Remembering Seven Keys to Doomsday
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
- ‘Remembering Seven Keys to Doomsday’ tells the story of the 1974/5 West End ‘Doctor Who’ stage show ‘Seven Keys to Doomsday’, with new interviews and never before seen images.
With special thanks to the late Trevor Martin, Terrance Dicks, Simon Jones, Robin Browne, Jacquie Dubin, Mick Hughes, Nicholas Briggs, Kevin Davies and Jeremy Bentham for their interviews and time reflecting on the show.
This documentary was created as part of the assessment for my BA(Hons) Filmmaking course at Croydon School of Art.
Trevor Martin made the honorable contribution of recreating his Dr. Who and Seven Keys To Doomsday for Big Finish Audio so that it would be truly immortalized. I wish however that I could have seen the original stageplay back in 1974 because, aside from seeing its Dr. Who portrayal by Trevor, seeing Daleks on stage for obvious reasons must have been awesome. Thank you for this documentary and thank you, Trevor.
What a brilliant documentary. Thoroughly enjoyed that!
I very much enjoyed that, so professional it could appear on a BBC DVD
Was lucky enough to see the play on Monday 30th December, 1974. Actually acquired a cassette tape recording of the show which has sadly been lost. Would probably be quite a gem if it still existed. Such a shame. But happy memories of a wonderful event. This documentary brought the memories flooding back. Thankyou
Re: recording- aw, damn it... That could've rivaled Six Flags over Georgia's B'riar Rabbit ride's audio and footage
This is amazing, very well made and professional indeed. Having been born one year after the play was on I have sadly never really fully appreciated it until now. RIP Trevor Martin.
I really, really enjoyed this. Thanks for making it, loved all the unseen photos and reconstructed segments. Fantastic.
Wow, just wow. This was an amazing documentary. Just the still images you were able to find left me in ecstasy. To see the Clawrantulas (sic) in their realized form. I had no idea that the Master of Karn was this towering thing. The Tardis console was starkly beautiful. I loved every bit of it. The descriptions of the cast members, the economics of the show, the impact of the IRA. The description of back projection, the interaction of Daleks and creatures, the way the Master's head was to glow... it would have been utterly wonderful to have seen it.
I know Big Finish has done an audio. But it's just not the same thing. I'm a visual person. Watching the Documentary gave me this wonderful sense of what the play might have been like, full of wonder and strangeness and clever effects and imagery. Just brimming with electricity and liveness.
It came so close. In a proper world, they might have been a bit more careful, the set might have been built with an eye to portability to other venues. The IRA could have delayed. Or at least with other venues and better budgeting, the show could have gone on the road and been a commercial success. It could have become an institution. There might have been a follow up Doctor Who play.
It's heartbreaking that there's no visual record, no film or video of the stage play, not even super8 footage. I understand from Wikipedia that there were revivals or new productions in 1981 and 1984, and in New Zealand, but the productions wouldn't have been as elaborate.
Thank you. Thank you so very much for this brilliant documentary that highlights this wonderful bit of lost Who.
A great documentary!!!! Excellent stuff!!
Thanks for making this. It provides a lot of backstory that you don't get elsewhere. I recently added the show program to my collection of Classic Who items so this is very timely.
This is just as good as an official dvd documentary. Amazing
This is marvellous! I got through the whole thing believing this was a DVD extra before reading the description and seeing it was student made! Well done! You’ll have a brilliant career if you keep producing things like this!
Excellent piece. Pity there was no Padders, but still excellent. Simon Jones?! Who knew? Not me.
Great doc I personally didn't even know about this show so I also learnt something as well thanks
Wished you tried to include Wendy Padbury. Damn knows, I'd love to hear her ancedotes and commentary on her time on the stage production
I wish I had seen this play when it was on
I was really lucky and got to see this with my parents. Really enjoyed it. I was 9 at the time. The part I probably remember the most was the regeneration sequence at the start and the two kids making a lot of noise at the back of the theatre and running up to and on to the stage. It was only once they were in place that I realised that the female was Wendy Padbury.
I'm glad that you made this Tom, thank you 🙂
This is terrific - I assumed this was a professional production until I casually checked the description. This could easily appear on a BBC DVD.
I was looking for info on the stage play based on a recent podcast..then i found this! Wow thank you!
I've always had a love for documentaries, this is a superb piece, I'd happily pay for a dvd of this! You picked a very intriguing part of the massive history of Doctor Who, I never knew how much I wanted to know of!
This should be on an official release!
Terence Dicks is a genius
Thomas you should be very proud of this stunning achievement. Your documentary has inspired me to seek out other supporting material and has greatly enhanced my appreciation of this much underated gem in the pathenon of DOCTOR WHO. Excelsior my friend!
Thanks for posting, I always assumed this stage production was a naff pantomime-esque production, whereas it sounds like it had quite a bit of money spent on it (for the period) and was something I would have enjoyed!
Absolutely fantastic!
Absolutely wonderful. You should be very proud of yourself.
Excellent documentary, really enjoyed it.
Brilliant production
Tom, thou hath wrought righteous og important werk!
Gooodness pon you!
:-)
I wish I had been born before 1969 preferably 1963 or even several years earlier like in the 1950s
I am sad that I did not see this back in the day but I did see Pertwee in The Ultimate Advunture.
Terrific stuff, well done.
Thoroughly enjoyed the documentary. Well written and edited, throwing new light on a little known piece of Doctor Who history. As I am a little hard of hearing at times, I did run the video with captions on - there were some amusing moments and I did occasionally have to rewind and check exactly what had been said. Despite that, a very good documentary. :-)
Brilliant
thanks for sharing, how did your honours course go?
I didn’t realise Wendy Padbury was in this.
What did she mean by trays of acid inside the Daleks?
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