WATCH ALONG | DOCTOR WHO | An Adventure in Space and Time
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A funny note watchers of Classic Who will notice: It is incorrectly depicted that Hartnell accidentally said "gloves" instead of "drugs" during the scene where the Doctor is being interrogated by the Daleks; this mistake actually occurs in the next scene, during the conversation between the Doctor, Susan, Barbara and Ian in their cell. A mistake about a mistake XD
Dizenshuu
2023-10-30 02:33:47 +0000 UTCAgreed, I first watched The Avengers when Channel 4 repeated them in the 80's and instantly fell in love with Diana Rigg....M-Appeal indeed!
Gary Marshall
2023-04-28 20:29:27 +0000 UTCDiana Rigg kicked ass in The Avengers, and held her own against Patrick Macnee. (She was smoking hot, to boot! Alas, I was born 20 years too late.)
David Blau
2023-04-28 19:34:05 +0000 UTCI'm so looking forward to the 50th Anniversary, including all of the lead-up episodes. But I have a special place in my heart for this story. There were a few liberties taken for dramatic effect, of course, but mostly in the form of slight anachronisms and character tweaks that didn't warrant lengthening the movie for their own scenes or hiring separate actors.
David Blau
2023-04-28 19:29:13 +0000 UTCI adore him! It's hard to be an actor in a biographical piece, but he nailed this.
David Blau
2023-04-28 19:21:39 +0000 UTCI'm glad you enjoyed this wonderful tribute to Dr Who and all the pioneering people that brought it to life. It was written by Mark Gatiss and is mostly accurate although some characters like Sydney and Mervyn are an amalgamation of 2 or more real life people. The way the titles and music were produced was accurate but I'm not sure about the design of the TARDIS interior. There are several cameos including original cast members William Russell and Carole Ann Ford, as the security guard and teacher in the park, as well as Jean Marsh and Anneke Wills who were Sara Kingdom & Polly during the Hartnell Era. The inclusion of Matt Smith was to signify the longevity of the show, as always brings a tear to my eye. Sydney Newman was also the creator of The Avengers (not Marvel), a slightly tongue in cheek espionage drama where a debonair secret agent called John Steed along with a several female partners, including Cathy Gale & Emma Peel, fought crime with style, wit and humour. Gale and Peel were 2 of the first liberated female leads who could handle themselves as much as any man.
Gary Marshall
2023-04-28 18:04:28 +0000 UTCIt was a nice coincidence that you had "An Unearthly Child" so fresh in the mind when watching this, so you could appreciate how faithful its recreation of the Hartnell era really was. (My favourite trivia note: See those slender brass pillars in the background of the TARDIS console room? They look exactly like the ones in "An Unearthly Child" -- because they *are* exactly the same ones! Fifty years later, the makers of "An Adventure in Space and Time" discovered that the same props company that rented them out to the BBC in 1963 was still in business and still had them in its inventory...) This show was made in 2013 as part of the run-up to the fiftieth anniversary, so Matt Smith's presence in that final emotional moment was always intended. There are also several little cameos from Hartnell-era companions that I don't think you spotted -- William Russell (Ian) plays the BBC security guard at the start, Carole Ann Ford (Susan) is the housewife who calls her children in from the street to have their dinner and watch Doctor Who, and Jean Marsh (Sara Kingdom -- a short-lived companion you never saw) and Anneke Wills (Polly) are both featured at Verity's leaving party. For me, as dramatised history or docudrama or whatever you want to call it, this is up there with Peter Shaffer's "Amadeus". As with "Amadeus"'s retelling of the life of Mozart, those who have knowledge of the true historical background will know that little of what's on screen really happened *exactly* the way it's depicted -- but at the same time, every scene and almost every moment references actual events, with many lines of dialogue coming directly from interviews, letters and memos of the time. (Yes, Sydney Newman really did use the phrase "full of piss and vinegar" to describe Verity Lambert... :-)) It takes a master dramatist to clear away the clutter and leave a single emotional through-line that starts from the policeman's opening speech to Hartnell ("You need to move along now, sir... You're in the way") and leads inexorably back to that moment after we have come to understand its full significance. I usually put Mark Gatiss's episodes into the "good but not great" category, but this is certainly his finest Who-related work.
Steven Cooper
2023-04-28 18:01:35 +0000 UTCThis was released in the leadup to the 50th anniversary in 2013. David Bradley is such a talented actor.
Tommy
2023-04-28 15:42:20 +0000 UTC
