Author Topic: Heads up! Dr Who starts Saturday.... (Read 283792 times)

peliroja · « **Reply #1900 on:** 04 August, 2013, 09:08:36 pm »

Let's just hope he's allowed to keep his accent!

Rhys W · « **Reply #1901 on:** 04 August, 2013, 09:52:58 pm »

Quote from: Pingu on 04 August, 2013, 07:52:21 pm

Uncle Rory

On the cludgie!

Cunobelin · « **Reply #1902 on:** 04 August, 2013, 10:39:50 pm »

Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 04 August, 2013, 08:05:25 pm

You lot do realise the actor playing the Doctor doesn't write the scripts, yeah?

However they do have a say...... Stephen Moffat has made it quite clear on a number of occasions that the actors have improvised and it has been included, or script suggestions have been followed.

Riggers · « **Reply #1903 on:** 05 August, 2013, 08:44:21 am »

I would watch Dr. Who if he was playing the Malcolm Tucker character. What a hoot that would be.

citoyen · « **Reply #1904 on:** 05 August, 2013, 10:05:10 am »

Quote from: Pingu on 04 August, 2013, 07:52:21 pm

Uncle Rory

That was the first role I properly remember him in. Brilliant. I looked it up on imdb to remind myself when it was on - 1996! That makes me feel old.

While I was on imdb, I also noticed the billing of his character in World War Z...

I thought I was being really clever to spot that, but of coures it was already all over Twitter by the time I noticed it.

woollypigs · « **Reply #1905 on:** 14 August, 2013, 08:12:17 pm »

If you are a wee bit bored here is a great little Easter Egg on Google map just double click the double arrows in front of the phone box.

Steph · « **Reply #1906 on:** 14 August, 2013, 11:43:37 pm »

Superb!

woollypigs · « **Reply #1907 on:** 05 September, 2013, 09:49:10 am »

Is it only me who gets goose bumps and teary eyed while watching the BBC Doctor Who Proms, wasn't this years one good?

woollypigs · « **Reply #1908 on:** 19 November, 2013, 08:23:52 pm »

BBC three is loaded with extra bits of Who stuff point your iPlayer/browser over here http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01l1z04/profiles/dw50

Can't wait until Saturday !

pcolbeck · « **Reply #1909 on:** 22 November, 2013, 10:34:34 am »

Google has gone all Dr Who today !

clarion · « **Reply #1910 on:** 22 November, 2013, 10:43:29 am »

That looks involved.

nicknack · « **Reply #1911 on:** 22 November, 2013, 11:20:37 am »

They showed the first 4 episodes last night. Since I hadn't seen them for 50 years I wasn't surprised that I couldn't remember them. The thing that really dated them was the portrayal of the female characters. Much screaming, crying and falling over when running. Carole Ann Ford (Doctor's granddaughter) was particularly painful to my poor old ears.

mattc · « **Reply #1912 on:** 23 November, 2013, 09:09:50 am »

Worryingly, I'm already in Who overload.

I've avoided the many shows on BBC3 and on the radio, but we watched the 'origins' docco on BBC2 last night. Quite interesting; nice stuff about D.N.A., hilarious footage of actors dressed as giant rats etc etc ...

Turned on 7Extra just now ... YET ANOTHER "how Dr Who started" type program (3 hours). I retuned instantly

Not sure I can face tonight's show, may have to save it for later in the week ...

TimO · « **Reply #1913 on:** 23 November, 2013, 11:18:03 am »

The Beeb do seem to be rather over milking the subject, as a convenient excuse for lots of cheap documentaries made up of reams of old footage, and just repeating old episodes (but recent old ones, not the more unusual really old ones).

Still, I haven't watched a lot of that, so don't feel that I've been overloaded. Just over eight hours to go ...

peliroja · « **Reply #1914 on:** 23 November, 2013, 11:25:22 am »

We watched Mark Gatiss' An Adventure in Space and Time last night, which tells the story of how Doctor Who came about. It was excellent and rather moving (one moment in particular made me 'leak from the eyes' a little, towards the end).

hillbilly · « **Reply #1915 on:** 23 November, 2013, 11:40:59 am »

Went to the Doctor Who exhibition in the ExCeL arena yesterday.

Looking forward to this evening's anniversary show...

Quiz time - guess the monster:

graculus · « **Reply #1916 on:** 23 November, 2013, 01:39:35 pm »

Weeping Angel.

So who what are these:

ABDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVXYZ

Kim · « **Reply #1917 on:** 23 November, 2013, 02:12:04 pm »

Quote from: peliroja on 23 November, 2013, 11:25:22 am

We watched Mark Gatiss' An Adventure in Space and Time last night, which tells the story of how Doctor Who came about. It was excellent and rather moving (one moment in particular made me 'leak from the eyes' a little, towards the end).

+1

Worth watching even if you're not a Who fan, I reckon.

woollypigs · « **Reply #1918 on:** 23 November, 2013, 02:16:06 pm »

K-9, as Tilley is known for the day, and I are ready in front of the fire and telly, just need to find that favourite pillow to hide behind.

rogerzilla · « **Reply #1919 on:** 23 November, 2013, 04:03:15 pm »

From Sickipedia:

It's the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who today, in that time the Dr has made friends, fought in fights and even experienced a bit of romance.

Which is more than the viewers can say they have done.

andyoxon · « **Reply #1920 on:** 23 November, 2013, 07:36:24 pm »

Have people watched the mini episode 'prequel' to tonights Day of the Doctor...

The Night of the Doctor: A Mini Episode (~7mins)
see-----www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U3jrS-uhuo

Rhys W · « **Reply #1921 on:** 23 November, 2013, 09:16:07 pm »

Some of the "new" Dr Who has been a bit and hit and miss (Pertwee/Baker was my era) but that was a blast.

Did David Icke have a hand with the script, with the Queen being a shape-shifting alien reptile? And when she said she was the Queen of England the (Scottish) Dr said "I'm not English" I wondered how Steven Moffat will vote next year...

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #1922 on:** 23 November, 2013, 09:23:16 pm »

That was totally fucking the best episode ever shamazeballs w00t.

geraldc · « **Reply #1923 on:** 23 November, 2013, 09:25:11 pm »

May have spent too much time watching TV, as I'm now wondering why he didn't stop Lee Harvey Oswald for the 50th anniversary as well as saving Gallifrey.

Hate Bruce Forsythe even more for his spoiler in strictly, he said all the Doctors would be in it, so the surprise was gone.

TimO · « **Reply #1924 on:** 23 November, 2013, 09:30:13 pm »

That was rather good, wasn't it. John Hurt did a remarkably good job, as a somewhat curmudgeonly Doctor. I liked the comment "Nice scarf", and of course Tom Baker's sort of cameo.

There are too many things which I've probably forgotten about. I need to watch it again.

I wonder what odds and sods we haven't immediately noticed, and which may come back and bite us in later episodes. It didn't really encroach upon the whole current storyline with Clara and the Doctor's timeline, which I guess was sensible for this special, but Clara still worked pretty well in this episode.

Author Topic: Heads up! Dr Who starts Saturday.... (Read 283792 times)

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