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In the original run, Jon Pertwee was my favourite doctor, along with Sarah Jane Smith & Jo Grant as companions. I also liked Sylvestor McCoy with Ace as companion, Tom Baker was also good, but I preferred Pertwee. In the revival, David Tennant & Rose were my favourites, with Matt Smith and Amy Pond close second favourites. I also liked Clara, and while I very much disliked Whittaker, I did like Graham as a companion.
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Ya I gotta find me some original episodes from the 60s! (Or 70s when it first came on)
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Lucky for us in the UK they have all old episodes available to stream on BBC iplayer and many have been released on DVD over the past 20+ years.
Even the many of the lost stories have managed to find new life thanks to audio recordings, which they created animations for so people could see them again. |
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Latest episode is brilliant. 73 yards. Best of the season so far
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Finally got around to watching the first two episodes.
Didn't like the first one. The second one was much better. Liked it. Liked the villain, liked the way 'they' broke the 4th wall and started the Doctor Who theme themselves. What I don't understand is why have The Beatles there? They did nothing with them. Then even have a song and dance routine and I guess they're foreshadowing 'the twist' at the end but so odd in an episode with The Beatles and a 60s-inspired dance routine that they don't use a Beatles song! Too expensive maybe? Twist and Shout is right there..... |
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The chord played on the piano in the hallway by John and Paul, that banished Maestro, is the one at the end of the crescendo in A Day in the Life. About 4m 20s in, if you can find it on Spotify or wherever. So real, actual Beatles music literally did banish the villain. You’d probably have to be proper fan to notice though. ;). The real world explanation for the lack of Beatles music is that it’s too expensive to use, which RTD was well aware of when he started. The episode answers the question ‘how do you do the Beatles without doing the Beatles.’
Oh, and Maestro is played by a bloke. A dress and make up doesn’t make someone a woman, or a plurality, or a whatever … |
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You might be thinking about the PRS system that pays rights owners when a track is played on the radio? That’s not quite the same as incorporating it in a creative work like Doctor Who.
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A quick Google suggests it's this: https://www.bbc.com/academy-guides/m...re-the-issues/ Quote:
But I know Top Gear had such songs removed from international broadcasts. I am not sure if The Beatles are included in this but given Doctor Who is now made for a international audience in mind I doubt they use this system. |
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There was an old 60s episode of Who that had a beatles song in it but since then other version have replaced the song with something else.
I think that's what happened. Yeah the main reason for The Beatles was a reason and an excuse to get them to Abbey Road where Russell wanted to set the episode. What better reason than having them and Cilla Black be there. Jinx Monsoon is a drag act Chris. So we know they aren't female. They are literally a female impersonator. They won Drag Race once and then won the Queen of Queens series and have gotten pretty famous out of it. RTD wrote the part with them in mind. I'm also sure the song at the end and all the fourth wall breaks will come back for the finale. Oh and Shirley Balas and one of the Strictly dancers were in that big song and dance sequence |
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Jinkx Monsoon is a drag character played by a man who claims to be an actual woman. Offstage he goes by the name Hera Hoffer and is undergoing plastic surgery and hormonal treatment in order to look more like a woman. If that’s how he wants to live his life, to the extent it doesn’t impinge on anyone else, that’s his business. He’s free to ask others to join in as well, as long as he’s also fine with others asserting that sex is immmutable. |
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Doesn't claim to be an actual woman. Used to identify as non binary but more recently came out as trans.
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