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[Goggs Mackay]

Oh Mike - you made my day with what has to be the best start of a sentence I've read all year:

'Its a huge issue for scarf knitters'

 

[nameless]

And while it was great to see and hear Tom Baker again, i have a continuity issue with his advanced age, if he regenerated as a young Tom Baker, how do we get an older and larger version as we saw in this episode.
I for the life of me cant think of any plot device that makes that work.

Apart from that i liked it, and will likely purchase the 3D blue ray if its released

don't be too sure Mike.

 

[nameless]

all the actresses in that episode were pregnant.

 

[nameless]

well not all of them

 

[Bob Watson]

Best doctor: syvester mccoy patrick troughton (tie)
Best assistant: jamie sarah jane and ace (tie)
Least useful assistant: "kamelian peri mel (tie)

 

[nameless]

I've denied Sylvester for so long now as I have always loved tom but I am coming round to him again. I love Tennant tho because he is a who fan and you can see his absolute love in the role and the bad wolf saga was pretty good minus the Star Wars rip offs. My favourite modern episode is Blink with Carey mulligan.

 

[nameless]

When Moffat is good . He's brilliant, really inventive with the time travel paradox form . Comic fans will be pleased to know Neil Gaiman is writing more episodes too.

 

[Bob Watson]

A lot of ppl rip colin baker but the poor guy was not given a chance! He wanted a black coat but JNT forced the muti coled thing on him peri was suposed to be a teacher. But again she was turned into eye candy...

 

[Oakenwulf]

I would of found it fascinating if the new doctor was a woman...

 

[Rikki]

how it all started 50 years ago....

 

[stonehart]

Doctor Who timeline: through the regenerations - Telegraph

 

[Pygar2]

The local station showed a handful of episodes back in the Eighties. All I recall is an extraordinarily "cheap" looking effect- a woman in cavewoman fetishwear was floating up or down in a sort of chamberless elevator. I seriously doubt even a diehard fan could ID the episode from that, though. I still recall how high-tech the controls of the TARDIS weren't... The local grocery store has a TARDIS in one corner- the owner's son is One Of You, I take it...

 

[mike]

don't be too sure Mike.

Actually on watching it for a second time yesterday, i noticed they did manage to throw in a plot device that works.

Bakers Curator character says that at some future time the Doctor might regenerate with an "old favourite" face.

So the Curator is in fact a future regeneration with an old favourite face.

This means not only was Baker the longest running actor in the role, hes now also the only actor to have played the Doctor in two regenerations.
Opening the door to a chance he may someday reprise his role as an old white haired hartnell-esq (is that even a word) type regeneration.

"Who knows........."

 

[Rikki]

and thus did two doctors meet.. the 1st and the 11th...

 

[mike]

Just got done watching that entire doco for the second time, its a very sad moment, but beautiful too.

Carole anne Ford (Susan) gave an interview recently where she said Bill (Hartnell) knew the show was going to be a long lasting success, everyone else figured it would run a season or so and then be cancelled, but Bill knew it would go on and on.

I think that moment in the clip above, speaks to that conviction Hartnell had.

I cant watch it without choking up a bit , but im in good company

And at the very end of the film — SPOILER ALERT — there’s a genuine leap into magical realism, when a declining Hartnell has a sudden vision of current Doctor Matt Smith in his TARDIS. When Smith appeared, I initially thought it was a bit much. Then, fellow viewers, I started to tear up. Like many of the great Doctor Who episodes in recent years, Adventure in Space and Time dares to be silly and winds up being profoundly moving.

'An Adventure in Space and Time': 'Doctor Who' begins | PopWatch | EW.com



I have an original 1975 newspaper clipping somewhere of his demise.

Its an excellent documentary, as much Verity Lamberts wonderful story as it was Hartnells and indeed the Doctors

 

[mike]

Two of my favourite people Matt Smith and Prof Brian Cox

Whats funny is that when he enters the TARDIS the Doctor plays "Things can only get better" by D:Ream

This was Brians first gig as keyboard player before he became a physicist.

Its a strange world

 

[mike]

Oh Mike - you made my day with what has to be the best start of a sentence I've read all year:

'Its a huge issue for scarf knitters'

Its a bloody mine field

Keep in mind that print and fiber are quite different. Matching to coated Pantone chips is probably better due to the reflectivity and depth of color that yarn exhibits. Color matching will never be exact even with guidance, and it's virtually impossible to match how the scarf appeared in the 1970s. You might find these colors dark - especially the tan. Studio lighting and video recording often made the scarf seem lighter than it is. The hues in photographs also tend to wander. Perhaps the trickiest color is the grey. If often appears bluish in photographs, but it is a very warm grey bordering on a deep taupe. See the example of the Shada scarf today as it appears with some sunlight and in typical artificial light. Quite a difference isn't it?

http://www.doctorwhoscarf.com/s12.html

Color Matching of Doctor Who Scarves | wittylittleknitter.com

And thats just the colour
There is length from season to season, stunt versus prop variants, and of course the one that keeps most of us awake at nights shivering in a pool of sweat to slip or not to slip

TO SLIP OR NOT TO SLIP?The original scarf definitely has a slipped stitch edge. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. The duplicate/stunt version of the Season 13 scarf does not. It's a little difficult to discern the edge of the original in the small publicity photo at right, but the lack of slipped stitches on the back of the duplicate scarf is easy to spot as diagonal loops over the edge where the rows change color.
I prefer to slip the last stitch of each row knit-wise as it neatens the edge and can help hide color joins.

There are times i wish wardrobe had just gone with a nice turtleneck sweater and been done with it

Color Shifting
First one must understand that Dr Who was a British TV show that was filmed in the PAL color tv format. When it was sold in the US it was converted to NTSC. This conversion is not always good on the color and results in color shifts and washed out colors. One can see this by compairing snapshots with screenshots. I scanned the scarf on the left from a tape the one on the right is from a snapshot.
Both are from the same show
"The Pyramids of Mars" and you can see that the colors do not look the same.
Because of this color shifting people often disagree about the colors used in the scarves

Doctor Who Scarf Recreation page

I have it on good authority Time Wars have been fought over less..........

 

[Rizla]

A lot of us love the Dr. Who we grew up with. For me, Doctor Who will always be Tom Baker, but I'm fond of a couple of them.
For Baker fiends, there's a cool interview with him on the Logopolis DVD, where he describes many interesting facts of life on the set and pub crawls in SoHo pubs in London in the 70's, a world which is (apparently) pretty much gone. A lot of time was spent Down the Pub! God bless
Mr. Baker, he was a positive influence on at least one USA youth in the 1970's who had no role model near anything like that, not at all! Thanks for the info (I didn't
watch the recent 50 year show...)
p/s I have mysterious memories of at least one Baker episode that I've never seen commercially. Is it possible anything from that era was lost? Incredible that Monty Python almost got lost forever, and the same thing happened to the original cut of the Wicker Man (not BBC, but still...). Also, the earliest Dr. Who's were live television (I think), a feat in itself in black and white. A nice legacy, that show.

 

[mike]

Also, the earliest Dr. Who's were live television (I think), a feat in itself in black and white. A nice legacy, that show.

No they were all recorded first then aired

The first episode, "An Unearthly Child", was originally recorded a month before full recording on the series began. However, the initial recording was bedevilled with technical problems and errors made during the performance. A particular problem occurred with the doors leading into the TARDIS control room, which would not close properly, instead randomly opening and closing through the early part of the scene. Two versions of the scene set in the TARDIS were recorded, along with an aborted first attempt to start the second version.
Sydney Newman, after viewing the episode, met producer Verity Lambert and director Waris Hussein. He indicated the many faults he found with the episode and ordered that it be mounted again; a consequence of this was the delay of the show's planned 16 November 1963 premiere date. This initial episode is now known as the unaired "pilot episode", although it was never intended as such, since the practice of producing pilot episodes did not exist in Britain in the 1960s.
During the weeks between the two tapings, changes were made to costuming, effects, performances, and the script (which had originally featured a more callous and threatening Doctor and Susan doing strange things like flicking ink blots onto paper). Changes made before the final version were filmed include a thunderclap sound effect being deleted from the opening theme music;

They were recorded "As-live" which isnt quite the same as "live".

As to how some got lost

Most Doctor Who episodes were made on two-inch videotape for initial broadcast and then telerecorded onto 16mm film by BBC Enterprises for further commercial exploitation.[1] Enterprises used 16mm for overseas sales as it was considerably cheaper to buy and easier to transport than videotape. It also circumvented the problem of different countries' incompatible video standards, as film was a universal medium whereas videotape was not.[7] The BBC had no central archive at the time – the Film Library kept programmes that had been made on film, while the Engineering Department was responsible for storing videotapes.[1] BBC Enterprises kept only copies of programmes they deemed commercially exploitable. They also had little dedicated storage space and tended to keep piles of film canisters wherever they could find space for them at their Villiers House property.[1]
The Engineering Department had no mandate to archive the programme videotapes they held, although they would not normally be wiped or junked until the relevant production department or BBC Enterprises had indicated that they had no further use for the tapes.[8] The first Doctor Who master videotapes to be junked were those for the serial The Highlanders, which were erased on 9 March 1967, a mere two months after Episode 4's original transmission.[7] Further erasing and junking of Doctor Who master videotapes by the Engineering Department continued into the 1970s. Eventually every single master videotape of the programme's first 253 episodes (1963–69) was destroyed or wiped, with the final 1960s mastertapes to be erased being those for the 1968 serial Fury from the Deep, which were authorised for wiping in late 1974.[8]
Despite the destruction of these masters, BBC Enterprises held a near-complete archive of the series in the form of their 16mm film telerecording copies until approximately 1972.[9] From around 1972 to 1978, BBC Enterprises also disposed of much of their older material, including many episodes of Doctor Who.

Doctor Who missing episodes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

There are no missing Tom Baker episodes as such, but perhaps Shada almost fits the bill

Shada is an unaired serial of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was intended to be the final serial of the 1979–80 season (Season 17), but was never completed due to strike action at the BBC during filming. In 1992, its recorded footage was released on video using linking narration by Tom Baker, who played the Doctor in the serial, to complete the story.

 

[mike]

Found that interview with Carole Ann Ford regarding Hartnells confidence the show would run forever and ever and ever 1:00 min mark

And again at the 8:45 mark

As i said earlier i think this scene

Conveys that sentiment, and without a word needing to be spoken, a skill Hartnell prided himself on