Russell T Davies breaks down EVERY episode of his Doctor Who era - Interview (read description)
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- Опубліковано 27 лип 2022
- Three hour+ interview with former and upcoming Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies, released to coincide with the shows 50th anniversary in 2013, where Davies speaks about his experience as showrunner.
*** indicates moments i found valuable
SERIES ONE:
Rose - 1:11 (death on modern TV, filming blocks, convincing the modern world of Dr Who)
The End of the World - 11:10, 24:10, ***1:30:55 (production design, budget limitations, "actually, we survive" - optimism for the child audience)
The Unquiet Dead - 10:02 (ratings)
***Aliens of London/World War Three 11:20 (Dr Who Confidential, masking production woes, executive lead TV, choosing directors)
Dalek -
The Long Gane - 29:47 (too blue)
Fathers Day - 27:45 (Buffy influence, Mothers)
The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances - 29:52 (agonising about locations - "why is it in a railway station?/SILVER FOIL!")
Boom Town - 34:58 (Annette Badland, morality and liberalism, deifying the Dr)
Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways - 41:38 (noble deaths, validation from the BBC, series 2 thoughts)
SERIES TWO:
The Christmas Invasion - 1:25:05 (running jokes, xmas day slot)
New Earth - 56:40 (not all about scares)
Tooth and Claw -50:49 (kicking historical stories up the arse)
***School Reunion - 59:35 (Sarah Jane - embracing the past, Anthony Head)
***The Girl in the Fireplace - 1:05:40 (kissing in Dr Who, fans swallowing inconsistencies, the 8th Dr being half human)
Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel/Army of Ghosts/Doomsday - 49:22 (repeasting scheduling mistakes - 4 episode filming blocks)
***The Idiots Lantern - 1:12:46 (is being a fan essential to writing?)
The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit - 1:27:01 (friendly aliens)
Love & Monsters - 1:36:21 - (confident enough to risk, taking the hero off stage, blowjob joke)
Fear Her - 1:42:50 - (abuse portrayed by tea time entertainment, Dr who as police procedural)
SERIES THREE:
The Runaway Bride - 1:46:16 (Spencer Tracy & Katharine Hepburn, editors)
Smith and Jones - 1:48:53 (slow alien,
***The Shakespeare Code - 1:51:08 (Shakespeare as Liam Gallagher, you dont become Shakespeare sitting under a willow tree, Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love, how to manage writers, taking notes)
Gridlock - 1:58:05 (take all the drama out and whats left is interesting, old rugged cross - A-Level writing, "it's nice to lie")
Gay Agenda - 2:05:49
Daleks in Manhatten/Evolution of the Daleks - 2:13:20 (writing for daleks)
The Lazarus Experiment - 2:17:29 ("no agent is ever falling over themselves to get their client down to Cardiff for the money that we pay.")
42 - 2:20:20 ( • doctor who S3 Mid seas... )
Human Nature/The Fanily of Blood - 2:23:10 (freedom at prime time saturday night)
Blink - 2:26:41 (hard to cast older black actors)
Utopia - 2:29:37 (Doctor Who Magazine, equal access, RTD fact-checking DWM - dictating fandom)
The Sound of Drums/The Last of the Time Lords - 2:34:54 (Dr Who as urban thriller, , "the more we made David suffer, the more the ratings went up.")
SERIES FOUR:
Voyage of the Damned - 2:37:52 (Julie Gardener's pop star schedule)
Partners in Crime - 2:39:03 (Dedicated to Howard Attfield, getting Catherine Tate back)
The Fires of Pompeii - 2:43:30 (comedy and tragedy)
Planet of the Ood - 2:44:33 ("you address what you let the humans off the hook with before", Hind-Brain Guillotine,
The Sontaron Stratagem/The Poisin Sky - 2:46:45 (building in consistent worlds - the Valiant or the year 5 billion/Face of Boe)
60th - 2:48:46
The Doctor's Daughter - 2:15:15
The Unicorn and the Wasp - 2:52:48
Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead - 2:49:26 (trust in Steven Moffat)
Midnight - 1:56:51, 2:53:04 (accurate dipiction of human reaction, when kids do it it drives you mad)
Turn Left - 2:55:40 (kids think the Dr can't die, dystopia portrayed by tea time entertainment)
The Stolen Earth/Journeys End - 2:58:31 (Donna Noble has been written out - you can't save the entire universe without any sort of loss)
SPECIALS
The Next Doctor - 3:01:22 (winding down, David Morrissey)
Planet of the Dead - 3:04:31 (adapting to a vital prop broken in transit)
The Waters of Mars - 3:05:57, 3:07:29 (base under seige, uncredited re-writes)
The End of Time Part One & Part Two 3:10:12 (The Final Days of Planet Earth, Terrence Higgins Trust)
Message to all Dr Who fans: 3:13:49
Absolutely loved this interview. My love for this era will never fade, I always revisit it and especially enjoy behind the scenes stuff from that time. Having confidential on iPlayer is brilliant.
Fantastic interview, love hearing all of the additional insight behind those years
I absolutely love this interview, and I love RTD. He should be a Knight of the Realm! My only criticism (and it is a small one) is that the sound quality isn’t great. I’d like to hear Toby a little more clearly. They are both so knowledgable and articulate. A real treat. I immediately searched out ‘Moths ate my Doctor Who Scarf!’ Thank you.
Idiots Lantern lowkey a banger, sleeper hit, glad to see Russell giving it some love
@@PapaLuge spot on mate. I would include love & monsters and fear her too. The fandom is unfair to that run of episodes because it's become fashionable to hate them.
@@PapaLuge love & monsters is one of my favourites actually
2:48:55 holy crap…
3:13:10 is incredible
for those wondering this is a collection of numerous interviews (hence varying quality in audio) that RTD did for Toby Hadokes "Whos Round" podcast for Big Finish. If you enjoyed this go listen to the rest as theres one with Moffat and ones with other writers plus actors and directors from throught the 60 year run
thank you so much for uploading this :) If only there was one with Moffat!
2:48:55 he just knew
Lol 😆
3:13:58 That aged like wine
Wow, this is great!
This was such an insightful interview! You got to learn so much about the process of all 4 series of the RTD era. I always wondered about the co-writing process for the last 2 specials. RTD is my absolute hero. Loved you as an interviewer 😊
Yeah its a fantastic interview, but it's not me speaking to him - i wish!
If you havent already, you should read "The Writer's Tale" by RTD and Benjamin Cook, who wrote for doctor who magazine. It's a 700odd page email correspondence during the produciton of series 4. Vivid descriptions of what it takes to run the empire of Doctor Who, with some interesting insights into Davies' personal life and process. brilliant read!
Yeah I’ve read the writers tale. Really learnt so much about how to make doctor who and the writing process in general !
@@andrewlawless9796 Hang on, whose work is this? You got permission to upload it I'm assuming?
@@MeansofIntrigue hella permission.
Are there bits missing cause all of the sudden it goes from fear her to runaway bride and from Daleks in manhattan to the doctor’s daughter
@@slimmy_0076 it was a 7 part series, I cut out the intros and outros for each episode. And the host got the order wrong, check description for series by series breakdown
I don’t have a problem with the human characters in love and monsters, it’s the abzorbaloff. Setting aside the fact that he’s alien fat bastard, it’s like the jet jaguar situation but 33 years later where the kid made a design for a cool/scary monster and the people working on the show or movie said, well a kid submitted this so let’s redesign it to be more for kids. In the abzorbaloff’s case they made him campy and it’s strange to have an episode where a joke is made out of what a child thinks is scary next to an episode where the whole premise is that a child is doing all these scary drawings and they’re becoming real.
3:12:58
2:11:48 this did not age well!
the audio volume is all over the place
Yes, it is.