UK Timeline : Doctor Who

Great to see the BBC is still managing to get back lost episodes - The Daleks Master Plan parts 1 and 3 (episode titles ‘The Nightmare Begins’ and ‘Devil’s Planet’) have been discovered in someone’s attic.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g7kwq1k11o

Coming to iPlayer at Easter.

[Stephen]

Indeed. Its going to be 4th April and they recovered episode 2 back in 2004. So we have the first 3 episodes now.

It won’t be long before having 3 complete episodes like this, with all the visuals, reference photos and voice samples and of course the original script, will be enough for AI to reconstruct the rest.

[Stephen]

I've seen most of the missing stories that they've redone with animation using the audio they have. Been mostly decent.

Christmas special cancelled, RTD leaving.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c621ln7vx7qo

[Stephen]

Originally Posted by Paul

Christmas special cancelled, RTD leaving.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c621ln7vx7qo

From what RTD posted on instagram there was never going to be a Christmas special. He never actually wrote it, despite what he previously lead people to believe. Was just a ploy to try to ensure the show continued.

Let's hope we are entering another 16 year wait for the show to return.

Originally Posted by Stephen

Let's hope we are entering another 16 year wait for the show to return.

Are you sure thats what you meant to say

Originally Posted by Paul

Are you sure thats what you meant to say

Actually it might not be the worst thing that could happen to the show at this point.

RTD was responsible for resurrecting it, but he damn near killed it again when he got his second go. He’s suffering a full-blown messiah complex and thought he could use the show as a personal campaign vehicle for his obsession with gender identity ideology - basically thinking he could do for T what he did for LGB with ‘Queer as Folk’ back in the day. We’ve had Time Lords as an analogy for trans, we’ve had men who think they’re women cast in roles they clearly aren’t skilled enough to perform (clearly even the directors thought so and had ‘Rose Noble’ mostly stand in the background where “she” could cause the least damage), we’ve had thinly veiled pronoun lectures by proxy (“THE Vlinx”, please definite-article me lest I be offended).

RTD was cheered on by a lot of clapping seals who would point to The Green Death and other stories of the early 1970s as proof that ‘Doctor Who has always tackled social-political issues’ whilst cheerfully ignoring that this was simply a by-product of repeatedly hiring a communist with a bee in his bonnet as a scriptwriter (Malcolm Hulke in this case), rather than an enduring policy decision of the permanent production team. Doctor Who was commissioned as a teatime family drama with a remit to entertain all ages and educate kids. I would argue that pushing a highly contested social theory as normative goes way beyond that remit, although it’s certainly not just Doctor Who that’s fallen foul to the BBC’s capture in this area in recent years.

[Stephen]

Originally Posted by Paul

Are you sure thats what you meant to say

Damn auto correct I meant aren't.

RTD was great in its early years (2008 - 2010).
He created a wonderful show that everyone in our family enjoyed (myself, wife, 2 of my daughters, and even my mum).
His return, however, was a disaster.

Chris Chibnall had already done the main job of ruining it, by the time he left I was the only one in my family still giving it any time at all.

I gave the first Disney specials a try (which were his return) and they were terrible, the (Meep) lesson on pronouns was enough to tell me what was coming.
Even the return of Tennant could not save them and "Bi-Generation" was the final straw, I gave up on it, and havent watched an episode since.

[TheDaddy]

Originally Posted by Stephen

Let's hope we are entering another 16 year wait for the show to return.

let's hope so...

[Stephen]

Originally Posted by TheDaddy

let's hope so...

No let's hope not at all. It was a mistake i meant aren't entering.

[Dingbat]

Hope it isn’t killed-off. I’ve been watching it since 1963, and still remember watching the first episode as a child.