Billy, Jonathan and I discuss the period where Doctor Who was no longer on television. Or was it? NEXT TIME: Dr. Who and the the Daleks / 163349356510 batmanmarchrevi...
The opening tune from BBC videos brings back some great memories...........My first experience of Doctor Who was in 2002 when my Dad brought me a VHS of The Ark in Space and from then in i have been hooked !
Born in 93 and I can relate to so much of this. My very first experience of Dr who was my dad showing me the Cybermen in the Five Doctors which he taped in '83. Then it all just escalated, Doctor Who night, 30 Years in the Tardis (interestingly More than thirty years in the Tardis is very different), the mind Robber, Cybermen the early years... it's amazing how much I absorbed in what must have been a few months because only a short while later I seemed to know everything about the show
Absolutely loved the video! Great to hear all these stories and get a bit of a glimpse to the wilderness years, but god damn I wish we could've seen that Sylv trilogy you had planned! Sounds incredibly cool.
Great video! So entertaining to hear all your experiences with Doctor Who when you were all young. I feel so sad because I never knew of its existence until 2005 when it came back :(
My first memory of Doctor Who was watching Spearhead From Space repeats on BBC2 when i was about 4/5 and then of course Doctor Who Night and then doing the exact same thing as Jonathan record them all from UKTV Gold haha
I also became a fan during the wilderness years. I grew up during the 1990s in the states, and at that time they were repeating the Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker ones on television. I've been watching the show since I was 4 years old and loved them.
Unfortunately for me my parents were never in to Doctor Who, so sadly I never grew up with it. My earliest memory of Doctor Who is owning 2 video tins each containing 2 video tapes. One was shaped like the Tardis and that had trial of a time lord in it and the other one was silver with Daleks on it and that had the chase and remembrance of the Daleks in it. I didn't really get in to Doctor Who though until 2005 when it came back and I've been hooked ever since. I'm an avid collector of all things Who and it is a pleasure being part of something that is so special to not only the UK, but to the world. Long may it continue.
I was born a year after the 30th anniversary you old codgers! Lol. I got into Doctor who in 2003 when I went to the Dapol exhibition & I remember the living room setting & the Dalek in a dank cell. I also remember the "talk like a Dalek" thing. back then, I was more interested in the model railway exhibition upstairs & it was my mum that persuaded us to look at the Doctor Who exhibition, wasn't a fan at first but then I saw a trailer on BBC2 & my Mum got a copy of the Radio times about the 40th anniversary. I remember getting REALLY excited about the revival
Hi batmanmarch, I watched “Doctor Who: The TV Movie” recently, and I actually thought it was pretty good. I gave it a 8/10, but I strongly agree with you on the continuity flaws, such as what the Eye of Harmony is in that film in comparison to what it was in “The Deadly Assassin”, which I only saw bits of, and that whole business about the Doctor being half-human! George.
My introduction to Doctor Who was in the early 2000s through a friend's dad who had a Key to Time box set (I'm not sure if it was VHS or DVD), and we just did a marathon of most of the season over the course of a weekend.
Brilliant video guys. It's amazing hearing your stories from when you were younger. My first video and introduction to doctor who was 1992 with death to the daleks on good old VHS then the Cushing movies, very similar to you. I think what I enjoy the most about these videos is the freedom and enjoyment you seem to have when talking about doctor who. Quite honestly these videos are way better than the new series garbage. Keep up the good work lads.
I actually read the e book version of The hollow men last night, which basically is a novel followup on the awakening. And I still couldn't remember what the hell the Malus looked like when I tried. I guess it's such a terrifying image that my conscious mind had blocked it. =p
Great video guys. I loved Jonathan's story about the buckle on the umbrella. I don't think I've ever laughed so much at anything ever. That's a great little story, I thought it was cool you got the costumes out. Speaking as someone who was born in The wilderness years. I know what was like to have nothing, well not nothing because I had videos and books and magazines the two stories I remember having on video were 'Death to the Daleks' and 'Terror of the Zygons', but had nothing raw or new on the telly to grasp on. Because I was born the year the TV Movie was broadcast, I don't remember it. And I was 9 when the show came back in 2005, although I didn't know it was back until 'Dalek' was broadcast. So I was oblivious to the whole thing, I watched the last couple of Eccelston episodes and didn't think much of them. I became a true believer when David Tennat took over. Series 2 is what made me into the mega fan I am now. I'm almost as knowledgeable as You Matt, and Johnathan and Billy. I say Almost. Look forward to the next review.
The wilderness years feels like such a weird time, 15 years of nothingness putting doctor who in the paradox of being a classic show and something we were waiting to come back, ironically causing a giant uptake of fans, so much so it rekindled the fire, although I was only alive for the last four years of the wilderness era, and I don’t remember them since I was in America at the time and was merely a baby, this period still is a very interesting one
I absolutely loved this review of "The Wilderness Years" - although it was probably more appropriate to call it "Walking through Tristan Stopps' teenage years!" - I have a few years on you all, but the wilderness years was when I started the local group that I still run today, and when I did the holidays to Llangollen/Wales to visit the DW Exhibition at the Dapol factory (of which I have some nice photos amongst my collection). A big thumbs up from me! Keep up the good work!
Ha! Love the video! You guys are actually pretty cool compared to American fans. I remember going to a convention for DW here in the 80s and was blown away to see hundreds of dorks walking like Tom Baker. Really loved the intro and outros of the old BBC Videos. Reminds me of the days driving around town trying to find a new DW vid and plonking down $20 for a VHS tape.
I remember watching those beginning and end credits for BBC Video. I loved that piece of nostalgia. I younger than you guys, but I can relAte to a lot of what you said.
Excellent! Thoroughly enjoyed that! The Wilderness Years were a superb voyage of discovery for me; I could relate to many of the memories shared in this video. TTFN. Roy.
Absolutely loved this vid guys - keep up the good work. Oh, and review Real Time; you've already done Scream of the Shalka so you're without excuse. ;)
I was born in 1984 in the States, I have some faint memories of the 6th and 7th doctor airing on PBS, but I didn't become a real fan until the TV film. after that I read the books and later listened to Big Finish and watched the videos until the New Series aired. the 8th Doctor will always be My Doctor.
The doctor who movie was my first actually I saw it in the early 2000 just before the 40th anniversary on VHS tape also there was loads of trailers on it so it had info on all the doctors,the actors and their years then I saw Doctor Who and the daleks as well The TV movie was freaky but I loved it and a few weeks later I went my with aunt to the library and went on the internet and google it found the classic website, then when the DVDs came out my dad bought me them and I always remember having them and watching them well before the show came back ! like matt I don't clearly have a memory of becoming a fan it was just there !
Fantastic video guys, absolutely hilarious, especially the umbrella bit. I myself don't really remember much of the wilderness years but I always remember watching the Peter Cushing movies religiously and Resurrection of the Daleks. I also remember a TV channel that would air classic Who episodes early in the morning and the one I remember always being on was The Monster of Peladon. If anybody can tell me what channel that was I'd be really grateful, I don't think it was UK Gold as it was around 2005/06.
It's scary how similar experiences I had to you guys! GOLD, VHS and the Cushing Movies! I had Silver Nemesis, Battlefield, Invisible Enemy and Invasion of the Dinosaurs on VHS with the two movies and loved watching them! Fond memories of GOLD and watching Ghost Light, Dragonfire and so on! Hell even Ambassadors and wondering why it was a bit black and white, foolish me! I never remembered a time when it was not on but was too young for Chris Eccleston's return to have an impact! But I was at Nans at the time when Rose came out and Time Meddler and Attack Of The Cybermen I watched for the first time and loved, maybe Two Doctors as well! And will Ace's disappearance in your story have anything to do with Ice Time, the unmade 90s DW? I'm really nerdy on that aspect! Great talk, very entertaining as always!
I think they still covered a lot, very relatable as a 90s kid, I just think them talking about Totally Doctor Who and cosplaying the 7th Doctor wasn't really relevant haha but it's still really interesting hearing their stories as long as it's Doctor Who related
CrashBandicootFan971 Yeah, I went there :) They had a TARDIS police box that you could go inside and put on an 80's Cyberman head. I think next to that was a maze that had remote controlled Daleks or something, good times :D
TheWhoCollector I mainly remember a Cyberman walking around the grounds (think it was a revenge of the cybermen one) some guy dressed as david tenant walking around and laods of different props and merchandise throughout the museum.
CrashBandicootFan971 I significantly remember walking round all the classic series models and stuff, and i remember seeing the models of the dinosaurs from Invasion of the dinosaurs, and i remember the dalek you could go inside and control it, it was great!
Billy described everything in the Blackpool museum, nice! Glad I went there a year before it was closed. I wonder if any of the stuff will leak into Cardiff? We know Bessie went there, but what happened to all the Cyber stuff, Morbius, sea devils??
I went to the Blackpool museum, the coventry museum (when it was in the transport museum) and I've been to the Doctor Who experience in Cardiff. All 3 were absolutely awesome.
Excellent video lads. I have very similar experiences to yourselves - I was born in 85 and got into the show via my dads videos of the seeds of death and the ark in space, then raided my local library for further vhs tapes. I can't remember the original McCoy broadcasts but can remember sitting down with my 3D glasses for dimensions in time, and also the 1993 repeats which I taped. I was a fellow uk gold 7am watcher, and lovingly taped and labelled them all haha. I was by and large happy with the TV movie on first watch, bar the half human comment and the eye of harmony silliness. Watching it again recently, it's McGann's performance that saves the wonky plot, Roberts is awful, though I think the tardis control room and the way the thing is directed are fantastic. I disagree with you about McCoy's death though - I think it's really fitting that the scheming and manipulating doctor is killed by a medical botching, plus being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Similarly I think the scream is too real, but again I think that was a good choice, as it just makes it so sad to lose him when he was so childlike and innocent in season 24. Great video - I think we that were growing up in the wilderness years are probably the least represented group in fandom!
The wilderness years for me was hoping that in DWM's Gallifrey post there would be news of its return it took 6 years only for hopes to be dashed for another 9. The high point for me was Jon Pertwee's stage play The Greatest Adventure, me and a friend went to see it at Wimbledon then again at Basildon. The first time was a theatre of fans and when we went to see it the second time it was parents taking their kids to see a show they had watched as kids, and when it got to Pertwee's 'reverse the polarity of the neutron flow' my friend and I cheered, we were the only two. The cast grinned and a little girl in front turned round and said 'you're not meant to cheer yet,' it was a case of spot the fanatics.
The Wilderness Years was a very underrated period for Doctor Who and it's often overlooked by most of the fans. I don't care what anyone thinks about BBV Productions. They did some brilliant films and audio drama CDs. I've got a couple of their audios such as Silent Warrior, In2Minds and The Pattern. The best place to find any of their products is on the Galaxy 4 website. The Green Man is next on my list featuring The Krynoids and it's set in The Middle Ages. I email Bill Baggs on a regular basis and I even send my Doctor Who autograph book to his address so he could sign it for me. If you would like to contact him, his email address is billbaggs@hotmail.com.
My nanna made me a Tom Baker scarf for Christmas last year, but the website they got it from had got the red and the brown mixed, so where it should be red, it was brown and where it should be brown, it was red. Also she wouldn't knit the whole thing, because I may trip over it, so I asked her to cut off a small section at one end, so I now have a Season 13 scarf.
I seem to remember the 'first golden age' with Tom Baker. Then the eighties happened and the quality went down with JNT. I bowed out with Davison. So it petered out with 'Survival' which was no surprise. We had 16 years to wait for the new series...
My first story was Aliens of London, so I was slightly late to the party but my first classic story which I saw about three years later was Invasion of Time...
Matt I have a cool idea because shadow of the daleks never came out you could make a 7th doctor story with Jonathan as the doctor and make a awesome dr who fanfilm again
The first ever Doctor Who I watched was the 2005 series episode 1 :/ Maybe even episode two, my first memory was Casandra, so yeah. My first classic story was Earthshock, and with my child mind I thought it was crap. Then I remember getting what I thought was a Tom Baker DVD because my parents had told me about him being THE doctor. It turned out to be Colin Baker's revelation of the Daleks.. at the time hated it. That was my first memories, I bought Earthshock from Weston Super Mare, after the first of the new series, I had gone mad and wanted everything with Doctor Who written on it. From there I got Resurrection of the Daleks and lost in time, that was a starting point, eventually got Tomb of the Cybermen and loved it over the 80s, that said something. So many memories :)
Andrew Lewis It was in Galaxy sorry An on-screen note said that a meteoroid field that had just collided with a planet at "ten zero eleven zero zero by zero two from galactic zero," in the constellation of Kasterborous. According to Pyramids of Mars this is the exact location of the planet Galifrey.
my first episode was smith and Jones i could of watched the 1st series but i never liked doctor who when i was younger and my first episode from the classic series was either Logopolis or Genesis of the Daleks i actually got into the classic series because of watching this channels doctor who adventures btw Matt loved shipwrecked it generated my love for Peter Davison and i share your hatred for series 6 onward its ruined my outlook on the show stick with the classics that is my opinion
What do you lads think of the idea of having a vote amongst Whovians about which First- Doctor series wiped by the B.B.C. that could be remade with the actors from ADVENTURES IN SPACE AND TIME, (in black & white) to be broadcast as part of the 60th-anniversary celebrations in 2023? It would one series only, with the same kind of sets, props, and (if possible) cameras. Would this be accepted by D.W. fans, or thought of as a travesty?
Now Sophie Aldred has written a good book but an underwhelming 'why Ace left' scene, maybe its time for your's to become public knowledge Matt? You seem to be far past making figure adventures now so what's the harm?
Unfortunately for me my parents were never in to Doctor Who, so sadly I never grew up with it. My earliest memory of Doctor Who is owning 2 video tins each containing 2 video tapes. One was shaped like the Tardis and that had trial of a time lord in it and the other one was silver with Daleks on it and that had the chase and remembrance of the Daleks in it. I didn't really get in to Doctor Who though until 2005 when it came back and I've been hooked ever since. I'm an avid collector of all things Who and it is a pleasure being part of something that is so special to not only the UK, but to the world. Long may it continue.
One of the greatest Doctor Who videos on RUclips.
Very funny with stealing the umbrella strap
Great discussion. You guys need a podcast!
Agreed! This is great podcast material.
Only took 7 years, hah.
I use to go to Llangollen a lot as a little kid, my mum was telling me how I was scared of everything. One time I was scared of Tom Baker's scarf!
The opening tune from BBC videos brings back some great memories...........My first experience of Doctor Who was in 2002 when my Dad brought me a VHS of The Ark in Space and from then in i have been hooked !
Born in 93 and I can relate to so much of this. My very first experience of Dr who was my dad showing me the Cybermen in the Five Doctors which he taped in '83. Then it all just escalated, Doctor Who night, 30 Years in the Tardis (interestingly More than thirty years in the Tardis is very different), the mind Robber, Cybermen the early years... it's amazing how much I absorbed in what must have been a few months because only a short while later I seemed to know everything about the show
If you want to watch any classic episodes, they have them on the horror channel every week day at 10:00am. I watch it non-stop!
The Happy Toy Factory I'm really annoyed they stopped showing doctor who on Horror
Absolutely loved the video! Great to hear all these stories and get a bit of a glimpse to the wilderness years, but god damn I wish we could've seen that Sylv trilogy you had planned! Sounds incredibly cool.
Great video! So entertaining to hear all your experiences with Doctor Who when you were all young. I feel so sad because I never knew of its existence until 2005 when it came back :(
My first memory of Doctor Who was watching Spearhead From Space repeats on BBC2 when i was about 4/5 and then of course Doctor Who Night and then doing the exact same thing as Jonathan record them all from UKTV Gold haha
OMG THE NOSTALGIA AT THE START
I also became a fan during the wilderness years. I grew up during the 1990s in the states, and at that time they were repeating the Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker ones on television. I've been watching the show since I was 4 years old and loved them.
I love Cushing's films
Unfortunately for me my parents were never in to Doctor Who, so sadly I never grew up with it. My earliest memory of Doctor Who is owning 2 video tins each containing 2 video tapes. One was shaped like the Tardis and that had trial of a time lord in it and the other one was silver with Daleks on it and that had the chase and remembrance of the Daleks in it. I didn't really get in to Doctor Who though until 2005 when it came back and I've been hooked ever since. I'm an avid collector of all things Who and it is a pleasure being part of something that is so special to not only the UK, but to the world. Long may it continue.
Loved that old BBC Video intro :D
I really enjoyed that. Cheers - great to have memories coming back.
I was born a year after the 30th anniversary you old codgers! Lol. I got into Doctor who in 2003 when I went to the Dapol exhibition & I remember the living room setting & the Dalek in a dank cell. I also remember the "talk like a Dalek" thing. back then, I was more interested in the model railway exhibition upstairs & it was my mum that persuaded us to look at the Doctor Who exhibition, wasn't a fan at first but then I saw a trailer on BBC2 & my Mum got a copy of the Radio times about the 40th anniversary. I remember getting REALLY excited about the revival
Hi batmanmarch,
I watched “Doctor Who: The TV Movie” recently, and I actually thought it was pretty good. I gave it a 8/10, but I strongly agree with you on the continuity flaws, such as what the Eye of Harmony is in that film in comparison to what it was in “The Deadly Assassin”, which I only saw bits of, and that whole business about the Doctor being half-human!
George.
My introduction to Doctor Who was in the early 2000s through a friend's dad who had a Key to Time box set (I'm not sure if it was VHS or DVD), and we just did a marathon of most of the season over the course of a weekend.
Brilliant video guys. It's amazing hearing your stories from when you were younger. My first video and introduction to doctor who was 1992 with death to the daleks on good old VHS then the Cushing movies, very similar to you. I think what I enjoy the most about these videos is the freedom and enjoyment you seem to have when talking about doctor who. Quite honestly these videos are way better than the new series garbage. Keep up the good work lads.
I actually read the e book version of The hollow men last night, which basically is a novel followup on the awakening. And I still couldn't remember what the hell the Malus looked like when I tried.
I guess it's such a terrifying image that my conscious mind had blocked it. =p
It's ok Matt, I don't have a defining memory either, the best one was getting Earthshock.
Great video guys. I loved Jonathan's story about the buckle on the umbrella. I don't think I've ever laughed so much at anything ever. That's a great little story, I thought it was cool you got the costumes out. Speaking as someone who was born in The wilderness years. I know what was like to have nothing, well not nothing because I had videos and books and magazines the two stories I remember having on video were 'Death to the Daleks' and 'Terror of the Zygons', but had nothing raw or new on the telly to grasp on.
Because I was born the year the TV Movie was broadcast, I don't remember it. And I was 9 when the show came back in 2005, although I didn't know it was back until 'Dalek' was broadcast. So I was oblivious to the whole thing, I watched the last couple of Eccelston episodes and didn't think much of them. I became a true believer when David Tennat took over. Series 2 is what made me into the mega fan I am now. I'm almost as knowledgeable as You Matt, and Johnathan and Billy. I say Almost. Look forward to the next review.
A video so good, it was given its own panel at an official Doctor Who convention
Was watching them on tape during that time, renting them from libraries and purchasing them from shops like Sun Coast Video
The wilderness years feels like such a weird time, 15 years of nothingness putting doctor who in the paradox of being a classic show and something we were waiting to come back, ironically causing a giant uptake of fans, so much so it rekindled the fire, although I was only alive for the last four years of the wilderness era, and I don’t remember them since I was in America at the time and was merely a baby, this period still is a very interesting one
I absolutely loved this review of "The Wilderness Years" - although it was probably more appropriate to call it "Walking through Tristan Stopps' teenage years!" - I have a few years on you all, but the wilderness years was when I started the local group that I still run today, and when I did the holidays to Llangollen/Wales to visit the DW Exhibition at the Dapol factory (of which I have some nice photos amongst my collection). A big thumbs up from me! Keep up the good work!
Ha! Love the video! You guys are actually pretty cool compared to American fans. I remember going to a convention for DW here in the 80s and was blown away to see hundreds of dorks walking like Tom Baker. Really loved the intro and outros of the old BBC Videos. Reminds me of the days driving around town trying to find a new DW vid and plonking down $20 for a VHS tape.
I remember watching those beginning and end credits for BBC Video. I loved that piece of nostalgia. I younger than you guys, but I can relAte to a lot of what you said.
Excellent! Thoroughly enjoyed that! The Wilderness Years were a superb voyage of discovery for me; I could relate to many of the memories shared in this video. TTFN. Roy.
Absolutely loved this vid guys - keep up the good work. Oh, and review Real Time; you've already done Scream of the Shalka so you're without excuse. ;)
I was born in 1984 in the States, I have some faint memories of the 6th and 7th doctor airing on PBS, but I didn't become a real fan until the TV film. after that I read the books and later listened to Big Finish and watched the videos until the New Series aired. the 8th Doctor will always be My Doctor.
I flipped when doctor who came back on I was just watching TV then rose came on and my mind went KABOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was expecting all of these comments to point out that Jonathan and Matt have the same voice
The doctor who movie was my first actually I saw it in the early 2000 just before the 40th anniversary on VHS tape also there was loads of trailers on it so it had info on all the doctors,the actors and their years then I saw Doctor Who and the daleks as well
The TV movie was freaky but I loved it and a few weeks later I went my with aunt to the library and went on the internet and google it found the classic website, then when the DVDs came out my dad bought me them and I always remember having them and watching them well before the show came back ! like matt I don't clearly have a memory of becoming a fan it was just there !
That intro is so nostalgic
the wilderness years where great! big finish started, virgin publish made awesome books, the BBV...
Fantastic video guys, absolutely hilarious, especially the umbrella bit. I myself don't really remember much of the wilderness years but I always remember watching the Peter Cushing movies religiously and Resurrection of the Daleks. I also remember a TV channel that would air classic Who episodes early in the morning and the one I remember always being on was The Monster of Peladon. If anybody can tell me what channel that was I'd be really grateful, I don't think it was UK Gold as it was around 2005/06.
Awesome video! Keep it up!!!
It's scary how similar experiences I had to you guys! GOLD, VHS and the Cushing Movies! I had Silver Nemesis, Battlefield, Invisible Enemy and Invasion of the Dinosaurs on VHS with the two movies and loved watching them! Fond memories of GOLD and watching Ghost Light, Dragonfire and so on! Hell even Ambassadors and wondering why it was a bit black and white, foolish me! I never remembered a time when it was not on but was too young for Chris Eccleston's return to have an impact! But I was at Nans at the time when Rose came out and Time Meddler and Attack Of The Cybermen I watched for the first time and loved, maybe Two Doctors as well! And will Ace's disappearance in your story have anything to do with Ice Time, the unmade 90s DW? I'm really nerdy on that aspect! Great talk, very entertaining as always!
LOVED THIS! I wish you three would get together and do more chats just like this.
You guys should do a sequel to this video since you went off topic a bit xD
I think they still covered a lot, very relatable as a 90s kid, I just think them talking about Totally Doctor Who and cosplaying the 7th Doctor wasn't really relevant haha but it's still really interesting hearing their stories as long as it's Doctor Who related
Your first episode was Time and the Rani talk about starting on a sour note :D
great video.
Anyone remember the Doctor Who convention at Peterborough museum back in 2007/2008
CrashBandicootFan971 Yeah, I went there :) They had a TARDIS police box that you could go inside and put on an 80's Cyberman head. I think next to that was a maze that had remote controlled Daleks or something, good times :D
TheWhoCollector I mainly remember a Cyberman walking around the grounds (think it was a revenge of the cybermen one) some guy dressed as david tenant walking around and laods of different props and merchandise throughout the museum.
CrashBandicootFan971 I significantly remember walking round all the classic series models and stuff, and i remember seeing the models of the dinosaurs from Invasion of the dinosaurs, and i remember the dalek you could go inside and control it, it was great!
Billy described everything in the Blackpool museum, nice! Glad I went there a year before it was closed. I wonder if any of the stuff will leak into Cardiff? We know Bessie went there, but what happened to all the Cyber stuff, Morbius, sea devils??
I was reading a news article when it closed down saying that they were to be auctioned off.
Toymakers meddling
I went there as well
I went to the Blackpool museum, the coventry museum (when it was in the transport museum) and I've been to the Doctor Who experience in Cardiff. All 3 were absolutely awesome.
The Sixth Doctor didn't die from tumultuous buffeting! He sacrificed himself to defeat the Valeyard in the Big Finish audio 'Brink of Death'.
Yes !
Video predates that though
i will just give you the date Published on 9 Sep 2014
Excellent video lads. I have very similar experiences to yourselves - I was born in 85 and got into the show via my dads videos of the seeds of death and the ark in space, then raided my local library for further vhs tapes. I can't remember the original McCoy broadcasts but can remember sitting down with my 3D glasses for dimensions in time, and also the 1993 repeats which I taped. I was a fellow uk gold 7am watcher, and lovingly taped and labelled them all haha. I was by and large happy with the TV movie on first watch, bar the half human comment and the eye of harmony silliness. Watching it again recently, it's McGann's performance that saves the wonky plot, Roberts is awful, though I think the tardis control room and the way the thing is directed are fantastic. I disagree with you about McCoy's death though - I think it's really fitting that the scheming and manipulating doctor is killed by a medical botching, plus being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Similarly I think the scream is too real, but again I think that was a good choice, as it just makes it so sad to lose him when he was so childlike and innocent in season 24. Great video - I think we that were growing up in the wilderness years are probably the least represented group in fandom!
why do I love this video so much?
The wilderness years for me was hoping that in DWM's Gallifrey post there would be news of its return it took 6 years only for hopes to be dashed for another 9. The high point for me was Jon Pertwee's stage play The Greatest Adventure, me and a friend went to see it at Wimbledon then again at Basildon. The first time was a theatre of fans and when we went to see it the second time it was parents taking their kids to see a show they had watched as kids, and when it got to Pertwee's 'reverse the polarity of the neutron flow' my friend and I cheered, we were the only two. The cast grinned and a little girl in front turned round and said 'you're not meant to cheer yet,' it was a case of spot the fanatics.
Oh my living hell I’ve not laughed as much. God this is the best doctor who video
The only thing I think when I think wilderness years are all the cancelled projects and what could have been
The Wilderness Years was a very underrated period for Doctor Who and it's often overlooked by most of the fans. I don't care what anyone thinks about BBV Productions. They did some brilliant films and audio drama CDs. I've got a couple of their audios such as Silent Warrior, In2Minds and The Pattern. The best place to find any of their products is on the Galaxy 4 website. The Green Man is next on my list featuring The Krynoids and it's set in The Middle Ages. I email Bill Baggs on a regular basis and I even send my Doctor Who autograph book to his address so he could sign it for me. If you would like to contact him, his email address is billbaggs@hotmail.com.
My nanna made me a Tom Baker scarf for Christmas last year, but the website they got it from had got the red and the brown mixed, so where it should be red, it was brown and where it should be brown, it was red. Also she wouldn't knit the whole thing, because I may trip over it, so I asked her to cut off a small section at one end, so I now have a Season 13 scarf.
I remember Mark Gattiss as a doctor Mark Gatiss As Doctor Who
I seem to remember the 'first golden age' with Tom Baker. Then the eighties happened and the quality went down with JNT. I bowed out with Davison. So it petered out with 'Survival' which was no surprise. We had 16 years to wait for the new series...
You had the 1996 movie (if THAT counts)
How sad... You waited 16 years for an even worse rendition of Doctor Who.
You gonna review the Capaldi episodes?
When are you going to make a podcast?
Does anyone remember the Seventh Doctor webcast Death Comes To Time with the time lord generaL Thannis or Tannis taking over Gallifrey
What brand is that 4th doctor hat? I’ve been looking for one and can never find one.
I have to disagree with Jonathan, really strongly. I love Sylv's TV Movie costume.
Batmanmarch, what does Jonathan think of his new adventures costume
Doesn't like that one either, it's question marks or nothing for him!
i was born in 2007 but i prefer the classic series
Look its the three Doctors
I also grew up in the Wilderness years, my first story was The Time Warrior!
Mine was (sigh) new esrth
DeckThe Lols mine for the new series: parting of the ways, classic: Robots of death
My first story was Aliens of London, so I was slightly late to the party but my first classic story which I saw about three years later was Invasion of Time...
I wanted Eddie Izzard to be Ninth Doctor
Doctor Who fans of my own age. Oh, what fans we were - and still are!
Matt I have a cool idea because shadow of the daleks never came out you could make a 7th doctor story with Jonathan as the doctor and make a awesome dr who fanfilm again
Great stuff!
What is that batman toy that Jonathan pulls out of his 7th brown coat?
The first ever Doctor Who I watched was the 2005 series episode 1 :/ Maybe even episode two, my first memory was Casandra, so yeah. My first classic story was Earthshock, and with my child mind I thought it was crap. Then I remember getting what I thought was a Tom Baker DVD because my parents had told me about him being THE doctor. It turned out to be Colin Baker's revelation of the Daleks.. at the time hated it. That was my first memories, I bought Earthshock from Weston Super Mare, after the first of the new series, I had gone mad and wanted everything with Doctor Who written on it. From there I got Resurrection of the Daleks and lost in time, that was a starting point, eventually got Tomb of the Cybermen and loved it over the 80s, that said something. So many memories :)
do you remember the reference to the constellation of Kastaborius in PR in Space:
Nope but go on?
Andrew Lewis It was in Galaxy sorry
An on-screen note said that a meteoroid field that had just collided with a planet at "ten zero eleven zero zero by zero two from galactic zero," in the constellation of Kasterborous. According to Pyramids of Mars this is the exact location of the planet Galifrey.
Cool
Mathieu Leader
Its also mentioned in Full Circle Par One :)
my first episode was smith and Jones i could of watched the 1st series but i never liked doctor who when i was younger and my first episode from the classic series was either Logopolis or Genesis of the Daleks i actually got into the classic series because of watching this channels doctor who adventures btw Matt loved shipwrecked it generated my love for Peter Davison and i share your hatred for series 6 onward its ruined my outlook on the show stick with the classics that is my opinion
Damn, I wish I had friends who were into Doctor Who as much as you guys :/
how come two of you sound exactly the same, it sounds like the oldest one's voice is being dubbed over
+manzilla48 whats that boy, trouble at the old mill?
What do you lads think of the idea of having a vote amongst Whovians about which First- Doctor series wiped by the B.B.C. that could be remade with the actors from ADVENTURES IN SPACE AND TIME, (in black & white) to be broadcast as part of the 60th-anniversary celebrations in 2023? It would one series only, with the same kind of sets, props, and (if possible) cameras. Would this be accepted by D.W. fans, or thought of as a travesty?
Review the mind of evil
Can you go back to your old intro? And just change it up to look more like the review of death.
Coincidence! its what the universe does for fun....
Were you guys born and alive then?
Yes, hence why we made the video.
As if this was 4 yrs ago.
Are you the youngest?
For those who be willin' to see what the Dapol Doctor Who Exhibition, here be a video showin' it off:
ruclips.net/video/vfgU9IjXFB0/видео.html
23:30
Now Sophie Aldred has written a good book but an underwhelming 'why Ace left' scene, maybe its time for your's to become public knowledge Matt? You seem to be far past making figure adventures now so what's the harm?
My brother goes to st.bede,s
That's Ryan 4 you doctor mad!
Holly Baldwin what does that mean
it means that u must love doctor who and u love it
Unfortunately for me my parents were never in to Doctor Who, so sadly I never grew up with it. My earliest memory of Doctor Who is owning 2 video tins each containing 2 video tapes. One was shaped like the Tardis and that had trial of a time lord in it and the other one was silver with Daleks on it and that had the chase and remembrance of the Daleks in it. I didn't really get in to Doctor Who though until 2005 when it came back and I've been hooked ever since. I'm an avid collector of all things Who and it is a pleasure being part of something that is so special to not only the UK, but to the world. Long may it continue.