I Watched The WORST EVER Doctor Who Episode
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- As we celebrate Doctor Who's 60th anniversary, I complete my look through Classic Who's celebrations with the infamous Dimensions in Time. It's so bad...
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Dimensions in Time is better than every single Jodie Whittaker, Tennant 2 and Gatwa episode
@ Matt No it’s not.😂😂
@@markb3915 Yes it is
Fascinating ! I have actually seen this horror
***NEWS FLASH!*** Episode 1 of Dimensions in time was watched by 13.8 million viewers, and 13.6 for episode 2. By stark contrast Dr Woke "Destination Skiro" with RTD's the new politically correct able bodied Davros, made a pathetic 3.77 million views. Which means Dimensions in time is 3.5X better!! I personally don't think D.I.T was very good, but is way better than the woke 60th anniversary/Christmas special episodes with their dismal viewing figures.
It's such a shame *this* is the one Tom Baker decided to come back for rather than THE FIVE DOCTORS.
This was a charity special
They changed his mind, by saying “it’s for the KIDS” and he was like “euuughh okay okay I’ll do it then”
Tom was also "the Curator" in Matt Smith's episode.
At least he returned for the 50th.
Baker was a doctor who fiend, he loved the role and regularly acted like it in public, similar to tennant he had to go and not look back because if he didn't he'd have never left, unlike tennant that included not returning for specials
Taken seriously, Dimensions in Time is the bad. But viewing it as silly charity special, it's fine. I mean, it gave us Six and the Brig together, and seeing Pertwee in live action one last time was amazing.
It's weird just how much older everybody looked. Some of them looked like they aged thirty years in only ten. Meanwhile Pertwee looked basically the same!
Fun fact, there's a novel where the Doctor says he had a nightmare where the "Rani trapped him in East Enders," so canonically, this special exists as a bad dream.
Well for Pertwee this only the second to last time he played the doctor as he also played the doctor in a fanfilm of all things doctor who devious
And we got the brief pairings of 3 with Mel and Victoria which just naturally seemed to work so well in my mind.
In the 1990s we called this Dementia In Time - a fan club in Australia decided to play it at the start of every club meeting as a kind of ironic punishment for people who turned up early
Takes me back to Erskineville!
We all know what the real Noel's House Party/Doctor Who crossover should have been; The Doctor and the Daleks unite to destroy Mr Blobby.
mr blobby boxing
"I Watched The WORST EVER Doctor Who Episode". It was NEVER a Doctor Who episode, it was just a fun charity skit to raise money for Children in Need. It was never supposed to be taken seriously.
If I had a nickel for every time a much-loved long running UK sci-fi TV series did an awkward and confusing crossover with EastEnders, I'd have two nickels.
Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.
What was the other one? I know Red Dwarf did an awkward crossover mini-series with a soap but they went with Coronation Street because Craig Charles was in Corrie at the same time. It was pretty awful, very confused about what it wanted to be, and ultimately pointless.
@@SuperPoodleboy - Oh, I was thinking of Red Dwarf. I don't know my soaps.
And yeah, it felt like they had enough meta/Blade Runner plot for, like, one and a half episodes and needed some filler.
@@FTZPLTC Yup. Then they undermined the whole thing by pulling a Bobby Ewing and revealing that "it was all just a dream" induced by a despair squid. I would say that it was a low point for Red Dwarf but this awful miniseries was still an improvement on some of the lows of series 7 and 8.
There is one even WORSE doctor who story.... the Jimmy Saville Doctor who crossover with the 6xth Doctor......
I hope one of his victims never read your flippant comment
It's actually mostly rather coherent. What makes it horrific is the existence of Jimmy Saville.
@@CashelOConnollygrow up. They’re saying his mere presence taints the show because he was an evil man.
Hardly flippant. You’re just slow.
Furthermore his victims were feeble mentally and would be aging right now, doubt they’re on a YT thread.
Have a nice childhood without any traumas? Jim'll fix it!
I’ve heard of that, Colin Baker said, like many did, that he got a bad feeling about the guy.
The Celestial Toymaker in an anniversary special? No would ever have that idea again...
Also, Big Finish put out "Once and Future" for the anniversary this year which I'm just now realizing has a lot of similarities. Ok, maybe it's not that bad.
okay but seriously tho, *WHO WAS THAT TERRIBLE WOMAN?!*
*It was me Barry*
The delivery of that line is ICONIQUÉ and I am sick and tired of pretending that it is not
Poor Jon Pertwee's last appearance as the doctor.
Doctor Who was not officially cancelled. It was put on indefinite hiatus. I know everyone's going to say I'm dealing semantics, but it was an open door for the show to come back at anytime.
Yup
and it did…but it flopped badly where they needed it to be a hit
Is everyone forgetting that Orphan 55 was the worst ep??
Worst new episode
Who else read the title and thought "These Star Beast reviews are getting *savage!"*
I hadn't seen this channel before, and honestly expected some neckbeard screeching incoherently about the pronoun line ruining all of Doctor Who forever. Frankly I have more of a problem with the sonic screwdriver somehow becoming a magic pen, but they had to spend that Disney money on something...
A decent script maybe?
@@tomski120 This is Disney Money -- you can't spend it on good scripts.
Now if you want something REALLY bad. 😂😂
Ah. Makes me want to listen to Doctor In Distress again.
I really loved your subversion of the "Girlfriend faking headache to avoid sex" joke, caught me off gaurd and got a genuine laugh from me- ive always hated the original joke (if you respected your girlfriend maybe she wouldnt have to pretend to be ill instead of just saying no, yk) and this was a pleasant change
I remember the hype around this when it was announced. This was when the BBC still repeated Classic Who, and when it looked like Who was never coming back, so Kid Me was very excited. And then I saw it and, well, I tried to enjoy it, I really did.
Release the Big Ron cut!
I've seen the clip with Big Ron. He does exactly the same thing as Mandy: run on screen, shout "Stop!", allow the protagonists to run away, and back off when threatened.
They put zero effort into it, which tracks with the rest of the project.
@@Engineer_Who They put a lot of effort into this.
I like how you go from reviewing Heaven Sent to this lol
"...the very well-received 'Starbeast'..."
ARE YOU INSANE?
Yet another soul that does not understand the brilliance of the modern masterpiece that is Dimensions in Time.
Still better than The Timeless Child.
You're not wrong.
I’ve actually watched Dimensions In Time several times over…and yes, it IS every bit as bad as advertised. Oddly enough though, it’s that very fact that made it a curiosity for me in the first place and why I actually do rather enjoy it. It’s one of those “so extremely horribly bad that it makes its way all the way around to good” kind of things, sort of like watching a train wreck happen right in front of your eyes…horrifying, yet you can’t keep your eyes off it…😅
Last I checked, it was available for free on TH-cam and whilst I wouldn’t recommend it for the weak, for the extremely die-hard fan it can be seen as an interesting example of a moment where the show just really didn’t get it right on any account…a moment which can be looked back on, learned from and ultimately smiled upon since the desire for more Doctor Who wasn’t killed off completely by it…a fact which the 1996 TV movie, Big Finish and now both NuWho eras are a testament to.
True, Dimensions In Time IS awful…but I had fun watching it just to see how extremely bad it was. We can be thankful that this wasn’t the last we would ever see of Doctor Who and even admire what good things it DID bring about in its wake as well…to this day, the Doctor Who Children In Need sketch is a much-beloved event, with both of David Tennant’s Doctors being introduced using such skits. Dimensions In Time was the very first time Doctor Who was included in the fundraiser, so just sit on that one for a bit…something which is now a cherished tradition starting off with a such a horrific flop, obviously someone learned something from that. And I will also state that the special does, at the very least, deliver some fun moments. One of my all-time favorite Fifth Doctor lines comes from it…”and the companions came in, two by two…” 😅
All in all, yeah…it’s a very bad special…however, it’s still managed to find itself a special place within Doctor Who’s history, even if that happens to be a place of infamy. I personally recommend watching it with extreme care yet backing that with watch it anyway…it is a fun, if rather poorly done, part of series history and an interesting example of how the flame somehow managed to be kept alive during the “wilderness years” of Doctor Who…😅😁
Actually, The Five Doctors was also part of Children in Need, and was delayed 2 days from the actual anniversary to be broadcast on the night of the appeal.
Pure hyperbole.
I already watched out of mild curiosity. Years ago.
I can never get that time back.
to be fair, this was a charity special, and all participants were eagerly doing it because of the charity support. It was also great to see these doctors and companions on TV again. it was great to see the sixth doctor and Brigadier together.
How can you say this is the worst episode when what we had on the weekend came out?!
THIS!
This is click bait (and a terrible video). I thought you were discussing the NEW Dr. Who show, the 60th anniversary show. You know, the show with the "message" and a trans Rose.
You guys waste so much energy on complaining about "wokeness" that you miss the real problems with episodes like the star beast.
It's so frustrating because I don't really want to voice my opinion about the latest episode because I might get thrown in the same pot as you people.
People might think I'm weird and have a feud with every single trans person in existence. Like, get a life, go outside, enjoy yourself.
Dimensions in Time is brilliant.
Dimensions in Time is canon.
THANK YOU!
Please please cover exhausted supplies it's my favorite multi doctor story and the way they handled 9 and 12 is done in a really nice way
It's not official. It's a fan work
@@SterlingCat03 i don't think that takes away from it being an amazing story that deserves recognition. There have been fan or unofficial works that have been worked into real episodes eventually
it’s not even a true episode, it’s a charity special: these aren’t supposed to be great, just raise money
5:05 - I honestly laughed my butt off at this gag - Thank you for that one, HW!
That was funny! Oh my gosh, you killed Harbo! 🤣
I remember cringeing through it watching with non fan housemates. The thing is with so many elements to squeeze in to such a short run time, they should have gone for something fun and silly , but this takes itself so seriously while being utter drek.
7:45 Oh yeah, because that’s happened to all of us
The concepts sound so much better than the actual thing. Great content as usual!
Sylvester’s hair looks so amazing in this and that’s probably the only good thing about
5:11 please make more of these sketches!😂😂
You killed me with the LockPicking Lawyer insert xD
With a video titled "I Watched The WORST EVER Doctor Who Episode", I expected you meant Kill the Moon.
I did enjoy Jon Pertwee's appearance on Noel Edmonds' show, even if the costume looks terrible on him. The Doctor's gag about seeing Noel in the year 2015 is probably the best moment of the special. 😋
But it did allow the Sixth Doctor to at last meet the Brigadier, allowing the Brig to encounter ALL of the classic Doctors. And I have to admit there are some fun moments, even if none of them follow any logic (or sense) whatsoever. If they had extended the special a little, like maybe two half hour episodes rather than twenty minutes total, and had time for a couple of rewrites, it might have worked. In the end, it really didn't. It was clear that they just went with whomever agreed to appear and THEN wrote the script to incorporate them. That failed. I'm convinced that's also how The Five Doctors was written, but at least Terrence Dicks knew how to write a Doctor Who episode.
Brigadier: "Splended fellow. All of them."
Aide: "Them, sir?"
What the hell was wrong with the BBC during Classic Who? First they junk a bunch of the 60's episodes then they junk an entire Tardis interior
Mike Reid as Frank Butcher breaking the fourth wall to say “Well, I’ve seen them drag them out of The Vic, but never drag them in before” was worth my TV license for that year
That was a great moment! 😂😂
I can’t even rank DiT among DW episodes, as it’s not even official canon. I occasionally show it to other DW fans who haven’t seen it yet just to get their reactions. It’s usually hilarious.
I wouldn't say it's as bad as the Star Wars Holiday Special, as this is only 13 minutes and actually keeps things moving, if just in a completely senseless way -- The Star Wars Holiday Special was almost 100 minutes of nothing happening. -- Having said that, however, I'd kill to hear commentaries or interviews of people who worked behind the scenes of both, as both are amazing train-wrecks, and the stories of how they got made, likely by aspiring Film/Video graduates who were disillusioned by the world of entertainment (at least slightly) simply by working in it.
If anything, I'd compare this to the awfulness of something like We Wish You A Turtle Christmas.
I’m old enough to remember watching it go out live, it was bad then but I never saw it as anything more than a children in need skit
i remember hearing a few more facts about Dimensions in Time
JNT wanted the intro to be The Tardis appearing over the Eastenders intro but the BBC vetoed it and insisted on the Doctor Who intro being used
A Dalek was in it but it was removed due to rights disputes with Terry Nation
The cast hated working on it
Jon Pertwee called the script trash in front of David Roden without even realising who he was
All the other Doctors gave their technobabble lines to Sylvester McCoy because they couldn't be bothered to learn them, and McCoy was drunk while filming the final scene
Tom Baker had a question mark scar for some reason
Sylvester McCoy went on a rant on the Eastenders set saying "I don't understand why those BBC Enterprises people can't get us all together for nor money, but when JNT makes a few calls, we're all here with our boots blacked - doing it for nothing! There must be something wrong!"
"The cast hated working on it"
You don't speak for everyone.
yep bad until Jodie arrived then every one of the episodes was just as bad as the last hehehehe
Somehow you've managed to make it sound better than it was! Needless to say, it wasn't meant to be taken seriously (which is the root of the problem). On a couple of positive notes, (1) it did help support Children in Need that year, and (2) it brought Doctor Who back to the attention of the general public (any attention is better than no attention... sort of). But it was utter tosh.
Side note: Now that Doctor Who is made in Cardiff, perhaps we might get a Doctor Who/Pobol y Cwm crossover (with hilarious consequences - something we didn't get with EastEnders).
As a low-budget charity special… it’s acceptable.
As THE 30th anniversary special… yeah it’s bad…
The worst ever Doctor Who episode is 'Hell Bent' by Steven Moffat. So there are barns on Gallifrey, eh?
In "Invasion in Time" even had native american outside the Citadel.
Yeah this isn’t a very good special, but it is kind of fun how they managed to get all the (at the time) living Docs.
So far only The Three Doctors has done that.
Dimensions in Time wasn't an anniversary special, it's not even canon. It was just an overlong charity skit.
LOL HS2 is good value compared to motorways of the same length - and is mostly money on building stations, which no other countries include in the calculation of cost per mile
I remember watching this on Noel’s House Party when it was originally aired, the phone in had another reason than to raise money, either Mandy or Big Ron was going to get written out of Eastenders, Mandy was the more popular from the results of the phone in and Big Ron had to go
The costumes are interesting. Colin is wearing the Trial jacket, which he was given to use in appearances, he wore out the lapel so it could no longer support a cat pin.
The costume Leela wears was originally worn by Peter Sallis in ‘Last of the Summer Wine’.
I say the title and thought this was the Hell Bent review for a second 💀
“…BBC Enterprises elected to make a Direct-To-Trashcan episode…”
The 3d craze started in the 1950's originally. Television was new and movie companies were threatened so created a gimic, 3D!
Sorry, I meant that it was Children in Need's gimmick in 1993
@@HarboWholmes In 2005 I did an investigation into the progress of 3-D tech and was assured that the Chinese were almost ready to release a glasses-free version, as well as flat screen TVs you could roll up or paste on your wall like a poster. At that rate, by now we should've been watching the 2023 Children In Need special as a Whologram!
We need to someone get Big Ron into the tardis because he is nice
Jacqueline Hill died too young...but at least she,narrowly,missed being drawn into this...🎩
I have never seen Dimensions in Time, I have also never seen the Star Wars Holiday Special... However - If faced with the choice of sending ONE to Room 101...
... I honestly cannot believe I would opt to keep THE STAR WARS HOLDAY SPECIAL! I mean, Its bad, but its entertainingly bad!
Sad this is Victoria's only return and the Rani's last.BTW SJS's costume is one she wore in last story of her time on show (plus a Beret)🎩
Also glad the BEEB were continuing the tradition of throwing out priceless Doctor Who props and memorabilia even a good two decades after they stopped erasing/trashing every existing copy of the black and white era episodes, that, likewise, needed to literally be picked up from junkyards and saved by fans.
Some things never change.
This is so cringe. OMG, it's like JNT taking something I love and doing everything he could to make sure it would never come back to TV. I have never been able to sit through this whole story, even watching a review of it now is hard for me not to click away from. I live and breathe Doctor WHO, I've seen all the worst it could be before... Nightmare of Eden or The Web Planet, comes to mind... but yeah, nothing compares to just how bad this was. Why couldn't THIS be in the lost episodes? Ughh...
I only watched it a couple of months ago...
I had heard lots of people moaning about it, and I thought that it couldn't be as bad as that, could it?
And the answer was... YES!!!
It was awful!
It could have been a very good and interesting idea, doing a proper "crossover" with Eastenders. It was, however, a wasted opportunity!
Ah yes, the Star Wars Holiday Special of Doctor Who. Say what you want about Chris Chibnall or even Love and Monsters, but at least those had good production values. Dimensions In Time boasts practically nothing of any quality. At the very least, it was produced for Children In Need, but still, it’s trash.
This script was written by a lunatic, a barely literate lunatic, over the course of 30 minutes. That's the only explanation for the steaming pile of crap we were given as a "celebration" of 30 years. It was by FAR the worst thing ever put out under the Doctor Who name. The Timeless Children was a masterpiece of story telling, a compelling thrill ride by comparison. That's how terrible it was. I remember watching it on TV, I was gutted.
...nope.
It might be the worst of the classic era, but of all time?
Nah.
A lot of the last five years has been pretty grim, alas - no, I'm not one of THEM - I simply, as a lifelong fan a little older than the show itself, found that so much of the last few seasons just plain boring.
Too much running around.
Too many music cues.
Ideas which didn't go anywhere.
Dull characters and plotting... so much so that it felt like even they involved in the show just seemed to be going through the motions.
There was no passion or fire in it.
Jodie's last few episodes were more interesting, and a good setup, however...
Yet the Xmas Specials have been getting lamer for years.
Oh my. I have to say that I gave up watching Who during the "amazing!!!" chibnall era. From all I can see now... I can look elsewhere... 🙄
Great review. I was only thinking about the Children in Need Eastenders Dr Who the other day & how come I'd never seen it? Then I remembered - Cos it looked awful. I'll defo not bother now. Thanks for the warning. ☢️☣️
It is a charity episode. They are all supposed to be cringe. Certainly in the 90s. They are nice call backs but never a propper episode. The BBC spent the previous few years sabotaging Who and it shows here. But the actors were good sports.
Also Peter Davidson rubbing his head frantically and shaking his elbows trying to convey mental power use is the funniest part to me.
“Worst piece of Doctor Who media ever”
Idk, at least it’s only 15 minutes with both parts combined. ‘Torchwood: Miracle Day’ is a 10 hour top to bottom disaster 🤮
Reads title, expects Timeless Children review.
Watches HW video.
Still unconvinced Dimensions in Time is worse than Timeless Children.
You’re taking it way too seriously. And it was clearly never intended to be taken seriously. It was a big deal for us fans back then coz we’d been petitioning for the show to come back for four years. But that’s not to say anyone ever actually thought it was excellent or anything. It wasn’t. It isn’t. It doesn’t make sense. It never made sense. But it was fun. And it was new Doctor Who. Not sure modern fans could really understand how it felt for us back then.
Based on that title, if it isn't "The moon is an egg, I won't be able to trust..."
Oh, worst holiday special.... Never mind..
The point is this was done for Children In Need. It was only 10 minutes long and they had to fit all the then surviving Doctors and as many companions as they could into that 10 minutes. There was no way in was going to be anything special. IMO it's unfair to criticise it.
oh you watched last weeks doctor who 60th jk but this wasn't as bad as that I think RTD came pretty close lmao they got 13 million viewers RTD got 5
Hey, give it a break. Was that episode bad? Yeah, but it was for charitable purposes. Been a fan of the show since 1976. 😊
omg, too funny you mentioned Time Lash. I knew the guy who wrote that! He also wrote a couple of episodes of EastEnders, too. 😀
Will you be doing a review of The Curse Of Fatal Death? A much better 'tongue in cheek' deliberately awful Doctor Who story
i emailed the bbc about it and they linked me to a web blog about it lol, guess they are sick of people asking
Well, that makes me glad I never saw the Star Wars special, or rewatched my off air VHS copy of Dimentions in Time!!!
I prefer to not even regard this as an episode of Doctor Who. It's just some weird nightmare Ace had after eating pizza too close to bedtime.
The only way this is salvageable is if you imagine it as a nightmare the 7th Doctor had mid-regeneration
I look past the awful story and eastenders parts and see it as a beautiful opportunity to see these amazing characters again doctors and companions this was the last time a lot of them played the characters. Just grateful to have it tbh
I've always assumed this was like the star wars christmas special of doctor who lol
Dimensions in time is hated by many but it's ironic that NuWho is more Eastenders now than Dr Who - it was predicted 😂
Waiving the fee, not because it's for charity byt because it's that awful. Incredible xD
Is there a reason why the lady at 1.18 is wearing a sticker showing Tintin's faithful friend Snowy?
You watched this so I don't have to? Too late, I've already watched it! More than once, even.
It was silly, but it was still fun.
Love the retcon from First Frontier that this was the Doctor’s nightmare
I’m so glad I’ve never seen this …. Thank you
This was the final nail in the coffin for classic who in my opinion if only we got the dark dimension as the 30th anniversary special
i was thinking... can anything be worse than the absorbalov episode. then you said it was part of noel's house party. and i realised it would be likely to be worse than anything i can imagine.
When you tell me it's bad and not to watch it, I'm reminded of a shiny red button that I've been told not to push. 😅
Reading between the lines here, I'm getting the distinct impression you didn't like Dimensions in Time.
Bless you for not only sitting through this abomination but making a 12 minute video about it that’s far more entertaining.
Oh I don't agree. "Star Wars Holiday Special" is a masterpiece next to this.
0:50 "I suffered Dimensions in Time so you don't have to."
Too late. I saw it when it was first shown....
You had to BE there. For a 14 year old, this was brilliant viewing
It’s not that bad, well it’s bad but it’s watchable I mean the show was cancelled no harm was really done