Hi Marie-Clare in this story I noticed in the Dalek ship there were computer banks that were similar to the disguise, the Master used for his TARDIS in the Time Monster . I also in the year this was broadcast was aged 30 and classic Dr Who was still in limbo and had been for the past 10 years and I for one had little faith it would ever come back on tv given how Dr Who started in November 1963 and ended in December 1989 and when it ended I was 20 years old and in my first job since leaving school in 1985 aged 16 . I also liked the sets in this story the ones on the Dalek ship are awesome, in billions of ways and the way the Dr regenerates several times is awesome .
Rowan Atkinson was actually interested in playing the Doctor for real around this time. Fun fact: Hugh Grant was offered the part in the 2005 revival but turned it down. Something he regretted once he saw the show aired.
Elsewhere on UA-cam, there is a fascinating interview Rowañ gave to Terry Wogan back in 1983 to publicise the first series of Blackadder. He mentions playing the Doctor as a particular ambition. Jonathan Pryce, perhaps best known for the film Brazil, would have made an excellent Master, though after this it would have been difficult to take him seriously. Blackadder had ended 10 years earlier, though it was to make a comeback that year at the millennium dome for the big celebrations of the year 2000.
The evolution of how people viewed the show was quite interesting in the 1990s. It went from being something to laugh at to being something to laugh with. And I think that 'nudge and a wink' attitude we get in the series today is very much a product of that. It started making jokes about itself before anyone else got the chance.
Well I will say this; When Peter Davidson took over, *I* started laughing. 😅👉 "🏏" But when _Colin Baker_ took over, I stopped laughing and turned it off. 😢
The incidental music used in this episode is from classic Dr Who stories, Meglos, Logopolis and Resurrection of the Daleks . I like the sets in this story, they are awesome, I think it was a shame Anthony Ainley did not reprise the role of the Doctors Time Lord arch-enemy the Master I also liked the control room in the Masters TARDIS it is awesome .
Moffat? No. At least not all of it. This is clearly Rowan Atkins comedy. I am not even British and even I can see that. Maybe Moffet did the executive producing, or the technical production, but that story is all Atkins. .
@@TheNoiseySpectator [SPORFLE]! Where do people get these strange ideas? No, the script was all written entirely by Stephen Moffat; Just like the scripts for Blackadder Series 2 to 4 were all written by Ben Elton and Richard Curtis. Rowan very rarely writes his own material, though like all well-established comedy performers he does reserve the right to polish it in rehearsal, to get the very best out of the jokes. The background is that the producer of that year's Comic Relief, Sue Vertue, was taking suggestions for what sort of sketches they could do. One suggestion that came up was a Doctor Who skit. This instantly made sense to Sue, who just happened to be married to a (then) moderately successful comedy writer who also just happened to be a massive Doctor Who nerd. "Stephen, Darling, I've got a job you might be interested in...". (His "fee" for the job was probably skipping a turn at putting the bins out. =:o} )
It was *definitely* his big break, being his first ever TV writing gig and massive success. =:o} It's also a great show, which I'd love to Marie-Clare reacting to, even if only for an odd episode or two. And one day, I really must get around to doing that fanvid I've had in mind for years and years, combining and comparing "Press Gang" with "Buffy The Vampire Slayer". (High school setting? Check. Strong female lead character with a tendency to boss her friends around? Check. Guy with a dodgy trans-Atlantic accent, named Spike? Check... =:o} )
@@therealpbristow You may yet get your opportunity to do that side project and have it put on the air. ⭐ It seems _Everyone_ In Brittan is getting a chance to play the Doctor at one time or another. 🇬🇧 If you have your idea organized into an outline, when your turn comes, you can show it to the producer while on a break on set. 😃
The bit where the Master and the Doctor communicate from inside their console rooms is a nod to The Time Monster, and Terserus was the planet where Goth found the decaying Master some time before The Deadly Assassin.
Fun is the right word for this, but it is also notable for being written by Steven Moffat, who had made his name as a comedy writer. Blackadder was long over by the time it was made, but Mr Bean was going strong and Rowan had a long standing association with Comic Relief anyway, so he was a logical choice for the Doctor. It's just a shame he never played him in the show proper, as I think he would have been good too.
Blackadder ended in 1989 but Blackadder Back and Forth (filmed by Sky TV in the summer of 1999 for use in the Millennium Dome exhibition that autumn) was one of Rowan's next major roles after this spoof.
It is very much a product of its time. All the actors were rumored to be the Doctor, the Master or a companion at the time. The music is all from the Doctor Who : The Music LPs 1 & 2. Yeah, I'm not a youngster! ;) PS your smirk at the end is priceless.
Steven Moffatt was a comedy writer as well, you can tell he's a big fan of the show with all the classic who references here. Julia Sawalha and Joanna Lumley worked together on Ab Fab as well of course. I love Jim Broadbent showing up as the shy doctor. Jonathan Pryce was also the main Bond villain in Tomorrow Never Dies with Peirce Brosnan.
Aww. Everyone else has played the Doctor, but me. 😢 In fact, now that the Doctor can regenerate into a woman, even Marie Claire is in the running to play... 🤔What is it, now? The fifteenth or sixteenth Doctor?
I liked this Dr Who story Marie-Clare, and it is hard to believe it is almost 25 years ago since it was aired and also at the time the year this story was aired classic Dr Who had been off air for nearly 10 years when this last season of classic Dr Who season 26 was aired with the 7th Doctor and Ace.
I do say Marie-Clare this story is awesome in billions of ways and the way the Doctor changes 4 times and ends up a woman is awesome and the Doctor,s arch-enemy the Master is played by welshman Jonathan Price who I think is still alive. I l also liked the sets in this story, they too are awesome and the Daleks working with the Master again is awesome too there is music from classic Dr Who stories Meglos, Logopolis and Resurrection of the Daleks.
Yet another chance for Richard E Grant, but Joanna Lumley seems to have been on the wishlist for female Dr Who for as long as I can remember. No unrequited love this time though.
Now you've seen this comedy version of Doctor Who, I highly recommend the comedy sketch from 1985, which sees Lenny Henry as the first black Doctor taking on the Cybermen. Great reaction 👏👍🍻
@@thevirgologychannel6215 Arguably, given the dubious canonicity of this and the 60s Dalek films, Lenny is the second Doctor to sport a moustache, Peter Cushing being the first.
You may know Julia Sawalha from playing Saffron in Absolutely Fabulous. Jonathan Pryce you may know from the Pirates of the Caribbean series, or Games of Thrones, maybe as a Bond villain, or The Crown ... or GI Joe series? He has done a lot of stuff.
If you count this as canon which shouldn't really be as this is a send-up of Dr. Who Joanna Lumley was technically the first female Doctor which was only intended as a joke at the time because people thought generally it would never happen until it became a reality in 2017 then Jodie Whittaker became the first official female Doctor. Rowan Atkinson is the unofficial Ninth Doctor as this came out 3 years after the TV Movie came out and 6 years before revival Who came out. Richard E. Grant who plays the unofficial Tenth Doctor was also the unofficial Ninth Doctor in "Scream of the Shalka" and Dr. Simeon/The Great Intelligence in an episode or two in NuWho official Dr. Who. The scene where Rowan Atkinson's Doctor regenerated the background music was from Tom Baker's final moments from his last story "Logopolis" and this was also technically the first to use golden regeneration energy. The scene where The TARDIS is flying on the Master's view screen was footage from the TV Movie. Jonathan Pryce would had made a great Master for real. The companion who plays Emma is actress Julia Sawalha who is also best known as Saffron from the sitcom "Absolutely Fabulous" and "Press Gang" a show which was also written and produced by Steven Moffatt.
Great reaction Marie-Clare, get well soon! Fun to see the phrase "Never cruel or cowardly" getting its first outing. The spoof appeared across the evening of Comic Relief on BBC1, first broadcast (exactly 25 years ago) on Friday 12th March 1999, in four 5 mins episodes at approx. 7.30pm 8.30pm, 9.30pm and 10.30pm. The third episode was up against the then ratings behemoth, Who Wants to be a Millionaire. Episode 1: 9.8 million Episode 2: 9.4 million Episode 3 5.8 million Episode 4 8.7 million (Ratings from.Adam Martyn's History of Doctor Who Viewing Figures) The average rating was 8.4 million. The 1996 TV movie had achieved 9.1 million and 1993's Children in Need special Dimensions in Time averaged 13.1 million. All three "90s Who landmarks" had better figures than any Who since Time-Flight episode one in March 1982. The ratings for Time-Flight (10.1 million) and Dimensions... prove just how little high ratings have to do with the perceived "quality" of a programme! Fun fact: 12th Doctors, Hugh Grant and Peter Capaldi had appeared together in the 1988 Ken Russell gothic horror The Lair of the White Worm. Might be worth a reaction, MC?
... No, I think you can resort to ordinary Human understanding of time to explain that. More likely Moffat just remembered this, and fell back on the idea of The Doctor becoming a woman when he ran out of any other ideas. 🙁
And, what do you mean "Moffat"? I am not even British and even I recognize Atkins sense of humor when I see it. Clearly Rowan Atkins wrote most if not all of this. 😒 …. Maybe Benny Hill. The bit with The Doctor becoming a woman and getting together with the Master seems like how he would end one of his sketches.
Nope, Steven Moffat wrote this in 1999 as a comedy sketch for Red Nose Day (which is a charity day in the UK). When I was saying "even Moffat knew" I was making a joke. @@TheNoiseySpectator
This was a good send-up of Doctor Who and perfectly cast. I would have personally found a way to add Hugh Laurie and Steven Fry in there , but that's just me.
Well, isn't there some kind of law in Brittan that every single citizen _has to_ play Doctor Who at some time or another? I thought Craig Kilborn was staying in The U.S. to dodge that obligation? 🤔
Weirdly, like with Shalka R.E Grant Doctor, the COFD Doctors were made canon in a couple of Eighth Doctor Adventure books (specifically The Tomorrow Windows and The Gallifrey Chronicles), though unlike the Shalka Doctor where there was a webpage short story and a charity Anthology, havent had any other stories with the Atkinson Doctor or Lumley Doctor beyond this.
It was all very silly . I can see Atkins wrote this, that is clear as day to me. 🕵️♂️🎥 So, now Huge Grant and Rowan Atkins have played the Doctor, too. They really are hireing everyone one in The World to play the Doctor, except me. 😭
My friend scored an off air recording/dub PAL to NTSC transfer of this here in the States. I used to make anyone and everyone watch it. The same tape also had that Anorak clip show (I forget what it was called) that was full of at the time unseen clips from incomplete stories from the 60s. Does that show exist on UA-cam? Haven’t been able to find it. It was cleverly complied…a montage of various overacting clips comes to mind…,
I like Jonathan Pryce's Master... an intriguing mishmash of Roger Delgado and Graham "Soldeed" Crowden ;) Pryce was the star of one of my favourite films, Terry Gilliam's "Brazil". Well worth a look.
Sydney Newman, the creator of Doctor Who, wanted Joanna Lumley as the 7th Doctor to refresh the show as it had started to become stale, but, the BBC went with Sylvester McCoy and ended up cancelled. Personally, I think she would have been a fantastic Doctor.
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Hi Marie-Clare in this story I noticed in the Dalek ship there were computer banks that were similar to the disguise, the Master used for his TARDIS in the Time Monster . I also in the year this was broadcast was aged 30 and classic Dr Who was still in limbo and had been for the past 10 years and I for one had little faith it would ever come back on tv given how Dr Who started in November 1963 and ended in December 1989 and when it ended I was 20 years old and in my first job since leaving school in 1985 aged 16 . I also liked the sets in this story the ones on the Dalek ship are awesome, in billions of ways and the way the Dr regenerates several times is awesome .
Rowan Atkinson was actually interested in playing the Doctor for real around this time. Fun fact: Hugh Grant was offered the part in the 2005 revival but turned it down. Something he regretted once he saw the show aired.
Elsewhere on UA-cam, there is a fascinating interview Rowañ gave to Terry Wogan back in 1983 to publicise the first series of Blackadder. He mentions playing the Doctor as a particular ambition.
Jonathan Pryce, perhaps best known for the film Brazil, would have made an excellent Master, though after this it would have been difficult to take him seriously.
Blackadder had ended 10 years earlier, though it was to make a comeback that year at the millennium dome for the big celebrations of the year 2000.
Yes, once the show aired, I regretted Hugh Grant hadn't accepted the role, also. 😝
The evolution of how people viewed the show was quite interesting in the 1990s. It went from being something to laugh at to being something to laugh with. And I think that 'nudge and a wink' attitude we get in the series today is very much a product of that. It started making jokes about itself before anyone else got the chance.
Well I will say this;
When Peter Davidson took over, *I* started laughing. 😅👉 "🏏"
But when _Colin Baker_ took over, I stopped laughing and turned it off. 😢
This had the first female Doctor. It just so happened she was also the 13th incarnation.
The incidental music used in this episode is from classic Dr Who stories, Meglos, Logopolis and Resurrection of the Daleks . I like the sets in this story, they are awesome, I think it was a shame Anthony Ainley did not reprise the role of the Doctors Time Lord arch-enemy the Master I also liked the control room in the Masters TARDIS it is awesome .
This was written by Steven Moffat
Moffat? No. At least not all of it.
This is clearly Rowan Atkins comedy.
I am not even British and even I can see that.
Maybe Moffet did the executive producing, or the technical production, but that story is all Atkins.
.
@@TheNoiseySpectator [SPORFLE]! Where do people get these strange ideas?
No, the script was all written entirely by Stephen Moffat; Just like the scripts for Blackadder Series 2 to 4 were all written by Ben Elton and Richard Curtis. Rowan very rarely writes his own material, though like all well-established comedy performers he does reserve the right to polish it in rehearsal, to get the very best out of the jokes.
The background is that the producer of that year's Comic Relief, Sue Vertue, was taking suggestions for what sort of sketches they could do. One suggestion that came up was a Doctor Who skit. This instantly made sense to Sue, who just happened to be married to a (then) moderately successful comedy writer who also just happened to be a massive Doctor Who nerd. "Stephen, Darling, I've got a job you might be interested in...". (His "fee" for the job was probably skipping a turn at putting the bins out. =:o} )
@TheNoiseySpectator I'm afraid you're mistaken. Moffat wrote the script in its entirety.
Julia Sawalha's big break was in "Press Gang", which was written by none other than Steven Moffat. (I think it was probably his big break, too.)
It was *definitely* his big break, being his first ever TV writing gig and massive success. =:o} It's also a great show, which I'd love to Marie-Clare reacting to, even if only for an odd episode or two.
And one day, I really must get around to doing that fanvid I've had in mind for years and years, combining and comparing "Press Gang" with "Buffy The Vampire Slayer". (High school setting? Check. Strong female lead character with a tendency to boss her friends around? Check. Guy with a dodgy trans-Atlantic accent, named Spike? Check... =:o} )
@@therealpbristow You may yet get your opportunity to do that side project and have it put on the air. ⭐
It seems _Everyone_ In Brittan is getting a chance to play the Doctor at one time or another. 🇬🇧
If you have your idea organized into an outline, when your turn comes, you can show it to the producer while on a break on set. 😃
@@TheNoiseySpectator Do I still need an Equity card first? That was always the biggest barrier, back in my drama school days... =;o}
The bit where the Master and the Doctor communicate from inside their console rooms is a nod to The Time Monster, and Terserus was the planet where Goth found the decaying Master some time before The Deadly Assassin.
I can't believe it's almost 25 years since this first aired
It's exactly 25 years ago today, 12 Mar 1999
Fun is the right word for this, but it is also notable for being written by Steven Moffat, who had made his name as a comedy writer. Blackadder was long over by the time it was made, but Mr Bean was going strong and Rowan had a long standing association with Comic Relief anyway, so he was a logical choice for the Doctor. It's just a shame he never played him in the show proper, as I think he would have been good too.
Blackadder ended in 1989 but Blackadder Back and Forth (filmed by Sky TV in the summer of 1999 for use in the Millennium Dome exhibition that autumn) was one of Rowan's next major roles after this spoof.
@@robalexander8065 What is Atkins doing now?
Is that Police Detective drama still running, or is he on to something new?
Serious question.
It is very much a product of its time. All the actors were rumored to be the Doctor, the Master or a companion at the time. The music is all from the Doctor Who : The Music LPs 1 & 2. Yeah, I'm not a youngster! ;) PS your smirk at the end is priceless.
Steven Moffatt was a comedy writer as well, you can tell he's a big fan of the show with all the classic who references here. Julia Sawalha and Joanna Lumley worked together on Ab Fab as well of course. I love Jim Broadbent showing up as the shy doctor. Jonathan Pryce was also the main Bond villain in Tomorrow Never Dies with Peirce Brosnan.
Hugh Grant and the eventual 12th Doctor, Peter Capaldi worked together on the 1988 gothic horror. The Lair of the White Worm.
Aww. Everyone else has played the Doctor, but me. 😢
In fact, now that the Doctor can regenerate into a woman, even Marie Claire is in the running to play...
🤔What is it, now? The fifteenth or sixteenth Doctor?
I liked this Dr Who story Marie-Clare, and it is hard to believe it is almost 25 years ago since it was aired and also at the time the year this story was aired classic Dr Who had been off air for nearly 10 years when this last season of classic Dr Who season 26 was aired with the 7th Doctor and Ace.
Fun fact, this is canon, in fact Richard E Grants incarnation here is explicitly referenced in the most recent season
I do say Marie-Clare this story is awesome in billions of ways and the way the Doctor changes 4 times and ends up a woman is awesome and the Doctor,s arch-enemy the Master is played by welshman Jonathan Price who I think is still alive. I l also liked the sets in this story, they too are awesome and the Daleks working with the Master again is awesome too there is music from classic Dr Who stories Meglos, Logopolis and Resurrection of the Daleks.
Jonathan Pryce is very much still with us.
You've managed to upload this on the 25th anniversary of its broadcast, 12 March 1999, good work
Yet another chance for Richard E Grant, but Joanna Lumley seems to have been on the wishlist for female Dr Who for as long as I can remember. No unrequited love this time though.
"I'll explain later" Moffats era in a nutshell
Also something of a Pertwee catchphrase.
"Stephen,why does your last name sound like one of the planets from a Star Wars movie"?
Moffat - "I'll explain later ".
@@robalexander8065 ... And a general Sci-fi cliche.
@@therealpbristow Yeah, that's true.
Now you've seen this comedy version of Doctor Who, I highly recommend the comedy sketch from 1985, which sees Lenny Henry as the first black Doctor taking on the Cybermen. Great reaction 👏👍🍻
Also, take a look at how he’s styled and see if it reminds you of anyone
@@thevirgologychannel6215 Arguably, given the dubious canonicity of this and the 60s Dalek films, Lenny is the second Doctor to sport a moustache, Peter Cushing being the first.
This is the best kind of parody -- one made by someone who loves the source material!
I think it's terribly funny how casually good Hugh Grant is in this. Still time?
He has stated recently that he doesn't want to do it
You may know Julia Sawalha from playing Saffron in Absolutely Fabulous.
Jonathan Pryce you may know from the Pirates of the Caribbean series, or Games of Thrones, maybe as a Bond villain, or The Crown ... or GI Joe series? He has done a lot of stuff.
If you count this as canon which shouldn't really be as this is a send-up of Dr. Who Joanna Lumley was technically the first female Doctor which was only intended as a joke at the time because people thought generally it would never happen until it became a reality in 2017 then Jodie Whittaker became the first official female Doctor.
Rowan Atkinson is the unofficial Ninth Doctor as this came out 3 years after the TV Movie came out and 6 years before revival Who came out.
Richard E. Grant who plays the unofficial Tenth Doctor was also the unofficial Ninth Doctor in "Scream of the Shalka" and Dr. Simeon/The Great Intelligence in an episode or two in NuWho official Dr. Who.
The scene where Rowan Atkinson's Doctor regenerated the background music was from Tom Baker's final moments from his last story "Logopolis" and this was also technically the first to use golden regeneration energy.
The scene where The TARDIS is flying on the Master's view screen was footage from the TV Movie.
Jonathan Pryce would had made a great Master for real.
The companion who plays Emma is actress Julia Sawalha who is also best known as Saffron from the sitcom "Absolutely Fabulous" and "Press Gang" a show which was also written and produced by Steven Moffatt.
The scene where the Doctor and Master are watching each other from their respective TARDISes is a nod to Jon Pertwee adventure, The Time Monster.
She was Julia Sawalha also in ADFAB.
ABFAB
@@detectivesquirrel2621 Absolutely Fabulous
Great reaction Marie-Clare, get well soon!
Fun to see the phrase "Never cruel or cowardly" getting its first outing.
The spoof appeared across the evening of Comic Relief on BBC1, first broadcast (exactly 25 years ago) on Friday 12th March 1999, in four 5 mins episodes at approx. 7.30pm 8.30pm, 9.30pm and 10.30pm. The third episode was up against the then ratings behemoth, Who Wants to be a Millionaire.
Episode 1: 9.8 million
Episode 2: 9.4 million
Episode 3 5.8 million
Episode 4 8.7 million
(Ratings from.Adam Martyn's History of Doctor Who Viewing Figures)
The average rating was 8.4 million. The 1996 TV movie had achieved 9.1 million and 1993's Children in Need special Dimensions in Time averaged 13.1 million. All three "90s Who landmarks" had better figures than any Who since Time-Flight episode one in March 1982.
The ratings for Time-Flight (10.1 million) and Dimensions... prove just how little high ratings have to do with the perceived "quality" of a programme!
Fun fact: 12th Doctors, Hugh Grant and Peter Capaldi had appeared together in the 1988 Ken Russell gothic horror The Lair of the White Worm. Might be worth a reaction, MC?
"getting its first outing" - on screen, that is. "Uncle Tel" (Terrance Dicks) had been using it for years in books and in interviews. =:o}
The companion does Ginger's voice in Chicken Run.
Even Moffat knew in the 90's that the 13th Doctor would end up being a woman haha
... No, I think you can resort to ordinary Human understanding of time to explain that.
More likely Moffat just remembered this, and fell back on the idea of The Doctor becoming a woman when he ran out of any other ideas. 🙁
And, what do you mean "Moffat"?
I am not even British and even I recognize Atkins sense of humor when I see it.
Clearly Rowan Atkins wrote most if not all of this. 😒
…. Maybe Benny Hill. The bit with The Doctor becoming a woman and getting together with the Master seems like how he would end one of his sketches.
Nope, Steven Moffat wrote this in 1999 as a comedy sketch for Red Nose Day (which is a charity day in the UK). When I was saying "even Moffat knew" I was making a joke. @@TheNoiseySpectator
Not sure what you mean, Chibnall was the one who made the Doctor a woman (and this was written in 1999).@@TheNoiseySpectator
This was a good send-up of Doctor Who and perfectly cast. I would have personally found a way to add Hugh Laurie and Steven Fry in there , but that's just me.
Well, isn't there some kind of law in Brittan that every single citizen _has to_ play Doctor Who at some time or another?
I thought Craig Kilborn was staying in The U.S. to dodge that obligation?
🤔
Weirdly, like with Shalka R.E Grant Doctor, the COFD Doctors were made canon in a couple of Eighth Doctor Adventure books (specifically The Tomorrow Windows and The Gallifrey Chronicles), though unlike the Shalka Doctor where there was a webpage short story and a charity Anthology, havent had any other stories with the Atkinson Doctor or Lumley Doctor beyond this.
It is daft and fun, but I like the fact they used actual incidental music from Doctor Who.
It was all very silly .
I can see Atkins wrote this, that is clear as day to me. 🕵️♂️🎥
So, now Huge Grant and Rowan Atkins have played the Doctor, too.
They really are hireing everyone one in The World to play the Doctor, except me. 😭
Atkins didn't write it. It was Moffat
My friend scored an off air recording/dub PAL to NTSC transfer of this here in the States. I used to make anyone and everyone watch it. The same tape also had that Anorak clip show (I forget what it was called) that was full of at the time unseen clips from incomplete stories from the 60s. Does that show exist on UA-cam? Haven’t been able to find it. It was cleverly complied…a montage of various overacting clips comes to mind…,
I like Jonathan Pryce's Master... an intriguing mishmash of Roger Delgado and Graham "Soldeed" Crowden ;)
Pryce was the star of one of my favourite films, Terry Gilliam's "Brazil". Well worth a look.
Best Doctor Who episode ever made.
He was Johnny English
There were a few Doctor Who Episodes for Comic Relief.
This was the first and biggest.
The communication through gaseous emissions was brought up in Family of Blood.
Fun Fsct Hugh Grant is related to Family of Blood actor Thomas Sangster.
Sydney Newman, the creator of Doctor Who, wanted Joanna Lumley as the 7th Doctor to refresh the show as it had started to become stale, but, the BBC went with Sylvester McCoy and ended up cancelled. Personally, I think she would have been a fantastic Doctor.
Have you seen Kenny Henry's 1980s Dr who episode yet?
Lenny Henry
?
I know of no such episode.
Do you have a link to some scenes from it?
I think Rowan Atkinson would have been incredible as the Doctor
I disagree.
Maybe some other character on the show, but not the Doctor.
Still, Peter Davidson and Colin Baker _did_ set the bar very low. 😒
❤❤❤
This was released in 2003 so I think honestly this may have been the answer for the unofficial 40th anniversary special 🤣
it released in 1999