The problem with the TV Movie was WHEN it was broadcast in the end of May when the NBA Finals were getting underway and most Networks were wrapping up their seasons. If they had waited until early July to show the Film. Guess what? It would have been a hit because it would NOT have had any competition since most Network, at that time, showed repeats during the summer and didn't broadcast New Episodes until late September or early October.
Sorry, but the TV movie would NOT have been a hit(I watched it), because Fox "Americanized" it too much with sex, violence, and car chases, as well as a half-human Doctor. It had zero charm/intellect of the show, which never translates well to most US viewers (much less Fox viewers at the time). It WAS a flop in the US.. And, RTD is still full of sh!t, no matter what he says or writes... And, who says that "The Curator" was a "Doctor" at all? Adric was the "Wesley Crusher" of "Doctor Who", and quite annoying to me... You do NOT count calendar years in determining "longest run". You count portrayals in the role. Jeffrey Hunter is NOT the longest running "Captain Pike"... If production stops, you are effectively cancelled, no matter how many times a revival is "planned". There's a reason that it's called "Development Hell"...
@@igorschmidlapp6987 I saw it too and thought it was brilliant. I even taped over a sporting event I had planned on saving so I could watch it. I was kind of disappointed that they ddin't turn it into a series and part of that was when they broadcast it. During Sweeps against popular shows like Roseanne. Had they waited a month or two, after the NBA finals it would have had a better chances at succeeding because it would have been an original program going up against re-runs. Most people don't want to watch re-runs. They'd preferred to watch something new if give the choice. Doctor Who would have been a huge success even if it was on the forth rated network. Fox.
My fox affiliate has a bad habit of not promoting things or flat out not airing shows cause I was an avid fox viewer back then I have no recollection of it ever being promoted just like we didn’t get the fox kids show vr troopers but they still showed the promos for it during the fox kids lineup and we didn’t get fox’s second attempt at a kid’s lineup called the fox box and it wouldn’t surprise me that they didn’t air firefly
Even if a lot of people watch something and it gets good ratings on its initial broadcast, like the TV movie, if the majority of the people who watched think it was bad then doesn't that still make it a flop?
The other reason it failed in the US, is that they didn't really promote it. Unless you had a TV Guide, you wouldn't have known it was on that week. I watched Fox Broadcast Network regularly, and not many adverts were shown except for the last couple of days which where it was stagnant. I watched it because I can watch Roseanne anytime.
That’s what i have been saying for years when it being a flop in the us is brought up cause I was an avid fox watcher then from fox kids to prime time shows and I have no memory of it being promoted I don’t even know if my fox affiliate even aired it cause it has a bad habit of not airing some shows my affiliate didn’t get vr troopers or the second attempt at a kids lineup called the fox box even though we still got the promos for both for example
David Tennant is still the first actor to play different incarnations of the doctor, as he played "10.5" from Journey's End onwards, because it's explained in The Time of the Doctor the regeneration counted into the regeneration cycle meaning The 10th Doctor from Journey's End onward is actually a different incarnation than The 10th Doctor from The Christmas Invasion to The Stolen Earth. And if that doesn't count he also played The Meta-Crisis Doctor, and even though he's half human he's still The Doctor as he's literally called The Meta-Crisis Doctor.
Nope, Sylvester McCoy (played both the sixth and seventh Doctors in 1987) and Richard E Grant (played the tenth Doctor in 1999 and the ninth Doctor in 2003) still beat him to that accolade.
@@jacob4tee No. The Meta-crisis is not the Doctor, he is a side effect of the 'aborted' regeneration that effectively has him reusing the same body twice. Tennant played (by old rules) the 11th and 12th Doctor, before regenerating into Matt Smith's (final) 13th Doctor.
I do think it's the American fandom that believes the movie went down badly, but that's because it was mainly intended for that audience. And it's ironic that it was also expected to struggle at home (where it had been written off years before) and yet got a sizeable number of people to sit down on a sunny Bank Holiday and watch. This is long before iPlayer, after all.
Nope, Sylvester McCoy (played both the sixth and seventh Doctors in 1987) and Richard E Grant (played the tenth Doctor in 1999 and the ninth Doctor in 2003) both beat him to it.
@DrWhoFanJ Sylvester playing the 6th Doctor shouldn't count as he was only used as a stand in for Colin, the same way the doctors stunt doubles don't count, because they're stand ins
If you're going to count McCoy as 'serving' across the not-cancellation gap to the TV movie (and McGann, etc) AND claim Tom Baker was playing the Doctor (in his rôle as Curator) in 2013, then you have to hand back the longest-serving-Doctor award to Tom, surely. Not that any of this matters.
At this point, if I don't hear "the best character" after "River Song", I take it as a sign that someone has been kidnapped and is speaking in code. Concerning the video, I almost made a boast about knowing all these, but realized I know most of them because of WhoCulture videos. So it doesn't really count. But that makes it an automatic thumbs up.
You forgot to mention that Susan made up the acronym for the Tardis, when all the other time lords called it the exact same thing years before she could have been around
@@SpecialInterestShow no idea. Likely hundreds. But his memory only goes as far back as Hartnell, so so far as he's currently concerned, Hartnell was the first.
@@Yetaxa ohhh right, the timeless child thing did put that into question huh Eh I figure maybe the doctor just had met people who called it that or something and maybe he assumed he'd meet the person who coined the term later, what with time travel and whatnot So when Susan coined it, he was like "oh! So fhafs where it came from you!" or something
RTD did NOT say that every single Doctor canonically bigenerated. He said that he "liked to imagine alternate universes in which that happened". I wish people would stop saying this! Only 14 bigenerated.
The forced regeneration of the 2nd Doctor could have resulted in a lot of interesting new plotlines. All happend off-screen, without zhe knowedge of Unit ( who is responsible for numbering the diffetent faces of The Doctor ) - they never encountered the War-Doctor (Kathe received a memory wipe) nor the Fugitive Doctor or even the short forced skit by the Master. Noone has explained yet, who was hidden inside the white vail of the Watcher or what the Doctor was called, before he choose this Title as a proper name (Theta Sigma being only a nick-name from student times)🎉
@@UranusMcVitieFish-yd7oq Maybe it's copium, but my headcanon (until shown otherwise) is that it's not quite as it seems. I think Fifteen went back into his own timestream. I believe that Fourteen will still start regenerating "as normal", and then be dragged back to Unit tower in 2023. I have some evidence for this that I cba writing out here, and ultimately it's just my headcanon which may or may not be disproven in the next series.
i know this probably doesn't count but by my count, jim broadbent is the first double doctor, having played him in victoria wood: as seen on tv in the mid 80s and an alt eleventh in curse of fatal death in 1999. david tennant has played a remarkable number of characters tho. a nurse in unbound, a guard in shalka, 10, 10.5, metacrisis, pete's doctor, 14, not doctor, and if you wanna count it, that one puppet in the giggle and other characters that wore the doctor's face
Last time I watched it a couple of years back it was still on the UK BBC iPlayer site but like a lot of the archived content it took a bit of a deep dive to find. That said it may now be part of the official iPlayer Doctor Who Universe collection and findable from that segments homepage. It's also no doubt available by less than 100% legal means.
Hmm. Ellie, can a timeline go wibbly without going wobbly? Also, wouldn't the Zygons have discovered 5, 6 and 7 when they took the place of the smashed statues in "Day of the Doctor?" Cheers....
@@Acknowledgerofdoctorwho they literally mention it in the video... Colin Baker couldn't/didn't come back for the regeneration scene. So McCoy played the Doctor both before and after regeneration
Some of these are honestly splitting hairs a bit to fit the narrative of the video, particularly the longest-running doctor and whether or not it was “cancelled”.
The 'cancelled' one is honestly a bit silly, because the BBC almost never actively 'cancels' a show the way American networks will, by actually stopping the series in the middle of a season, leaving out already produced episodes. Once a series order is made, that show will go out, and more series may or may not get another series. It's extremely rare for a show to be straight up cancelled.
I wrote to the BBC in 1990 asking about the future of Doctor Who and still have my reply. It read as follows.. With regard to your query about the future of Doctor Who, although there are no plans to make a series during 1990 BBC Television is deliberating about how to produce the programme in the future. A decision is not likely until next spring. The letter was signed John Nathan Turner. I guess they didn't say which late spring that decision would be made in.
No, you couldn't get the VHS of the TV-movie two weeks before (unless of course it was a press copy). You could get the novelisation by Gary Russell but if I remember even that was only a few days before. It was shown in Canada before on the BBC, apparently, but in the US after. There wasn't a VHS release in the US because of some rights issues and even the DVD came out years after it did in the UK.
I always thought the women who gave him the soup was like his nanny because she made the comment to having lots of kids but the dr was the only one who slept in the barn when they did the episode about silence with Claire and the Maths teacher
Oh so their awesome work at Big Finish recording all the fabulous continuing adventures didn't happen?? If it wasn't for them, Big Finish and the other Doctors NuWho and subsequently DisneyWho wouldn't be happening. Still 'serving' now 🙄
Was Davies high when he said ALL of the doctors bigenerated?? We saw most of them happen ON SCREEN. 9, 10, 11, and 12 regenerated in the TARDIS midflight, so did their bigenerated versions teleport somewhere else in the Tardis to hide out until they could sneak away without the Doctor seeing, or did they teleport outside and are still floating around in the time vortex?
He never said it happened. He said its his headcanon and what he likes to believe. He never said it definitely happened. He's a fan of the show and every fan has headcanons
Oooh! Ooh! Tom Baker isn't the first to play two Doctor's either! Pin this! This is really good Trivia: The actual title goes to Richard E. Grant, who would later play the Great Intelligence! Richard E. Grant, plays an Alternative 9th Doctor is the Semi Official Animated story "Scream of the Shalka" that was released in 2003 during the 40th-anniversary! The revival series was announced later that year. (And, being referenced in some books and media, might have been considered the "Official" Ninth Doctor, if the series hadn't returned in 2005.) But for a brief period, he was the official Ninth Doctor. However he also played the Tenth Doctor in the Doctor Who Charity Special "Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death" in 1999. Although this series is a Non-Canon Charity special - featuring a plethora of famous Actors as the 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th Doctor, played by Rowan Atkinson, Richard E. Grant, Jim Broadbent, Hugh Grant and Joanna Lumley respectively - it is technically Steven Moffat's first writing credit for Doctor Who and features some dialogue he would later use in the show, such as the Iconic "Never Cruel and Never Cowardly". It is also the last appearance of Roy Skelton as the original Voice of the Daleks. How is THAT For Trivia?
Meta = the man born out of war and chaos that had a potential multiversal hybridchild we know as the Master with the Bad wolf girl. aka Valeyard and Romana after everyone lost thier memories as those wasnt saved the first time around the dying "Mondasians" when the Mondasian mankind was saved by an at that time unfinished timemachine that would become the very first TARDIS.... HOW THE F do we know the above`?````??? Because it have happend again to us....as the Daleks took over our (stolen) Earth and turned it into new Skaro after our Earth (from the classic Whoniverse) was "returned" to the wrong whoniverse in end of Journeys end....where River Songs mind completed the new timemachine that saves everyone a second time.... First save was made when the Master made the hardrive to this new type of timemachine when he needed a harddrive to store everyones minds when he took over the entire mankind...to be able to control us all....
And people in general seem to forget that David regenerating at all made him a new regeneration the doctor didn’t create the meta crisis doctor Donna did if she never had touched container with the doctor’s hand in it it may not have become a full body
@@danielmetcalf in a broader perspective with certain side information how that Earth became Mondas inside our (classic era Whoniverse) and how that "Mondasian" mankind became the Timelords at thier deaths then Yes it is confirmed.. Alongside the potential child of the Man born out of war and chaos and the bad wolf girl (before everyone lost thier memories at thier "eaths) when a unfinished timemachine saved everyone to its harddrive (but due to being unfinished did not save everyones "memories 6 personalities" (read souls) and later after that that unfinished timemachine was completed and became the very first original TARDIS it resaved everyones "souls" onto its harddrive in a Matrix it had running where everyone was basicly in "Heaven and Hell". The first save was = with what we know from the show as "blank base stations" (See The Master race for a similar concept; End of time) )that uses the 2nd saves to "fill" the blank base stations that thus becomes Timelords.... (thats the basic concept thats been hidden in the show) + the very first TARDIS became the Matrix on Gallifrey Due to time i wont 100% go into exactly how this is seen in the show but just know the basic concept have been repeated for us (Our Mankind from the classic WHoninverse) Whom the Doctor still have a duty of care of as we are from the whoniverse our Doctor was the Doctor for and where his mother came from. = All of newwho is about how we (our mankind; from the classic whoniverse) got out Earth stolen out from our WHoniverse (Just like the Mondasians had thier Earth stolen (Rose words it in start of Journeys end; hidden but its there) So in end of Journeys end. Our Earth was "returned" to the wrong whoniverse (read the new Doomsday/Big Bang created new WHoniverse.... = exactly the same story as for the Mondasians. As our Earth and mankind will loose our Earth to a anther type of "tincans" in around 20XX...& at the very same time an maaaaaaaaaaaasive attack in around 5145AD. And our (now former) Doctor (In a still to come future without a TARDIS trapped thru history from atleast 4BC))(read Caretaker/Curator/President) is only able to save the Earth in 20XX using an unfinished new timemachine he/she have been tinkering with (since 1948) and that we have been seeing on off since series 3. and that was completed using River Songs mind in around 5145AD... = The child of the TARDIS IS a new type of timemachine (in lack of a name) RIVERS that have been saving everyone thruout history (the 2nd save) in the massive Dalek invasion of 5145ADish...The first save was made already in the show as I have hinted above already when the Master created the actual harddrive for the unfinsihed timemachine hidden in plain sight in End of time. To be able to controll our entire mankind as he needed a place to store eveyone "souls" to be able to control us all. Just like how The Great intelligens, Patient Zero and the Zygons needs an "dormant" active mind to control someone... As mankinds "souls" where retured the harddrive stored the "blank state" of the Master race instead..... And this is why the Matrix in RIVERS is using copies of the same over and over.... + And this is a biggie... Remember how Clara faced the raven and how our (former) Doctor was stored on a "harddrive" and lived in that Matrix for those billions of years repeating those 3 days.... Clara was also saved that time by the same hardrive....(The black smoke/datastream) andlater in the library.... Clara was uploaded to life once again.... I could spell out as whom but the effect is far more.....amazing...as it is hidden in plain sight so obvious... its quite early...in the first episode... just go watch it with the information in mind from above... Clara is right there hidden in plain sight. Remember the Doctor lies. (and Clara is unknowingly the new Whoniverse Doctor since Akhaten and in the library the 1st (new whoniverse) Doctor have its apperance that will know shes the Doctor one day...when our mankind on Trenzalore becomes and are the new WHoniverse rulers over time.. THere is a ton more but thats a start... PS/ Doomsday in end of series 2 hid the same day as per seen in Big Bang = series 3 & 4 inbetween the 2 times we saw Donna as a bride the show was within the new WHoniverse......far earlier then ppl realise (that is one of the main reasons people have such a hard time get whats really been going on....) (and it was "forseen" way back in serial Battlefield) where Tim Shaw potentially saw his end...(I can ofc show how we know this last bit but i got IRL timeconstraint atm)
No, a CGI young John Hurt (complete with one line of dialogue) played the Wzr Doctor in Night of the Doctor. While McCoy was technically the first actor to play two Doctors I'd argue that Richard E Grant was the first to acplay play two different interpretations: Curse of Fatal Death 10th Doctor and Scream of the Shalka 9th Doctor, the second of which only isn't full canon because it would have confused the newbies who came to the show in 2005.
Sorry, but whichever way you slice it, Tom Baker is the longest serving Doctor. Most seasons? Tom. Most episodes? Tom. And... if you are going to count Sylvester McCoy between 1989 and 1996, or Paul McGann between 1996 and 2005 (or especially if you are counting 2013)... then Tom is STILL playing the Doctor now, for Big Finish, nearly 50 years after he started. Definitively the longest serving Doctor.
i really enjoyed The Imperfects. it mixed elements of Buffy The Vampire Slayer with bits of The X-Men with some chunks of Orphan Black in there too. of course, the Netflix cancelled it after only one season.
A video of information delivered in quick bite-sized chunks designed to disabuse viewers of misconceptions derived from taking in information delivered in quick bite-sized chunks... "That's so neat, I could write a thesis!"
Now that is a bit of a stretch. River Song is a great character. But the BEST Character? I don't really know. I am kind of partial to both Rose and Sarah Jane myself.
There was so much potential in River's character but I felt like the payoff really didn't work, she just became a caricature by the end and her dialogue felt increasingly 2D. Rose and the family they built around her is still the best-written and developed companion in my eyes, with Donna in second place. No others come close.
I love both major series, of course, but I tend to prefer Classic DW. As a latecomer to the franchise, I've always had the impression that people consider Sarah Jane Smith as the longest running companion. I actually tallied up the number of episodes she and Jamie McCrimmon appeared in, and Jamie's in far more than Sarah Jane is so HE is the longest running as far as I can tell. I didn't really look at the nuWho companions, just those two very popular favorites (they're in my top 5 favorites).
ok so it seems i've totally misremembered, they said the reaction to the elevator shower from rose tyler was improvised/genuine, rather than the david tennant one
If you’re counting technicalities for longest running Doctor then TB has a run from Robot up to his part in the 50th anniversary. TB is the longest serving Doctor and the longest for continuous episodes.
I was a little kid in 1966, and vividly remember the shock of watching Sara Kingdom's death and skeletonization. I was heartbroken. I was similarly stunned by Adric's death, and the brilliant decision to run the end credits in respectful silence. Unfortunately in New Who, things have gone soft. The strong emotional impact of the killings of Clara and Bill was ruined by writers then making up some timey-wimey magic to give them a fairytale "and they all lived happily ever after" ending.
I completely disagree. The deaths of Clara and Bill are no less effective than those of Sara and Adric. They just work in different ways. I’ve watched the Face the Raven/Heaven Sent/Hell Bent trilogy and the World Enough and Time/The Doctor Falls two-parter several times each, and the deaths are no less effective the third time through than the first.
After Rogue, surely the first actor to play 2 different doctors was Richard E. Grant? Although this comment might not age well depending on what's to come
@@thedoctor1263 from what i've heard, the timeless child says that time lords got regeneration FROM the timeless child in a good man goes to war iirc it's revealed that the time lords only became time lords through exposure to the untempered shism (time vortex) and that river song is a time lord because of that
@tzarg correct. All time lords received their hereditary regenerations through reverse engineering The Doctor when they were The Timeless Child. The Doctor now/always had(?) unlimited regenerations. But that being the case, being exposed to the untempered schism wouldn't have done that to River. That bit about Time Lords starting that way was due to false memories the doctor was given and false information on gallifrey
I didn't get that from watching the episode. This video is where I learned that info and as I have been watching DW since 1977 or so with Tom Baker, I consider myself an Uber fan.
Of course you did dear because it was So blatently obvious 🙄 Almost Noone knew, I'd never heard of this either until now and the Third Doctor was my first Doctor...
Based on knowing Davis' bigenation answer I think all must be bigenerations, including the one forgotten on the list the 12th being so. Actually this is a really cool way to link things together.
Retconning a retcon only makes things worse. Imagine if they made a whole episode about how the Doctor isn’t really half human, or to tear down the Cartmel Masterplan. They just ignored those instead. If the next showrunner decides they don’t like the idea, they can just do that and nobody’s going to complain.
Tim Daly could have been a great American Doctor. His work as Superman in TAS has heroic Dr vibe and his roles in Basic and Sopranos showed more layers perfect for a Doctor actor IMO
Actually David Tennant was the first to play three doctors he played dr number eleven dr #12 and Dr #16 however you counted Moffett counts it wrong Here we go again for one through 17 William Artnell Patrick Trodden John Purtwee Tom Baker Peter Davidson Colin Baker Sylvester McCoy Paul McGann john Hurt has the war doctor but he was still the doctor christopher Eccleston David Tennant They've attended again as the meta crisis dr Matt Smith Peter Capaldi Jodi Whitaker And should he got 1
And remember that the end of tenants made a crisis dr happened before the 50th anniversary so he was a double dr twice I mean before Tom Baker was double doctor so David Tennant was a double doctor first then a triple doctor so you got your information wrong lady nay nanny nan you don't know everything
The identity of the woman is a mystery. Just because the author of screen says he intends her to be one thing doesn't follow that she is on screen. Until the Doctor says she is his mother on screen her identity is unknown. At the end of the episode when Wilf asks the Doctor knods at Donna. This could mean she is his wife (as Donna is wearing a wedding dress) or his Granddaughter as Donna is Wilf's granddaughter. Heck Time Lords change sex so it could his dad for all we actually know. This list is starting well. One entry in and it's already wrong😁
@@joshuajoshua2732 No. They weren't auditioned, cast or conceived as Companions (with a big "C"), and they were only briefly in the show - in Katarina's case, the Myth Makers (in which she only had a fairly modest part) and the first episode of the next; in Sara Kingdom's case, she only appeared in one story, in which she was no more a "Companion" than Bret Vyon. If being in one or two stories and helping the Doctor were the criteria for "Companionship", there'd be umpteen dozens of them in the Classic Era alone. They're just supporting characters.
@@ftumschk Katarina actually *was* conceived as a new companion, but weird behind-the-scenes stuff had them abandon the character very quickly. Still not a companion though
ok, i will call foul on paul mcgann getting 9 years. you seem to have forgotten his regeneration into john hurt, a very young looking version of john hurt. we do not know how much time elapsed for paul and then later for john. so how many seasons does that make for paul, how many for john. we may never know.
Nr.8 is kinda wrong. He played 3 different doctors....well maybe 4. At least 3 doctors and 1 other version of himself. We know that when he regenerated with his hand to keep his face, that still was a full Regeneration. So it's inherently a new doctor. Also metacrisis. He was 11,12, metacrisis and now 16. (And yes war doctor needs to be counted when we talk about regenerations)
I don't consider Katarina and Sara Kingdom companions, one is a good character the other a great character, but Katarina ended up by accident in the TARDIS in the end of a story and died at the beginning of the next one, but she never really knew what was going on and was a victim of the circumstances, her sacrifice was brave though. Sara had the chance to travel in the TARDIS but was contained into one story, many one story characters had the chance to be in the TARDIS they're not considered companions, they would be a lot more if that were the case. She was still a brilliant character, brave and quite badass and her death was pretty shocking and impactful, she still deserves to be remembered
The one of these that Really pisses me off is the Rose/Cassandra kiss with Ten. It was so well done by them, and yet the number of fans who thought it was impromptu as though scripts and editing didn't happen. That Tennant had actually fallen for Billie Piper as you just couldn't fake that look 🙄 It's called Acting. It drives me up the wall when divvies simply don't understand that 🙄🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
White lady is the White guardian for the new WHoniverse making sure the curical event of the Timelords being split up into two opposing factions. Fun fact her child (the Master) is the new Black Guardian mankind sure himself got to the end of the Timewar. HIGH! liklyhood the Moment is the new Key to time as it was used to execute Rassioln final plan for the end of time (as Galifrey was BOTH frozen and burnt in the same last Moment....) &! That new key to time is from the OMEGA (Not to be confused with Omega and all other OMEGA related stuff we seen thruout the show.) As OMEGA used to be the dark semisentient tower in Gallifreys death zone....(compare this directly with the dark semisentient dark tower in Trenazalore dead Zone....as BOTH OMEGA and the TARDIS at those points was former timemachines (both had been killed by an ascention wave a the end of each respective Whoniverse timewar in each respective whoniverse... AND i am skipping tons of info about the above....thats in the show. as The Bad wolf girl & Romana and Rose are the same as the White guardian & Santa for the new WHoniverse....
@@bennettnez4711 It really isn’t hard to find, and the price difference is because it’s a three-story boxset _versus_ a one-story DVD. Stop missing the point entirely.
I've heard that the Doctor is now gay. That is so stupid it can't be true. There are also rumours they once cast woman as the character, and not just in a non-canon comedy sketch (Joanna Lumley as an alternative timeline 13) or weird early Big Finish audio drama (Arabella Weir as an alternative 2nd Doctor) Both utter madness dreamed up by idiots surely?
Nope. The former is a misinterpretation by brainless imbeciles, and the latter is a fact only those same brainless imbeciles would ever think is an issue.
Umm... The Doctor was bi (AND NOT GAY) ever since meeting Jamie? Like, you do know that it isn't a recent thing, right? And also, the Time Lords are a species that can change their entire body and DNA structure whenever they want. Why is changing gender a problem? The Doctor isn't even the first one to do it? Are you just angry at Rory for putting your hero in the cupboard?
the doctor is maybe straight, maybe asexual, maybe gay, depending the showrunner, but people think he is because of Wild Blue Yonder and strangely a (not even hinting at it) line in church on ruby road. And the second is true, The Curse Of Fatal Death in 1999 is the non-canon comedy sketch (written by steven moffat himself) and no idea about the alternative 2nd doctor though.
Here's a fact - Jodie, Tennant 2 and Gatwa aren't canon, they never have been and never will be, the chance of that being undone is about as big as a pig flying
@mattthesilent777RED they are never going to be uncanonsised or wiped out mate get over it people who fear change are not Dr. Who fans in my book there's no room for a misogynist and a racist or any man baby who is stuck in the past.
The problem with the TV Movie was WHEN it was broadcast in the end of May when the NBA Finals were getting underway and most Networks were wrapping up their seasons. If they had waited until early July to show the Film. Guess what? It would have been a hit because it would NOT have had any competition since most Network, at that time, showed repeats during the summer and didn't broadcast New Episodes until late September or early October.
Sorry, but the TV movie would NOT have been a hit(I watched it), because Fox "Americanized" it too much with sex, violence, and car chases, as well as a half-human Doctor. It had zero charm/intellect of the show, which never translates well to most US viewers (much less Fox viewers at the time). It WAS a flop in the US..
And, RTD is still full of sh!t, no matter what he says or writes...
And, who says that "The Curator" was a "Doctor" at all?
Adric was the "Wesley Crusher" of "Doctor Who", and quite annoying to me...
You do NOT count calendar years in determining "longest run". You count portrayals in the role. Jeffrey Hunter is NOT the longest running "Captain Pike"...
If production stops, you are effectively cancelled, no matter how many times a revival is "planned". There's a reason that it's called "Development Hell"...
@@igorschmidlapp6987 I saw it too and thought it was brilliant. I even taped over a sporting event I had planned on saving so I could watch it. I was kind of disappointed that they ddin't turn it into a series and part of that was when they broadcast it. During Sweeps against popular shows like Roseanne. Had they waited a month or two, after the NBA finals it would have had a better chances at succeeding because it would have been an original program going up against re-runs. Most people don't want to watch re-runs. They'd preferred to watch something new if give the choice. Doctor Who would have been a huge success even if it was on the forth rated network. Fox.
My fox affiliate has a bad habit of not promoting things or flat out not airing shows cause I was an avid fox viewer back then I have no recollection of it ever being promoted just like we didn’t get the fox kids show vr troopers but they still showed the promos for it during the fox kids lineup and we didn’t get fox’s second attempt at a kid’s lineup called the fox box and it wouldn’t surprise me that they didn’t air firefly
@@igorschmidlapp6987Bro just decided to air out all of his grievances with the series at once. Honestly, fair enough.
Even if a lot of people watch something and it gets good ratings on its initial broadcast, like the TV movie, if the majority of the people who watched think it was bad then doesn't that still make it a flop?
The other reason it failed in the US, is that they didn't really promote it. Unless you had a TV Guide, you wouldn't have known it was on that week. I watched Fox Broadcast Network regularly, and not many adverts were shown except for the last couple of days which where it was stagnant. I watched it because I can watch Roseanne anytime.
That’s what i have been saying for years when it being a flop in the us is brought up cause I was an avid fox watcher then from fox kids to prime time shows and I have no memory of it being promoted I don’t even know if my fox affiliate even aired it cause it has a bad habit of not airing some shows my affiliate didn’t get vr troopers or the second attempt at a kids lineup called the fox box even though we still got the promos for both for example
David Tennant is still the first actor to play different incarnations of the doctor, as he played "10.5" from Journey's End onwards, because it's explained in The Time of the Doctor the regeneration counted into the regeneration cycle meaning The 10th Doctor from Journey's End onward is actually a different incarnation than The 10th Doctor from The Christmas Invasion to The Stolen Earth. And if that doesn't count he also played The Meta-Crisis Doctor, and even though he's half human he's still The Doctor as he's literally called The Meta-Crisis Doctor.
Weren’t u talking about the meta-crisis doctor tho?
Richard E Grant was the first to play two incarnations. In Curse of Fatal Death and Scream of the Shalka.
Nope, Sylvester McCoy (played both the sixth and seventh Doctors in 1987) and Richard E Grant (played the tenth Doctor in 1999 and the ninth Doctor in 2003) still beat him to that accolade.
@@stifynbaker2914 David Tennant and 14th doctor.
@@jacob4tee No. The Meta-crisis is not the Doctor, he is a side effect of the 'aborted' regeneration that effectively has him reusing the same body twice.
Tennant played (by old rules) the 11th and 12th Doctor, before regenerating into Matt Smith's (final) 13th Doctor.
Almost spit out my food as Ellie said "well that's alright then"
I do think it's the American fandom that believes the movie went down badly, but that's because it was mainly intended for that audience. And it's ironic that it was also expected to struggle at home (where it had been written off years before) and yet got a sizeable number of people to sit down on a sunny Bank Holiday and watch. This is long before iPlayer, after all.
American here. We also realize the movie is bad and that Americanizing it was a mistake.
3:05 Actually, Tennant was the first as he played the 10th and the metacrisis doctors in 2008
Actually, Richard E Grant was the first to play two separate incarnations of the Doctor. Curse of Fatal Death (1999) and Scream of the Shalka (2003)
Nope, Sylvester McCoy (played both the sixth and seventh Doctors in 1987) and Richard E Grant (played the tenth Doctor in 1999 and the ninth Doctor in 2003) both beat him to it.
No, that would be Sylvester McCoy as the Sixth and Seventh Doctors in _Time and the Rani_ (1987).
@DrWhoFanJ Sylvester playing the 6th Doctor shouldn't count as he was only used as a stand in for Colin, the same way the doctors stunt doubles don't count, because they're stand ins
If you're going to count McCoy as 'serving' across the not-cancellation gap to the TV movie (and McGann, etc) AND claim Tom Baker was playing the Doctor (in his rôle as Curator) in 2013, then you have to hand back the longest-serving-Doctor award to Tom, surely. Not that any of this matters.
At this point, if I don't hear "the best character" after "River Song", I take it as a sign that someone has been kidnapped and is speaking in code.
Concerning the video, I almost made a boast about knowing all these, but realized I know most of them because of WhoCulture videos. So it doesn't really count. But that makes it an automatic thumbs up.
They do scrape a little lmao.
Nothing wrong with it, but we do watch similiar videos pretty often lmao
"We had to keep secrets to them so they could react properly"... have these people never heard of acting?
You forgot to mention that Susan made up the acronym for the Tardis, when all the other time lords called it the exact same thing years before she could have been around
I'm not fully caught up on the pre-NewWho lore, so, if Hartnell wasn't the "first" Doctor, which iteration was he then in Canon? Do we not know?
@@SpecialInterestShow no idea. Likely hundreds. But his memory only goes as far back as Hartnell, so so far as he's currently concerned, Hartnell was the first.
@@Yetaxa ohhh right, the timeless child thing did put that into question huh
Eh I figure maybe the doctor just had met people who called it that or something and maybe he assumed he'd meet the person who coined the term later, what with time travel and whatnot
So when Susan coined it, he was like "oh! So fhafs where it came from you!" or something
RTD did NOT say that every single Doctor canonically bigenerated. He said that he "liked to imagine alternate universes in which that happened". I wish people would stop saying this! Only 14 bigenerated.
I wish it had never happened. Such a stupid idea.
@@UranusMcVitieFish-yd7oqIt isn’t.
The forced regeneration of the 2nd Doctor could have resulted in a lot of interesting new plotlines. All happend off-screen, without zhe knowedge of Unit ( who is responsible for numbering the diffetent faces of The Doctor ) - they never encountered the War-Doctor (Kathe received a memory wipe) nor the Fugitive Doctor or even the short forced skit by the Master. Noone has explained yet, who was hidden inside the white vail of the Watcher or what the Doctor was called, before he choose this Title as a proper name (Theta Sigma being only a nick-name from student times)🎉
@@UranusMcVitieFish-yd7oq Maybe it's copium, but my headcanon (until shown otherwise) is that it's not quite as it seems. I think Fifteen went back into his own timestream. I believe that Fourteen will still start regenerating "as normal", and then be dragged back to Unit tower in 2023. I have some evidence for this that I cba writing out here, and ultimately it's just my headcanon which may or may not be disproven in the next series.
i know this probably doesn't count but by my count, jim broadbent is the first double doctor, having played him in victoria wood: as seen on tv in the mid 80s and an alt eleventh in curse of fatal death in 1999. david tennant has played a remarkable number of characters tho. a nurse in unbound, a guard in shalka, 10, 10.5, metacrisis, pete's doctor, 14, not doctor, and if you wanna count it, that one puppet in the giggle and other characters that wore the doctor's face
It's just me that wants more of these "little buddies" adventures of Peter, Colin and Sylvester?
Is there a way to watch that 5-ish Doctor special? I never heard of it!
It’s on the DVD&BD copies of the 50th anniversary set.
@@DrWhoFanJonly on the limited release
@@djedg10 There’s only one version of the set.
Last time I watched it a couple of years back it was still on the UK BBC iPlayer site but like a lot of the archived content it took a bit of a deep dive to find.
That said it may now be part of the official iPlayer Doctor Who Universe collection and findable from that segments homepage.
It's also no doubt available by less than 100% legal means.
It's available on Dailymotion and on the doctorwhotv website.
In the 2005 christmas special, David quoted a bit of the lion king song the circle of life which was not in the script
Never heard of anyone who believes that wasn’t in the script.
Hmm. Ellie, can a timeline go wibbly without going wobbly? Also, wouldn't the Zygons have discovered 5, 6 and 7 when they took the place of the smashed statues in "Day of the Doctor?" Cheers....
McCoy was the first actor to play two incarnations, it's a technicality but it's still true
You're even using technicalities for longest tenure
when?
@@Acknowledgerofdoctorwho they literally mention it in the video... Colin Baker couldn't/didn't come back for the regeneration scene. So McCoy played the Doctor both before and after regeneration
Some of these are honestly splitting hairs a bit to fit the narrative of the video, particularly the longest-running doctor and whether or not it was “cancelled”.
The 'cancelled' one is honestly a bit silly, because the BBC almost never actively 'cancels' a show the way American networks will, by actually stopping the series in the middle of a season, leaving out already produced episodes. Once a series order is made, that show will go out, and more series may or may not get another series. It's extremely rare for a show to be straight up cancelled.
I wrote to the BBC in 1990 asking about the future of Doctor Who and still have my reply. It read as follows..
With regard to your query about the future of Doctor Who, although there are no plans to make a series during 1990 BBC Television is deliberating about how to produce the programme in the future. A decision is not likely until next spring.
The letter was signed John Nathan Turner.
I guess they didn't say which late spring that decision would be made in.
No, you couldn't get the VHS of the TV-movie two weeks before (unless of course it was a press copy). You could get the novelisation by Gary Russell but if I remember even that was only a few days before. It was shown in Canada before on the BBC, apparently, but in the US after. There wasn't a VHS release in the US because of some rights issues and even the DVD came out years after it did in the UK.
The Programme Guide trilogy in the 1980s included Sara Kingdom as a companion ... but only listed the Brigadier as a guest star
Another one: David Tenant Inprovised his "I don't wanna go" line
Never heard of anyone who thinks that
@djedg10 I have ran into a few
No he hasn't. RTD has literally talked about the script and how they filmed it multiple different ways
@@mrdr0161 I know it's not true. Saw the Doctor Who Confidential episode where they filmed it multiple ways. Others do believe it though
I always thought the women who gave him the soup was like his nanny because she made the comment to having lots of kids but the dr was the only one who slept in the barn when they did the episode about silence with Claire and the Maths teacher
Serving is the operative word. Paul McGann and Sylvester McCoy may have been The Doctor going into lengthy breaks but they weren't serving.
Oh so their awesome work at Big Finish recording all the fabulous continuing adventures didn't happen?? If it wasn't for them, Big Finish and the other Doctors NuWho and subsequently DisneyWho wouldn't be happening. Still 'serving' now 🙄
Was Davies high when he said ALL of the doctors bigenerated?? We saw most of them happen ON SCREEN. 9, 10, 11, and 12 regenerated in the TARDIS midflight, so did their bigenerated versions teleport somewhere else in the Tardis to hide out until they could sneak away without the Doctor seeing, or did they teleport outside and are still floating around in the time vortex?
He never said it happened. He said its his headcanon and what he likes to believe. He never said it definitely happened. He's a fan of the show and every fan has headcanons
Oooh! Ooh! Tom Baker isn't the first to play two Doctor's either! Pin this! This is really good Trivia:
The actual title goes to Richard E. Grant, who would later play the Great Intelligence!
Richard E. Grant, plays an Alternative 9th Doctor is the Semi Official Animated story "Scream of the Shalka" that was released in 2003 during the 40th-anniversary! The revival series was announced later that year. (And, being referenced in some books and media, might have been considered the "Official" Ninth Doctor, if the series hadn't returned in 2005.) But for a brief period, he was the official Ninth Doctor.
However he also played the Tenth Doctor in the Doctor Who Charity Special "Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death" in 1999. Although this series is a Non-Canon Charity special - featuring a plethora of famous Actors as the 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th Doctor, played by Rowan Atkinson, Richard E. Grant, Jim Broadbent, Hugh Grant and Joanna Lumley respectively - it is technically Steven Moffat's first writing credit for Doctor Who and features some dialogue he would later use in the show, such as the Iconic "Never Cruel and Never Cowardly". It is also the last appearance of Roy Skelton as the original Voice of the Daleks.
How is THAT For Trivia?
8. Also forgot the Meta Crisis Doctor… yeah it is a mess lol
Meta = the man born out of war and chaos that had a potential multiversal hybridchild we know as the Master with the Bad wolf girl. aka Valeyard and Romana after everyone lost thier memories as those wasnt saved the first time around the dying "Mondasians" when the Mondasian mankind was saved by an at that time unfinished timemachine that would become the very first TARDIS....
HOW THE F do we know the above`?````???
Because it have happend again to us....as the Daleks took over our (stolen) Earth and turned it into new Skaro after our Earth (from the classic Whoniverse) was "returned" to the wrong whoniverse in end of Journeys end....where River Songs mind completed the new timemachine that saves everyone a second time....
First save was made when the Master made the hardrive to this new type of timemachine when he needed a harddrive to store everyones minds when he took over the entire mankind...to be able to control us all....
And people in general seem to forget that David regenerating at all made him a new regeneration the doctor didn’t create the meta crisis doctor Donna did if she never had touched container with the doctor’s hand in it it may not have become a full body
@@kevin10001 Meta = inbetween the 12th and final regen..
@@kennethnystrom593 Valeyard confirmed?!?!?
@@danielmetcalf in a broader perspective with certain side information how that Earth became Mondas inside our (classic era Whoniverse) and how that "Mondasian" mankind became the Timelords at thier deaths then Yes it is confirmed..
Alongside the potential child of the Man born out of war and chaos and the bad wolf girl (before everyone lost thier memories at thier "eaths) when a unfinished timemachine saved everyone to its harddrive (but due to being unfinished did not save everyones "memories 6 personalities" (read souls) and later after that that unfinished timemachine was completed and became the very first original TARDIS it resaved everyones "souls" onto its harddrive in a Matrix it had running where everyone was basicly in "Heaven and Hell".
The first save was = with what we know from the show as "blank base stations" (See The Master race for a similar concept; End of time) )that uses the 2nd saves to "fill" the blank base stations that thus becomes Timelords....
(thats the basic concept thats been hidden in the show) + the very first TARDIS became the Matrix on Gallifrey
Due to time i wont 100% go into exactly how this is seen in the show but just know the basic concept have been repeated for us (Our Mankind from the classic WHoninverse) Whom the Doctor still have a duty of care of as we are from the whoniverse our Doctor was the Doctor for and where his mother came from.
= All of newwho is about how we (our mankind; from the classic whoniverse) got out Earth stolen out from our WHoniverse (Just like the Mondasians had thier Earth stolen (Rose words it in start of Journeys end; hidden but its there)
So in end of Journeys end. Our Earth was "returned" to the wrong whoniverse (read the new Doomsday/Big Bang created new WHoniverse....
= exactly the same story as for the Mondasians.
As our Earth and mankind will loose our Earth to a anther type of "tincans" in around 20XX...& at the very same time an maaaaaaaaaaaasive attack in around 5145AD.
And our (now former) Doctor (In a still to come future without a TARDIS trapped thru history from atleast 4BC))(read Caretaker/Curator/President) is only able to save the Earth in 20XX using an unfinished new timemachine he/she have been tinkering with (since 1948) and that we have been seeing on off since series 3.
and that was completed using River Songs mind in around 5145AD...
= The child of the TARDIS
IS
a new type of timemachine (in lack of a name) RIVERS that have been saving everyone thruout history (the 2nd save)
in the massive Dalek invasion
of 5145ADish...The first save was made already in the show as I have hinted above already when the Master created the actual harddrive for the unfinsihed timemachine hidden in plain sight in End of time. To be able to controll our entire mankind as he needed a place to store eveyone "souls" to be able to control us all. Just like how The Great intelligens, Patient Zero and the Zygons needs an "dormant" active mind to control someone...
As mankinds "souls" where retured the harddrive stored the "blank state" of the Master race instead.....
And this is why the Matrix in RIVERS is using copies of the same over and over....
+
And this is a biggie...
Remember how Clara faced the raven and how our (former) Doctor was stored on a "harddrive" and lived in that Matrix for those billions of years repeating those 3 days....
Clara was also saved that time by the same hardrive....(The black smoke/datastream)
andlater in the library....
Clara was uploaded to life once again....
I could spell out as whom but the effect is far more.....amazing...as it is hidden in plain sight so obvious...
its quite early...in the first episode...
just go watch it with the information in mind from above...
Clara is right there hidden in plain sight.
Remember the Doctor lies.
(and Clara is unknowingly the new Whoniverse Doctor since Akhaten and in the library the 1st (new whoniverse) Doctor have its apperance that will know shes the Doctor one day...when our mankind on Trenzalore becomes and are the new WHoniverse rulers over time..
THere is a ton more but thats a start...
PS/
Doomsday in end of series 2 hid the same day as per seen in Big Bang = series 3 & 4 inbetween the 2 times we saw Donna as a bride the show was within the new WHoniverse......far earlier then ppl realise (that is one of the main reasons people have such a hard time get whats really been going on....)
(and it was "forseen" way back in serial Battlefield) where Tim Shaw potentially saw his end...(I can ofc show how we know this last bit but i got IRL timeconstraint atm)
Syvester McCoy played the 6th and 7th Doctor in Time and the Rani. Paul McGann played the 8th Doctor and the war Doctor in Night of the Doctor.
No, a CGI young John Hurt (complete with one line of dialogue) played the Wzr Doctor in Night of the Doctor.
While McCoy was technically the first actor to play two Doctors I'd argue that Richard E Grant was the first to acplay play two different interpretations: Curse of Fatal Death 10th Doctor and Scream of the Shalka 9th Doctor, the second of which only isn't full canon because it would have confused the newbies who came to the show in 2005.
Sorry, but whichever way you slice it, Tom Baker is the longest serving Doctor. Most seasons? Tom. Most episodes? Tom. And... if you are going to count Sylvester McCoy between 1989 and 1996, or Paul McGann between 1996 and 2005 (or especially if you are counting 2013)... then Tom is STILL playing the Doctor now, for Big Finish, nearly 50 years after he started. Definitively the longest serving Doctor.
Technically, if you count audio dramas, paul mcgann has consistently been the doctor for *TWENTY FIVE YEARS.*
Tom Baker is still doing them if you want to go with that logic. Nonlinear and all that.
@@Yetaxa he's only been doing big finish since 2012 i think
Didn’t know the movie was beaten by Roseanne. Damn you Barr!!!!
Not quite. The war doctor's era falls somewhere between 8 & 9, so it's hard to say how long McGann was technically the Doctor.
i really enjoyed The Imperfects.
it mixed elements of Buffy The Vampire Slayer with bits of The X-Men with some chunks of Orphan Black in there too.
of course, the Netflix cancelled it after only one season.
A video of information delivered in quick bite-sized chunks designed to disabuse viewers of misconceptions derived from taking in information delivered in quick bite-sized chunks... "That's so neat, I could write a thesis!"
Now that is a bit of a stretch. River Song is a great character. But the BEST Character? I don't really know. I am kind of partial to both Rose and Sarah Jane myself.
It’s just Ellie’s opinion and a running gag here on who culture
@@danieloneal7137 I get that but it still debatable as to whether or not River is the best character.
There was so much potential in River's character but I felt like the payoff really didn't work, she just became a caricature by the end and her dialogue felt increasingly 2D.
Rose and the family they built around her is still the best-written and developed companion in my eyes, with Donna in second place. No others come close.
I love both major series, of course, but I tend to prefer Classic DW. As a latecomer to the franchise, I've always had the impression that people consider Sarah Jane Smith as the longest running companion. I actually tallied up the number of episodes she and Jamie McCrimmon appeared in, and Jamie's in far more than Sarah Jane is so HE is the longest running as far as I can tell. I didn't really look at the nuWho companions, just those two very popular favorites (they're in my top 5 favorites).
aren't like 4 of these entries stuff this channel has actually said in their own videos?
ok so it seems i've totally misremembered, they said the reaction to the elevator shower from rose tyler was improvised/genuine, rather than the david tennant one
If you’re counting technicalities for longest running Doctor then TB has a run from Robot up to his part in the 50th anniversary. TB is the longest serving Doctor and the longest for continuous episodes.
What im getting from number 9 is that the movie's amarican first airing, im just wondering if i understood properly
Lol the doctor half human was so stupid 😂
I was a little kid in 1966, and vividly remember the shock of watching Sara Kingdom's death and skeletonization. I was heartbroken.
I was similarly stunned by Adric's death, and the brilliant decision to run the end credits in respectful silence.
Unfortunately in New Who, things have gone soft. The strong emotional impact of the killings of Clara and Bill was ruined by writers then making up some timey-wimey magic to give them a fairytale "and they all lived happily ever after" ending.
I completely disagree. The deaths of Clara and Bill are no less effective than those of Sara and Adric. They just work in different ways. I’ve watched the Face the Raven/Heaven Sent/Hell Bent trilogy and the World Enough and Time/The Doctor Falls two-parter several times each, and the deaths are no less effective the third time through than the first.
Paul McGann played both the Eighth and War Doctors they just put a young John Hurt face over his
We've got the official date for season 1!
Yes, it’s 23/11/1963!
So because of the timeless child the mother - is now division lady (I don’t remember her name it was so bad)
After Rogue, surely the first actor to play 2 different doctors was Richard E. Grant? Although this comment might not age well depending on what's to come
After the Timeless Child, River makes no sense.
How so
@@thedoctor1263 from what i've heard, the timeless child says that time lords got regeneration FROM the timeless child
in a good man goes to war iirc it's revealed that the time lords only became time lords through exposure to the untempered shism (time vortex) and that river song is a time lord because of that
That is indeed a falsehood some people incorrectly believe.
@tzarg correct. All time lords received their hereditary regenerations through reverse engineering The Doctor when they were The Timeless Child. The Doctor now/always had(?) unlimited regenerations. But that being the case, being exposed to the untempered schism wouldn't have done that to River. That bit about Time Lords starting that way was due to false memories the doctor was given and false information on gallifrey
@@tzarg thank you
Ellie Ellie Ellie I need to know, Was River written with a plan beyond the Library... and how far? TY
David Tennant was the first to play 2 different Doctors specifically the 10th and the Meta-Crisis
And 14th doctor.
He never actually said, "Beam me up, Scotty."
Don't buy into RTD saying that classic Doctors bigenerated thats just aload of fanfiction nonsense on Russell's part.
Tom Baker is the longest serving doctor
I never understood why people didnt know that was the Doctor's mother. I knew it way back when it first came out
I didn't get that from watching the episode. This video is where I learned that info and as I have been watching DW since 1977 or so with Tom Baker, I consider myself an Uber fan.
Of course you did dear because it was So blatently obvious 🙄 Almost Noone knew, I'd never heard of this either until now and the Third Doctor was my first Doctor...
Based on knowing Davis' bigenation answer I think all must be bigenerations, including the one forgotten on the list the 12th being so. Actually this is a really cool way to link things together.
The Timeless Child should be completely abandoned and re-retconned
I wouldn't mind the whole post-Capaldi era being St Elsewhere'd
Retconning a retcon only makes things worse. Imagine if they made a whole episode about how the Doctor isn’t really half human, or to tear down the Cartmel Masterplan. They just ignored those instead. If the next showrunner decides they don’t like the idea, they can just do that and nobody’s going to complain.
That is indeed a falsehood many people believe.
@@geoffroi-le-HookEveryone intelligent would.
@@idle_speculation they just need to say something as simple as the Master lied. Bring his mother back and say "no you're just a normal timelord"
Glad that I only believed the Tom Baker one (#6)
6:52 Tom Hiddleston ?
Tim Daly could have been a great American Doctor. His work as Superman in TAS has heroic Dr vibe and his roles in Basic and Sopranos showed more layers perfect for a Doctor actor IMO
Actually David Tennant was the first to play three doctors he played dr number eleven dr #12 and Dr #16 however you counted Moffett counts it wrong Here we go again for one through 17 William Artnell Patrick Trodden John Purtwee Tom Baker Peter Davidson Colin Baker Sylvester McCoy Paul McGann john Hurt has the war doctor but he was still the doctor christopher Eccleston David Tennant They've attended again as the meta crisis dr Matt Smith Peter Capaldi Jodi Whitaker And should he got 1
And remember that the end of tenants made a crisis dr happened before the 50th anniversary so he was a double dr twice I mean before Tom Baker was double doctor so David Tennant was a double doctor first then a triple doctor so you got your information wrong lady nay nanny nan you don't know everything
Okay, I like McCoy, but no, the years between when it went off the air and the TV movie do NOT count.
🖖 this is how excited I am.
The identity of the woman is a mystery. Just because the author of screen says he intends her to be one thing doesn't follow that she is on screen. Until the Doctor says she is his mother on screen her identity is unknown. At the end of the episode when Wilf asks the Doctor knods at Donna. This could mean she is his wife (as Donna is wearing a wedding dress) or his Granddaughter as Donna is Wilf's granddaughter. Heck Time Lords change sex so it could his dad for all we actually know. This list is starting well. One entry in and it's already wrong😁
Katarina and Sara Kingdom weren't really Companions, sorry.
Unless the BBC says otherwise they are.
@@joshuajoshua2732 No. They weren't auditioned, cast or conceived as Companions (with a big "C"), and they were only briefly in the show - in Katarina's case, the Myth Makers (in which she only had a fairly modest part) and the first episode of the next; in Sara Kingdom's case, she only appeared in one story, in which she was no more a "Companion" than Bret Vyon. If being in one or two stories and helping the Doctor were the criteria for "Companionship", there'd be umpteen dozens of them in the Classic Era alone. They're just supporting characters.
@@ftumschk Katarina actually *was* conceived as a new companion, but weird behind-the-scenes stuff had them abandon the character very quickly.
Still not a companion though
3:13 Hold up, what? Bi-generation happened every time? What???
yeahhhh got here after 40 mins
ok, i will call foul on paul mcgann getting 9 years. you seem to have forgotten his regeneration into john hurt, a very young looking version of john hurt. we do not know how much time elapsed for paul and then later for john. so how many seasons does that make for paul, how many for john. we may never know.
The night of the doctor was during the 50th anniversary celebration that was the only time we saw him actually regenerate into the next doctor
Nr.8 is kinda wrong. He played 3 different doctors....well maybe 4. At least 3 doctors and 1 other version of himself. We know that when he regenerated with his hand to keep his face, that still was a full Regeneration. So it's inherently a new doctor. Also metacrisis.
He was 11,12, metacrisis and now 16. (And yes war doctor needs to be counted when we talk about regenerations)
I don't consider Katarina and Sara Kingdom companions, one is a good character the other a great character, but Katarina ended up by accident in the TARDIS in the end of a story and died at the beginning of the next one, but she never really knew what was going on and was a victim of the circumstances, her sacrifice was brave though.
Sara had the chance to travel in the TARDIS but was contained into one story, many one story characters had the chance to be in the TARDIS they're not considered companions, they would be a lot more if that were the case. She was still a brilliant character, brave and quite badass and her death was pretty shocking and impactful, she still deserves to be remembered
The one of these that Really pisses me off is the Rose/Cassandra kiss with Ten. It was so well done by them, and yet the number of fans who thought it was impromptu as though scripts and editing didn't happen. That Tennant had actually fallen for Billie Piper as you just couldn't fake that look 🙄 It's called Acting. It drives me up the wall when divvies simply don't understand that 🙄🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
I still want to think “The Woman” was Susan. Just makes more sense to me, even before the Timeless Child stuff. 🤷
When I first saw the thumbnail it looked like David Tennant kissing a Jodie Whittaker...🤒
It's like a bucket of KFC.... But we all know what happened after Nessa gave Smithy some (ahem) corn on the cob
White lady is the White guardian for the new WHoniverse making sure the curical event of the Timelords being split up into two opposing factions.
Fun fact her child (the Master) is the new Black Guardian mankind sure himself got to the end of the Timewar.
HIGH! liklyhood the Moment is the new Key to time as it was used to execute Rassioln final plan for the end of time (as Galifrey was BOTH frozen and burnt in the same last Moment....)
&!
That new key to time is from the OMEGA (Not to be confused with Omega and all other OMEGA related stuff we seen thruout the show.)
As OMEGA used to be the dark semisentient tower in Gallifreys death zone....(compare this directly with the dark semisentient dark tower in Trenazalore dead Zone....as BOTH OMEGA and the TARDIS at those points was former timemachines (both had been killed by an ascention wave a the end of each respective Whoniverse timewar in each respective whoniverse...
AND i am skipping tons of info about the above....thats in the show.
as The Bad wolf girl & Romana and Rose are the same as the White guardian & Santa for the new WHoniverse....
Number 11: River Song is the best character.
Woman/Mother/"Waitress" ... all could be Tecteun.
David Tennant should never had played The Fourteenth Doctor in my opinion that should had been Ncuti Gatwa's role.
Then we wouldn't have a 60th anniversary
The TV movie rocks. One of my best blu rays for sure
Definitely not a story that justified an individual BD release, given it’s just the already-subpar DVD release with marginally less compression.
@DrWhoFanJ definitely worth it for availability in the US.
@@bennettnez4711 Not in the slightest. The DVD is just as available there as it is here in the UK. There is zero difference between the two.
@@DrWhoFanJ it's a difference of something hard to find for $65+ or something easily found for under $15
@@bennettnez4711 It really isn’t hard to find, and the price difference is because it’s a three-story boxset _versus_ a one-story DVD. Stop missing the point entirely.
I've heard that the Doctor is now gay. That is so stupid it can't be true.
There are also rumours they once cast woman as the character, and not just in a non-canon comedy sketch (Joanna Lumley as an alternative timeline 13) or weird early Big Finish audio drama (Arabella Weir as an alternative 2nd Doctor)
Both utter madness dreamed up by idiots surely?
Nope. The former is a misinterpretation by brainless imbeciles, and the latter is a fact only those same brainless imbeciles would ever think is an issue.
Umm...
The Doctor was bi (AND NOT GAY) ever since meeting Jamie?
Like, you do know that it isn't a recent thing, right?
And also, the Time Lords are a species that can change their entire body and DNA structure whenever they want. Why is changing gender a problem? The Doctor isn't even the first one to do it?
Are you just angry at Rory for putting your hero in the cupboard?
the doctor is maybe straight, maybe asexual, maybe gay, depending the showrunner, but people think he is because of Wild Blue Yonder and strangely a (not even hinting at it) line in church on ruby road. And the second is true, The Curse Of Fatal Death in 1999 is the non-canon comedy sketch (written by steven moffat himself) and no idea about the alternative 2nd doctor though.
Series creator Sydney Newman was seriously considering a female Doctor following Davison (and a repeat of Troughton).
Gone off Tenant he is too woke for me
Because he's not a bigot?
@@_MyNameIsAJ_ Never said he was. I suppose you like the new Dr Who series as well.
@@_MyNameIsAJ_ Woke is not a virtue
@@_MyNameIsAJ_ You need go out and see the world a bit more. Maybe get a girlfriend or a job
Here's a fact - Jodie, Tennant 2 and Gatwa aren't canon, they never have been and never will be, the chance of that being undone is about as big as a pig flying
They are canon no matter how many times u say they aren’t u don’t have to like them but they are still canon
And yet you know full well you’re wrong. You really are determined to prove yourself incapable of intelligence, aren’t you‽
@mattthesilent777RED they are never going to be uncanonsised or wiped out mate get over it people who fear change are not Dr. Who fans in my book there's no room for a misogynist and a racist or any man baby who is stuck in the past.
Stfu stupid they are Canon. U just a fake fan