Doctor Who: "Time Crash" (CiN)

[Squonk63]

I really hope that the BBC got a LOT of donations as a result of that special scene featuring Doctors Five and Ten. It was touching, humorous, and hopefully, worthy of canon.

I'll have a bit more to say about it later after a night's sleep.

4/5

[Darth Marley]

"All my love to long ago."

[JSC1]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn_NDKNlUa8

For those that haven't seen it, watch it while you can.

[koenigrules]

I loved it! Tennant's Doctor is "The Doctor" (Davison as the Doctor, of course)!
And he gets his specs and shoes from Davison's Doctor too!!!
Wow- some nice continuity in the space-time continuum of the Whoverse! :D
KR

[Commander Taggart]

Awesome! They explained Davison being old, and everything! Only thing that might have made it better would have been some recycled footage of Davison from back in the day returning to his own TARDIS... but, really, that just would have been sprinkles on top of the icing on the cake.

Bravo!!! Can't wait to show it to my girlfriend!!!!

[Edit: DESKTOP THEME!!! OMG!!!!!]

[Gemini1999]

That was a lovely bit of film...

I must confess, I've never seen the eps where Peter Davison played the Doctor, but thank god for Netflix and the wonder that is TV on DVD. I'm going to put those eps in my queue and give them a look next week!

bRYAN

[jewels]

Awesome! That was so spot-on, it was brilliant. I loved the bit about remembering what he'd seen himself do because he'd seen it as Dr. 5 watching Dr. 10.

"Desktop Theme": LOL
"You were my Doctor": Aw, that was sweet!
The whole thing about the costume and the celery was just tops!

"All my love to the long ago" :D :D :D 8) 8)

Still the best show on Television, anywhere. Even in a 7 min short.

Great job to Stephen Moffat. David Tennant and Peter Davidson were brilliant.

Jewels

Brilliant!!! I thoroughly enjoyed that!


Malkyte

[dilbertman]

Cool!

To bad some people get it and others MooreRons don't.

Jim

[Bishop37]

It was lovely seeing the two of them together. Especially when Tennant's personal Doctor is the Davison one. The Moff's a big fan too.

Davison was still up for it, and it was Graeme Harper who directed just like in Davison's last story, the quite brilliant Caves of Androzani.

[Bishop37]

Unofficial overnight figures show that the Children in Need Special, Time Crash, was the most watched programme on British Television on Friday.

Overall the Children in Need programme scored a rating of 9.4 million viewers and was the most watched programme of the day.

The telethon peaked between 20:15 and 20:30, when the two Doctors special was shown, with 10.9 million viewers, a 45% share of the total television audience.

The programme won its time slot comprehensively, with the nearest opposition being The Thin Blue Line on ITV1, which scored 2.8 million against the Doctors.

When official figures are available, Time Crash could be the most watched segment of Doctor Who since the series returned in 2005. Rose achieved a rating of 10.8 million, but peaked at 11.3 million. Time Crash is also likely to beat EastEnders highest audience of the year, which currently stands at 11.0 million.

Around 2.5 million viewers watched the repeat of the segment at 00:45.

[jewels]

45% of the total television audience. Teeheehee heeheehee. **dances a bit**

Props to them. Well-deserved ratings. :D I love it when people are rewarded for being true to the source material.

[Dillon Fan]

I liked the way that when the Fifth Doctor starts talking about two TARDIS's occupying the same space, but only one TARDIS being present, the music switched to a 1980's sounding synthesizer, just like in his episodes. The phrasing of the piece even sounded the same.

The whole thing was wonderful. Amazing that seven and three quarter minutes of television could be so good.

[Bishop37]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCX96utSGFQ

[jewels]

It's a completely different energy that the writer, producer, director and actors have towards this show.

There's a joy in their work that shows in how they handle the material and a joy that comes out of the respect for that material.

Thanks for sharing the confidential link.

Jewels

[Evertonian]

I'm a bit late but thanks for posting the links, been waiting for this for a while and I totally agree that it was great. So much fun in 8 minutes.

I know it's been discussed here before but I really wish there were more episodes per season. I still can't quite understand why a season in the UK is so short. Red Dwarf, Blackadder and others have short seasons, some even less than 10 episodes while in the US it's 20-plus per season. Is there a reason that I'm not aware of?

[fletch2]

I think the principle difference is that it's relatively rare for UK shows once commissioned to be taken off the air or pre-empted. So if Blake's 7 started in January it would run for the next 13 weeks and then would finish for the year. UK drama production was based on a 13 week run because TV channels change their lineups seasonally. So If a show was in the Winter schedule it would run 13 weeks -- 3 months until that schedule was replaced with the spring schedule.

Now a better question and one I haven't been able to get an answer to is why it seems to take the Beeb as long to make 13 episodes of Dr Who as it takes a US channel to make 26 episodes of a comparable US drama? You would imagine that if 26 episodes of Angel or Stargate can be made a year and still give a Hiatus to allow actors to do a little film work then 13 episodes of Who should take half the time. Instead we are told the schedule is punishing to get those 13.

[Darth Marley]

As for the timing of production, I have a vague memory of Eccleston talking about how different working on Heroes was compared to his gigs with BBC.
You might find some measure of the difference by digging up those interviews, though I don't recall what his observation was.

It seems that sports will cause a jolt in BBC schedules, as was noted in the final season of LoM.