Given that he only took it so that he could mess with the Doctor's favorite planet, suitability wasn't an issue. Delgado-era Master might actually have been good at the job.
+Crowley9 So I'm not the only one who noticed the E symbol, forgot what it's actually called, but it's a Greek letter that means "sum of" in math, I know that.
Sigma, also happens to be what represents the Doctor's last name in his nick name for College. I swear that is the only reason I ever memorized what that symbol means...
What I picture happening (if not exactly in this way): 'We need Gallifreyan writing!' 'Just put some Greek and algebraic symbols on the damn thing. Nobody will notice.' Which would ordinarily have worked out. Viewers would have concentrated on the Doctors and the other characters, rather than something they weren't supposed to be able to read. Someone forgot that home video was a thing in 1983 and that fans tend to record their favorite shows. I like the modern version, and suspect the circles contain far more information than we suspect.
Man, people get so patronizing about the classic series. They knew full well that home video was "a thing," and that even before home video was "a thing," fans had already noted minute details in the program via repeated viewings and photographs. The implication here is that Gallifreyan writing made its way to Earth, where the Greeks picked it up. The circular writing is a recent development not just on the new series, but on Gallifrey itself.
He isn't really. The Davison Doctor has only been in that form for a relatively little while. The Hartnell/Hurndall Doctor, on the other hand, is nearly 500 years old.
@@dirrdevil When dealing with his other selves, the Doctor seems to go by appearances more than anything else; that's why from the Second Doctor onward, they all tend to defer to the First. In the novelisation of "The Three Doctors," Terrance Dicks described the Second and Third as feeling like two schoolboys called before the headmaster.
At least with the Doctor he tends to see his other incarnations as separate people. Which to a certain extent they are; it's kind of like reincarnation. Admittedly the only other Time Lord I've seen have this kind of sense of self is the Master so it could just be a renegade thing
I love how they sort of use it again in The Day of The Doctor. War Doctor: Which one is mine? *A few minutes of silence* War Doctor: Ah! Yes, there it is!
@@stonebaxterWhenever someone brings up a good line of dialogue someone always jumps in to say “actually they improvised that line” so I’ll take your word for it.
+MaskedMan66 Oh come on like you guys never saw that coming. With all the times they teased about the Doctor having a female incarnation that isn't Doctor Donna, you guys overlook that it coulda happened to the Master as well.
+MaskedMan66 Doctor Donna was clearly made as a joke to the fans that suggested a female Doctor for one and two it's called reading between the lines. If a female Doctor isn't totally out of the question among fans how come a female Master or Missy as she's called suddenly wrong?
3:38 I like how Lethbridge-Stewart was slowly creeping behind him and the Third Doctor knew his plan so he approached and kicked the weapon off of the Master.
@@vasudevraghav2109 There it is- silly old universe. The more I save it, the more it needs saving. It’s a treadmill. *TARDIS noises* Yes. Yes and no, they’ll get it all wrong.. without me. *TARDIS noises* Well, I suppose one more lifetime won’t kill anyone... well, except me.
That wouldn't be possible because a Time Lord can't remember their encounters with their other selves because during such encounters, their time stream becomes out of sync.
How sad that the only actor still living from this scene is Janet Fielding who is currently battling cancer. All the others are unfortunately gone.......
@@SantomPh He is! Nobody is sure how, but he is. For one thing, he wore that body longer than any of the others, and as soon as he got Susan back home, he was off to his very last adventure.
@@davidcrazyrides that's sad. You could argue his rendition is the greatest realisation of what the Timelord is meant to be. Note also that he is smarter than Pertwee, Troughton and Davison
I love David Bradley's take on William Hartnell, sexist lines and all. No doubt Verity Lambert had to deal with a fair bit of that back in the day but she was a genuinely strong woman, not one of the shrieking babies who claim they're strong to compensate their insecurities in the modern day, so she soldiered on without validating misogynists' views by screaming for the manager like a modern feminist would. I've always seen the First Doctor's sexism in Twice Upon a Time as a deliberate attempt by Steven Moffat to exemplify how fortunate women are these days compared to when Doctor Who started. Anyway, credit where credit's due, Richard Hurndall was also a suitable replacement for the man who started it all.
@@Trev359 yeah...I bet that when all the Doctors were confrontational in tone with this version of The Master, Brigadier Alistair put two and two together, and figured out that he was The Master.
+serbusfish Not really; he'd known Ainley all his life; Anthony's father Henry was Jon's godfather, so they knew each other well. In fact, they referred to each other as "godbrothers."
+MaskedMan66 Yes but he'd been close friends with Delgado too and said that his death was part of the reason he left the show when he did. Even if the role is now in the hands of another friend, it must have been a sad reminder of Delgado's absence.
MeBeMat I'm not saying he didn't miss Delgado, but as the Master is also a Time Lord, I'm sure Pertwee didn't begrudge Ainley being in the part, and he may already have known that two other actors had already played the Master.
He was a lot like John Hurt IMO. Tries to play a Doctor he isn't(in Hurt's case, Eccleston) and ends up being completely different than he should have been, but not in a bad way.
DarthRushy By appearance, that is true. The War incarnation however was something of a mixture of quite a few Doctors. His crotchety demeanor was very much Hartnell's, for example him trying to lecture his future selves and being derisive of and embarassed by them at first. His penultimate words also recalled the First Doctor's realization that his "old body is wearing a bit thin" during the "Tenth Planet" story arc (Though not his, Hartnell's, actual last words). Also, his clothes ill fitted him, recalling the Second Doctor. His wardrobe was cobbled together from items recalling the Eighth and Ninth Doctors, and his spiky hairdo could be seen as a nod to David Tennant's hairstyle while he was the incumbent. Some even have speculated that his rugged scarf is meant as a counterpart to Tom Baker's, but that's debatable in my opinion.
RIP Richard Hurndall (November 3, 1910 - April 13, 1984), aged 73 RIP Jon Pertwee (July 7, 1919 - May 20, 1996), aged 76 RIP Patrick Troughton (March 25, 1920 - March 28, 1987), aged 67 RIP Nicholas Courtney (December 16, 1929 - February 22, 2011), aged 81 RIP Elisabeth Sladen (February 1, 1946 - April 19, 2011), aged 65 You will be remembered as legends.
Having recently watched Sacha Dhawan's incarnation of The Master insulting the Brigadier to his daughter, it's great to be reminded how he developed the grudge.
Sacha’s Master just gives zero f@cks about who he insults, between insulting the brig to his daughter’s face and asking Tegan how her Aunt was doing he was just fighting with full fury
You have to give Hurndall some credit! He was the best they had at the time, and did his best! No two people are exactly the same, and Hurndall was awesome as the Doctor! Shame he had to do someone else's Doctor!!
2nd started the friendship but the real one was with 3rd, the brig gave him a home with UNIT and since his first 3 years were earthbound, went on a good many of his adventures
Jon Pertwee, Patrick Troughton, Richard Hurndall, Nick Courtney, Anthony Ainley and Lis Sladen all now sadly gone - but we have gems like this to remember them by - thanks for sharing! :-)
First Doctor to the Master: If you shoot me, I'll just turn into him (points to Second) Second: And if you shoot ME, I'll just turn into HIM (points to Third) Third: And if you shoot ME, I'll just turn into...well, he's not here right now but he's got an awfully long scarf.
The five Doctors really had their normally infinite patience tested in this scene. The flippin' TV director just couldn't seem to make his mind up about which angle to shoot certain scenes from. Added to which, the BBC Floor Manager had a very irritating habit of repeating the same damn phrase every single time a new shot was being set up. "Settle down now everyone!" Bloody hell! In the twenty years of working at the sharp end in many a television studio in England I never once heard a floor manager use such words to the actors or to the crew! If you watch the outtakes of this scene you can see Jon Pertwee getting increasingly agitated by the constant long pauses in the middle of the takes. If it had been me playing the part, I would have been sorely tempted to insist that the floor manager either changes his tune immediately or I walk off the floor until all of them can sort themselves out! Struth!
That video does not lie. I saw Jon at a convention shortly after this was filmed. He was massive. And talk about a presence? Wow! He approached you and he just blew your mind. He was very much the Doctor. But a total sweetheart too!
@@lakecountynaturalist7617 I think he does get overlooked a little bit because of Tom Baker, who pretty much defined the Doctor for a generation. That's nothing against Pertwee, and I'm sure there are many people who prefer his Doctor to anyone else's, but for most people (at least older viewers) it would be Baker, just as for a lot of people James Bond will always be Sean Connery. It 's impossible for anyone under about 45 to appreciate what a big deal TV stars were back in those days. There was only three channels and they were virtually on a par with the old time B/W movie stars. Personally, when I think of Pertwee I immediately think of Worzel Gummidge, but that's just me. I'm of the Peter Davison vintage and Pertwee was a bit too early.
John is unfortunately sandwiched between Troughton who’s performance allowed the show to survive for so long and Baker who’s performance gained the show it’s popularity, which makes Pertwee easy to overlook
I’v just noticed when the third doctor sees the brigadier he says ‘lethbridge stewart? Oh my dear fellow, how nice to see you again’ which is exactly what he says in spearhead from space when he first sees him..
its sad that so many of patrick troughtons episodes were lost. the surviving episodes of his doctor really show how much he put into the role. william hartnell started the role, but if patrick didnt succeed as the second incarnation we could have never had other great doctors like tom baker, peter davidson, david tennant, matt smith.....
Definitely. Patrick Troughton's interpretation really established a lot of the core character traits we associate with the Doctor. We're fortunate to have the episodes we do have, though -- his performance in Enemy of the World in particular is absolutely incredible.
Wilfred Hyde White would have also made a good substitute for William Hartnell. he reminds me of him in the 2nd season of Buck Rogers in the 25th century as Dr Goodfellow
+Phil Walker David Bradley was indeed good at playing Hartnell. He was inadequate as the First Doctor, however, especially with the crap dialogue and massacred personality they gave the character.
+MrJacMac1968 The trouble with Mr. Hyde-White was that he stubbornly refused to stick to the script in many of the projects he did. They would tend to say to him, "Okay, this is what the character has to get across, " and he would ad lib something. I always thought Geoffrey Bayldon would have been excellent as the First Doctor, and Big Finish proved me right in two of their "Doctor Who Unbound" audio plays.
@@cindydott452 I believe that is The Master's tissue compression eliminator (otherwise known as TCE...you can guess why). It's a "classic" as Sacha Dhawan's incarnation of The Master said. And I think that it's right that he should call it that. The TCE can kill people by shrinking them.
@@MaskedMan66 The Doctor is still the same person, and the Fifth Doctor has all the memories and experience as his previous incarnations, making him still the oldest "person" chronologically compared to his past selves, same as how I'm older than the version of my self from five years ago.
Oh I remember when Dr Who was good, it feels like such a long time ago now. I am very sad with everything which has happened in the last two seasons :(
It was good seeing The Doctors reunited again,along wih some old friends. The Brigadier obviously waited a long time to ko The Master for all the terrible things that he did.
the moment when 11 gets phoned and told that the brigadier died is the saddest for me, because they were such good friends. never a companion yet he knew the doctor longer than any other companion sans clara and river.
clara and river knew the doctor longer than the brig how many doc tors did clara know 11 and 12 how many doctors did river know 11 and 12 how many doctors did the brig know 2 3 4 gave 3 a home when he was exiled on earth, had another adventure with 5 (mawdryn undead) saved 7 (battle field) if you count adventures in time teamed up with 6 and zapped missy with12, then there's his daughter Kate. There is not one single human in who history who has had a bigger influence than the brig, get your history straight!
@@julieeverett7442 well Clara was there for at least one moment of all the main Doctors' eras (retroactively, of course), and River Song has had adventures with earlier Doctors through books and Big Finish works I believe (I have not actually gone through that content, so I'm not sure how they make it work with future Doctors not remembering her). You also forget she spent a tiny bit of time with the 10th and 24 _years_ on Darillium with the 12th Doctor, albeit off screen!
@@thatginger6839 I hadnt forgotten, River song and the brig are tied at 11 doctors each, after them is Sarah with 7, Tegan and Kate with 6, Jo Susan Clara and Jack with 4. But the Brig is STILL the most important human in the doctors life
This must of been such an amazing special when it came out on TV, still feels amazing too me. Eccleston was my first Doctor and seeing the older doctors together is amazing. Hope for more reunions in future eps after 50th special.
Certainly was , in days before TH-cam and ability to watch at will virtually seeing all the drs of the time was a trip to the sweet shop buy what you liked kind of thing
@@BrendanJSmith No every episode including the Loose Cannon reproducrions of the missing ones and I also got my hands on novelisations of missing episodes foo.
That had been established in the Three Doctors anniversary special. The 2nd and 3rd get along but squabble, while the first is dismissive of the other two. This just continues their already established dynamic. Contrast this with the most recent three Doctor crossover, where 10 and 11 are best buds right away while the War Doctor is grouchy and has little patience for either of them.
@@catwhowalksbyhimself Well... maybe not right away what with Eleven making fun of Ten kissing a Zygon and Ten insinuating Eleven has a small penis. They got along eventually tho!
One thing to note to fans of the new series looking back at this. The first Doctor, despite looking the oldest is the youngest (as by the name) Doctor, the line "running around acting all old and important" is a nod that in fact the first Doctor is kind of a brat, and now think of it, how all the other Doctors are looking at him, in reality as the little know-it-all kid in the room.
@@leobe2104 It's not your place to say who's "that relevant" and who isn't. Real people are always relevant. Fictional characters, like the Doctor, are ultimately irrelevant.
Rewatching this scene, it’s actually very tight and well done. So much accomplished in 3 minutes. It provides plot exposition in a natural way. It allows each Doctor’s personality to come across in spades. And it’s funny. Really well done.
There is something so very satisfying about seeing the Brigadier clock the Master like that. You can't help but watch and go, oh hell yeah. Give it to em, old chap.
I don't understand why or how those references are appropriate for the wacky situation Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and the 2nd Doctor got themselves into before they got to Rassilon's tomb.
When the new Doctor Who series started up, I hadn't seen Elisabeth Sladen in decades, hadn't thought about her in years... The instant I saw her, I got the same tightness in my chest I had as a teenage boy, the same stupid smile on my face. The only difference was the tear glistening in my eye.
Especially if Matt Smith's first reaction to seeing her is to reprise his "I'm a girl?!" squawk. But really; we need Eccleston, Tennant, Smith, Capaldi, and Whittaker teaming up against Roberts, Jacobi, Simm, Gomez, and Dhawan: The Five Doctors vs The Five Masters.
@@Pentarax and the plot twist would be when Michelle Gomez betrays four of the other Masters, and stands with The Doctor like she meant to do in "The Doctor Falls".
Rewatching this it actually teaches a very philosophical lesson about greed and restricting yourself when given the opportunity to have unlimited power
+Juliet Fischer actually he probably was eager to return because Tom always loved the part of Doctor Who all his life but he claimed it was because it was too soon, as the episode was only 2 years after his departure so he felt like him coming back would take the spotlight from Peter
Jeremy Xu - He'd also gone round the bend a bit during his run. The Doctor's a difficult character to get into and, in terms of screen time, Baker's seven years is the longest.
I'm repeating myself here, but the title places the emphasis on the Doctors RE-uniting. One, Two and Three haven't met each other in the flesh since "The Three Doctors", Four won't meet them as he's stuck in a time eddy due to a malfunction of the Time Scoop he was brought into the Death Zone (where they are currently) with and Five is still on his way.
"You're hardly a suitable candidate."
"For anything!"
....*runs for Prime Minister and wins*
With the use of the mojo from the Arcangel Network.
And it turned out he wasn't suitable for the job anyway.
Given that he only took it so that he could mess with the Doctor's favorite planet, suitability wasn't an issue.
Delgado-era Master might actually have been good at the job.
Besides, they weren't talking about being Prime Minister, they were talking about being immortal.
RadicalX2k
Plus, he cheated by hypnotizing the populace.
Old High Gallifreyan language is calculus? That... actually makes sense.
+Crowley9 So I'm not the only one who noticed the E symbol, forgot what it's actually called, but it's a Greek letter that means "sum of" in math, I know that.
Sigma, also happens to be what represents the Doctor's last name in his nick name for College. I swear that is the only reason I ever memorized what that symbol means...
@blue whovian) So the writing you see in New Who is Common Galifreyan, the modern lingua franca if you will, and this language is Old High Galifreyan.
What I picture happening (if not exactly in this way):
'We need Gallifreyan writing!'
'Just put some Greek and algebraic symbols on the damn thing. Nobody will notice.'
Which would ordinarily have worked out. Viewers would have concentrated on the Doctors and the other characters, rather than something they weren't supposed to be able to read.
Someone forgot that home video was a thing in 1983 and that fans tend to record their favorite shows.
I like the modern version, and suspect the circles contain far more information than we suspect.
Man, people get so patronizing about the classic series.
They knew full well that home video was "a thing," and that even before home video was "a thing," fans had already noted minute details in the program via repeated viewings and photographs.
The implication here is that Gallifreyan writing made its way to Earth, where the Greeks picked it up.
The circular writing is a recent development not just on the new series, but on Gallifrey itself.
I love that the First Doctor refers to the Fifth as 'the young fellow' even though he's technically the younger one. 😄
He isn't really. The Davison Doctor has only been in that form for a relatively little while. The Hartnell/Hurndall Doctor, on the other hand, is nearly 500 years old.
@@MaskedMan66 Well, it's all a matter of perspective. In a way, some incarnations are both younger and older.
@@dirrdevil When dealing with his other selves, the Doctor seems to go by appearances more than anything else; that's why from the Second Doctor onward, they all tend to defer to the First. In the novelisation of "The Three Doctors," Terrance Dicks described the Second and Third as feeling like two schoolboys called before the headmaster.
At least with the Doctor he tends to see his other incarnations as separate people. Which to a certain extent they are; it's kind of like reincarnation. Admittedly the only other Time Lord I've seen have this kind of sense of self is the Master so it could just be a renegade thing
@MaskedMan66 450 by the time of 'Tomb of The Cybermen'.
“Which one’s yours?”
Quite clever dialogue.
I love how they sort of use it again in The Day of The Doctor.
War Doctor: Which one is mine?
*A few minutes of silence*
War Doctor: Ah! Yes, there it is!
@@DoctorWhoKage Apparently Jon Hurt improvised that line.
@@Butter-Milk Nonsense. It's in the script.
@@stonebaxterWhenever someone brings up a good line of dialogue someone always jumps in to say “actually they improvised that line” so I’ll take your word for it.
Which one is yours? Sarah came with 3 and 2 came after them , logic would think it would be 1 but logic would be wrong
Ahh, the Brigadier, the only person to both punch and shoot the Master/Missy.
+Itsatrap327 Mention not that abomination! This is the Master, period!
+MaskedMan66 Oh come on like you guys never saw that coming. With all the times they teased about the Doctor having a female incarnation that isn't Doctor Donna, you guys overlook that it coulda happened to the Master as well.
Shanethefilmmaker
They never teased anything like that.
+MaskedMan66 Doctor Donna was clearly made as a joke to the fans that suggested a female Doctor for one and two it's called reading between the lines. If a female Doctor isn't totally out of the question among fans how come a female Master or Missy as she's called suddenly wrong?
Shanethefilmmaker
Which fans? Some would be willing to entertain the notion, others wouldn't in a million years.
3:38
I like how Lethbridge-Stewart was slowly creeping behind him and the Third Doctor knew his plan so he approached and kicked the weapon off of the Master.
third doctor is my favorite, badass action star.
there was a subtle nod that two and three caught at 03:29 as he was gloating about killing them
It's also cool how the Brig realized very soon that this was the Master. After all, "who else would it be?" 🙂
@@bostonrailfan2427 I'm not sure what you're seeing.
@@MaskedMan66 look again
3:40 How many years had then Brigadier been waiting to deck the Master like that. Talk about enjoyable moments.
I love that bit, always makes me chuckle! 😂
@@CareelBay'How nice to see you again' 🤣🤣🤣
"They get it all wrong without me"
Oh silly old universe, capaldi remembered him before regeneration.
Old doctors?
@@Dbtulas no, the time when capaldi said, look at the silly old universe. The more i saved it, the saving it needs.
@@vasudevraghav2109 There it is- silly old universe. The more I save it, the more it needs saving. It’s a treadmill.
*TARDIS noises*
Yes. Yes and no, they’ll get it all wrong.. without me.
*TARDIS noises*
Well, I suppose one more lifetime won’t kill anyone... well, except me.
That wouldn't be possible because a Time Lord can't remember their encounters with their other selves because during such encounters, their time stream becomes out of sync.
@@DoctorWhoKage It has been established that the oldest one of them remembers once the events are over.
How sad that the only actor still living from this scene is Janet Fielding who is currently battling cancer. All the others are unfortunately gone.......
Isn't Carol Ann Ford still around too?
She is but she wasn't in this part of the scene that's featured in this clip.
woohooboy and Peter Davidson.
How sad poor Janet.hope she recovers
That comment was 5 years ago so hopefully she's okay now. She certainly looks well in the extras for the blu-ray box sets.
Love how no matter which regeneration the doctor is always competitive with themself!
love how the First Doctor calls the Brig "young man" and acts like he is "older" than the others.
Psychologists would have a blast with him XD
That's what I love most about these Doctor incarnation encounters. This friendly but at the same time competitive relationship!
@@SantomPh He is! Nobody is sure how, but he is. For one thing, he wore that body longer than any of the others, and as soon as he got Susan back home, he was off to his very last adventure.
@@SantomPh And he is certainly older than Lethbridge-Stewart!
I love this scene. The Brigadier commiserating as “one of the girls”.
There have been male companions from the beginning.
I really wish Tom Baker would have been there too.
HorrorMetal Sarah Jane appeared with 8 doctors all together . Man I miss her
I was just thinking this. It would have been hilarious to see how'd his Doctor would interact with the other 4.
I agree, he was a great Time Lord and Actor. His companion was also a Time Lord if I recall correctly .
He was doing some movies at the time, he made up for it by being in the 50th anniversary special.
Show's producers could have waited for Tom if they really wanted to. He was probably their most definitive Doctor back then. And I was a partial fan.
Richard Hurndall did an AMAZING job as the first doctor! its a great pity he passed away shortly after this!
yes and before he got paid to for playing the role
@@davidcrazyrides that's sad. You could argue his rendition is the greatest realisation of what the Timelord is meant to be. Note also that he is smarter than Pertwee, Troughton and Davison
I love David Bradley's take on William Hartnell, sexist lines and all. No doubt Verity Lambert had to deal with a fair bit of that back in the day but she was a genuinely strong woman, not one of the shrieking babies who claim they're strong to compensate their insecurities in the modern day, so she soldiered on without validating misogynists' views by screaming for the manager like a modern feminist would. I've always seen the First Doctor's sexism in Twice Upon a Time as a deliberate attempt by Steven Moffat to exemplify how fortunate women are these days compared to when Doctor Who started. Anyway, credit where credit's due, Richard Hurndall was also a suitable replacement for the man who started it all.
@@davidcrazyrides that's a load of rubbish. According to someone from DWM, he received around 5 payments for the role.
@@anawkwardmeeting3567 read my comment he got paid yes but he died before he got it
He punched. The Master. In. The Face. Wow.
Grace Chaple and 31 years later, he shot him/her in the back
Benjamin Sisko: "Wow what? I decked a god in a bar fight"
Imagine how many times the Doctor teased him about this, like "haha the 'unstoppable' Master fell on the floor because of one hit from a human"
@Michael Martin Q is no god.
The Master is lucky he didn't get five rounds rapid.
As always, the brigadier is there to get things done.
The brigadier punching the master is epic.
NICE TO SEE YOU AGAIN!
The only one to😒
He recognised the Master even though he hadn't met that version before.
@Delboy359 No, but as he later said of the Seventh Doctor, "Who else would it be?"
@@Trev359 yeah...I bet that when all the Doctors were confrontational in tone with this version of The Master, Brigadier Alistair put two and two together, and figured out that he was The Master.
It must have been really painful for Jon Pertwee to see someone else playing the role of the Master.
it was
+serbusfish Not really; he'd known Ainley all his life; Anthony's father Henry was Jon's godfather, so they knew each other well. In fact, they referred to each other as "godbrothers."
+MaskedMan66 Yes but he'd been close friends with Delgado too and said that his death was part of the reason he left the show when he did. Even if the role is now in the hands of another friend, it must have been a sad reminder of Delgado's absence.
MeBeMat I'm not saying he didn't miss Delgado, but as the Master is also a Time Lord, I'm sure Pertwee didn't begrudge Ainley being in the part, and he may already have known that two other actors had already played the Master.
He'd have to have been a hermit not to know that. (Why do I picture Sean and Dariel watching Dad on the telly?)
Richard Hurndall did a fine job substituting for William Hartnell
He was a lot like John Hurt IMO. Tries to play a Doctor he isn't(in Hurt's case, Eccleston) and ends up being completely different than he should have been, but not in a bad way.
DarthRushy Lmao where did you get that from? He was his own Doctor
Jeremy Xu He was really nothing but a bizarre mix of McGann and Eccleston's characters.
DarthRushy By appearance, that is true. The War incarnation however was something of a mixture of quite a few Doctors. His crotchety demeanor was very much Hartnell's, for example him trying to lecture his future selves and being derisive of and embarassed by them at first. His penultimate words also recalled the First Doctor's realization that his "old body is wearing a bit thin" during the "Tenth Planet" story arc (Though not his, Hartnell's, actual last words). Also, his clothes ill fitted him, recalling the Second Doctor. His wardrobe was cobbled together from items recalling the Eighth and Ninth Doctors, and his spiky hairdo could be seen as a nod to David Tennant's hairstyle while he was the incumbent. Some even have speculated that his rugged scarf is meant as a counterpart to Tom Baker's, but that's debatable in my opinion.
He did his best but it was a dreadful idea and as it is he was pretty rubbish as the 1st Doctor.
RIP Richard Hurndall (November 3, 1910 - April 13, 1984), aged 73
RIP Jon Pertwee (July 7, 1919 - May 20, 1996), aged 76
RIP Patrick Troughton (March 25, 1920 - March 28, 1987), aged 67
RIP Nicholas Courtney (December 16, 1929 - February 22, 2011), aged 81
RIP Elisabeth Sladen (February 1, 1946 - April 19, 2011), aged 65
You will be remembered as legends.
Having recently watched Sacha Dhawan's incarnation of The Master insulting the Brigadier to his daughter, it's great to be reminded how he developed the grudge.
Sacha’s Master just gives zero f@cks about who he insults, between insulting the brig to his daughter’s face and asking Tegan how her Aunt was doing he was just fighting with full fury
Punch to the face before you have time to react can do that.
And nearly killed by a cyber converted of the character can definitely do that.
My last 3 braincells solving a Professor Layton riddle.
And The Master is the procrastination trying to stop me lol
@@ValeryValWho Does that make Brigadier an Adderall prescription? Lol
My last 3 braincells trying to figure out the Monsterverse lore:
You have to give Hurndall some credit! He was the best they had at the time, and did his best! No two people are exactly the same, and Hurndall was awesome as the Doctor! Shame he had to do someone else's Doctor!!
As easy as pi? AS EASY AS PI?
Mark Strickson summed it up when he said, "It wasn't William Hartnell, but it was a fully realized character. It was the First Doctor."
Second Doctor's friendship with the Brigadier as well as his squabbling with Third Doctor are just adorable to the max 💙
2nd started the friendship but the real one was with 3rd, the brig gave him a home with UNIT and since his first 3 years were earthbound, went on a good many of his adventures
1:07 I love how the second Doctor just pushes past the other two like he's the Boss. Lol.
"See, this here is the tomb of that guy who achieved immortality!"
"...Um... waitaminit."
That was gratifying, seeing some of the Doctors together. Even more gratifying was the Brigadier taking out the Master.
Jon Pertwee, Patrick Troughton, Richard Hurndall, Nick Courtney, Anthony Ainley and Lis Sladen all now sadly gone - but we have gems like this to remember them by - thanks for sharing! :-)
First Doctor to the Master: If you shoot me, I'll just turn into him (points to Second)
Second: And if you shoot ME, I'll just turn into HIM (points to Third)
Third: And if you shoot ME, I'll just turn into...well, he's not here right now but he's got an awfully long scarf.
The five Doctors really had their normally infinite patience tested in this scene. The flippin' TV director just couldn't seem to make his mind up about which angle to shoot certain scenes from. Added to which, the BBC Floor Manager had a very irritating habit of repeating the same damn phrase every single time a new shot was being set up. "Settle down now everyone!" Bloody hell! In the twenty years of working at the sharp end in many a television studio in England I never once heard a floor manager use such words to the actors or to the crew! If you watch the outtakes of this scene you can see Jon Pertwee getting increasingly agitated by the constant long pauses in the middle of the takes. If it had been me playing the part, I would have been sorely tempted to insist that the floor manager either changes his tune immediately or I walk off the floor until all of them can sort themselves out! Struth!
you were there?
Really?
You worked on Doctor Who? Tell us more man
Pertwee tends to get overlooked a bit but he had great presence, as you can see here. Unreasonably good hair too, for a man his age.
Pertwee was the Action Hero Doctor, and the first one I rememeber.
Overlooked by whom?
That video does not lie. I saw Jon at a convention shortly after this was filmed. He was massive. And talk about a presence? Wow! He approached you and he just blew your mind. He was very much the Doctor. But a total sweetheart too!
@@lakecountynaturalist7617 I think he does get overlooked a little bit because of Tom Baker, who pretty much defined the Doctor for a generation. That's nothing against Pertwee, and I'm sure there are many people who prefer his Doctor to anyone else's, but for most people (at least older viewers) it would be Baker, just as for a lot of people James Bond will always be Sean Connery.
It 's impossible for anyone under about 45 to appreciate what a big deal TV stars were back in those days. There was only three channels and they were virtually on a par with the old time B/W movie stars. Personally, when I think of Pertwee I immediately think of Worzel Gummidge, but that's just me. I'm of the Peter Davison vintage and Pertwee was a bit too early.
John is unfortunately sandwiched between Troughton who’s performance allowed the show to survive for so long and Baker who’s performance gained the show it’s popularity, which makes Pertwee easy to overlook
Oh, sooo good to see my beloved Patrick Troughton again - best doctor Who ever!
and we get him one last time with 6th
Patrick was a phenomenal actor.
Loved Patrick! He was a blast at the conventions.
I’v just noticed when the third doctor sees the brigadier he says ‘lethbridge stewart? Oh my dear fellow, how nice to see you again’ which is exactly what he says in spearhead from space when he first sees him..
its sad that so many of patrick troughtons episodes were lost. the surviving episodes of his doctor really show how much he put into the role. william hartnell started the role, but if patrick didnt succeed as the second incarnation we could have never had other great doctors like tom baker, peter davidson, david tennant, matt smith.....
Definitely. Patrick Troughton's interpretation really established a lot of the core character traits we associate with the Doctor. We're fortunate to have the episodes we do have, though -- his performance in Enemy of the World in particular is absolutely incredible.
When the brigadier has had enough of your shit.
Makes the part later with Missy hilarious in hindsight.
1:07 Love how the 2nd Doctor just barges in.
"What kept you?"
"What kept me? Of all the confounded arrogance..."
The inscription says "Hello Sweetie" with coordinates to find and get River Song out of trouble as usual.
This is the Death Zone. I can see her leaving it just because she could.
Wouldn't be surprised if it was formerly known as the Tea & Biscuits Zone *_before_* River arrived...
'It was shut down because some Tellurian woman kept spoiling the game. For some reason, she kept leaving "Hello, Sweetie" on everything.'
It's random equations in calculus- there's a reason no one can read the damn stuff.
How would River song get on Gallifrey.
"There is another bit written at the bottom here." "Ello Sweetie." "What does it mean?"
River song
She would be capable of vandalizing Rassilon's Tomb without any problem.
ShadowBrony where
Where indeed. :)
ShadowBrony it's not the time !
Awesome at the end! Go Lethbridge-Stewart! May the character and the actor Nicholas Courtney rest in peace too.
amen
Wow. Richard Hurndall actually makes a really good First Doctor.
SpadesOfDarkness45 Yes! That's what I thought! It also helps the fact that his name Richard Herndall was quite similar sounding to William Hartnell!
He was awful and nothing like the original. David Bradley plays Hartnell a lot better
Wilfred Hyde White would have also made a good substitute for William Hartnell. he reminds me of him in the 2nd season of Buck Rogers in the 25th century as Dr Goodfellow
+Phil Walker David Bradley was indeed good at playing Hartnell. He was inadequate as the First Doctor, however, especially with the crap dialogue and massacred personality they gave the character.
+MrJacMac1968 The trouble with Mr. Hyde-White was that he stubbornly refused to stick to the script in many of the projects he did. They would tend to say to him, "Okay, this is what the character has to get across, " and he would ad lib something.
I always thought Geoffrey Bayldon would have been excellent as the First Doctor, and Big Finish proved me right in two of their "Doctor Who Unbound" audio plays.
Did anyone notice that the Third Doctor kicked that device out of The Master's hand before he was knocked out by Brigadier Stewart?
Of course. Venusian Aikido!
...I’m not even surprised. It’s Three, after all.
Why does that "device" look entirely inappropriate. Does it go BBBZZZZ when fired?
🤣
You know, I had not noticed! Thank you for the tip! Appropriate that #3 did it!
@@cindydott452 I believe that is The Master's tissue compression eliminator (otherwise known as TCE...you can guess why). It's a "classic" as Sacha Dhawan's incarnation of The Master said. And I think that it's right that he should call it that. The TCE can kill people by shrinking them.
The Brigadier really was the Lestrade to the doctors Sherlock
Sarah Jane and Tegan's stereo "Brigadier?" still gets to me, all these years later.
And then Sarah looks at Tegan like, "Wait, how do you know him?"
@@MaskedMan66mawdryn undead was good too
1:55
The doctor's:What does it say?
''Hello Sweetie'' XD
Somewhere is a fanfic of this scene with that line.
*gag*
It’s hilarious how the youngest version of the Doctor bosses himself around.
He isn't the youngest, he's the oldest. All the others have spent less time in their forms than he did.
@@MaskedMan66 The Doctor is still the same person, and the Fifth Doctor has all the memories and experience as his previous incarnations, making him still the oldest "person" chronologically compared to his past selves, same as how I'm older than the version of my self from five years ago.
@@jasondrake323 You just don't get it.
Nice to see you again, knocks out the Master
Classic Brig, R.I.P.
0:27.
First Doctor: What kept you?
Third Doctor: What kept me?
Of all the confounded arrogance.
Lol
I love it when doctors cross over with each other.
Oh I remember when Dr Who was good, it feels like such a long time ago now. I am very sad with everything which has happened in the last two seasons :(
It was good seeing The Doctors reunited again,along wih some old friends. The Brigadier obviously waited a long time to ko The Master for all the terrible things that he did.
I really wish Jamie had more than just a cameo. It feels wrong to have the Second Doctor without him.
the moment when 11 gets phoned and told that the brigadier died is the saddest for me, because they were such good friends. never a companion yet he knew the doctor longer than any other companion sans clara and river.
clara and river knew the doctor longer than the brig how many doc tors did clara know 11 and 12 how many doctors did river know 11 and 12 how many doctors did the brig know 2 3 4 gave 3 a home when he was exiled on earth, had another adventure with 5 (mawdryn undead) saved 7 (battle field) if you count adventures in time teamed up with 6 and zapped missy with12, then there's his daughter Kate. There is not one single human in who history who has had a bigger influence than the brig, get your history straight!
the brig was ALWAYS a companion!
@@julieeverett7442 Why is that woman talking in numbers?
@@julieeverett7442 well Clara was there for at least one moment of all the main Doctors' eras (retroactively, of course), and River Song has had adventures with earlier Doctors through books and Big Finish works I believe (I have not actually gone through that content, so I'm not sure how they make it work with future Doctors not remembering her). You also forget she spent a tiny bit of time with the 10th and 24 _years_ on Darillium with the 12th Doctor, albeit off screen!
@@thatginger6839 I hadnt forgotten, River song and the brig are tied at 11 doctors each, after them is Sarah with 7, Tegan and Kate with 6, Jo Susan Clara and Jack with 4. But the Brig is STILL the most important human in the doctors life
This must of been such an amazing special when it came out on TV, still feels amazing too me. Eccleston was my first Doctor and seeing the older doctors together is amazing. Hope for more reunions in future eps after 50th special.
Must have. And it was! What's more, we saw it here in the U.S.A. before it was shown in the UK!
In the UK - it was big event on TV. It was shown as part of BBC's "Children in Need" telethon event on BBC 1. I think it was shown mid week.
Certainly was , in days before TH-cam and ability to watch at will virtually seeing all the drs of the time was a trip to the sweet shop buy what you liked kind of thing
I remember watching this on Dailymotion when I was 12 having done a full Doctor Who marathon of every episode from 1963 to 2013
Well, not EVERY episode, but yeah.
@@BrendanJSmith No every episode including the Loose Cannon reproducrions of the missing ones and I also got my hands on novelisations of missing episodes foo.
I love how self-centered the First 3 are xD
The Doctor doesn't get along with himself very well. He starts squabbling.
The Doctor does tend to have a big ego.
That had been established in the Three Doctors anniversary special. The 2nd and 3rd get along but squabble, while the first is dismissive of the other two. This just continues their already established dynamic.
Contrast this with the most recent three Doctor crossover, where 10 and 11 are best buds right away while the War Doctor is grouchy and has little patience for either of them.
The first three? You've never met the sixth!
@@catwhowalksbyhimself Well... maybe not right away what with Eleven making fun of Ten kissing a Zygon and Ten insinuating Eleven has a small penis. They got along eventually tho!
Lethbridge-Stewart decking the Master... priceless
again!
Ah, that's more like it. I could watch this clip all day.
nice to see you again
1:37 Three just nudges Two out of the way, along with a “Move.” to boot. 🤣
One thing to note to fans of the new series looking back at this. The first Doctor, despite looking the oldest is the youngest (as by the name) Doctor, the line "running around acting all old and important" is a nod that in fact the first Doctor is kind of a brat, and now think of it, how all the other Doctors are looking at him, in reality as the little know-it-all kid in the room.
2:46
Classic Troughton, god that brings back memories.
fun isnt he, I so want to get Highlander back, I want to meet Jamie
I'd love a new 5 Doctors story with 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13.
gods no! 8,9, 10, 11 and 12
15th 12th 11th and 10th (13th Archival Footaged)
After 50 years and having gone through 11 doctors, hos personality hasn't changed one bit. I love it.
His personality changes every time.
Nope. The New Who Doctors, except for Capaldi, are crap.
@@fjccommish that's your opinion and not a fact. You're not that relevant so don't think your opinions are facts🤦♀️
@@leobe2104 It's not your place to say who's "that relevant" and who isn't. Real people are always relevant. Fictional characters, like the Doctor, are ultimately irrelevant.
R.I.P Richard Hurdell, Patrick Troughton and Jon Pertwee. Also Elizabeth Slaten and Nicholas Courtney.
Rewatching this scene, it’s actually very tight and well done. So much accomplished in 3 minutes. It provides plot exposition in a natural way. It allows each Doctor’s personality to come across in spades. And it’s funny. Really well done.
There is something so very satisfying about seeing the Brigadier clock the Master like that. You can't help but watch and go, oh hell yeah. Give it to em, old chap.
When Tegan - the current companion - meets Sarah Jane she acts friendly and introduces herself.
When Rose does it she acts all jealous.
That's because Tegan didn't have a silly schoolgirl crush on the Doctor.
Rose always was a bit of a Bit.. LoL 😜
I would love a small series with the first three doctors like this. I enjoyed this little part so much
try watching the three doctors, Pertwees era, its hilarious!!
"What does the inscription say?"
"Bad Wolf."
And next to that, "Clara was here"
“Hello sweetie x”
Wibble
"Your Scottish fry something"
Bird
The second doctor will always be my favorite.
"of all the confounded arrogance!" and "scarecrow" get me everytime. Since I was little I've always been tickled to death by this reunion.
And don't forget William Hartnell's comment: "So you're my replacements, eh? A dandy and a clown."
@@andrewwilliams9599 Different show. ;-)
"Scarecrow" is especially ironic, since Pertwee had recently played Worzel Gummidge at the time! 🙂
"It was like a cross between Guy Fawkes and Halloween."
I don't understand why or how those references are appropriate for the wacky situation Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and the 2nd Doctor got themselves into before they got to Rassilon's tomb.
I remember watching this on PBS as a little kid! I had so much fun, this brings back memories.
Shame tom baker didn't want to be apart of this story but glad he came back In the 50th as the curator
"It says... Hello, Sweetie"
"Yes, id quite like to know as well".... like father like daughter.
I met the Brig at TIMECON 1989..one of the nicest guys I ever met!
Lis Sladen was so hot. Even hotter in the RTD years.
yeah rip
When the new Doctor Who series started up, I hadn't seen Elisabeth Sladen in decades, hadn't thought about her in years...
The instant I saw her, I got the same tightness in my chest I had as a teenage boy, the same stupid smile on my face. The only difference was the tear glistening in my eye.
3:45 Hell of a kick by The Third Doctor
I love how the Brigadier comes up behind the Master with this look on his face like, "Oooooh, I've wanted to do this for decades!"
I never get how multiple versions of the Doctor can be together in the same time without some catastrophe happening in the space-time continuum
The Brig and 3 tag team the master...classic stuff.
Holy crap, I've never watched classic Who, but now I want to see this!
It's magic. 🙂
Imo it's kind of a mid-tier Classic Who story, but it's good fun. There are much, _much_ stronger stories in Classic Who (and much weaker ones, lol)
I wish it would happen in new series more frequently. It would be great to see 10th, 11th and 12th reunite with Jodie.
Especially if Matt Smith's first reaction to seeing her is to reprise his "I'm a girl?!" squawk.
But really; we need Eccleston, Tennant, Smith, Capaldi, and Whittaker teaming up against Roberts, Jacobi, Simm, Gomez, and Dhawan: The Five Doctors vs The Five Masters.
@@Pentarax and the plot twist would be when Michelle Gomez betrays four of the other Masters, and stands with The Doctor like she meant to do in "The Doctor Falls".
It could happen when the 60th comes around
Except now it would be more like the 5531st, 5532nd, and 5533rd Doctors because the BBC handed the show to a talentless hack.
This means more than we know and can be adapted in many ways. = DOCTOR WHO
Rewatching this it actually teaches a very philosophical lesson about greed and restricting yourself when given the opportunity to have unlimited power
0:41 Tegan and Sara? Like , the band?
Godamnit this episode would have been boss if Tom Baker had returned!
He'd just finished 7 years, so understandably wasn't eager to return.
yeah I mean, the episode itself is 'the five doctors' but there were only 4.
+Juliet Fischer actually he probably was eager to return because Tom always loved the part of Doctor Who all his life but he claimed it was because it was too soon, as the episode was only 2 years after his departure so he felt like him coming back would take the spotlight from Peter
Jeremy Xu - He'd also gone round the bend a bit during his run. The Doctor's a difficult character to get into and, in terms of screen time, Baker's seven years is the longest.
+Juliet Fischer well depends on the person, David didn't really a hard time getting back into character in the 50th xD
0:44 Hey, look! It's Tegan and Sara! ("EVERYTHING IS AWESOME!")
No, That's Sarah. Sara had died many years before.
Still, details aside...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tegan_and_Sara
"Accidental" or not, and Awesome or not, Everything Does tend to be Meaningful...
I was thinking "I feel it in my bones!" But, alright...😕
The way Two pushes Three and One aside as he butts in will never cease to make me chuckle.
3:42
In the Brigadier's mind,
"This shall be the pinnacle of my career, if only Miss Grant and Benton could see this,"
The Five Doctors... "I saw three!"
I'm repeating myself here, but the title places the emphasis on the Doctors RE-uniting. One, Two and Three haven't met each other in the flesh since "The Three Doctors", Four won't meet them as he's stuck in a time eddy due to a malfunction of the Time Scoop he was brought into the Death Zone (where they are currently) with and Five is still on his way.
@Revolver Ocelot It's five because all five of them are affected by their fourth incarnation being stuck. And they all do appear in the show.
What I want to see is the Five Masters!
Other Masters' reaction to John Simm = Priceless
They wouldn't be impressed.
"To lose is to win and he who wins shall lose" -3rd Doctor "I know what it says what does it mean" -2nd Doctor
I love the brigader say nice to see you again then lays the master out cold 😂
I must have watched this story a thousand times since 1983, more maybe, and still I never tire of it.
Same here!
@@MaskedMan66 me too
Back when Doctor Who was a good show. My how far it has fallen.
I wish we got to see the Doctors interact like this throughout the episode instead of just at the very end.
It would not have been practical.
Ah...This brings back memories! The Brig out of uniform and still awesome!
The look on the Masters face when the Brig decked him!
I appreciate the 3rd Doctor's broship with the Brig.