"Come on Ace, We've Got Work to Do!" (Final Scene) | Survival | Doctor Who
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“We got audio dramas to work on”
and New Adventures in Books....
Give it time, one day they'll all be animated. The same way the missing doctor who episodes were.
@@thesnakeman8006 …big finish is an audio drama company so they wouldn’t and with the amount of audio books they have produced for doctor who it is going to take *years*
@dalekexterminae it's taken years to animate all the lost episodes too.
If big finish ever stop doing audios, they could always resort to animating them all
@@thesnakeman8006no point, they're perfectly good in audio form and some wouldn't work at all in animation.
This is how Doctor Who should always end, with acknowledgement that it’s never truly the end. The Doctor and their companion will always return to the blue box they call home and the story goes on.
I disagree; I imagine the ending of the show as the end of a cycle and, personally, I would do it as follow:
The Doctor, after one last adventure, decide to retire; he become the Curator and go back to the UNIT Museum, where he keep and display some items that remember him of his past adventures and, in the core of the museum, right next to the TARDIS, there will be that famous painting that the Doctor created a long long time ago: Gallifrey Falls No More. He will, from time to time, sit on the bench in front of it, admiring that painting and the desire to start travelling again will begin to grow in his chest again. He will take the TARDIS's key and open its doors. He will look at the console, undecided on what to do, but in the end, he will always decide to not enter.
Then, when he will have grown old, one day, while he is sitting on that bench, a woman will come near him.
" Excuse me." she will say: " Are you perhaps the Curator of this place?"
" The one and only, my dear." he will answer, while getting up.
" I just wanted to say what a beautiful place this is. This painting, particularly, caught my attention. If I may dare to ask, where did you acquire it?"
" Oh, it's a long story, from a long time ago. I think it would take too much time to tell it."
" I'm no hurry, grandpa, and I always loved your stories."
" Then, my dear Susan, take a seat.".
The Doctor will begin to tell his grandaughter everything that happened since he left her; sometimes the TARDIS will make a few sounds, as if it was trying to help him remember.
@@thetwelfthdoctor9892 OMG, very beautiful!!!! I almost cried reading this.
@@thetwelfthdoctor9892 Alternatively: The Doctor finally returns to Gallifrey to retire. As he leaves Earth, he says "One day, I shall come back. Yes, I shall come back. But for now, this is how the story ends."
Regardless of how you feel about the matter, the Doctor *IS* the Timeless Child.
Because,so long as there is a universe,they will *never* stop their mad,wondrous dash about it....
The Doctor Falls I think would also have been a good series finale, given how it took everything more or less full circle. I’m glad it kept going though. Chibnall’s era isn’t the best but there are a few gems in there and Whittaker is a fantastic actress.
The Doctor - "Come on Ace, There's work to do".
Ace - "Where"?
The Doctor - "Big Finish".
Not to mention dozens of novels.
Come on Ace I gotta go to America and get plastic surgery
its amazing how Survival ended up being a satisfying finale for DW, complete with ironic title, and a homecoming which brought the companion's character development full circle. The battle with the Master bookends the Doctor's own changes, going from a man willing to murder a caveman to save himself in the first story to refusing to kill his nemesis in his last.
Even this quick narration by Sylvester McCoy somewhat hastily written when word of the show's cancellation ends up feeling profoundly poetic, bittersweet, and fitting for the end of the show.
it's more bittersweet when you realize that narration was recorded 26 years to the day of the broadcast of Doctor Who's first story.
Dr Who has not really come back it died in dreaded 1989 the year I became 20 and I fckg hated that year and I am glad I was born in 1969 and not born in 1989 heaven forbid
Honestly perfect finale and it’s wild to me that was an accident
If up to me this would end the show, even if the show continued on
@Eltonlaleham what was wrong with 1989?
In one of those bizarre twists of fate, this was apparently recorded exactly 26 years after An Unearthly Child. Just a little thing.
Kind of weird how that turned out, but in a good way.
@@AndrewChapman nice info
Filmed in late November and the trees are full of green leaves?
the audio of 7 was recorded on the anniversary, not the episode itself because it was already filmed
I'm very grateful Doctor Who came back, but Survival is in every way a perfect finale to Doctor Who.
TheValeyard92 if doctor who never came back then David tennant wouldn’t have been doctor
@@justagamersquad2907 Or Derek Jacobi, The Master.
And most-likely, I wouldn't be reviewing the stories right-now.
Yep but now the show is ruined rip
@@6wHeisenberg I must challenge you on your comment of "the show is ruined rip"
only joking it's more dead than T.rex screw Chinballs !!!! Lol
@@6wHeisenberg How quickly fans give up on a thing that will outlast them for a long time.
"somewhere else the tea's getting cold"
I love the final speech!
"come on Ace we've got work to do"
Ace - "where ?"
The Doctor "Big Finish"
The adventure ends, but the story goes on....
This story is ending but the story never ends
And on and on and on and on and on and on and on and...
And then becomes Woke... sorry but the current doctor is crap. And NO this is not bashing Ms Whitaker or the doctor being female. This is a bad run.
@@andrewshearsby8125 agreed
@@andrewshearsby8125 i dont blame Jodie, i just always blame Chibnall
A lovely conclusion to the classic series and this wonderful story.
What I love about this ending is that, if you didn’t KNOW it was the end of it all, it would work perfectly well as a regular conclusion to a regular episode. The plot resolves, and the Doctor saunters away to the TARDIS, companion in tow, for another adventure. You could easily imagine the story going on forever. But then, in _knowing_ that this was all there was (at least for a few years), it makes it all the more emotional. It’s a triumphant and melancholy sadness. You go, Doctor. You keep bumbling through the stars in chase of excitement.
Fantastic stuff. These later classic series had their flaws, but I still envy those who got to experience it while it was airing. What a show.
Fun little fact: the ending speech by Sylvester McCoy was recorded on 23rd November 1989 -- exactly 26 years to the day since the first episode of Doctor Who aired.
The end of an era. Ace deserved to return to the series one day.
Allan Veríssimo she did with Whittaker in _AT CHILDHOOD'S END_ by Sophie Aldred
Nah shes too good for series that are like 11 and 12
@@madeinadayminifigures8588 yep, she needs to meet a real doctor, she should have come back with 12
@@tjdw5251 clearly the best match
@@tjdw5251 I can imagine he'd still tolerate her calling him Professor.
And then 7 years later Sylvester McCoy returns as the Doctor in the movie
Technically if you think about the 7th doctor is the longest running doctor ever. 1987-1996.
@UCIt0cMaA0aQFVapAL9fqYNg If I recall he only appeared as the doctor twice for the movie and the short
@@MatthewsStopMotions The Eighth has him beat. 1996-2013, hah.
@@MatthewsStopMotions well he us still making them for big finish audio and they are Cannon.
@@somerandomguy2073 then what about 6, debut 1984 regen story 2015
Kinda sucks Sylvester McCoy had to overdub his speech later on...
Nobody knew at the time it would be the last (transmitted) episode...
actually, they had a feeling this would be a last ride.
Meh, if you say so.
@@BeAGoodDoga they did, actually.
Not entirely...
I think Doctor Who was doomed regardless of the quality of S26, what with the BBC's attitude towards Doctor Who and Sci-Fi as a whole. Micheal Grade and his ilk had spent the 80s gutting the show's budget and as a result the ratings weren't really there.
As perfect a pairing as you’d ever see in 57 years of Doctor Who
And counting.
only pairing I find on par for perfection is the Chemistry between 10 and Donna.
@@omalleycaboose5937 hem, hem - The Doctor and Sarah!
@@blairbrown4812 now 60 years
It won't get such a nice ending next time. I see it just being cancelled on a random episode.... then maybe return in 25 years
“...And with the rumours that the Spielberg film has been cancelled, this could be the last ever Doctor Who story.” - UK Gold announcer introducing a re-run of Survival
Steven Spielberg was gonna make a Doctor Who movie?!?
@@BrendanJSmith Here's the strange part, Amblin was going to help fund a Pilot for a new take on the property alongside Universal. Stop me if you have heard this before, but the backdoor pilot did get made. You might know it as The TV Movie, or The Enemy Within. Officially it's in the catalogue as TV Movie, but at the time of broadcast fans asked "No Really, what should we call it?" and the producer and writer of it suggested The Enemy Within. To say that it was a flawed, if still fun, tale tells you that 28 years ago we got something now akin to a special and it was only one of two on screen appearances of the 8th incarnation of the Doctor shows what all has happened.
And that’s how the classic run of Doctor Who has ended. A great conclusion to the classics!
The beginning of the Wilderness Years.
Really sad that the classic series ended here. After a rough few years the show was finally finding its feet again in Seasons 25 and 26. At least it ended on a high though!
My Doctor & Ace, this was such a pivotal moment in my childhood, I was gutted. But at least people are now realising how pioneering & special 7 & Ace truly were.
7: Come on Ace, we've got work to do
*Show gets cancelled*
7: Never mind then
I realise you're joking, but that speech was actually added in by John Nathan-Turner (the producer at the time) precisely because he suspected that the show might be cancelled.
@@TheMoonRover Well if JNT was running the show, I'm surprised it wasn't cancelled sooner.
Big Finish then
@@CyberController- Actually JNT staying on was what had the BBC keep it on for as long as it did. JNT wanted to step down earlier, but the BBC said they would axe the show if he did.
JNT gets WAY too much hate
Did they thought about the fact that this could be the absolute final scene of the classic series, when they shot it?
Yes they knew it had been cancelled I believe
They didn't, this dialogue wasn't in the episode initially. But JNT had a hunch the show could be cancelled after season 26 so he recorded it just before it happened.
I believe they knew there would be a hiatus for god-knows-how-long, so it was all but known that this would be one of the last episodes for a while (I think the broadcast order was changed from the initial idea, though I might be wrong). IIRC, the production office wasn't closed at the BBC until 1990.
So McCoy just happened to be pointing his umbrella upwards at that moment?
@@antartiksyz4141 I wonder if JNT was thinking of Casablanca's closing scene when he penned McCoy's final words.
Long ago I felt very short changed by this ending, now it seems utterly perfect. Wonderful speech by the Doctor of moving on and not looking back ❤❤❤
I hope when Doctor who ends we get something like this
Sophie aldred really is beautiful and Sylvester McCoy was and still is one of the best Doctors.
Yep, I met her at Elsecar comic con back in May, she's still just as gorgeous as she was back in the late 80s.
@@richallenxbox1976 I am so jealous.
Im a funny coincidence Sylvester McCoy recorded the ending voiceover on the 23rd of November
One day, if Doctor Who ever does truly end (I doubt it), I hope these words are revisited. The story will always go on
And put in that one scene of the first doctor you know the one
0:29 wouldn't it be mad though if doctor who had ended like this, the doctor and the master both die and ace symbolically puts on the doctors hat, taking his role as protecter of earth. Just something to think about.
No thanks
Arthur Pendragon would be so fascinating to see though let’s not lie
Arthur Pendragon or how about she has her own tardis key and manages to do the same thing rose does in bad wolf to save the doctor but she’s fine cause of the whole cat thing
@@harleyhartley3168 Tbh, at this rate (how much Doctor Who has gone down hill) I hope they do end the show, but end the show by bringing back actual good writers.
LitteralyJustSam i feel mean saying it but i kinda agree, we need a really good script editor just to clean everything up
0:58-1:08
Ace:"I felt like I could run forever. I could smell the wind and feel the grass underneath my feet and just....run forever!"
The Doctor's face:So do I.
I find it really strange how, in quite a few ways, "Survival" flows brilliantly into "Rose". It's more similar to "Rose" than it is to "An Unearthly Child"!
really? how?
“mine, i believe.”
iconic
The end of a 26 year run so pleased it was brought back
Who’s here after seeing that Ace will be returning for the Centenary Special?
Me!
Okay so who else is hear now it's been announced that Ace is coming back for 13's final episode??
Me! :D
I met Sophie Aldred at Elsecar comic con in May, she turned 60 in August but she's still gorgeous.
Just brilliant 👌
& at the time I was thinking, "God, next year's series is gonna be fantastic!" ..
Now, this scene makes me a bit sad, that 16 years was a long wait..
And I miss Sylvester & Sophie...
Have you not listened to any of their big finish work or are you not interested in that?
@@eonoflegend2985 some, but it's not the same as seeing them in new stories on screen, plus I'm probably being nostalgic for the late 80's early 90's..
@@RikAlessi Guess I can understand that. I grew up in the 2000s so I unfortunately never got to see the doctor who from back then on tv. I did really enjoy watching all of it though and I can understand the difference between the 2 mediums. It is pretty different from watching it on a tv.
Season 26 is genius. It was written in a way that it's the perfect ending for the show but could have gone onto Cartmel's season 27 if there was one (and it was continued thanks to the Virgin New Adventures). Andrew Cartmel, Ben Aaronovitch and Marc Platt are all genius.
i agree i was saying this before
The song is over, but the story never ends...
Love Ace and the Seventh Doctor
i miss the new Doctor who, ugh have to wait until Christmas time.
This is my favorite scene from Survival
When the 7th Doctor invited Ace to join him for the first time, he promised to bring her back to Perivale in time for tea. And sadly, the last tea-based reference is the 7th Doctor having a cuppa before the TARDIS malfunctioned and plopped him in San Francisco... and the rest is history...
we know that he gets gunned down and undergoes a very traumatic regeneration
It's funny that when you look at the history of production in Doctor Who, it seemed like everything was against it taking-off.
The speech at the end I feel really embodies the perseverance that the show had.
"somewhere else the tea's getting cold"
This episode was not written by Douglas Adams but it is a very Douglas Adams-ish ending.
As the moment is getting closer, I still find it unbelievable that Ace is returning, with her bat to fight the daleks and will to fight the master
What a wonderful coda this was to the Classic run of Doctor Who and the adventure that began in a junkyard so long ago...
And to think Ace is back tomorrow! 🥳🥳
If Doctor who had never ever come back on screen this was just the right way to end the series.
In my heart, this end monologue will always be the true finale of the series. Everything after is just professional fanfic.
This is professional fan Fiction
Do you notice how this is the seventh doctor
Everything after the tenth planet is
Because mister hartnell was the last member of the original Cast And crew
Not to mention that episode was update humongous ret con
@@plantainsame2049 is it a bad thing?
@rpmblack7892 no I like to pick fun at people
Who say [blank] I'd fake because I say so
@@plantainsame2049 Oh, okay, cause I've seen you be around everywhere in the comments of this video
I believe this was the actual end of the original run. The "New Who" is a reboot in many ways. With a new tone, sensibility and audience,
You That like this very season isn't a complete reboot of the season. Literally before it, the doctor is acting completely differently and the tone of the show doesn't just change every few years
Doctor who is not two shows it's a thousand shows
Aaaaw the ending is so wholesome!
As closing lines go, that was pretty good
I love Ace so much and I can't wait to watch her episodes with the 7th Doctor when their episodes come on BBC iPlayer
This still hurts... love 7 and Ace.
No quote more perfectly sums up Doctor who than this
Even though I wasn't born yet in that era of doctor who (and if I'm being honest, I never heard of doctor who until the television movie premiered in the states back in the 90's) i agree that this could have been an EXCELLENT series finale , granted it didn't really quite wrap things up the way most fans were thinking of (but luckily dimensions in time and the other reunion and anniversary specials took care of that) but I still believe that novels and comics should have been made to bridge the gap between survival and the movie.
What do you mean Should have they do
Are you just frazing it weird
1:38 "and the rivers dream" .
"Hello sweetie"
This story is ending but the story never ends 😭😭😭
Ace ..boom!
I honestly think that if doctor who didn't cancel, it would have had great story lines and a massive boost in ratings, especially if ace was going to become a time Lord and finding out the doctor was one of the founders of the time lord's.
26 seasons and a movie... and 12+ more series.
One of my favorite dr who lines, when ever i feel down or depress i rewatch this scene and feel much better.
An excellent scene to end on but they deserved a longer run. One of the great duos of the series: Ace & the Professor.
One of the best doctor speeches ever made!
Wow that music is great.
what a great episode very sad at the end tho
Beautiful scene, tragic and sad but hopeful for a return that would eventually come : ] Sylvester's speech here, which just in case anyone didn't know was actually recorded on 23/11/1989, 26 years to the day that Doctor Who first arrived, is a great closer to one hell of an era of Sci-fi, of Television and of course, of Doctor Who.
Makes you wonder- what if Doctor Who wasn’t “cancelled” in 1989 and went on into the 1990s? How many more seasons would Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred Done? Would there had been a movie in 1996? Who would’ve played the Doctor in the late 90s/early 2000s? Would we still have gotten the same episodes and actors/actresses of the modern era that we’ve had? What about show runners? It’s crazy to think how much different Doctor Who would be if it had gone into the 90s. But we may never know and I still think Doctor Who is great old and new
I can answer one of those questions. No there would not have been a movie
There were a couple stories thrown around for a potential Season 27. I believe Ace was supposed to depart early on in the season, and possibly McCoy as well at the end of the season after that.
A good chunk of those stories were novelized.
Ya know, when you stop to think about it this scene is kind of a perfect bookend to the Classic series.
An Unearthly Child started with the Doctor as a crumedgeon who merely wanted to observe the universe. But traveling with a granddaughter who pushed him to not just see the universe, but live in it.
Survival ends with the Doctor as a man who, while harboring darkness in him, has learned to live in the universe and appreciate it. And now he passes it on to an adopted daughter. The both of them joyfully sauntering off to their next adventure.
Its sort of poetic in its own way.
Airing on December 6, 1989, Classic Doctor Who died with the '80s. It's always so interesting and satisfying to me how so many pop culture phenomena start at the beginning of a decade and/or end at the end of one. Neatly confining it to a certain time period. '90s Doctor Who just wasn't long for this world, despite Paul McGann's best efforts.
Everyone has their favorite Doctor and I think that's a testament to the lure of Doctor Who. Each actor brought a facet to the character that spoke to people in different ways. None of us could be Time Lords, but all of us could have been companions.
Even tho it wasn’t planned, good ending to classic doctor who
0:53 Please don't let this happen to the show again.
Wonder if a similar scene will be implemented at the final episode of Series 15 in 2025 marking the end of the show and into the Second Wilderness Era.
Farewell classic Doctor Who.
does anyone else want to see a new-made movie or miniseries about when the 8th doctor went back and visited his grandaughter?
Somewhere where the teas getting cold lol
Then they did a whole movie that did absolutely nothing for Ace
Well I mean it was like a decade later With a completely different production team. It's odd that they even decided to bring back McCoy. And didn't just start at fresh with some major event to explain the time gap like the new series
To me this is the ending of doctor who
Sylvester McCoys Seventh Doctor to me Is the last True Incarnation of the Doctor.
Is what this six faker
Honestly if you're going to say doctor who And it you gotta go all out and say it ended up the tenth planet when they retroactively made the character in immortal space Alien instead of a human from the future he was originally intended to be
@@plantainsame2049 No you're wrong. Doctor Who has lost its original image ever since it came back and is not the same show at all. The Chibnall era to now has made even more a mockery of it.
@@plantainsame2049 Doctor Who Died with McCoy in Death Comes to Time.
@@generalgrievous398 It lost its original image Decades before survival, it lost its original image during the first doctor's era consequence of changing show runner
Uploaded on my birthday :) did they ever explain why they chose to broadcast Survival last? Whatever the reason, I'm glad they did. Bizarrely, it feels the most like a modern Doctor who story out of all the classics - maybe just a coincidence that it was the final one. Weird to think that 1989 is nearly as close to 2005 (the ninth doctor) as 2005 is to today
They shot this episode before the show got canceled, they were working on the episodes out of order, like how Series 5 with Matt Smith was shot out of order, they did the 2-Parter with the weeping angels before they started filming The Eleventh Hour. The speech here was dubbed over just before the episode aired because the producer had the feeling Doctor Who was being Cancelled. They started planning the next Season before the broadcast of this one but the show obviously got canceled.
Hilarious how the actress who plays Kara is also Bernice Summerfield.
I love Ace's jacket🔥
Now lets start The Masque of Mandragora
A great McCoy scene.
Y'know, while I'm glad they brought the show back, this is actually a great way to end a series
True, though I reckon if it were cancelled nowadays, the writers would throw everything at the final episode.
When Chibnall was writing Power of The Doctor, the show hadn't actually been recommissioned, so he basically wrote it in a way that would make it fitting as a final episode. To be honest, if we ignored the atrocities Chibnall committed prior to Power, it would have been an amazing way to end the show, as the ending just showed the Doctor regenerating, which showed that the story would never end. The show also nearly got cancelled during the pandemic. Think of how much pressure Chibnall must have been under when he was writing Flux! Then again, S13 wasn't the greatest, even so.
Anyway, I'm waffling now so I'll finish the comment.
Ace was the best.
I've just been watching this final story on DVD and I've enjoyed it and my eyes got a bit watery watching this 3rd and last part
Love them both
Thank you!
I hope Slyvester McCoy has a Very Happy 80th Birthday today
I have found something to enjoy with virtually every Doctor and like many, I find that Tom Baker personifies much of what I love about and want in the Doctor, but I also truly love Sylvester McCoy, especially paired with Ace. These two were practically perfect together and I always figured that the new show looked to this relationship as the template of what they wanted going forward.
I like to think all the old doctors look that old because of how long they were in the doctors mind, the memories not fading, but aging as the doctor marks how far he comes
*Who’s here after hearing from recent Doctor Who 2022 news?*
That RTD returns? A new era, a new Doctor... as always.
Who is else has tears when watching the We’ve got work to do line
30 years later, actors who grew up watching doctor who eventually got their chance to control the tardis
Ace will appear in power of the doctor
Was that only five months ago feels like it's been Longer
I love Sylvester McCoy!!!
He's my Professor!!!
So nice *_ACES_* last words of the show were “the tardis,”
No, last words were "Come on Ace, we got work to do"
Please reread my comment, you may understand then :)
Classic doctor who final episode
OMG, LOL. The outtro. They are still a comedic pair. :D
Sylvester McCoy
The Best Doctor!
Und Ace war wunderbar.
Where girls cried: titanic
Where boys cried: infinity war
Where real men cried:
And they were never seen again.
Until 2021.
You don't count the endless amounts of books and audio dramas. And another expanded media stuff that I could literally bury us alive in
@@plantainsame2049 I said 'seen'