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Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited Online

Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited  Online
Original Title :
Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited
Genre :
TV Series / Documentary
Cast :
Gareth Pierce,Steven Moffat,Marcus Wilson
Type :
TV Series
Time :
40min
Rating :
8.4/10
Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited Online

A series of documentaries celebrating the 50th anniversary of Daktaras Kas (1963), each focusing on a different incarnation of the Doctor.
Series cast summary:
Gareth Pierce Gareth Pierce - Himself - Narrator 11 episodes, 2013
Steven Moffat Steven Moffat - Himself 11 episodes, 2013
Marcus Wilson Marcus Wilson - Himself 8 episodes, 2013
David Tennant David Tennant - Himself 6 episodes, 2013
Neil Gaiman Neil Gaiman - Himself 5 episodes, 2013
Nicholas Briggs Nicholas Briggs - Himself 5 episodes, 2013
John Barrowman John Barrowman - Himself 5 episodes, 2013

Created to celebrate Doctor Who's 50th Anniversary.


User reviews

Rayli

Rayli

This year, with the fiftieth anniversary of Doctor Who scheduled for November, we have been treated to the best set of puff piece work to introduce a new audience to the Doctor. "The Doctors Revisited" is a series of half-hour specials which discuss the incarnations of the Doctor, and the impact of their performers, followed by an airing of one of that Doctor's stories -- a serial edited into a whole.

Although the new versions lack the cliff-hangers that added so much to the original broadcasts, they permit the modern viewer a fair look at the earlier Doctors. The half-hour discussions, ring-led by current show-runner, Steven Moffat, with appearances by the actors, when still alive, are informative and fun. For those of us who are familiar with the original TV series, which ran from 1963 to 1989, it's an amusingly produced aide-memoire. For the new fan, it is invaluable for getting up to speed -- and for showing just how production techniques have advanced in half a century.
Zyangup

Zyangup

Never mind the day of the Doctor, this seems like the year of the Doctor, there's been so much build up, indeed hype about the 50th anniversary of the show's first broadcast. In fact I'd swear I've seen in the schedules more programmes about a fictitious TV time- traveller than an assassinated US president (both events of course occurred on the same day). Anyway, quibbling apart, I've quite enjoyed these catch-up quick-guides to the 11 doctors who precede the soon-come regeneration of Matt Smith to Peter Capaldi (who I think will make a great Doctor). I'm old enough to remember Patrick Troughton as the first Doctor I ever saw and Jon Pertwee as "my Doctor", although I missed the Tom Baker years completely (my teenage protest about Pertwee's passing) and couldn't really stick the Colin Baker or Sylvester McCoy series, when the show fell into a seemingly terminal decline. I'm interested that the one-off TV special of the Doctor of Paul McGann gets rehabilitated as a counting member of the family line with no mention at all of Peter Cushing's twice-rendered cinema version from the mid- 60's. With some interesting interviewees and insights from the show's creators and participants, it was an easy watch for an old Whovian like me. Of course some key participants are missing in action, like Russell T Davies, the show-runner for the successful re-boot in 2005 and Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper from that most crucial of series and the format of discussing in order the Doctor, his companions and enemies grates long before the last episode on Matt Smith, but with decent clips and like I said, expert comments from the sidelines, this was a good aide-memoirs for fans of the Doctor, old and new.
CONVERSE

CONVERSE

The only thing the common the current series has in common with the Original is the Police Box.

There were no sexual relationships in the original series.

It was free of political correctness which the current incarnation is riddled with.

The original Doctor Who ended in 1989, 26 years on from the beginning.

The current incarnation began in 2005 and has deteriorated rapidly since then, in my humble opinion.

I think that the current offering should be shown after the 9pm watershed due to all the sexual innuendo, it has become Adult Entertainment.