So well that apparently Hartnell's co-star, Carole Ann Ford, found the resemblance eerie.
Kaylee: You're nice, too. Mal: No, I'm not. I'm a mean old man.
'Serenity'
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Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 06, 2017 5:16:36 pm PDT #637 of 2020
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Jessica - Jul 06, 2017 5:58:41 pm PDT #638 of 2020
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
the others lost to the BBC's archiving policy (namely, "don't")
The version of the story I heard when I worked there was the BBC let the lease expire on the building where they were storing the original tapes, and they were subsequently bulldozed by the new owners. (Another version had the building abandoned and subsequently sinking into a swamp, which is equally plausible.)
I'm wondering if they will cast any other First Doctor era lookalikes for the Christmas special. (That photo of Susan on Twelve's desk in the season premiere was some pretty on the nose foreshadowing.)
billytea - Jul 06, 2017 6:54:24 pm PDT #639 of 2020
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
The version of the story I heard when I worked there was the BBC let the lease expire on the building where they were storing the original tapes, and they were subsequently bulldozed by the new owners. (Another version had the building abandoned and subsequently sinking into a swamp, which is equally plausible.)
I like that story, especially the swamp version ("Kroll! Kroll! Kroll!"); however, as I understand it, the deletion of old Doctor Who adventures (and other shows, which generally had it worse) was an ongoing process rather than a one-off event. ("The Highlanders" was wiped in 1967, only months after it aired; "Fury from the Deep" was the last '60s serial to go, getting the chop in 1974.) The Beeb finally changed its archiving policy in 1978 (namely, "do").
I'm wondering if they will cast any other First Doctor era lookalikes for the Christmas special. (That photo of Susan on Twelve's desk in the season premiere was some pretty on the nose foreshadowing.)
I'm starting to develop a notion that this is indirect foreshadowing for the First Doctor. My reasoning: the picture of Susan appearaed alongside a picture of River Song, whose story of course came to an end in the Christmas special, "The Husbands of River Song". The Twelfth Doctor, this season, is more or less in a position of still grieving her loss. Meanwhile, Susan's absence relates most directly to the First Doctor. I can see them in the Christmas special coming to terms both with their impending regenerations and the people they've lost on the way.
If that's so, then it would make sense for neither River nor Susan to appear in person, the emotional arc being driven by their absence. (Alternatively, the First Doctor may wind up asking the Twelfth Doctor finally to fulfil his promise to come back to Susan. That could work. It might start to push him into Tenth Doctor Farewell Tour territory, though.)
Connie Neil - Jul 06, 2017 7:29:21 pm PDT #640 of 2020
brillig
the building abandoned and subsequently sinking into a swamp
The second archive building caught fire, fell over, then sank into a swamp.
But the third archive building stayed up!
Calli - Jul 07, 2017 1:52:26 am PDT #641 of 2020
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
The second archive building caught fire, fell over, then sank into a swamp.
But the third archive building stayed up!
Hee! But I don't want to be an archivist, father. I want to SING! *music swells*
Connie Neil - Jul 07, 2017 5:43:03 am PDT #642 of 2020
brillig
Stop that, stop that! No singing!
Scrappy - Jul 07, 2017 9:57:13 am PDT #643 of 2020
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
The answer to any question that ends in "yours" in my house is always "What, the curtains?" [link]
beekaytee - Jul 07, 2017 1:06:57 pm PDT #644 of 2020
Compassionately intolerant
I JUST used that quote in a session today!! Not more than 3 hours ago. (curtains)
Hilarious.
Toddson - Jul 10, 2017 12:19:27 pm PDT #645 of 2020
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
A broadcast TV station recently showed the Peter Cushing Dr. Who movie (dalaks invading earth). meh
billytea - Jul 10, 2017 2:54:08 pm PDT #646 of 2020
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
A broadcast TV station recently showed the Peter Cushing Dr. Who movie (dalaks invading earth). meh
The second Peter Cushing Dr. Who movie. He did an earlier one too (also just reworking a TV Dalek story, the first one).
One noteworthy piece of casting: Dr. Who's male companion in that one (note: in the movies, the Doctor's name actually is Dr. Who) is played by Bernard Cribbins, who later played Donna's grandfather, Wilfred Mott, in Season 4 and David Tennant's final adventure, The End of Time.