Moderator's Note: This is Mike's original summary, from the days Cushing had his own thread in the 'Doctors' section:

Sure, I know the movies aren't really canon. So what? Just think of this as something from the Land of Fiction. Peter Cushing was a tad young to play the first Doctor, but I think he turned in an okay performance, at least as good as the ones he did for Hammer. Cheesy moustache, though.



An okay performance? Impossible! Everything about the two movies was terrible. I even missed Hartnell fluffing his lines!

It was the script and direction that was terrible, Cushing did the best he could with what was already a mess.

Hmm, I suppose. But I still think they could have got Hartnell to play the Doctor.

Oh we all think that... but they didn't and that's that now.

Okay, point taken. The damage is done and there`s nothing we can do about it now.

Surely if we count Cushing as a Doctor, we should include Nick Briggs, and the bloke who played him on stage.

Maybe we could think of them as the Doctor in a parallel universe? With so many variables, there's no guarantee they would look the same with each regeneration...
(Are you thinking of Trevor Martin? And what about David Banks who played the role for a couple of performances of The Ultimate Adventure? Or dare I suggest Hugh Grant, Rowan Atkinson, Jim Broadbent, Richard E. Grant, David Sands, Joanna Lumley or even Lennie Henry?)

In one of the infinite parallel universes, then, there's probably a Terry Walsh Doctor, who spends most of his screen-time pratfalling about, (throwing himself into Daleks and hurling himself down slopes), with a Tom Baker to stand in for him for the rare piece of dialogue! :-)

And wearing a terrible wig, no doubt. (Walsh, that is)

Thought these comments from Cushing were interesting. Found them at the website http://www.micoks.net/~debis/page010.html - don't know where they came from originally:

"The difficulty with playing Dr. Who on the screen was that one couldn't expect everyone in the world to know about him....So we decided to play him simply as a professor who has invented this machine that travels through time and space and I created my own character out of that idea realizing that alot of people in Britain might be disappointed."

Interesting. The same problems in both 1965 and 1996. And, with hindsight, two very different approaches to the problems. One: start from complete scratch and do whatever or two: bung a whole heap of the established at it. And both, it has to be said, didn't quite cut it.

Can't imagine what they would have done with the Scratchman movie. I've never been sure if that was going to tie in with continuity or not, or perhaps they never got far enough into it to make such a decision.

I watched Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 AD recently with my girlfriend and her biggest complaint was there just wasn't enough of the Doctor in it. He kind of stays on the periphery, although I though Cushing's performance was a bit stronger than in Dr Who And The Daleks.

As we all know Peter Cushing would later play Grand Moff Tarkin in "Star Wars"

That wasn't the Doctor in Star Wars! That was the Valeyard. ;-)>

Hey, great! Now you can move the Cushing abomination and everything that's ever been said about the pathetic presumptuous pretender into this section, away from all the PROPER Doctors. (Forcibly restrains self from suggesting the same treatment for Colin Baker.)

OK, other 'Doctors'. Joanna Lumley was terrific, of course. That's to say, she gave a two-minute impression of a sex-crazed maniac who eloped with the Master, but hey, she was - at long last - a FEMALE DOCTOR so who cares.

she was - at long last - a FEMALE DOCTOR so who cares.

This is a good point. I don't know if this is the place for this, but would anyone care to elaborate on what kind of character they might like to see the Doctor as a female become?

Charismatic, genius, over-excitable, overbearing...a female version of Tom Baker, basically. With perhaps slightly smaller teeth. Lalla Ward would do just fine.

Thanks for the board

To my mind, only Rowan Atkinson really captured the spirit of the Doctor in The Curse of Fatal Death. Joanna Lumley and Richard E. Grant were a little too sex-crazed (though it was fun to watch), Jim Broadbent was on for only a couple of seconds, and Hugh Grant was...well, basically the same as Hugh Grant is in all of his performances.

Rowan did a great job of not being a clone of any particular Doctor while still exhibiting all the obvious characteristics. I thought he created a really strong persona in just a few minutes - he could make a fantastic "real" Doctor if the series ever returns.

As long as he cut out that nonsense about marrying his Companion...

"As long as he cut out that nonsense about marrying his Companion..."

Well, quite...

Though it was a fair bit better than what I've heard the Eighth Doctor gets up to.

Maybe this is just me being a chauvinist pig, but I don't particularly like the idea of a female doctor. It may be possible in terms of Gallifreyan biodata and regenerations, but it seems rather silly. It would be like the Doctor not being British. It goes against everything the Doctor stands for. Plus, if the repressed Doctor's sex drive is anything like certain posters seem to think it might be, if they met Joanna Lumley, could they keep their hands off their future self?

Though as it was just a wonderful little spoof, I have no qualms with the writers having a little fun.

It goes against everything the Doctor stands for.

Er ... please explain.

I thought I had a twisted mind, but to postulate past Doctors getting it on with a future female Doctor is something that I think would never occur to me in a thousand years.

Reminds me of Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me for some reason. The whole technically not fooling around bit.

Great, Luiner. Now I have this image of a collection of Doctors saying, "We're dead sexy! Yeah, baby!"

"Er ... please explain."

Well, OK, bad term when I said 'stand for'. I just can't see the Doctor as female. The Doctor HAS to be male for me just like he HAS to be played by a Brit. I can somehow manage to accept Peter Davison as the reincarnation of William Hartnell, but Joanna Lumley is too much of a stretch.

"I thought I had a twisted mind, but to postulate past Doctors getting it on with a future female Doctor is something that I think would never occur to me in a thousand years."

Well, I suppose a *certain* sonic screwdriver quip started my mind thinking that way...

Is the place to bring up The Watcher? I mean, why do we only get this intermediary body between the fourth and fifth incarnations and not others? Does it happen to other Time Lords at the 4/5 cross-over?

Shagedelic, baby!

I have never liked the idea of the watcher. I figured it was just a hamfisted foreshadowing device for viewers of the time who knew perfectly well this was the last Tom Baker story.

Okay enough of reality.

Maybe it only happens only every fourth regeneration, and we just haven't seen the 8th-9th regeneration, yet.

I doubt that Watchers are a particular feature of fourth regenerations. I think that every regeneration is different in one way or another - the Doctors' regens having unpleasant side-effects for a while (presumably because they're usually emergency ones caused by dying, though the Troughton-to-Pertwee Time Lord-controlled regeneration also caused major physical, if not mental, problems). Often, regenerations can go wrong and require medical help (the War Chief in Timewyrm: Exodus being an extreme example, though even on Gallifrey Time Lords might need the Sisterhood's Elixir and the equipment Mawdryn nicked to help them get through the process). Meanwhile, Romana could swap bodies like there was no tomorrow.

It's not surprising that, with a Time Lord's biodata wired into the fabric of time and space, an impending regeneration would throw up a weird white shadow of the future (especially if it was taking place at the same time as the destruction of half the universe). Just playing the Eighth Man Bound game (Christmas on a Rational Planet) could allow a TL to see their future incarnations. The Valeyard could also be regarded as a regenerative 'offshoot' from between the Doctor's twelfth and final regeneration, rather than a proper Doctor in his own right. It's also unsurprising that a Time Lord with more self-control than the Doctor - the Abbot in Planet of the Spiders - could train his Watcher to hang around for months serving the tea.

Lawrence has some theory about Watchers being created at the moment of regeneration, then projected back in time to steer the Time Lord towards the point where that regeneration becomes a practicality. Sounds fair enough to me, though frankly I wish Tom Baker's Watcher had just said 'Oh, go jump off a radio telescope' rather than telling him to go to Logopolis and be accidentally responsible for the wiping out of several galaxies before jumping off the dammed telescope.

That Cushing creature! He didn't really...exist, did he? I mean, would anyone even have noticed if he'd been entirely removed from Dalek Invasion of Earth 2150 or whatever it was called? Even Colin Baker made an infinitely better Doctor - at least you KNEW when he was in the room.

Mind you, I was painfully aware of that godawful moustache...

I didn't know you had a moustache Emily

I'm mean aren't I?

Forgive me if this has already been discussed somewhere else, but this caught my eye on the wire this morning:

Jonny Depp The Next ‘Doctor Who’?!

A big screen adaptation of BBC’s popular science fiction show “Doctor Who,” which stars a time traveling, eccentric humanoid alien, is reportedly in the works, with an expected release date some time in 2012. The Internet is buzzing with rumors that Johnny Depp will star as the Doctor. The story has been called “pure speculation” by the BBC. “Doctor Who” holds the record for the longest-running and most successful science fiction show of all time. The show has aired on and off since 1963.

an article on Johnny Depp as the potential Doctor

Oh, stuff and nonsense. Russell is a True Fan and as such would never make such non-canonical nonsense. (Plus which bit of 'Almost certainly not the real RTD' on 'his' Twitter site is this article not grasping...?)

Apparently that rumor's been debunked by a BBC rep who's stated there are currently no plans for a DW movie.

Besides, would the vast majority of Who fans (many, if not most, of whom are probably British) really accept an American actor who has zero connection with the franchise? If anyone, it should be the current Doctor. They might get away with Tennant if they did a movie within the next year, but even that would seem off.

Would NOT! It's a programme about time-travel, for heaven's sake...and Tennant could NEVER seem off...

The interesting thing is that Johnny Depp has one thing in common with the one American actor who I thought might pull off playing the Doctor (Gene Wilder). They've both played Willie Wonka (although Wilder was better IMHO.)

Should Rowan Atkinson be given a role in the real show or is he too old now? (He's 56)

He's certainly welcome to a role, as far as I'm concerned, but the role...no. He's too old. (Of course I was convinced Matt was too young to be the Doctor, so what do I know.)

He's certainly welcome to a role

Yeah, I agree. He can be a guest character.

So...now that it's FINALLY been proven that our Doctor CAN change sex (well, DUH)...and even that it's a more NORMAL process than implied in Curse of Fatal Death (the Corsair apparently managing it TWICE without having to break the laws of the universe or anything)...how about Joanna Lumley for our next PROPER Doctor? Quite apart from anything else, the Tory(ish) Government would never dare mess with Who OR the BBC while she was the Doctor. Have you SEEN her waving that Gurkha knife around?

Nope, sorry, the Doctor has to be male. How could I fall in love with him otherwise? It would be like watching a show starring Professor Song.

Well, I HOPE a female Doctor would shoot fewer people and date fewer androids, Autons and Doctors than dear old River...

Anyway, we don't need to be in love with EVERY Doctor. Me n'Matt are getting along just fine with me merely loving, worshiping and adoring him instead of me planning to Rose-in-Bad-Wolf-Bay-Take-Two him and have his kittens.

And, let's face it, we're never gonna get a full house, not with Colin in the mix...

To continue my slight disagreement with Daniel from the A Good Man Goes to War thread over female Doctors:

You'd run a very serious risk of alienating your fan base.

You do that EVERY time you change Doctor! It's an utter miracle they've pulled it off...ten times out of eleven...

As I've said before outside of this site the net has not been kind about the changes thus far.

Look, I'm sure the Moff's learnt from his mistakes and any new female Doctor won't be bright orange, plastic and hunchbacked...

What species wants to change sexes? Do you want to turn into a man?

If I had several thousand years to live - OF COURSE I'd want to try some of 'em as a man. If not nearly as much as I'd want to try some of 'em as a cat.

And no Emily you were right a few years ago. The doc falling in love with his companion should deffo stay in The Curse Of Fatal Death.

But then we wouldn't have The Wall Scene! And The Beach Scene! And The 'I've snogged Madame de Pompadour!' Scene! And The Sarah v Rose Catfight Scene! Etc etc...

The Master and the old style Daleks that's what we want out of The Curse. Not love and sex changes lol.

You did NOTICE that the Curse Master acquired - as the Doctor indelicately put it - 'nice ••••'...?

Emily:

Would you like a Doctor who had a beard or mustache?

Other than having it remind her of the Master or the Brigadier?

Can anybody answer?

I'd certainly have no problem with it, assuming that it wasn't when they finally called their bluff and cast a woman in the role.

We finally have onscreen evidence that the Doctor can grow a beard (itself not very surprising, given Degaldo). I'd hope it was a man who looked better with facial hair; Smith's was good for dramatic effect, despite the trailers spoiling the hell out of it, but he's better without it.

Although I love Smith, I remain disappointed with Moffat for going back on his decision to cast an older person in the role. Who could use a dose of aged maturity in the lead role.

Kevin the talking dinosaur - We finally have onscreen evidence that the Doctor can grow a beard
Didn't we get that in The Leisure Hive when the 4th Doctor was aged?

I'd have a several-month-long fit of screaming hysteria at the very THOUGHT of a Doctor with facial hair.

And then I'd fall madly in love with him two-thirds of the way through his first episode.

Yeah, forgot about that. Those aging sequences are so forgettable. With everything happening to your body, you'd think Jo (in Axos) would have screamed. Or blinked.

"I'd have a several-month-long fit of screaming hysteria at the very THOUGHT of a Doctor with facial hair."

Tom Baker had some very shaggy sideburns at times.

Mind you, at lot of the time the hair that the Doctors have on the top of their heads isn't exactly natural!

LIES, LIES!

It would be interesting seeing the Doctor as a teenage girl. If the 1996 TV movie had gone to series we might have well seen that at some point.

*pauses to imagine the Doctor at a school dance in a fluffy ball gown plastered in make-up and hairspray and jewellery*

If you want an idea of what the Doctor would look like as a teenage girl, take a good look at Jenny. No gowns or hairspray for that litle woman.

It would be interesting seeing the Doctor as a teenage girl.

'Interesting' is, of course, one word for it.

If the 1996 TV movie had gone to series we might have well seen that at some point.

You're joking.

I've never dared read The Nth Doctor and lines like THAT remind me of WHY.

I mean, I want a female Doctor as much as the next person (well...considerably MORE than the next person) but she'd be less of a risk if she was mature and authoritative and, well, Doctorish. And you can't have a teenaged Doctor, as RTG was forced to explain to the BBC when they wanted him to do a spin-off about the young Doctor on Gallifrey.

*pauses to imagine the Doctor at a school dance in a fluffy ball gown plastered in make-up and hairspray and jewellery*

I'm not saying it's impossible we might get a Doctor obsessed by their appearance (let's face it, several of 'em are a bit vain) but it would be a terrible sexist cliche if it just happened to be our first female Doctor.

If you want an idea of what the Doctor would look like as a teenage girl, take a good look at Jenny. No gowns or hairspray for that litle woman.

Very true...though she was born with surprising amounts of eyeliner...

This could be a teenage female Doctor - http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r255/molly-dolly/Pldon.jpg

Ok Emily. I know your knowledge of actors and actresses is about as bad as mine, but who do you think would make a good female Doctor?

Sigourney Weaver. Probably too old though.

Smith could pull a Romana and regenerate as Catherine Tate.

Very true...though she was born with surprising amounts of eyeliner...

Not her fault, it was the machine she was born in that did that. I can picture her going "What the .....!?" the first time she sees herself in a mirror and wiping off the stuff on the spot.

Smith could pull a Romana and regenerate as Catherine Tate.

Judging by her brief stint as Donna-Doctor, she'd be a natural, and she's ginger!

I can picture her going "What the .....!?" the first time she sees herself in a mirror and wiping off the stuff on the spot.

Whereas I can see Jenny practising fluttering those eyelashes while saying 'Hello boys' in front of the mirror...unlike the Doctor she isn't afraid to use her sexuality to, say, get out of a prison cell...

Smith could pull a Romana and regenerate as Catherine Tate.

Judging by her brief stint as Donna-Doctor, she'd be a natural, and she's ginger!

God, what a fantastic idea. Why the hell SHOULD Catherine Tate stop at being the Best Companion Ever and the Best Doctor-Companion Metacrisis Ever? Why shouldn't she become the Best Doctor Ever (bar Tom, Tennant n'Eccy, of course)?

Before that, I was thinking Joanna Lumley. Despite being forced to lust after the sonic screwdriver AND the Master she made a HELL of a lot more convincing Doctor than any of the MEN in Fatal Death. More importantly, she could effortlessly terrify the Government and/or BBC into not messing with Who.

See her wielding a bloody big knife here:

http://www.hellomagazine.com/photo-galleries.html?imagen=/celebrities/2009/04/30/lumley-ghurka-win/imgs/lumley-a.jpg

AND see her ambush a Government Minister and bully him into a total policy u-turn here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcdeK27Y65s&feature=related

Joanna Lumley will be 66 on May 1.

Sigourney Weaver will be 63 on October 8.

You might want to pick someone younger (ie someone born in the 60's! or 70's!), and someone that's relevant and kick-aSS to appeal to today's audiences.

Joanna Lumley will be 66 on May 1.

So we'd better have her as the Twelfth Doctor and Tate as the Thirteenth.

Honestly, I don't think age matters - I used to but then some floppy-haired baby-face had this Food Scene...

And it won't do Who any harm if it has to go light on the running-down-corridors for a few years.

Not to mention the fact that Sladen in her sixties was pretty successful as the Doctor-figure in a supposed kids show...

66 is over the average retirement age. 63 is close to it as well.

plus 60 hour weeks in a Cardiff winter would kill someone of that age through stress

So they'd better film a quick bumps-her-head-on-the-TARDIS-console-and-regenerates scene FIRST, just in case...

Can you believe that Hugh Grant was almost cast instead of Eccy?

BLASPHEMY!

He was asked but said no. I wouldn't call that "almost cast".

It still FEELS like a really narrow escape, though.

I mean, what kind of cretin SAYS NO??

I think he would make a decent Doctor, just not a ninth Doctor, fresh out of the Time War, with all the angsts, guilt and regrets that haunted him at the time.

God, yes, THAT'S a point...

Joanna Lumley will be 66 on May 1.

Sigourney Weaver will be 63 on October 8.

You might want to pick someone younger (ie someone born in the 60's! or 70's!), and someone that's relevant and kick-aSS to appeal to today's audiences.

66 is over the average retirement age. 63 is close to it as well.

plus 60 hour weeks in a Cardiff winter would kill someone of that age through stress

Wanna bet...?

Though I have to admit, I was slightly alarmed by the amount of puffing the Twelfth Doctor was doing whilst running up and down corridors (well, the SAME corridor by the look of it) during Time Heist...

Anyone fancy a Doctor Who Unbound from Big Finish featuring Rowan Atkinson?

Yeah, why not. I was perversely sorry when the Unbounds ended; even the excruciatingly tedious ones at least cast a new light on our raison d'etre. And, let's face it, Rowan Atkinson's desire to marry his Companion no longer feels QUITE so blasphemous...

John Denver as the Doctor - http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=302923

R.I.P. Ron Moody. I knew he was offered the part of the Third Doctor in 1969, but I wasn't aware that he considered turning it down as the biggest regret of his career.

That's a LONG time to drag around such a weight of regret.

we badly need a Doctor like this guy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wl-tQPPm9c

Cringer or Orko?

The Doctor's probably met He-Man given he refers to Skeletor.

Rowan Atkinson would have been an amazing serious Doctor. He looks the part and his delivery is just perfect. I am a huge fan of Atkinson overall. There is just something about the way he says his lines that are so amusing. "well naturally I anticipated your anticipation of my plan and so I travelled back even further" I love the way he says that as he comes out of the death trap so smug and casual...

Well he never fooled ME that he could be a real Doctor for a moment. What kind of Doctor marries his Companion -

- oh. Um, never mind.

The BBC have specifically banned Big Finish from getting their grubby protuberances on our beloved Curator. This is probably just as well, BF haven't been doing a terribly good job with the War Doctor and, let's face it, Doctor Who In An Exciting Adventure With A Museum might not actually be that...exciting.

That's a shame. Every episode could be the Curator sitting around telling us about the time he was mistaken for Shirley Williams.

Obviously it's been far too long since you were forced to listen to a Big Finish or you'd realise how BLISSFUL that would be in comparison to 99% of them.

Cushing could be the First Doctor from the Age of Steel parallel universe. Something had obviously happened to him before his tenth incarnation.

He's WAY too weird to come from that Cyber-infested Zeppelin-land. But from another parallel universe, perhaps. Or some twisted potential-timeline that was averted but still has echoes in the real universe, resulting in McGann's infamous 'half-human on my mother's side' statement and Capaldi's paranoia about Hybrids...

Cushing was no Abomination. Better than that line-fluffing, giggling, "Woohoo, Auntie!", old coot that we got on TV.

Which True Doctor went round saying 'Woohoo, Auntie!'? (I know Troughton might have mentioned a giddy aunt once or twice...)

In The Chase, Hartnell says it when Team TARDIS are distracting the Dalek guarding the ship.

Good GOD.

Lenny Henry should have done the Doctor as a zany Rastafarian.

Tim Curry would be a bit difficult as the Doctor now as he had a stroke and uses a wheel chair. Unless the planets he saves have ramps.

Like a lot of actors getting up in years (and have health issues), Tim Curry is doing voice acting now.

It's easy work and keeps the actor steadily employed.

the only real problem with Atkinson's Doctor is perhaps because he's just playing it as Edmund Blackadder. Richard E. Grant is playing it like Cologne Baker done right.

Cologne Baker...?

Cologne as in the male fragrance. A joke on the name Colin.

"Cologne Baker, with a scent as subtle as his coat."

;-)

Paul Eddington (The Good Life, Yes Minister/Yes Prime Minister) would have made a good Doctor.

If he was half as ineffectual as a Time Lord as he was at PM, the universe would be DOOMED.

Or Nigel Hawthorne as the Doctor, Paul Eddington as the Brigadier and Derek Fowlds as Benton. ;-)

Nigel Hawthorne would bamboozle the villains with his vocabulary!
How about Yes Minster's Sir Arnold as the Master?

Ooh yes please, he'd be the smoothest-talking villain since Scaroth...

Yes Minster's Sir Arnold has been in Who - the priest who gets turned into a monkey in Ghost Light.

Ah, I was getting Sir Arnold muddled up with Sir Humphrey, who SHOULD be the Master, the Doctor just wouldn't be able to cope...

Sir Humphrey has charm but Sir Arnold is more evil. Ice-cold, like a Mafia don.

Ah, I didn't notice that when he was, y'know, turning into a monkey...

the actor is better at being evil than being a priest. Take that episode of YPM when he reminds Sir Humphrey that Humphrey has no written proof that Arnold told him to clear someone who turned out to be a Soviet mole and that he has "no memory" of the incident.

the actor is better at being evil than being a priest

Aren't the two pretty much synonymous...?

(Obviously there's the occasional priest who isn't totally evil, but then they just get eaten by Haemovores...)

Oh, FFS, he is not a Doctor incarnation!

tardis.wikia.com/wiki/The_Doctor_(Shada)

I found it rather sweet, the way they're trying to tie older-Tom in with the Curator...

In case anyone wants a free refresher on the Cushing Doctor here's the Rifftrax Doctor Who and the Daleks: https://www29.zippyshare.com/v/gZcaZdAD/file.html

Cushing was fine as an eccentric boffin... but he's no Time Lord.

I'm not sure he wasn't trying a bit TOO hard to convey HEY I'M AN ECCENTRIC BOFFIN, in his bizarre, English, 'Doctor Who' manner...

Richard E Grant will be in Star Wars Episode IX.

Saw Peter Cushing in the movie Biggles (1986) and it was his final feature film role.
Biggles involves time travelling but not by Cushing unlike his turns as Dr. Who.
He travelled the long way around.

Lumley meeting Whitaker would be nice.

I can guess where all the other posts went...

Toby Jones:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0429363/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

In the ten years since his only turn as the Doctor, albeit as the Dream Lord, Jones’ work included reuniting with Matt Smith in Christopher and His Kind, playing Dr Armin Sola in two Captain America movies, My Week with Marilyn (the Doctor would marry her in A Christmas Carol, seven months after Amy’s Choice), The Girl in which he played Alfred Hitchcock and Jurassic: World: Fallen Kingdom.
Jurassic: World: Fallen Kingdom had dinosaurs and his old Doctor Who adversaries had earlier saw Dinosaurs on a Spaceship.

The two people Russell T. Davies wanted to replace David Tennant:
https://tinyurl.com/yao2dnwo

The Fourteenth Doctor rescues an old companion:

https://tinyurl.com/y97stp2s

From the movie The Circle (2017).

Cushing was an amazing actor and I'd love to see what he would have done with the part if he was cast in the show. Some cross between Pertwee Season 7 and McCoy season 26. Possibly.

Listened to the podcast remake of Children of the Stones starring Reece Shearsmith:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08sy3qx

Written by Guy Adams and AK Benedict both of whom have written for Big Finish.

Saw the movie The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) with Joanna Lumley.

Something to tide Emily over with during the drought of Who shows?

Okay, probably not.

Ah, the comics got there before big Finish.

You know they must be seriously trying though.

I tried to Artbreed a Tennant-Davison 15th Doctor.

https://64.media.tumblr.com/f9ee778f5f41b1aa2bd8defa5864e332/2a98f71989908a76-5b/s1280x1920/0bd608932611c2c74215473282493221e2e8978d.png

You know we have thousands* of Real Live Tennant-Davison broodlings from the Unofficial Doctor Cross-Breeding Programme, most of which look nothing like THAT...

*I exaggerate very slightly for comic effect.

Looking over the late David Warner's body of work I found that it includes two titles that have also been used as names of Doctor Who stories and they are Marco Polo & A Christmas Carol.


The Marco Polo that Warner was in is that of a mini-series from 1982 and A Christmas Carol is the 1984 TV movie version of that story.

Started The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power with Sir Lenny Henry.

Hope the two of you enjoy it.

The late Michael Jayston and a pre-Clara, Jenna Coleman in Emmerdale.
Coincidentally I came across this whilst writing an obituary of Jayston for other places and rewatching Jenna in Death In Heaven:
https://imgur.com/a/i2WImo1

Saw the movie Argylle (2024) which has a cameo by Richard E. Grant.