Doctor Who IV - Everything Whovian - Would you like a jelly baby?

[Flyattractor]

I always wonder personally if we will ever see them approach an actor who looks like 2nd Doctor and have him appear . I mean were seeing them do this with the 1st Doctor now. I mean ...is it outta the realms of reality we may have someone cast as the 2nd Doctor and we see him appear ?

Who I would like to see portray the 2nd Doctor would be Frazier Hines. Although He is getting a bit long in the tooth right now...

[jbmasta]

Who I would like to see portray the 2nd Doctor would be Frazier Hines. Although He is getting a bit long in the tooth right now...

He does a great job channeling Troughton. Listen to any of the Big Finish audios he's in and you'd swear Patrick was in the studio in the next booth. It's not just impersonating the voice, he also evokes the mannerisms. There's a really funny moment in Lords of the Red Planet where the Doctor gives an Ice Lord a pat on the back, but then shakes his hands to numb the pain.

[Flyattractor]

He does a great job channeling Troughton. Listen to any of the Big Finish audios he's in and you'd swear Patrick was in the studio in the next booth. It's not just impersonating the voice, he also evokes the mannerisms. There's a really funny moment in Lords of the Red Planet where the Doctor gives an Ice Lord a pat on the back, but then shakes his hands to numb the pain.

All that is true.

[jbmasta]

All that is true.

For me that's the difference between simply putting on a voice and really inhabiting the role. The key is to do the homework about the original performance and work out what makes the character tick. Tim Treloar did loads of research for the Third Doctor and it shows. Elliot Chapman knows his Ben Jackson, even pitching his voice slightly differently between First and Second Doctor stories because that's what happened on TV. The only recast that Big Finish has done that hasn't entirely convinced me is Jemma Powell as Barbara. It could be that the only two stories she's been in as Barbara weren't written to highlight her or that I haven't seen any of Jacqueline Hill's Barbara recently, but I'll need more stories with her as Barbara to be convinced.

While not recasts, many of the impressions of the Doctors in the Companion Chronicles are top notch. William Russell and Peter Purves capture perfectly the First Doctor at the early and middle points of his era. Wendy Padbury does a pretty good Troughton. Katy Manning has fantastic vocal range (she's in a couple of CCs as Jo Grant and Iris Wildthyme).

[ChrisIII]

David Troughton does bear a resemblance to his father (Funny thing is, his nephew-who appeared in harry Potter as Harry's cousin-looks a lot like Matt Smith now). Reece Shearsmith-who appeared in Sleep No More as the villain-played Troughton in An Adventure In Space And Time, but didn't seem to really embody the role quite as good as Bradley did with Hartnell.

[jbmasta]

David Troughton does bear a resemblance to his father (Funny thing is, his nephew-who appeared in harry Potter as Harry's cousin-looks a lot like Matt Smith now). Reece Shearsmith-who appeared in Sleep No More as the villain-played Troughton in An Adventure In Space And Time, but didn't seem to really embody the role quite as good as Bradley did with Hartnell.

Harry Melling was in an audio, Fifth Doctor story The Whispering Forest, which also guest starred Hayley Atwell (better known as Agent Peggy Carter).

[Derek Metaltron]

Agreed with all the various actors who have portrayed the Doctor and companions, but William Russell's performances especially are incredible, and not just his First Doctor/William Hartnell (which is nigh on perfect). If you ever hear him interviewed his natural voice has clearly gotten an esteemed elderly vibe to it, but when he starts playing Ian again in audios it's like fifty plus years fall away and he's suddenly exactly the same as he was in the 60's, which is just spell binding. I always know I'm in for a treat when he's in one of the audios.

[Somecrazyaussie]

At least animate the missing two episodes of The Crusades and the missing episode from Web of Fear.

Anyway, it's all about the DVD sales. 2Entertain, who produce the DVDs, have said that the black and white ones don't sell as well and even less so for the ones with animations. Animating missing episodes costs money that needs to be earned back. They could have released new editions of Enemy of the World and Web of Fear with special features, but they didn't. Look at what they did for Underwater Menace. All that time holding onto the recovered episode and missing episodes are represented by reconstructions (which I can't get through).

It still annoys me that they haven't animated the rest of The Crusades (I really want that on my shelf.) However, as you pointed out, it needs to be viable enough to earn money. Something to justify the cost. We only got Power because funding came from the states. Underwater Menace would have benefitted from having its missing episodes animated as well.

As for missing stories I'd like returned, i would say Celestial Toymaker is up there. Purely because it is such a visual story. It also has the lovely Michael Gough. Other stories would be Wheel In Space, Fury From The Deep, Faceless Ones and Abominable Snowmen.

I don't necessarily need full stories returned (although it would be awesome if they were). I just really want a few orphans to turn up. If another two episodes from Wheel came back, I'd be ecstatic because the BBC could finally animate the last two episodes and give us a nice DVD release.

[Panic]

http://www.starburstmagazine.com/tv-...mation-project
So Shada is the next animated story. I guess they think Tom Baker is more of a money-maker than the Hartnell/Troughton years.

[The Whovian]

http://www.starburstmagazine.com/tv-...mation-project
So Shada is the next animated story. I guess they think Tom Baker is more of a money-maker than the Hartnell/Troughton years.

That's because he is. Not trying to be funny or anything, but Baker is THE most recognizable Doctor of all time, and one of the most popular ones.

[Panic]

No-one disputes that, the point I was making was that when you ask Who fans what gaps they want plugged with animations the obvious answers are Hartnell or Troughton stories. I'm actually a big fan of Tom, Douglas Adam's, and Shada, but it's a bit out of left field. I mean, we had a McGann flash animation version, and Ian Levine's unofficial animated version (I've not watched it but I understand it's out there), and now we're getting a third animated version...

[The Whovian]

No-one disputes that, the point I was making was that when you ask Who fans what gaps they want plugged with animations the obvious answers are Hartnell or Troughton stories. I'm actually a big fan of Tom, Douglas Adam's, and Shada, but it's a bit out of left field. I mean, we had a McGann flash animation version, and Ian Levine's unofficial animated version (I've not watched it but I understand it's out there), and now we're getting a third animated version...

Ah, I see what you're saying now. Yeah, it would be nice to get more of that with the earlier Doctors.

[The Whovian]

Hey everyone, Enigma asked me to post my DW collection in the 'Collected Editions Shelf Porn: Show Me Your Goods' thread, so I just posted some pics of my collection there:

http://community.comicbookresources....93#post2983493

If you guys could, I would love to see all of your collections. I really enjoy seeing other Who fans' collections.

[Somecrazyaussie]

Hey everyone, Enigma asked me to post my DW collection in the 'Collected Editions Shelf Porn: Show Me Your Goods' thread, so I just posted some pics of my collection there:

http://community.comicbookresources....93#post2983493

If you guys could, I would love to see all of your collections. I really enjoy seeing other Who fans' collections.

That's a very awesome collection, indeed! My hat is well and truly off to you. After seeing it i really want one of those wall clocks now. Thanks for sharing!

[Somecrazyaussie]

http://www.starburstmagazine.com/tv-...mation-project
So Shada is the next animated story. I guess they think Tom Baker is more of a money-maker than the Hartnell/Troughton years.

I suspected Shada would get revisited. Although I thought it would be as an audio. This is very surprising. Hopefully, as an animated project, it will allow the animators to go wild with it in a way the budget wouldn't have allowed back in the day.

Not what i would have wanted, but welcome nonetheless. If it leads to further stuff being done in the future, even better.