Sylvester will always be my Doctor. His era is the most ambitious, progressive and entertaining of the whole classic series. He is just the perfect amalgamation of all the other doctors - he has Patrick's clownishness, Tom's alienness, Jon's activeness etc.
Pretty sure it was unintentional but 7’s first few lines being him listing of things he still has to do is pretty fitting seeing as tidying up unfinished business would become a driving motivation in stuff like Remembrance of the Daleks, Silver Nemesis, Battlefield, The Curse of Fenric, and more
I loved the introduction of the Seventh Doctor. From zero to sixty in three seconds ("That was a nice nap"). And seeing him ill-fitting in the Sixth Doctor's outfit was the closing of one era and a prelude to the next...
Fun fact, this entire season was put together in a matter of months. That is, from 'decision to produce it and the decision to recast The Doctor' to 'airing date in its entirety' was quite literally a couple of months. I believe 2-3, would need to double check. It really wasn't a long enough production time. Thus, it was only truly in Sylvester's second season, where they had time to properly plan, that they knew what to do with the character.
And as the script editor at the time will be sure to tell you, he wasn’t happy with this script nor the writer’s resistance to including any of his changes. They’d been signed on before he got the script editor job so there was very little he could do about that. The later three stories, though still far from perfect (especially in his eyes) are pretty good or just plain good, and I even find this one has it’s charms
It doesn't help that this script was written for Colin, who was supposed to regenerate at the end; but he (understandably) refused to do it, and the writers (Pip and Jane Baker) were generally ill-disposed towards doing any rewrites of their material. So the regeneration scene was cobbled together at the last minute, and McCoy finds himself trying to fumble through dialogue written for a much more bombastic character than he wanted to play.
It's fascinating to watch how uncomfortable McCoy is with the comedy in this story, especially given that he had been essentially a clown for his whole career before this point...
Also interesting to watch how the classic Doctors alternated between comedians or comic actors who wanted to play the role absolutely straight (1, 3, 5 and 7), and serious character actors who wanted to emphasise the comedy (2, 4, 6 and 8).
With only vague memories of watching Peter and Colin and only listening to Tom Baker's narration of "Genesis of the Daleks" and his reading of "State of Decay", this 7th incarnation of the Doctor and this very story are where my Doctor Who journey really began. At conventions Sylvester McCoy often in jest says that he "killed Doctor Who". For me, as a 7-year old at the time, he really brought Doctor Who to life and here I am, near 41-years old, still watching and reading and listening to this legend of a show 35-years later and ready to say Happy 60th Anniversary in November 2023! To Sylvester and Bonnie Langford, Sophie Aldred, Terry Molloy, Angela Bruce, Simon Williams, Pamela Salem, Karen Gledhill, Jessica Martin and the late greats Nicholas Courtney, Anthony Ainley, and Kate O'Mara I say a very big Thank You!
"Hatred, another fantasy, I have no feelings one way or the other"- And that's what makes the Rani a better Time Lord than the Doctor and the Master combined. Sure she's irritated by the incompetence of lackies but she never falls into the trap of taking it personally.
Exactly. Not the greatest or memorable episodes during his era, but he is my favorite Classic Doctor. Exactly like how my personal favorite New Who Doctor is Capaldi. Even though his stories were meh aside from his monologues
He's the second h0ttest Doctor Who ever. Jon Pertwee was #1. And Patrick Troughton was 3rd. The fact that Sylvester McCoy was actually h0tter on every level than Patrick Troughton is almost unreal. Patrick Troughton was like legendary h0tness and Sylvester McCoy was actually more beautiful than him in every conceivable way. He looks absolutely beautiful in the thumbnail and the amount he bends over in this episode slightly doesn't suck.
@@otakushutin I mean yeah Tom Baker and David Tennant are like THE best and Trumps Classic and New Who, but with Doctor Who there's a bunch of Great Doctors so I like to say "personal favorite" because Tom and David are practically given so giving McCoy or Capaldi, or whoever else some recognition is great to do
Rani: I have no feelings one way or the other. Zapp: I hate these filthy neutrals Kiff. With enemies you know where you stand, but with neutrals? Who knows!
I'd love to see the Rani on the current DW. I never realized he mentions "strange matter" when he sees the asteroid. Did they know the theory of strange matter back when they filmed this? Or was it just a coincidence. Luckily, strange matter/quarks is still theoretical -- hoping we never actually discover or, worse yet, CREATE it. Yikes. If you don't know what it is, google it. It's terrifying.
strange quarks are very much real. But yes, I believe strange matter itself is only theoretical. As for other terrifying end-of-everything scenarios in physics: false vacuum decay. This stems from the idea that the higgs field may be positive everywhere (as opposed to all other fields which are 0 everywhere except where there are particles). It's possible that this is a metastable state and that the higgs field could decay into its ground state at any moment. This would trigger the sorrounding area to also decay, and so on in a bubble expanding at the speed of light, releasing a huge amount of energy (and possibly changing some laws of physics to a form incompatible with earth life), killing everything in its path. Basically, unlike with strange matter, you would get no warning. At all.
Another comment because I just looked it up and it's even more insane than I thought, apparantly other fields than just higgs can collapse and the effects can be completely absurd (from wikipedia): "The effects could range from complete cessation of existing fundamental forces, elementary particles and structures comprising them, to subtle change in some cosmological parameters, mostly depending on potential difference between true and false vacuum. Some false vacuum decay scenarios are compatible with survival of structures like galaxies and stars or even biological life, while others involve the full destruction of baryonic matter or even immediate gravitational collapse of the universe."
RTD always ended his seasons by bringing a classic thing back in a big way (Daleks, Cybermen, Master, Davros) so fingers crossed he can bring that pattern back.
I had my copy of Time and the Rani signed by Sylvester McCoy at my very first DW convention, in 2011. Say what you will about the story itself, but Sylvester certainly comes out in top form, right out of the gate. I also love seeing him in Six's costume. I think he, 11 and 13 were the only Doctors to spend any significant time in their previous Doctor's clothes (as of 2022).
As bad as this episode and rest of the season are, what we eventually got with McCoy was well worth getting through this. It's so great to have Sylvester McCoy as the Doctor.
Spot on right. This was and remains a shocker. Embarrassing even. Yet look what was toi come. Some off best Who was to be created with sykvester in the lead. For me and I would ne interested to know your thoughts, his three best stories are 1. Rememberance of the Daleks 2. The Greatest Show the Galaxy 3. The Curse of Fenric 4. Survival 5. The Happiness Patrol Ghostlight comes close to inclusion as I am still trying to understand it.
Though his latter years are undoubtedly superior I find a lot to love this season, stupid and camp as it is. And Paradise Towers I just think is great regardless
What are people's top 5 Sylvester stories.? Mine: 1. Rememberance of the Daleks 2. The Greatest Show the Galaxy 3. The Curse of Fenric 4. Survival 5. The Happiness Patrol Yours?
I love almost every episode of Sylvester McCoy except for Survival, Curse of Fenric, and especially Happiness Patrol those are all terrible stories with bad episodes in my honest opinion
Sylvester McCoy was an excellent Doctor and Kate O'Mara was perfectly diabolical as The Rani. Sadly Kate is no longer with us, really a waste of an great character that she was not encountered more often on screen in the Who universe. I really hope The Rani is brought back at some point.
Kinda cool to know at one point they were both on Gallifrey. The Rani once too looked into the untempered schism, studied Gallifreyan history and knows what her species can do
Im a classic "Whoaivan" all the way and I loved McCoy's interpretation of the Doctor. He was the fun, unassuming,.yet sinister version of our Time Lord hero. That puts him in my top three of Tom Baker, David Tennant and the great Mr. MCcoy!
Ah yes the clown of clowns. Going darker and darker and darker with time. My favourite Doctor (emphasis on the R.) And as everrrreyone else ha said (well, almost everyone else) he met Dorothy and they became the best of the best. "Ace! Give me some of that nitro 9 that you're not carrying!"
Oh sweet, now that they’re nearly done with Season 12 clips does this mean we’ll be getting a Season 24 clips wave? Because I for one could not be happier about this! And a good start with a very entertaining scene!
That first beginning part when he wakes up, when I first saw it, is over acted and I thought embarrassing for the Dr. Who character. But, after a few shows I realized Sylvester was really good. I think Colon Baker was a bit to overacted. Sort of a pompous character. But there were some shows of him that were very good. I love all the old shows more than the new ones. As far as companions, I liked all of them. I liked most Harry Sullivan, back starting with Tom Baker. He had a likeable smart comical side that didn't show an overacting character. I wonder how many fans of the old shows saw "THE DINOSAURS"?? The master was in that one. I only saw that aired about two times. Luckily I recorded it to DVD. Lots of good characters in the old shows through the years. Very sad many are no longer with us. And the ones that are, have aged so much. Thankfully these shows are rebroadcasted on many networks. I have recorded most episodes of the old shows.
It's difficult to work when one knows management is trying to kill off your show, but hasn't the stones to do it. That was the situation Sylvester McCoy, Bonnie Langford and later Sophie Aldred faced. McCoy looks, um, interesting in Colin Baker's old costume; he says only toward the end did he finally get his Doctor to be what he wanted it to be. And then it was gone for six years, when he was offed in San Francisco.
A cringeworthy start, but Sylvester would go on to much better things. BTW, that garish "clown costume" suits these slapstick scenes far better than it ever suited Colin's Doctor.
It was maybe brief but literally every single thing he did was perfect. Sylvester McCoy definitely thinks so. Every movement, every facial expression, the sound of his voice itself. You literally wouldn't change or alter or add or subtract a dot of it.
Sylvester McCoy and Kate O'Mara absolutely carry this. Unfortunately Andrew Cartmel was left with unfinished scripts to quickly tie up for this season, but luckily Sylvester McCoy shines through and the cast makes various aspects work. On the bright side, this season is followed by the two best seasons of Doctor Who. Then after that the VNAs and Big Finish continued the themes from those seasons very well. 7 is definitely my favourite Doctor.
The Rani is a weird villain for me. For starters, it's her name, the Rani, like the Doctor and the Master she has a title, unlike Romana, Borusa and Chancellor Goth. Secondly, we already had a timelord who reminded me of her, Azmael from the Twin Dilemma, but it's understandable why he didn't return and why they wouldn't have gotten another actor. Thirdly, she feels like a female master, she could have appeared in Survival and Michelle Gomez could have played her. Fourthly, she deserved better outside the writing of Pip&Jane Baker which is why she should've been played by Michelle Gomez. Also, I just want to know, does anyone know where Karen Clegg(Sarn) is now?
She is definitely not a female Master. The Master is proudly evil (and delights in it) and seeks conquest and domination; the Rani is a merely amoral scientist, only interested in her scientific experiments. The Master is best friends with the Doctor and is obsessed with them, usually trying to involve them in their plots; the Rani is largely indifferent toward the Doctor, her response to the "hatred" accusation applies just as well to the Doctor. In "Survival", the Rani would have been trying to use the Cheetah People as test subjects and it is difficult to imagine her struggling - let alone giving in - to animalistic instinct, unlike the Master, who is well suited to that theme.
Sylvester was a great Doctor shame the show ended before he was going to take the character into a new territory, he like Troughton started off clownish but the writing failed him, his best story is Remembrance Of The Daleks .
Sylvester McCoy was the first classic Doctor to do auditions and a screen test, because after the perceived failure of Colin's Doctor, the BBC didn't trust John Nathan-Turner with the casting any more...
We almost got Ken Campbell in this role, but script editor Andrew Cartmell described his audition as "too disturbing." Given the much darker direction in which Cartmell steered the series over the next three years, you have to wonder what Campbell did that was so disturbing - did he crack open a Dalek and eat it like it was a boiled egg?
“ Ah, that was a nice nap. Now down to business. I'm a bit worried about the temporal flicker in sector thirteen. There's a bicentennial refit of the TARDIS to book in. I must just pop over to Centauri Seven and then perhaps a quick holiday. Right, that all seems quite clear. Just three small points. Where am I? Who am I? And who are you? The Rani! Stay back! This is idiotic; you'll injure yourself. why should you care? “ “ Stay away or I'll smash this! Urak! I'll smash it to pieces!! Urak!! Get in here!! “
Please forgive me as I like Sylvester's characterisatiuon over all but his beginning few minutes I always thought was both appaulling - terrible dialogue script and the characterisation (even post generation) is sheer embarrassing. This to me made Colin's run look superior. The special effects of the transkucent space capture balls were cool though as was the monster but other than that this was not a great start. Fortunateky IMO things got better. You would not show this to an adult by means of introduction to DW. A six year old would like it though.
Steve Moffat originally was going to cast Michelle Gomez as Rani in Doctor Who series 8 but decided to make her a female version of The Master instead because more people know The Master then Rani.
Lovable and talented actor that Sylvester McCoy is, this was just all so dreadful: the music, the fashions, the creature design -- just so regrettably the worst of the 80s. This clip reminds me why I stopped watching and after a watch thru a few years back I don't feel I missed much. Not a surprise at all that the show was cancelled as the production just drove it into a brick wall or perhaps more correctly they ran it out of gas. Too bad they couldn't have rebooted it with better writers and creative team. Ugh.
I agree with your comments 100%. I stopped watching when Sylvester came in. I used to joke to my best friend at the time that the best part in the telemovie was when Sylvester gets shot. :)
Sylvester McCoy did a fine job of the 7th doctor. He definitely found his stride when he was paired up with Ace.
nah he was the worst
@@bclmax correction: the writing was the worst
@@benjamindavis4974 Varos was decent
@@bclmax like your comment
Loved his turn in the BluRay collections I have of his first and last season.
Sylvester will always be my Doctor. His era is the most ambitious, progressive and entertaining of the whole classic series. He is just the perfect amalgamation of all the other doctors - he has Patrick's clownishness, Tom's alienness, Jon's activeness etc.
Pretty sure it was unintentional but 7’s first few lines being him listing of things he still has to do is pretty fitting seeing as tidying up unfinished business would become a driving motivation in stuff like Remembrance of the Daleks, Silver Nemesis, Battlefield, The Curse of Fenric, and more
I loved the introduction of the Seventh Doctor. From zero to sixty in three seconds ("That was a nice nap"). And seeing him ill-fitting in the Sixth Doctor's outfit was the closing of one era and a prelude to the next...
I always love the new Doctor in the old doctors outfit
Fun fact, this entire season was put together in a matter of months. That is, from 'decision to produce it and the decision to recast The Doctor' to 'airing date in its entirety' was quite literally a couple of months. I believe 2-3, would need to double check. It really wasn't a long enough production time.
Thus, it was only truly in Sylvester's second season, where they had time to properly plan, that they knew what to do with the character.
Yeah, it shows
And as the script editor at the time will be sure to tell you, he wasn’t happy with this script nor the writer’s resistance to including any of his changes. They’d been signed on before he got the script editor job so there was very little he could do about that. The later three stories, though still far from perfect (especially in his eyes) are pretty good or just plain good, and I even find this one has it’s charms
It doesn't help that this script was written for Colin, who was supposed to regenerate at the end; but he (understandably) refused to do it, and the writers (Pip and Jane Baker) were generally ill-disposed towards doing any rewrites of their material. So the regeneration scene was cobbled together at the last minute, and McCoy finds himself trying to fumble through dialogue written for a much more bombastic character than he wanted to play.
It's fascinating to watch how uncomfortable McCoy is with the comedy in this story, especially given that he had been essentially a clown for his whole career before this point...
Also interesting to watch how the classic Doctors alternated between comedians or comic actors who wanted to play the role absolutely straight (1, 3, 5 and 7), and serious character actors who wanted to emphasise the comedy (2, 4, 6 and 8).
Six's wardrobe with Seven's personality is such an amusing contrast.
I find it more apt than contrasting. Seven's buffoonish characterization in this serial matches Sixie's jester-like outfit well.
sylvester McCoy did an amazing job as the doctor
I saw him and Peter D at Anglicon in the Seattle area, and they were both so fantastic and FUNNY.
I think he grew into it to become an excellent Doctor myself.
He was good. The script writers had a lot of great ideas but not enough money in the kitty to really make them work.
Love the Rani, we need her back
I like the little touch of the Rani when she check both hearts
I like how the Seventh Doctor essentially acts like the Sixth in this video. They didn't modify his lines at all.
Until I saw this comment I didn't notice it at all. Sylvester is such a good actor that he makes those lines his own.
@@FreeTheDonbas And that's why they're so great!
I like it because as soon as he regenerates it makes it feel like he didn’t realise he regenerated
@@FreeTheDonbasyeah the 11th Doctor felt like the 10th Doctor in his episode. Kinda odd but it may have just been the outfit.
With only vague memories of watching Peter and Colin and only listening to Tom Baker's narration of "Genesis of the Daleks" and his reading of "State of Decay", this 7th incarnation of the Doctor and this very story are where my Doctor Who journey really began. At conventions Sylvester McCoy often in jest says that he "killed Doctor Who". For me, as a 7-year old at the time, he really brought Doctor Who to life and here I am, near 41-years old, still watching and reading and listening to this legend of a show 35-years later and ready to say Happy 60th Anniversary in November 2023!
To Sylvester and Bonnie Langford, Sophie Aldred, Terry Molloy, Angela Bruce, Simon Williams, Pamela Salem, Karen Gledhill, Jessica Martin and the late greats Nicholas Courtney, Anthony Ainley, and Kate O'Mara I say a very big Thank You!
For me at 7 Matt was my doctor but I remember my mind being blown when I found out about the classic series
For me at 7 Matt was my doctor but I remember my mind being blown when I found out about the classic series
For me at 7 Matt was my doctor but I remember my mind being blown when I found out about the classic series
For me at 7 Matt was my doctor but I remember my mind being blown when I found out about the classic series
For me at 7 Matt was my doctor but I remember my mind being blown when I found out about the classic series
I love Doctor Who. Every single episode.
Even the Timeless Child and Legend of the Sea Devils?
Even The Space Museum episodes 2 - 4?
Then I doubt you've seen all of them haha
+Kenneth Ra... Me too
Then you’re one of those rare gems who aren’t nit picky. Good to see there are more.
"Hatred, another fantasy, I have no feelings one way or the other"- And that's what makes the Rani a better Time Lord than the Doctor and the Master combined. Sure she's irritated by the incompetence of lackies but she never falls into the trap of taking it personally.
The 7th Doctor didn't stand a chance against that confetti net gun.
That was probably the best costume in the entire series. Not to mention her Tardis was fabulous as seen in Mark of the Rani.
Which costume?
I love that the official doctor who channel allows comments on their vids unlike so many other official (name franchise here ) channels
Where am I
Who am I
And WHO are you?????
Not the best story, but to me the Seventh Doctor definently is the best Doctor. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Exactly. Not the greatest or memorable episodes during his era, but he is my favorite Classic Doctor. Exactly like how my personal favorite New Who Doctor is Capaldi. Even though his stories were meh aside from his monologues
Same!!! Omg he is so underrated!!!
My favourite classic doctor was Tom Baker
He's the second h0ttest Doctor Who ever. Jon Pertwee was #1. And Patrick Troughton was 3rd. The fact that Sylvester McCoy was actually h0tter on every level than Patrick Troughton is almost unreal. Patrick Troughton was like legendary h0tness and Sylvester McCoy was actually more beautiful than him in every conceivable way. He looks absolutely beautiful in the thumbnail and the amount he bends over in this episode slightly doesn't suck.
@@otakushutin I mean yeah Tom Baker and David Tennant are like THE best and Trumps Classic and New Who, but with Doctor Who there's a bunch of Great Doctors so I like to say "personal favorite" because Tom and David are practically given so giving McCoy or Capaldi, or whoever else some recognition is great to do
Rani: I have no feelings one way or the other.
Zapp: I hate these filthy neutrals Kiff. With enemies you know where you stand, but with neutrals? Who knows!
I'd love to see the Rani on the current DW.
I never realized he mentions "strange matter" when he sees the asteroid. Did they know the theory of strange matter back when they filmed this? Or was it just a coincidence. Luckily, strange matter/quarks is still theoretical -- hoping we never actually discover or, worse yet, CREATE it. Yikes. If you don't know what it is, google it. It's terrifying.
strange quarks are very much real. But yes, I believe strange matter itself is only theoretical.
As for other terrifying end-of-everything scenarios in physics: false vacuum decay.
This stems from the idea that the higgs field may be positive everywhere (as opposed to all other fields which are 0 everywhere except where there are particles).
It's possible that this is a metastable state and that the higgs field could decay into its ground state at any moment. This would trigger the sorrounding area to also decay, and so on in a bubble expanding at the speed of light, releasing a huge amount of energy (and possibly changing some laws of physics to a form incompatible with earth life), killing everything in its path.
Basically, unlike with strange matter, you would get no warning. At all.
Another comment because I just looked it up and it's even more insane than I thought, apparantly other fields than just higgs can collapse and the effects can be completely absurd (from wikipedia):
"The effects could range from complete cessation of existing fundamental forces, elementary particles and structures comprising them, to subtle change in some cosmological parameters, mostly depending on potential difference between true and false vacuum. Some false vacuum decay scenarios are compatible with survival of structures like galaxies and stars or even biological life, while others involve the full destruction of baryonic matter or even immediate gravitational collapse of the universe."
A lot of times writers just saw a science-y term and ran with it- see tachyons in “The Leisure Hive”
I wish the Rani would return. She's been gone for quite some time.
When Chibnall is gone then the Rani can return. I hope she does!
"And when they put me in that costume, they lost me for three days!"
Happy Birthday to the legendary Sylvester McCoy, a true hero and Doctor.
The beginning of a golden era. Funny old business, time.
I wish Russell T Davies can bring The Rani back
It's not impossible to do in the near future since Rani is a Time Lord/Lady as well
@@TokuRewinds the Doors are still open for her return
@@EternalPayne hopefully maybe series 14 or 15 that The Rani
RTD always ended his seasons by bringing a classic thing back in a big way (Daleks, Cybermen, Master, Davros) so fingers crossed he can bring that pattern back.
@@danrosalina hopefully in his first year back in The Showrunner's chair he'll bring back The Rani.
I had my copy of Time and the Rani signed by Sylvester McCoy at my very first DW convention, in 2011.
Say what you will about the story itself, but Sylvester certainly comes out in top form, right out of the gate.
I also love seeing him in Six's costume. I think he, 11 and 13 were the only Doctors to spend any significant time in their previous Doctor's clothes (as of 2022).
I think McCoy made a great Doctor eventually when he was given better scripts. This Pip and Jane Baker stuff is just embarrassing.
That definitely wasn't the first by a longshot. You American?
@@HerohammerStudios I'm Australian, what are you referring to exactly?
McCoy is such a great Doctor. His wit, his comedic timing, his physical comedy. He’s a joy to watch honestly
May I present the destroyer of Skaro, planet of the daleks: 2:09
Yeah, he's really crap. It's because of this that I stopped watching.
My favorite doctor
Did anyone notice the Doctor's cravat was tucked in behind the waistcoat? It was always over the waistcoat lose when the Sixth Doctor wore the outfit.
As bad as this episode and rest of the season are, what we eventually got with McCoy was well worth getting through this. It's so great to have Sylvester McCoy as the Doctor.
Spot on right. This was and remains a shocker. Embarrassing even. Yet look what was toi come. Some off best Who was to be created with sykvester in the lead. For me and I would ne interested to know your thoughts, his three best stories are
1. Rememberance of the Daleks
2. The Greatest Show the Galaxy
3. The Curse of Fenric
4. Survival
5. The Happiness Patrol
Ghostlight comes close to inclusion as I am still trying to understand it.
Though his latter years are undoubtedly superior I find a lot to love this season, stupid and camp as it is. And Paradise Towers I just think is great regardless
@@FreeTheDonbas you should rewatch The Christmas Invasion. There's plenty to love with that story
The arrival of the SEVENTH Doctor posted on the first day of the SEVENTH month of the year? Coincidence? 😏😉💙💙🔷
Ye
What are people's top 5 Sylvester stories.?
Mine:
1. Rememberance of the Daleks
2. The Greatest Show the Galaxy
3. The Curse of Fenric
4. Survival
5. The Happiness Patrol
Yours?
1. Remembrance of the Daleks
2. The Curse of Fenric
3. Ghost Light
4. The Happiness Patrol
4. Survival
1. Remembrance of the Daleks
2. Dragonfire
3. Ghost Light
4. Greatest Show in the Galaxy
5. Delta And The Bannerman
I love almost every episode of Sylvester McCoy except for Survival, Curse of Fenric, and especially Happiness Patrol those are all terrible stories with bad episodes in my honest opinion
from 1:19 you can see the Rani also uses this room for parties as it's a sprung floor 💜
The clip of sylvester and sophie at the end was way too adorable I miss them 😭💖
I’ve actually met Sylvester McCoy in 2014, he’s a very nice person.
How good does Sylvester look in the multicolour coat!
I met Sylvester McCoy in Awesomecon 2022, it's was cooooooooooooooooooooooool
I saw him and Peter D at Anglicon in the Seattle area. OMG, they were both so fantastic! Sylvester was a scream!
@@just_kos99 cool
Sylvester McCoy was an excellent Doctor and Kate O'Mara was perfectly diabolical as The Rani. Sadly Kate is no longer with us, really a waste of an great character that she was not encountered more often on screen in the Who universe. I really hope The Rani is brought back at some point.
Kinda cool to know at one point they were both on Gallifrey. The Rani once too looked into the untempered schism, studied Gallifreyan history and knows what her species can do
Sylvester McCoy was great as the 7th Doctor and I quite like season 24.
2:03 me after waking up with a hangover
Thank you!
0:22 "...cost your people dearly, Beyonce!" in the captions. Must have been an earlier regeneration...
😂 4:07 “what” no matter what incarnation the personality stays the same
Im a classic "Whoaivan" all the way and I loved McCoy's interpretation of the Doctor. He was the fun, unassuming,.yet sinister version of our Time Lord hero. That puts him in my top three of Tom Baker, David Tennant and the great Mr. MCcoy!
0:12 "E I N S T E I N"
Ah yes the clown of clowns. Going darker and darker and darker with time. My favourite Doctor (emphasis on the R.) And as everrrreyone else ha said (well, almost everyone else) he met Dorothy and they became the best of the best. "Ace! Give me some of that nitro 9 that you're not carrying!"
I love to see the seventh Doctor in the sixth Doctor coat
Oh sweet, now that they’re nearly done with Season 12 clips does this mean we’ll be getting a Season 24 clips wave? Because I for one could not be happier about this! And a good start with a very entertaining scene!
That first beginning part when he wakes up, when I first saw it, is over acted and I thought embarrassing for the Dr. Who character. But, after a few shows I realized Sylvester was really good. I think Colon Baker was a bit to overacted. Sort of a pompous character. But there were some shows of him that were very good. I love all the old shows more than the new ones. As far as companions, I liked all of them. I liked most Harry Sullivan, back starting with Tom Baker. He had a likeable smart comical side that didn't show an overacting character. I wonder how many fans of the old shows saw "THE DINOSAURS"?? The master was in that one. I only saw that aired about two times. Luckily I recorded it to DVD. Lots of good characters in the old shows through the years. Very sad many are no longer with us. And the ones that are, have aged so much. Thankfully these shows are rebroadcasted on many networks. I have recorded most episodes of the old shows.
Colon Baker.... and The Master being in "THE DINOSAURS". Are we watching the same prog mate?
Si hopebgood, Not the same. I believe what I'm talking about was with Jon Pertwee or maybe Tom Baker. I have it recorded either on Beta or VHS tape.
3:43 "I'LL SMASH IT TO PIECES!"
Pickup here today in Australia Tasmania Dr who- the enemy of the world special edition Patrick Troughton and it a BBC DVD Video Disc
Hey amazing. 60 minutes into a video and I am from Tassie too. What a small world it is.
In Launceston
@@heavymetaloldman2530 keep warm on those cold nights. My brother use to live in Launceston. Cheers
It's difficult to work when one knows management is trying to kill off your show, but hasn't the stones to do it. That was the situation Sylvester McCoy, Bonnie Langford and later Sophie Aldred faced. McCoy looks, um, interesting in Colin Baker's old costume; he says only toward the end did he finally get his Doctor to be what he wanted it to be. And then it was gone for six years, when he was offed in San Francisco.
A cringeworthy start, but Sylvester would go on to much better things. BTW, that garish "clown costume" suits these slapstick scenes far better than it ever suited Colin's Doctor.
@@FreeTheDonbas Nothing could make this dreck seem sophisticated.
I think they had to custom make Colin Bakers 6th Doctor costume, since he was shorter than Colin and most Doctors in general.
I mean seeing how that coat is hanging off of him here I don’t think they spring for a new one. Maybe they fitted it a little, I dunno
It would be great if they could bring back The Rani and Romanadvoratrelundar.
*Fred for short.
So I just realised who the tall alien's actor is! They played a civil servant (permanent secretary for the foreign office) in Yes, Prime Minister!
It's a Shame that Sylvester McCoy's time as The Doctor was brief on screen like his predecessor Colin Baker.
It was maybe brief but literally every single thing he did was perfect. Sylvester McCoy definitely thinks so. Every movement, every facial expression, the sound of his voice itself. You literally wouldn't change or alter or add or subtract a dot of it.
@@davidmoyes7010 that's true. But it's just that The television industries at the time were so keen on doing soap operas and reality TV Shows.
I mean, half of his second season and all of his third season. His first season is clearly held back by production issues and new show syndrome.
7 was brilliant
The video of Ace and No.7 at the end is a bit broken
May nees to reconsider a new one or sort that one out
he looks so young
Is it just me or do Sylvester McCoy and Rowan Atkinson have the exact same voice?
I wonder if Siobhan Redmond would reprise her Rani from Big Finish
Didn't know Patsy's sister was a Rani. No wonder Patsy worshipped her.
Ace Was The Best Companion Ever...
I really liked the Roni As a villain
Sylvester McCoy and Kate O'Mara absolutely carry this. Unfortunately Andrew Cartmel was left with unfinished scripts to quickly tie up for this season, but luckily Sylvester McCoy shines through and the cast makes various aspects work. On the bright side, this season is followed by the two best seasons of Doctor Who. Then after that the VNAs and Big Finish continued the themes from those seasons very well. 7 is definitely my favourite Doctor.
Going Scottish before it was fashionable xD
Stay back
*falls over*
Its really annoying that we will not see the rani again because the IP holder issues
The Rani is a weird villain for me. For starters, it's her name, the Rani, like the Doctor and the Master she has a title, unlike Romana, Borusa and Chancellor Goth. Secondly, we already had a timelord who reminded me of her, Azmael from the Twin Dilemma, but it's understandable why he didn't return and why they wouldn't have gotten another actor. Thirdly, she feels like a female master, she could have appeared in Survival and Michelle Gomez could have played her. Fourthly, she deserved better outside the writing of Pip&Jane Baker which is why she should've been played by Michelle Gomez. Also, I just want to know, does anyone know where Karen Clegg(Sarn) is now?
She is definitely not a female Master.
The Master is proudly evil (and delights in it) and seeks conquest and domination; the Rani is a merely amoral scientist, only interested in her scientific experiments.
The Master is best friends with the Doctor and is obsessed with them, usually trying to involve them in their plots; the Rani is largely indifferent toward the Doctor, her response to the "hatred" accusation applies just as well to the Doctor.
In "Survival", the Rani would have been trying to use the Cheetah People as test subjects and it is difficult to imagine her struggling - let alone giving in - to animalistic instinct, unlike the Master, who is well suited to that theme.
She has a title because she’s a renegade Time Lord, like the Doctor and the Master
*CLAP*
2:05 Average Doctor Who fan's reaction to a new female character.
Sylvester was a great Doctor shame the show ended before he was going to take the character into a new territory, he like Troughton started off clownish but the writing failed him, his best story is Remembrance Of The Daleks .
I'd never seen "Remembrance...." until I got the Doctors Revisited collection. OMG, I love that story, it's definitely Sylvester's best!
@@FreeTheDonbas Sylvester's era is more watchable that anything from Jodie's era for sure, even Delta And The Bannerman.
Blessed be 😂😂🎉
Sylvester McCoy was the first classic Doctor to do auditions and a screen test, because after the perceived failure of Colin's Doctor, the BBC didn't trust John Nathan-Turner with the casting any more...
We almost got Ken Campbell in this role, but script editor Andrew Cartmell described his audition as "too disturbing." Given the much darker direction in which Cartmell steered the series over the next three years, you have to wonder what Campbell did that was so disturbing - did he crack open a Dalek and eat it like it was a boiled egg?
Colin’s costume is way too big on him
Amateur dramatics all round except the older Locurtian. But the 7th Doctor got better, then they cancelled it :(
Remember when the doctor looked like the riddler?
God she was fit, I blame her for my fondness for older women 😂
“ Ah, that was a nice nap. Now down to business. I'm a bit worried about the temporal flicker in sector thirteen. There's a bicentennial refit of the TARDIS to book in. I must just pop over to Centauri Seven and then perhaps a quick holiday. Right, that all seems quite clear. Just three small points. Where am I? Who am I? And who are you? The Rani! Stay back! This is idiotic; you'll injure yourself. why should you care? “
“ Stay away or I'll smash this! Urak! I'll smash it to pieces!! Urak!! Get in here!! “
Now, down to buisness👏👏
Fans who think Chris Chibnall's era was abominable _really_ need to take another look at this story.
This guy is really good as the 6th Doctor. He's great 🙏
7th doctor
McCoy became a great Doctor in the end but this first story is just awful.
Dull, lost and out of control, since 2018.
Please forgive me as I like Sylvester's characterisatiuon over all but his beginning few minutes I always thought was both appaulling - terrible dialogue script and the characterisation (even post generation) is sheer embarrassing. This to me made Colin's run look superior. The special effects of the transkucent space capture balls were cool though as was the monster but other than that this was not a great start. Fortunateky IMO things got better. You would not show this to an adult by means of introduction to DW. A six year old would like it though.
Is the Rani's sonic screwdriver hiding in that mole?
❤️7️⃣
Steve Moffat originally was going to cast Michelle Gomez as Rani in Doctor Who series 8 but decided to make her a female version of The Master instead because more people know The Master then Rani.
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This was embarassing even for the 80s however SM really grew into the role 😁😁😁
Lovable and talented actor that Sylvester McCoy is, this was just all so dreadful: the music, the fashions, the creature design -- just so regrettably the worst of the 80s. This clip reminds me why I stopped watching and after a watch thru a few years back I don't feel I missed much. Not a surprise at all that the show was cancelled as the production just drove it into a brick wall or perhaps more correctly they ran it out of gas. Too bad they couldn't have rebooted it with better writers and creative team. Ugh.
I agree with your comments 100%. I stopped watching when Sylvester came in. I used to joke to my best friend at the time that the best part in the telemovie was when Sylvester gets shot. :)
I HATE the outfit 7 wore.
Who really was rubbish back then.
Worst start for a new Doctor. Nice guy but a lousy Doctor
Spot on total junk Tom baker were it ends
@@jasonbolter367 Pretty much. I can handle a bit of Colin, but nothing after.
Awful episode
I’ll watch any episode of 13 before watching 7. Stories were just terrible, incidental music was terrible, and Ace is way overrated as a companion.
Nah.
Nah seven is way better then 13
I mean I won’t begrudge preference of eras is fine but many of the “terrible” stories are among my favorites in the era, and Ace is THE best’