David Burton is full of it. Richard Bignell researched this quite extensively and there's no evidence of this pilot being filmed. Director Paul Bernard supposedly initiated work on the pilot yet there is nothing in his work diaries from this time to indicate work on any independent Dr Who production and neither Paul's Widow or his long-standing PA had ever heard of him working on it either. The early Dr Who Magazine interview with Burton makes claim to have worked with "Millennium Productions" on the pilot, but company director Vijay Amarnani confirmed they never had anything to do with a Dr Who pilot. In one interview Burton claimed to have filmed in Vienna yet in another seems unaware of any foreign location filming. There's more on the Nothing at the End of the Lane website, if you still think this is anything more than an attention seeker telling tall tales give it a read.
For anyone who thinks this was a real production - how come David Burton is the only person who's ever claimed to work on it? If they really did make a couple of episodes it will have needed a full production team - director, producer, camera, lights, sound, wardrobe, effects etc - and yet nobody else has ever admitted to having worked on it in any capacity whatsoever. Burton is literally the only person in the world who is saying that this project was for real. Draw your own conclusions...
There used to be a police box painted red in Glasgow’s merchant city but luckily someone saw sense and returned it to blue, no idea why it was red to begin worth. Mental!
I remember reading about this in Doctor Who magazine and being intrigued by the possibility of course back then I jumped at rumours of the show coming back as it seemed for many years it wouldn't. Judging by what we now know it probably was a hoax that got out of hand as no evidence exists that anything was actually filmed but if anyone has any evidence I would love to see it. Alternatively David Burton seems a nice guy so if any fan film makers have the urge to give us a glimpse of his version of the Doctor why not.
Well they might have to, I mean there r only so much British actors :P but I hope he plays a scientist for uni, oh & he took the doctors position a bit :P hahaha, that'd be great
@@thedoctor101fez Doctor Who doesn't have to feature all British actors, what if there's an American or Russian character, they're not always going to be played by a brit
Interesting story. But surely other people involved in the production would have stepped forward by now to lend some weight to it, the twins Hart & Diamond, for example. But to be fair, if it was around the time of Paul Mcganns Doctor Who tv movie, its quite possible as the franchise was in limbo for a while I believe.
I remember reading about him in the Doctor Who magazine! According to British newspaper "The Daily Star," Daniella Nardini filmed a pilot for a female fronted Doctor Who in the 1990's! It also once reported that Doctor Who veteran actor Michael Sheard (4 different stories across 26 years) had also filmed a pilot as the Doctor! (the things the tabloids will print!!) 🤔
+CupidStunt I agree that it's most likely all a lie. Why would they not name the production company? Just because they're independent doesn't mean they're nameless unless they don't exist. Plus his claims that everything was destroyed and how quickly everything was destroyed just makes it sound like an excuse for why there's no evidence what so ever that any of this had ever actually happened. There has to be some evidence between the Production crew and the rest of the cast that this actually happened but all he has is a car. And that car also has the name of the manufacturer on it. It's in big giant letters above the New Doctor Who. There's no production company but there was a car shop trying to drum up business with this fake story.
Reasons to indicate he could be lying: -Burton looks to the corner of his eyes which is a sign of lying -Burton repeats a few things after e.g. 'initial contract was for 3 months' which is a sign of lying -Literally no photographs or any evidence whatsoever other than his word Reasons to indicate he could not be lying: -It was a long time ago, so his memory could have faded -Why was it put on the official dr who channel on RUclips? -Why was it put on a Dr Who DVD for the Third Doctor? -Why would he make this stuff up? -The evidence could have simply been destroyed I mean it would have had to be very secretive -There are photos of the car with 'the new doctor who' and people have had photographs with the man when they were told he was going to be the next one
Small footnote : looking to the corner of your eyes is only a sign of lying if you look to your right side. Left side is associated with recalling a memory, as does David Burton here. Besides, given the lapse of time since he first made that claim, any lie he could have told at the time became memory to him, and so could be recalled as a memory.
not just the 'weird stuff' , 'Doctor Who' got axed in 1989. Why would it come back 1 year, 5 months later, or even 2 years 6 months later, it was the right decision to bring it back in 1996 with Paul Mcgann as 'The Doctor' , but because it had aimed at 'American' audiences to bring the viewings up instead of being an British-American thing where it would be both aimed at audiences at either side of the globe, everything failed, common, Eric Roberts as 'the Master'. San-Francisco as the 'end of the world' on new-years eve 1999. Paul's audition was the setting where, we (the audience) find more about the ''Doctor's' past, including his age, 'The Master's' age, his father's age and so on
Considering the movie they ended up with in the end was also done largely externally I'd say that your probably right... clearly there wasn't a desire from the BBC to run this series at the time.
Is it weird that I think he's better looking now? I would love to see him in a episode perhaps as a relative of Clara. Maybe he had a clash with a past Doctor who and he has just found out by accident about her travelling with him and has a very, very bad idea of how to get back at him.
No. If they were to do that, which they won't since the 50th was already filmed, they would cast David Bradley since he is William Hartnell in "An Adventure in Space and Time". Besides. Have you seen a David Bradley/William Hartnell comparison? It is astonishing!
Hmmmn... that's really interesting. The idea of going for a more William Hartnell type Doctor again after Sylvester, would've been really interesting. It seems it's only now that they've cast Peter Capaldi in the part that they are thinking about having The Doctor as an older man like his first three incarnations and The Doctor of the classic Who movies.
... Given what was happening at the time with Doctor Who, Coast to Coast looking at a movie, The Last of the Timelords, Adrian Riglesford's The Dark Dimension and the eventual McGann movie, it is not beyond the realms of possibility this was'nt a reality. Maybe everyone else involved in the project is honouring the confidentiality agreement and not willing to discuss it!
While it is the BBC, they are merely interviewing him, not putting words into his mouth, he may be lying, he may not be, and while yes, taking pictures may not have been allowed, there would be other people involved in the project who would have backed up his story
The BBC aren't making up the fact that he might be making it up. The BBC put this interview on their channel because the myth of 'lost' episodes has very much become an official part of Doctor Who lore and that lore is great at promoting the brand. It doesn't make his story true and neither he nor the BBC have produced any evidence to back his story up. He's using the brand and the brand is now using him.
An actor's credits are the projects that actually were completed. You don't list projects that were scrapped. (I recorded the voice for a taking doll of a famous cartoon character, but the project was cancelled, so it never made it onto my resume. Too bad, I'd planned to give one to each of my in-laws.)
It just shows you that they didn't know what the hell to do with the programme back then. They probably would have tried any thing! that's the terrifying thing. Maybe it's good that the show ended when it did , before they had the chance to damage it any further.
The Tardis IS blue. but Red phone boxes are Red. They don't claim anything other as your post suggests. He just indicated they were going to change it because people wouldn't recognise a TARDIS in the 90's. In regards to Doctor Who that's complete bull of course.
A weird old man with shoulder length white hair pushing two kids inside a phone box with blacked out windows.
Doctor Whotree
If you are not a writer for BBC comedy already then they should definitely hire you.
Doctor Lew-d
Jack Sykes no shaded red glasses though
I thought it was Jimmy Saville
"I had to sign a confidentiality agreement."
Drives around in a car with 'The New Doctor Who' written on it.
Underrated comment
Lol 🤣
I wish Paul mcgaan has a normal proper series as the doctor he would be great
Mich Lin he has big finish
God yes
Me too.
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Nothing against David Burton but I'm really glad the TARDIS wasn't turned into a phone booth.
tubian323 hahaha but it kind of is a phone booth lmao
Wouldn't that make it Inspector Spacetime?
It is a phone blue...
Reminds me of Bill and Ted.
I’m glad that David Burton can still get his Doctor Who recognition thanks to this interview.
David Burton is full of it. Richard Bignell researched this quite extensively and there's no evidence of this pilot being filmed.
Director Paul Bernard supposedly initiated work on the pilot yet there is nothing in his work diaries from this time to indicate work on any independent Dr Who production and neither Paul's Widow or his long-standing PA had ever heard of him working on it either. The early Dr Who Magazine interview with Burton makes claim to have worked with "Millennium Productions" on the pilot, but company director Vijay Amarnani confirmed they never had anything to do with a Dr Who pilot. In one interview Burton claimed to have filmed in Vienna yet in another seems unaware of any foreign location filming.
There's more on the Nothing at the End of the Lane website, if you still think this is anything more than an attention seeker telling tall tales give it a read.
Jai Parker This should be the top comment, it’s one of the few with an actual educated response.
Pretty sure the BBC and Doctor Who wouldn't post this if there wasn't some truth to it.
For anyone who thinks this was a real production - how come David Burton is the only person who's ever claimed to work on it? If they really did make a couple of episodes it will have needed a full production team - director, producer, camera, lights, sound, wardrobe, effects etc - and yet nobody else has ever admitted to having worked on it in any capacity whatsoever. Burton is literally the only person in the world who is saying that this project was for real. Draw your own conclusions...
David Burton as The Doctor...I could see that actually working.
Someone tell him he's probably canon now.
Thank god they never used the red boxes. Inspector Spacetime almost got copyrighted maybe 0.0
There used to be a police box painted red in Glasgow’s merchant city but luckily someone saw sense and returned it to blue, no idea why it was red to begin worth. Mental!
I have been looking for this video for YEARS! I thought I'd dreamt it!
I remember reading about this in Doctor Who magazine and being intrigued by the possibility of course back then I jumped at rumours of the show coming back as it seemed for many years it wouldn't.
Judging by what we now know it probably was a hoax that got out of hand as no evidence exists that anything was actually filmed but if anyone has any evidence I would love to see it.
Alternatively David Burton seems a nice guy so if any fan film makers have the urge to give us a glimpse of his version of the Doctor why not.
Would be interesting to have him in a future episode, they may even accept him as a future doctor.
The Tardis as a red phone box!!?? Fetch the smelling salts, Marcel!
Plus, it read as "Doctor Who" in the closing credits in the revived series until David Tennent requested it to be read as "The Doctor"
The back roads of Doctor Who hold such treasures. What a nut.
There's an extended version of the interview on the DVD if you know where to look...
what dvd
I think it would be quite nice if he had a small part in a future episode
Well they might have to, I mean there r only so much British actors :P but I hope he plays a scientist for uni, oh & he took the doctors position a bit :P hahaha, that'd be great
@@thedoctor101fez Doctor Who doesn't have to feature all British actors, what if there's an American or Russian character, they're not always going to be played by a brit
That picture of him with the kids in swimsuits is kinda creepy
Without hope, without witness, without reward...
interesting i never heard this story before i think he would of been an interesting doctor who pity there is no footage !
there is now, look what I wrote :D
Robo9400 Hah now that i've tried desperately searching for all the info on it, you could be right
I've never heard of this before, ever. No footage, no photos, no scripts, no evidence at all? Bit of a bold claim.
Interesting story. But surely other people involved in the production would have stepped forward by now to lend some weight to it, the twins Hart & Diamond, for example. But to be fair, if it was around the time of Paul Mcganns Doctor Who tv movie, its quite possible as the franchise was in limbo for a while I believe.
David Burton looks like he's dressed in Capaldi's costume in that interview... Spoilers!
How is that a spoiler?
Stephen Murphy He has his best suit and a hair cut
Only shows how boring and unoriginal Capaldi's "costume" really is...
His name on the credits was "Doctor Who / Dr Who" for almost 20 years. You might want to re-think your comment.
I remember reading about him in the Doctor Who magazine!
According to British newspaper "The Daily Star," Daniella Nardini filmed a pilot for a female fronted Doctor Who in the 1990's!
It also once reported that Doctor Who veteran actor Michael Sheard (4 different stories across 26 years) had also filmed a pilot as the Doctor!
(the things the tabloids will print!!)
🤔
Possibly a Doctor in an alternate timeline? I'm sure they could find a way to have him as The Doctor.
There is a slight resemblance to William Hartnell (the first Doctor). I would love to see this.
Hearing this story, it seems very likely that Burton would be playing a Doctor that was very similair to Peter Cushing.
say, its been years...bring him back and make him the actual Doctor. it will be a fun fact, and moment when a backfired idea had some ashes rising
Perhaps he could have played the "secret Doctor" if John Hurt didn't do it.
This man is completely off his rocker!
Most people i know, know of doctor who, in all time periods, they especially love me. And they also love me the most for the next 50 years
He seemed like he would have been a good Doctor.
I'd love to see this guys footage if its outbthere
+CupidStunt I was meaning anything from the pilots
+CupidStunt it says in the video description a independent production company made pilots
+CupidStunt I agree that it's most likely all a lie. Why would they not name the production company? Just because they're independent doesn't mean they're nameless unless they don't exist. Plus his claims that everything was destroyed and how quickly everything was destroyed just makes it sound like an excuse for why there's no evidence what so ever that any of this had ever actually happened. There has to be some evidence between the Production crew and the rest of the cast that this actually happened but all he has is a car. And that car also has the name of the manufacturer on it. It's in big giant letters above the New Doctor Who. There's no production company but there was a car shop trying to drum up business with this fake story.
Looks like a doctor
Checks to see if this was uploaded on the 1st of April.
Search for "The Night of the Doctor" here on youtube, PAUL MCGANN FINALLY CAME BACK! thumbs up for finally showing his regeneration! :D
UGh
***** It's related to Doctor Who and it was big news at the time, so there's that.
Wow never knew this. Amazing
I think it would be great if they found the lost 90's pilot or reshot it and showed it as a speical
I have a feeling that this is the only "Eighth Doctor" video I will be able to see this month.
0:35 that cut jesus christ 😂
Reasons to indicate he could be lying:
-Burton looks to the corner of his eyes which is a sign of lying
-Burton repeats a few things after e.g. 'initial contract was for 3 months' which is a sign of lying
-Literally no photographs or any evidence whatsoever other than his word
Reasons to indicate he could not be lying:
-It was a long time ago, so his memory could have faded
-Why was it put on the official dr who channel on RUclips?
-Why was it put on a Dr Who DVD for the Third Doctor?
-Why would he make this stuff up?
-The evidence could have simply been destroyed I mean it would have had to be very secretive
-There are photos of the car with 'the new doctor who' and people have had photographs with the man when they were told he was going to be the next one
Small footnote : looking to the corner of your eyes is only a sign of lying if you look to your right side. Left side is associated with recalling a memory, as does David Burton here.
Besides, given the lapse of time since he first made that claim, any lie he could have told at the time became memory to him, and so could be recalled as a memory.
This is on the Inferno Special Edition DVD
He used to be Dr Who in the end credits.
I agree. He reminds me a lot of him.
Dammit I hate hearing things were wiped or destroyed! GRRRR, one thing I HATE about tape and filming back the .
well not as bad as most of the 60s storys's
Late reply but David's story is sketchy, I'd recommend taking a read of www.endofthelane.co.uk/burton.html at some point if you havent already
not just the 'weird stuff' , 'Doctor Who' got axed in 1989. Why would it come back 1 year, 5 months later, or even 2 years 6 months later, it was the right decision to bring it back in 1996 with Paul Mcgann as 'The Doctor' , but because it had aimed at 'American' audiences to bring the viewings up instead of being an British-American thing where it would be both aimed at audiences at either side of the globe, everything failed, common, Eric Roberts as 'the Master'. San-Francisco as the 'end of the world' on new-years eve 1999. Paul's audition was the setting where, we (the audience) find more about the ''Doctor's' past, including his age, 'The Master's' age, his father's age and so on
Watch the whole video.
Whilst I haven't researched this subject enough it seems like he has no reason to lie, as he hasn't gone around talking about it at all
At least give him a guest spot in a future episode.
Here's something to make up for it David.... If the First Doctor returns in the 50th Anniversary.... Play him!
He was credited as Doctor Who up until about 2006/07. Please get things right.
Considering the movie they ended up with in the end was also done largely externally I'd say that your probably right... clearly there wasn't a desire from the BBC to run this series at the time.
And the movie they went with sucked! Shame, as I liked Mcganns Doctor.
Is it weird that I think he's better looking now? I would love to see him in a episode perhaps as a relative of Clara. Maybe he had a clash with a past Doctor who and he has just found out by accident about her travelling with him and has a very, very bad idea of how to get back at him.
zombiegnomes1 Well, imagine if they brought him in for that 10th doctor episode with the Fake Doctor Who. Would that be too meta?
He'd've been convinncing as the Third Doctor.
I remember this. Well, bits of it.
I'm surprised this is official. It reeks of an April Fool's joke, even though it's August.
They were gonna make the TARDIS into a red phone booth? Dang son, Inspector Spacetime would've sued.
Considering that they found lost doctor episodes in Ethopia then is it not possible that a lost episode could be found
The fact he lied about everything to get a free car 💀
They could. But, right now he's playing The Great Intelligence!
No he didn't play the Intelligence, the only actors to play that role in NuWho are Sir Ian McKellen and Richard E. Grant
@@No1ShalkaFan And Richard E. Grant played the ninth
Doctor in "Scream of the Shalka". Look it up!
@@apoch003 no he played the 9th Doctor in it and the 10th Doctor in Curse of Fatal Death
@@No1ShalkaFan This conversation is six years old. I made a typo. Sue me.
@@apoch003 but the comment you made a mistake in is 9 minutes old, lol
stop complaining.
For 18 years they called him Doctor Who in the closing credits. Do your Who-History.
amazing resemblance to the Paul McGann doctor
From the various publicity shots, it's obvious he was working as a children's entertainer, and it's probably the reason he was chosen.
David burton a parallel dr
It would have been fascinating !
That poor "local company"...
He thinks it's all been destroyed/wiped. He says this in the video.
kinda wish any 8th doctor could have some more episodes. Still, I wish the Beeb had not killed all evidence of this.
Is that Alexi Sayle in the Lock Up Your Daughters cast photo?
They should let him have a role in Doctor who now :( even for just one episode.
No. If they were to do that, which they won't since the 50th was already filmed, they would cast David Bradley since he is William Hartnell in "An Adventure in Space and Time". Besides. Have you seen a David Bradley/William Hartnell comparison? It is astonishing!
Hmmmn... that's really interesting. The idea of going for a more William Hartnell type Doctor again after Sylvester, would've been really interesting. It seems it's only now that they've cast Peter Capaldi in the part that they are thinking about having The Doctor as an older man like his first three incarnations and The Doctor of the classic Who movies.
Like Batman it was the car, with the New Doctor Who! :)
lets see them then. i dont belive him especially the red phone box with blacked out windows and why would it be filmed without the bbc
Though it was changed for a reason.
It’s weird how the man is better-looking now.
shame the evidence was destroyed. Oh to be a fly on the wall, thanks again BBC -_-
***** Actually, there might be a chance something was sent either to the British Library or the F&T Archives in Bradford
well fingers crossed it sees the light of day.
www.endofthelane.co.uk/burton.html This is worth a read at some point, covers the thing in greater detail
He might be lying
when you absorb my time energy i have a pill for that
it is a Special DVD, if you check the description then you can see a link for the store to buy it
50 years
This guy looks more like Doc Brown than a Doctor ._______.
I would like to see him play the first doctor
... Given what was happening at the time with Doctor Who, Coast to Coast looking at a movie, The Last of the Timelords, Adrian Riglesford's The Dark Dimension and the eventual McGann movie, it is not beyond the realms of possibility this was'nt a reality. Maybe everyone else involved in the project is honouring the confidentiality agreement and not willing to discuss it!
While it is the BBC, they are merely interviewing him, not putting words into his mouth, he may be lying, he may not be, and while yes, taking pictures may not have been allowed, there would be other people involved in the project who would have backed up his story
Wow that is some really cool info.
The BBC aren't making up the fact that he might be making it up.
The BBC put this interview on their channel because the myth of 'lost' episodes has very much become an official part of Doctor Who lore and that lore is great at promoting the brand. It doesn't make his story true and neither he nor the BBC have produced any evidence to back his story up.
He's using the brand and the brand is now using him.
He should at the very least have a small part on Doctor Who now!
An actor's credits are the projects that actually were completed. You don't list projects that were scrapped. (I recorded the voice for a taking doll of a famous cartoon character, but the project was cancelled, so it never made it onto my resume. Too bad, I'd planned to give one to each of my in-laws.)
It just shows you that they didn't know what the hell to do with the programme back then. They probably would have tried any thing! that's the terrifying thing. Maybe it's good that the show ended when it did , before they had the chance to damage it any further.
That person who wanted to hear the interview must be out a lot of money lol.
This is so strange
The Tardis IS blue. but Red phone boxes are Red. They don't claim anything other as your post suggests. He just indicated they were going to change it because people wouldn't recognise a TARDIS in the 90's.
In regards to Doctor Who that's complete bull of course.
I will believe you, after I see Peter Capaldi on one of your late night talk shows as a guest. :)
I’m glad the TARDIS didn’t become a red phone box but I would’ve liked to see the episodes they filmed
I know but I would be more convinced if they had appeared on a more popular American late night show like The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
He says he had to sign a confidentiality agreement yet here he is violating the agreement. I call shenanigans!
What!? Doctor Who is EXTREMELY popular in the US.
Well not ALL Daleks are red but nice rhyme nonetheless :)