http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2012/aug/09/mark-gatiss-drama-creation-doctor-who
Well, that's...nice. Bet it's not as fun as his Pitch of Fear on Doctor Who Night, though...
Here's a story about the movie about the making of "Doctor Who"
http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2013/01/bbc-america-to-premiere-adventure-in-space-and-time-for-doctor-who-50th/
Walder Frey is the Doctor!
WALDER FREY? That's SICK.
And what's this nonsense about premiering on BBC America...??
"WALDER FREY? That's SICK."
Sicker than "Hannibal Lecktor is Sydney Newman!"?
Well, I don't know anything about a Hannibal Lecktor. Whereas I DO know ALL ABOUT Walder Frey. (Oh wait, it is some cannibal Hannibal person? STILL not as evil as Walder Frey.)
By Emily Carter (Emily) on Wednesday, January 30, 2013 - 2:58 am:
And what's this nonsense about premiering on BBC America...??
Well, the site I got the info from was BBCamerica I'm sure it's going to be the same movie they show y'all across the pond.
quote:Emily: WALDER FREY? That's SICK.
So will this be like those behind the scenes movies they made about Gilligan's Island, Three's Company, and Mork & Mindy they made some years back?
"You could always think of him as Argus Filch. Or Solomon. Or the farmer no one could understand."
Or Christopher Eccleston's political mentor in 'Our Friends in the North'.
"So will this be like those behind the scenes movies they made about Gilligan's Island, Three's Company, and Mork & Mindy they made some years back?"
No, it will be like those BBC4 one-off dramas about 20th century comedians or TV stars. I'm thinking particularly of 'The Road to Coronation Street', in which we learn that it was Tony Warren who invented drama, and not Sophocles at all.
Ah, so it will be about Sydney Newman, the man that created Who. He was a native of my country, Canada, by the way.
It's looking pretty cool...
https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/65503_270863013045616_514413814_n.jpg
Emily, I think we need a dedicated board for An Adventure in Time and Space. You know we'll be nitpicking it, even if it does belong under Apocrypha...
Oh my giddy aunt! And to think, they could keep that set and use it in the 50th Anniversary special!!!!
I had the same thought, Rodney.
Heck, they could keep the same actors to play the first Doctor, Ian, Barbara, and Susan.
'I stressed that we must first and foremost get the right people for the job. But it turned out the right people also bear the most amazing resemblances to the originals!' - Gatiss. How...extraordinarily fortunate.
Trailer nit: Hartnell is shown holding a copy* of the first Doctor Who Annual during the production of 'The Reign of Terror' (he's wearing his revolutionary disguise). But the story was made in the summer of 1964 and the annual wasn't published until September 1965!
* Actually a mock-up with a cover that shows a more Bradley-alike Doctor and some other details changed, like the picture of the Menoptra which would have been a dead giveaway...!
Paddy Russell was a man, apparently. And so was the cavewoman who refused to have her teeth blacked up.
I don't mind too much that they complete messed about with the chronology for dramatic effect, but did Hartnell really have a granddaughter who didn't age in three years?
Oh, and Carole Ann Ford says "Time and Relative Dimensions in Space" in the An Unearthly Child scenes, even though - as the repeat scheduled for *immediately after broadcast* shows - she should have said "dimension".
did Hartnell really have a granddaughter who didn't age in three years?
It's TRADITIONAL. Look at the ankle-biters in The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe...
Oh, and Carole Ann Ford says "Time and Relative Dimensions in Space" in the An Unearthly Child scenes
Wans't that GREAT?
Excellent programme (aside from the Troughton casting - what the ••••) even if it didn't reduce ME to tears like a certain friend who shall remain nameless...
Did they really sack Hartnell like that?
"Did they really sack Hartnell like that?"
I'm reasonably sure that Mervyn Pinfield wouldn't have been involved in the discussions, what with him being dead by then.
You have a heart of stone, Emily. When Hartnell looked over the TARDIS console and saw Matt Smith, the tears rolled down my cheeks. The show started off slowly, but it ended it being a wonderful tribute to the man who was the First Doctor (the original article, you might say).
I liked it.
However, I agree with Emily about the Troughton casting. It looked like a hobbit.
True about Troughton, but it only lasted a minute. Bradley nailed his portrayal of Hartnell.
Without a doubt, Mike. He was brilliant.
I also loved this and totally agree about the Troughton casting.
David Bradley deserves an award for that performance.
This was a nice look at the launching of Doctor Who.
Loved Matt Smith's cameo. The First Doctor meets the Eleventh.
Ok, the Troughton didn't look like Troughton, but he did sound reasonably like him, and that's no small feat.
In the drama, William Hartnell complains that viewers would have been watching the news instead of 'An Unearthly Child' - but there were on two TV channels back then and ITV was showing 'Emerald Soup', not the news!
This cheered me up NO END after Day of the Doctor:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01m3kfy
Wow, they had EVERYBODY in that one! Wouldn't it be great if those three really were the ones playing the Zygons under those shrouds?
When Hartnell looked over the TARDIS console and saw Matt Smith, the tears rolled down my cheeks.
The part that got me was when Hartnell said "I don't want to go".
After a sceptical Newman reluctantly agreed to let Verity shoot the Dalek episode, I would have loved to whisper in his ear, or maybe directly nto his mind:
"The Daleks will be one of the most awesome and iconic vilains of ALL of humanity's story telling history."
If they don't put The Five(ish) Doctors on the 50th Anniversary DVD I will be most peeved. It was bloody brilliant! I especially loved Georgia on the phone to Tennant and him hanging up and wondering what he'd forgotten to ask her!
As for Barrowman's cameo ... pure genius.
Are we getting a special page to discuss this in more detail (I'm avoiding spoilers at this point), or should be it be talked about under a specific topic?
I don't think there's enough to say about The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot and An Adventure In Space And Time to justify giving them separate subsections just yet. So spoil away.
Oh, just a note for Emily, since I know she doesn't do anything outside the Whoniverse.
A "hobbit" is a creature from JRR Tolkien's Middle Earth.
After a sceptical Newman reluctantly agreed to let Verity shoot the Dalek episode, I would have loved to whisper in his ear, or maybe directly nto his mind:
"The Daleks will be one of the most awesome and iconic vilains of ALL of humanity's story telling history."
I'm sure they'd already taken far too many liberties with the facts to want to include something like that!
ScottN:A "hobbit" is a creature from JRR Tolkien's Middle Earth.
Lets be fair here:with a fifth major film(two of them having the term "The Hobbit" in the title) opening in less than a month--even Emily MUST have some idea what a Hobbit is.
(I can't imagine that anyone can be THAT out of touch!!!!!)
And if I'm wrong,and she really is--maybe THIS will help:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPh12Q7cpeE&feature=related
(The things I do for this group!!!!)
What you all need to realize is that if Emily doesn't know something, it's because she doesn't want to know. Save yourself the time of finding and posting these links and carry on. The point of her 'What's a Bugs Bunny' comments are not requests for information; they're declarations of her dedication to Who.
A "hobbit" is a creature from JRR Tolkien's Middle Earth.
I know PERFECTLY WELL what a hobbit is, thank you very much! I'm an avid reader and literally read my Lord of the Rings to pieces...um, well, I WAS an avid reader. These days it tends to just be Who books and mags and for some reason I'm a little less keen...
What you all need to realize is that if Emily doesn't know something, it's because she doesn't want to know.
Well spotted 
JEP - maybe THIS will help:
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!
You are so evil. :-D
Loved it!
Emily has actually read books that are NOT Doctor Who related!?!?
**faints**
...not only that but she has contributed to the Blakes 7 boards... CONTRIBUTED!!!!
**faints again**
Hey. I made ONE post (talking about the Doctor, as it happens) on a board about a programme invented by The Dalek-Creator that happened to be on UK Gold along with Who on Sunday mornings...trust me, I did a LOT worse than watch the occasional Blake's 7 to keep me going during TSLABYOD. I just don't TALK about it.
An Adventure In Space and Time:
An Adventure In Space and Time is the docudrama that told the beginnings of Doctor Who and written by Mark Gatiss.
An Adventure In Space and Time charts through the first three years of the programme from the casting of William Hartnell (David Bradley) as the First Doctor to him handing over the series to Second Doctor Patrick Troughton (Reece Shearsmith).
It begins with a flashforward to Hartnell’s last day on the series in 1966 as he prepare to work on The Tenth Planet his swansong before going back to 1963 as Sydney Newman (Brian Cox) comes up with the idea of Doctor Who with him appointing Verity Lambert (Jessica Raine) as producer.
Newman mentioned coming up with The Avengers. Hopefully today’s audiences knows which Avengers he was talking about.
During the first filming of when Ian and Barbara first entered the TARDIS came the banging of the TARDIS doors a fact that was well known to me beforehand plus the raining in the studio which I think I vaguely knew about before.
Dalek creator Terry Nation is only mentioned but not seen as Verity Lambert made the decision to make the first Dalek story which Nation wrote despite it going against Newman’s edict that the series did not have any bug eyed monsters.
I don’t know whether Gatiss ever thought of having Terry Nation in An Adventure In Space and Time and whether the Terry Nation estate would have approve of a depiction of him is something I can only speculate.
The assassination of US President John F Kennedy unavoidably gets brought up here due to it taking place the day before the first broadcast of Doctor Who.
Considering the assassination, it was said that the first episode got respectable ratings.
Undeterred by this Verity insisted to Sydney that the first episode be repeated to give the series a proper chance with the audience a request that Sydney requested and the re-enactment of this demand was well delivered.
However the working relationship between Verity and Sydney would be testy when as I said before she brought in the Daleks thus defying the bug eyed monster edict.
Verity’s decision to bring in the Daleks would be justified when on a bus to work she saw a couple of kids imitating the Daleks and then Sydney telling her the Daleks delivered huge ratings for the series.
Now it has been established that Doctor Who became a success because of the Daleks, I will now point out the stories that the cast and crew had worked on as seen in this film:
-The original pilot and the first broadcast episode
-The first Dalek story with the atmosphere of terror being conveyed as the first Daleks were rolled out in front of the cameras.
-The Edge of Destruction
-Marco Polo – As all of this story is completely missing it is quite remarkable that a scene of the story gets recreated here. In fact Marco Polo himself Mark Eden appears in An Adventure In Space and Time as Donald Baverstock, the man who originally had Doctor Who’s fate in his hands.
-The Reign of Terror
--Dalek Invasion of Earth – This included a conversation between William Hartnell and Carole Ann Ford (Claudia Grant) as this story was the latter’s swansong and the former conveying sadness on her leaving.
It also has David Bradley recreating superbly Hartnell’s “one day I shall come back…” line.
-The Web of Planet – It was during the depiction of the filming of this story that Bradley as Hartnell mentioned being in This Sporting Life. What wasn’t mention was the fact that This Sporting Life was how Verity noticed him in the first place for her to cast him as the Doctor.
-The Massacre of St Bartholomew’s Eve
Just with the departure of Carole Ann Ford, we also see Bill Hartnell saddened on the departure of Verity from Doctor Who.
Hartnell would also be saddened by the departure of William Russell (Ian; Jamie Glover) and Jacqueline Hill (Barbara; Jemma Powell) but this was not depicted here perhaps there wasn’t any time for it.
In fact the amount that Grant, Glover and Powell delivered as their companion actors seems less than I expected.
There were non-speaking actors who portrayed Maureen O’Brien (Vicki), Jackie Lane (Dodo), Peter Purves (Steven), Anneke Wills (Polly) and Michael Craze (Ben). They all appeared in publicity shots as the new companions. This is no doubt to conveyed how much there have been changes with the companions just as Hartnell had stayed on as the Doctor.
I also spotted real-life companion actors, all of whom with Hartnell, making cameos here – the real William Russell, the real Carole Anne Ford, the real Anneke Wills and Jean Marsh.
I had known that Hartnell was difficult with the production team after Verity Lambert left and it was heart-breaking seeing it being depicted here.
As with any docudrama, not everything that is presented in An Adventure In Space and Time is 100% accurate and one aspect of it that I noticed that Gatiss has taken a poetic licence to was Mervyn Pinfield discussing with Sydney Newman in 1966 of how long Hartnell can continue to play the Doctor. Pinfield in real-life had already left Doctor Who by this point in time, in fact he actually died that year.
Through Bradley’s portrayal of him, it was definitely felt heartbreaking seeing Hartnell on his last day as the Doctor.
It is here that Reece Shearsmith makes his brief appearance as Patrick Troughton as he prepares for the series’ first regeneration scene but we don’t get to see him playing the Doctor as he was only there as Troughton in the Second Doctor costume.
As An Adventure In Space and Time approaches its end we then see Hartnell having a vision of current Doctor Matt Smith. Obviously this was an invention in the script by Gatiss but it illustrates very well what a legacy Hartnell is leaving behind with Doctor Who.
We get to see the real Hartnell ending the film with his “One day I shall come back…” line from Dalek Invasion of Earth.
A superb way to end An Adventure In Space and Time which has been served very well by fine performances from the cast especially David Bradley as William Hartnell and Jessica Raine as Verity Lambert.
Some days ago I saw David Bradley as William Hartnell recreating the Merry Christmas scene from The Daleks Master Plan.
Since then I discovered more scenes recreated by the cast of An Adventure In Space and Time:
-First TARDIS scene
-Farewell to Susan in Dalek Invasion of Earth
-Regeneration
Hopefully one is able to find them on their own as I can't provide all the links to them here.
Bizarrely, David Bradley has not been nominated for a BAFTA for 'An Adventure in Space and Time', despite being very good, but the whole programme is up for the Single Drama award, despite being not very good.
It IS very good!
Except for its "Troughton".
It IS very good! Except for the bits that aren't, which is to say all of the bits that aren't David Bradley.
*Sigh*
"Despite being dead, Mervyn Pinfield smashes his way out of the grave and drags himself to Sydney Newman's office to complain about Hartnell's performance. And feast upon brains."
http://www.kaldorcity.com/features/articles/spaceandtime.html
The regeneration scene shows Polly wearing a skirt, not a fur-trimmed coat over a sweater-dress and leggings, which she actually wore in “The Tenth Planet”.
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Polly has been violated!
What a snarky and mean-spirited article. Whinge, whinge, whinge. It's a bloody brilliant ode to the creation of the show. Here's a tip- real life in the TV industry is quite boring. Also, I wonder, were the authors alive at the time? Were they there on swet> In the boardrooms? With only a handful of exceptions, almost none of their points is referenced with any form of academic rigour.
What a snarky and mean-spirited article. Whinge, whinge, whinge.
Hear, hear.
Alan n'Fiona seem to have got the concept of 'docudrama' rather confused with the concept of 'documentary'.
And it's a bit of a cheek for people who blackened MY name to cover their own gross incompetence (vis-a-vis Lawrence Miles's True History of Faction Paradox audios...long story) to accuse OTHER people of rewriting history...
Still, the zombie/brain thing is quite funny.
It's a bloody brilliant ode to the creation of the show.
My mother's still talking about it.
And my mother doesn't even LIKE Who.
I think she's under the touching illusion that without Who her daughter might be something remotely approaching 'normal'.
(And for all I know, she might even be RIGHT.)
What a snarky and mean-spirited article. Whinge, whinge, whinge. It's a bloody brilliant ode to the creation of the show. Here's a tip- real life in the TV industry is quite boring. Also, I wonder, were the authors alive at the time? Were they there on swet> In the boardrooms? With only a handful of exceptions, almost none of their points is referenced with any form of academic rigour.
I'm bemused by the way you lurch from one extreme of hyperbole ("were the authors alive at the time?") to another ("none of their points is referenced with any form of academic rigour"*) but essentially you've just proved their point: when you call this travesty "a bloody brilliant ode to the creation of the show", aren't you admitting you've swallowed a pack of lies?
(* One of the authors has a PhD and is a lecturer in business studies.)
when you call this travesty "a bloody brilliant ode to the creation of the show", aren't you admitting you've swallowed a pack of lies?
And when YOU say 'City of Death and Gridlock are the most marvellous things in human history'* aren't you admitting you've swallowed a pack of lies?
(* One of the authors has a PhD and is a lecturer in business studies.)
Er...and I have a Bachelor AND Master of Arts from Cambridge and a Postgraduate Diploma in African Studies from Cape Town...so what??
*And if you DON'T say such things...WHY the hell NOT!
And when YOU say 'City of Death and Gridlock are the most marvellous things in human history'* aren't you admitting you've swallowed a pack of lies?
Well, no, because that's a personal opinion of a story unshaped by any particular appeal to specific events in the real world.
If on the other hand, someone praises a fiction based on specific events while dismissing any concern that those events might have been misrepresented, that's an entirely different matter. (I'm not sure a drama of this kind can avoid misrepresentation to some degree, but that doesn't make any discussion of that misrepresentation invalid.)
Er...and I have a Bachelor AND Master of Arts from Cambridge and a Postgraduate Diploma in African Studies from Cape Town...so what??
But no one - least of all Rodders - is impugning your academic bona fides (especially in a non-academic context).
*And if you DON'T say such things...WHY the hell NOT!
Because Gridlock isn't that great and is merely coasting on kitten-love. It's a cynical attempt to deploy adorable baby cats as a gateway drug, just like the internet.
Also isn't it a bit odd to complain about a website that's a list of mistakes on another website that's dedicated to listing mistakes?
HAVING a PhD doesn't imply an automatic "academic rigour" unless it's about their own particular field of PhD expertise. So unless their PhD is on the history of television (with specific focus on the BBC staffing structures of the 1960's) then it's a moot point.
when you call this travesty "a bloody brilliant ode to the creation of the show", aren't you admitting you've swallowed a pack of lies?
No I'm not. I'm admitting that I accepted that what they were telling was not going to be a 100% authentic account of what happened. Again I say that real life is considerably more boring than TV. I'd love you to point me towards one single film or docudrama that is 100% in every single detail. Go on. The trick is in the title- "docuDRAMA", not documentary. There is a difference.
But that's the internet in a nutshell isn't it? Everybody's own opinion is the only one worth having and any other one merely shows how stupid you are.
"This docudrama is rubbish"
"Well I liked it"
"Well you're an idiot"
I'm admitting that I accepted that what they were telling was not going to be a 100% authentic account of what happened
But the majority of your post complains about the veracity of their nitpicks (without, of course, mentioning any specifics.)
Again I say that real life is considerably more boring than TV
Then they shouldn't have bothered making AAINSAT in the first place. And personally I think that the real story is considerably more interesting than the simplified version peddled here.
Everybody's own opinion is the only one worth having
But the original list isn't about opinions, it's about the points where AAISAT gets things objectively wrong (consciously or not). I feel the list is a mixed bag: some of those errors are just trivial; some are trivial and stupid; some generate seriously flaws in the drama; and some don't impact the drama but do misrepresent real people whose achievements AAISAT is supposed to celebrating. But they're all worth pointing out.
Because Gridlock isn't that great and is merely coasting on kitten-love. It's a cynical attempt to deploy adorable baby cats as a gateway drug, just like the internet.
*Shrieks of outrage*
Gridlock is the GREATEST THING IN HUMAN HISTORY BAR CITY OF DEATH and this fact has NOTHING to do with the Brannigan Family!
Oh, alright, the fact that it LITERALLY pips Turn Left to the post by a whisker may have SOMETHING to do with the cuddlesome preciouses, but honestly, you could stick a DOZEN more ginger darlings clambering in and out of cardboard boxes in Fear Her and it would still be...Fear Her.
Caaaaaaaaaaaaaaattttssss!
I love cats.
They taste just like chicken....
There's gonna be a sequel to The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot!
McGann Speaks
I'm so happy!
I mean, OBVIOUSLY it'll be but a pale imitation of the Glorious Original, but STILL...
Let's hope it's a PROPER sequel and not, well, THIS:
Ben Foster's Sequel
The docu-drama made "check the fornicator" out to be a big problem at the start - I doubt that - and despite Purves mentioning it in a DVD, he was a LATER actor involved - and I don't often trust such interviews as "historical" sources as so often I've heard actors vary their stories, playing to the audience at fan events etc to get a laugh. I want better 'evidence" than that.
Davison on the BBC offering him money to expand the Five(ish) Doctors: 'I thought, "Amazing!" I was really pleased, and I told Colin - and he was really pissed off. "They'll destroy it. They'll take it out of your hands"...I was always absolutely determined that wasn't going to happen, but I think Colin saw me as a bit of a wimp' - well, can you blame him? Your DOCTOR is!
Colin paranoidly claimed the BBC would cut the scene with his family; Davison PROMISED him it wouldn't be cut; then 'the BBC said, "The thing's great, but it's a bit long. The scene with Colin's family is a bit extraneous. Can we cut it?"...In the end, I had to threaten the BBC...And Colin was absolutely convinced that it was a conspiracy...He does feel the BBC is more likely to screw him over than anybody else' - gods, Colin Baker really did get his life as comprehensively trashed by the Colin Baker era as the rest of us, didn't he.
No doubt the performance of David Bradley here convinced the Moff to bring him back to play the First Doctor in Twice Upon A Time.
it would have been vastly improved by a montage of Hartnell to the accompaniment of Chumbawambah's Tubthumping...
Message from David Bradley for An Adventure In Space and Time rewatch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=40&v=kx7xbcZmxFc&feature=emb_title
The good news is that There may be another Five(ish) Doctors Reboot for our Sixtieth Anniversary!
The EVEN BETTER news is that Colin Baker is still stewing in a jealous rage over a certain OTHER Baker's inclusion in Day of the Doctor...
CURSE YOU UNIVERSE! NEED! WANT! WANT NOW! GIMME GIMME! WHY GODS WHY!
60th Anniversary Five(ish) Doctors Reboot cancelled.
Nearly ten years since An Adventure in Space and Time, Mark Gatiss reveals idea for a sequel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ig7SmhPQ6Xc
November 23 2023 marks ten years since the release of The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot coming on the 50th anniversary that day.
It appeared on the BBC Red Button service after the broadcast of The Day of the Doctor, the official 50th anniversary special.
Written and directed by Fifth Doctor Peter Davison, The Five(ish) Reboot is a comedy spoof that looks at the efforts of mainly Davison, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy to try to get a part in The Day of the Doctor.
There are also cameos from other Who luminaries while showrunner and The Day of the Doctor writer Steven Moffat has a substantial role here as he is the one the aforementioned Doctors are trying to convince to insert into The Day of the Doctor.
McCoy sure rubbed it in of how him being in The Hobbit made him a big shot. In fact Peter Jackson himself has a cameo here and I was sure that Jackson being a fan himself was quite happy to do this cameo for free.
What connection the cast members of The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot previously had with Doctor Who can be read here:
https://tinyurl.com/yc6aaswr
Funny how John Barrowman merchandise can be used as currency.
In the end, Davison, Colin Baker and McCoy do get a part in The Day of the Doctor but not in quite the way they had been expecting or hoping for. It was also amusing on their reaction to the current TARDIS interior.
I thought The Five(ish) Doctors is a jolly good romp of amusement and complement wells with The Day of the Doctor.
There had been talk of a doing a sequel to this but ultimately nothing came of it.
BTW Ncuti Gatwa replaced Matt Smith at the end of Adventure….
Click!
Awww!
An Adventure In Space and Time was edited for its recent BBC4 rebroadcast:
https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-adventure-space-time-edits-rights-issue-newsupdate/?fbclid=IwAR37y802I4bQfOUSQ-fziW-_JuyhFDNlvjwb91nzCfq_EUeEnz7tjGccoIA
December 3 2023 marks ten years since the release of Reconstructions:
https://tinyurl.com/4fbuuusv
This had cast members of An Adventure In Space and Time who played the Doctor Who actors recreating scenes from Doctor Who and there are four reconstructions and they are the following:
- First TARDIS - This recreates Ian and Barbara's first reaction to the TARDIS and the last scene of the first story.
- First Farewell - This recreates the First Doctor bidding farewell to Susan in Dalek Invasion of Earth
- Festive Greeting - This recreates the First Doctor wishing the audience a Merry Christmas at the end of The Feast of Steven, episode 7 of The Daleks' Master Plan.
- Regeneration - This recreates the First Doctor's regeneration in The Tenth Planet. There are two versions one that is officially online and the other on the DVD release of the docudrama.
The online version has David Bradley as the First Doctor regenerate to Reece Shearsmith as the Second Doctor.
The DVD version has a little bit extra as it is not a recreation but instead a complete invention.
For this version the First Doctor still regenerates into the Second but then the Second Doctor then regenerates into the Third and the newly regenerated Third Doctor is played here by An Adventure In Time and Space writer Mark Gatiss.