentioned in the novelisation of Attack of the Cybermen
Not bad Eric just novelized two 5th and 6thDoctor serials even though I watched them on DVD and know almost every detail 🌛😎👏👏👏
Dear Eric, please write Resplendence of the Daleks, or Redemption* of the Daleks, or even Raison D'être of the Daleks for us
I miss when doctor who gave us lots of trailers and teaser trailers to get us hyped for new series (Like Series 8 in 2014), for series 11 we only had 2 teaser trailers and 2 trailers and for series 12 we haven’t had anything yet apart from the Judoon announcement and that was more than 2 months ago
It's a deliberate marketing decision not to reveal too much too early
Many previous seasons flat out made announcements of things that were supposed tobe secrets
I'd be happy without any trailers at all for shows which I'm already adhering to.
@@Yetaxa nah it's just a bad marketing choice
Can you show how to make the cyberman Suits?
Excellent
Great interview, love Eric
I would love to read a purely historical Doctor Who novel by Eric. Actual pure historicals (as opposed to sci-fi laced pseudo-historicals) tend to be rare beasts.
"Actual pure historicals (as opposed to sci-fi laced pseudo-historicals) tend to be rare beasts." They were common in the Hartnell era but were phased out around 1966 by Innes Lloyd because they didn't perform well in the ratings.
@@MALONEYCAMFIELD They didn't perform well in the audience surveys. It was only The Gunfighters that convinced Innes Lloyd that pure historicals were a ratings issue.
@@BlueSkyBS I didn't know The Gunfighters was a particular ratings disaster, but I knew it wasn't popular with fans and Innes Lloyd didn't like it because he'd inherited it from the previous team. I think I'm right that after The Highlanders in 1966, there wasn't another purely historical story until Black Orchid in 1982 (which Davison REALLY didn't like) and there were no more until the show ended in 1989.
He’s so cute xd
Saward always looks like Victor Meldrew's worse nightmare.
Someone please ask him to write for new who.
Never say never but might Eric Saward write his own novelisation of Earthshock (like David Fisher penned his own novelisations of The Stones of Blood and The Androids of Tara for AudioGo)?
Can't decide which is better between Resurrection and Revelation. Thoughts?
Revelation by far. It's a well written dark comedy. Resurrection is a bit of mess. Too much going on, too many characters and the actual plot gets lost. Whilst both stories might be grim, Resurrection crosses over into uncomfortable areas.
It's tricky, as they're both excellent stories, and both are very well cast, acted and directed. I think that Revelation is a more interesting concept, however, and the writing is very skilful indeed, interweaving various subplots and managing to achieve a perfect balance between no less than _five_ double acts: Kara/Vogel, Orcini/Bostock, Natasha/Grigori, Takis/Lilt and of course the Doctor and Peri. We also have two memorable solo performances from Clive Swift as Jobel and Alexei Sayle as the DJ. There's a lot of delicious dark humour running through the story, too, which I love - even Davros gets some genuinely witty lines, and Terry Molloy is excellent as ever. With all these plus-points going for it, it's no wonder that I revisit Revelation the most often out of the two stories, but I enjoy them both.
Charlie Warner I prefer Revelation. Easily in my top five favourite stories of all time.
@@ftumschk who can forget the DJ?
Resurrection is my fave of all time. It sets up so many intriguing characters and situations related to the Daleks and confronts the Doctor with such dark and powerful choices that I find it endlessly fascinating. The Daleks, his biggest headache, are literally on the verge of extinction... or resurrection... it's a situation where he can tilt it...all he has to do is become an executioner...as Tegan tells him... it's murder... and the way it plays out is brilliant, but so much is left unsaid in the end. You get to take it away with you and think about it. Love that.
All episodes are in my top 15. Earthshock is in my top 5.
Why was the Dalek voices in Revelation lacking in Dalekness then in Revelation?
I believe that was a decision by the director, Graeme Harper, who wanted them to sound more like humans because they were supposed to be Daleks made from humans.
@@MALONEYCAMFIELD But what of the Renegades when they arrived to arrest Davros? They sounded the same of the Necros Daleks.
@@IllusivePrime That's a good question and one I can't explain. It might be that they just forgot to set up the usual "ring modulator" device to differentiate them. It is a bit odd, I agree. The old series was usually shot very quickly in the studios and mistakes were sometimes left in the programmes.
@@MALONEYCAMFIELD I don't know how the ring modulators work, but I thought that when the dalek operators inside speak they talk into some mic and the modulator is inbuilt to the casings. If their was a remastered version, they could keep the orignal voices of the Necros Daleks as they are and Dalek-fy the Renegades, it's a good episode, to me, I would rather want the show runners to spend time on episodes makeing them look and sound good rather than rushing it.
@@IllusivePrime "I don't know how the ring modulators work, but I thought that when the dalek operators inside speak they talk into some mic and the modulator is inbuilt to the casings." The Dalek voices were never performed by the Dalek operators, they were performed by voice actors like Roy Skelton in a corner of the studio speaking into the ring modulator, which distorted their voice and made them sound more mechanical.
Great video.
So excluding the Daleks, planet of the Daleks, Death to the Daleks
Earthshock, Resurrection of the Daleks
remembrance of the Daleks, Silver nemesis
The Daemons , the Awakening
The tenth planet, Moonbase
What Stories do people think owe similarities to other stories?
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The Robots Of Death, Terror Of The Vervoids
Kinda and Snakedance
I think if Eric was the producers during the Sixth Doctor era, Colin would have had better stories
Well, the Colin Baker era was week because Saward did not do a good job as a editor.
So no, he is the reason why The 6th Doctor is the worse!!’
Not really, he's one of the reasons the writing wasn't the best as he was bitter about not being involved in casting Colin.
@@mrdoctorgilmore Not true.
Sixth Doctor serials were great; it was scrapping them for Trial of a Time Lord which was ill-advised. Although McCoy has his charms, I consider the first axing of DW to be the end of the Classic series.
@@fellowcitizen If they'd taken Doctor Who off completely in 1985, I would never have been a fan, as my earliest memory of the show is the cliffhanger to episode one of Remembrance of the Daleks.
Just FYI she's not the 13th Doctor she's the 14th doctor because there was the old man who wanted to press the button and blow up his Homeworld but the image of bad wolf talk to me out of it 15 if you count the partial regeneration in which he dumped the excess energy into his spare hand
There are several incarnations preceding Tom Baker depicted during the mind duel in The Brain Of Morbius; there could be quite a few.
A good writer for Doctor Who - and perhaps doesn't get the praise he deserves. It is kind of a shame that JNT and him fell out.
Lets hope for earthshock as a book
@Vitex2002 ...and a fine novelisation it is too. The audiobook is also great, with Peter Davison's excellent narration and cyber-voices by Nicholas Briggs.
Cool
Interesting - thanks
Everyone will just get murdered if he returned to writing for the show
It was never going to happen. They avoided writers from the old series for "New Who". I think Moffat eventually decided to give Rona Munro a go.
Then bring him back!!! First victim hopefully the new companion with the added surprise...
Why has it taken 30+ years for these two stories to be novelised?
I did hear it was because he didn't want the Terry nation estate to get more money than him but that was sorted out.
Ooh no comments I’m the first
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Fellow Citizen yep
What happened to the old interviewer?
Christie Dee
Regenerated?
Don’t really understand why they have to slap the new logo all over products related to the classic series.
It's for marketability's sake, kinda like how classic series merch throughout the 2000's used the Third Doctor's logo, which had previously been reused for the 1996 telemovie.
they did that since forever, when 1st Doctor novelisations had the neon 80s logo on them
the only reason the "classic series" got a separate logo was because the BBC didn't want this old embarrassment of theirs having the same logo as their fancy new show, let's be honest
I think everything should have the era appropriate logo, but it's better to have one logo for everything than 2 different arbitrary logos
Yeti I had forgotten about the Target covers.
Well Saward finally recognizing Colin Baker as a great Doctor and yet earlier stated that Colin was not the right actor to be in the lead role.
He famously said Baker was miscast in his Starburst interview in 1986. Over 20 years later (which meant he had plenty of time to think about it) he said pretty much the same thing in the documentary "Trials and Tribulations". So it might be a bit late for him to say different today and convince anybody.
Personally, I didn't like Colin Baker as the Doctor. But then I didn't like Eric Saward much as a script editor, or John Nathan-Turner as a producer. I think they all played their part in the decline of the show. I agree with what the likes of Terrance Dicks, Philip Hinchcliffe and Mark Gatiss said about what happened to the show in its later years.
@@MALONEYCAMFIELD Which was?
Interesting, even if we have to endure Matthew Sweet.
save us from awful chinballs please
@@whoxley rah I'm just saying what most people are thinking dont tell me you enjoy chibnall
@@TolNoodle - must you bring this up everywhere?
@@nightowl8477 wdym I don't think I've ever commented on a video on this channel
@@whoxley I mean fair enough if you like series 11 I just find it a very bland excuse of writing
@@TolNoodle - you may find series 11 'a very bland excuse of writing', but this is 80's writer Eric Saward interviewed by Matthew Sweet about stories broadcast 35 years before Series 11. Got any comment about that?
Eric saward did so much to help destroy doctor who
@@sadako24 no but Eric purposely went out of his way to hire writers and sign off scrips that he wasn't happy with just because he didn't agree with JNT and colin baker becoming to the doctor, anyone is that situation would of just left
@@sadako24 sadako has got it about right. Neither JNT nor Saward were good on the show in my view. JNT was not a fan of science fiction (Cartmel mentions that on the DVD commentary for Greatest Show in the Galaxy) and, according to both Bidmead and Saward in interviews, JNT had no particular interest in scripts. Davison has said pretty much the same thing. Janet Fielding said variety entertainment was JNT's great love. Saward, meanwhile, had never written a script for television before The Visitation, and on the basis of that story alone was - incredibly - made script editor of the show. The pairing of JNT and Saward was a recipe for disaster. They were never really on the same page and neither were good enough.
Eric Saward was in the kindergarten compared to Chris Chinball and Jodie Shittaker.
You want to know why the 6th Doctor was terrible. It is Eric Saward’s fault!!!!
sadako24 well Davison’s one Word sums it all up, “CRAP”.
Knight Chime I love Colin Baker as a actor. And as much debate the Extreme Whovian love SLAGGING JNT casting a “big name actor” for the 6th Doctor.
JNT for once did something ingenious in casting Colin Baker as the 6th Doctor!!!!
I love his patchwork outfit as it is unique and his smooth sounding voice and his blond curls.
As much “Slagging” I am doing. I though Time Lash, which is the most unpopular episode is the 6th Doctor at his finest.
The First is the one that started it all and he is the original so no one in their Right Mind will Slag the First.
The one we and every one should Slag is a bloke named Eric Saward!!!!
@@digipeeper Well he'd know about crap because his era had loads of it. At least Colin acknowledges fans unlike Davison who is an utter c*nt to fans.
Looking forward to these in Target form! Cant see Erics style fitting the all new Doctor Woke though.
@@FreeTheDonbas He's likely referring to casting a woman as the Doctor, which some people think was done just to be PC. But as the for "DW has always been 'woke'", I'm not sure I really agree with that. The portrayal of female companions in the original show is usually considered pretty sexist, Talons of Weng-Chiang (one of the most popular stories) was about as un-PC as it gets, Terrance Dicks has never struck me as "woke" with his comments on women being "strapped to the circular saw" and on the British Empire. There was also a chronic lack of representation of "people of colour" in the show until Cartmel made a point of introducing more of them at the very end of the run. And don't forget that Dr Judson in Curse of Fenric was intended by the writer to be gay but this was vetoed by JNT (himself gay) because he thought it inappropriate. So I'd say compared to New Who, the old show was not woke at all and they've made a particularly a big effort to fix that with the 21st century series.
Why does no one ever question the Tardis itself? In almost every "redecoration" of the Tardis it has some sort of either bumps or lights dotting the walls. It almost always looks like you are standing inside a Dalek looking at the outer shell????